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A change proposal has been cleared by the Fedora Engineering and Steering Committee "FESCo" for providing a nice out-of-the-box experience for Windows on ARM laptops namely the recent Snapdragon X1 laptops and will also be important for the upcoming Snapdragon X2 laptops too...
Merged in time for the upcoming Mesa 26.0 release is the merging of Vulkan driver support for the Qualcomm Adreno Gen 8 graphics support that is notably used by the new Snapdragon X2 laptop SoCs as well as the Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5...
DragonFlyBSD's AMDGPU kernel graphics driver continues to be a port of the AMDGPU Linux kernel driver. Their latest porting effort for AMD graphics on DragonFlyBSD is now enabling optional support for the GCN 1.1 "Sea Islands (CIK) graphics processors on this modern alternative to the prior Radeon kernel driver...
Intel’s Core 3 (Wildcat Lake) chips are on the way aiming to replace the Intel N100 – but to be the next budget computing champ they’ll need to match it on price, not just beat it on performance. At CES in January, Intel barely mentioned its budget chips. This was presumably so all attention and headlines were given to its powerful and pricey ‘Panther Lake’ chips, like the ones powering the revived Dell XPS 14 with Ubuntu (also announced as CES). Of course, the N100’s popularity was a happy accident anyway, and hawking decently performing budget chips that are as […]
A new Snap Store scam campaign abuses expired publisher domains to bypass trust signals and deliver malicious app updates.
OzLabs is a collection of Australian free-software developers that was, for most of its history, associated with IBM. Members of OzLabs have included Hugh Blemings, Michael Ellerman, Ben Herrenschmidt, Greg Lehey, Paul Mackerras, Martin Pool, Stephen Rothwell, Rusty Russell, and Andrew Tridgell, among others. The OzLabs "about" page notes that, as of January 2026, the last remaining OzLabs members have departed IBM. "This brought to a close the Ozlabs association with IBM". Thus ends a quarter-century of development history. (Thanks to Jon Masters).
A major barrier for Linux artists just got knocked down.
MX Linux 25.1 "Infinity" is out now, restoring dual init support with both systemd and sysvinit available on a single ISO.
A proposal has been laid out for a new X.Org Server "main" Git branch to house their development going forward and cleaning up the development lapses over the past few years. Ultimately the hope is for having a new cleaned-up X.Org Server and XWayland Git branch for shipping new releases in 2026...
MX Linux 25.1 distribution is now available for download with dual-init support, Debian 13.3 base, and Linux kernel 6.18 LTS. Here's what's new!
Still early to say whether this will make it into Wine officially, this should rekindle some hope for Linux users and users-to-be who have been missing Adobe's creative suite on the platform.
While RMS has continued to speak at occasional events, he's largely remained publicly invisible until now. Is this about to change? The post It’s Official: Richard Stallman Will Speak at Georgia Tech on January 23 appeared first on FOSS Force.
Mozilla announces a dedicated RPM package for users of RPM-based distributions who want to install Firefox as a native RPM package.
In November 2025, Linux Professional Institute (LPI) released version 2.0 of the Linux Professional Institute DevOps Tools Engineer certification. Covering a series of tools used to develop and deliver software in a collaborative manner, the content of this exam extends ... Read more The post DevOps Tools Introduction #01: Getting “Getting Started” Started appeared first on Linux Professional Institute (LPI).
PostgreSQL contributor Robert Haas has published a blog post that breaks down code contributions to PostgreSQL in 2025. I calculate that, in 2025, there were 266 people who were the principal author of at least one PostgreSQL commit. 66% of the new lines of code where contributed by one of 26 people, and 90% of the lines of new code were contributed by one of 67 people. Contributions to the project seem to be on the upswing; in his analysis of development in 2024, there were 229 people who were the primary authors of a commit, and 66% of new lines of code were contributed by one of 18 people. The raw data is also available.
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