Linux NewsVocalinux Turns Your Speech Into Text Without Giving Away Voice Data
The 0.14 beta adds many new upgrades. Stick around until the end for a quick hands-on!
Frame: A New X11 Server Implementation Written Entirely In x86_64 Assembly
Previously we covered YSERVER as an X11 server written in the Rust programming language with the help of Claude Code. A Phoronix reader wrote in today to share an even more esoteric X11 server implementation that has come about and again written in large part by AI/LLM usage: Frame is an X11 server written in pure x86_64 Assembly...
FOSS Weekly #26.29: Mint Goes Wayland, OpenBook Reader, Terminal Shortcut Tips, Linux Handheld Computers and More
Is wayland slow?
Perl 5.44 Released with Named Parameters and Unicode 17
The latest stable Perl release introduces named parameters for signatures, faster execution, and updated Unicode support.
Linux doesn't force me to use the terminal—these 3 tools prove it
The Linux terminal is powerful, but these three graphical apps handle everyday tasks without typing a single command.
KDE KWin Introduces Support For Server-Side Drop Shadows
The KDE Plasma 6.8 will be introducing support for server-side drop shadows with the feature recently having been merged to KWin...
AMD's GAIA Continues Striving To Be Your Ultimate AI Companion For Emails
Yesterday saw the release of AMD's Lemonade 11.0 local AI server as well as ROCm 7.14 as the first production release built using TheRock. Out today is AMD's GAIA 0.22 software as their latest AI software release in working toward the AMD Advancing AI event next week in California...
Does Linux really run faster than Windows? I tested both to find out
Spoiler alert: Tux has wings.
OPNsense 26.7 Open-Source Firewall Released, Powered by FreeBSD 15.1
OPNsense 26.7 open-source firewall and routing platform brings FreeBSD 15.1, a reworked interface framework, Source NAT migration, and more.
NanoKVM-Go Brings AI-Powered Hardware Control to Linux with a Compact USB-C KVM
by George Whittaker Sipeed has introduced NanoKVM-Go, a compact USB-C KVM-over-IP device that combines remote hardware management with AI integration. Designed for Linux, Windows, macOS, and other USB-C devices, NanoKVM-Go allows users to remotely view and control a system through a web browser while exposing its keyboard, mouse, and display functions to AI agents via the Model Context Protocol (MCP). Unlike traditional KVM-over-IP solutions that require multiple cables and dedicated networking hardware, NanoKVM-Go simplifies the setup into a single USB-C connection, making remote administration and AI-assisted automation more accessible for developers, system administrators, and homelab enthusiasts. A Portable USB-C KVM NanoKVM-Go is roughly the size of a smartwatch, measuring about 45 × 40 × 15 mm, yet it combines several functions into a single device. Key hardware features include: USB-C connection for video, audio, keyboard, mouse, and power Wi-Fi 6 connectivity Browser-based remo
Ubuntu 26.04 fixes trash dialog bug that defaulted to cancel
Ubuntu 26.04 LTS is getting a fix for Nautilus that restores ‘Delete’ as the focused button in the trash confirmation dialog, undoing an accidental swap that made ‘Cancel’ the focused button instead. That ‘unintentional’ focus flip meant you could no longer hit enter to action file deletion for Trash since it instead cancelled it. I’ve lost count of the times I’ve assumed I emptied the trash since upgrading to Ubuntu 26.04 LTS, only to find I hadn’t. My muscle memory has struggled to adapt to needing to explicitly click (or tab to) the delete button. Annoying, but thankfully not intentional. […]
Remapping the Useless AI Slop Copilot Key in Linux
Why let a key go to waste? I remapped the useless Copilot key on my keyboard to open a specific app.
Turns Out Wayland Isn't the Input Lag Disaster Everyone Says it is
A DIY click-to-photon tester puts X11, Wayland, VRR, and a DXVK fork to the test, with some surprising results.
[$] Sched-ext: enqueue() for sub-schedulers and proxy-execution support
The extensible scheduler class (sched_ext) allows the installation of custom CPU schedulers as a set of BPF programs. While sched_ext, in its current form, has already led to a lot of interesting scheduler-development work, the subsystem itself is still undergoing rapid evolution. Among other work, the ability to set up a hierarchy of sub-schedulers is approaching completion, and a longstanding incompatibility with proxy execution is coming to an end.
FreeBSD Intern Working On Porting AMD ROCm To The BSD World
An intern with the FreeBSD Foundation is working on porting AMD's ROCm compute stack to run on this popular BSD environment...