📰 FreeBSD's Rust Kernel Support Could Be Stable Enough To Try This Year

The FreeBSD Project has published their Q4'2025 status report to outline progress made on their software, infrastructure, and other initiatives over the past quarter. Meanwhile among the work to look forward to this year in FreeBSD is getting their Rust kernel driver support up to scratch...

🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/FreeBSD-Q4-2025-Status-Report

#kernel

📰 Fedora Pocketblue Remix is an atomic Linux distro for mobile devices (phones and tablets)

Fedora Pocketblue Remix is a mobile Linux distribution designed to let you run Fedora on a smartphone or tablet. But unlike most mobile Linux distros, Pocketblue is an atomic distro. In a nutshell, that means it’s an operating system that’s harder to break because of the way updates are installed. Basically, new package updates are .

🔗 Source: https://liliputing.com/fedora-pocketblue-remix-is-an-atomic-linux-distro-for-mobile-devices-phones-and-tablets/

#linux #fedora #distro

📰 Qualcomm Posts Patches For New DSP Accelerator Linux Driver

The newest driver proposed for the Linux kernel's accelerator "accel" subsystem is named QDA and is a Qualcomm DSP Accelerator driver...

🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/Qualcomm-DSP-Accel-Driver

#linux #kernel

📰 Linus Torvalds Drops Old Linux Kconfig Option To Address Tiresome Kernel Log Spam

Following yesterday's Linux 7.0-rc1 release, Linus Torvalds authored and merged a patch to get rid of the Linux kernel's WARN_ALL_UNSEEDED_RANDOM Kconfig option. While that option was added with good intentions, on some systems it can yield a lot of unnecessary kernel log spam...

🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/Torvalds-Unseeded-Random

#linux #kernel

📰 GNU Octave 11 Open-Source Scientific Programming Language Officially Released

GNU Octave 11 open-source high-level language intended for numerical computations, is now available for download with new features and improvements. Here's what's new!

🔗 Source: https://9to5linux.com/gnu-octave-11-open-source-scientific-programming-language-officially-released

#opensource #gnu

📰 Android mental health apps with 14.7M installs filled with security flaws

Several mental health mobile apps with millions of downloads on Google Play contain security vulnerabilities that could expose users' sensitive medical information.

🔗 Source: https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/android-mental-health-apps-with-147m-installs-filled-with-security-flaws/

#android

📰 Nvidia is also hunting for Linux developers to help advance gaming on FOSS

It has been an exciting start to 2026 for gamers on Linux. We started off with GOG calling the OS the "next major frontier" for gaming, and we also saw the rise of the Open Gaming Collective where dev teams combined their efforts and knowledge to make playing your fave titles on Linux an easier time.

🔗 Source: https://www.xda-developers.com/nvidia-is-also-hunting-for-linux-developers-to-help-advance-gaming-on-foss/

#linux

📰 Mesa PanVK Driver Seeing Up To 25.7x Speedup For MSAA

The open-source PanVK driver providing Vulkan support for modern Arm Mali graphics hardware is seeing big speed-ups in the multi-sample anti-aliasing (MSAA) performance in Vulkan tests as a result of new code merged today to Mesa 26.1...

🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/Mesa-PanVK-25.7x-16x-MSAA

#opensource #arm

📰 Master the Essential Keyboard Shortcuts in Linux Mint to Feel Like a Pro User

I am sharing some essential shortcuts to get you started. I will also briefly share how you can set custom shortcuts for all actions.

🔗 Source: https://itsfoss.com/linux-mint-keyboard-shortcuts/

#linux

📰 Intel Formally Ends Four Of Their Go Language Open-Source Projects

Following various Intel open-source projects recently being archived with Intel formally discontinuing their development, another wave of Intel open-source projects were formally sunset on Monday...

🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/Intel-Stops-Go-Projects

#opensource #intel

📰 CGIT 1.3 Web Frontend For Git Released After Six Years

Jason Donenfeld of WireGuard and Linux cryptography fame has taken a break from that to release a new version of CGIT, the lightweight web interface for Git repositories. CGIT 1.3 is the first new release in six years and comes with a lot of changes...

🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/CGIT-1.3-Released

#linux

📰 Australia's Cyber Agency Releases Azul, an Open Source Malware Analysis Repository

Think of it as a searchable, automated knowledge base for malware.

🔗 Source: https://itsfoss.com/news/azul-malware-analysis-repository/

#opensource

📰 AOMedia Begins Developing OAC Next Generation Open Audio Codec

The Alliance for Open Media has started developing OAC, a new open-source audio codec intended as the long-term successor to Opus.

🔗 Source: https://linuxiac.com/aomedia-begins-developing-oac-next-generation-open-audio-codec/

#opensource

📰 Manjaro-Based Mabox Linux 26.02 Released with New Audio Menu

Manjaro-based Mabox Linux 26.02 introduces a new W-a audio menu, a fully rewritten Cava Colorizer module, fixes for screen recording, and more.

🔗 Source: https://linuxiac.com/manjaro-based-mabox-linux-26-02-released-with-new-audio-menu/

#linux

📰 Mozilla Thunderbird 148 Released with EWS Improvements

Mozilla Thunderbird 148, an open-source email client, is out with PKCE authentication for Yahoo and AOL and improved Exchange support.

🔗 Source: https://linuxiac.com/mozilla-thunderbird-148-released-with-ews-improvements/

#opensource

📰 Lutris 0.5.21 Adds Steam Sniper Runtime and New Console Emulators

Lutris 0.5.21 introduces support for Valve’s Sniper runtime, adds ShadPS4 and Xenia runners, and improves GPU detection on Linux systems.

🔗 Source: https://linuxiac.com/lutris-0-5-21-adds-steam-sniper-runtime-and-new-console-emulators/

#linux #steam

📰 Nvidia Readies New Arm-Based Chips for Dell, Lenovo Laptops

Nvidia is returning to consumer PCs through new partnerships with Intel and MediaTek, aiming to power AI-enabled laptops that rival Apple’s efficiency...

🔗 Source: https://www.techrepublic.com/article/news-nvidia-return-consumer-pc-ai-laptops/

#intel #arm

📰 Dynamic Music Pill puts slick media controls in your GNOME panel

Dynamic Music Pill is a GNOME Shell extension that embeds a pill-shaped media controller into your desktop panel or dock. It shows album art, artist name and track title alongside an animated waveform visualiser. If that sounds unashamedly blingy, it’s because it is – nothing wrong in that, right? The extension received an update today, which seem a good hook to actually take this off my “to write about” list.

🔗 Source: https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2026/02/dynamic-music-pill-gnome-panel-media-controller

#gnome

📰 AMD Posts Linux Patches For SEV-SNP BTB Isolation

It's quite a mouthful but today AMD posted Linux kernel patches for preparing SEV-SNP BTB isolation support for further enhancing the security of virtual machines (VMs) for confidential computing...

🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/AMD-SEV-SNP-BTB-Isolation

#amd #linux #kernel

📰 OpenZFS 2.4.1 Released With Linux 6.19 Compatibility, Many Fixes

Following the big OpenZFS 2.4 release back in December, OpenZFS 2.4.1 was released overnight to ship support for the latest Linux 6.19 stable kernel plus a variety of different bug fixes...

🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/OpenZFS-2.4.1-Released

#linux #kernel

📰 GTK 4.22 In Good Shape With Better SVG Support

Matthias Clasen shared an update today concerning the state of Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) within GNOME's GTK toolkit...

🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/GTK-4.22-SVG-2026

#gnome