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• The forecast is looking Qt1for fans ofopen-source weather appTyphoon, the latest update to which swaps its creaking GTK3 backend for a lithe Qt 6 one • What’s interesting about t

• Those testing Ubuntu 26 • 04 daily builds or monthly snapshots may have noticed that Showtime, GNOME’s spiffy new video player, is not preinstalled in the ’extended selection’, d

• 3 Brings PDF Editor Upgrades With New Signing and Editing Tools ONLYOFFICEis an open source office suite that holds its own against the likes of Microsoft Office, with some decen

• React Is No Longer Meta’s Project, It Now Has Its Own Foundation The modern web has many critical building blocks, and React is one of those • First open-sourced by Meta in 2013,

• Someone is Bringing Fedora Linux to Phones (And It’s Not Red Hat) The mobile Linux space ismore active than most people realize • Projects likepostmarketOS,Ubuntu Touch, andKDE P

• Dynamic Music Pillis 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 alongsi

• The Australian Signals Directorate launched Azul, a free malware analysis tool. • Azul is designed for reverse engineers and incident responders. • The platform runs on Kubernete

• Desktop Linux is in a better place than it used to be. • App stores have made software discovery much simpler, and it’s become normal to install an app without even needing to kn

• Ladybird Browser Just Ported C++ Code to Rust in 2 Weeks Thanks to AI We are used to seeing web browsers that are either based onChromiumorFirefox, and many people are fed up of

• Most people live on the mouse; click, move, repeat. • It’s easy, especially on a polished desktop like Linux Mint. • But once your fingers learn the shortcuts, the keyboard quiet

• The Firefox 148 update sees its stable release today, bringing with it a much-request ‘AI kill switch’ to easily disable all AI-powered features within the browser. • Mozilla has

• OpenClaw Alternatives That You Can Run on Raspberry Pi Like Devices By now, you must have heard aboutOpenClaw. • It is an excellent project, but it comes with a significant cost:

• US State Colorado Wants Operating Systems (Including Linux) to Tell Every App How Old You Are Age verification onlineis regrettably becoming the norm. • Platforms are increasingl

• fosstodon Meta Instagram Twitter YouTube Chat Discourse RSS Feed Join Us for Fedora Hatch at SCaLE 23x! • Justin Wheeler © CC BY-SA 4.0 in this series 1. • Join Us for Fedora Hat

• Ubuntu 26.04 LTS ‘Resolute Raccoon’ will useOpenJDK 25as its default Java version. • An expected change as OpenJDK 25 is a long-term support release, as Ubuntu 26.04 is, the bump

• Serious About Learning Linux? • Get 15 O’Reilly Linux and DevOps eBooks for Under $25 Most of the internet runs onLinux. • From cloud servers and containerized apps to CI/CD pipe

• A Powerful To-Do App for Android That Collects Absolutely None of Your Data Earlier last month, I took you all throughan open source diary appthat helped me realize that journali

• Ghostty terminal emulator is adding scrollbar support, answering one of the most-requested features by users of the Zig-based tool since its public launch in 2024. • Ghostty’s us

• The world isn’t short on keyboard-based Linux launchers. • Albert, Ulauncher, rofi and GNOME Do (if you’re old enough to remember that one) are among those I’ve written about in

• fosstodon Meta Instagram Twitter YouTube Chat Discourse RSS Feed Podman Test Days: Try the New Backend & Parallel Pulls Recent Posts Join Us for Fedora Hatch at SCaLE 23x! • Fedo

• Planet News Roundup 20. • Feb 2026 | Douglas DeMaio | CC-BY-SA-3.0 This is a roundup of articles from the openSUSE community listed on planet.opensuse.org. • The community blog f

• A new beta of BleachBit, the free, cross-platform system cleaner app is available for testing. • BleachBit 5.1.0 brings selective cookie deletion, support for cleaning more apps

• Community Refines Git Packaging Workflow 19. • Feb 2026 | Douglas DeMaio | CC-BY-SA-3.0 Contributors and developers within openSUSE Project recently met to coordinate the Git-bas

• FOSS Weekly #26.08: KDE Plasma 6.6, Mint Release Schedule Change, ASCII Weather, Firefox Tweaking and More Linux Stuff You might have noticed that I have not shared newpuzzles an

• News 2026 February 19 Community Advances Governance Proposal After Virtual Meeting TheopenSUSE Projectmoved forward with a proposed governance structure following avirtual meetin

• Linux Still Working To Clean Up The Realtek RTL8723BS 802.11b/g/n WiFi Driver In 2026 Introduced to the Linux 4.12 kernel’s staging area back in 2017 was the Realtek RTL8723BS Wi

• Inside this week’s LWN.net Weekly Edition: Front : AI agent goes rogue; debuginfo; iocane; revocable resource-management patches; 7.0 merge window; AccECN; LLMs and security; Hum

• More ISA Differences Come To Light With The New AMD GFX1170 ‘RDNA 4m’ Earlier this month we spotted the addition of a new GFX1170 GPU target in the AMDGPU LLVM back-end. • Making

• Linux 7.0 kernel introduces regressions on Intel Panther Lake, reducing CPU and iGPU performance. • Benchmarks on MSI Prestige 14 with Core Ultra X7 358H show slower results than

• Linux 7.0 Retires The IBM Mwave ACP Modem Driver Used By Some 1990s ThinkPads Long past due for retirement, the Linux 7.0 kernel has removed the obsolete Mwave driver for the 378

• KDE Plasma 6.6 Turns Spectacle Into an OCR Tool and Ships a New Setup Wizard The beauty of desktop Linux lies in freedom of choice. • Here, people can opt for a different distrib

• Intel’s Discontinued Open-Source OpenPGL Project Finds A New Home Back in 2022 Intel announced OpenPGL as an open-source library for path guiding to help enhance the quality of p

• Think You’re Digitally Sovereign? • Red Hat Built a Tool to Find Out Red Hatis best known for Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL), the commercial Linux distribution that quietly runs

• System76 Preparing To Introduce Redesigned Thelio Hardware Linux hardware vendor System76 has begun teasing a redesign of their Thelio chassis that is used by their modern deskto

• Linux 7.0 Brings Several Enhancements For Modern Laptops Some of the x86 platform driver highlights for Linux 7.0 include: - The AMD Platform Management Framework (PMF) driver ha

• The ‘More Accurate Explicit Congestion Notification’ (AccECN) mechanism is defined by this RFC draft . • The Linux kernel has been gaining support for AccECN with TCP over the la

• Dell UltraSharp U5223KW: An Outstanding 52-Inch 6K Monitor With Extensive Connectivity Earlier this month Dell sent over a review sample of their new UltraSharp U5223KW monitor.

• Dell UltraSharp U5226KW: An Outstanding 52-Inch 6K Monitor With Extensive Connectivity Earlier this month Dell sent over a review sample of their new UltraSharp U5226KW monitor.

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• Security updates for Wednesday Dist. • | ID | Release | Package | Date | Debian | DLA-4482-1 | LTS | ceph | 2026-02-17 | Debian | DSA-6139-1 | stable | gimp | 2026-02-18 | Debian

• LoongArch Ready With New Features In Linux 7.0 The Linux 7.0 kernel is shipping improvements for LoongArch, the Chinese CPU architecture inspired by MIPS64 and RISC-V and has bee

• Building Self-Hosted Trading Infrastructure on openSUSE 18. • Feb 2026 | Douglas DeMaio | CC-BY-SA-3.0 Modern Linux systems are increasingly used to run autonomous, policy-driven

• Apple M3 With Asahi Linux Continues Making Progress, No ETA Yet For Shipping Asahi Linux developers have published a status report following the recent Linux 6.19 kernel release

• FreeBSD adds KDE Plasma install option to text‑based installer for easy desktop deployment. • Option includes SDDM, X.Org, and GPU drivers for full desktop experience. • Develope

• Intel Lands Initial Preparations For DSA 3.0 Accelerators In Linux 7.0 Last year we began seeing Linux patches preparing the kernel for Intel Data Streaming Accelerator ‘DSA’ 3.0

• KVM In Linux 7.0 Adds Support For Virtualizing AMD ERAPS All of the KVM virtualization feature changes were recently merged for the in-development Linux 7.0 kernel. • KVM on x86

• 8 Years Later, Linux-based AsteroidOS 2.0 is Here to Add New Life to Your Old Smartwatch It’s been 8 years… • since we last coveredAsteroidOS on It’s FOSS. • The promising proj

• GNOME 50 Merges ‘sdr-native’ Color Mode Support For Wide Color Gamut Displays As a late stage change for GNOME 50 ahead of its official debut next month and following last week’s

• NTFS3 driver merged into Linux 7.0 mainline kernel, enhancing NTFS support. • New readahead optimizes bitmap initialization efficiently for large directory scans. • fsync now syn

• AMD Preparing Linux Kernel For ‘RMPOPT’ To Help Reduce Overhead On SEV-SNP Servers AMD sent out a set of Linux kernel patches today for enabling use of a new instruction dubbed R

• Linux 7.0 Lands New TI RGB LED Driver With ‘Autonomous Animation Engine’ Control The LED subsystem updates for the Linux kernel typically aren’t too noteworthy each kernel cycle

• Linux 7.0 Merges ‘Significant Improvement’ For close_range System Call The close_range system call for closing all file descriptors ‘FDs’ in a given range should enjoy a nice spe

• Experimental Out-Of-Tree Code Aims To Provide HDMI 2.1 FRL For AMD Linux Driver One of the limitations of the AMDGPU Linux kernel graphics driver has been the lack of its support

• GhostBSD To Use XLibre Server, MATE vs. • Gershwin Desktop Decision In Future GhostBSD lead developer Eric Turgeon published an update regarding X.Org Server vs. • Wayland planni

• Why is Debian Called the Universal Operating System, Again? • In the Linux world, there are a few primary giants that most other distros have historically been built on and one o

• Various forms of tools, colloquially known as ‘AI’, have been rapidly pervading all aspects of open-source development. • Many developers are embracing LLM tools for code creatio

• Gentoo Takes the First Step to Ditch Microsoft Copilot-Infested GitHub Contributors to Gentoo Linux can now submit pull requests throughCodeberginstead ofGitHub. • The repository

• KDE Plasma 6.6 is now available to download, adding text extraction to screenshots, per-app volume control in the taskbar and the ability to create your own themes. • The update

• KDE Plasma 6.6 is now available to download, adding text extraction to screenshots, per-app volume control in the taskbar and the ability to save custom themes. • The update also