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• Intel Xeon 6 Granite Rapids Memory Scaling Performance From 6 To 12 MRDIMMs With memory pricing being as wild as it is these days and with MRDIMMs on Xeon 6 Granite Rapids offeri

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• Security updates for Tuesday Dist. • | ID | Release | Package | Date | —|—|—|—|—| AlmaLinux | ALSA-2026:2707 | 9 | gimp | 2026-02-17 | AlmaLinux | ALSA-2026:2708 | 8 |

• Someone Just Made an Immutable Gentoo-Based Distro Tailored for Gaming Sabayon Linuxwas a Gentoo-based distribution that existed from the mid-2000s until 2019. • It aimed to make

Microsoft .NET Runtime introduces IO_uring socket engine for Linux, replacing epoll. Opt‑in via OTNET_SYSTEM_NET_SOCKETS_IO_URING=1 environment variable, enabling high‑performance

• Nova Lake S Support Added To Intel LPSS Driver In Linux 7.0 The latest Nova Lake enablement work for the Linux kernel to land is adding support for Nova Lake S platforms to the I

• DNF 5.4 Released With Some New Options & AI Contributions Policy DNF 5.4 is out today as the latest release for this next-generation RPM package management solution used by Fedor

• KDE Plasma 6.6 Released With Many Excellent Improvements KDE Plasma 6.6 is now officially out as the newest feature update to this prominent open-source desktop environment. • Pl

• One of the most underrated things that comes with open source projects that isn’t talked about enough is the whimsy. • The developers make anything they like, unshackled by any b

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• Gentoo Linux Begins Codeberg Migration In Moving Away From GitHub, Avoiding Copilot The Gentoo Linux project last year announced plans to move their code hosting to Codeberg rath

• Linux 7.0 CXL Enables AMD Zen 5 Address Translation Feature A long-in-development feature for AMD EPYC Zen 5 server platforms now merged for the Linux 7.0 kernel is ACPI PRMT-bas

• Arc B390 Graphics With Panther Lake Performing Great On Open-Source Intel Compute Runtime This month I have been doing a lot of Panther Lake benchmarking under Linux with the Cor

• Idea Raised For Nicer DRM Panic Screen Integration On Fedora Linux DRM Panic is the Linux kernel infrastructure now supported by most of the Direct Rendering Manager (DRM) kernel

• Lutris 0.5.20 Linux Game Manager Brings New Features, Wine Wayland Option For fans of Lutris as the open-source desktop client for installing and playing many games on Linux, Lut

• The curl project has found AI-powered tools to be a mixed bag when it comes to security reports. • At FOSDEM 2026 , curl creator and lead developer Daniel Stenberg used his keyno

• RISC-V In Linux 7.0 Brings User-Space CFI & Optimized strlen Assembly The RISC-V architecture updates have been merged for Linux 7.0 with a few items to note. • First up, RISC-V

• Linux 7.0 Driver Core Changes Bring More Enhancements For Rust Kernel Drivers Merged a few days ago for the Linux 7.0 kernel were all of the driver core enhancements. • As has be

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• Linux 6.19.2 & Other LTS Kernels Released To Fix Systems Not Booting Linux 6.19.1 was released earlier today while it’s since been replaced by Linux 6.19.2 to address fallout fro

• At the 2025 Linux Plumbers Conference in Tokyo, Stephen Brennan gave a presentation on the debuginfo format , which contains the symbols and other information needed for debuggin

• Four stable kernel releases announced for the Linux community today. • New versions include 6.19.1, 6.18.11, 6.12.72, and 6.6.125 for all. • Each kernel contains critical bug fix

• Linux 7.0 Better Segregates Legacy CardBus Code To Avoid On Modern PCs The PCI subsystem updates for Linux 7.0 are aplenty as usual and contain a wide assortment of different fix

• Reverse Engineering Linux Distro REMnux Marks 15 Years With Major v8 Release Featuring AI Agent Support Linux has becomea lucrative target for bad actors, making specialized secu

• Security updates for Monday Dist. • | ID | Release | Package | Date | —|—|—|—|—| Debian | DSA-6135-1 | stable | chromium | 2026-02-15 | Debian | DSA-6134-1 | stable | p

• Firmware Upstreamed For Supporting The Qualcomm Snapdragon X2’s Adreno GPU Upstreamed last week to the linux-firmware.git repository by Qualcomm was the GPU firmware files needed

• OpenRISC With Linux 7.0 Improves Out-Of-The-Box Support For More FPGA Dev Boards While the OpenRISC project began ten years before RISC-V was started, it hasn’t enjoyed the hardw

• InputPlumber 0.74 Released With Hardware Support Improvements InputPlumber 0.74 is now available for this open-source input routing and control daemon for Linux systems. • InputP

• Linux 6.19.1 Released To Ship Some Early Fixes & Device Quirks For those preferring to wait for the first point release of a new Linux kernel version before upgrading, Linux 6.19

• Calls for Board Candidates Moves Forward 16. • Feb 2026 | Douglas DeMaio | CC-BY-SA-3.0 The openSUSE Project has opened nominations and candidacy for its regular Board Election a

• Linux 7.0 Merges The Code To Replace The Tux Boot Logo At Build Time Linus Torvalds merged the code this weekend that allows easily replacing the Tux penguin boot logo used durin

• Ubuntu 26.04 LTS (Resolute Raccoon) is changing how hardware support updates are handled, splitting its single linux-firmware package into 17 vendor-specific sub-packages. • The

• exFAT Achieves Better Sequential Read Performance With Linux 7.0 The open-source Linux file-system driver for supporting Microsoft’s exFAT now can deliver better sequential read

• Official mascot artwork for Ubuntu 26.04 LTS ‘Resolute Raccoon’ has been revealed. • As the upcoming release dubbed ‘Resolute Raccoon’, the monochromatic mascot naturally feature

• wlroots 0.20 Nears Release With New Protocols, Enhanced Vulkan Renderer Version 0.20 of the popular wlroots Wayland support library is nearing its official release. • Over the pa

• Linux Kernel Improvement Can Make Hibernation Several Times Faster With Slow SSDs A patch series sent out for review this weekend can significantly improve the system hibernation

• Mesa’s KosmicKrisp Vulkan-On-Metal Achieves MoltenVK Feature Parity Announced last year by consulting firm LunarG was KosmicKrisp as a Vulkan-on-Metal driver for efficiently leve

• NFS Server Adds Dynamic Thread Pool Sizing In Linux 7.0 The NFS server changes for Linux 7.0 happen to include some nice improvements for this big kernel version number release.

• Power Sequencing Driver For PCIe M.2 Connectors Makes It Into Linux 7.0 The power sequencing subsystem updates have been merged for the Linux 7.0 cycle. • Typically not an area o

• Why and How I am Using Emacs for Writing My Next Novel The author working on his manuscript. • The screen is divided between the LaTeX manuscript, its PDF, and the notes in org-m

• Linux Mint 23 will introduce an expanded set of account administration options when it debuts later this year, moving user management into a dedicated system utility. • The new n

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• The merge window for Linux 7.0 has opened, and with it comes a number of interesting improvements and enhancements. • At the time of writing, there have been 7,695 non-merge comm

• HOT empowers volunteers to map disaster zones using free, open-source tools. • FOSDEM 2026 highlighted HOT’s collaborative mapping stack for humanitarian aid. • Volunteers add lo

• AlmaLinux: Firefox, GCC toolset, Node.js 20/22/24, PHP 7.4, Python 3.12 patched. • Debian: Stable updates for haproxy, nginx, PostgreSQL 15/17 released Feb 12‑13. • Fedora F43: l

• Session’s Co-Founder Thinks You Don’t Need to Ditch WhatsApp Completely The world around us is gradually getting more polarized, with people losing hope that their governments ca

• News 2026 February 13 Planet News Roundup This is a roundup of articles from the openSUSE community listed onplanet.opensuse.org. • The community blog feed aggregator lists the f

• Web sites are being increasingly beset by AI scraperbots - a problem that we have written about before , and which has slowly ramped up to an occasional de-facto DDoS attack. • T

• Mitchell Hashimoto Launches ‘Vouch’ to Fight AI Slop in Open Source Ecosystem Mitchell Hashimotofrom Vagrant, Terraform, HashiCorp, andGhosttyfame has introducedVouch, new trust

• Transient devices pose a special challenge for an operating-system kernel. • They can disappear at any time, leaving behind kernel data structures that no longer refer to an exis

• Ubuntu 24.04.4 LTS is now available to download. • This is the fourth point release in the Ubuntu 24.04 LTS ‘Noble Numbat’ series since it launched in April 2024. • The new insta

• FOSS Weekly #26.07: Kernel 6.19, AI for Real Sysadmin Works, Arch Apps on Ubuntu and More Linux Stuff Ubuntu 26.04 developmentis progressing rapidly. • While there are welcome ch

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• | ID | Release | Package | Date | AlmaLinux | ALSA-2026:2389 | 8 | brotli | 2026-02-11 | AlmaLinux | ALSA-2026:2323 | 8 | git-lfs | 2026-02-11 | AlmaLinux | ALSA-2026:1377 | 9 |

• Linux Mint Wants Fewer Releases Each Year (For Good Reasons) Linux Mintmight be changing how often it releases new versions. • Clement Lefebvre, the project lead, has revealed th

• News 2026 February 12 openSUSE Board on Participation, Governance and Community With the 2026openSUSE communityBoardelections coming up,Ish Sookun,Jeff MahoneyandRachel Schradera

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• Linux Mint developers are considering a change to the distro’s traditional six-month release schedule. • Project leader Clement Lefebvrethinksmoving to a longer development cycle