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• Firefox 149 Beta Released With Convenient Split-View Mode Following the Firefox 148 release with the new AI controls, Mozilla promoted Firefox 149 to beta today • Most notable fo

• b4’s Review TUI With AI Integration Nearing Pre-Alpha Release The b4 tool used for managing patch workflows to the Linux kernel has been seeing a lot of work recently on b4 revie

• Inside this week’s LWN • net Weekly Edition: Front : New flags for clone3(); Discord replacements; virtual swap spaces; BPF memory protection keys; PostgreSQL’s lessons in attrac

• 6 LTS Support Periods Extended Greg Kroah-Hartman today extended the planned maintenance periods of the latest Linux 6 • 6 Long Term Support (LTS) kernel series • Today’s move ex

• LLVM Clang 22 Compiler Performance Largely Unchanged Over Clang 21 On AMD Zen 5 With yesterday’s stable release of the LLVM Clang 22 compiler it didn’t take long for Phoronix rea

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• 1 Released With Important Security Fix For OOB Memory Access From WebGPU Mesa 26 • 1 is now available as the first point release of this quarter’s Mesa 26 • Besides the usual bug

• systemd 260-rc1 Released: New ‘mstack’ Feature, System V Service Scripts No Longer Supported The first release candidate of systemd 260 is now available for testing • Systemd 260

• Sub-Scheduler Support Could Be One Of The Most Exciting Features To Come For Linux 7 • 1 While there are many great Linux 7 • 0 features with that still-young development cycle,

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• On February 12, Yeoreum Yun posted a suggestion for an improvement to the security of the kernel’s BPF implementation: use memory protection keys to prevent unauthorized access t

• The Network Time Protocol (NTP) debuted in 1985; it is a universally used, open specification that is deeply important for all sorts of activities we take for granted • It also,

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• AMD Announces The EPYC 8005 ‘Sorano’ Series The EPYC 9005 series for high-end Zen 5 server processors is a year and a half old and then at the lower-end of the spectrum is the EP

• Security updates for Wednesday Dist • | ID | Release | Package | Date | AlmaLinux | ALSA-2026:3188 | 8 | grafana | 2026-02-24 | AlmaLinux | ALSA-2026:3187 | 8 | grafana-pcp | 202

• Arm & Linaro Launch New ‘CoreCollective’ Consortium - With Backing From AMD & Others The embargo just lifted on an interesting new industry consortium • The CoreCollective consor

• 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 • With the upcom

• Systing 1.0 Released For Rust-Based eBPF-Based Tracing Tool Leveraging AI Josef Bacik, of Btrfs notoriety before leaving Meta and stepping back from kernel development last year,

• 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

• FreeRDP 3.23 Addresses 11 CVEs, Improved SDL Client For those making use of the open-source FreeRDP project for your Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP) needs, FreeRDP 3.23 is out toda

• 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 enhancin

• Lutris 0.5.21 Adds Support For Running Games Inside Valve’s Latest Steam Runtime Lutris 0.5.21 is now available as the latest version of this open-source Linux game manager. • Wi

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• COSMIC Epoch 1.0.8 Released With More Desktop Refinements While System76 has been hard at work on a redesigned Thelio desktop chassis design, this hasn’t slowed down their softwa

• D7VK 1.4 Released With More Improvements For Old Direct3D On Vulkan Under Linux D7VK is the open-source project that began implementing the Direct3D 7 APIs atop Vulkan and with t

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• The facilities provided by the kernel for the management of processes have evolved considerably in the last few years, driven mostly by the advent of the pidfd API . • A pidfd is

• Google Cloud N4 Series Benchmarks: Google Axion vs. • AMD EPYC Performance Google Cloud recently launched their N4A series powered by their in-house Axion ARM64 processors. • In

• Security updates for Tuesday Dist. • | ID | Release | Package | Date | —|—|—|—|—| AlmaLinux | ALSA-2026:2720 | 8 | kernel | 2026-02-24 | AlmaLinux | ALSA-2026:3083 | 8

• AMD’s HIP Moves To Using LLVM’s New Offload Driver By Default A change merged to upstream LLVM Git yesterday for LLVM 23 is moving AMD’s HIP to using the new/modern offload drive

• 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 de

• LLVM/Clang 22 Compiler Officially Released With Many Improvements LLVM/Clang 22.1 was released overnight as the first stable release of the LLVM 22 series. • This is a nice, feat

• KDE Plasma 6.6.1 Released With Initial Batch Of Bug Fixes Following last week’s Plasma 6.6 release, KDE developers today shipped Plasma 6.6.1 as the first point release with an a

• 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

• 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 m

• Changes done in each Linux kernel release. • Other places to get news about the Linux kernel are LWN kernel status or the Linux Kernel mailing list (there is a web interface in w

• Linux 6.19 changelog. • Summary: Linux 6.19 adds a new listns(2) system call that makes much easier to list the namespaces present on the system; support for the Live Update Orch

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• 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 r

• 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 Acc

• The 7.0 merge window closed on February 22 with 11,588 non-merge commits total, 3,893 of which came in after the article covering the first half of the merge window . • The chang

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• Intel Releases OpenVINO 2026 With Improved NPU Handling, Expanded LLM Support Intel’s open-source OpenVINO AI toolkit is out with its first major release of 2026. • With today’s

• Firefox 148 Now Available With The New AI Controls / AI Kill Switches Firefox 148 release binaries are now available ahead of the official release announcement on Tuesday. • Most

• Linux 7.0 Features Include More Preparations For AMD Zen 6 & Intel Nova Lake While the version bump to 7.0 is driven solely by Linus Torvalds’ versioning preferences, with Linux

• Security updates for Monday Dist. • | ID | Release | Package | Date | —|—|—|—|—| AlmaLinux | ALSA-2026:2821 | 8 | kernel-rt | 2026-02-23 | AlmaLinux | ALSA-2026:3042 |

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• 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, in

• The PostgreSQL project has been chugging along for decades; in that time, it has become a thriving open-source project, and its participants have learned a thing or two about wha

• Modern AMD Graphics Driver Surpasses Six Million Lines Of Code In Linux 7.0 It was less than four years ago that the modern AMDGPU/AMDKFD open-source driver stack was at four mil

• Intel ANV Driver Sees Several Vulkan Video H.265 Encode Fixes For those interested in Vulkan Video on the Intel ‘ANV’ open-source Linux driver, merged last week to Mesa 26.1-deve

• RBOS 2026-02-22 As Latest Linux Live ISO To Showcase Wayland While these days nearly every major desktop Linux distribution is using Wayland or at least making it available, a de

• Red Hat Releases Tuned 2.27 For Adaptively Tuning Linux To Different Workloads Red Hat engineers this weekend released Tuned 2.27, the newest version of their open-source project

• FFmpeg Lands Experimental xHE-AAC MPS212 Decoding Support FFmpeg developer Lynne is most known recently for all the Vulkan Video work to this open-source multimedia library while

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• Linux 7.0-rc1 Released With Many New Features: Linus Torvalds just capped off the Linux 7.0 merge window with the release of Linux 7.0-rc1. • While the big version bump is coinci

• Linux 7.0 Credits Now Honor The Creator Of Linux-Next There’s the usual flurry of last minute fixes and other items being herded into the Linux 7.0 codebase today right ahead of

• GNU Gawk 5.4 Released With New MinRX Regex Matcher, Faster Reading Of Files Developers behind the widely-used GNU Awk text processing utility today released Gawk 5.4. • Gawk 5.4

• AOMedia Open Audio Codec ‘OAC’ Aims To Be The Successor To Opus While the Alliance For Open Media ‘AOMedia’ is most known for developing the AV1 open video codec, the associated