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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

• 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

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• 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,

• 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,

• 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

• mquire: Linux memory forensics without external dependencies If you’ve ever done Linux memory forensics, you know the frustration: without debug symbols that match the exact kern

• 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

• One of my old favorite Linux distros is back - and it’s still a great Windows escape Follow ZDNET:Add us as a preferred sourceon Google. • ZDNET’s key takeaways PCLinuxOS is risi

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• Tiny Core Linux offers minimal 11‑MB distribution for legacy hardware. • Modular design allows users to add only needed components. • Ideal for embedded systems and low‑resource

• 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

• Linux drives a lot of the world’s computing infrastructure, and that means it will continue to be a strategic target for threat actors. • This post gives you a 101 overview of: -

• 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

• 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

• Linux 7.0 launches with enablement for Intel Nova Lake, AMD Zen 6 - major kernel update expected in Ubuntu 26.04 LTS and Fedora 44 first Linux 7.0 is everything you would expect

• 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

• 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:

• 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

• 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

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• Goodbye, VirtualBox - I found a better, more reliable VM manager for Linux Follow ZDNET:Add us as a preferred sourceon Google. • ZDNET’s key takeaways If you need to use virtual

• This new Linux desktop runs like an app on your existing desktop - and I highly recommend it Follow ZDNET:Add us as a preferred sourceon Google. • ZDNET’s key takeaways A new Lin

• 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

• 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

• AMD Zen 6 performance events and metrics merged into Linux 7.0, enabling profiling on new processors. • Added vendor event handling for Zen 6 core, uncore, and metrics mapping ch

• Yet Another Fix Coming For Older AMD GPUs On Linux - Thanks To Valve Developer Timur Kristóf of Valve’s open-source Linux graphics driver team has been doing a fantastic job enha

• Linux 7.0 Further Prepares For Intel Diamond Rapids With NTB Driver Support The upstream Linux kernel appears largely ready for Intel’s next-generation Xeon Diamond Rapids proces

• Microsoft Hyper-V Lands Some Useful Improvements In Linux 7.0 For those dealing with Microsoft Hyper-V for virtualization, the Linux 7.0 mainline kernel has seen a number of impr

• 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

• Linux 7.0 Makes Preparations For Rust 1.95 Last week was the main feature pull of Rust programming language updates for the Linux 7.0 kernel merge window. • Most notable with tha

• 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

• AppArmor Enhancements Merged For Linux 7.0 The AppArmour security module for the Linux kernel, which most notably is backed by Canonical for Ubuntu, has some small improvements a

• Linux 7.0 Lands More AMDGPU Fixes For Old Radeon Hardware Following last week’s main set of DRM kernel graphics driver feature updates for Linux 7.0, merged on Friday to Linux 7.

• Ceph In Linux 7.0 Lands Support For AES256K Keys For those making use of the Ceph open-source, distributed storage platform, with the upcoming Linux 7.0 kernel they are introduci

• 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

• ‘ZDNET Recommends’: What exactly does it mean? • ZDNET’s recommendations are based on many hours of testing, research, and comparison shopping. • We gather data from the best ava

• Intel Hiring More Linux Developers - Including For GPU Drivers / Linux Gaming Stack As some good news out of Intel today on the Linux/open-source side following last year’s layof

• 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

• Linux 7.0 Shows Significant PostgreSQL Performance Gains On AMD EPYC When beginning some early Linux 7.0 kernel benchmarking this week for looking at its performance in its early

• Linux Begins Seeing Early Preparations For PCIe 7.0 While we are on the horizon of seeing PCI Express 6.0 devices, there are already early Linux kernel patches beginning to surfa

• Linux 7.0 Brings Apple Type-C PHY, Snapdragon X2 & Rockchip HDMI 2.1 FRL Additions Ahead of the Linux 7.0 merge window ending this weekend, the PHY updates were merged this week

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• 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

• MediaTek MT7902 wireless modules are used in many Windows laptops, but so far, a Linux driver has been missing. • This is about to change, as Mediatek has finally committed a pat

• MediaTek MT7902 wireless modules are used in many Windows laptops, but so far, Linux drivers have been missing. • This is about to change, as Mediatek has finally committed a pat

• I found the best Linux server distros for your home lab Follow ZDNET:Add us as a preferred sourceon Google. • ZDNET’s key takeaways A home lab setup is all the rage these days. •

• 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