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Zstd Improvement For Linux 7.4 To Avoid Redundant Initialization

13.09.2026

In addition to Usama Arif's recent Linux patches for addressing a major inefficiency within the Linux kernel's Zstd compression code, he also has a separate patch series destined for Linux 7.4 to further enhance the Zstd compression/decompression per...

BFS File-System Being Removed For Linux 7.4

13.09.2026

The latest upstream file-system to be removed from the mainline Linux kernel is... BFS...

ARCTIC's Fan Controller Driver For Linux Being Dual-Licensed With BSD-2-Clause

13.09.2026

Earlier this year ARCTIC published a fan controller driver for Linux. Besides being rare for an enthusiast-oriented company to publish a Linux driver themselves where typically it's left up to the open-source community for driver support for such per...

GNOME Shotwell 33 Photo Manager Released With GTK4 Port

13.09.2026

It's been quite some time since hearing any news out of the Shotwell photo manager project for GNOME, but out today is Shotwell 33 with the long-awaited GTK4 port...

EROFS Disables LZ4 Rolling Decompression Due To Data Corruption Possibility

13.09.2026

The EROFS read-only file-system popular for embedded systems, containers, and other use-cases has resorted to temporarily disabling its LZ4 rolling decompression support due to data corruption concerns...

Debian 13.7 Released With Many Bug Fixes

12.09.2026

For those wanting the freshest Debian 13 "Trixie" install media, Debian 13.7 is out today in bundling up all the latest bug and security fixes...

Void Linux Maintainer Orphans 100+ Packages Over AI Policy Dispute

12.09.2026

A Void Linux maintainer has orphaned more than 100 packages he maintained over a dispute of the project's AI policy for LLM-generated text...

Intel Reverses Decision To Cancel Their Open-Source Font Project

12.09.2026

Amid Intel cutting back on open-source projects over the past two years as cost cutting measures at the company, their latest open-source project on the chopping block was the peculiar font they developed a few years back. The project was archived th...

GTK 4.24 Released With Better Fractional Scaling, More Precise GDK Frame-Clock

12.09.2026

GTK 4.24 released on Friday as the newest stable feature release to the GTK4 toolkit. It's quite a nice update to GTK4 for pairing with next week's GNOME 51 desktop release...

Intel Linux NPU Driver Only Now Officially Supports Ubuntu 26.04 LTS

12.09.2026

Releasing on Friday was the Intel Linux NPU Driver 1.38 as the user-space open-source driver components for leveraging the Core Ultra Neural Processing Unit (NPU) under Linux in conjunction with the upstream IVPU kernel accelerator driver...

Ubuntu Developers Contemplate Linux Firmware HWE Package

12.09.2026

A possible future enhancement being considered for Ubuntu Long Term Support "LTS" releases is the introduction of a linux-firmware-hwe package as part of their hardware enablement (HWE) stack...

KDE Plasma 6.8 Remote Desktop To Enjoy Lower Latency Performance

12.09.2026

Along with KDE Plasma 6.8 beta releasing this week, there were some other interesting Plasma changes this week worthy of a shout-out...

Gitte As Git Client For GNOME Continues Maturing Quite Nicely

12.09.2026

For those in pursuit of a graphical Git client for GNOME or the Linux desktop at large, the GTK4-powered Gitte continues advancing rather well and out this week is its v0.10 release...

New Cache Aware Scheduling Fixes Out For Testing

11.09.2026

Since being merged back during the Linux 7.2 cycle, the Cache Aware Scheduling code continues seeing more fixes as users test out this scheduling enhancement on different processors and system configurations...

Linux's IO_uring Sees Some "Crazy" Patches That Deliver Very Nice Improvements

11.09.2026

Linux block subsystem maintainer and IO_uring lead developer Jens Axboe continues to uncover new opportunities for making the wonderful IO_uring framework even more performant within the Linux kernel. For ending out the week he's posted some "crazy" ...