Just days after the Linux 7.1-rc1 kernel release, the Linux kernel's extensible scheduler class "sched_ext" is seeing a lot of bug fixes. Many of these bug fixes aren't just from the Linux 7.1 merge window but a number date back many kernel cycles. This uptick in bug fixes for sched_ext is coming due to increased AI code review...

Recently I ran benchmarks looking at the Xe2 graphics performance gains on Intel Lunar Lake over the past year with what's shipped by Ubuntu and comparing against our original tests of the Lenovo ThinkPad X1 Carbon Gen 13 Aura Edition. With those Lunar Lake iGPU benchmarks out of the way, here is a look at how the Lunar Lake CPU performance has evolved on Linux since April 2025.

Zed Code Editor reaches version 1.0, moving beyond its pre-release phase with a GPU-accelerated UI and cross-platform support.

Back to a time when source repositories were printouts and commits were hand-written notesAntiques code show Microsoft has released the source for another of its relics. This time, it's 86-DOS 1.00 getting the open source treatment, and a whole lot more for retro enthusiasts.…

I sat down with the legendary Steven Vaughan-Nichols (SJVN) at KubeCon to discuss Steven’s career, the shifting landscape of open-source media, and the technical evolution of the Linux ecosystem.

Crowd Supply recently featured the MiciMike Home Mini Drop-In PCB, an open hardware replacement for the first-generation Google Home Mini that enables fully local Home Assistant voice control. It installs without case modifications or soldering, reusing the original hardware. The platform is built around an Espressif ESP32-S3, based on a dual-core Xtensa LX7 CPU clocked […]

Valve’s April 2026 Steam client update adds remote downloads management, quick chat for Big Picture Mode, and Remote Play improvements.

In this article, you'll learn how to install Google Earth Pro and the CE variant on Ubuntu and other Linux distros with practical examples.

Jon Seager’s roadmap brings agentic AI to Ubuntu through inference snaps and background enhancements, while vowing not to hard?wire AI into the OS or shove it at unwilling users.

A Devuan developer, the Linux distribution that provides a Debian-based operating system without dependence on systemd, is working on "gtk2-ng" for providing modern fixes and improvements to the old GTK2 toolkit...

Microsoft is reportedly considering a Fedora-based foundation for Azure Linux, citing potential x86_64-v3 performance improvements in Fedora ELN meeting logs.

Fedora Silverblue is an operating system for your desktop built on Fedora Linux. It’s excellent for daily use, development, and container-based workflows. It offers numerous advantages such as being able to roll back in case of any problems. If you want to rebase to Fedora Linux 44 on your Fedora Silverblue system, this article tells you how. It not […]

Valve released a new stable Steam Client update today that introduces remote downloads management, remote play improvements, and many Big Picture Mode changes.

The past few weeks I have been testing out the new HP Z6 G5 A workstation desktop PC. It's a beast in being powered by the AMD Ryzen Threadripper PRO 9975WX, eight channels of DDR5-5600 memory, and paired with a NVIDIA RTX PRO 6000 Max-Q workstation graphics card. The full review on the HP Z6 G5 A workstation will be published on Phoronix in the next week or so but given the timing and that it shipped with WIndows 11 Pro, here is a look at how Windows 11 Pro is competing against the newly-released Ubuntu 26.04 LTS in creator/workstation workloads.

I’m happy to announce that we have sealed bootable container images ready for testing for the Fedora Atomic Desktops! What are sealed bootable container images? Sealed bootable container images include all the components needed to create a fully verified boot chain, from the firmware to the operating system composefs image. This relies on Secure Boot […]

The systemctl mask and systemctl disable are both crucial commands for Linux administrators, and you must know their differences to decide which one to choose in certain situations.

Ubuntu maker Canonical announced plans to integrate LLM-based tools in future Ubuntu releases, as the company is ready to embrace “AI” technologies with an opt-in implementation and a kill switch.

I’m excited to announce that Fedora Linux 44 is here! Keep reading to discover highlights of Fedora Linux 44, or if you are ready, just jump right in and give Fedora Linux 44 a try! Thanks to everyone who helped! Thank you and congrats to everyone who has contributed to this release. And thanks to everyone […]

At AI Dev 26 x SF, code slingers confront their relationship with AIMore than 3,000 software developers from around the world gathered in San Francisco on Tuesday to learn what will become of software development in the AI era.…

In this article, you will learn everything about file descriptors, like their uses in Linux, what a file descriptor table is, how to view the file descriptors under a specific process, and how to change the limit of a file descriptor in Linux.