Loongson 3B6000 Benchmarks: How China's LoongArch CPU Compares To AMD Zen 5, Intel Arrow Lake & Raspberry Pi 5 lxer.com/module/newswire/ext_l…

Rust Coreutils 0.6 Brings Increased Compatibility, Removing Some Unsafe Code & More Perf

Following the Rust Coreutils presentation from FOSDEM this weekend, Rust Coreutils 0.6 is now available as the latest feature release for this Rust programming language re-implementation of GNU Coreutils...
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Firefox 148 Ready With New Settings For AI Controls

With the concerns raised over comments by Mozilla's new CEO with wanting to evolve Firefox into a "modern AI browser", the Firefox 148 release due out later this month aims to address some of those concerns by having a new AI controls area within the web browser's settings...
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Linux Prepares To Support Microsoft's "Turn On Display" DSM To Address Laptop Issues

Microsoft in Windows 11 22H2 introduced a new ACPI Device Specific Method (DSM) "Turn On Display" notification that the Linux 7.0 kernel will be adding support for in dealing with some otherwise problematic laptop behavior...
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cTGP Graphics Power Setting Coming For Uniwill / TUXEDO Laptops With Linux 7.0 lxer.com/module/newswire/ext_l…

Git 2.53 Released With More Optimizations, One Step Closer To Making Rust Mandatory

While we might see Git 3.0 released around the end of 2026, Git 2.53 is out today as the latest feature release and continuing to make changes with an eye toward that big Git 3.0 milestone...
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Security Researchers Find Current RISC-V CPU Implementations Coming Up Short

While many open-source enthusiasts like to flaunt RISC-V as not having the security challenges as x86_64 CPUs have seen over the past several years with various speculative execution / side-channel attacks and arguing for the benefits of an open-source ISA in stronger security, in practice it's not so clear-cut. Security researchers at Germany's CISPA Helmholtz Center for Information Security h…
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Loongson 3B6000 Benchmarks: How China's LoongArch CPU Compares To AMD Zen 5, Intel Arrow Lake & Raspberry Pi 5

Recently I finally got my hands on a LoongArch processor, the ISA developed by China's Loongson Technology as an evolution from their earlier use of the MIPS64 ISA and inspired by RISC-V and other modern ISAs. The Loongson-3B6000 features 12 cores / 24 threads with dual channel DDR4 ECC memory support. Here is a look at how that latest-generation LoongArch desk…
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Experimental Linux Code For 1GB PUD-Level THPs Shows 34% Faster Memory Access Times

Early, experimental code for implementing 1GB PUD-level THPs in the Linux kernel are showing positive benchmark results but other upstream stakeholders were surprised by this patch series appearing and it looking like it could be a while until if/when the patches are mainlined for helping to reduce translaction lookaside buffer (TLB) pressure without resorting to Hugetlbfs...
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Rust Coreutils Continues Working Toward 100% GNU Compatibility, Proving Trolls Wrong

Sylvestre Ledru who serves as the lead developer of the uutils project for the Rust Coreutils implementation presented at FOSDEM 2026 this weekend on this initiative. Ledru has spoken at FOSDEM in prior years on Rust Coreutils and this year's talk focused primarily on Ubuntu 25.10's adoption of it in place of GNU Coreutils...
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Intel ISH Firmware Upstreamed For Linux With Dell's New Panther Lake Laptops

Ahead of Dell's new XPS 14 and XPS 16 laptops powered by Intel Core Ultra Series 3 "Panther Lake" expected to be shipping in volume beginning in March, more of the Linux support for these premium Panther Lake laptops continues to be finished up...
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Linux From Scratch Abandoning SysVinit Support

Linux From Scratch was one of the holdouts continuing optional SysVinit init system support through 2026, but that's now ending. Linux From Scratch "LFS" and Beyond Linux From Scratch "BLFS" are ending their System V Init support moving forward...
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DietPi January 2026 Update Introduces Uptime Kuma, ownCloud Infinite Scale, and Debian 12 Baseline lxer.com/module/newswire/ext_l…

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Linuxiac Weekly Wrap-Up: Week 5, 2026 (Jan 26 – Feb 1) lxer.com/module/newswire/ext_l…

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Linux 6.19-rc8 Released Ahead Of Linux 6.19 Stable Next Week lxer.com/module/newswire/ext_l…

Linux 6.19-rc8 Released Ahead Of Linux 6.19 Stable Next Week

While typically the stable Linux kernel would come after the -rc7 release a week prior, for Linux 6.19 the release is being dragged out by an extra week not due to any scary bugs but rather due to the holiday downtime at the end of the year. As such Linux 6.19-rc8 is out today with the stable v6.19 release expected next Sunday...
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smolBSD Builds On The NetBSD-MicroVM Kernel For Booting To Service VMs In Milliseconds lxer.com/module/newswire/ext_l…

GNU Hurd Is "Almost There" With x86_64, SMP & ~75% Of Debian Packages Building

Samuel Thibault offered up a status update on the current state of GNU/Hurd from a presentation in Brussels at FOSDEM 2026. Thibault has previously shared updates on GNU Hurd from the annual FOSDEM event while this year's was a bit more optimistic thanks to recent driver progress and more software now successfully building for Hurd...
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GNOME Resources 1.10 Adds Monitoring Support For AMD Ryzen AI NPUs

GNOME Resources 1.10 was christened today as the newest version of this modern system monitoring app for the GNOME desktop that is now used by default on the likes of the upcoming Ubuntu 26.04 LTS. With GNOME Resources 1.10 they have added AMD Ryzen AI NPU monitoring support and other new capabilities...
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