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      Dank Fedora MiracleWM & Other Fedora 44 Changes Approved

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 3 February 2026

    The Fedora Engineering and Steering Committee "FESCo" has signed off on the latest batch of Fedora 44 change proposals as they work toward nearing the end of feature work for this spring update to Fedora Linux. Plus some early changes for Fedora 45 have also been granted...
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      GNOME 50 Lands Virtual Monitor / Remote Desktop Improvements - Including HiDPI

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 3 February 2026

    In time for next month's GNOME 50 release are some improvements merged today for the Mutter compositor code adding HiDPI and monitor mode emulation support to the screen-casting API and DevKit...
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      Intel Panther Lake Shows Strong Linux CPU Performance & Power Efficiency With Core Ultra X7 358H Benchmarks

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 3 February 2026

    For those that have been very eager to hear about the Intel Core Ultra Series 3 "Panther Lake" performance on Linux, today's the day! Last Thursday the MSI Prestige 14 Flip AI+ Evo laptop arrived that is powered by the Core Ultra X7 358H. Here is a look at how that Intel Core Ultra X7 358H competes for performance and power efficiency against a wide range of other laptops on an up-to-date Linux software stack in with around 300 benchmarks.
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      Linux Dropping SMC TCP ULP Support For Being "Fundamentally Broken"

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 3 February 2026

    Merged four years ago to the Linux kernel networking subsystem's Shared Memory Communications (SMC) code was TCP Upper Layer Protocol (ULP) support for allowing applications to replace TCP with the SMC protocol in-place as a transparent replacement. Except for the next kernel cycle it's set to be reverted after realizing it's "fundamentally broken."..
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      OpenIndiana Is Porting Solaris' IPS Package Management To Rust

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 3 February 2026

    OpenIndiana as the open-source project built atop Illumos that is continuing to maintain and advance the former OpenSolaris code is working on a big ambitions of modernizing the Image Packaging System (IPS) package management solution. As part of that they are working to move from a C and Python codebase over to Rust...
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      Reworked NTFS Linux Driver Posted With More Improvements & Fixes

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 3 February 2026

    Announced back in October was NTFS Plus as a new Linux driver for NTFS based on the former NTFS kernel driver prior to Paragon Software contributing the NTFS3 driver code. The intent with this new driver is for better performance. more features, public user-space utilities around it, and all-around a nice step forward for those reliant on this Microsoft file-system. Out this week is the sixth iteration of this remade NTFS driver...
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      Rust Coreutils 0.6 Brings Increased Compatibility, Removing Some Unsafe Code & More Perf

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 2 February 2026

    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

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 2 February 2026

    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

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 2 February 2026

    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...