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      smolBSD Builds On The NetBSD-MicroVM Kernel For Booting To Service VMs In Milliseconds

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 1 February 2026

    A new BSD distribution I only learned about for the first time this weekend is smolBSD, a project built atop the netbsd-MICROVM kernel coming with NetBSD 11 for providing insanely fast booting micro-VMs intended for micro-services and similar environments...
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      cTGP Graphics Power Setting Coming For Uniwill / TUXEDO Laptops With Linux 7.0

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 1 February 2026

    Upstreamed for the Linux 6.19 kernel is the Uniwill laptop platform driver for exposing more features/settings for laptops made by this Taiwanese OEM/ODM, including the laptops from TUXEDO Computers. Coming for the next kernel cycle is further extending the Uniwill platform driver for now having support for adjusting the custom total graphics power "cTGP" for those laptops with a dedicated GPU...
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      Linux Kernel AI Chatter, ReactOS Developments & AMD Ryzen 7 9850X3D Topped January

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 1 February 2026

    During the last month on Phoronix were 296 original news articles from the Linux/open-source perspective as well as another 18 featured articles / Linux hardware reviews, written by your's truly. Here is a look back at the most popular news and reviews in the Linux world over the past month...
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      Framework 13 To See Fan Target & Fan Temperature Thresholds Support With Linux 7.0

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 1 February 2026

    For newer Framework devices like the Framework 13 AMD that make use of the ChromeOS Embedded Controller (EC), the upcoming Linux 7.0 kernel is adding fan target support as well as fan temperature threshold handling...
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      Linux 7.0 Aims To Replace More Caching Code With Sheaves For "Hopefully" Improved Performance

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 1 February 2026

    Introduced to the mainline Linux kernel last year was "sheaves" as an opt-in per-CPU array-based caching layer. Sheaves was merged back in Linux 6.18 and while it started as an opt-in caching layer, the plan is to replace more CPU slabs / caches with sheaves. Queued up for slated introduction in the upcoming Linux 7.0 cycle is replacing more of those caches with sheaves...
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      Shotcut Video Editor Now Using Hardware Decoding By Default Except For NVIDIA On Linux

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 31 January 2026

    Shotcut 26.1 is now available as the latest feature update to this open-source and cross-platform video editing solution. Shotcut 26.1 is finally defaulting to GPU hardware accelerated video decoding by default for all platforms sans NVIDIA GPUs on Linux...
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      Phosh Mobile Phone UI Making Progress On GTK4 Port

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 31 January 2026

    Evangelos Ribeiro Tzaras presented today at FOSDEM on the latest work around Phosh, the mobile phone user interface / Wayland shell project for mobile Linux environments. Phosh has been making steady progress and has more features out on the horizon...
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      Budgie 10.10.1 Released With Better Stability & Improved Labwc Integration

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 31 January 2026

    Following the Budgie 10.10 release from earlier this month, Budgie 10.10.1 is now here for closing out January...
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      Linuxulator-Steam-Utils To Enjoy Steam Play Gaming On FreeBSD & Other Options

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 31 January 2026

    Presented today at FOSDEM in Brussels was the state of gaming on FreeBSD by Thibault Payet. Besides various open-source games able to be compiled natively for FreeBSD, this BSD can get in on the Steam Play gaming scene thanks to the "linuxulator-steam-utils" project as a set of workarounds for the Steam Linux client on FreeBSD 14 and newer. Linuxulator-steam-utils builds off FreeBSD's Linuxulator support for running Linux binaries to enjoy the likes of Steam and even Steam Play (Proton) Windows games running on this translation layer for Linux and in turn running on FreeBSD...