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      ASUS Linux HID Driver Preparing To See Support For Newer Devices

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 1 March 2026

    There's been a recent lull in activity around the open-source Linux driver for ASUS devices with the HID interface used for supporting various features. But developer Denis Benato who has worked on the ASUS Armoury Linux driver and the like is working on advancing the ASUS HID driver for Linux systems...
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      Linux 7.0 Development & Intel Panther Lake Proved Most Popular In February

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 1 March 2026

    During the last month on Phoronix there were 289 original open-source/Linux-related news articles and another 20 featured articles as in Linux hardware reviews and multi-page benchmark articles. There was a lot of interesting software and hardware happenings the past month but standing out the most was the Linux 7.0 merge window developments and the ramp of Intel Panther Lake Linux testing...
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      GNU Hurd On Guix Is Ready With 64-bit Support, SMP Multi-Processor Support "Soon"

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 1 March 2026

    After hearing last month that GNU Hurd is "almost there" with x86_64 support, it was exciting to kickoff today by seeing a developer headline "The 64-bit Hurd is Here!" GNU Hurd 64-bit support is now said to be ready but SMP support for multiple processor cores and the like remain still in development...
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      AerynOS 2026.02 Brings More Wayland Compositor Options, Other Improvements

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 1 March 2026

    AerynOS 2026.02 was released for closing out February as the newest alpha release for this Linux distribution formerly known as Serpent OS. In AerynOS 2026.02 are many package updates plus continued work on the tooling and other innovations around this Linux distribution...
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      AMD Prepares Linux For Instruction-Based Sampling Improvements With Zen 6

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 28 February 2026

    A set of patches recently posted to the Linux kernel mailing list have now been queued up to a tip/tip.git branch for planned introduction in Linux 7.1. These patches are for enhancing the Linux perf subsystem support for AMD Instruction-Based Sampling (IBS) improvements with next-gen Zen 6 processors...
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      Verisilicon DC8200 & Coreboot Framebuffer Drivers Sent To DRM-Next For Linux 7.1

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 28 February 2026

    The first DRM-Misc-Next pull request was submitted this week to DRM-Next as new kernel graphics/display driver features to begin queuing for the Linux 7.1 kernel that will release mid-year. Among the early code for DRM-Next are two new drivers...
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      Servo Browser Engine Starts 2026 With Many Notable Improvements

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 28 February 2026

    The Servo project has issued their January 2026 development report that highlights all the interesting changes they made to this open-source browser layout engine last month. With Servo 0.0.5 they have landed many improvements to this engine and also continuing to enhance its ability to embed Servo inside other applications...
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      FreeBSD 14.4-RC1 Adds Emacs, Vim & More To DVD Images

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 28 February 2026

    For those on the current FreeBSD 14 series with no immediate plans to move to FreeBSD 15 that debuted at the end of 2025, FreeBSD developers have been preparing for the release of FreeBSD 14.4. Released overnight was the first release candidate of FreeBSD 14.4...
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      KDE Plasma 6.7 Preps Rounded Style UI Enhancement For QtWidgets-Based Apps

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 28 February 2026

    KDE Plasma 6.7 development continues heating up following the Plasma 6.6 desktop release earlier this month...