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The Xubuntu team is now organizing a wallpaper contest to celebrate the upcoming Xubuntu 26.04 LTS (Resolute Raccoon) release and also Xubuntu’s 20th anniversary as an official Ubuntu flavor.

Starting February 18th, 2026, those interested in contributing their beautiful artwork to the upcoming Xubuntu 26.04 LTS release are invited to submit their artwork on the official wallpaper contest thread opened on the Ubuntu Discourse community.

Power levels are measured in seconds for rebuild times ofc.

i use nix btw (and arch btw, dual booting)

RustConn looks very promising. Could it retire Remmina?

Brazil mentioned!

(Also jokes aside, makes sharing with my fellow countrymen easier)

While we are on the horizon of seeing PCI Express 6.0 devices, there are already early Linux kernel patches beginning to surface for PCI Express 7.0.

The PCI-SIG officially released the PCIe 7.0 specification i nmid-2025. PCI Express 7.0 doubles the raw data rate to 128 GT/s to allow for 512GB/s bi-directional communication in a PCIe 7.0 x16 configuration. PCIe 7.0 retains backwards compatibility with prior PCIe revisions, offers power efficiency improvements, and other enhancements.

Me: we’re on PCIe 7 now????

I believe the PCI-e revisions are usually used in datacenters before home computers, and of course Linux is really big for datacenters…

but also this could be preparations for 2028 or even 2029 hardware, datacenters especially need this stuff to be really stable so it’s gotta be done in advance

Following GNOME 50’s Mutter merging sdr-native color mode support for wide color gamut displays this week, another late addition to Mutter has now been merged ahead of next month’s GNOME 50 stable release.

The late change merged today to Mutter Git is supporting the Wayland color management v2 protocol. Mutter already was supporting the initial color management protocol but now is updated to include the latest adjustments to it found in the upstream Wayland Protocols spec.

As some good news out of Intel today on the Linux/open-source side following last year’s layoffs, they’re hiring for some new Linux software development roles – including for enhancing their Linux graphics driver stack that also includes a focus on Linux gaming with the likes of Valve’s Proton (Steam Play).

Intel passed along six new engineering roles they have posted as recently as yesterday – three of which are for GPU software development engineers where the focus isn’t only on HPC/AI GPU compute but also Linux gaming.

Intel is such a weird company, “we’re still having issues with CPU’s and factories, let’s scale up GPU stuff!”

Tbh I hope it goes well for them, more competition can only be a good thing. AMD is basically unchallenged on Linux and NVIDIA is unchallenged on Windows.

But those Arc cards actually look good (for the low budget segment they are in that is…) and are mainly held by lackluster drivers. So I get the decision.

Long past due for retirement, the Linux 7.0 kernel has removed the obsolete Mwave driver for the 3780i ACP Modem found in some Pentium II era IBM ThinkPads from the 1990s.

The Mwave Linux driver was for the 3780i ACP Modem found in some ThinkPads. Found on the likes of the IBM ThinkPad 600E, 600, and 770 these modems allowed 56K connectivity. IBM wrote the Mwave kernel driver and the associated user-space software for it back in the 1990s.

I would assume people running a modern kernel on an orignal 32-bit first generation pentium machine don’t need such an excuse as they have to do in constantly already…

Yes, should have said “to have another excuse”

Linux hardware vendor System76 has begun teasing a redesign of their Thelio chassis that is used by their modern desktops and workstations. Helping distinguish System76 from other Linux desktop/PC vendors has been their custom-engineered, built-in-the-USA enclosures and now they are preparing to launch a next-generation design.

System76 CEO Carl Richell posted on X that “Ground-up redesigned @system76 Thelio hardware coming soon.”

Carl commented that it’s been ten months of design and engineering, over 16,000 durability test runs, and over 250 hours of thermal testing and optimization. It will be very interesting to see what they’ve managed to achieve with the redesign given how well the Thelio hardware has held up over the years in our continued testing and all-around being extremely well built and reliable. We’ve tested the likes of the Thelio Major and ARM-powered Thelio Astra.