https://toast.ooo/u/cm0002 posted on Feb 21, 2026 01:01
RustConn looks very promising. Could it retire Remmina?
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.
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.
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
If you know anything about Linux’s history, you’ll remember it all started with Linus Torvalds posting to the Minix Usenet group on August 25, 1991, that he was working on “a (free) operating system (just a hobby, won’t be big and professional like gnu) for 386(486) AT clones.” We know that the “hobby” operating system today is Linux, and except for PCs and Macs, it pretty much runs the world.
Did you ever wonder, though, how it went from being one person’s project to being a group effort? I knew most of the story because I’d been using Linux since 1993. But I thought I’d ask Linus, and some of the early Linux developers.
Did a quick search it seems that it’s called Shatner light. Very cool.
Even when it’s running Windows, you’re free to install Linux whenever you want. When that’s no longer true is when it stops being a PC imo
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.
Yaay Sway! This person has great taste! :)
Excellent guide! I’ll have to look at this more intentionally when I’m at my Linux machine.