While link-time optimizations "LTO" can deliver some nice performance benefits out of this compiler optimization technique, it can make debugging said binaries more challenging. Due to various bugs in Mesa being attributed to the use of compiler link-time optimizations when compiling Mesa, the builds are being blocked on using LTO.

A merge today to Mesa Git adjusts the Meson build system integration to error out if the compiler "-flto" flag is set:

"Building Mesa with LTO is not supported. Please disable LTO for building

With GIMP 3.2 releasing soon, GIMP developer Ondřej Míchal presented at FOSDEM 2026 this past weekend on some of the feature work being eyed for post-3.2 developments.

Among the highlights of some of the features hoped for post-3.2 for GIMP include hardware-accelerated image operations using modern APIs. The GEGL library used by GIMP did support OpenCL albeit not in any meaningful manner and hidden in recent releases. Hopefully we'll see some good GPU-accelerated

While Vulkan Video is a cross-vendor, cross-platform video encode and decode API that is beginning to gain traction by multimedia applications and frameworks, the Intel "ANV" open-source Vulkan driver has for now taken a step-back on its encode support with newer hardware. Newer Intel graphics hardware is seeing Vulkan Video encode support disabled due to insufficient testing.

For nearly three years there has been initial Vulkan Video support that over time has picked up encode and decode support for additional video codecs and other improvements.

Earlier this week Rust Coreutils 0.6 released while out today is GNU Coreutils 9.10 as the de facto standard for this set of core utilities on Linux systems and other platforms.

GNU Coreutils 9.10 brings many improvements over last year's releases. GNU Coreutils 9.10 changes include:

- Fixing an infinite loop for cp, install, and mv commands when copying sparse files with SEEK_HOLE.

- The stat and tail commands now know about the guest-memfd file-system

LibreOffice 26.2 is now officially released as the newest half-year update to this leading open-source and cross-platform free software office suite.

For those not liking the direction of Microsoft Office 365, LibreOffice remains a great alternative particularly for Linux users. The LibreOffice 26.2 Writer word processor improves its spell checking dialog, tracking improvements to document changes, Start and End paragraph alignment, and other changes.

A one-line patch to the HP WMI x86 platform driver for Linux was posted for allowing the HP OMEN Transcend Gaming Laptop 14-fb1xxx to correctly hit its rated TDP limit for allowing better performance outside of the Microsoft Windows confines.

The HP OMEN Transcend Gaming Laptop 14-fb1xxx is a ~$1300 laptop powered by the Intel Core Ultra 7 series and with a 3K OLED display, NVIDIA GeForce RTX Blackwell discrete graphics, and other high-end features

Linux input expert Peter Hutterer of Red Hat announced today the first release candidate of libinput 1.31, the input handling library used by both modern X.Org Server and Wayland desktop environments.

One of the most notable end-user features with the upcoming libinput 1.31 release is enabling support for fast 3-finger swipes when 3-finger drag is enabled. Hutterer explained of the fast three-finger swipes event:

"Related to touchpads: we now support fast 3fg swipes when 3fg drag

AMD announced today an expansion of their FPGA prodict line-up with the Kintex UltraScale+ Gen 2 for "intelligent, high performance systems" for medical, industrial, and other fields.

The Kintex UltraScale+ Gen 2 is engineered as a mid-range product for performance-critical systems. The AMD Kintex UltraScale+ Gen 2 can support 4K/8K media workflows, high throughput, advanced imaging, and there's a migration path to it from existing Spartan UltraScale+ FPGAs.

While there is the Linuxulator as a kernel-level solution on FreeBSD for running unmodified Linux binaries that can even work for gaming on FreeBSD , running BSD applications on Linux isn't talked about as much. But developers have found that for those wanting to run BSD applications in Linux environments, the urunc lightweight container runtime can work out rather well for efficiently handling BSD apps on Linux.

For those that happen to have software that is only tailored to the BSDs and not Linux environments or cases like select network workloads that may