Samuel Thibault offered up a status update on the current state of GNU/Hurd from a presentation in Brussels at FOSDEM 2026. Thibault has previously shared updates on GNU Hurd from the annual FOSDEM event while this year's was a bit more optimistic thanks to recent driver progress and more software now successfully building for Hurd.

GNU/Hurd continues to lag behind the Linux kernel and other modern platforms for hardware driver support. But driver support for Hurd has been improving thanks to NetBSD's rump layer.

GNOME Resources 1.10 was christened today as the newest version of this modern system monitoring app for the GNOME desktop that is now used by default on the likes of the upcoming Ubuntu 26.04 LTS. With GNOME Resources 1.10 they have added AMD Ryzen AI NPU monitoring support and other new capabilities.

For those running on an AMD Ryzen AI SoC and on a recent kernel with the AMDXDNA kernel driver as well as having the AMD Ryzen AI NPU firmware loaded, the GNOME Resources app can

The b4 tool used by Linux kernel developers to help manage their patch workflow around contributions to the Linux kernel has been seeing work on a text user interface to help with AI agent assisted code reviews. This weekend it successfully was dog feeding with b4 review TUI reviewing patches on the b4 tool itself.

Konstantin Ryabitsev with the Linux Foundation and lead developer on the b4 tool has been working on the "b4 review tui" for a nice text user interface for kernel developers making use of this utility for

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.

With NetBSD's MICROVM kernel it's possible to boot in QEMU in around 10 milliseconds. Developers behind smolBSD took that and created a meta-OS and microVM generator to build tiny VM images that are fast booting and catering to your individual workloads/services.

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.

Werner Sembach of TUXEDO Computers has been working on extending this upstream Uniwill driver for providing more features for their laptops that had previously only been available

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.

There continues to be a lot of talk around AI use within the Linux kernel and other open-source projects, ReactOS as the "open-source Windows" project started the year strong with some

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.

Thomas Weißschuh has been extending the ChromeOS EC driver "cros_ec" for fan target speed on the main fan and fan temperature thresholds across all temperature sensors. The development focus on this has been with the Framework 13 AMD laptop while other Chrome OS EC backed devices can benefit as well

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.

Queued up this week into slab.git's slab/for-next Git branch

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.

With the beta earlier this month Shotcut rolled out new hardware decoder options and now it's officially shipping. Shotcut is using the Video Acceleration API (VA-API) on Linux, Microsoft's Media Foundation on Windows, and Video Toolbox on Apple