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Debian's Bug Tracker With No Web UI For Editing Bugs Is Very Obscure For 2026

Phoronix | Jan. 2, 2026, 6:44 a.m. | Original

Debian's maintainer of the Meson build system package is calling attention to the unfortunate state of Debian's bug tracker in 2026. Editing bug data within Debian's bug tracker still relies on writing custom-formatted emails and submitting them via your mail client. There still is no modern web UI for managing the Debian bug tracker as it was largely written in the early 90s.

Jussi Pakkanen is the creator project leader of the Meson build system. Jussi also maintains the Meson package for upstream

Six Years Since The Reiser5 File-System Was Announced

Phoronix | Jan. 2, 2026, 6:32 a.m. | Original

With the start of the New Year it now marks six years since the unexpected announcement of the Reiser5 file-system being developed as the continuation of the never-upstreamed Reiser4 file-system. But Reiser5 development never saw too much upstream interest and it's now been several years without any updated patches for Reiser5 or Reiser4.

Every New Year's Eve is a reminder of the Reiser5 announcement from 2019. Edward Shishkin who was a former Namesys developer and had been carrying

Mesa 25.3.3 Ships Latest Bug Fixes, Intel Vulkan GTK4 Toolkit Workarounds

Phoronix | Jan. 2, 2026, midnight | Original

Mesa 25.3.3 shipped on Thursday as the newest stable point release for Q4's Mesa 25.3 feature series. Now being into the new quarter, we have Mesa 26.0 to look forward to as stable likely by late February, but for now Mesa 25.3.3 is the latest and greatest stable version.

Mesa 25.3.3 is fairly light in regards to new changes given many developers taking time off over the past two weeks with end

Steam On Linux Ends 2025 With 3.19% Marketshare, AMD Linux CPU Use Approaches 72%

Phoronix | Jan. 1, 2026, 8:23 p.m. | Original

Back in November Steam on Linux use hit an all-time high at 3.2%. With the still increasing popularity around the Steam Deck powered by the Arch Linux based SteamOS, Linux gaming continuing to grow thanks to Steam Play (Proton), and excitement around the upcoming Steam Frame and Steam Machine hardware, the Linux gaming outlook continues to be positive. The Steam Survey results for December 2025 are out tonight and with just a tiny dip to Linux use.

The Steam Survey results for December have

Devuan 6.1 Released For Latest Debian 13 "Init Freedom" Without systemd

Phoronix | Jan. 1, 2026, 8:13 p.m. | Original

Released back in November was Devuan 6.0 for Debian 13 without systemd dependence in order to provide "init freedom" with letting users instead opt for SysVinit, OpenRC, or Runit as the init system. Devuan 6.1 is out today as the newest stable point release.

Devuan 6.1 brings down the latest Debian 13 "Trixie" package updates while continuing to provide the "init freedom" with otherwise being bound to systemd usage. The whole focus of Devuan remains around providing Debian GNU/Linux

NVIDIA Graphics On Haiku OS Make Progress With NVIDIA Open Kernel Modules + NVK/Zink

Phoronix | Jan. 1, 2026, 3:20 p.m. | Original

As a wonderful New Year surprise, there's good momentum on NVIDIA graphics support for the BeOS-inspired Haiku open-source operating system.

As reported on nearly one year ago, NVIDIA's official open-source kernel modules were ported to Haiku although designed for their Linux kernel use. The Mesa NVK Vulkan driver was also being adapted to run atop the NVIDIA open-source modules as part of this effort for bettering the Haiku NVIDIA graphics driver support. In closing out 2025, NVIDIA-Haiku

Valve's Linux Efforts, Kernel Improvements & KDE Plasma Wayland Advancements Topped 2025

Phoronix | Jan. 1, 2026, 12:50 p.m. | Original

After looking yesterday at the most viewed Linux hardware reviews and benchmarks of 2025 , today's look is at the most popular open-source/Linux news of the past year. There were 3,286 original news articles on Phoronix during 2025 written by your's truly, here's a look back at what excited readers the most over these past twelve months.

Below is a look at the most popular news of the past year with several top articles revolving around Valve

ReactOS Starts 2026 With Another "Major Step" Toward Windows NT6 Compatibility

Phoronix | Jan. 1, 2026, 10:42 a.m. | Original

The ReactOS free software project is turning 30 this year and its "open-source Windows" OS ambitions remain. They are starting out this year with another "major step" towards Windows NT 6.0 compatibility.

ReactOS developers shared that after months of prep work, their MSVCRT implementation in ReactOS has been synced against the Wine 10.0 state. MSVCRT is the DLL as part of the Microsoft C Runtime library.

IceWM 4.0 Improves Alt-Tab Window Switcher, Alpha Blending + 32-bit RGBA Default

Phoronix | Jan. 1, 2026, 9:02 a.m. | Original

For fans of the IceWM X11 window manager, the project kicked off 2026 by releasing IceWM 4.0.

IceWM 4.0 is primarily focused on improvements to its Alt+Tab window switcher, which can now handle larger number of application windows for both the vertical and horizontal modes.

In addition to enhancing the Alt+Tab window switcher, there are BSD fixes, alpha blending and 32-bit RGBA support is now the default, support for high resolution icons in WM_ICON_

SDL 3.4 Released With Many New APIs, Better Emscripten & Native PNG Support

Phoronix | Jan. 1, 2026, 7:02 a.m. | Original

Kicking off the new year for Linux gaming and cross-platform gaming at large is the release of the SDL 3.4 library. SDL is part of the Steam runtime and continues to be widely-used for abstracting software/hardware for creating more portable games and other applications.

SDL 3.4 brings a number of new APIs, including work on better interoperability between SDL's 3D GPU API and its 2D rendering API.

SDL 3.4 also enjoys better Emscripten support if wanting to compile it down

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