According to the mailing list, in the upcoming Linux 5.12 merge window, the USB 4/Thunderbolt changes have been merged into the USB-next tree. These changes come from Intel, including changes to Thunderbolt and the...
Linux PC manufacturer System76 announced in March last year that it would build a customized Linux keyboard, and successively revealed the overall concept and content of the keyboard. Recently, Phoronix reported that System76 is...
More than ten years ago, Intel had high hopes for MIDs (Mobile Internet Devices) as mobile Internet devices and their early launch of Menlow and Moorestown platforms. But looking back, Intel’s MID was ultimately...
Ubuntu Core 20 is the smallest containerized version of Ubuntu 20.04 LTS for IoT devices and embedded systems, and it is now fully available. Canonical said that this major version enhances device security through...
Canonical Design Team and Ubuntu Desktop Team are working together to develop a new installation program for the Ubuntu Desktop Installer. The installer will take full advantage of technologies such as Flutter (bring Flutter...
According to the mailing list, Ubuntu 21.04 will enable LTO support for its package construction. Link time optimization (LTO) is a method for optimizing multiple compilation units of the entire program during linking. The...
The FreeBSD development team announced that starting from FreeBSD 13.0, the level of support for the i386 architecture will be downgraded to Tier 2. In the future, FreeBSD 14.0 may further reduce the support...
Canonical set Wayland as the desktop default session as early as Ubuntu 17.10. In subsequent changes, the company has been testing Wayland and actively collecting user feedback. However, it was limited to the non-LTS...
Linux announced in 2017 that it would extend the support time limit of the “Long Term Support (LTS)” version from 2 years to 6 years. This means that the Linux 5.4 LTS released later...
Linux 5.11-rc4 was officially launched, and now this time node is getting closer and closer to the release of the stable version of Linux 5.11. Therefore, at this stage of development, there will be...
Recently, Arnd Bergmann, a well-known Linux kernel developer, initiated a discussion about deleting support for a bunch of old CPU platforms. Since Linux 5.10 was officially announced as the LTS version, he found that...
GNOME 40 was originally planned to be released next spring. On December 18, the GNOME Shell team announced the GNOME Shell UX plan for GNOME 40. The team made an updated design for the...
