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Linux 7.0 Officially Concluding The Rust Experiment

While Linux 7.0 is the next kernel version solely over Linus Torvalds' numbering preference, there is a notable symbolic change that was sent in overnight for this new kernel merge window: formally concluding the "Rust experiment" with upstream kernel developers now in acceptance that Rust for the Linux kernel is here to stay...
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🪶 Les journaux LinuxFr.org les mieux notés de janvier 2026

LinuxFr.org propose des dépêches et articles, soumis par tout un chacun, puis revus et corrigés par l’équipe de modération avant publication. C’est la partie la plus visible de LinuxFr.org, ce sont les dépêches qui sont le plus lues et suivies, sur le site, via Atom/RSS, ou bien via partage par messagerie instantanée, par courriel, ou encore via médias sociaux.

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Ce que l’on sait moins, c’est que LinuxFr.org vous propose également de publier directement vos propres articles, sans validation a priori de lʼéquipe de modération. Ceux-ci s’appellent des journaux. Voici un florilège d’une dizaine de ces journaux parmi les mieux notés par les utilisateurs et les utilisatrices… qui notent. Lumière sur ceux du mois de janvier passé.

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pearOS 2026.02

pearOS is an Arch-based desktop Linux distribution which features a macOS-like theme and icons on top of the KDE Plasma desktop. Some of the distribution's features include a custom system installer called pearOS Installer, a pearOS welcome application, and the GNOME Files file manager. pearOS comes with various popular desktop, web and multimedia applications, such as the Gwenview image viewer, Firefox web browser, Elisa music player and Kate text editor.
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🏆 Meilleures contributions LinuxFr.org : les primées de janvier 2026

Nous continuons sur notre lancée de récompenser celles et ceux qui chaque mois contribuent au site LinuxFr.org (dépêches, commentaires, logo, journaux, correctifs, etc.). Vous n’êtes pas sans risquer de gagner un livre des éditions Eyrolles, ENI et D-Booker. Voici les gagnants du mois de janvier 2026 :

Les livres gagnés sont détaillés en seconde partie de la dépêche. N’oubliez pas de contribuer, LinuxFr.org vit pour vous et par vous !

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Bandeau LinuxFr.org

Certaines personnes n’ont pas pu être jointes ou n’ont pas répondu. Les lots ont été réattribués automatiquement. N’oubliez pas de mettre une adresse de courriel valable dans votre compte ou lors de la proposition d’une dépêche. En effet, c’est notre seul moyen de vous contacter, que ce soit pour les lots ou des questions sur votre dépêche lors de sa modération. Tous nos remerciements aux contributeurs du site ainsi qu’aux éditions Eyrolles, ENI et D-Booker.

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Maple 1.3.7.1

Maple Linux is a desktop Linux distribution based on Debian's "Stable" branch and featuring the Cinnamon desktop. It is designed primarily for users located in Canada, with specific Canadian defaults. The distribution ships with both English and Canadian French locales pre-configured and it uses CIRA Canadian Shield DNS for privacy-focused, malware-blocking DNS servers operated locally. Maple Linux is pre-configured with America/Toronto timezone, Canadian keyboard layouts, and default settings that make sense for Canadian users.
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ObsidianOS 2026.02.08

ObsidianOS is a set of Linux distribution based primarily on Arch Linux. Its main feature is an A/B partition style (as used by Android or Chrome OS) so if an update causes some issues, it is possible to reboot into the first partition and restore the second one. It uses the ext4 filesystem exclusively. ObsidianOS offers three variants of the product - "Base", "KDE Plasma" and "COSMIC".
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Intel Recently Shelved Numerous Open-Source Projects

After discovering this morning that Intel archived/discontinued its On Demand "SDSi" GitHub project around that controversial feature, it was a slippery slope in noticing Intel recently archived around two dozen other open-source projects they previously maintained...
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Voyager 26.04-alpha5

Voyager Live is an Xubuntu-based distribution and live DVD showcasing the Xfce desktop environment. Its features include the Avant Window Navigator or AWN (a dock-like navigation bar), Conky (a program which displays useful information on the desktop), and over 300 photographs and animations that can be used as desktop backgrounds. The project also develops several other editions of Voyager Live - a "GE" edition with GNOME Shell, a "GS" variant for Gamers, and a separately-maintained flavour based on Debian's "stable" branch.
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D7VK 1.3 Brings Support For Direct3D 5 On Vulkan

D7VK is a fork of the DXVK project that is an important part of Valve's Steam Play (Proton) for Direct3D 8 / 9 / 10 / 11 support atop Vulkan. With D7VK the original goal was a Direct3D 7 implementation on Vulkan. D7VK 1.1 brought experimental Direct3D 6 support and now with today's release of D7VK 1.3 is support for Direct3D 5...
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A Lot Of Exciting Changes To Look Forward To With Linux 6.20 -- Or Linux 7.0

With Linux 6.19 due for release later today it then opens up the next kernel merge window. It could be Linux 6.20 but more than likely the next kernel version will be called Linux 7.0 with Linus Torvalds' past tradition of bumping the major version number after X.19. Whatever it ends up being called, here is a look at various "-next" changes that have been queuing up ahead of the merge window...
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Intel Appears To Have Quietly Sunset "On Demand" Software Defined Silicon

Back in 2021 on Phoronix was first to report on Intel preparing Linux patches for a "Software Defined Silicon" feature for activating extra licensed hardware features. That Software Defined Silicon support continued moving forward and was then announced as Intel On Demand with a focus on users being able to pay to activate additional accelerators found on select SKUs but not enabled by default...
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Wine-Staging 11.2 Brings More Patches To Help Adobe Photoshop On Linux

Building off Friday's release of Wine 11.2 is now Wine-Staging 11.2 as this experimental/testing version of Wine with hundreds of extra patches that have yet to be introduced in upstream proper for this open-source software enabling Windows games and applications on Linux. Notable in this bi-weekly update are more patches for continuing to improve the Adobe Photoshop installer support on Linux...
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Intel Releases QATlib 26.02 With New APIs For Zero-Copy DMA

Of Intel's different CPU accelerator IPs, the arguably most useful and with the greatest customer interest remains around QuickAssist Technology (QAT). Intel QAT allows offloading various compression and encryption tasks for better performance. Intel this week released QATlib 26.02 as the newest version of their user-space library for leveraging QuickAssist Technology on capable hardware...
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DreamWorks' OpenMoonRay 2.40 Introduces New GUI, Light Path Visualizer

Back in 2022 DreamWorks Animation announced they were open-sourcing their MoonRay renderer and was then published in early 2023 for this renderer that has been used in a variety of featured animated films. Since then they have continued advancing this MoonRay code via the open-source OpenMoonRay project and this week published their newest feature update...
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