(more Linux news in previous posts)

System76 Launches New COSMIC-Powered Thelio Mira High-Performance Linux PC:
https://9to5linux.com/system76-launches-new-cosmic-powered-thelio-mira-high-performance-linux-pc

System76 Makes The Best Open-Source Keyboard Even Better:
https://www.phoronix.com/review/system76-launch-keyboard-2026

TUXEDO Gemini 17 Gen4 Linux Laptop Now Available with AMD Ryzen 9 9955HX:
https://9to5linux.com/tuxedo-gemini-17-gen4-linux-laptop-now-available-with-amd-ryzen-9-9955hx

Wine 11.5 Release Is Big: Syscall User Dispatch Feature Supported On Linux:
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Wine-11.5-Released

OpenGL Lands New Extension To Benefit Wine:
https://www.phoronix.com/news/OpenGL-Mesa-Wine-Ext

Wayland 1.25 Released With Color Management Now Fully Documented:
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Wayland-1.25-Released

GE-Proton 10-33 brings fixes for VR outside of Steam, FSR upgrades and more:
https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/03/ge-proton-10-33-brings-fixes-for-vr-outside-of-steam-fsr-upgrades-and-more/

systemd 260 Released: mstack, SysV Service Scripts Removed & AI Agents Documentation:
https://www.phoronix.com/news/systemd-260-Released

SysV Init 3.16 Released With Cleanups, Improved systemd Unit To SysV Script Conversion:
https://www.phoronix.com/news/SysV-Init-3.16

PipeWire 1.6.2 Released with Audio Mixer Optimizations and Various Bug Fixes:
https://9to5linux.com/pipewire-1-6-2-released-with-audio-mixer-optimizations-and-various-bug-fixes

GRUB Bootloader Development Moves To FreeDesktop.org:
https://www.phoronix.com/news/GNU-GRUB-To-FreeDesktop

Vulkan 1.4.347 Debuts With Three New Extensions:
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Vulkan-1.4.347-Released

Arm Preparing Live Firmware Activation Support For Linux:
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Arm-Live-Firmware-Activation

Bcachefs 1.37 Released With Linux 7.0 Support, Erasure Coding Stable & New Sub-Commands:
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Bcachefs-1.37-Released

(FOSS news in comments)

#WeeklyNews #News #Linux #LinuxNews #LinuxPC #System76 #TUXEDO #Wine #OpenGL #Wayland #GEProton #systemd #Systemd260 #SysVInit #PipeWire #GRUB #Vulkan #Bcachefs #FosseryTech

@bazkie well, you can to an extent.

• Just like #SysVinit and #Xorg got yeeted because they enshittified due to neglect...
  • See #toybox + #musl / #linux as in #mkroot, which is @OS1337's upstream…

@stilic @SRAZKVT yeah, but either of these basically implement either the same or a subset of #SystemD or #SysVinit.

• Even #toybox's #init [oneit] works by being a subset if the init by just running whatever script is under /etc/init…

But that's because essentially doing either manual (SysVinit) or hierachical-automated (SystemD) dependency resolution is the only way to make it any #Linux or #Unix'esque system work…

• Including #macOS which uses #LaunchD aka. the inspiration for SystemD that doesn't get hated by #BSD fans…

@SRAZKVT so what else do you propose?

Stick with #SysVinit?

@denisbloodnok @siina regardless, #SystemD does boot faster simply because it doesn't go strictly linear but parallelizes startups and does dependency resolution on services.

• Which is way more convenient than #SystemVinit.

Cuz original #SysVinit s slow af.

• The only reason it's not feeling slow anymore is because we don't rock 2,5" 5400rpm IDE HDDs in laptops anymore but even most "budget" SSDs can saturate SATA-6G during reads, if not exceed it even in worst-case scenarios.
  • And the only reason I didn't put systemd into @OS1337 as of now is the fact that I can't make it fit!

Now I see why some people shit on systemd. For simple things, it's needlessly complex haha. I mean I already did something like this last year where I tried out other inits and I'd say sysvinit is one of the most complicated inits I've ever used when I played around with it.

It's WAY older than me. I'm only 23 years old and that thing is like 30+ years old

#voidlinux #runit #systemd #archlinux #cachyos #void #linux #freesoftware #opensource #sysvinit