Back in April PostgreSQL added AVX-512 support for CRC32 computations. At the time the gains for CRC32 computations with this popular open-source database server were reported to be 50% to 3x faster for x86_64 CPUs able to leverage AVX-512. That AVX-512 support is found with PostgreSQL 18.0 that released in September and now Intel is praising this addition to PostgreSQL for which their developers also had a part in along with AWS and others...

The groups command is used to list all the groups to which the specified user belongs. This will make it easier for you to manage users and groups in your system.

Valve today announced three new products, the highly anticipated and rumored Steam Machines powered by the Arch Linux-based SteamOS, the Steam Frame VR headset, and a new Steam Controller.

In this tutorial, we are going to show you how to install CloudPanel on Ubuntu 24.04 OS. CloudPanel is a free and open-source server control panel designed for servers and cloud environments.

FTP’s simplicity came with security risks; SSH Pilot offers a familiar workflow for secure shell management and encrypted file transfers — without sacrificing security.

Docker Engine 29 sets containerd as the default image store and introduces experimental nftables support for modern Linux networking.

Framework Computer announced back in August that the Framework Laptop 16 would be rolling out upgrades to the AMD Ryzen AI 300 series and a GeForce RTX 5070 graphics option. Today the review embargo lifts on these new Framework 16 laptop upgrades and some Linux benchmarking of the new hardware.

The systemd-free Nitrux 5.0 debuts with Hyprland as the default desktop, APT-style NX AppHub, immutable root, and performance-tuned kernels.

Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10.1 has reached general availability with a number of enhancements to this leading enterprise Linux distribution. As with so many things in 2025, AI is a big focus for RHEL 10.1...

SUSE’s latest updates tightly link its Rancher Kubernetes platform and new AI stack, signaling a move to simplify AI management across environments.

qBittorrent 5.1.3 has been released today as the third maintenance update to the latest qBittorrent 5.1 series of this open-source, cross-platform, and free BitTorrent client for GNU/Linux, macOS, and Windows.

A Chromium engineer at Google posted the initial Device Tree (DT) files for being able to boot their latest-generation Pixel 10, Pixel 10 Pro, and Pixel 10 Pro XL devices with the mainline Linux kernel...

The Linux kernel's Human Interface Devices (HID) subsystem has an existing architectural limitation that there is just up to one battery per HID device. But with modern devices -- especially among various gaming peripherals -- there can be more than one battery when considering earbuds with a battery for each earbud, multi-device wireless receivers, etc. A proposal was raised today to address this limitation...

The PWD (a.k.a. "present working directory") will print the path of the directory you are currently working in, starting from the root directory to the current directory.

Arch Linux has shipped its November 2025 ISO snapshot (2025.11.01), and while Arch remains a rolling distribution, these monthly images are a big deal, especially for new installs, labs, and homelab deployments. This time, the ISO lands alongside two important pieces...

Lenovo recently sent over their new ThinkPad P1 Gen 8 laptop for review under Linux. My Linux review on that ThinkPad P1 Gen 8 laptop will be coming up in the near future along with some other benchmarks from that premium mobile workstation. But with this being the first time I've had an Intel Core Ultra 7 255H "Arrow Lake H" device at Phoronix, here are some standalone benchmarks looking at the CPU performance of that 16-core mobile processor compared to various other Intel and AMD SoCs in different laptops while running Ubuntu Linux.

With Firefox 145 being offered to the stable channel today on all supported platforms, Mozilla promoted the next major release, Firefox 146, to the beta channel for public testing.

Rspamd 3.14, an open-source spam filtering system, introduces dark mode in the WebUI, faster fuzzy hashing, and a new Postfix setup wizard for simplified mail integration.

It's "Patch Tuesday" and Intel is out with new CPU microcode for Linux users in addition to making public 30 new security advisories that affect a range of Intel products...

Plasma Mobile 6.5 enhances speed, usability, and Android app integration with Waydroid setup in Settings, along with faster lock screen loading and refined visuals.

Engicam has showcased the TIA RZ/V2H System-on-Module and its companion AI.DEV RZ/V2H development kit, both built around Renesas’ RZ/V2H processor. The module targets embedded applications in machine vision, autonomous robotics, and industrial automation, offering onboard AI acceleration and GPU capabilities optimized for real-time processing and advanced imaging. The TIA RZ/V2H module integrates a Renesas RZ/V2H […]

Omnilingual Automatic Speech Recognition can transcribe speech in over 1,600 languages — including 500 low-resource languages.

The YouTube video recordings for the X.Org Developers' Conference 2025 that took place at the end of September in Austria are finally available. Among the many interesting XDC2025 presentations was Intel engineer Matthew Brost talking about the GPU Shared Virtual Memory (SVM) within Intel's modern Xe kernel graphics driver...

The KDE Project released today KDE Plasma 6.4.6 as the sixth and last maintenance update to the KDE Plasma 6.4 desktop environment series to address more bugs, crashes, and other issues.

Following yesterday's release of Rust Coreutils 0.4, GNU Coreutils 9.9 is now available as the latest update to this set of core utilities common to Linux systems and other platforms...

Apache NetBeans 28 cross-platform IDE improves Gradle 9 support, refines Maven UI handling, and expands JUnit integration.

The echo command takes the text or file as an argument and prints the output on the screen. It is mostly used in shell scripts to instruct the user or give any piece of information.

GStreamer 1.26.8 multimedia framework refines HDR video playback, enhances AV1 and EAC3 parsing, and delivers performance and stability fixes.

Firefox 145 open-source web browser lets users add notes to PDFs, preview tab groups, and use local, private Semantic History Search.

This is a custom KDE Plasma 6 setup using the default Breeze theme, transformed into a Purple Breeze look with Breeze Dark, Tela Circle icons, and a cute cat wallpaper, creating a sleek, cozy, and aesthetic desktop. Perfect for anyone who wants their KDE Plasma to look more stylish and personal.