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Deepin 25.3 introduces freeze protection, faster application startup, an optional Linux kernel 6.18, and improved system recovery.

The Early Days

Yesterday in the AMD EPYC 9006 "Venice" SP7 launch testing were reviews of the AMD EPYC 9996 256-core processor as well as the EPYC 9686F 96-core high frequency part. There were hundreds of benchmarks looking at the gen-on-gen performance from EPYC Turin to EPYC Venice as well as against the Intel Xeon 6 Granite Rapids competition. For those wondering about how AMD EPYC Venice is competing with…

Tria Technologies has unveiled its OSM-SB-EP5, a 146 × 102mm development platform supporting Open Standard Module (OSM) Size-S, Size-M, and Size-L modules. The carrier board combines dual Gigabit Ethernet, USB 3.0, MIPI camera and display interfaces ti intended for industrial IoT, edge AI, robotics, and embedded vision development. Introduced at electronica 2026, the OSM-SB-EP5 follows…

The privacy-focused Tails 7.17 Linux distro updates Tor Browser, Tor client, and the Linux kernel, with automatic upgrades from version 7.0 onward.

Mike Lothian got Vino working on three generations of DisplayLink docks, but Synaptics told him to take it down.

Flipper Devices is preparing a Kickstarter campaign for its “Flipper One,” a portable Linux computer powered by an octa-core Rockchip RK3576 processor and a Raspberry Pi RP2350 microcontroller. The handheld combines 8GB LPDDR5, Wi-Fi 6E, dual Gigabit Ethernet, and M.2 expansion for cellular modems, SDR modules, and other peripherals. The Rockchip RK3576 combines four Arm…

Like clockwork, the semi-annual Fedora Project release - this one Fedora 45 - pops up on our radar.This week you get a two-fer, in the form of road-testing both Workstation (a.k.a. Gnome 51) and the KDE Plasma version. As you might expect, both excelled but we picked one over the other..

Unattended openSUSE Tumbleweed deployments on bare metal are critical because they eliminate manual intervention, ensure configuration consistency, and drastically reduce provisioning time across physical infrastructure. While Tumbleweed is a rolling-release distribution - traditionally favored by developers and power users on personal machines - deploying it at scale on bare metal using unattended methods providing by Agama Installer serves several vital engineering and operational purposes:

This past month has brought several software package updates for openSUSE Tumbleweed ARM with less than a handful of snapshots reaching the ARM port. The second half of October brought a two-version jump of GRUB2 to 2.16 with serial console and NVMe boot features, a security-focused Linux kernel 7.2.11 and…

Nautilus might be getting a neater way to organise its file views, with section headers breaking up long lists of content into groups. GNOME’s Christian Hergertr recently added support for section headers to GTK’s gridView, the widget Nautilus (among other apps) use to display items, noting it is ‘useful for organising items’ being displayed. Nautilus developer Peter Eisenmann commented to say he…

Sheets, Whiteboards, and Data artifact types bring Claude closer to a productivity suite

Autark can act without constant prompting, but leaves users to enforce their own security boundaries

A new version of High Tide, an unofficial TIDAL music streaming app for Linux built with GTK4/libdwaita, is out. Hight Tide 1.6.0 plumbs in support more features found in the paid streaming service’s official clients, including the ability to block artists and tracks for appearing in playlists or auto-play queues, with a new preferences panel to see and manage your blocks. Play buttons are now…

Sharing Linux release announcements is apparently a cybersecurity threat. Fortunately, Facebook’s keeping an eye on me to make sure that doesn't happen again.

Backed by Samsung, Square Enix, and others, KORA Systems announced KORA OS today as a Linux distribution built for the age of "intelligent PCs"…

With openSUSE Leap making use of the modern Agama installer developed by SUSE engineers, the rolling-release openSUSE Tumbleweed is now preparing to make the same transitioning in replacing the YaST Installer…

Blender 5.3 adds native Gaussian Splatting support, enables Vulkan by default on Linux, and improves rendering, animation, and video editing.

The KDE Project released KDE Plasma 6.8.3 today as the third maintenance update to the latest KDE Plasma 6.8 desktop environment series, with more bug fixes and various improvements.

With Fedora 45 having shipped last week, developers are turning more of their attention to Fedora 46 that will debut by the end of next April…

An early version has arrived with Firefox 160, letting you move a tab or a selected part of a page into its own mini window. Does that serve any purpose?

Samsung's Galaxy XR headset runs on Android XR by default with its own downstream kernel patches. A user leveraging AI with multiple LLMs has now drafted an initial set of patches getting the Galaxy XR headset working on the mainline kernel along with bringing up the Qualcomm Snapdragon XR2+ Gen 2 "Halliday" SoC that powers this VR/XR headset…

It is a release that has taken a year to develop, with major changes like a Wayland session that is no longer experimental.

The Mesa 26.3 open-source graphics stack has been released today as the third major point update to the Mesa 26 series, introducing new features and improvements across most of the included graphics drivers.

The Firefox 160.0 release builds are now available as the latest bi-weekly stable update to Mozilla's web browser…

LibreOffice is free for business, but WPS Office's free edition has licensing limits. Compare the PDF, cloud, AI, and compatibility trade-offs.

Darling is the software project more than a decade in development that is designed to run macOS binaries on Linux. This macOS compatibility layer for Linux is now gaining more brisk developments as it turns to AI/LLMs to assist in this creation…

The openSUSE Project’s rolling release Tumbleweed will switch to the Agama installer before the end of the year, according to an announcement on the Factory mailing list. Agama-based images are expected to replace the legacy YaST installer as the main download on get.opensuse.org within the coming weeks. The project is…

Continuing its two-week release cycle, Mozilla published today the final builds of the Firefox 160 open-source web browser ahead of the official unveiling on November 10th, 2026.

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