Following the recent GA of the AWS M9g series as the first instances powered by the new Graviton5 CPUs, I recently ran benchmarks looking at Graviton4 vs. Graviton5 CPU performance. There was very nice generational gains for the new AWS Graviton processors with the shift from Arm Neoverse-V2 to Neoverse-V3 cores and from DDR5-5600 to DDR5-8800 memory, among other improvements. For those wondering how the Graviton5 ARM server processors compare to AMD EPYC and Intel Xeon, here are some additional comparison data points from the Amazon EC2 cloud.

Debian 13.6 is out with 120 security fixes, 124 stability updates, and Secure Boot changes, while Debian 12.15 becomes Bookworm’s last point release.

F&S Elektronik Systeme GmbH has showcased the armStone MX8ULP, a Pico-ITX single board computer based on the NXP i.MX 8ULP processor. The 100 × 72 mm platform targets industrial, IoT, and human-machine interface applications, combining low-power processing, real-time capabilities, and multiple connectivity options. The armStone MX8ULP integrates the NXP i.MX 8ULP SoC, which combines two […]

KDE Plasma 6.8 will let Spectacle record microphone and system audio during screen recordings, alongside several UI and performance improvements.

Similar to Linux 7.2 enabling Eswin SoC support by default in the RISC-V "defconfig" kernel build, UltraRISC RISC-V coverage is also now being enabled by default for RISC-V kernel builds in Linux 7.2...

Pop!_OS 24.04 users can now enable COSMIC’s long-awaited Frosted Glass effect, with a wider Linux rollout expected next week.

Linux 7.2-rc3 is now available for testing in working toward the stable Linux 7.2 kernel version coming up in August...

Catch up on the latest Linux news: Debian 13.6, Proton 11.0, Wine 11.13, Plasma 6.6.6, COSMIC Desktop Frosted Glass effect, Linux Mint 23 will support Wayland, and more.

PeaZip 11.2 has been released today as a new point release in the latest PeaZip 11 series of this open-source, free, and cross-platform archive manager for GNU/Linux, macOS, and Windows platforms.

The staging driver fixes that were sent out this week ahead of the Linux 7.2-rc3 release is predominantly made up of hardening the Realtek RTL8723BS WiFi driver. In particular, a number of fixes for addressing out-of-bounds behavior when connecting to "bad" WiFi hosts...

HackerBox has released Issue 0128, titled “Mesh Deck,” a DIY communications platform built around a ProMicro nRF52840 development board, an SX1262-based LoRa module, a GPS receiver, an OLED display, and a miniature QWERTY keyboard. The kit focuses on assembling and configuring a portable Meshtastic node for decentralized messaging without cellular or internet service. The main […]

Built on debsecan, debvulns?exporter surfaces Debian security metadata for Prometheus and Grafana.

The Harmonic Firmware Initiative "HFI" is trying to provide a generic, standardized power-on firmware experience for RISC-V boards. Akin to the x86 world with having immediate graphics card initialization to provide a display while the system is booting and also having a BIOS setup utility for system configuration, HFI is trying to do the same for the RISC-V world...

The first phase follows exactly guidelines proposed in Bring CachyOS KDE Plasma 6.7.2 along with kernel 7.1.3 to Arch Linux ( https://lxer.com/module/newswire/view/358937/index.html ) . Second phase was developed in collaboration with Google AI Assistant. Replacement ArchLinux HOOKS by `sudo sed -i 's/^HOOKS=(.*/HOOKS=(systemd autodetect microcode modconf kms keyboard sd-vconsole block filesystems fsck)/' /etc/mkinitcpio.conf` represents a modern, optimized, pure systemd-based initramfs layout that strips away legacy configuration defaults

The Debian Project announced today the general availability of Debian 13.6 as the sixth update to the latest Debian GNU/Linux 13 “Trixie” operating system series.

KDE developers continue to be very busy this summer landing more features for the upcoming Plasma 6.8 desktop...

Navidrome 0.63 introduces word-by-word synchronized lyrics, smarter search, and dramatic speed improvements for large music libraries.

Debian 13.6 is out today as the newest point release of Debian Trixie to ship the latest security fixes and other maintenance updates...

Linux hardware vendor System76 has pushed the highly anticipated Frosted Glass effect for the COSMIC desktop environment, first to Pop!_OS Linux users and later to everyone else, so here’s a first look.

Microsoft has officially unveiled Azure Linux 4.0, the latest version of its open-source Linux distribution designed for cloud infrastructure, enterprise workloads, and modern data centers. Formerly known as CBL-Mariner, Azure Linux has powered Microsoft's internal cloud services for years, but version 4.0 marks its biggest evolution yet by becoming a general-purpose server operating system that organizations can deploy both inside and outside Azure.

Earlier this week NVIDIA confirmed some basic details around their next-gen Rosa CPU that succeeds Vera. Among the public confirmation was that it will feature a "Rigel" Armv9.2-A core iterating on their Olympus core design. With the basic details published, NVIDIA immediately introduced Rigel core support into the GCC compiler. Now they have also upstreamed their initial Rigel core enablement into the LLVM Clang compiler...

DMS 1.5 introduces Frame Mode, calendar integration, display profiles, and Hyprland Lua configs for a more complete Wayland desktop experience.

After originally announcing Graviton5 last December, recently AWS finally made the M9g and M9gd instances generally available as the first featuring these new in-house ARM server processors for the EC2 cloud. Graviton5 makes use of Arm Neoverse-V3 cores compared to Neoverse-V2 with Graviton4, support up to 192 cores, and feature a higher 3.3GHz clock speed compared to 2.8GHz on the prior-generation Graviton CPUs. Here is an initial look at how the Graviton5 processor performs over Graviton4.

The KDE Project released KDE Frameworks 6.28 today as the latest stable update to this open-source collection of more than 80 add-on libraries to Qt and a companion to the KDE Plasma desktop environment and KDE Gear software suite.

Chatto, a privacy-focused group and team chat platform with voice, video, and screen sharing, is now open source and free to self-host.

With KDE Plasma 6.7 now having seen a few point releases to further polish this last version with X11 support ahead of Plasma 6.8 going Wayland-only, here are some NVIDIA Linux gaming benchmarks between the X11 and Wayland sessions on Plasma 6.7.2 using the popular Arch Linux based CachyOS.

Wine 11.13 is now available with better pointer input handling, improved X11 keyboard scancode mapping, ARM64EC optimizations, and 22 bug fixes.

System76 developers have for the past number of weeks been working on developing a "frosted glass" appearance for the COSMIC desktop environment featured on their Pop!_OS Linux distribution. For Pop!_OS users this frosted glass feature is now available and will become more widespread for other Linux distributions once the next COSMIC release is formally tagged...

This is your friendly reminder that Ubuntu 25.10 “Questing Quokka” reached the end of its supported life today, July 9th, 2026, and it is no longer supported by Canonical with software and security updates.

Orbitiny Desktop Pilot X brings a brand-new dynamic theming system, panel docking improvements, a redesigned Control Panel, and many X11-focused fixes.