Now queued up for introduction in the Linux 7.4 merge window later in October is the steal governor driver for preferred CPUs and steal-driven vCPU backoff for today's virtualized world...

F-Droid 2.0 brings a redesigned Android app store experience with a new UI, improved search and filtering, background updates, and smoother app installs.

Recently I was provided remote access to a NVIDIA Vera server with the dual socket Vera CPU Superchip providing 176 Olympus cores plus with NVIDIA's Spatial Multithreading "SMT" implementation providing 352 total threads. With this benchmarking was free rein for testing, including CPU power and frequency monitoring. Over the next few weeks will be a number of articles looking at different areas of NVIDIA Vera performance. One of the areas I was most eager to test was looking at Vera's Spatial Multithreading. Here is a first look at the impact of NVIDIA Vera SMT.

The 311th installment of the 9to5Linux Weekly Roundup is here for the week ending September 27th, 2026, keeping you updated on the most important developments in the Linux world.

Apprise 2.0 arrives with notification escalation, smarter retries, parallel delivery, native async support, and major internal changes.

EWatch, developed by Ewan Wills, is a programmable ESP32-S3 smartwatch with a 1.69-inch color touchscreen, 350mAh battery, vibration feedback and USB-C connectivity. The platform is offered as a bare PCB, self-assembly kit or complete watch, following more than five years of development. The EWatch hardware is built around the ESP32-S3, with Wi-Fi and Bluetooth Low […]

OpenShot 4.0.1 is now available for download as the first maintenance update to the latest OpenShot 4.0 series of this open-source, free, and cross-platform video editing software written in Qt.

Klassik is a modern KDE Plasma 6 project recreating the look and feel of KDE 3 while supporting Wayland and fractional scaling.

In working toward the stable Linux 7.3 kernel release hopefully on 18 October, out today is Linux 7.3-rc5 as the newest weekly test candidate...

In this article, you'll learn about the proc file system (short for "procfs", referring to the "/proc" directory) and how it's useful to check the running processes related information on Linux.

In addition to the Linux kernel's Zstd compression code being improved, the LZ4 compression code within the kernel tree is also seeing a separate set of enhancements...

Catch up on the latest Linux news: MX Linux 25.3, Systemd 262, COSMIC Desktop 1.9, Kitty 0.49, Samba 4.25, Ubuntu kernels move to weekly releases, and more.

Ubuntu 26.10 brings AI dictation, a smarter memory manager and Windows-style window snapping. Here’s the release date and every confirmed feature.

The Linux-based mobile operating system postmarketOS has officially changed its name to Nura after a year-and-a-half selection process.

GL.iNet has unveiled the Mango 2 (GL-MG1300), a compact travel router with dual-band Wi-Fi 5, Gigabit Ethernet and USB 3.0. The device supports WireGuard and OpenVPN, along with Ethernet, Wi-Fi repeater, USB tethering and USB cellular modem connections. The Mango 2 is powered by a dual-core MediaTek processor running at 880MHz, although GL.iNet does not […]

Going back to last year the Igalia open-source consulting firm has been working on enhancing the Linux kernel to help Steam Play gaming on ARM64 and ensuring the FEX emulator is operating efficiently for x86/x86_64 games running on the likes of the Steam Frame. After other kernel work in recent months, there's finally an updated round of the FUTEX get_robust_list2 and set_robust_list2 system call patches...

Nginx Proxy Manager 2.16 introduces a new web UI log viewer, per-path access lists, security fixes, networking improvements, and updated Certbot support.

A new blog post published on Thursday covers the experimental support for SIMD with the Go programming language. This expanding Go SIMD support also includes a platform-independent API for making use of SIMD with modern processors...

OBS Studio 33 has entered public beta testing today as a major release of this open-source, cross-platform, and free video recording and live streaming software that promises new features and improvements.

ARK Electronics recently showcased the ARKV6X-RT, an NDAA-compliant flight controller based on the FMUV6X-RT and Pixhawk Autopilot Bus open standards. The module uses an NXP i.MX RT1176 microcontroller and includes three synchronized IMUs, onboard FRAM, a secure element and PX4 Autopilot support. For context, the i.MX RT1176 integrates a 1GHz Arm Cortex-M7 core and a […]

The Redox OS open-source, Rust-based operating system has seen a lot of activity in recent weeks with many notable improvements landing...

The new systemd-report collects system facts and runtime metrics into unified, timestamped JSON reports for monitoring and fleet management.

AlmaLinux’s new certification platform aims to make finding out how well your hardware and software will work with AlmaLinux as easy as looking at its certification catalog.

The coffee window is closing. Going back many years with the time it's taken to compile the Linux kernel has been a well known opportunity for a coffee break or even eating a meal during the lengthy Linux kernel build process. Even when the Linux kernel was much smaller than it is today, with the hardware at the time it would often be a very time consuming process... Thus incredible to think that we are now on the horizon of a ten second clean, default kernel build on Linux x86_64.

Shelly 3.1.5 is out today as a new maintenance update in the Shelly 3.1 series of this modern, open-source, and free pacman alternative for Arch Linux and derivatives.

Navidrome is an open-source music server that lets you stream your personal audio collection anywhere. It gives you freedom to listen to your music collection from any browser or mobile device. It’s like your personal Spotify! In this guide, we will explore how to get Navidrome up and running securely using Podman on Fedora Linux. […]

Orange Pi has published hardware details for the OrangePi O1, a 90 × 70mm SBC based on the Sophgo BM1688 processor. It pairs eight Arm Cortex-A53 cores with a RISC-V C906 coprocessor and a 16-TOPS INT8 TPU, along with up to 16GB of LPDDR4/LPDDR4X memory. The BM1688 integrates eight Arm Cortex-A53 cores operating at up […]

WUD 9.0 arrives with a new SQLite-based persistence layer, three user roles, personal API tokens, and improved OIDC support.

While the Linux kernel continues to be bombarded with patches from AI/LLM agents, to date the kernel hasn't carried an AGENTS.md Markdown file with instructions catering to AI/LLM agents. But a patch set out today would finally introduce one...

Linux hardware vendor and Pop!_OS Linux maker System76 released COSMIC 1.9 today as the latest stable version of this Rust-based desktop environment for modern GNU/Linux distributions.