New story! TechNexion TELOS-AI4000 delivers 40 TOPS in compact form factor

TELOS-AI4000 by TechNexion is a compact edge-AI accelerator module based on NXP’s Ara240 discrete neural processing unit. The module delivers up to 40 TOPS of AI performance, supports up to 16GB of LPDDR4 memory and is intended for vision, generative AI and other embedded inference workloads. The Ara240 has appeared in several accelerators covered by […]

New story! mold 3.0 High-Speed Linker Rewritten in Rust

  • Linuxiac.com; By Bobby Borisov (Posted by bobolin on Oct 6, 2026 4:22 AM EDT)
  • Story Type: News Story
The mold linker reaches version 3.0 with a Rust rewrite, Cargo-based builds, improved safety, and no expected performance regressions.

New story! Shotcut 26.9 Video Editor Improves the VA-API HEVC Hardware Encoder on Linux

  • 9to5linux.com; By Marcus Nestor (Posted by hanuca on Oct 6, 2026 2:51 AM EDT)
  • Story Type: News Story; Groups: Linux
Shotcut 26.9 is out today as the latest stable version of this open-source, free, and cross-platform video editing software written in Qt and using the MLT multimedia authoring framework.

New story! TrueNAS 27 RC.1 Released: LInux 6.18 LTS + OpenZFS 2.4

  • Phoronix (Posted by bob on Oct 6, 2026 1:19 AM EDT)
  • Groups: Linux; Story Type: News Story
TrueNAS 27 RC.1 released today in working toward the next major release of this Linux-based storage/NAS operating system from iXsystems...

New story! Mozilla Thunderbird 157 Email Client Released with New Enterprise Policies

Following the release of the Mozilla Firefox 157 web browser today, Mozilla also released the Mozilla Thunderbird 157 open-source email, chat, address book, news, and calendar client for all supported platforms.

New story! AMD ROCm 10.1 Released With Many Improvements

  • Phoronix (Posted by bob on Oct 5, 2026 10:16 PM EDT)
  • Story Type: News Story
Following the ROCm 10.0 release from late August, ROCm 10.1 is now available in continuing with the ROCm six week release cycle...

New story! You Can Now Upgrade Ubuntu 24.04 LTS to Ubuntu 26.04 LTS, Here’s How

Today, September 29th, 2026, Canonical has (finally) opened the upgrade path for Ubuntu 24.04 LTS (Noble Numbat) users to Ubuntu 26.04 LTS (Resolute Raccoon), so here’s how to upgrade your installation.

New story! Auto-CPUFreq 3.2 Adds Configurable HWP Dynamic Boost, Platform Profile Reporting

  • Phoronix (Posted by bob on Oct 5, 2026 7:13 PM EDT)
  • Groups: Linux; Story Type: News Story
The open-source Auto-CPUFreq tool for active system monitoring and power optimizations is out with a new release for continuing to enhance battery life on Linux laptops...

New story! Auto-cpufreq 3.2 Adds Intel HWP Dynamic Boost, Lands in Debian Repos

  • Linuxiac.com; By Bobby Borisov (Posted by bobolin on Oct 5, 2026 5:42 PM EDT)
  • Story Type: News Story
The Linux CPU power optimization tool auto-cpufreq 3.2 brings new Intel HWP features, improved battery reporting, and Debian repository support.

New story! A new way to verify Linux ISO downloads

  • Linux ISO Checker; By Gary Newell (Posted by gary_newell on Oct 5, 2026 4:10 PM EDT)
  • Groups: Linux
When it comes to verifying a Linux distro, it can be tricky, and each distro has its own set of instructions. This tool gives a straight forward interface for ISO verification

New story! Nextcloud Launches Academy to Help Developers Build Apps

As Nextcloud increasingly positions itself as a software platform, its new Academy aims to bring more developers into the fold.

New story! Linuxiac Weekly Wrap-Up: Week 40, 2026 (September 28 – October 4)

  • Linuxiac.com; By Bobby Borisov (Posted by bobolin on Oct 5, 2026 11:25 AM EDT)
  • Story Type: Roundups; Groups: Linux
Catch up on the latest Linux news: OpenMandriva ROME 26.09, Ubuntu 26.10 Beta, Nitrux 7.0, Firefox 157, Wine 11.19, Git 2.56, COSMIC stops accepting AI-generated PRs, and more.

New story! MGLRU-FG Delivering Up To 10~40% Higher Performance For Linux In Some Tests

  • Phoronix (Posted by bob on Oct 5, 2026 9:53 AM EDT)
  • Groups: Linux; Story Type: News Story
Linux's Multi-Gen LRU "MGLRU" has already achieved nice performance gains for Linux in recent years by optimizing page reclaims and improves performance under memory pressure. The new MGLRU-FG patches aim to take things further...

New story! Mozilla Thunderbird Is Finally Coming to iPhone and iPad

After years without an official iOS client, Mozilla Thunderbird is now building a native app for iPhone and iPad with testing planned ahead.

New story! AMD Sends In More New GPU Hardware Enablement For Linux 7.4, Bug Fixes

We are nearing the cut-off of new Direct Rendering Manager (DRM) subsystem material for the upcoming Linux 7.4 cycle. AMD this week sent in another feature pull to DRM-Next that is moving over to mostly bug fixing but does contain the enablement of some new GPU intellectual property blocks for upcoming graphics hardware...

New story! Kagi Ends Orion Browser Development for Linux, Will Open-Source It

  • Linuxiac.com; By Bobby Borisov (Posted by bobolin on Oct 5, 2026 5:19 AM EDT)
  • Story Type: News Story
Kagi ends development of Orion Browser for Linux and Windows, with plans to open-source both versions and hand them over to the community.

New story! Linux Begins Seeing Workarounds For Fujitsu MONAKA CPU Bugs

Last month Fujitsu formally announced their MONAKA CPU as a 144 core Arm-based server processor geared for AI infrastructure. This comes after two years of seeing various Monaka patches to the GCC compiler and other open-source components. Now that MONAKA is announced, we are seeing more patches surface for the Linux kernel with this week seeing several workarounds for MONAKA CPU bugs...

New story! Zig 0.17 Programming Language Lands With Reworked Build System

  • Linuxiac.com; By Bobby Borisov (Posted by bobolin on Oct 5, 2026 2:16 AM EDT)
  • Story Type: News Story
Zig 0.17 advances the systems programming language with ELF linker work, build system changes, LLVM 22, glibc 2.44, and more.

New story! Linux 7.3-rc6 Released: Normal For The New "AI Normal"

Linus Torvalds just released Linux 7.3-rc7 as we work toward the stable Linux 7.3 kernel release in two weeks...

New story! 9to5Linux Weekly Roundup: October 4th, 2026

  • 9to5linux.com; By Marcus Nestor (Posted by hanuca on Oct 4, 2026 11:13 PM EDT)
  • Story Type: Roundups; Groups: Linux
The 312th installment of the 9to5Linux Weekly Roundup is here for the week ending October 4th, 2026, keeping you updated on the most important developments in the Linux world.

New story! OpenCourant: Rocky Linux Developers Create Community Fork Of OpenRadioss

This week was the surprising and unfortunate decision of Siemens shutting down the OpenRadioss project as the four year old open-source project started by Altair Engineering with their prominent Radioss finite element solver. Siemens didn't just end the project but they shutdown the GitHub repository that hosted the open-source code and removed other resources that had built around it. Fortunately, there's a new community fork of OpenRadioss as OpenCourant...

New story! Ubuntu Flavors Compared: Kubuntu, Xubuntu, Lubuntu and Every Other Official Ubuntu Version

  • LinuxStans.com; By Linux Stans (Posted by Feenta on Oct 4, 2026 5:24 PM EDT)
  • Groups: Ubuntu
Kubuntu, Xubuntu, Lubuntu, Budgie and more. See how every official Ubuntu flavor compares, what sets each apart, and which one fits your PC.

New story! Darktable 5.6.2 Adds White Balance Presets for Leica SL3-P and Sony Alpha 7R VI

  • 9to5linux.com; By Marcus Nestor (Posted by hanuca on Oct 4, 2026 3:52 PM EDT)
  • Story Type: News Story; Groups: Linux
Darktable 5.6.2 has been released today as the second point release to the latest Darktable 5.6 series of this open-source, free, and cross-platform raw image editor for GNU/Linux, macOS, and Windows.

New story! Efinix Sapphire RV64 brings 64-bit RISC-V and Linux to FPGAs

Efinix announced this week the Sapphire RV64, a configurable 64-bit RISC-V soft SoC intended for embedded Linux, edge AI and other applications requiring more memory and processing capability than the company’s existing 32-bit Sapphire architecture. The processor can be implemented across Efinix Titanium and Topaz FPGAs, as well as Trion devices from the T20 upward. […]

New story! NVIDIA's Results Of Conducting Wayland vs. X.Org Latency Testing

In addition to NVIDIA announcing their Display Config Server project at XDC 2026 in Toronto, at this annual developer's conference they also presented their findings on scientific testing of X.Org vs. Wayland latency...

New story! KDE Plasma 6.8 Beta 2 Brings More Polish Ahead of October 14 Release

  • Linuxiac.com; By Bobby Borisov (Posted by bobolin on Oct 3, 2026 11:35 PM EDT)
  • Story Type: News Story; Groups: KDE
KDE Plasma 6.8 Beta 2 adds more polish and bug fixes, improving tiled windows, Spectacle, GPU monitoring, remote desktop support, and more.

New story! The Amazing Work By Valves Timur Kristof On Improving Old AMD GPUs On Linux

Over the past year Timur Kristóf of Valve's Linux graphics driver team has made multiple very nice improvements to the AMDGPU kernel driver for enhancing support for old (GCN 1.0/1.1 era from a decade ago) graphics cards so that they can better handle Linux gaming and other tasks. This week in Toronto, Kristóf presented on this AMDGPU work that he initially began as a kernel driver development exercise after initially spending years in user-space focused on the Mesa 3D driver code...

New story! Rust Is Now a Tier-1 Programming Language at Microsoft

Microsoft is giving Rust first-class internal support alongside C++, C#, and TypeScript, with production-ready tooling and integration.

New story! Parrot OS 7.4 Released with AnonSurf 6.0, Updated Raspberry Pi Images

ParrotSec released Parrot OS 7.4 today as the latest stable installation/live image of this Debian-based GNU/Linux distribution for penetration testing and security enthusiasts.

New story! Distro of the Week: Soplos Linux Tyron

  • Distro of the Week; By Larry Cafiero (Posted by lcafiero on Oct 3, 2026 4:41 PM EDT)
  • Groups: Debian, Linux
We get mail, part deux . . . a reader suggested we take this Spanish distro based on Debian Testing out for a spin. So this week's Distro of the Week is Soplos Linux Tyron, with the Xfce desktop, and in many ways it turned out to be quite the pleasant experience.

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