3mdeb firmware engineers have been quite busy this year working on porting Coreboot and openSIL to an AMD Ryzen AM5 MSI motherboard and similarly getting openSIL and Coreboot up and running on a Gigabyte server motherboard for AMD EPYC 9005 CPUs. They haven't forgotten about their past projects though and today released an updated version of their Dasharo downstream firmware for the ASRock Rack SPC741D8-2L2T motherboard supporting 4th and 5th Gen Xeon Scalable processors...

As part of today’s release of Ubuntu 26.10 (Stonking Stingray), all the official Ubuntu flavors have been updated to the same version, so here’s a look at their new features and improvements.

Valve just dropped a new Steam client beta and it's a big one for Linux gamers...

Forgejo 17.0 is out with improved CI/CD workflows, enhanced Git LFS management, donation buttons, and expanded repository migration support.

One more option provided is recovery main instance via booting into Overlay instance using Grub Submenu. By explicitly mounting the top-level Btrfs volume (subvolid=5) into a temporary directory like /mnt, you step outside the overlay's jurisdiction. This allows the kernel to recognize the true Btrfs layout and perform instant atomic subvolume swaps.

AI/LLMs like Claude Code are beginning to prove capable of helping to reverse engineer hardware for Linux support, especially when it comes to the tedious reverse engineering tasks...

With the recently reviewed Star Labs StarFighter Ultra Linux laptop its BIOS allows for configurable memory speeds unlike many other laptop vendor BIOS implementations these days. Star Labs also made the default design decision to run the LPDDR5-7467 rated memory at LPDDR5-6400 speeds in the name of a balanced user experience for power/performance. So I was curious to run some benchmarks quantifying that power and performance impact of LPDDR5-6400 vs. LPDDR5-7467 plus tossed in LPDDR5-5467 testing as well as the third choice offered with this StarFighter Ultra laptop.

Ubuntu 26.10 (Stonking Stingray) has been released today, and it is now available for download for those eager to update their Ubuntu systems to a newer release.

Libreboot 26.10 has been released today as a major update to this open-source and free BIOS/UEFI firmware alternative that adds support for new devices, as well as numerous improvements.

Strata 1.0 is a new Rust-based Linux file manager designed for Omarchy, featuring GTK4, Miller columns, keyboard navigation, and secure previews.

Hellomatik has published a study and a modified distributed-llama implementation for running the Qwen3-30B-A3B language model across four Raspberry Pi 5 boards. Using only the boards’ Arm Cortex-A76 CPUs, the cluster reached a reported decode throughput of 15.143 tokens per second, without GPU or NPU acceleration or CPU overclocking. The setup uses four Raspberry Pi […]

In addition to Epic Games announced a preview of their new Epic Games Launcher, including Linux support, they also announced plans to improve their Easy Anti-Cheat (EAC) software on Linux. Along with this improved EAC they are also working on official Linux support for the popular Fortnite game...

Fastfetch 2.70 arrives with better Android support, improved Linux audio detection, fewer dependencies, and bug fixes across platforms.

Receiving a transaction notification is only the first step. Production software still has to decide whether that event is safe to turn into application state. A WebSocket callback can arrive in milliseconds. What happens afterward is harder. The XRP Price may be the public-facing metric most people associate with the asset, but developers integrating the XRP Ledger have a different concern. A long-running service has to detect transactions, determine whether their outcomes are final, and update local application state without acting twice or acting too soon.

In this article, you will learn how to check the historical and statistical information of system uptime using the tuptime command (with practical examples).

Mesa 26.2.5 has been released today as the fifth minor update to the latest Mesa 26.2 stable series, bringing various improvements to the NVK, Freedreno, RADV, RadeonSI, Zink, ANV, PVR, and PanVK drivers.

Rustls as the modern TLS library written in the Rust programming language with an emphasis on memory safety is out today with its v0.23.46 release in order to ship four new security fixes...

Asmi - pronounced like "us" and "me, and is Sanskrit and Hindi that means "I am" or "I exist" - is based on Debian 13.6 "Trixie" and provides a lightweight and modern Xfce-based experience with the addition of distro-specific tools to make the Linux experience a good one.

Today, KDE, one of the largest active free software communities in the world, celebrates its 30th anniversary since German computer science student Matthias Ettrich announced the project on Usenet.

KDE Plasma 6.8 arrives on KDE's 30th anniversary, dropping native X11 sessions and improving Wayland, performance, HDR, and remote desktop.

Webmail is not your only choice. Compare 13 Linux email clients, from Thunderbird to NeoMutt, with pros, cons, privacy notes and a full table.

Peppermint OS is testing PepVoid, a new Void Linux-based edition featuring Xorg and XLibre, with an official release potentially coming in November.

In this article, you'll learn how to install the Deluge BitTorrent client on Ubuntu and other Linux distros, how to use it, and then how to remove it.

While Mesa is predominantly used for GPU drivers, open-source developer Tomeu Vizoso continues advancing the capabilities of NPUs within the Mesa driver stack...

The privacy-focused Tails 7.15 Linux distribution is out, updating Tor Browser, the Tor client, and firmware packages for newer hardware.

For those looking to run Linux on new Qualcomm Snapdragon X2 hardware, there are laptops from ASUS, HP, and Lenovo that are powered by the X2 Elite and will be supported with the mainline Linux 7.4 kernel...

Linus Torvalds experiments with AI-generated Linux kernel code, using Claude Code to optimize memory operations and improve read performance.

Linux hardware vendor TUXEDO Computers announced today the TUXEDO Stellaris 16 Gen8 laptop with Intel Core Ultra 9 290HX Plus processors and NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5000 Series graphics.

With Firefox 158 released, Firefox 159 is now in beta ahead of its official release in two weeks...

A new logo separates the foundation from its flagship software — and arrives as the open source office status quo is being turned on its head.