New story! Arch-Based Omarchy 3.3 Brings AI Dictation Hibernation and Hyprland Fixes

Arch-based Omarchy 3.3 introduces local AI dictation with Voxtype, hibernation support, dynamic themes, and more.

New story! Linus Torvalds: "The AI Slop Issue Is *NOT* Going To Be Solved With Documentation"

The Linux kernel developers for months now have been debating proposed guidelines for tool-generated submissions to the Linux kernel. As part of the "tools", the main motivator for this documentation has been around the era of AI and large language models with coding assistants and more. Torvalds made some remarks on the Linux kernel mailing list around his belief in focusing the documentation on "tools" rather than explicitly focusing on AI, given the likelihood of AI-assisted contributions continuing regardless of documentation...

New story! Linus Torvalds: Stop making an issue out of AI slop in kernel docs -- you're not changing anybody's mind

'Because the AI slop people aren't going to document their patches as such' Today, it is hard to escape LLM bots and the endless slop they emit, but the Linux kernel might be largely safe … for now.…

New story! Linux Kernel Considers Linking The Relocatable x86 Kernel As PIE In 2026

To allow for additional security hardening of the Linux kernel, a patch series has been updated more than one year later to link the relocatable x86_64 kernel as Position Independent Executable (PIE) code...

New story! Linux is Great, but It May Not Be For You

  • Make Tech Easier; By Anees Asghar (Posted by damien on Jan 8, 2026 11:59 PM EDT)
  • Story Type: Tutorial; Groups: Linux
Linux offers control, security, and freedom, but its learning curve, software, and hardware issues may challenge some users.

New story! Linux 6.18 LTS vs. Liquorix Kernel On AMD Ryzen Threadripper Workstation Performance

It's been a while since running benchmarks of the Liquorix kernel as an enthusiast-tailored downstream version of the Linux kernel focused on responsiveness for gaming, audio/video production, and other creator/enthusiast workloads. In today's article is a look at how the latest Liquorix kernel derived from Linux 6.18 is competing against the upstream Linux 6.18 LTS kernel on the same system.

New story! The state of Enterprise Linux for networking

  • NetworkWorld; By Sean Michael Kerner (Posted by tk21 on Jan 8, 2026 8:56 PM EDT)
  • Groups: Linux
Discover the state of Enterprise Linux for networking in 2026. Compare RHEL 10, SLES 16, and Ubuntu alongside NOS leaders like SONiC and Nvidia Cumulus

New story! CuerdOS 2.0 Skycatcher Xfce: Spanish Distro Takes Chances, Mostly Succeeds

CuerdOS 2.0 Skycatcher’s Xfce edition leans on Debian Trixie, custom tuning, and some unconventional app choices like Vivaldi and Harmony Music.

New story! Dell Pro Max GB10 vs. AMD Ryzen AI Max+ Framework Desktop For Llama.cpp, OpenCL & Vulkan Compute

  • Phoronix (Posted by bob on Jan 8, 2026 12:28 PM EDT)
  • Groups: ARM; Story Type: News Story
Over the past number of weeks the Dell Pro Max with GB10 has been undergoing a lot of testing at Phoronix. This NVIDIA GB10 powered mini PC with its 20 Arm cores (10 x Cortex-X925, 10 x Cortex-A725) and Blackwell GPU offers a lot of combined compute potential for AI and other workloads. In this article is a look at how the Dell Pro Max with GB10 competes with AMD's Ryzen AI Max+ 395 "Strix Halo" within the Framework Desktop SFF PC.

New story! Debian Urgently Seeks Volunteers After Data Protection Team Resigns

Debian seeks contributors interested in privacy to restore its Data Protection Team after all members stepped back, shifting responsibilities temporarily to the project leader.

New story! Nitrux 5.1 Drops Virtual Machine Support and Shifts Fully to Bare Metal

Nitrux 5.1 ends official support for virtual machines, focusing exclusively on physical hardware for performance, stability, and a tightly controlled system design.

New story! Gentoo Linux Made Progress On RISC-V, WSL & More In 2025 While Pulling In Just $12k USD

The Gentoo Linux project published their 2025 retrospective this week with their many accomplishments, including the recruitment of four more developers and now being up to 31,663 ebuilds and a total of 89GB worth of x86_64 binary packages on mirrors...

New story! IPFire Linux Firewall Distro Adds Wi-Fi 7 and Wi-Fi 6 Support, LLDP and CDPv2

IPFire 2.29 Core Update 199 has been released today by developer Michael Tremer as a new update to this hardened Linux firewall distribution that primarily performs as a router and a firewall, which introduces Wi-Fi 7 support and many other changes.

New story! TUXEDO Launches InfinityBook Max 16 With OLED Display and RTX Graphics

  • Linuxiac.com; By Bobby Borisov (Posted by bobolin on Jan 8, 2026 4:51 AM EDT)
  • Story Type: News Story
TUXEDO InfinityBook Max 16 launches with Intel Core Ultra 9 HX, RTX graphics, OLED display, and full Linux support.

New story! Radeon RADV Vulkan Driver Is On The Verge Of Another Big Ray-Tracing Performance Gain

  • Phoronix (Posted by bob on Jan 8, 2026 3:19 AM EDT)
  • Groups: Linux; Story Type: News Story
Natalie Vock as one of the open-source developers on Valve's Linux graphics team has been spearheading another big ray-tracing performance improvement for the AMD Radeon Vulkan driver. RADV ray-tracing performance improved a lot in 2025 but it's looking like 2026 could be even more exciting...

New story! Try Joplin: Your Open Source Evernote Alternative

If you rely heavily on note-taking apps and want to switch from a proprietary to an open-source solution, this app might be what you're looking for.

New story! Gentoo’s 2025 Report: Financial Health and the Push Away From GitHub

Gentoo’s 2025 report outlines stable finances, ongoing migration to SPI, and plans to move development infrastructure away from GitHub toward Codeberg.

New story! Open Source Initiative (OSI) Not Doing Its Job, Instead It's Promoting Microsoft Ponzi Schemes

  • Techrights; By Roy Schestowitz (Posted by schestowitz on Jan 7, 2026 10:45 PM EDT)
  • Groups: Microsoft
And the site they were meant to manage as a successor/heir/continuity for opensource.org has been inactive for 6 months (it'll be 6 months tomorrow)

New story! All Fedora 44 KDE Variants To Use Plasma Login Manager Rather Than SDDM

The Fedora Engineering and Steering Committee (FESCo) has approved a Fedora 44 change for switching all KDE variants away from using the SDDM display manager to instead use the newer Plasma Login Manager...

New story! There’ll Be More AI Than Open Source at Spacewalk 2026 — But Not by Much

Spacewalk 2026 will kick off ATO’s year with a slate of AI?focused talks in Raleigh — and organizers say open source will still be woven through the entire evening.

New story! HSBC app takes a dim view of sideloaded Bitwarden installations

  • The Register (Posted by bob on Jan 7, 2026 6:10 PM EDT)
  • Groups: Mobile; Story Type: News Story
Customers report being locked out after grabbing the password manager via F-Droid Some HSBC mobile banking customers in the UK report being locked out of the bank's app after installing the Bitwarden password manager via an open source app catalog.…

New story! Immutable Distro Nitrux 5.1 Released with Linux Kernel 6.18 LTS, New Tools

Nitrux developer Uri Herrera announced today the general availability of Nitrux 5.1 as a new stable update to this immutable and systemd-free distribution featuring new and updated components.

New story! Acer Laptop Battery Control Driver Looks Toward The Upstream Linux Kernel

For those with Acer laptops running Linux on GitHub there has been an out-of-tree driver providing an experimental "acer-wmi-battery" kernel module to allow controlling battery-related features. Now a cleaned-up version of that driver is working on getting into the mainline Linux kernel...

New story! IPFire 2.29 Core Update 199 Brings WiFi 6 and WiFi 7 to the Firewall Platform

IPFire 2.29 Core Update 199, an open-source firewall, brings full WiFi 6 and WiFi 7 support, higher throughput, improved wireless stability, and updated core components.

New story! TUXEDO InfinityBook Max 16 Gen10 Linux Laptop Unveiled with New OLED Display

  • 9to5linux.com; By Marcus Nestor (Posted by hanuca on Jan 7, 2026 12:04 PM EDT)
  • Story Type: News Story; Groups: Linux
Linux hardware vendor TUXEDO Computers unveiled today the 10th generation (Gen10) of their TUXEDO InfinityBook Max 16 Linux-powered laptop with newer NVIDIA GPUs, newer Intel CPU, and a new display.

New story! StarBook Horizon Linux Laptop Now on Sale with 32GB RAM, Wi-Fi 6E, and Coreboot

  • 9to5linux.com; By Marcus Nestor (Posted by hanuca on Jan 7, 2026 2:43 AM EDT)
  • Story Type: News Story; Groups: Linux
Linux hardware vendor StarLabs announced today that its StarBook Horizon Linux-powered laptop is now on sale as a 13-inch Coreboot notebook designed for privacy and as a daily driver.

New story! ADLINK Express-PTL and COM-HPC-mPTL pair Intel Core Ultra Series 3 processors with Arc Xe3 graphics

ADLINK Technology has introduced the Express-PTL and COM-HPC-mPTL modules, built on Intel Core Ultra Processor Series 3 (Panther Lake-H), targeting edge AI, graphics-intensive, and general embedded systems that require high compute density, standards-based form factors, and long-term availability. Both modules are based on Intel Core Ultra Series 3 processors featuring a hybrid CPU architecture with […]

New story! AMD Announces Ryzen 7 9850X3D, New Strix Halo SKUs & Ryzen AI 400 Series

  • Phoronix (Posted by bob on Jan 6, 2026 11:40 PM EDT)
  • Story Type: News Story
Lisa Su's keynote just wrapped up at CES 2026 and in turn the embargo regarding AMD's first consumer product announcements for 2026. The AMD Ryzen AI 400 series and new Ryzen 7 9850X3D 3D V-Cache processors are what's in focus for CES this year.

New story! AAEON Reveals BOXER-8742AI Embedded AI Box PC Based on NVIDIA Jetson T4000

AAEON has outlined plans for the BOXER-8742AI, a fanless embedded AI box PC built around the NVIDIA Jetson T4000 module for edge AI deployments requiring high compute density and multi-sensor connectivity. The BOXER-8742AI is based on the NVIDIA Jetson T4000 module, which combines a 12-core Arm Neoverse-V3AE CPU with a Blackwell-architecture GPU featuring 1,536 CUDA […]

New story! Ubuntu Now Officially Supports NVIDIA Rubin AI Systems

NVIDIA Rubin AI platforms are now officially supported on Ubuntu, unifying CPU, GPU, and DPU components for scalable AI workloads.

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