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In addition to the AMD EPYC 9996 256-core CPU benchmarks out today in that dual socket configuration for a combined 512 cores / 1024 threads flagship Zen 6C server configuration, also tested recently at Phoronix was the EPYC 9686F part. The AMD EPYC 9686F is their new high-frequency Zen 6 part that features 96 cores / 192 threads at a boost clock of 5.3GHz! When the AMD EPYC 9686F they originally…

Noctalia 5.5 is out with new window switcher layouts, customizable widgets, improved screenshots, and numerous fixes.

ANS lets AI agents prove who they are, much like a domain name and its certificate do for a website.

TLP 1.11 enhances Linux laptop power management with improved firmware profiles, expanded power-saving options, and hardware compatibility fixes.

The Linux kernel already has network drivers for the AMD Pensando networking hardware while coming for Linux 7.5 is an Ionic HWMON driver to support hardware monitoring with temperature, voltage, and power monitoring for this high-end networking gear…

Valve released a new stable Steam Client update today for all supported platforms with a few important changes and updates, including 64-bit Linux support.

Intel's intriguing Crescent Island Xe3P-based AI accelerator hardware now known as the Intel GPU D Series continues seeing a lot of Linux kernel driver activity. The upcoming Linux 7.5 kernel is continuing to build out the support for this upcoming hardware…

A new hardware project is using open-source hardware and software to breathe new life – and modern capabilities – into decades old iPods. Sprout, by London-based FOSS folk Certain Things, is a “modern motherboard for old iPods” that requires no soldering. It re-uses all of the iPod’s original parts, including the screen, click wheel, case, etc. The idea is you split open your old device, remove…

Red Hat announced the general availability of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10.3 as the third update to the latest Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10 operating system series, adding new capabilities and updated components.

Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10.3 ships with Linux kernel 6.12, GCC 16, sealed OS images, MCP-based diagnostics, and updated developer tools.

This paid Linux distro takes a different approach to storage, booting from USB and running in RAM—with containers and virtual machines along for the ride.

Valve's latest Steam Client update brings a 64-bit Linux application, Steam Runtime containerization, HDR improvements, and crash fixes.

The Epic Games new launcher is still in preview, but it looks to land on several Linux distributions.

Codenotary’s Apache-licensed tool watches for unfinished work, flags problems needing human attention, and helps developers spot wasted tokens

Linux 7.4-rc2 is huge, and Linus says AI bug fixes may finally be catching up with new reports, at least in BPF. Here is what we know and what to watch.

Intel on Tuesday released the microcode-20261110 package that ships updated CPU microcode binaries for recent Intel Core (Ultra) and Xeon processors. The updated CPU microcode is for Core Gen 13 "Raptor Lake" and newer while on the Xeon server side is for Sapphire Rapids and newer. This is also the first time Clearwater Forest has seen microcode updates…

Deepin 25.3 introduces freeze protection, faster application startup, an optional Linux kernel 6.18, and improved system recovery.

The Early Days

Yesterday in the AMD EPYC 9006 "Venice" SP7 launch testing were reviews of the AMD EPYC 9996 256-core processor as well as the EPYC 9686F 96-core high frequency part. There were hundreds of benchmarks looking at the gen-on-gen performance from EPYC Turin to EPYC Venice as well as against the Intel Xeon 6 Granite Rapids competition. For those wondering about how AMD EPYC Venice is competing with…

Tria Technologies has unveiled its OSM-SB-EP5, a 146 × 102mm development platform supporting Open Standard Module (OSM) Size-S, Size-M, and Size-L modules. The carrier board combines dual Gigabit Ethernet, USB 3.0, MIPI camera and display interfaces ti intended for industrial IoT, edge AI, robotics, and embedded vision development. Introduced at electronica 2026, the OSM-SB-EP5 follows…

The privacy-focused Tails 7.17 Linux distro updates Tor Browser, Tor client, and the Linux kernel, with automatic upgrades from version 7.0 onward.

Mike Lothian got Vino working on three generations of DisplayLink docks, but Synaptics told him to take it down.

Flipper Devices is preparing a Kickstarter campaign for its “Flipper One,” a portable Linux computer powered by an octa-core Rockchip RK3576 processor and a Raspberry Pi RP2350 microcontroller. The handheld combines 8GB LPDDR5, Wi-Fi 6E, dual Gigabit Ethernet, and M.2 expansion for cellular modems, SDR modules, and other peripherals. The Rockchip RK3576 combines four Arm…

Like clockwork, the semi-annual Fedora Project release - this one Fedora 45 - pops up on our radar.This week you get a two-fer, in the form of road-testing both Workstation (a.k.a. Gnome 51) and the KDE Plasma version. As you might expect, both excelled but we picked one over the other..

Unattended openSUSE Tumbleweed deployments on bare metal are critical because they eliminate manual intervention, ensure configuration consistency, and drastically reduce provisioning time across physical infrastructure. While Tumbleweed is a rolling-release distribution - traditionally favored by developers and power users on personal machines - deploying it at scale on bare metal using unattended methods providing by Agama Installer serves several vital engineering and operational purposes:

This past month has brought several software package updates for openSUSE Tumbleweed ARM with less than a handful of snapshots reaching the ARM port. The second half of October brought a two-version jump of GRUB2 to 2.16 with serial console and NVMe boot features, a security-focused Linux kernel 7.2.11 and…

Nautilus might be getting a neater way to organise its file views, with section headers breaking up long lists of content into groups. GNOME’s Christian Hergertr recently added support for section headers to GTK’s gridView, the widget Nautilus (among other apps) use to display items, noting it is ‘useful for organising items’ being displayed. Nautilus developer Peter Eisenmann commented to say he…

Sheets, Whiteboards, and Data artifact types bring Claude closer to a productivity suite

Autark can act without constant prompting, but leaves users to enforce their own security boundaries

A new version of High Tide, an unofficial TIDAL music streaming app for Linux built with GTK4/libdwaita, is out. Hight Tide 1.6.0 plumbs in support more features found in the paid streaming service’s official clients, including the ability to block artists and tracks for appearing in playlists or auto-play queues, with a new preferences panel to see and manage your blocks. Play buttons are now…