Last October I highlighted an interesting post on the Linux kernel mailing list around an x86 corporate entity other than Intel or AMD that left mysterious intrigue. The developer that detailed those x86 opcode/CPUID/MSR allocations back in July then detailed 16-tile and 32-tile AMX implementations again for something outside the current scope of Intel/AMD processors. Today another message is being relayed from that "corporate entity other than Intel/AMD."..

Mabox Linux 26.08 introduces new system remastering tools, switches its F12 terminal to Kitty, and adds the Yazi file manager.

Debian developers have chosen a middle path on AI, allowing its use while keeping contributors fully accountable for their work.

New bidirectional-text tools, better OOXML round-tripping, and no built-in AI show why LibreOffice is accountable to users rather than product-market calculations.

DXVK 3.1 was released today as the latest stable version for this Vulkan-based implementation of D3D9, D3D10, and D3D11 for Linux / Wine, bringing new features and improvements for several games.

Canonical today published Ubuntu 26.04.1 LTS as their first point release in the long-term support series for the "Resolute Raccoon"...

EndeavourOS releases Titan Nova with refreshed hardware support and installer fixes while development continues on the Wayland-based Triton release.

MSI has detailed the XpertStation WS300T60L, a tower workstation based on NVIDIA’s DGX Station architecture and GB300 Grace Blackwell Ultra platform. The system is aimed at AI development, data science, inference, AI agents, and physical AI workloads, with a 72-core Arm processor, Blackwell Ultra GPU, up to 748GB of coherent memory, and dual 400GbE connectivity. […]

The Trusted Platform Module (TPM) subsystem changes for the Linux 7.3 kernel are centered around code clean-ups and improvements being made as a precursor toward TrenchBoot support...

Artix Linux is discontinuing XLibre support only months after adopting it as the default X server, alongside refreshed August 2026 ISOs.

The EndeavourOS team announced today the general availability for download of EndeavourOS Titan Nova as the latest stable snapshot of this Arch Linux-based distro featuring the KDE Plasma desktop environment.

The voting is over and there is a winner now known in the much-debated Debian General Resolution voting over an AI policy for the Linux distribution...

Canonical ships the first Resolute Raccoon point release while delaying automatic 24.04 LTS upgrades to address regressions.

With the proliferation of AI/LLM models analyzing the Linux kernel's vast codebase, there has been a surge in the number of CVEs per kernel release. After typically being around 500 CVEs fixed per release, we are now approaching 2,000 CVEs fixed per release and perhaps will break that threshold for Linux 7.3...

Orange Pi has shown the Orange Pi Zero 4, a compact single-board computer based on the Allwinner A733 SoC. The board combines an octa-core Arm CPU, a PowerVR GPU, a 3 TOPS NPU, up to 16GB of LPDDR5/LPDDR4X/LPDDR4 memory, Gigabit Ethernet, Wi-Fi 6, Bluetooth 5.4, and multiple display and camera interfaces in a 50 x […]

Canonical has published the Ubuntu 26.04.1 LTS ISO images today for all official flavors as the first point release to the long-term supported Ubuntu 26.04 LTS (Resolute Raccoon) operating system series.

The USB and Thunderbolt changes have been merged for Linux 7.3. Two changes stand out for me in the USB subsystem code with Linux 7.3. First, the kernel arguably being long overdue for checking USB-C cables capabilities whether they support alt-modes. Second, a new low-latency USB4STREAM option for lower latency data transfers between USB4-connected systems...

This post is an immediate follow up for "Sparky Linux 2026 06 OverlayFS BTRFS with Timeshift setup" . Modern virtual machines use OVMF (Open Virtual Machine Firmware) to simulate an industry-standard UEFI environment rather than an old legacy BIOS.The Role of NVRAM: UEFI requires a non-volatile random-access memory (NVRAM) variables store to keep track of boot orders, hardware configurations, and Secure Boot certificates.

Germany’s Sovereign Tech Agency is investing €508,640 in Flatpak development, targeting stronger sandboxing, new portals, and infrastructure improvements.

Asahi Linux says M3 support is almost ready for an official release, with webcams, microphones, USB 3.0, and Thunderbolt now working across the lineup.

Werner Koch announced today the release of Libgcrypt 1.12.3 with various bug fixes and more exciting are the performance improvements...

Darktable 5.6.1 has been released today as the first maintenance update to the latest Darktable 5.6 series of this open-source, free, and cross-platform raw image editor for GNU/Linux, macOS, and Windows.

Armbian as the Debian/Ubuntu-derived distribution that provides an optimized platform for ARM and RISC-V single board computers is out today with a major update...

GrapheneOS says the first officially supported Motorola devices are expected in 2027, starting with higher-end flagship models.

Last week I provided a look at the Intel Xeon 600 series Hyper Threading performance with the Xeon 678X "Granite Rapids WS" processor for HT/SMT on and off. That was interesting while another reader request was to look at the CPU core scaling performance for this high-end workstation processor. Here are those benchmarks for showing the performance, power, and frequency/thermal impact of the Xeon 678X when limited to 6 cores, 12 cores, 24 cores, 48 cores, and then the 48 cores + HT default configuration.

The Asahi Linux crew working to bring Linux support to Apple Silicon hardware is out today with a new status update on their initiatives, largely around Apple M3 bring-up as well as some M4/M5 achievements...

Chromium gains initial Flatpak packaging support for Linux, with the new implementation still considered experimental.

Patches sent out to the Linux kernel mailing list today can provide much more efficient Zstd compression and decompression by addressing a very unfortunate oversight in the existing code...

FreeRDP 3.31 is out with numerous security and bug fixes, plus faster graphics performance for AVC/H.264 Remote Desktop sessions.

You change one line in a large file. Your “incremental” backup re-uploads the whole thing anyway. Nine times out of ten, it’s not the network, and it’s not your storage backend. It’s the algorithm deciding where to cut your data into pieces. Every deduplication system works the same way: split data into […]