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Slax now runs on Debian 13 with a built-in AI assistant, and it can boot with Secure Boot on compatible PCs.

A massive Microsoft outage has left people around the world without access to Outlook email, Teams meeting tools and other staples of modern office life... And there was no quick fix. As of 3:30 a.m. GMT on Friday, the outage was still widespread, affecting untold millions of people.

Compulab has detailed its IOT-GATE-IMX8PV2, a fanless industrial IoT gateway powered by NXP’s i.MX8M Plus processor. The small-form-factor system combines dual Gigabit Ethernet, optional Wi-Fi 6 and LTE connectivity, and isolated industrial I/O in a 105 × 80 × 30mm aluminum enclosure. The gateway uses a quad-core Arm Cortex-A53 processor running at up to 1.8GHz,…

Every year, the Google Summer of Code (GSoC) Mentor Summit brings together open source maintainers, community leads, and mentors from across the globe. It is an energizing unconference where the diversity of open source can be touched. This is a unique occasion to share what works (and what doesn’t) across…

Libreboot 26.11 has been released today as another hefty update to this open-source and free BIOS/UEFI firmware alternative with new features and improvements.

The development team behind CyanogenMod, Android, and Playtron unveils KORA, a Linux distribution built specifically for AI nerds.

A lightweight Linux newcomer offers a polished desktop, custom apps, and downloads for both 32- and 64-bit PCs.

It’s not quite a Kubernetes distro, Nvidia says, but its NVKE and NVKR touch the same turf in a bid to optimize GPU cluster deployments.

Ubuntu doesn’t run Android apps and games natively, but Waydroid is an open-source effort that lets you use them – and it’s now really easy to setup on Ubuntu. Earlier this year, Waydroid was packaged in Debian. That put it a simple apt install away on Ubuntu 26.04 LTS and later. No need to add a PPA, find a third-party package or run scripts from Reddit threads. Waydroid runs a containerised…

The XOrg Server 21.1.26 and Xwayland 24.1.15 display implementations have been released today, November 10th, 2026, patching multiple security vulnerabilities that could lead to crashes and corrupt memory.

The Blender Foundation released Blender 5.3 today as the latest stable version of this open-source, free, and cross-platform 3D computer graphics software suite.

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…