Last week I ran benchmarks of the new AMD PerfOpt feature being introduced in Linux 7.4. In those PerfOpt benchmarks on current-gen AMD Ryzen AI APUs/SoCs the AI performance improved as much as 18~23%. Several Phoronix readers expressed interest in seeing how prior-gen AMD Ryzen hardware benefited or not from PerfOpt, so here are some additional benchmarks.

aerynOS moves Budgie 10.10.3 from testing to its Unstable Stream, making it broadly available alongside COSMIC Desktop 1.10 and Linux 7.2.9.

Over the past few months NVIDIA has been developing Boro as a new AI-assisted kernel development CLI written in Rust and focused on local AI for enhancing efficiency for kernel development...

Ventoy 1.1.18 has been released today as a maintenance and feature update to this open-source bootable USB solution that introduces support for new systems and improves support for existing distributions.

The OpenRadioss fork is already drawing an impressive community as contributors help restore builds and missing components.

Ubuntu or Linux Mint? See how they compare on speed, software, updates and ease of use, and find out which one fits you before you install.

Those trying to access the Ubuntu website, ISO downloads, and similar Ubuntu resources today are finding the site inoperable amid what's now confirmed as an ongoing distributed denial of service attack...

Google is exploring a new approach to Linux kernel security that could significantly change how device drivers interact with the operating system. The experimental project, known as Kage, uses compiler-based sandboxing to isolate drivers inside the kernel, potentially limiting the damage caused by memory corruption, programming errors, and exploitable vulnerabilities without requiring drivers to run as separate user-space processes.

Linux hardware vendor System76 released COSMIC 1.10 today as the latest stable version of this Rust-based desktop environment for modern GNU/Linux distributions.

The latest proposal for the upstream Linux kernel is introducing infrastructure for AI agent resources. Initially these agent resources would be for a skill so AI agents can automatically add a "Fixes: " tag on relevant patches for noting the first problematic Git commit automatically that a patch fixes...

After a day or two of false alarms, Distro of the Week finally settled on a German distro based on Debian, specifically VailuxOS 1.6.1.4. The distro, aimed specifically at Windows refugees, has much to offer the wide spectrum of Linux users choosing it, and overall it was a pleasant surprise. .

The locate command is used to quickly search for files or directories within the indexes in the database file known as updatedb.

GStreamer 1.28.8 brings security fixes, resolves HLS and DASH playback regressions, and improves FLAC seeking, video encoding, and stability.

Raspberry Pi Imager 2.0.12 has been released today as the latest stable version of this open-source, free, and user-friendly tool for creating bootable media for Raspberry Pi devices.

The EXT4 file-system today deprecated its journaled mode of the "data=journal" mount option. Following its deprecation, this mode is planned for removal in the year 2028...

Huawei engineers are experimenting with a new file-system called XMFS. XMFS was presented this week at LPC 2026 in Czechia as a file-system for modern Linux servers with CXL 3.0 or Huawei United Bus connectivity...

The Podman and Fedora Quality teams are organizing a test week from Monday, October 12, through Sunday, October 18, 2026. We want your help testing conmon v3, the Rust-based container monitor used with Podman. If you use Podman, try the same containers and commands with conmon v3 and report any differences. Why we’re testing conmon […]

NVIDIA today released their 615.78.08 Linux driver build with a useful improvement for gamers using Steam Play (Proton) with Direct3D 12 games via VKD3D-Proton along with a variety of other fixes...

The OpenVPN project released OpenVPN 2.7.8 today as the eighth maintenance update to the latest OpenVPN 2.7 series of this open-source software for connecting to virtual private networks (VPN).

Valve released tonight a new Steam client beta that includes some notable improvements for Linux users...

IBM and Red Hat are expanding access to their AI-driven remediation platform, helping enterprises secure existing software without disrupting production.

Canonical and the hard-working people behind the Ubuntu distribution announced the dates of the upcoming Ubuntu Summit for Ubuntu 26.10 (Stonking Stingray), due for release in October 2026.

As an interesting demonstrator for the power of AI and potentially pressing legal challenges, Claude Code and AI agents have created "open-source, clean-room reimplementation" versions of Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Premier, and Adobe Lightroom. These new creations from the ArtCraft project are implemented in the Rust programming language...

Today, the Raspberry Pi project released today an updated version of its Debian-based Raspberry Pi OS distribution for Raspberry Pi single-board computers with new features, improvements, and bug fixes.

Back in March Canonical announced switching to ntpd-rs was its next target as part of transitioning more Ubuntu Linux system components to Rust-based implementations. This time synchronization package is available for testing in the upcoming Ubuntu 26.10 release while it aims to be the default for Ubuntu 27.04...

OpenSSH 10.6 is out with security fixes, the new hybrid post-quantum ssh-mldsa44-ed25519 algorithm, and several new SSH and SFTP features.

The Raspberry Pi project has finally updated the Raspberry Pi Desktop variant of its Debian-based distribution for PC and Mac systems on the latest Debian 13 “Trixie” operating system series, and it includes all the new features from the latest Raspberry Pi OS release.

Amid multiple ongoing innovations being pursued in the Linux memory management space amid sky high RAM prices, a new patch series posted on Monday aim to enhance the Zswap performance for this compressed RAM cache for swap pages...

RTIPC is a new Linux IPC library combining shared memory with wait-free queues for deterministic, near-zero-overhead communication in hard real-time workloads.

With the assistance of AI, another dozen security vulnerabilities affecting both the conventional X.Org Server as well as XWayland were made public this evening...