Earlier this month on Phoronix I reviewed the Razer Blade 18 RZ09-0582 as the first laptop Razer is certifying for Linux use via Canonical's hardware certification program for Linux. It offered very nice performance with the Intel Core Ultra 9 290HX Plus and NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5090 graphics albeit costly with a configured price of $5399 USD. That review featured benchmarks on Ubuntu 26.04 LTS but for those wondering about the performance of Ubuntu against Windows 11 on this gaming/AI developer laptop, here are comparison benchmarks plus also tossing in the rolling-release CachyOS distribution.

Visor is a new open-source UEFI boot manager for Linux, designed to launch kernels, UKIs, Windows, and other EFI applications.

Back in May OpenCL 3.1 was announced with a focus on AI and HPC workloads. Just over two months later, this incremental update over OpenCL 3.0 mow has its first listed conformant OpenCL 3.1 implementation for passing the OpenCL 3.1 conformance test suite cases. It's Apple Silicon M1/M2 graphics running on Asahi Linux with the Mesa Rusticl driver...

COSMIC Desktop 1.3 introduces its long-awaited frosted glass appearance, improved GPU monitoring, AVIF wallpapers, and numerous fixes.

Clonezilla Live maintainer Steven Shiau released today Clonezilla Live 3.3.3 as the latest stable version of this partition and disk imaging/cloning live Linux system based on Debian GNU/Linux.

System76 today announced their new Adder Pro laptop that they are promoting as the "gamer's dream machine" with its NVIDIA graphics, 2K OLED 500 nit display, up to 96GB RAM, and 3.37 lb weight...

Blender 5.2 LTS introduces experimental cloth and hair physics in Geometry Nodes, remotely hosted asset libraries, and major rendering improvements.

As of this past week in the FreeBSD source tree for FreeBSD 16, the last of the GNU GPL licensed code from the base system has been retired...

System76’s refreshed Adder Pro trims weight, adds Panther Lake silicon and RTX 50?series GPUs, and ships with Pop!_OS or Ubuntu for Linux?first power users.

Linux hardware vendor System76 released COSMIC 1.3 today as the latest stable version of this Rust-based desktop environment for Pop!_OS Linux and other GNU/Linux distributions.

Stemming from looking at a proposed Linux kernel patch to alter the Linux kernel's system call number handling, veteran Linux kernel developer Thomas Gleixner went down a rabbit hole of the kernel's system call entry handling to make a number of clean-ups and improvements to the code. That rework to the system call entry handling is now expected to land for the Linux 7.3 kernel cycle...

IncidentRelay is a new self-hosted platform for on-call scheduling, alert routing, escalations, and incident response.

Alfonso Siciliano, who has been one of the FreeBSD developers leading the effort on adding a KDE-based desktop option to the FreeBSD installer, provided an update on recent work around adding integrating this desktop option...

GNOME OS could gain a TestFlight-like Test Center for installing temporary experimental builds through simple sharing links.

While the Raspberry Pi 5 is already over two and a half years old, one of the missing elements of its support from the mainline Linux kernel has been the IOMMU driver. We are now seeing Raspberry Pi's downstream IOMMU driver being adapted for mainline with hopes of getting it into the upstream kernel...

Apprise 1.12 adds nine notification integrations, built-in HTML-to-Markdown conversion, Discord templates, Teams mentions, and SMTP security improvements

The 300th installment of the 9to5Linux Weekly Roundup is here for the week ending July 12th, 2026, keeping you updated on the most important developments in the Linux world.

Following the recent GA of the AWS M9g series as the first instances powered by the new Graviton5 CPUs, I recently ran benchmarks looking at Graviton4 vs. Graviton5 CPU performance. There was very nice generational gains for the new AWS Graviton processors with the shift from Arm Neoverse-V2 to Neoverse-V3 cores and from DDR5-5600 to DDR5-8800 memory, among other improvements. For those wondering how the Graviton5 ARM server processors compare to AMD EPYC and Intel Xeon, here are some additional comparison data points from the Amazon EC2 cloud.

Debian 13.6 is out with 120 security fixes, 124 stability updates, and Secure Boot changes, while Debian 12.15 becomes Bookworm’s last point release.

F&S Elektronik Systeme GmbH has showcased the armStone MX8ULP, a Pico-ITX single board computer based on the NXP i.MX 8ULP processor. The 100 × 72 mm platform targets industrial, IoT, and human-machine interface applications, combining low-power processing, real-time capabilities, and multiple connectivity options. The armStone MX8ULP integrates the NXP i.MX 8ULP SoC, which combines two […]

KDE Plasma 6.8 will let Spectacle record microphone and system audio during screen recordings, alongside several UI and performance improvements.

Similar to Linux 7.2 enabling Eswin SoC support by default in the RISC-V "defconfig" kernel build, UltraRISC RISC-V coverage is also now being enabled by default for RISC-V kernel builds in Linux 7.2...

Pop!_OS 24.04 users can now enable COSMIC’s long-awaited Frosted Glass effect, with a wider Linux rollout expected next week.

Linux 7.2-rc3 is now available for testing in working toward the stable Linux 7.2 kernel version coming up in August...

Catch up on the latest Linux news: Debian 13.6, Proton 11.0, Wine 11.13, Plasma 6.6.6, COSMIC Desktop Frosted Glass effect, Linux Mint 23 will support Wayland, and more.

PeaZip 11.2 has been released today as a new point release in the latest PeaZip 11 series of this open-source, free, and cross-platform archive manager for GNU/Linux, macOS, and Windows platforms.

The staging driver fixes that were sent out this week ahead of the Linux 7.2-rc3 release is predominantly made up of hardening the Realtek RTL8723BS WiFi driver. In particular, a number of fixes for addressing out-of-bounds behavior when connecting to "bad" WiFi hosts...

HackerBox has released Issue 0128, titled “Mesh Deck,” a DIY communications platform built around a ProMicro nRF52840 development board, an SX1262-based LoRa module, a GPS receiver, an OLED display, and a miniature QWERTY keyboard. The kit focuses on assembling and configuring a portable Meshtastic node for decentralized messaging without cellular or internet service. The main […]

Built on debsecan, debvulns?exporter surfaces Debian security metadata for Prometheus and Grafana.

The Harmonic Firmware Initiative "HFI" is trying to provide a generic, standardized power-on firmware experience for RISC-V boards. Akin to the x86 world with having immediate graphics card initialization to provide a display while the system is booting and also having a BIOS setup utility for system configuration, HFI is trying to do the same for the RISC-V world...