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Last week the block subsystem and IO_uring updates were merged for the Linux 6.18 kernel with a few items to draw attention to...
System76 Pop!_OS 24.04 Beta Performing Well In Early Benchmarks
Last week System76 released the Pop!_OS 24.04 beta along with the beta COSMIC desktop. This long overdue update to Pop!_OS re-bases against the Ubuntu 24.04 LTS base while featuring their modern, Rust-based desktop environment. For those curious I ran some benchmarks of Pop!_OS 24.04 beta compared to the current Pop!_OS 22.04 stable release.
Python releases version 3.14 with cautious free-threaded support
JIT compiler included but experimental and can slow performance
The Python team has released version 3.14, with big new features including free threading support, the ability to use concurrent interpreters, improved debugger support, and an opt-in new interpreter which improves performance by 3 to 5 percent.…
Blender 5.0 Beta Builds Available Ahead Of Next Month's Official Release
Beta builds of the Blender 5.0 3D modeling software are now available ahead of the planned stable release in mid-November...
Qualcomm solders Arduino to its edge AI ambitions, debuts Raspberry Pi rival
Cali chip giant insists single-board computer house will remain independent
Qualcomm has acquired Arduino, maker of microcontrollers (and now single-board computers), in a move designed to boost its presence in edge computing, as evidenced by a new Arduino product based on one of its Dragonwing chips.…
Firefox profiles: Private, focused spaces for all the ways you browse
Every part of your life has its own rhythm: work, school, family, personal projects. Beginning Oct. 14, we’re rolling out profile management in Firefox so you can keep them separate and create distinct spaces — each with its own bookmarks, logins, history, extensions and themes. It’s an easy way to stay organized, focused and private. […]
Bringing Desktop Linux GUIs to Android: The Next Step in Graphical App Support
Android has long been focused on running mobile apps, but in recent years, features aimed at developers and power users have begun pushing its boundaries. One exciting frontier: running full Linux graphical (GUI) applications on Android devices. What was once a novelty is now gradually becoming more viable, and recent developments point toward much smoother, GPU-accelerated Linux GUI experiences on Android.
In this article, we’ll trace how Linux apps have run on Android so far, explain the new architecture changes enabling GPU rendering, showcase early demonstrations, discuss remaining hurdles, and look at where this capability is headed.
In this article, we’ll trace how Linux apps have run on Android so far, explain the new architecture changes enabling GPU rendering, showcase early demonstrations, discuss remaining hurdles, and look at where this capability is headed.
New In 2025: Linux Patches Enable PCI Support For The Amiga 4000
For any Amiga 4000 hobbyists running a Linux m68k operating system, a PCI driver was finally published three decades later for Linux. Patches posted for mainline Linux kernel review today enable the Mediator 4000 PCI bridge available for the Amiga 4000 computer from the early 90's...
Arduino UNO Q Combines Qualcomm Dragonwing QRB2210 and STM32 MCU
Qualcomm Technologies has announced its plan to acquire Arduino, marking a major development in the embedded and maker ecosystems. The acquisition aims to combine Qualcomm’s edge computing and AI expertise with Arduino’s large developer community and open hardware approach. As part of the announcement, both companies introduced the Arduino UNO Q, a new dual-processor development […]
Python 3.14 Released With Performance Improvements, Free-Threading & Zstd
Python 3.14 is now available as the newest annual major feature release for the Python programming language...
AMD Announces Ryzen Embedded 9000 Series
AMD today announced the Ryzen Embedded 9000 series for industrial computing and automation platforms...
Qualcomm Acquires Arduino, Announces Arduino UNO Q Built On Dragonwing
Qualcomm announced today that they are acquiring Arduino, the popular open-source hardware/electronics prototyping platform for single-board micro-controllers...
Rust-Written Redox OS Enables Multi-Threading By Default
The Rust-written Redox operating system written from scratch is now enabling multi-threaded support by default for x86-based systems...
Lowercase leaving you cold? Introducing Retrocide
Dropping descenders to achieve a perfect baseline
Nostalgia fans rejoice – a new monospaced display font has made its debut, and this time every glyph shares the same baseline height with no descenders to interfere with the character flow.…
Linux Preps IAA Accelerator Support For Intel's Wildcat Lake
While the Intel In-Memory Analytics Accelerator (IAA) so far is just found on newer Xeon server processors, prior Linux patches acknowledge IAA being found on at least select Panther Lake SoCs. New patches ready for merging to the Linux 6.18 kernel are indicating IAA accelerator(s) will also be found on at least some of the lower-cost Wildcat Lake SoCs too...
Linux 6.18 NFSD To Help With Scalability From Low-Cost Clouds To High-End Servers
The NFS server (NFSD) improvements were merged today for the Linux 6.18 kernel. Most exciting is a new experimental feature that can help with scaling NFSD both for low-end/low-cost servers up through high-end larger server platforms...
Fedora 43 Landing Emergency Change To Increase /boot Due To NVIDIA GPU Firmware & Other Bloat
Fedora 43 is working its way toward release in the coming weeks and is now going through a very late change. A change was announced and accepted today for increasing the size of the /boot partition. This is driven by the ever-increasing number of firmware files needed for different devices to function under Linux with open-source drivers. A large motivator to this change was the very large and growing NVIDIA GPU firmware file sizes for Nouveau and the future Nova driver...
Important Patch Series For Nouveau Driver Will Help With NVK Performance
A patch series posted today for Nouveau, the open-source NVIDIA kernel driver within the mainline Linux tree, can help overcome some performance obstacles currently observed with the Mesa NVK Vulkan driver...
Ubuntu 25.10 Delivering Some Nice Performance Gains For Intel Core Ultra "Lunar Lake"
Ubuntu 25.10 is looking quite nice in the performance department ahead of its official release later this week. On various systems tested thus far, Ubuntu 25.10 is delivering nice gains over Ubuntu 25.04 and compared to the current Ubuntu 24.04 LTS. The latest Ubuntu 25.10 benchmarking at Phoronix is looking at the Intel Core Ultra Lunar Lake performance using the Lenovo ThinkPad X1 Carbon Gen 13 Aura Edition laptop.
ALGOL 68 Programming Language Support Still Being Worked On For GCC
At the start of the year, a new GCC compiler front-end was proposed for the half-century old ALGOL 68 programming language. Not exactly a popular programming language in recent decades and ahead of the GCC 15 release it was decided to not merge it yet to GCC. Even with that setback, development on the ALGOL 68 GCC compiler continues...