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Elon Musk promises to open source all of X, ‘no exceptions,’ once the security team is done poking at it. The missing detail: what ‘open’ actually means in Musk?speak.

OpenBLAS 0.3.34 released on Thursday as this popular, open-source BLAS library providing optimized support for a variety of CPUs/architectures. OpenBLAS 0.3.34 continues working on squeezing more performance out of today's processors as well as delivering other new features...

While most Linux desktop development is shifting to Wayland, developer Geir Isene has announced Frame, a new X11 server for Linux written entirely in x86-64 Assembly.

On top of releasing ROCm 7.14 as the new production release of ROCm now built offTheRock, rolling out the Lemonade 11.0 local AI server, and GAIA 0.22, AMD has some more open-source news in the lead up to next week's AMD Advancing AI event...

DXVK 3.0.2 has been released today as the second minor update in the latest DXVK 3.0 series of this open-source Vulkan-based implementation of D3D8, D3D9, D3D10, and D3D11 for Linux / Wine that brings improvements for various games and other changes.

With reviewing hardware for more than 22 years, when it comes to cooling products there are few brands that can still get me intrigued like Noctua. With their recent launch of the NL-LC1 all-in-one liquid coolers, I decided to try out the Noctua NL-LC1-36 360mm AIO cooler that is working out well for cooling high-end desktop CPUs like the recently launched Ryzen 9 9950X3D2.

Collabora announced today the first preview of Holo Core, their official Arch Linux ARM64 (AArch64) port for Valve’s Steam Frame gaming VR headset, which will be launched later this year to join the Steam Deck, Steam Machine, and the new Steam Controller.

The upcoming KDE Plasma release improves the visual consistency of applications that do not draw their own window shadows.

The HackRF Pro is an open-hardware software-defined radio platform from Great Scott Gadgets that supports transmission and reception from 100kHz to 6GHz. The half-duplex transceiver maintains backward compatibility with software and accessories developed for the earlier HackRF One. The HackRF Pro follows the same general architecture as its predecessor but introduces several RF, processing, timing, […]

Sipeed has introduced NanoKVM-Go, a compact USB-C KVM-over-IP device that combines remote hardware management with AI integration. Designed for Linux, Windows, macOS, and other USB-C devices, NanoKVM-Go allows users to remotely view and control a system through a web browser while exposing its keyboard, mouse, and display functions to AI agents via the Model Context Protocol (MCP).

Wayland, an open-source replacement for the X11 window system protocol and architecture, has been updated to version 1.26 with several new features and bug fixes.

Linux developer Armin Wolf sent out a set of patches today for enabling AArch64 support for the ACPI Windows Management Instrumentation (WMI) driver to work on AArch64 in no longer being bound to x86/x86_64. This is a step toward the long goal of being able to support modern Windows on ARM laptops via ACPI on Linux...

What began as one developer’s need to test a Floppy Emu device grew into a full set of SWIM driver fixes for aging Apple hardware.

An intern with the FreeBSD Foundation is working on porting AMD's ROCm compute stack to run on this popular BSD environment...

FSearch 0.3 lands nearly three years after the previous release, adding real-time filesystem monitoring, file previews, and smarter indexing.

The KDE Plasma 6.8 will be introducing support for server-side drop shadows with the feature recently having been merged to KWin...

Weston 16 expands HDR and color management support, improves Perfetto debugging and DRM backend performance, and adds new protocol and renderer capabilities for more efficient and flexible Wayland compositor development.

Previously we covered YSERVER as an X11 server written in the Rust programming language with the help of Claude Code. A Phoronix reader wrote in today to share an even more esoteric X11 server implementation that has come about and again written in large part by AI/LLM usage: Frame is an X11 server written in pure x86_64 Assembly...

Linux hardware vendor System76 launched today the next-gen of their Adder Pro Linux laptop with upgraded components to provide a flawless Linux experience to gamers, content creators, and developers.

Today the AMD Ryzen 7 7700X3D goes on sale as the lowest-price AMD 3D V-Cache processor being marketed for gamers. This 8-core / 16-thread processor features a 4.5GHz boost clock and a total of 104MB of cache while being based on the older Zen 4 architecture and coming in at about $329 USD. Here is a look at how the AMD Ryzen 7 7700X3D is performing on Linux.