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The most unexpected surprise today was AMD releasing ROCm 7.9 as a new technology preview / development branch for the open-source ROCm GPU compute stack just one month after formally releasing ROCm 7.0. While not a fan of how they handled the version discontinuity, ROCm 7.9 has been working out well in my very initial tests on AMD Ryzen AI Max "Strix Halo"...

Major Uptime Kuma 2.0 update adds MariaDB, rootless Docker, and a refreshed UI for smoother, faster self-hosted monitoring.

Attempted exploit was a feeble effort to target Windows users Someone managed to insert a compromised file into the downloads section of the website for Xubuntu, the official Ubuntu flavor with the Xfce desktop environment. The malware was designed to steal cryptocurrency, but so far, there are no reports of actual theft.…

For those wondering how the AMD 3D V-Cache performance with the Ryzen 9 9950X3D is looking on Linux relative to Microsoft Windows, a few weeks back I carried out some comparison benchmarks of Windows 11 25H2 against Ubuntu Linux both the Ubuntu 24.04.3 LTS release and an Ubuntu 25.10 development build using both the AMD Ryzen 9 9950X and Ryzen 9 9950X3D processors.

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HackerBox has released Issue 0119, titled “Geopositioning.” This edition marks ten years of the subscription series and focuses on satellite positioning and mapping through the ESP-WROOM-32 system-on-chip and the Thrifty Yeti Locator (TYL) platform. The kit combines hardware assembly with firmware development in the Arduino IDE to demonstrate GNSS and geolocation principles. According to the […]

It was to much surprise waking up this morning and seeing the Servo 0.0.1 release for this Rust-based web layout engine that began as a Mozilla project and is now being developed independently via Linux Foundation Europe and other parties...

OpenAI Whisper is a powerful speech recognition system that can transcribe audio files with impressive accuracy. When combined with NVIDIA GPU acceleration through CUDA, Whisper can process audio files significantly faster than CPU-only processing. This guide demonstrates how to install and use Whisper with GPU support on Debian and Ubuntu Linux systems.

Orange Pi has unveiled the Orange Pi 4 Pro, a compact single-board computer designed for high-performance edge applications. It integrates an octa-core Allwinner A733 processor, a 3 TOPS NPU, and supports up to 16 GB of LPDDR5 memory, combining AI acceleration with a wide range of expansion interfaces. This SBC features the same SoC found […]

Following below is an attempt Arch Linux LVs reconfiguration in Post-installation phase. Original LVs layout configuration cannot be changed during archinstall active state. After archinstall finishes up we are going to switch to terminal session via "exit" option rather then reboot .

After several years of development, SuperTuxKart 1.5 has been officially released today for this free, open-source, and cross-platform kart racing game, a major update that brings new features and improvements.

Forgejo 13.0, a self-hosted Git forge software, introduces new moderation tools, improved Actions, and global two-factor authentication enforcement.

digiKam 8.8 has been released today for this powerful, open-source, free, and cross-platform digital photo management solution that introduces new features and improvements.

GIGABYTE has announced the AI TOP ATOM personal AI supercomputer designed for on-premises AI development. The compact system is powered by the NVIDIA Grace Blackwell GB10 Superchip and delivers supercomputer-level performance within a 1-liter chassis. The AI TOP ATOM integrates a 20-core Arm processor (10 Cortex-X925 and 10 Cortex-A725 cores) paired with 128 GB of […]

Catch up on the latest Linux news: LMDE 7, Zorin OS 18, Mobian 13, Alacritty 0.16, GNOME 49.1, Firefox 144, a possible malware incident on Xubuntu, GIMP’s new official Snap package, and more.

LACT 0.8.2 is out this weekend as the newest feature release to this Linux GPU control application. This Rust-based software provides a GUI for controlling AMD, NVIDIA, and Intel GPUs under Linux with various monitoring metrics, information reporting, power configuration, thermals configuration, and overclocking with supported hardware...

A clean and minimal KDE Plasma 6 setup using the Utterly Nord Light Solid theme with Papirus orange icons and a soft wallpaper. This video also shows how to fix the Global Menu turning black when two applications are open. Perfect for those who love a bright, elegant, and simple Linux desktop.

Posted to the Linux kernel mailing list one month ago were patches for a multi-kernel architecture design to allow multiple independent kernel instances to co-exist on the same single physical machine. This could let some CPU cores be running real-time "RT" kernels or other non-traditional uses between CPU cores. It wasn't clear how far the multi-kernel patches would get especially with some initial negative views toward it and Bytedance separately proposing "Parker" for multi-kernel usage just days later. In any event, today a second version of the multi-kernel Linux patches were posted...

A Reddit user reports that Xubuntu.org may have been hacked, serving a ZIP file containing a Trojan instead of the real installer.

The 262nd installment of the 9to5Linux Weekly Roundup is here for the week ending on October 19th, 2025, keeping you updated with the most important things happening in the Linux world.