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With last week's official release of ROCm 7.0 failing to mention the AMD Ryzen AI Max "Strix Halo" SoCs on the supported GPU list, a number of Phoronix readers and from elsewhere were inquiring whether or not Strix Halo works with the new ROCm release. Various AMD folks have mentioned Strix Halo with ROCm, so I decided to run some benchmarks for myself of ROCm 7.0 on Ubuntu Linux with the AMD Ryzen AI Max 395 with Radeon 8060S Graphics on the Framework Desktop.

Certifications from Red Hat, Oracle and SUSE are tailored to environments where those Linux distributions are prevalent. Vendor-neutral certifications emphasize core Linux principles applicable across distributions, making them versatile for beginners or those in multi-vendor settings.

Learn how to enable the GRUB menu on a Linux system running on a virtual machine, such as a VirtualBox or VMware, with two methods.

Olimex has announced the RP2350-PICO2-BB48, an enhanced Raspberry Pi Pico 2 with open hardware design. It exposes all 48x GPIOs in a 0.6-inch dual-inline layout for breadboard use and integrates improvements that expand flexibility for prototyping and development. The hardware configuration is based on the RP2350B processor, which integrates dual Cortex-M33 or dual RISC-V cores […]

Spooky season is nearly here. Want to be scared? There are fresh betas to try Two of the biggest names in fixed-release distros are nearly finished and ready to drop. You can taste them now, but they're not fully baked yet.…

While the Rust Coreutils project has been generating a lot of interest recently from the uutils initiative, the upstream GNU Coreutils project isn't slowing down and today is out with GNU Coreutils 9.8 for shipping the newest features...

This is a KDE Plasma 6 theme customization with clean, minimalist monochrome vibes: Global Theme Graphite, Icons Gruvbox Plus, Kvantum Theme Graphite, Wallpaper of your choice, with optional widgets.

Tired of typing long commands in a terminal? Here are some GUI alternatives you can swap in for classic Linux terminal tools.

Europe wants to buy European, America wants to deregulate the world, China hacks the commons. But code knows no borders… unless we let it.

RPM 6.0 package manager debuts with the new v6 package format, modern crypto, OpenPGP v6, and drops legacy v3 installs.

Bcachefs team released a dedicated APT repository to deliver necessary DKMS packages for users. Here is how to install Bcachefs on Debian and Ubuntu Linux.

XTX Markets as one of the largest algorithmic trading firms that handles $250 billion in daily traded volume and relies on around 650+ petabytes of storage for its price forecasts and other algorithmic trading data has open-sourced its Linux file-system. XTX developed TernFS for distributed storage after they outgrew their original NFS usage and other file-system alternatives...

The first maintenance update of Kdenlive 25.08 video editor improves usability and stability with key fixes for rendering, effects, and project handling.

The third weekly alpha release of the upcoming FreeBSD 15 operating system is now available for testing...

MX Linux 25 “Infinity” Beta arrives with Xfce, KDE, and Fluxbox editions, based on Debian 13, plus sysVinit and systemd options.

Raspberry Pi today announced the M.2 HAT+ Compact as a new smaller version of their M.2 HAT+ for these single board computers...

Silverblue is an operating system for your desktop built on Fedora Linux. It’s excellent for daily use, development, and container-based workflows. It offers numerous advantages such as being able to roll back in case of any problems. This article provides the steps to rebase to the newly released Fedora Linux 43 Beta, and how to revert if anything unforeseen […]

Darwin would understand microkernels. We need microkernels that understand Darwin. Opinion The IT industry is not only full of sharks, it has shark nature itself. It must keep moving forward to survive. Not all sharks are obligate ram ventilators, and not all IT changes all the time, but without innovation the sector would curdle and die.…

Catch up on the latest Linux news: Ubuntu 25.10 Beta, LMDE 7 Beta, Zorin 18 Beta, GNOME 49, Systemd 258, Firefox 143, APT adds native history parsing, Torvalds tinkers with GuitarPedal, and more.

EchoEar is a compact AI development kit for voice interaction and edge AI applications. It targets use cases such as smart toys, voice-enabled speakers, and control systems. The device features a circular touch display, dual microphones with local wake-word detection and sound localization, and supports large model integration from OpenAI, Xiaozhi AI, and Gemini. The […]