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This week's Direct Rendering Manager (DRM) fixes that were merged ahead of Sunday's Linux 7.3-rc2 release contain a number of fixes to the open-source Nouveau driver's display support for current-generation NVIDIA Blackwell GPUs...

Skip the driver headaches. We tested 7 Linux distros built for brand new hardware, from bleeding edge kernels to fingerprint reader support.

Yesterday AWS announced the public preview of Amazon Linux 2027 as their successor to the current Amazon Linux 2023 in-house distribution. With all the software upgrades and improvements like building packages now with link-time optimizations (LTO), enforcing x86-64-v3 builds, and other changes, I was eager to run some performance benchmarks of Amazon Linux 2023 vs. Amazon Linux 2027 in the EC2 cloud.

AWS has launched the Amazon Linux 2027 public preview, bringing Linux kernel 7.1+, DNF5, SELinux enforcing by default, and updated developer tools.

Merged overnight for Mesa 26.3 are changes to Intel's graphics compiler code for supporting a new 64-bit shader addressing mode. It turns out with upcoming Nova Lake P graphics will be a big fundamental change...

Kubernetes 1.37 brings KYAML to Stable, enables HorizontalPodAutoscaler scale-to-zero by default, and delivers dozens of other improvements.

The Portable Computing Language project is out today with PoCL 7.2 as this portable, MIT-licensed OpenCL implementation that runs across various CPU architectures as well as targeting other GPUs/hardware with LLVM back-ends. Notable with PoCL 7.2 is bringing official OpenCL 3.0 conformance on x86_64 and RISC-V processors...

KDE Plasma 6.8 is gaining middle-click auto-scrolling, a built-in dwell clicker, improved remote desktop support, and higher-quality screen recording.

A few short how-to's with screenshots, showing easy ways to boot up off a USB live ISO and return back to previous points in time with BTRFS

Last month the NetworkManager project adopted an AI coding policy where authors are responsible for 100% of the code they submit and must be able to explain it all. In an attempt to catch AI coding agents that may be trying to bypass their policy, they have added an interesting canary to the project to try to catch such AI-generated patches so they can then be automatically dealt with...

Wine 11.17 is out with initial display mode emulation, better preferred UI language handling, vkd3d 2.1, and 44 bug fixes.

The Apple Silicon audio driver code within the Linux kernel is preparing to make use of the recent shared GPIO infrastructure for allowing multiple drivers / kernel components to nicely share the same GPIO lines. This should help clean things up in the mainline kernel for the Apple Silicon audio support and with a cleaner architecture than the current downstream Asahi Linux code...

Grml 2026.09 (codename Hättiwaritätti) has been released today as the latest stable version of this Debian-based, bootable Linux distro for system administrators and users of command-line tools.

The annual X.Org Developer's Conference "XDC 2026" is happening later this month in Toronto. A great number of interesting talks are planned this year from new Wayland features to OpenCL over CUDA, the possibility of Vulkan Gallium, and a lot of exciting driver developments...

The Document Foundation announced today the general availability of LibreOffice 26.2.6 as the sixth maintenance update to the latest LibreOffice 26.2 office suite series with various bug fixes.

A change proposal filed for what would be part of Fedora Linux 47 is on making use of Thin LTO rather than Fat LTO for link-time optimizations. With Thin LTO being more memory efficient and faster build speeds, the hope is that more Fedora packages could also use Thin LTO for packages where no link-time optimizations are currently leveraged...

Ezurio has announced the Carbon AM67 OSM-MF, a compact solder-down module based on Texas Instruments’ Sitara AM67x processor family. The module offers heterogeneous Arm processing, up to 8GB LPDDR4, eMMC storage, 4-TOPS AI acceleration, multi-display and camera support, dual Gigabit Ethernet, and optional Wi-Fi 6 or Wi-Fi 6E connectivity. The Carbon AM67 is based on […]

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LLVM developers have begun a discussion on whether the project should host an AGENTS.md file (and CLAUDE.md) in their Git repository for helping to guide AI agents...

Seeed Studio has unveiled the reComputer RK3576 development platform based on Rockchip’s RK3576 processor, with options ranging from standalone compute modules to a complete Dev Kit with an RK1820 AI accelerator. The platform features a 6-TOPS integrated NPU, LPDDR5 memory, eMMC storage, Gigabit Ethernet, Wi-Fi 6, MIPI CSI/DSI, HDMI, USB, and a 40-pin expansion header. […]