The Fedora Forge has been soft-launched for Fedora contributors to help modernize the development and collaboration tools around the Linux distribution…

A new round of platform-drivers-x86 “fixes” were submitted today for the nearly-complete Linux 6.17 kernel cycle. While on the fixes stage of the kernel, the x86 platform driver changes can be interesting when it comes to new device IDs for enabling new products late in the kernel cycle…

One of the new SoCs to be supported by the upstream Linux 6.18 kernel is the Microchip LAN969x…

Texas Instruments has introduced its most affordable C2000 real-time MCUs to date, aimed at appliances, digital power supplies, and power tools. The new F28E12x series, including the F28E120SC and F28E120SB, delivers a 30% performance boost over earlier C2000 devices while maintaining a cost-efficient design. The F28E12x devices integrate TI’s C28x digital signal processor core with […]

This week, our Linux distro gadabout takes a look at both the Cinnamon and Mate editions of Linux Mint 22.2 “Zara,” and finds absolutely nothing to complain about.

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JDK 25 LTS improves IO, HTTP, concurrency, and TLS while removing outdated system properties.

First up: $41M to use human annotators to label all that unstructured military data. What could go wrong?Data curation firm Scale AI has partnered with the Pentagon to deploy its AI on Top Secret networks – a move its interim CEO says is necessary if the US wants AI to be useful for national security.…

The ASUS Ascent GX10 is a compact AI supercomputer built on the NVIDIA GB10 Grace Blackwell Superchip with a unified CPU+GPU memory model and NVIDIA’s AI software stack. Introduced in March 2025, it targets developers, researchers, and data scientists needing petaflop-scale performance in a desktop system with scalable deployment options. The GB10 Superchip combines a […]

The GNOME Project released today GNOME 49 “Brescia” as the latest stable version of this widely used desktop environment for GNU/Linux distributions, a major release that introduces exciting new features.

Inside this week’s LWN.net Weekly Edition:

• Front: Fighting human trafficking; End of 10; Link tags; Healthy subsystem communities; New kernel tools; Rust and Carbon; Typst.
• Briefs: Brief news items from throughout the community.
• Announcements: Newsletters, conferences, security updates, patches, and more.

Beyond shutting down the Clear Linux project, various Linux driver maintainers let go that have even led to some Intel drivers being “orphaned” in the Linux kernel, there is another open-source project that has ended at Intel with the developers departing the company. Though at least this project has found a new open-source home under the NumPy umbrella…

Systemd 258 is out today as stable as the latest major feature release to this Linux init system and service manager…

The past few months we have been intrigued by an AMD GFX1250 target added to the LLVM codebase for the AMDGPU shader compiler back-end. GFX12 is RDNA4 and GFX1250 is presumably some “RDNA 4.5” / “RDNA Refresh” part akin to GFX1150 having been for the RDNA 3.5 parts with Strix Halo / Strix Point. The prior LLVM code confirmed GFX1250 is in APU form factor but product details beyond that have been scarce. Today a new AMD GFX1251 target was merged to LLVM…

Multipass offers a quick way to create Ubuntu virtual machines with no extra hardware or complex setup needed.

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The long-anticipated LMDE (Linux Mint Debian Edition) 7 (codename Gigi) operating system is now available for public beta testing, featuring the latest Cinnamon desktop environment and a Debian Trixie base.

Released yesterday was the OpenJDK Java 25 release along with Oracle’s GraalVM 25 alternative JVM…

While down to AMD Austin yesterday for the Instinct MI355X and ROCm 7.0 launch, I had the chance to chat again with Anush Elangovan. As the VP of AI Software at AMD, talking with Anush is always insightful and technical in nature. One of the questions I posed him was around the length of hardware support with ROCm…

The GuitarPedal repo is just an experiment, but because it comes from Linus Torvalds, it’s already creating buzz among open-source fans.

complyctl is a powerful command-line utility implementing the principles of “ComplianceAsCode” (CaC) with high scalability and adaptability for security compliance. In today’s rapidly evolving digital landscape, maintaining a robust security posture isn’t just a best practice – it is a necessity. For Fedora users, system administrators, and developers, ensuring that your systems meet various security […]

Discover how Open Source Pogocache outperforms Redis and Memcache, offering enhanced caching solutions for your applications. Explore its features today!

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