A compact system from ZUIKI based on a K3 RISC-V processor has appeared on the Japanese crowdfunding platform Kibidango. The Vividnode Mobile AI is presented as a small form-factor system for local inference and development. The system is based on an 8-core RISC-V processor (K3 platform) paired with an AI engine rated at up to […]

A proposal was submitted today for launching the RISC-V Compiler Collaboration “RVCC” as an LLVM Incubator project to focus on compiler optimizations for better performance on RISC-V. But before getting too excited, there is already some opposition to the proposal…

After starting and leading the Ubuntu MATE flavor since 2014, Martin Wimpress announced he’s looking to step down from leading this flavor of Ubuntu Linux with the MATE desktop environment. He’s hoping for new passionate contributors to keep it going…

Rspamd 4.0 is out today as a big update to this powerful open-source spam filtering system…

The Mesa Radeon “RADV” Vulkan driver has added new low-latency Vulkan Video encode/decode options for those seeking better performance…

The 7.0-rc6 kernel prepatch is out for
testing.

Anyway, exactly because it’s just “more than usual” rather than
feeling *worse* than usual, I don’t currently feel this merits
extending the release, and I still hope that next weekend will be
the last rc. But it’s just a bit unnerving how this release doesn’t
want to calm down, so no promises.

Linux 7.0-rc6 was just released in quickly working toward the stable Linux 7.0 release in mid-April. This was another busy week with lots of bug fixes…

Our Independence Drive is at 17% of its total goal. A final $34 this month will fully fund our mini-goal for March’s coverage of Linux and open source.

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The cloud czars gorged on free software, starved the projects that sustain it, and are shocked the open source commons is starting to break.

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Last year Intel began preparing their QuickAsist Linux driver support for QAT Gen6 hardware with upcoming platforms. That initial Intel QAT Gen6 driver enablement landed back in Linux 6.16 while for the upcoming Linux 7.1 kernel they are preparing support for a new wireless mode with this next-gen QuickAssist hardware…

Fish Shell 4.6 updates emoji width handling, enhances prompt customization, and improves compatibility with Bash-style piping.

Ahead of the Linux 7.0-rc6 kernel due to be released later today, quite a number of EXT4 file-system fixes were sent out this morning…

Sent out this week was another drm-misc-next pull heading to DRM-Next ahead of next month’s Linux 7.1 merge window. Notable with this week’s Direct Rendering Manager code changes was introducing per-process buffer object “BO” memory usage query support for user-space…

Released this week was Nginx 1.29.7 as the newest mainline version of this HTTP(S) web server. Releasing alongside Nginx 1.28.3 stable, it fixed buffer overflow vulnerabilities and some other vulnerabilities. Making Nginx 1.29.7 more exciting though is that it landed Multipath TCP support…

It’s fairly rare for the RadeonSI Gallium3D driver to hit OpenGL rendering game bugs these days as besides more games going opting for Vulkan API use, RadeonSI is rather robust and very mature at this stage. Recently though a Linux gamer that upgraded to a Radeon RX 9070 XT RDNA4 graphics card noticed that the open-source EDuke32 Duke Nukem 3D build and its derivatives were failing to render properly with the RadeonSI driver…

Arch-based SystemRescue 13 updates to Linux kernel 6.18, enhances HiDPI support, and upgrades core tools such as GParted and bcachefs.

KaOS Linux 2026.03 has been released today as the ISO snapshot for March 2026 of this independent Linux distro using Arch Linux’s pacman package manager.

MX Linux opposes age verification rules, citing concerns about privacy and the impact on open source development.

Pine64 has published a community update following FOSDEM 2026, outlining recent development activity, hardware demonstrations, and production challenges affecting its device lineup. The update highlights progress on PineNote and PineTab2 software, early work on PineTime Pro, and the impact of the ongoing DRAM shortage on several products. The FOSDEM 2026 event provided an opportunity for […]

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