Framework Computer announced back in August that the Framework Laptop 16 would be rolling out upgrades to the AMD Ryzen AI 300 series and a GeForce RTX 5070 graphics option. Today the review embargo lifts on these new Framework 16 laptop upgrades and some Linux benchmarking of the new hardware.

Longtime LWN readers will have encountered the concept of “stable pages”
before; it was first covered here nearly
15 years ago. For the most part, the problem that stable pages were
meant to solve — preventing errors when user space modifies a buffer that
is under I/O — has been dealt with. But
recent discussions show that there is one area where problems remain:
direct I/O. There is some disagreement,
though, over whether those problems are the result of user-space bugs and
how much of a performance price should be paid to address them.

As covered recently on Phoronix there has been several exciting improvements for aging AMD Radeon GCN 1.0 and GCN 1.1 era graphics cards for the open-source AMD Linux graphics driver stack. This work has been led by Timur Kristóf of Valve’s Linux Open-Source Graphics Driver Group with an ultimate goal of shifting the GCN 1.0/1.1 open-source Linux driver hardware support from the aging “Radeon” kernel graphics driver over to the “AMDGPU” kernel driver already used by default for all AMD GPUs/accelerators from GCN 1.2 and newer…

qBittorrent 5.1.3 has been released today as the third maintenance update to the latest qBittorrent 5.1 series of this open-source, cross-platform, and free BitTorrent client for GNU/Linux, macOS, and Windows.

Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10.1 has reached general availability with a number of enhancements to this leading enterprise Linux distribution. As with so many things in 2025, AI is a big focus for RHEL 10.1…

The PWD (a.k.a. “present working directory”) will print the path of the directory you are currently working in, starting from the root directory to the current directory.

SUSE’s latest updates tightly link its Rancher Kubernetes platform and new AI stack, signaling a move to simplify AI management across environments.

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Arch Linux has shipped its November 2025 ISO snapshot (2025.11.01), and while Arch remains a rolling distribution, these monthly images are a big deal, especially for new installs, labs, and homelab deployments. This time, the ISO lands alongside two important pieces…

With Firefox 145 being offered to the stable channel today on all supported platforms, Mozilla promoted the next major release, Firefox 146, to the beta channel for public testing.

Rspamd 3.14, an open-source spam filtering system, introduces dark mode in the WebUI, faster fuzzy hashing, and a new Postfix setup wizard for simplified mail integration.

It’s “Patch Tuesday” and Intel is out with new CPU microcode for Linux users in addition to making public 30 new security advisories that affect a range of Intel products…

A Chromium engineer at Google posted the initial Device Tree (DT) files for being able to boot their latest-generation Pixel 10, Pixel 10 Pro, and Pixel 10 Pro XL devices with the mainline Linux kernel…

Plasma Mobile 6.5 enhances speed, usability, and Android app integration with Waydroid setup in Settings, along with faster lock screen loading and refined visuals.

Engicam has showcased the TIA RZ/V2H System-on-Module and its companion AI.DEV RZ/V2H development kit, both built around Renesas’ RZ/V2H processor. The module targets embedded applications in machine vision, autonomous robotics, and industrial automation, offering onboard AI acceleration and GPU capabilities optimized for real-time processing and advanced imaging. The TIA RZ/V2H module integrates a Renesas RZ/V2H […]

The Ubuntu 25.10 transition to using some Rust system utilities continues proving quite rocky. Beyond some early performance issues with Rust Coreutils, breakage for some executables, and broken unattended upgrades due to a Rust Coreutils bug, it’s also sudo-rs now causing Ubuntu developers some headaches. There are two moderate security issues affecting sudo-rs, the Rust version of sudo being used by Ubuntu 25.10…

Russian cybersecurity firm Kaspersky Lab announced that it’s bringing its flagship Kaspersky anti-virus software for home users over to Linux. Kaspersky software was previously available for Linux just for business/enterprise deployments…

Omnilingual Automatic Speech Recognition can transcribe speech in over 1,600 languages — including 500 low-resource languages.

Sent out today and already merged for the in-development Linux 6.18 kernel is the latest batch of 64-bit ARM “ARM64” architecture fixes. Most notable is a fix for addressing a “catastrophic performance issue” that was uncovered…

The KDE Project released today KDE Plasma 6.4.6 as the sixth and last maintenance update to the KDE Plasma 6.4 desktop environment series to address more bugs, crashes, and other issues.

The Linux kernel’s Human Interface Devices (HID) subsystem has an existing architectural limitation that there is just up to one battery per HID device. But with modern devices — especially among various gaming peripherals — there can be more than one battery when considering earbuds with a battery for each earbud, multi-device wireless receivers, etc. A proposal was raised today to address this limitation…