GA date slips out on Japanese site, vanishes from EnglishRed Hat appears to have quietly made RHEL 10 available to paying customers, days ahead of its expected debut at next week’s Red Hat Summit.…

Llamafile continues pushing forward as the interesting Mozilla project to allow easily distributing and running AI large language models (LLMs) from a single file and in a cross-platform and cross-vendor hardware manner. Llamafile 0.9.3 is out today with more enhancements to this Mozilla Ocho project…

The Direct Rendering Manager (DRM) updates have been submitted for the Mediatek driver in advance of the upcoming Linux 6.16 merge window…

After almost a month of waiting, Ubuntu 24.10 (Oracular Oriole) users can finally upgrade their installations to the latest Ubuntu 25.04 (Plucky Puffin) release. Here’s a step-by-step tutorial with screenshots on how to perform the upgrade!

Inside this week’s LWN.net Weekly Edition:

• Front: Home Assistant; YaST; bpfilter; Flatpak; More LSFMM+BPF 2025 coverage.
• Briefs: Screen security; Guix on Codeberg; Postgres I/O; GNOME executive director; Nextcloud blog; Podman 5.5.0; OSL sustainability; Quotes; …
• Announcements: Newsletters, conferences, security updates, patches, and more.

Cheaper, open source LLMs will commoditize the market at expense of their bloated counterpartsThe future of large language models is likely to be open source, according to Marc Benioff, co-founder and longstanding CEO of Salesforce.…

Running AI models locally provides enhanced privacy, reduced latency, and complete control over your infrastructure. In this guide, we’ll walk through setting up DeepSeek models (like DeepSeek-R1) inside a Proxmox virtual machine with GPU passthrough. This configuration allows the AI model to access your NVIDIA GPU directly for significantly improved performance.

Version
5.5.0 of the Podman container-management tool has been
released. Notable features include the addition of a podman machine cp command to copy files into a running Podman
VM, a podman artifact extract command to copy
contents of an OCI
artifact to disk, and a --mount=artifact option to mount
OCI artifacts into containers. See the release announcement for a full
list of improvements and bug fixes.

From
servers in a data center to desktop computers, many devices
communicating on a network will eventually have to filter network
traffic, whether it’s for security or performance reasons. As a result,
this is a domain where a lot of work is put into improving performance:
a tiny performance improvement can have considerable gains.

Bpfilter is a
project that allows for packet filtering to easily be done with BPF, which can
be faster than other mechanisms.

Grafana 12 observability platform lands with Drilldown GA, dynamic dashboards, Git Sync, SCIM support, blazing-fast tables, new theming options, and more.

With Fedora 42 having released last month, feature work on Fedora 43 continues heating up in working toward this next major Fedora Linux release due out around October…

After recently looking at how the Intel Core Ultra 9 285K “Arrow Lake” Linux performance has evolved since launch, many Phoronix readers were curious how a similar launch-day vs. now comparison would look on the AMD Zen 5 side. The article today is looking at how the AMD Ryzen 9 9900X and Ryzen 9 9950X Linux performance has evolved since their launch last year. These numbers are put alongside the prior Intel Arrow Lake results for additional context.

Clippy Desktop Assistant is an open-source Electron application that allows you to run large language models (LLMs) locally!

Discover the new features of openSUSE Leap 16 Beta, now with Wayland and SELinux enabled by default. Explore enhanced security and performance today!

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Discover Tagstudio, the ultimate tag-based photo and file organization program that simplifies your digital life. Organize, find, and share with ease.

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Discover 4 fun and free open-source meme generation tools that let you unleash your creativity and share laughs with friends. Start creating today!

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This article will walk you through the ins and outs of AppArmor, explain why it’s a crucial part of a hardened Ubuntu system, and teach you how to leverage it to protect your environment.

LILYGO has introduced a new version of its T-Embed series that incorporates the SI4732 A10 tuner module. This version supports AM, FM, shortwave, and longwave radio bands in a handheld format that visually resembles devices like the Flipper Zero. The T-Embed SI4732 uses the ESP32 S3 microcontroller with a dual-core LX7 processor clocked at 240 […]

The first AMD Zen 6 patch for the Linux kernel has been queued up for submission soon to the mainline kernel…

Various Red Hat documentation pages began seeing updates yesterday along with RHEL 10.0 ISOs appearing in the customer download portal to reflect RHEL10 reaching general availability (GA) status…