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AMD Sends Out Initial GNU Binutils Patch For AMD Zen 6 – Confirms New AVX-512 Features
AMD has begun their open-source compiler enablement upstreaming effort for Zen 6 processors! The first “Znver6” patch was sent out on Friday in preparing for new instructions to be found with these next-generation AMD Ryzen and EPYC processors…
‘Windows sucks,’ former Microsoft Engineer says, explains how to fix it
Respecting users choices and offering a hardcore mode among key suggestions.Retired Microsoft engineer Dave Plummer has waded into the argument over where Microsoft has gone wrong with Windows, suggesting that perhaps the OS needs a hardcore mode to offset some of its fluffier edges.…
oneDNN 3.10 Continues Preparing For Future Intel CPUs With AVX 10.2
Released one Friday was the newest version of oneDNN as this library started off by Intel and now officially under the UXL Foundation umbrella for serving as building blocks for deep learning software…
Qt Merges Wayland Color Management “color-management-v1”
The Qt toolkit has merged support for Wayland’s color-management-v1 protocol to replace the former xx-color-management-v4 protocol shipped by this open-source toolkit. The change was merged for Qt 6.11 development but also back-ported for the Qt 6.10 series…
Linux Kernel Patches & Device Tree Additions For PCIe M.2 Connectors
On ACPI-enabled systems Linux users can enjoy PCIe M.2 connected peripherals that “just work” without any extra fuss. But for those relying on Device Tree (DT) handling by the kernel, new patches from Qualcomm are working on representing PCIe M.2 connectors within DT files…
KDE Plasma 6.6 Shaving Off 100MB Of Memory Use, Fixing DrKonqi Crash Reporter Crashing
KDE developers were off to a busy start for the month of November. A lot of feature activity continues happening for Plasma 6.6 while a lot of bug fixing is still going on for Plasma 6.5 and related KDE components…
TUXEDO Unveils InfinityBook Max 15: A Linux Laptop with Ryzen AI 9
The new TUXEDO InfinityBook Max 15 starts at €1,689, offering Ryzen AI 9 power, RTX graphics, and full Linux support in an aluminum chassis weighing 1.95 kg.
FreeBSD 15.0 Beta 5 Released With Build Fixes For Google & Azure Clouds
FreeBSD 15.0-RC1 had been expected this weekend but instead a fifth beta release of FreeBSD 15.0 was deemed warranted…
TUXEDO InfinityBook Max 15 Gen10 Linux Laptop Announced with AMD Ryzen AI 300
Linux hardware vendor TUXEDO Computers announced today the 10th generation (Gen10) of the TUXEDO InfinityBook Max 15 Linux-powered laptop with AMD Ryzen AI 300 CPUs and NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5000 GPUs.
What Are .pacnew Files in Arch Linux and How to Handle Them Safely
Learn what .pacnew files are in Arch Linux, why pacman creates the pacnew files, and how to safely merge or replace them using pacdiff tool.
Please stop being scared of the Linux terminal
When making my move from Windows to Linux, I dodged the Terminal as much as humanly possible.
Bell bottom-era tape unearthed, could contain lost piece of Unix history
It might have the first-ever version of UNIX written in CA tape-based piece of unique Unix history may have been lying quietly in storage at the University of Utah for 50+ years. The question is whether researchers will be able to take this piece of middle-aged media and rewind it back to the 1970s to get the data off.…
How to Install Google Earth on Ubuntu and Other Distros
In this article, you’ll learn how to install Google Earth Pro and the CE variant on Ubuntu and other Linux distros with practical examples.
GTK Adds “Reduced Motion” Accessibility Option To Follow macOS, Windows & Others
In addition to GNOME’s Mutter compositor removing its X11 back-end support to focus exclusively on Wayland while keeping around XWayland client support, another notable GNOME change this week was the GTK toolkit adding a “reduced motion” accessibility option…
Vibe coding named Word of the Year. Developers everywhere faceplant
It’s not a bug, it’s a feelingVibe coding has broken free of tech circles to claim Collins Dictionary’s Word of the Year 2025 — a choice that may prompt developers to ask: what could possibly go wrong?…
NILFS2 File-System Seeing Renewed Interest With Additional Maintainer
It’s been a while since having anything major to talk about with the NILFS2 file-system but it looks like that could be changing. NILFS2 as a reminder is a log-structured file-system with continuous snapshotting with its NILFS predecessor having been in the mainline kernel for two decades since the mid Linux 2.6 days…
KDE Gear 25.08.3 Is Out with More Bug Fixes, KDE Gear 25.12 Coming December 11th
The KDE Project released today KDE Gear 25.08.3 as the third and last planned update for the KDE Gear 25.08 open-source software suite, with more bug fixes for your favorite KDE applications.
Mesa 25.3-rc4 Brings Fix For Many Steam Play Games To Properly Run On Intel Linux Driver
Mesa 25.3-rc4 is available for testing as the latest weekly candidate as we work toward the Mesa 25.3 stable release this month…
Hyprland 0.52 Released With New Features For This Wayland Compositor
Hyprland 0.52 is available today as the latest feature update for this alternative Wayland compositor…