The Fedora Council greenlights the use of AI in open-source projects but keeps contributors fully responsible for the results.

Back in May AMD announced the Radeon AI PRO R9700 with 128 AI accelerators, 32GB of GDDR6 video memory, and other advantages for this AI-focused RDNA4 based graphics card over the RDNA3-based Radeon PRO W7900. The Radeon AI PRO R9700 was supposed to be available in July while today AMD announced it will be going on sale next week…

A dinosaur mascot, a read-only core, and a huge ISO– here’s our hands-on experience after taking Bluefin GTS for a ride.

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KDE KWin developer Xaver Hugl published a new blog post today outlining the KMS overlay planes support present within the newly-released Plasma 6.5 desktop. While not yet enabled by default, enabling the overlay planes functionality can result in some nice power savings such as during video playback…

The absolute and relative paths are different ways to navigate through directories in your Linux file system that everyone must know.

In addition to announced Snap-based silicon-optimized AI large language models, Canonical used the ongoing Ubuntu Summit 25.10 virtual event to announced Canonical Academy. Canonical Academy is their new effort for badges/certifications around Ubuntu Linux…

DietPi 9.18 adds support for NanoPi R3S, R76S, and M5, plus a redesigned dashboard with better security and TLS enabled by default.

Greg Kroah-Hartman has released the 6.17.5, 6.12.55, and 6.6.114 stable kernels. As usual, each
contains important fixes throughout the tree; users are advised to
upgrade.

New version includes multithreaded TCP/IP and Raspberry Pi 5 supportThe 59th version of the OpenBSD operating system is here, six months after 7.7, with multiple improvements in various areas.…

Besides the early fallout of switching to Rust Coreutils on Ubuntu 25.10 causing some breakage, a more pressing issue has been discovered: Ubuntu 25.10’s unattended upgrades functionality for automatic security updates is currently broken due to a Rust Coreutils bug…

The Spectre class of hardware vulnerabilities truly is a gift that keeps on
giving. New variants are still being discovered in current CPUs nearly
eight years after the disclosure of this
problem, and developers are still working to minimize the performance costs
that come from defending against it. The masked user-space access
mechanism is a case in point: it reduces the cost of defending against some
speculative attacks, but it brought some challenges of its own that are
only now being addressed.

The past number of months has seen a lot of work by Intel Linux kernel engineers on cache-aware scheduling / load balancing for helping modern CPUs that have multiple caches. With cache aware scheduling, tasks that will likely share resources could be aggregated into the same cache domain to enjoy better cache locality. With the cache aware scheduling patches recently updated and now working past the “request for comments” stage, I was eager to try out these new patches. Especially with a 44% time reduction reported for one of the benchmarks, I was eager to run some tests and the first of those results are being shared today.

Canonical’s new push for their Snap app packaging/sandboxed format on Ubuntu Linux is for AI large language models (LLMs). Making it more interesting though is that they are working to deliver silicon-optimized AI LLMs for your hardware and to make it easily deployable for Ubuntu sers…

The AlmaLinux project has announced
that the upcoming 10.1 release will include support for
Btrfs:

Btrfs support encompasses both kernel and userspace enablement, and
it is now possible to install AlmaLinux OS with a Btrfs filesystem
from the very beginning. Initial enablement was scoped to the
installer and storage management stack, and broader support within the
AlmaLinux software collection for Btrfs features is forthcoming.

Btrfs support in AlmaLinux OS did not happen in isolation. This was
proposed and scoped in RFC 0005, and has been built upon prior efforts
by the Fedora
Btrfs SIG in Fedora Linux and the CentOS Hyperscale SIG
in CentOS Stream.

AlmaLinux OS is designed to be binary compatible with Red Hat
Enterprise Linux (RHEL); Btrfs, however, has never been supported in
RHEL. A technology preview of Btrfs in RHEL 6 and 7 ended with the
filesystem being dropped from RHEL 8 and
onward. AlmaLinux OS 10.1 is currently
in beta.

As of today, October 18th, 2025, Canonical has published the first daily build ISO images of the upcoming Ubuntu 26.04 LTS (codename Resolute Raccoon) for early adopters, application developers, and general public testing.

Discover the Radxa ROCK 4D single board computer running Linux. Explore its efficient power consumption and performance capabilities for your projects.

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Not the default file system, but in the installer if you want itAlmaLinux is to support the Btrfs file system in version 10.1 of its eponymous RHELative operating system.…

The Fedora Council has finally come to a decision on allowing AI-assisted contributions to the project. The agreed upon guidelines are fairly straight-forward and will permit AI-assisted contributions if it’s properly disclosed and transparent…

Researchers say ‘Proto-X’ fine-tunes databases automatically, delivering multifold performance boostsAutomated database systems based on vector embedding algorithms could improve the performance of default settings on common PostgreSQL database services by a factor of two to ten, according to a database researcher.…

Oracle recently launched their E6 compute shape for Oracle Cloud and powered by AMD EPYC 9005 “Turin” processors. Oracle Cloud Infrastructure also launched their Compute Cloud@Customer X11 and Private Cloud Appliance X11 platforms that are all powered by the E6 compute shape with 5th Gen AMD EPYC. For those curious about the performance and value of the Oracle Cloud E6 shape compared to prior-gen E5 as well as alternatives from Amazon AWS, Microsoft Azure, and Google Cloud, these benchmarks are geared for you.