With the recent release of Ubuntu 25.10 we have seen some nice performance improvements on the likes of AMD Zen 5 and Intel Lunar Lake compared to prior Ubuntu releases. But what about ARM? In this article is a look at the Ampere Altra performance between Ubuntu 25.04 and Ubuntu 25.10 using the popular System76 Thelio Astra workstation.

Ruby libraries and
applications are distributed via a packaging format called a gem. RubyGems.org has been the central
hosting service for gems since about 2010. This article is part one of
a two-part series on the RubyGems.org takeover by Ruby Central. Understanding the
history of RubyGems.org, and the contributor community behind it, is
vital to making sense of the current power
struggle between Ruby Central and members of the Ruby
community who have maintained those services and tools for many
years.

The Linux Mint team has officially unveiled Linux Mint 22.2, codenamed “Zara”, on September 4, 2025. As a Long-Term Support (LTS) release, Zara will receive updates through 2029, promising users stability, incremental improvements, and a comfortable desktop experience.

The OK153-S SBC from Forlinx Embedded is a compact industrial platform based on the Allwinner T153 processor. It supports Linux 5.10 and offers up to 1 GB of DDR3 RAM and 8 GB of eMMC storage. Key interfaces include triple Gigabit Ethernet, dual CAN-FD, and a Local Bus for PSRAM or FPGA expansion. The Allwinner […]

Valve’s Linux graphics driver team contributions aren’t limited to just enhancing the rasterization and ray-tracing graphics performance of the open-source Linux GPU drivers for gaming. Beyond other interesting contributions from that talented group of open-source Linux graphics developers over the years and for other areas like enhancing old GPU hardware support, merged this week for the Radeon Vulkan “RADV” driver is a massive improvement to benefit the Llama.cpp AI performance…

Discover a step-by-step guide to install the latest version of Handbrake on Ubuntu and other Linux distros with practical examples.

The Mobian team releases Trixie, a Debian-based mobile OS update featuring PipeWire, Linux kernel 6.12, and new signing keys.

Downstream Linux projects line up behind the latest releaseA month after Debian 13.1’s release, some of the more visible downstream forks, including Raspberry Pi OS, have decided it’s time to incorporate the latest version of the main OS into their builds.…

Tuning Virt-manager you are supposed enable 3D-acceleration and OpenGL to avoid crashing instance setup and successfully install Fedora 43 Cosmic Spin in VENV. The interesting thing is that F43 Cosmic Spin behaves the same way on bare metal and as KVM Guest. No issues for switching between different folders contain wallpapers for Cosmic DE happens in VENV.

Fedora 43 had been planning for an early final target release date of 21 October. Unfortunately, that’s not going to happen as a “No-Go” was declared at the Fedora Linux 43 release meeting…

This Debian‑based distro fuses privacy‑first AI with KDE polish and speed, although not everything is flawless.

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Over the years we have seen various workarounds like disabling RDSEED for select AMD CPUs due to hardware bugs and early on in the Zen days were also some RdRand issues due to different problems. It turns out the newest AMD EPYC 5th Gen “Turin” processors have a new RDSEED issue…

A Phoronix reader pointed out a bug report from 2015 now getting renewed interest… Linux software RAID via MD RAID, DRBD, LVM RAID, and similar software-based solutions can be broken from user-space around O_DIRECT usage. The issue is that these RAID arrays can be put silently into an inconsistent state across disks…

There have been many discussions in the free-software community about the
role of large language models (LLMs) in software development. For the most
part, though, those conversations have focused on whether projects should
be accepting code output by those models, and under what conditions. But
there are other ways in which these systems might participate in the
development process. Chris Mason recently started a
discussion on the Kernel Summit discussion list about how these models
can be used to review patches, rather than create them.

Posted to the Linux kernel mailing list and GNU Binutils mailing list today is an intriguing message from a longtime x86/x86_64 expert around a “a corporate entity other than Intel/AMD” using some x86 opcodes not used by AMD or Intel processors…

With Linux 6.18 now past the merge window and many new features and changes introduced (https://www.phoronix.com/review/linux-618-features), I have begun testing out this kernel on various servers, desktops, and laptops at Phoronix. Linux 6.18 is quite important with expected to become this year’s LTS kernel version upon its stable debut in December. Up today is a first look at Linux 6.17 vs. 6.18-rc1 performance using Intel Xeon 6 Granite Rapids server performance.

Version
13.0 of the Forgejo software forge has been released. Notable
changes in this release include content
moderation features, ability to require
2FA for users or administrators, and a migration
feature for Pagure repositories. The last will be useful for
Fedora’s move
to Forgejo as its new git forge. See the release
notes for all changes in 13.0.

AOMP 22.0-1 was released on Wednesday as the newest routine update to this downstream of LLVM/Clang/Flang maintained by AMD that continues to carry their latest modifications for enhancing the C/C++/Fortran compiler offloading support to AMD Radeon/Instinct hardware using the likes of OpenMP and OpenACC…

Merged today to LLVM Git for next spring’s LLVM 22.0 release is support for the Intel Nova Lake ISA targeting with the “-march=novalake” option…

Just days ago Valve developer Autumn Ashton announced initial NVIDIA DLSS upscaling for the open-source Mesa NVK driver. One of those needed Vulkan extensions, VK_NVX_image_view_handle, is already merged to Mesa Git…