PyTorch 2.9 is out today ahead of the PyTorch Conference happening next week in San Francisco. Notable with PyTorch 2.9 is better AMD ROCm and Intel XPU installation support via expanded wheel variant support…

Tails 7.1 has been released today as the first minor update in the Tails 7.x series of this portable Linux OS based on the Debian GNU/Linux operating system that protects users against surveillance and censorship.

In preparation for Panther Lake laptops shipping in early 2026, after Intel appears to have largely wrapped up work on the Linux driver enablement they are now ensuring the necessary firmware bits are out in time…

Boqun Feng spoke at

Kangrejos 2025 about adding a frequently needed API for Rust drivers
that need to handle interrupts: interrupt-aware spinlocks. Most drivers will
need to communicate information from interrupt handlers to main driver code, and
this exchange is frequently synchronized with the use of spinlocks. While his
first attempts ran into problems, Feng’s ultimate solution could help prevent bugs
in C code as well, by tracking the number of nested scopes that have disabled
interrupts. The
patch set, which contains work from Feng and Lyude Paul, is still under review.

Spotify taking too much disk space? Here’s how to fix Spotify cache bloat using tmpfs (RAM) on Debian and Ubuntu Linux.

Last week Amazon/AWS announced the new EC2 M8a instances as their latest-generation, general-purpose compute instances now powered by AMD EPYC 9005 “Turin” processors. Amazon announced the M8a as having up to 30% higher performance and up to 19% better price performance over M7a. With my testing of both at 32 vCPUs, the new AMD EPYC Turin instance provided 1.59x the performance over the prior-generation EPYC Genoa instance!

Germany’s northernmost state bins Outlook – and tens of thousands of Redmond licensesSchleswig-Holstein, the northernmost state of Germany, has finally concluded one element of a long-running project to eject Microsoft from its infrastructure by giving Exchange Server the boot.…

Linux Mint Debian Edition (LMDE) 7, based on Debian 13
(“trixie”), has been released:

Its goal is to ensure Linux Mint would be able to continue to deliver
the same user experience, and how much work would be involved, if
Ubuntu was ever to disappear. LMDE is also one of our development
targets, to guarantee the software we develop is compatible outside of
Ubuntu.

The LMDE release notes
are rather sparse; users are also advised to review Debian 13’s
release
notes.

Apple today announced the M5 SoC as the newest in the Apple Silicon family and with claims of 4x the peak GPU compute performance for AI of the M4…

Merged today to the Tinygrad deep learning framework is a Mesa NIR back-end to allow targeting that common intermediate representation used by these open-source Linux GPU drivers. Initially supported with this Tinygrad NIR back-end is the open-source NVIDIA Vulkan driver “NVK” with its Rust-based NAK compiler as well as the CPU-based LLVMpipe driver…

AMD’s HIP-RT is used by the Blender 3D modeling software for GPU-accelerated ray-tracing on Radeon GPUs. For Blender 5.0 the AMD HIP-RT support is expected to be declared “stable” but will not be enabled by default until Blender 5.1…

The Zorin OS team announced the general availability of the Zorin OS 18 release, a major update to this Ubuntu-based distribution for Linux newcomers, specifically tailored for Windows 10 expats.

The Zorin OS team announced the general availability of the Zorin OS 18 release, a major update to this Ubuntu-based distribution for Linux newcomers, specifically tailored for Windows 10 expats.

While the open-source GCC and LLVM/Clang compilers saw Panther Lake support added in early 2024, only overnight was support upstreamed to GCC and Clang for the similar Wildcat Lake target…

While the open-source GCC and LLVM/Clang compilers saw Panther Lake support added in early 2024, only overnight was support upstreamed to GCC and Clang for the similar Wildcat Lake target…

In development for around the past year was the cross-vendor mesh shading extension for OpenGL. Last week GL_EXT_mesh_shader was merged to the OpenGL Registry for this mesh shader support and first new GL extension in a while…

David Rosca at AMD continues leading the efforts for improving the open-source Radeon video acceleration support under Linux with the Mesa Gallium3D code. This is especially important now that AMD is encouraging customers to no longer use the AMD Multimedia Framework (AMF) on Linux but resort to using VA-API and the Mesa multimedia capabilities instead…

A new release of exfatprogs is now available as the user-space programs on Linux for the exFAT file-system to complement the in-tree kernel driver for the Microsoft exFAT support…

Linux booting is a complex process compared to other operating systems. The Linux Kernel accepts many parameters during boot, passed through the command line, which provide essential information to the kernel at system startup.

Think of these parameters as special instructions you give to the kernel before it even starts running the operating system.

With them, you can tell the kernel:

which disk contains your root filesystem?
how much memory to use?
whether to load certain hardware features.
or even how to handle errors during startup.
Without them, the kernel would not know how to properly initialize the system.

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