SQLite 3.54 delivers a 4% performance boost, query planner optimizations, command-line improvements, and new database analysis capabilities.

Many x86 platform driver improvements have been queuing ahead of the upcoming Linux 7.4 merge window to offer a variety of laptop and gaming handheld device improvements with this next kernel version...

Python 3.15 introduces lazy imports, UTF-8 as the default encoding, faster experimental JIT performance, and new profiling tools.

As some interesting food for thought and weekend forum discussions, this week at the Linux Plumbers Conference in Prague, Qualcomm engineer Khem Raj questioned the relevance of Linux Long Term Support (LTS) distributions in the era of generative AI with the constantly heavy patch flow and bug reports. Khem Raj argued the benefits of rolling release distributions in the GenAI era and the benefits it provides staying up-to-date with mainline...

Let's Encrypt will reduce TLS certificate validity from 90 to 64 days starting February 10, 2027, with a further reduction to 45 days planned for 2028.

Ubuntu Linux ISOs for RISC-V 64-bit to date have just been the server/CLI version without any desktop environment pre-seeded. But with next week's Ubuntu 26.10 release, there will now be Ubuntu 26.10 RISC-V desktop ISOs for both Ubuntu proper and a Xubuntu minimal ISO...

Woodpecker CI 3.19 fixes a security issue involving matrix variables, adds server-enforced agent labels, and improves pipeline reliability.

For those making use of Qualcomm Snapdragon X laptops on Linux, one of the features coming to the MSM DRM kernel driver is static HDR support for DisplayPort outputs and eDP panels...

OnLogic’s newest industrial edge gateway, the Helix 320, features a fanless design powered by Intel N-Series Twin Lake processors. The compact system includes four 2.5GbE ports, two configurable serial ports, M.2 expansion, and support for up to three displays. OnLogic offers the Helix 320 with two Intel N-Series “Twin Lake” processors: N250 – 4-core/4-thread architecture, […]

The curiosity into secretive semiconductor startup Rosaic Labs builds. Earlier this year it was noted that Intel was providing Rosaic Labs with access to its Atom technology with RTL code. There have also been rather mysterious x86 additions not from Intel or AMD (or Zhaoxin / Hygon) that given the timing may pertain to Rosaic Labs. News today is that Rosaic recently hired a long-time, Linux x86 developer veteran...

Ventoy 1.1.18 introduces experimental SteamOS recovery support, improves ISO partition mounting on Linux, and fixes several boot issues.

SQLite 3.54 released today for this wildly popular embedded SQL database engine used by countless applications and other software. With SQLite 3.54, support for Microsoft Windows XP and older is finally removed...

The KDE Project released KDE Frameworks 6.31 today as the latest stable update to this open-source collection of more than 80 add-on libraries to Qt and a companion to the KDE Plasma desktop environment and KDE Gear software suite.

Python 3.15 is out today as the newest annual feature release for the Python programming language...

A Redditor counted who wrote every change to xz, sudo, bash, tz and 19 more projects. 11 of 23 rely on one or two people. See who they are and who pays.

Ubuntu maker Canonical announced today the general availability of Ubuntu Desktop images for the RISC-V architecture, along with unofficial and unsupported Xubuntu Minimal images for RISC-V.

Last week I ran benchmarks of the new AMD PerfOpt feature being introduced in Linux 7.4. In those PerfOpt benchmarks on current-gen AMD Ryzen AI APUs/SoCs the AI performance improved as much as 18~23%. Several Phoronix readers expressed interest in seeing how prior-gen AMD Ryzen hardware benefited or not from PerfOpt, so here are some additional benchmarks.

aerynOS moves Budgie 10.10.3 from testing to its Unstable Stream, making it broadly available alongside COSMIC Desktop 1.10 and Linux 7.2.9.

Over the past few months NVIDIA has been developing Boro as a new AI-assisted kernel development CLI written in Rust and focused on local AI for enhancing efficiency for kernel development...

Ventoy 1.1.18 has been released today as a maintenance and feature update to this open-source bootable USB solution that introduces support for new systems and improves support for existing distributions.