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AI Made A Lot Of "Hideous" Code But Found Major Bottlenecks For Faster Linux Compilation

Linux News - 3 hours 17 min ago
An ARM Linux engineer leveraged AI/LLMs to help uncover some improvements to "significant speed up" the Linux kernel build times. In the process the LLM used generated "a lot of code, much of it hideous" but in the end was used to find some very significant time savings for faster kernel builds via more task parallelization in different areas of the kernel build process...
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Slackware 16 Alpha 1 Released with Linux 6.18 LTS, GCC 16.2, and Plasma 6

Linux News - 3 hours 17 min ago
One of Linux's oldest surviving distributions is moving closer to its next major release. Slackware 16 Alpha 1 became available on September 5, 2026, marking the first formal alpha milestone on the road toward Slackware Linux 16. The release follows a major rebuild of Slackware-current using a substantially newer GNU toolchain and brings together several upgrades that have accumulated since Slackware 15.0 arrived more than four years ago.
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The Linux Kernel Planning To Remove Around ~55k Lines Of Old ARM Platform Code

Linux News - 3 hours 17 min ago
For the current Linux 7.3 kernel many older 32-bit ARM platforms are deprecated and in turn orphaning hundreds of drivers only relevant to those out-of-date ARM platforms. The removal of that now deprecated code is planned for the next kernel cycle or two...
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BleachBit 6.0.4 Cleaner and Privacy Tool Released with Faster Scanning

Linux News - 3 hours 17 min ago
BleachBit 6.0.4 is out with faster startup and scanning, new cleaners for fish, Zsh, Android Studio, Gradle, and Python, plus major security fixes.
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CHUWI UniBook With Intel Wildcat Lake For A $449 Linux-Friendly Laptop

Linux News - 3 hours 17 min ago
CHUWI recently launched the UniBook laptop powered by the Intel Core 3 304 "Wildcat Lake" SOC and priced at just $449 USD. Especially with today's high component pricing, a brand new sub-$500 laptop is extremely rare. Rather than using some dated SoC, it uses Wildcat Lake as Intel's new value option alternative to the Core 3 Series Ultra "Panther Lake" SoCs. This was our first time testing out Intel Wildcat Lake and that SoC plus the overall CHUWI UniBook has been working out well on Linux for those looking at a laptop in the sub-$500 space.
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OpenPaper L Launches as a 13.3-Inch Open-Source Color E-Ink Frame

Linux News - 3 hours 17 min ago
OpenPaper L is a 13.3-inch color E-Ink picture frame with open-source hardware and software, Wi-Fi 6, Bluetooth, and offline operation.
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MocaccinoOS 26.09 Adds x86-64-v3 Optimized Builds for Improved Performance

Linux News - 3 hours 17 min ago
The development team behind the Gentoo-based, independently developed MocaccinoOS distribution released MocaccinoOS 26.09 today as the latest stable ISO snapshot with various improvements and updated components.
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FEX 2609 Released With Speedier JIT Performance, JIT Disk Cache Option

Linux News - 3 hours 17 min ago
FEX 2609 was released overnight as the newest monthly feature release for this open-source emulator that allows running Linux x86_64 binaries on AArch64, including the likes of Steam and Steam Play (Proton) for enabling Windows games to run rather well on ARM64 Linux systems...
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GStreamer 1.28.7 Open-Source Multimedia Framework Adds Support for OpenCV 5

Linux News - 3 hours 17 min ago
GStreamer 1.28.7 has been released today as the seventh maintenance update to the latest and greatest GStreamer 1.28 series of this powerful, free, open-source, and cross-platform multimedia framework.
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New Patches Provide HDMI 1.4 3D Mode Support For AMD Radeon Graphics On Linux

Linux News - 3 hours 17 min ago
It turns out one of the feature limitations of the AMDGPU Linux graphics driver is HDMI 1.4 3D output support with frame packing, top-and-bottom, and side-by-side options for transmitting simultaneous video streams. I wasn't aware of this limitation for the lack of any 3D displays and many Linux enthusiasts/gamers as well, but if you happen to have a compatible HDMI 1.4 3D display, there are pending patches to finally make this a reality...
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KDE Plasma 6.7.5 Desktop Environment Is Out with Many Improvements and Fixes

Linux News - 3 hours 17 min ago
The KDE Project released KDE Plasma 6.7.5 today as the fifth maintenance update to the latest KDE Plasma 6.7 desktop environment series with various improvements and plenty of bug fixes.
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Linux 7.4 To Support Realtek RTL8127atf & RTL8116af Networking

Linux News - 3 hours 17 min ago
Queued this past week into the net-next development tree of the latest networking additions for the Linux kernel is enabling support for Realtek's newer RTL8127atf and RTL8116af wired networking ASICs...
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Jellyfin 12.0 Media Server Released with Faster Database, Modern UI

Linux News - 3 hours 17 min ago
Jellyfin 12.0 is out with a faster database backend, Modern UI by default, FFmpeg 8.1, expanded books and comics features, and security fixes.
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Mysterious x86 CPU Already Has APX, x86S Where Intel Left Off For Legacy-Free x86

Linux News - 3 hours 17 min ago
The mystery deepens around an x86 implementation from a corporate entity other than AMD and Intel and has been making some very intriguing changes for coming from a seeming start-up. Beyond 16 tile and 32 tile AMX implementations that already surpass Intel's current Advanced Matrix Extensions (AMX) capabilities in shipping Xeon CPUs, new disclosures were made today concerning Advanced Performance Extensions (APX), Flexible Return and Event Delivery (FRED), and even x86S as the effort that Intel previously stopped for cleaning up the x86 baggage...
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The Best Arch-Based Linux Distros in 2026 (Ranked and Reviewed)

Linux News - 3 hours 17 min ago
Arch Linux is powerful but brutal to install. These 8 Arch-based distros give you the speed and AUR without the pain. See which one fits you.
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OpenVPN 2.7.7 Released with Various Improvements, Bug and Security Fixes

Linux News - 3 hours 17 min ago
OpenVPN 2.7.7 has been released as the seventh maintenance update to the latest OpenVPN 2.7 series of this open-source software for connecting to virtual private networks (VPN).
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KDE’s Photos App Is Proposed as a Future Replacement for Gwenview

Linux News - 3 hours 17 min ago
KDE’s Photos application is being positioned as a potential successor to Gwenview, with broader desktop use now in focus.
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Linux Preps For New AMD Zen 6 BTB CTX Isolation Security Feature

Linux News - 3 hours 17 min ago
A recently posted Linux kernel patch has revealed a new security improvement with Zen 6 processors...
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Bottles Pushes Windows App Support Further on ARM64 Linux

Linux News - 3 hours 17 min ago
Bottles pushes its ARM64 efforts forward with Soda 11.0-10, opening the door to running Windows software on more ARM64 Linux devices.
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Rustls 0.23.44 Released With ML-DSA Certificates Enabled By Default

Linux News - 3 hours 17 min ago
Rustls as the modern TLS library implementation written in the Rust programming language is out with a new feature release. This morning's Rustls 0.23.44 release enables post-quantum secure ML-DSA certificates by default...
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