The USB and Thunderbolt changes have been merged for Linux 7.3. Two changes stand out for me in the USB subsystem code with Linux 7.3. First, the kernel arguably being long overdue for checking USB-C cables capabilities whether they support alt-modes. Second, a new low-latency USB4STREAM option for lower latency data transfers between USB4-connected systems...

This post is an immediate follow up for "Sparky Linux 2026 06 OverlayFS BTRFS with Timeshift setup" . Modern virtual machines use OVMF (Open Virtual Machine Firmware) to simulate an industry-standard UEFI environment rather than an old legacy BIOS.The Role of NVRAM: UEFI requires a non-volatile random-access memory (NVRAM) variables store to keep track of boot orders, hardware configurations, and Secure Boot certificates.

Germany’s Sovereign Tech Agency is investing €508,640 in Flatpak development, targeting stronger sandboxing, new portals, and infrastructure improvements.

Asahi Linux says M3 support is almost ready for an official release, with webcams, microphones, USB 3.0, and Thunderbolt now working across the lineup.

Werner Koch announced today the release of Libgcrypt 1.12.3 with various bug fixes and more exciting are the performance improvements...

Darktable 5.6.1 has been released today as the first maintenance update to the latest Darktable 5.6 series of this open-source, free, and cross-platform raw image editor for GNU/Linux, macOS, and Windows.

Armbian as the Debian/Ubuntu-derived distribution that provides an optimized platform for ARM and RISC-V single board computers is out today with a major update...

GrapheneOS says the first officially supported Motorola devices are expected in 2027, starting with higher-end flagship models.

Last week I provided a look at the Intel Xeon 600 series Hyper Threading performance with the Xeon 678X "Granite Rapids WS" processor for HT/SMT on and off. That was interesting while another reader request was to look at the CPU core scaling performance for this high-end workstation processor. Here are those benchmarks for showing the performance, power, and frequency/thermal impact of the Xeon 678X when limited to 6 cores, 12 cores, 24 cores, 48 cores, and then the 48 cores + HT default configuration.

The Asahi Linux crew working to bring Linux support to Apple Silicon hardware is out today with a new status update on their initiatives, largely around Apple M3 bring-up as well as some M4/M5 achievements...

Chromium gains initial Flatpak packaging support for Linux, with the new implementation still considered experimental.

Patches sent out to the Linux kernel mailing list today can provide much more efficient Zstd compression and decompression by addressing a very unfortunate oversight in the existing code...

FreeRDP 3.31 is out with numerous security and bug fixes, plus faster graphics performance for AVC/H.264 Remote Desktop sessions.

You change one line in a large file. Your “incremental” backup re-uploads the whole thing anyway. Nine times out of ten, it’s not the network, and it’s not your storage backend. It’s the algorithm deciding where to cut your data into pieces. Every deduplication system works the same way: split data into […]

Immudb can work alongside rsyslog, Loki, Elasticsearch, or an operational database to give Linux administrators a way to preserve and verify the integrity of critical event histories.

After about a year of improvements, the German distro Garuda knocks it out of the park with its latest release, Garuda Temeraire. Distro of the Week puts this Arch-based distro through its paces and likes what it sees.

The first public Multikernel Linux release lets several independent kernels run side by side on one machine with dedicated CPUs, memory, and devices.

Earlier this month when benchmarking six Linux distributions on the new Framework Laptop 13 Pro powered by Intel Core Ultra Series 3 "Panther Lake", the performance was strangely slow on Fedora Workstation 44. When digging further into it, the performance loss was with Fedora 44 using Tuned-PPD by default where as other Linux distributions default to Power Profiles Daemon. Ultimately, after Red Hat engineers got involved, was found to be a bug within the Intel P-State kernel driver exhibited by Tuned-PPD. The latest Linux kernel already has a fix in place and will be back-ported to Fedora 44...

The Document Foundation released LibreOffice 26.8 today as a major update for this open-source, free, and cross-platform office suite software for GNU/Linux, macOS, and Windows systems.

The Linux kernel's FUSE code for enabling file-systems in user-space is enjoying some nice speed boosts with the in-development Linux 7.3 kernel...