As part of my various end-of-year benchmarks, recently I looked at the Linux LTS kernel performance on AMD EPYC 9005 over the past year, the AMD EPYC Milan-X performance over the past four years, and various other performance comparisons over time to look the evolution of the Linux software performance. Another run I had carried out was looking at the AMD EPYC 8004 "Siena" series since its launch just over two years ago. Here is a look at how an up-to-date Linux software stack can deliver some additional performance gains for these energy efficiency and cost-optimized server processors.

Want to keep your Arch Linux system update running fast and smooth? Try updating or keeping your mirrorlist fresh.

Let’s Encrypt has made IP-based TLS certificates generally available, allowing secure HTTPS connections directly to IP addresses.

In late 2024 the folks at Raspberry Pi announced the Raspberry Pi AI HAT+ as an AI accelerator capable of 26 TOPS and costing $110 for pairing with Raspberry Pi single board computers. Today they announced the much more capable Raspberry Pi AI HAT+ 2 that can begin to take on some generative AI "GenAI" models...

Kdenlive 25.12.1, an open-source video editor, is out with stability fixes, workflow improvements, and continued polishing of the new welcome screen.

A significant update to Burn was released today, the MIT and Apache 2.0 licensed tensor library and deep learning framework written in the Rust programming language. Burn 0.20 brings some low-level changes as it continues to strive to deliver high performance AI across the diverse hardware ecosystem...

MSI has added the PRO DP10 A14MG to its Business & Productivity PC lineup. The system is built around a slim, vertical chassis intended for office environments where desk space, manageability, and connectivity are priorities. While physically compact, the platform targets everyday professional workloads rather than entry-level use. The PRO DP10 A14MG series supports 14th-generation […]

Collabora shares with us today a new project that lets you install and run the Debian GNU/Linux operating system on the open-source OpenWrt One router.

Collabora has shared a new project demonstrating how the OpenWrt One can be repurposed from a traditional networking appliance into a compact, general-purpose Linux system. The project, called openwrt-one-debian, enables users to install and run a full Debian operating system on the device by booting directly from NVMe storage. The OpenWrt One is designed as […]

Tails 7.4 has been released today as the fourth minor update in the Tails 7.x series of this portable Linux distribution based on Debian GNU/Linux and designed to protect you against surveillance and censorship.

The oVirt 4.5.7 open-source virtualization management platform released this week after not seeing any new releases in two years. While Red Hat had started the oVirt open-source project for which their Red Hat Virtualization platform is based, since they shifted that to maintenance mode to focus on the Red Hat OpenShift platform and stopped contributing to oVirt, it's been up to the open-source community to keep it going...

This is your friendly reminder that Ubuntu 25.04 “Plucky Puffin” reached the end of its supported life today, January 15th, 2026, and it is no longer supported by Canonical with software and security updates.

In this video, I show how to customize the Bash prompt style on Linux by editing the .bashrc file.This is a simple and beginner-friendly way to change. Perfect for Linux users who want a clean, modern, and personalized terminal.

The EndeavourOS team announced today the general availability for download of EndeavourOS Ganymede Neo as the latest stable snapshot of this Arch Linux-based distro featuring the KDE Plasma desktop environment.

Renesas Electronics has introduced three new ForgeFPGA devices that significantly expand the company’s low-density FPGA portfolio. The newly announced SLG47912, SLG47920, and SLG47921 more than double the available logic resources compared to earlier 1k-LUT ForgeFPGA parts, targeting space-constrained and cost-sensitive edge designs. Renesas notes that ForgeFPGA is positioned as an alternative to traditional low-end FPGAs, […]

Arch-based Garuda Linux ISO 260115 ships with NVIDIA 590 drivers, which no longer support NVIDIA 1000 series GPUs.

Opera GX, the gaming-focused web browser, is coming to Linux, with the company confirming active development.

Just be careful not to entrust the AI model with your sensitive dataAnthropic on Monday announced the research preview of Claude Cowork, a tool for automating office work that comes with the now familiar recitation of machine learning risks.…

While Intel has been upstreaming various Panther Lake firmware bits to linux-firmware.git for pairing with their open-source kernel drivers ahead of Core Ultra Series 3 laptops shipping, one piece of the puzzle only published today is the GSC firmware for the Panther Lake graphics...

Latest update focuses on hardware acceleration, security tightening, and a handful of quality-of-life tweaksThe latest Firefox is here with some handy changes – most of which differ depending on what OS and type of CPU you run it on.…