Bluefin LTS released: immutable Linux workstation with CentOS Stream 10 base, Flathub, ZFS, Homebrew, and 3–5 years of long-term support.

One of the exciting elements of Intel's Xeon 6 Granite Rapids launch last year was introducing support for MRDIMMs alongside DDR5-6400 memory support. After the Xeon 6900P series debut I posted some of the first independent DDR5-6400 vs. MRDIMM-8800 benchmarks. One year later, today is a fresh look at the DDR5-6400 vs. MRDIMM-8800 performance for Granite Rapids with new/updated benchmarks, the latest Linux software improvements, and also looking at the impact on power and thermals of MRDIMM memory.

Rspamd 3.13, an open-source spam filtering system, introduces multiclass Bayes, a neural module overhaul, and improved LLM embedding support.

The Fedora Forge has been soft-launched for Fedora contributors to help modernize the development and collaboration tools around the Linux distribution...

Tails 7.0 is out today as a major update to this portable Linux OS based on the Debian GNU/Linux operating system that protects users against surveillance and censorship.

After Arch Linux, Mageia is now reporting infrastructure outages, with forums and wiki down due to what looks like another bot-driven attack.

Still exotic for now, but moves are afootArm devices are everywhere today and many of them run Linux. The operating system also powers cloud computing and IT environments all over the world. However, x86 is still the dominant architecture of global computer hardware, where the Unified Extensible Firmware Interface (UEFI) with Secure Boot incorporated is a standard. But what does UEFI look like from an Arm perspective?…

Following the recent release of Linux Mint 22.2 as the Linux Mint project's premiere operating system currently built atop Ubuntu 24.04 LTS, today marks the beta release of Linux Mint Debian Edition 7...

Multipass offers a quick way to create Ubuntu virtual machines with no extra hardware or complex setup needed.

GNOME 49 arrives with a modern video player, revamped document viewer, HDR wallpapers, and major upgrades across Calendar, Web, Maps, and more.

NVIDIA is making a $5 billion investment into Intel and the two companies will work together on custom data center and client CPUs...

Released yesterday was the OpenJDK Java 25 release along with Oracle's GraalVM 25 alternative JVM...

The Slackware-based PorteuX 2.3 distribution, inspired by Slax and Porteus and designed to be super fast, small, portable, modular, and immutable, is out today with various updates and changes.

Texas Instruments has introduced its most affordable C2000 real-time MCUs to date, aimed at appliances, digital power supplies, and power tools. The new F28E12x series, including the F28E120SC and F28E120SB, delivers a 30% performance boost over earlier C2000 devices while maintaining a cost-efficient design. The F28E12x devices integrate TI’s C28x digital signal processor core with […]

The past few months we have been intrigued by an AMD GFX1250 target added to the LLVM codebase for the AMDGPU shader compiler back-end. GFX12 is RDNA4 and GFX1250 is presumably some "RDNA 4.5" / "RDNA Refresh" part akin to GFX1150 having been for the RDNA 3.5 parts with Strix Halo / Strix Point. The prior LLVM code confirmed GFX1250 is in APU form factor but product details beyond that have been scarce. Today a new AMD GFX1251 target was merged to LLVM...

JDK 25 LTS improves IO, HTTP, concurrency, and TLS while removing outdated system properties.

First up: $41M to use human annotators to label all that unstructured military data. What could go wrong?Data curation firm Scale AI has partnered with the Pentagon to deploy its AI on Top Secret networks - a move its interim CEO says is necessary if the US wants AI to be useful for national security.…

The ASUS Ascent GX10 is a compact AI supercomputer built on the NVIDIA GB10 Grace Blackwell Superchip with a unified CPU+GPU memory model and NVIDIA’s AI software stack. Introduced in March 2025, it targets developers, researchers, and data scientists needing petaflop-scale performance in a desktop system with scalable deployment options. The GB10 Superchip combines a […]

When recently carrying out the Windows 11 25H2 vs. Ubuntu Linux benchmarks I also ended up carrying out some Llama.cpp AI benchmarks as the first time exploring the AI inferencing performance between Windows and Linux for both CPU and GPU-accelerated deployments. Here are those results for exploring the Llama.cpp performance between Windows and Linux with different large language models.

The GNOME Project released today GNOME 49 “Brescia” as the latest stable version of this widely used desktop environment for GNU/Linux distributions, a major release that introduces exciting new features.