Over the years we have seen various workarounds like disabling RDSEED for select AMD CPUs due to hardware bugs and early on in the Zen days were also some RdRand issues due to different problems. It turns out the newest AMD EPYC 5th Gen "Turin" processors have a new RDSEED issue...

The OK153-S SBC from Forlinx Embedded is a compact industrial platform based on the Allwinner T153 processor. It supports Linux 5.10 and offers up to 1 GB of DDR3 RAM and 8 GB of eMMC storage. Key interfaces include triple Gigabit Ethernet, dual CAN-FD, and a Local Bus for PSRAM or FPGA expansion. The Allwinner […]

Valve's Linux graphics driver team contributions aren't limited to just enhancing the rasterization and ray-tracing graphics performance of the open-source Linux GPU drivers for gaming. Beyond other interesting contributions from that talented group of open-source Linux graphics developers over the years and for other areas like enhancing old GPU hardware support, merged this week for the Radeon Vulkan "RADV" driver is a massive improvement to benefit the Llama.cpp AI performance...

Discover a step-by-step guide to install the latest version of Handbrake on Ubuntu and other Linux distros with practical examples.

The ollama 0.12.6-rc0 software released this evening and with it comes experimental Vulkan API support...

The Mobian team releases Trixie, a Debian-based mobile OS update featuring PipeWire, Linux kernel 6.12, and new signing keys.

Downstream Linux projects line up behind the latest releaseA month after Debian 13.1's release, some of the more visible downstream forks, including Raspberry Pi OS, have decided it's time to incorporate the latest version of the main OS into their builds.…

Tuning Virt-manager you are supposed enable 3D-acceleration and OpenGL to avoid crashing instance setup and successfully install Fedora 43 Cosmic Spin in VENV. The interesting thing is that F43 Cosmic Spin behaves the same way on bare metal and as KVM Guest. No issues for switching between different folders contain wallpapers for Cosmic DE happens in VENV.

With Linux 6.18 now past the merge window and many new features and changes introduced (https://www.phoronix.com/review/linux-618-features), I have begun testing out this kernel on various servers, desktops, and laptops at Phoronix. Linux 6.18 is quite important with expected to become this year's LTS kernel version upon its stable debut in December. Up today is a first look at Linux 6.17 vs. 6.18-rc1 performance using Intel Xeon 6 Granite Rapids server performance.

New clusters to feature 800,000 Nvidia Blackwell and 50,000 AMD Instinct MI450X GPUsOracle on Tuesday revealed it would field more than 18 zettaFLOPS worth of AI infrastructure from Nvidia and AMD by the second half of next year.…

David Rosca at AMD continues leading the efforts for improving the open-source Radeon video acceleration support under Linux with the Mesa Gallium3D code. This is especially important now that AMD is encouraging customers to no longer use the AMD Multimedia Framework (AMF) on Linux but resort to using VA-API and the Mesa multimedia capabilities instead...

The new TUXEDO InfinityBook Pro 15 (Intel) Linux laptop pairs Core Ultra 7 power with a 99 Wh battery and full Linux support.

Linux hardware vendor TUXEDO Computers unveiled today the Intel variant of their InfinityBook Pro 15 Gen10 premium business Linux ultrabook.

If you come across the IMG file format in Linux, don't panic. Here is how you can easily convert an IMG file to ISO format in Linux.

The Free Software Foundation reveals its technical plans for Librephone, focusing on free firmware and open hardware research.

Back during the Intel Tech Tour in Arizona, Intel teased a new inference-optimized enterprise GPU would be announced soon. This new product would feature enhanced memory, bandwidth, and enterprise-level AI inference capabilities. Today the embargo expires on talking about this new GPU offering.

Tails 7.1 has been released today as the first minor update in the Tails 7.x series of this portable Linux OS based on the Debian GNU/Linux operating system that protects users against surveillance and censorship.

Spotify taking too much disk space? Here's how to fix Spotify cache bloat using tmpfs (RAM) on Debian and Ubuntu Linux.

Germany's northernmost state bins Outlook – and tens of thousands of Redmond licensesSchleswig-Holstein, the northernmost state of Germany, has finally concluded one element of a long-running project to eject Microsoft from its infrastructure by giving Exchange Server the boot.…

There's been work to get the Nix functional package manager available on Fedora Linux for those wanting to leverage its available packages or features like supporting side-by-side packages of different versions, atomic upgrades/rollbacks, non-root user for installing software, and other features. One of the hurdles though is that the Nix package manager relies by default on the /nix directory, which goes against Fedora's default directory requirements. Now though the Fedora Engineering and Steering Committee (FESCo) has granted permission for using the /nix directory hierarchy...