While there is the AMD Instinct MI400 series coming this year, today AMD announced an interesting and arguably overdue offering for the Instinct MI350 series: the MI350P. The AMD Instinct MI350P is a PCIe add-in-card to add Instinct MI350 compute capabilities to existing PCIe 5.0 air-cooled servers as an alternative to the Open Accelerator Module (OAM) currently used by the Instinct MI350 series.

Traefik Proxy 3.7 adds production-ready Ingress NGINX migration support, new TLS certificate visibility, and Gateway API 1.5.1 updates.

The Realtek RTL8159 has been appearing in some 10G-rated USB network adapters at online retailers, some for less than $100 USD. But currently the RTL8159 is only supported by Realtek's out-of-tree Linux kernel driver, but fortunately there will be mainline support coming with the Linux 7.2 kernel this summer...

UBports releases Ubuntu Touch 24.04-1.3 while preparing 24.04-2.0, targeting a newer Morph Browser stack with Qt 6 work.

Building multi-threaded Python 3.14+ from source on Debian Forky using Clang 19.1 enables high-performance, free-threaded execution (no GIL). Using clang-19 with optimized flags (-O3, -flto) and linking against libatomic1 (Debian/Ubuntu) ensures maximum performance and thread safety, crucial for taking advantage of modern multi-core architectures.

The Flattened Image Tree "FIT" 1.0 specification was recently finalized for this container format used by U-Boot on embedded systems for providing various boot components like DTBs, the Linux kernel image, and more into a single file...

The Mesa 26.1 open-source graphics stack has been released today as the first major point update to the Mesa 26 series, introducing new features and improvements across most of the included graphics drivers.

Inkscape 1.4.4 has been released today as the fourth maintenance update to the Inkscape 1.4 series of this open-source, cross-platform, and free SVG (Scalable Vector Graphics) editor for Linux, macOS, and Windows.

Out with the old; in with the new. Gerald Pfeifer’s nearly seven?year run as chair ends with SUSE veteran Jeff Mahoney moving into the role.

When having the HP Z6 G5 A workstation in the lab for benchmarking, one of the curiosity-driven tests was seeing how well the latest open-source and upstream Nouveau driver stack is competing against the latest official NVIDIA R595 driver for workstations. The official NVIDIA Linux driver stack remains the best positioned software solution for RTX (PRO) hardware but Nouveau continues evolving while awaiting the Nova kernel driver to reach the limelight.

COSMIC Desktop 1.0.12 brings fixes across the compositor, Files, Settings, Store, Terminal, and Edit apps.

Korn shell (or KSH) is a UNIX shell (that complies with POSIX 2) developed in the late 1980s by David Korn at Bell Labs, way earlier than Bash shell.

Engicam has expanded its MicroGEA family with the new MicroGEA MX93, a compact system-on-module based on the NXP i.MX 93 processor. The 25 × 25 mm module combines dual Arm Cortex-A55 cores, LPDDR4X memory, onboard eMMC storage, and industrial temperature support. The launch follows earlier MicroGEA modules based on STM32MP1 processors, continuing the company’s focus […]

FreeRDP 3.26 is now available as a maintenance release with three high-ranking CVE fixes, macOS H.264 VideoToolbox support, and Android client improvements.

Linux hardware vendor System76 released COSMIC 1.0.12 today as the latest stable update to this Rust-based desktop environment used by default on the Pop!_OS Linux distribution.

PHP officially retires its legacy PHP License 3.01 after completing the move to the standard BSD 3-Clause license.

Last month a Fedora Linux change proposal was shared proposing that Fedora 45 be built with x86_64-v3 packages to complement the generic x86_64 (v1) packages currently being compiled. This has the possibility of providing greater performance out of packaged Fedora software but comes with the cost of greater burdens on web mirrors, QA / testing, and related infrastructure impact. The Fedora Engineering and Steering Committee "FESCo" decided today to wait on coming to a decision over this Fedora 45 change proposal...

Steam’s May client update adds controller connection popups, battery notification controls, Big Picture fixes, and a SteamVR reconnect fix.

The upcoming KDE Plasma 6.7 desktop environment will finally introduce the long-anticipated Union style engine designed to provide a unified style for KDE applications and the Plasma desktop.

I’ve written about NovaCustom hardware many times on this blog for three main reasons: its extensive customization options, its open source, privacy-oriented firmware, and its strong focus on sustainability. While NovaCustom still offers all three, it has now introduced a new line of preconfigured models, PrivacyGuard and SecurityTitan, offering a straightforward option with faster delivery for those who prefer to skip the detailed configuration process. If that sounds like you, and privacy and security are high priorities, you might be wondering what these new NovaCustom models are and how they can take your setup to the next level.