Linux NewsLocal AI Weekly #9: The Computer Says No
Cloud AI tools have started saying no to reverse engineering. Your local model won't say no.
Tails 7.17 Privacy-Focused Linux Distro Updates Tor Browser and Linux Kernel
The privacy-focused Tails 7.17 Linux distro updates Tor Browser, Tor client, and the Linux kernel, with automatic upgrades from version 7.0 onward.
Unraid OS 7.4 NAS Adds Multi-Network Docker Support, Mover Progress Tracking
Unraid OS 7.4 adds multi-network Docker support, container memory limits, improved Mover progress tracking, and a centralized task tray.
Deepin 25.3 Adds Freeze Protection, AI Improvements, and Better Recovery
Deepin 25.3 introduces freeze protection, faster application startup, an optional Linux kernel 6.18, and improved system recovery.
Initial AMD RDNA5/GFX13 Code Sent Out For Mesa RADV & RadeonSI Drivers
After AMD posted GFX13 patches for the AMDGPU Linux driver earlier in the week, today they opened the Mesa merge request for introducing the very primitive GFX13 support for the RADV Vulkan and RadeonSI Gallium3D/OpenGL drivers...
FreeBSD Working To Establish An AI Policy After Polling Developers
The FreeBSD Project published its Q3'2026 status report on Tuesday that outlines a number of development initiatives to ongoing work around an AI policy for this BSD operating system...
ATI/AMD R300 To R500 GPUs See New 2026 OpenGL Linux Driver Optimizations
Over 24 years old, the ATI (AMD) Radeon R300 graphics processors are still seeing improvements in the open-source Linux driver space. Merged to Mesa 27.0-devel this week were a number of shader compiler optimizations for the R300g driver that benefits not only the original R300 series graphics cards but also the R400 and R500 (Radeon X1000 series) too...
AMD AOCC 6.0 Brings Zen 6 Optimizations, New "aof" Fortran Compiler, aoc / aoc++ Branding
With yesterday's launch availability of the AMD EPYC 9006 "Venice" SP7 processors headlined by the incredibly fast EPYC 9996 and EPYC 9686F processors, AMD also launched AOCC 6.0 as the newest version of their in-house LLVM/Clang-based compiler stack...
Intel Releases New CPU Microcode To Fix A Variety Of Functional Issues
Intel on Tuesday released the microcode-20261110 package that ships updated CPU microcode binaries for recent Intel Core (Ultra) and Xeon processors. The updated CPU microcode is for Core Gen 13 "Raptor Lake" and newer while on the Xeon server side is for Sapphire Rapids and newer. This is also the first time Clearwater Forest has seen microcode updates...
Haiku OS Now Has A UFS Driver, Two & Three Finger Tap Gestures
The BeOS-inspired Haiku open-source operating system project has seen new work on drivers and other improvements during the course of October...
Linux’s exFAT Progs 1.4.4 Adds Optional I/O Statistics Collection for Profiling
Exfatprogs 1.4.4 exFAT utils for Linux has been released today with optional I/O statistics collection for profiling read, write, discard, zero-out, and sync operations.
Fedora 45 is out, and these are the first settings I'd tweak
Fedora 45 is great out of the box, but these eight tweaks make it even better.
6 genius ideas Linux stole from the legendary operating systems that came before it
To be the best, you need the borrow the best features.
Ubuntu 26.10 Begins Rolling Out upki Support For Certificate Revocation
With Ubuntu 26.10 that shipped in October there is a little talked about feature with upki revocation support beginning to roll out. Due to the late change, upki for certificate revocation was only enabled for Ubuntu 26.10's curl package but with more plans ahead...
The Company Behind GameOS is Now Building an AI Desktop OS Based on Linux
KORA is due in 2027 and will come to Snapdragon-powered PCs thanks to Qualcomm collaborating with the devs.
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