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9to5Linux Weekly Roundup: November 8th, 2026

9to5Linux Weekly Roundup for November 8th, 2026, brings news about Fedora Linux 45, Cinnamon 6.8, openSUSE Leap 16.1, LXQt 2.5, Fedora Asahi Remix 45, Budgie 10.10.4, aerynOS 2026.11, Audacity 4.0.2, Artix Linux 2026.11, MPV 0.42, Calibre 9.18, GIMP 3.2.8, NVIDIA 620, KDE Gear 26.08.3, Shelly 3.2, OpenVPN 2.7.9, GStreamer 1.28.9, and more.

Linux.org

Python Series Part 27: Frame Widget - Part 1

A Frame Widget allows 'sections' to be made where each 'section' within a Frame is managed on its own. The Frame can allow separate areas of the window to be organized to allow for different information or use. For example, a quick and easy option is like a scorecard for Yahtzee. A Frame could be used for the upper section and a lower section. There can also be another area for the total section at the very bottom. Another example is an input screen for data entry. Such information that can... https://www.linux.org/threads/python-series-part-27-frame-widget-part-1.65406/

Phoronix

Linux 7.5 To Provide More AMD Ryzen AI NPU AIE4 Enablement

Even before the Linux v7.4 merge window was over, there were already two pull requests of drm-misc-next material targeting for what will be Linux 7.5. This week already saw the third drm-misc-next pull request of more feature patches targeting this next kernel version...

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AMD PerfOpt Performance Boosting Code Tweaked For Linux 7.4-rc2

Of the many exciting changes in Linux 7.4, one of the exciting out-of-the-box performance improvements is the new "PerfOpt" functionality for AMD SoCs with integrated Radeon graphics. AMD PerfOpt can deliver some nice iGPU performance improvements especially for AI/LLM workloads. With today's Linux 7.4-rc2 kernel release there are a few tweaks to the PerfOpt code in the IOMMU area...

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Yunsilicon Working To Upstream Their High Performance Linux Network Driver

Yunsilicon is a Chinese semiconductor startup founded in 2021 that is working on producing high performance networking adapters and DPUs. Over the past month has been their first foray into posting patches to the Linux kernel mailing list and working to get their networking hardware supported by the mainline Linux kernel...