Linux NewsDebian’s APT 3.2 Arrives With New Solver Work and History Rollback Features
APT 3.2 expands package history management by introducing undo, redo, and rollback commands to Debian’s package manager.
AMD Ryzen 9 9950X3D2 To Be Priced At $899 USD
At the end of March AMD announced the Ryzen 9 9950X3D2 processor with both dies having 3D V-Cache. This 16 core processor with 206MB of total cache is quit exciting and will be on sale later this month but AMD refrained from commenting on the price until today...
3 ways to quickly install all your Ubuntu apps in one go
Setting up Ubuntu shouldn’t take the entire day—here’s the shortcut.
Intel Arc Pro B70 Benchmarks With LLM / AI, OpenCL, OpenGL & Vulkan
Last month Intel announced the Arc Pro B70 with 32GB of GDDR6 video memory for this long-awaited Battlemage G31 graphics card. This new top-end Battlemage graphics card with 32 Xe cores and 32GB of GDDR6 video memory offers a lot of potential for LLM/AI and other use cases, especially when running multiple Arc Pro B70s. Last week Intel sent over four Arc Pro B70 graphics cards for Linux testing at Phoronix. Given the current re-testing for the imminent Ubuntu 26.04 release, I am still going through all of the benchmarks especially for the multi-GPU scenarios. In this article are some initial Arc Pro B70 single card benchmarks on Linux compared to other Intel Arc Graphics hardware across AI / LLM with OpenVINO and Llama.cpp, OpenCL compute benchmarks, and also some OpenGL and Vulkan benchmarks. More benchmarks and the competitive compares will come as that fresh testing wraps up, but so far the Arc Pro B70 is working out rather well atop the fully open-source Linux graphics driver stack
Lenovo Laptops To Enjoy Better Fan Speed Monitoring With Linux 7.1
Set to be merged for the upcoming Linux 7.1 merge window is the "Yogafan" hardware monitoring driver to provide fan speed monitoring not only for Lenovo Yoga laptops but also various Legion and IdeaPad laptops too...
Intel Releases OpenVINO 2026.1 With Backend For Llama.cpp, New Hardware Support
Intel's OpenVINO toolkit for optimizing and deploying AI inferencing across their range of hardware platforms is out with its newest quarterly feature update. There is official support for Intel's latest hardware as well as enabling more large language models and other new AI innovations for this excellent open-source Intel software project...
Arch Linux Users Can Now Upgrade to GNOME 50
GNOME 50 is now available for Arch Linux users, bringing the latest desktop release to systems ready for upgrade.
Chrome 147 Stable Released With New Restrictions, Web Printing API
Google on Tuesday announced the Chrome 147 stable release to all Windows, macOS, and Linux users. There are a number of refinements in this latest routine Chrome stable update paired with various fixes and new developer capabilities...
Hugging Face Contributes Safetensors To PyTorch Foundation To Secure AI Model Execution
Announced today from the PyTorch Conference EU in Paris is word that Hugging Face has contributed their Safetensors project to the PyTorch Foundation, which is an umbrella organization under the Linux Foundation for hosting AI initiatives. Safetensors aims to help mitigate arbitrary code execution risks and more...
OpenShot 3.5.1 Video Editor Released With Built-In Proxy Editing
OpenShot 3.5.1 introduces built-in proxy editing, improved timeline zooming, multi-selection trimming, enhanced ComfyUI tools, and user interface scaling.
Flatpak 1.16.4 Linux App Sandboxing Framework Brings Important Security Fixes
Flatpak 1.16.4 open-source Linux application sandboxing framework is now available for download with important security fixes.
Introduction to QuickNote and Geeknote
Sorting through the array of note-taking tools and their features can be overwhelming. We look at two applications that offer a simple approach.
Raspberry Pi server tools and applications
With the help of the applications we describe, Raspberry Pi can perform a wide range of server duties.