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Last week at the GNU Tools Cauldron 2026 conference in Prague there was an x86 BOF with presentations both by AMD and Intel compiler engineers. There are a few interesting nuggets out of that with both Advanced Performance Extensions (APX) and AI Compute Extensions (ACE) talked about as part of their ongoing enablement in the GCC compiler...
YSERVER continues seeing a lot of activity for this vibe coded X11 server written in the Rust programming language. YSERVER has been seeing many apps and desktops working fine on this creation crafted in large part by Claude Code and continues chipping away at more X11 features. YSERVER 1.7 is out today with the latest fixes and improvements...
The mold linker reaches version 3.0 with a Rust rewrite, Cargo-based builds, improved safety, and no expected performance regressions.
Another reminder of why open source saves software from being lost forever.
TrueNAS 27 RC.1 released today in working toward the next major release of this Linux-based storage/NAS operating system from iXsystems...
In the previous article, we used the LED Matrix on the Arduino Uno Q to produce 'falling' dots that resemble rain. This is basic code in Python to create the 'rain' on the LED Matrix. Now, we are going to get a little more advanced. Back in the DOS days, there were programs that would act more like screensavers, and some were very interesting to watch. Specifically, the one named 'Plasma' or sometimes 'Ooze'. The basis is the use of 256 colors, which cycle through the colors and start over... https://www.linux.org/threads/arduino-uno-q-led-matrix-plasma.72403/
The days of having one obvious choice for serious Linux servers may be over!
Following the ROCm 10.0 release from late August, ROCm 10.1 is now available in continuing with the ROCm six week release cycle...
The Linux CPU power optimization tool auto-cpufreq 3.2 brings new Intel HWP features, improved battery reporting, and Debian repository support.
A mosaic of desktops, toolkits, and command line rituals reveal a culture that prizes control, polish, and tinkering.
The Rust-based OpenPGP tool lands in Ubuntu 26.10's main archive, with sq and sqv available alongside gpg and gpgv.
The Rust Foundation has posted the recordings from RustConf 2026 in Montreal, Canada. Photos of the event are also available. LWN covered four talks from RustConf this year.
Patch review has long been one of the limiting constraints for the kernel project (and most others); there just aren't enough people to properly review all of the code that is submitted for inclusion. The Sashiko system, which uses a large language model (LLM) to generate reviews automatically, offers the prospect of some relief, and has already become an important part of the kernel's development process. At the 2026 edition of Kernel Recipes, Roman Gushchin, the maintainer of Sashiko, provided an overview of how the system works and what is being done to improve it.
The Linux 7.4 kernel is set to introduce support for a new AMD Zen 6 security feature...
Version 3.0 of the MusicBrainz Picard tag editor has been released. "This release brings many changes, including an upgrade to Qt6, a completely new plugin system, several improvements to the user interface, cover art processing, [International Standard Recording Code (ISRC)] submission and many more." LWN covered Picard in April.
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