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Turbostat is the Linux command-line utility for reporting CPU frequency / power / C-states and related performance / power management items namely for modern AMD and Intel processors. This CLI utility lives within the Linux kernel source tree and for Linux 6.19 has picked up a few new features...
In addition to approving Fedora Cloud switching /boot to a Btrfs subvolume, another change approved this week by the Fedora Engineering and Steering Committee (FESCo) is for shipping the Budgie 10.10 desktop packages in Fedora 44...
The past several months Intel software engineers have been quite busy with LLM-Scaler as part of Project Battlematrix. LLM-Scaler is a Docker-based solution for AI workloads on Intel graphics hardware to ship an optimized vLLM stack and other AI frameworks. Out today is a new LLM-Scaler-Omni release to help enhance ComfyUI performance on Intel hardware...
A performance fix has been submitted to the Linux kernel for dealing with a regression in the Slab memory allocation code...
While the Linux kernel has inclusive terminology guidelines for the past five years to replace phrases like master/slave and blacklist/whitelist, there has surprisingly been a "genocide" function within the kernel that was questioned when it was first submitted for inclusion but now removed in Linux 6.19...
The topic of the Rust experiment was just discussed at the annual Maintainers Summit. The consensus among the assembled developers is that Rust in the kernel is no longer experimental — it is now a core part of the kernel and is here to stay. So the "experimental" tag will be coming off. Congratulations are in order for all of the Rust-for-Linux team. (Stay tuned for details in our Maintainers Summit coverage.)
MX Moksha and AV Linux 25 join ranks with Bodhi Linux and embrace the Enlightenment desktop.
Ubuntu’s desktop is about to look more like upstream GNOME than it has in years — but lest you panic, we’re not talking majorly. The Yaru theme team — try saying that several times in a row — has embarked on a refactor of its GNOME Shell theme ahead of the next long-term support release, Ubuntu 26.04 LTS. Instead of maintaining a separate, customised stylesheet based on Adwaita, the idea is take a simpler approach: use Adwaita directly, but apply minimal., Ubuntu-specific tweaks on top. Thought they were already doing that? Not quite. Currently, Ubuntu’s ‘Shell’ theme is based on Adwaita (GNOME’s […]
Solus Linux 4.8 has been released with the latest Linux kernel, updated desktops, and a key removal.
Solus Linux 4.8 has been released with the latest Linux kernel, updated desktops, and a key removal.
The Free Software Foundation has announced the recipients of its 2024 (even though 2025 is almost over) Free Software Awards. Andy Wingo won the award for the advancement of free software, Alx Sa is the outstanding new free-software contributor, and Govdirectory takes the award for projects of social benefit.
AerynOS closes 2025 with major package upgrades, infrastructure improvements, and a refreshed 2025.12 Alpha ISO.
AerynOS 2025.12 Linux distribution is now available for download with the GNOME 49.2 desktop environment, Linux kernel 6.17, and more. Here’s what’s new!
Canonical is adding AMD’s ROCm to the Ubuntu 26.04 LTS repos, making it faster for developers to install GPU-accelerated AI and HPC libraries for AMD Instinct and Radeon GPUs. The news mirrors September’s NVIDIA CUDA announcement, when Canonical said it would package CUDA tools in the official Ubuntu repositories, negating multi-step installation hurdles for developers to get up and running with GPU-accelerated AI/ML tasks on Ubuntu. Now, AMD already provide ROCm for Ubuntu directly via its own website/repo. What this news means is packaging and maintenance duties shift over to Canonical, which has created a dedicated engineering team to shoulder the […]
Swiss startup offers remote access to living neural networks for research.
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