Linux NewsGDB 18.1 Debugger Brings Better Windows Support
GDB 18.1 is out today as the newest version of the GNU Debugger that works across C/C++, Fortran, Rust, and other languages like Go, Ada, and more...
systemd Gets Built-In System Reporting With systemd-report
The new systemd-report collects system facts and runtime metrics into unified, timestamped JSON reports for monitoring and fleet management.
Redox OS Adds IO_uring-Like API, NUMA & Gets QEMU Working
The Redox OS open-source, Rust-based operating system has seen a lot of activity in recent weeks with many notable improvements landing...
COSCUP + UBUCON 2026: Building Bridges Across Asia
COSCUP + UbuCon Asia 2026, held in Taipei in early August, was a celebration of everything open source does best: collaboration, curiosity, and community. For Linux Professional Institute (LPI), it was also a chance to put our mission into practice, ... Read more The post COSCUP + UBUCON 2026: Building Bridges Across Asia appeared first on Linux Professional Institute (LPI).
Approaching A 10 Second Linux Kernel Build
The coffee window is closing. Going back many years with the time it's taken to compile the Linux kernel has been a well known opportunity for a coffee break or even eating a meal during the lengthy Linux kernel build process. Even when the Linux kernel was much smaller than it is today, with the hardware at the time it would often be a very time consuming process... Thus incredible to think that we are now on the horizon of a ten second clean, default kernel build on Linux x86_64.
How openEuler Is Reinventing the OS Foundation for the AI Era with SuperPoD and UnifiedBus
openEuler 24.03 LTS SP3 is the first version built for SuperPoD, and the project says its UnifiedBus interconnect can lift application performance by 30 to 50 percent.
Mageia 9 Support Ends September 30, Upgrade to Mageia 10
Mageia 9 support ends September 30, 2026, with users advised to upgrade to Mageia 10 for continued updates and security fixes.
Samba 4.25 Released With New High-Availability and Clustering Features
Samba 4.25 introduces experimental SMB3 Persistent Handles, Ceph Object Gateway integration, cluster-wide rate limiting, and more.
Installing Navidrome on Fedora Linux using Podman
Navidrome is an open-source music server that lets you stream your personal audio collection anywhere. It gives you freedom to listen to your music collection from any browser or mobile device. It’s like your personal Spotify! In this guide, we will explore how to get Navidrome up and running securely using Podman on Fedora Linux. […]
Patches Posted For Enabling NVMe On All Apple M3 Based SoCs With Linux
While Linux 7.2 brought initial Apple M3 support and Linux 7.3 brought M3 Pro / Max / Ultra support, the mainline Linux kernel support for the M3 series hardware remains very basic and not yet ready for daily driving. But more work continues to be upstreamed and today the patches were posted for getting NVMe storage up and running across all Apple M3 hardware...
AMD Sends Out New Linux Patches Further Enhancing HDMI 2.1 Reliability
Linux 7.4 is going to be the big kernel release where the AMD graphics driver will finally expose HDMI 2.1 by default and comes with features including HDMI FreeSync, VRR, and ALLM. Ahead of that milestone there have been various other last minute tweaks and improvements to its HDMI 2.1 support. Sent out on Thursday was the latest round of AMDGPU DC patches that includes a few more patches for improving the HDMI 2.1 reliability...
Last Call For The Autumn Special For Ad-Free Viewing & Supporting Linux Hardware Testing
Last call for the Phoronix autumn "Oktoberfest" Premium sale: it runs through end of day Sunday, 27 September (any timezone - I'm not particularly strict). If you have been meaning to support the site, this is the window...
Go's Improving SIMD Support, Platform-Independent SIMD Interface
A new blog post published on Thursday covers the experimental support for SIMD with the Go programming language. This expanding Go SIMD support also includes a platform-independent API for making use of SIMD with modern processors...
Samba 4.25 Released With Experimental SMB3 Persistent Handles
Samba 4.25 is out as the newest stable release for this open-source software enabling file and print services sharing between Linux servers and Windows systems...
Ubuntu 26.10 adds a Windows-style window snapping panel
Ubuntu 26.10 offers a new way to tile your apps, with a layout picker sliding in from the top of the screen when you move a window. This “dropzone” concept for quick tiling will be familiar to users of Windows 11 users or those who’ve tried the Tiling Shell extension for GNOME Shell – they do, broadly, the same thing. When you drag a window a layout picker with a small set of preset layouts drop zones moves in from the top of the display. You drag your window up over a layout zone (a ‘ghost’ preview of where the […]