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As a follow-up to the article over ROCm 7.14 being tagged, AMD has formally announced the availability of ROCm 7.14 and it's their new production release rather than being a tech preview...

RX 9070 XT vs RTX 5080 Performance Comparison Windows 11 and Linux in 2026  GameGPU

AMD's software team appears to be busy getting ready for next week's Advancing AI event happening next week in San Francisco. In addition to the release today of the Lemonade 11.0 local AI server, TheRock 7.14 was also tagged as the modern build system for ROCm working on the latest tech preview releases of this open-source AMD GPU compute stack...

Meet Caerus, a Synaptic-Like GTK4 Package Manager for Void Linux  Linuxiac

"Fork it or leave": Linus Torvalds riles up Linux's AI luddites  Neowin

Mesa 26.2 was branched today from Mesa Git and in turn Mesa 26.3-devel is now open on mainline...

Ahead of the AMD Advancing AI event next week, today AMD released Lemonade 11.0 as the latest feature release of their local AI server supporting AMD Ryzen CPUs, AMD Radeon GPUs, and AMD Ryzen AI NPU acceleration...

AMD Releases Lemonade 11.0 Local AI Server With Text-To-Speech, Other New Features  Phoronix

Windows 11 vs Linux Gaming Test Reveals There's More to It Than FPS  TechPowerUp

Windows 11 vs Linux Gaming Test Reveals There's More to It Than FPS  TechPowerUp

Ableton Live and Push can now run on Linux, unofficially  CDM Create Digital Music

Forgotten Microsoft-Signed Bootloaders Let Hackers Bypass Secure Boot For 11 Years  HotHardware

Audio Damage Tessera: a resonator plugin (mac, win, Linux, & iOS) that is musical and in motion  synth anatomy

Linus Torvalds tells AI haters to fork off  The Register

I switched to COSMIC and discovered the dual-monitor workspace feature KDE should have shipped with  XDA

Earlier this month on Phoronix I reviewed the Razer Blade 18 RZ09-0582 as the first laptop Razer is certifying for Linux use via Canonical's hardware certification program for Linux. It offered very nice performance with the Intel Core Ultra 9 290HX Plus and NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5090 graphics albeit costly with a configured price of $5399 USD. That review featured benchmarks on Ubuntu 26.04 LTS but for those wondering about the performance of Ubuntu against Windows 11 on this gaming/AI developer laptop, here are comparison benchmarks plus also tossing in the rolling-release CachyOS distribution.

Ubuntu 26.04 LTS vs. Windows 11 vs. CachyOS Performance On A $5399 Laptop  Phoronix

Ubuntu 26.04 LTS vs. Windows 11 vs. CachyOS Performance On A $5399 Laptop  Phoronix

Ubuntu 26.04 LTS vs. Windows 11 vs. CachyOS Performance On A $5399 Laptop  Phoronix

'Rust makes coding fun again': Why Linux is moving away from C, according to Greg Kroah-Hartman  ZDNET