Open-source News

Fresh off the funding round from HP, Fwupd 2.1.4 was christened today as the newest stable update to this open-source firmware updating solution for Linux systems...

AMD's ROCm open-source compute stack is up to version 7.2.4 stable as it continues seeing new fixes while on the tech preview feature side is the recent ROCm 7.13 release...

AMD ROCm 7.2.4 Released With Performance & Stability Fixes  Phoronix

Fedora Atomic is what Linux looks like when it stops trying to impress Linux users  XDA

Fwupd 2.1.4 Brings Many Bug Fixes, Firmware Update Support For Intel Arc Pro B65/B70  Phoronix

Rocky Linux 10.2 Released with Updated Enterprise Linux Stack  Linuxiac

Thanks to Flatpak, Linux app stores are actually exciting now  How-To Geek

Rocky Linux 10.2 Released with Post-Quantum Cryptography Improvements  9to5Linux

DNS-AID will make AI agents easier to discover, says Linux Foundation  InfoWorld

Dell releases new 14-inch laptop globally with 64 GB LPCAMM2 RAM, Intel Panther Lake and Ubuntu Linux  Notebookcheck

Fwupd 2.1.4 Linux Firmware Updater Adds Intel Arc Pro B65 and Arc Pro B70 Support  9to5Linux

Privacy-focused, AI-infused Gnoppix Linux 26.6 now available  Notebookcheck

Why Linux creator Linus Torvalds gets angry hearing "99% of code is AI"  The New Stack

CachyOS Delivers Lead Over Arch Linux, Pop!_OS & Ubuntu On System76 Thelio Major  Phoronix

The new System76 Thelio Major powered by the AMD Ryzen Threadripper 9000 series and optionally with the Radeon AI PRO R9700 graphics card for an all-open-source AMD Linux stack is a mighty powerful workstation. If desiring even more compute potential out of this high-end desktop/workstation, CachyOS works pretty darn well on this new system with lofty leads over upstream Arch Linux as well as Ubuntu 26.04 LTS and the stock Pop!_OS 24.04 distribution.

Last week's collection of networking subsystem fixes for Linux 7.1 noted craziness continuing with no end in sight with a large pull request of fixes with many of them spurred on by AI/LLM coding agents. This week it's "significantly bigger" than prior kernel cycles for this late stage of kernel development due to this assistance of large language models...

Linux Networking Still Seeing "Significantly Bigger" Pull Requests Due To AI  Phoronix

Stop using Linux Mint—Fedora Atomic is safer  How-To Geek

Linux prepares to axe legacy x32 hybrid mode — hybrid 32-bit/64-bit mode faces complete removal by 2027 due to low adoption  Tom's Hardware

A change coming on the way for the upcoming Linux 7.2 kernel cycle is yielding a significant improvement to the direct I/O write performance. While a big gain, technically it's a regression fix after a change mistakenly dropped the behavior several years ago...