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With AMD continuing to be focused on their AMDGPU LLVM compiler back-end for their GPU compiler needs from compute to graphics shaders, the AMD GPU/accelerator hardware support within the GNU Compiler Collection "GCC" has long taken a backseat and left to third-party firms to implement. Posted today was an experimental patch providing very early support for the AMD Instinct MI300 series hardware with the GCC compiler...

I tried using a FreeBSD distro as my daily driver in 2025  XDA

From Word and Excel to LibreOffice: Danish ministry says goodbye to Microsoft  heise online

How to download files on Linux without a web browser - and why this way is faster  ZDNET

Linux 6.15 Delivering Some Performance Gains On AMD EPYC For AI, HPC & Databases  Phoronix

The Linux 6.15 kernel cycle started off a bit rough with a heavy hitting performance regression spotted and then fixed but to only then discover another Linux 6.15 performance regression affecting modern AMD CPUs. Fortunately those issues were cleared out in time for the recent Linux 6.15 stable release. Linux 6.15 stable is looking good especially on 5th Gen AMD EPYC "Turin" servers with some recent benchmarks showing some modest gains over the Linux 6.14 kernel.

SiFive and Red Hat Collaborate on Enterprise Linux for RISC-V  Embedded Computing Design

Manjaro KDE Plasma plans move to Wayland by default  GamingOnLinux

OpenVPN DCO Added to Linux Kernel for Built-In Speed and Security  01net

Ubuntu 25.10 goes all-in with Wayland, dropping support for GNOME on Xorg  GamingOnLinux

KubeCon China – Open Source a '$9 trillion' asset, says Linux Foundation's Zemlin. But what about AI?  Diginomica

Qtap - An Open-Source Tool to See Through Encrypted Traffic in Linux systems  CybersecurityNews

Want to save your old computer? Try one of these 8 Linux distros for free  ZDNET

Want to save your old computer? Try one of these 8 Linux distros - some are perfect for newbies  ZDNET

On the GNOME Foundation blog today is an interesting post how Amazon Web Services (AWS) has ended up sponsoring and powering all of the GNOME web infrastructure...

5 reasons why I use systemd on Linux to customize and run services  XDA

Along with releasing Linux 6.14.11 today to end-of-life the Linux 6.14 kernel series, Greg Kroah-Hartman released Linux 6.15.2 as the newest stable point release. There is a notable fix here for the CPU idle power regressing on some systems since moving to Linux 6.15...

Linux 6.15.2 Fixes "Quite Dramatically...Potentially Dangerous" Idle Power Regression  Phoronix

ML Summit Europe Reveal 2025 Speaker Lineup Showcasing Global Open Source and AI Innovation  StreetInsider

Open Source Summit Europe and AI_dev Open Source GenAI & ML Summit Europe Reveal 2025 Speaker Lineup Showcasing Global Open Source and AI Innovation  WV News