Open-source News

Beyond shutting down the Clear Linux project, various Linux driver maintainers let go that have even led to some Intel drivers being "orphaned" in the Linux kernel, there is another open-source project that has ended at Intel with the developers departing the company. Though at least this project has found a new open-source home under the NumPy umbrella...

The past few months we have been intrigued by an AMD GFX1250 target added to the LLVM codebase for the AMDGPU shader compiler back-end. GFX12 is RDNA4 and GFX1250 is presumably some "RDNA 4.5" / "RDNA Refresh" part akin to GFX1150 having been for the RDNA 3.5 parts with Strix Halo / Strix Point. The prior LLVM code confirmed GFX1250 is in APU form factor but product details beyond that have been scarce. Today a new AMD GFX1251 target was merged to LLVM...

Winux is a Linux distro that looks like Windows 11, but that's not a good thing  xda-developers.com

Released yesterday was the OpenJDK Java 25 release along with Oracle's GraalVM 25 alternative JVM...

While down to AMD Austin yesterday for the Instinct MI355X and ROCm 7.0 launch, I had the chance to chat again with Anush Elangovan. As the VP of AI Software at AMD, talking with Anush is always insightful and technical in nature. One of the questions I posed him was around the length of hardware support with ROCm...

Slackware-Based PorteuX 2.3 Is Out with GNOME 49, Improved Webcam Support  9to5Linux

GNOME 49 released with new video player, document viewer, improved app store and disabled X11 session  GamingOnLinux

How To Install Ubuntu On A Chromebook (And What You Should Know Before You Try)  bgr.com

Just got Linux Mint 22.2? Two more versions are coming soon - and they're big  ZDNET

GNOME 49.0 is out today as the latest half-year feature release to the GNOME desktop that will go on to power the likes of Fedora Workstation 43 and Ubuntu 25.10...

Latest Open-Source AMD Improvements Allowing For Better Llama.cpp AI Performance Against Windows 11  Phoronix

When recently carrying out the Windows 11 25H2 vs. Ubuntu Linux benchmarks I also ended up carrying out some Llama.cpp AI benchmarks as the first time exploring the AI inferencing performance between Windows and Linux for both CPU and GPU-accelerated deployments. Here are those results for exploring the Llama.cpp performance between Windows and Linux with different large language models.

Yesterday I was invited along with a small group of others to try out the AMD Instinct MI355X accelerator down in Austin, Texas. The AMD Instinct MI355X is fully supported with the newly-released AMD ROCm 7.0...

Linux Mint Debian Edition (LMDE) 7 “Gigi” Is Now Available for Public Beta Testing  9to5Linux

Systemd 258 is out today as stable as the latest major feature release to this Linux init system and service manager...

Microsoft Rolls Out A Linux 6.12 LTS Option For Azure Linux  Phoronix

Microsoft released Azure Linux 3.0.20250910 as the newest version of this in-house Linux distribution used by Azure and other services. Azure Linux 3.0 has long been using the Linux 6.6 LTS kernel while now Linux 6.12 LTS is a new option focused on providing better hardware enablement support...

Debian-based Mauna Linux 25 comes with GNOME 48 and multiple minor updates  Notebookcheck

ACENET workshop: Introduction to the Linux Command Line  University of Prince Edward Island

A patch making it to a TIP Git branch this week adds Linux kernel support for detecting the FreeBSD Bhyve hypervisor, which will become important with today's growing server CPU counts...