Open-source News

Facebook Accidentally Blocks Users From Posting About Linux  PCMag UK

Following last month's release of ROCm 6.3.1, ROCm 6.3.2 was just tagged today from its various open-source repositories and binaries beginning to come down the pipeline. ROCm 6.3.2 is another point release but brings a decent set of refinements for this AMD graphics compute stack...

AMD ROCm 6.3.2 Supports Microsoft Azure Linux 3.0, HIP Improvements & Better Docs  Phoronix

Servers and data centers could use 30% less energy with a simple Linux update  Notebookcheck.net

SwitchBot's New Air Purifier Doubles As a Bedside Table  Review Geek

Linux gets support for the Copilot key  Computerworld

Apple is the latest CPU vendor being affected by side-channel attacks. All Mac laptops since 2022, all Mac desktops since 2023, and all iPhones / iPad Pro / iPad Air / iPad Mini models since 2021 are affected by these new SLAP and FLOP attacks...

System76’s New Meerkat Mini PC Is Still Built for Linux  How-To Geek

How to see file permissions on Linux  Network World

Facebook is blocking Linux topics and channels with no apparent reason  MSN

Intel Adds In Three New Battlemage PCI IDs At Linux Driver, Hinting Towards Release of New dGPU Models  Wccftech

Facebook is blocking Linux topics and channels with no apparent reason  MSN

System76 Meerkat goes Meteor Lake (Linux mini PC spec bump)  Liliputing

Facebook has begun to consider Linux OS as "malware" and limit posts about it  dev.ua

System76’s Meerkat Mini Linux PC Is Back with Intel Core Ultra CPUs and Faster RAM  9to5Linux

System76 this morning announced the 2025 version of their Meerkat mini Linux PC. This new mini PC designed for Linux pairs an Intel Core Ultra "Meteor Lake" SoC with dual 2.5G Ethernet and booting using Coreboot for a intriguing combination whether it's for a lightweight Linux desktop PC or a small office/home server...

System76's New Linux Mini PC Pairs Intel Meteor Lake + Dual 2.5G Ethernet + Coreboot  Phoronix

7 features Windows needs to steal from Linux  XDA Developers

System76 Meerkat mini PC, upgraded with Intel Core Ultra, is perfect for Linux, Windows 11, and Plex servers  BetaNews

Earlier this month the Raspberry Pi 5 16GB was announced for finally pushing the Raspberry Pi single board computers beyond an 8GB limit for RAM. This opens up the Raspberry Pi 5 to new use-cases, more multi-tasking, and other applications where 8GB of RAM / 2GB per core was a bottleneck. In my tests thus far of the Raspberry Pi 5 16GB it's been working out well and helping the performance of some workloads by reducing the memory pressure / swapping.