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Framework Laptop 16 Upgrade To AMD Ryzen AI 300 Series Benchmarks Review  Phoronix

Framework Computer announced back in August that the Framework Laptop 16 would be rolling out upgrades to the AMD Ryzen AI 300 series and a GeForce RTX 5070 graphics option. Today the review embargo lifts on these new Framework 16 laptop upgrades and some Linux benchmarking of the new hardware.

Kaspersky Antivirus is Now Available for Linux. Will You Use it?  It's FOSS

As covered recently on Phoronix there has been several exciting improvements for aging AMD Radeon GCN 1.0 and GCN 1.1 era graphics cards for the open-source AMD Linux graphics driver stack. This work has been led by Timur Kristóf of Valve's Linux Open-Source Graphics Driver Group with an ultimate goal of shifting the GCN 1.0/1.1 open-source Linux driver hardware support from the aging "Radeon" kernel graphics driver over to the "AMDGPU" kernel driver already used by default for all AMD GPUs/accelerators from GCN 1.2 and newer...

Valve's Open-Source Radeon Linux Driver "Love Song For Gamers With Old GPUs"  Phoronix

Google Releases Early Patches for Running Mainline Linux on Its Pixel 10 Smartphone Family  Hackster.io

I got tired of Windows 11, so I converted this Mini PC into a Linux powerhouse - here's how  ZDNET

Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10.1 has reached general availability with a number of enhancements to this leading enterprise Linux distribution. As with so many things in 2025, AI is a big focus for RHEL 10.1...

Red Hat's RHEL 10.1 Released With systemd Soft-Reboots, Easier AI Accelerator Drivers  Phoronix

Red Hat Linux gets offline management, quantum threat mitigation and new AI features  SiliconANGLE

I finally understand Linux multitasking — and these tools changed everything for me  MakeUseOf

Red Hat Delivers Evolving Foundation for Modern IT with Latest Version of Red Hat Enterprise Linux  Business Wire

Red Hat Delivers Enhanced Experience for AI Accelerators on Red Hat Enterprise Linux  Business Wire

Ubuntu's Rust Transition Hits Another Bump as sudo-rs Security Vulnerabilities Show Up  It's FOSS

Systemd-Free Nitrux 5.0 Officially Released with Hyprland Desktop, Linux 6.17  9to5Linux

Tiny386 emulator turns tiny microcontroller into a full i386 PC — tiny virtual machine can boot Windows 95 and Linux on ESP32-S3 chip  Tom's Hardware

Back in August with the Vulkan 1.4.327 spec update was the introduction of VK_VALVE_video_encode_rgb_conversion as a Valve vendor extension. The open-source Radeon Vulkan "RADV" driver has now merged support for this extension that is being used now by Steam Link VR...

These 5 simple Linux tools make Windows 11 look outdated  How-To Geek

Open-source developer Tomeu Vizoso who developed the open-source and reverse-engineered "Rocket" accel driver for the Rockchip NPU and also worked on the Etnaviv/Vivante NPU support and other related code like Mesa's Teflon is teasing new NPU drivers coming in the new year...

Webmin continues serving as one of the best open-source, web-based server management control panels for Linux and other Unix-like platforms. Webmin 2.600 is out today with yet more features and a refined theme...