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Igalia Developing Moonforge As New Linux Distribution

Phoronix - Thu, 03/12/2026 - 18:14
Linux consulting firm Igalia announced this week Moonforge, a new in-house Linux distribution by them based on Yocto and OpenEmbedded...

Enable intelligent insights with Red Hat Satellite MCP Server

Red Hat News - Thu, 03/12/2026 - 08:00
Red Hat Satellite manages Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) systems at scale across the cloud and on-premises. Last year, a model context protocol (MCP) server for Red Hat Satellite was released as a Technology Preview feature to enable more intelligent and automated management of Satellite and RHEL systems through your favourite large language model (LLM).LLMs make it possible to perform highly automated and sophisticated tasks. An LLM can enable automatic, unsupervised problem solving, simulating the acts of perception, learning, and reasoning. Tools such as MCPs make it possible for LLMs to o

OBS Studio 32.1 Released With WebRTC Simulcast Support

Phoronix - Thu, 03/12/2026 - 05:49
OBS Studio 32.1 is now available for this popular cross-platform desktop screen recording app that is also popular with game live-streaming and other uses...

Exclusive Preview Of System76's Completely Redesigned Thelio Desktop

Phoronix - Thu, 03/12/2026 - 03:50
It has been eight years already since System76 announced Thelio as their own built-in-the-USA, custom-engineered cases for desktops and workstations. System76 Thelio is an open hardware design and built exceptionally well out of their facilities in Colorado. System76 Thelio has served them well for their range of desktop systems over the years from ARM64 developer workstations to high-end AMD Linux systems. Now though they are preparing to introduce their next-generation Thelio design. Ahead of the announcement next week, here is an exclusive first look at the next-gen Thelio hardware.

AMD Ryzen AI NPUs Are Finally Useful Under Linux For Running LLMs

Phoronix - Thu, 03/12/2026 - 00:21
Over the past two years AMD has developed the AMDXDNA accelerator driver in the mainline Linux kernel for supporting the AMD Ryzen AI NPUs. But when it comes to user-space software on Linux actually able to leave the Ryzen AI NPUs it's been... extremely limited with nothing really useful besides some niche bits of code. Even AMD's own software like their GAIA on Linux has used Vulkan with their iGPUs rather than any NPU support. But finally today there is a significant shift with the Ryzen AI NPUs becoming useful on Linux and able to handle LLMs...

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