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Ubuntu 26.10 Official Flavors Are Now Available for Download, This Is What’s New
As part of today’s release of Ubuntu 26.10 (Stonking Stingray), all the official Ubuntu flavors have been updated to the same version, so here’s a look at their new features and improvements.
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Today's Steam Beta Makes The Linux Client A 64-bit App
Valve just dropped a new Steam client beta and it's a big one for Linux gamers...
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Forgejo 17.0 Dev Platform Released with Improved Actions, Git LFS Support
Forgejo 17.0 is out with improved CI/CD workflows, enhanced Git LFS management, donation buttons, and expanded repository migration support.
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Debian forky OverlayFS BTRFS/XFS setup
One more option provided is recovery main instance via booting into Overlay instance using Grub Submenu. By explicitly mounting the top-level Btrfs volume (subvolid=5) into a temporary directory like /mnt, you step outside the overlay's jurisdiction. This allows the kernel to recognize the true Btrfs layout and perform instant atomic subvolume swaps.
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Claude Code / AI Shows Potential For Reverse-Engineering Hardware For Linux Support
AI/LLMs like Claude Code are beginning to prove capable of helping to reverse engineer hardware for Linux support, especially when it comes to the tedious reverse engineering tasks...
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LPDDR5 5467 vs. 6400 vs. 7467 MT/s Memory Performance Benchmarks For Laptops
With the recently reviewed Star Labs StarFighter Ultra Linux laptop its BIOS allows for configurable memory speeds unlike many other laptop vendor BIOS implementations these days. Star Labs also made the default design decision to run the LPDDR5-7467 rated memory at LPDDR5-6400 speeds in the name of a balanced user experience for power/performance. So I was…
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Ubuntu 26.10 (Stonking Stingray) Is Now Available for Download, Here’s What’s New
Ubuntu 26.10 (Stonking Stingray) has been released today, and it is now available for download for those eager to update their Ubuntu systems to a newer release.
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Libreboot 26.10 Open-Source BIOS/UEFI Firmware Released with Full UEFI Support
Libreboot 26.10 has been released today as a major update to this open-source and free BIOS/UEFI firmware alternative that adds support for new devices, as well as numerous improvements.
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Strata 1.0 Released, a New Linux File Manager Built for Omarchy
Strata 1.0 is a new Rust-based Linux file manager designed for Omarchy, featuring GTK4, Miller columns, keyboard navigation, and secure previews.
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Raspberry Pi 5 cluster runs Qwen3-30B-A3B at 15 tokens/s on CPU
Hellomatik has published a study and a modified distributed-llama implementation for running the Qwen3-30B-A3B language model across four Raspberry Pi 5 boards. Using only the boards’ Arm Cortex-A76 CPUs, the cluster reached a reported decode throughput of 15.143 tokens per second, without GPU or NPU acceleration or CPU overclocking. The setup uses four…
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Epic Games To Improve Easy Anti-Cheat On Linux With Anti-Cheat Systemd Service & eBPF
In addition to Epic Games announced a preview of their new Epic Games Launcher, including Linux support, they also announced plans to improve their Easy Anti-Cheat (EAC) software on Linux. Along with this improved EAC they are also working on official Linux support for the popular Fortnite game...
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Fastfetch 2.70 System Information Tool Released with Linux and Android Improvements
Fastfetch 2.70 arrives with better Android support, improved Linux audio detection, fewer dependencies, and bug fixes across platforms.
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Building a Reliable Event-Driven Payment Service With XRP Ledger
Receiving a transaction notification is only the first step. Production software still has to decide whether that event is safe to turn into application state. A WebSocket callback can arrive in milliseconds. What happens afterward is harder. The XRP Price may be the public-facing metric most people associate with the asset, but developers integrating the…
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Check Historical and Statistical Uptime of Linux
In this article, you will learn how to check the historical and statistical information of system uptime using the tuptime command (with practical examples).
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Mesa 26.2.5 Is Out with Bug Fixes for RADV, NVK, ANV, PanVK, Freedreno, and Zink
Mesa 26.2.5 has been released today as the fifth minor update to the latest Mesa 26.2 stable series, bringing various improvements to the NVK, Freedreno, RADV, RadeonSI, Zink, ANV, PVR, and PanVK drivers.
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Rustls 0.23.46 Released With Four Security Fixes
Rustls as the modern TLS library written in the Rust programming language with an emphasis on memory safety is out today with its v0.23.46 release in order to ship four new security fixes...
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Distro of the Week: Asmi 13.6 Linux
Asmi - pronounced like "us" and "me, and is Sanskrit and Hindi that means "I am" or "I exist" - is based on Debian 13.6 "Trixie" and provides a lightweight and modern Xfce-based experience with the addition of distro-specific tools to make the Linux experience a good one.
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Happy 30th Birthday, KDE!
Today, KDE, one of the largest active free software communities in the world, celebrates its 30th anniversary since German computer science student Matthias Ettrich announced the project on Usenet.
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KDE Plasma 6.8 Released, Drops X11 Sessions After 30 Years of KDE
KDE Plasma 6.8 arrives on KDE's 30th anniversary, dropping native X11 sessions and improving Wayland, performance, HDR, and remote desktop.
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Best Email Clients for Linux in 2026: Free, Open Source and Paid Options
Webmail is not your only choice. Compare 13 Linux email clients, from Thunderbird to NeoMutt, with pros, cons, privacy notes and a full table.
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Peppermint OS Expands Beyond Debian with Void Linux-Based PepVoid
Peppermint OS is testing PepVoid, a new Void Linux-based edition featuring Xorg and XLibre, with an official release potentially coming in November.
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Install Deluge BitTorrent Client on Ubuntu & Other Linux Distros
In this article, you'll learn how to install the Deluge BitTorrent client on Ubuntu and other Linux distros, how to use it, and then how to remove it.
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Mesa Expands NPU Capabilities With Support For YOLOX With PyTorch
While Mesa is predominantly used for GPU drivers, open-source developer Tomeu Vizoso continues advancing the capabilities of NPUs within the Mesa driver stack...
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Tails 7.15 Privacy-Focused Linux Distro Released with Tor Updates
The privacy-focused Tails 7.15 Linux distribution is out, updating Tor Browser, the Tor client, and firmware packages for newer hardware.
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Linux 7.4 To Upstream Support For Three Snapdragon X2 Elite Laptops
For those looking to run Linux on new Qualcomm Snapdragon X2 hardware, there are laptops from ASUS, HP, and Lenovo that are powered by the X2 Elite and will be supported with the mainline Linux 7.4 kernel...
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Linus Torvalds Experiments with AI-Generated Kernel Code, Sees 3x Speedup
Linus Torvalds experiments with AI-generated Linux kernel code, using Claude Code to optimize memory operations and improve read performance.
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TUXEDO Stellaris 16 Gen8 Linux Laptop Unveiled with Intel Core Ultra 9 290HX Plus
Linux hardware vendor TUXEDO Computers announced today the TUXEDO Stellaris 16 Gen8 laptop with Intel Core Ultra 9 290HX Plus processors and NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5000 Series graphics.
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Firefox 159 Beta Released With Fix For Tabs On Wayland
With Firefox 158 released, Firefox 159 is now in beta ahead of its official release in two weeks...
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Why The Document Foundation Went on a Logo Hunt
A new logo separates the foundation from its flagship software — and arrives as the open source office status quo is being turned on its head.
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ZOTAC CM5-PICO Fanless Industrial PC with Dual HDMI and M.2 Expansion
ZOTAC’s ZBOX PRO CM5-PICO is a compact industrial computer powered by the Raspberry Pi Compute Module 5. The fanless system supports dual 4K displays, Gigabit Ethernet, M.2 expansion, and a 40-pin GPIO header, with an aluminum enclosure designed for continuous operation in embedded and edge computing applications. The ZBOX PRO CM5-PICO uses the Broadcom…