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COSMIC 1.11 Desktop Environment Released with New Touchpad Settings
Linux hardware vendor System76 released COSMIC 1.11 today as the latest stable version of this Rust-based desktop environment for modern GNU/Linux distributions.
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Wine on OpenBSD? Yes, and It Can Already Run The Witcher 3
An experimental Wine port brings Windows app and gaming support to OpenBSD, with 64-bit applications and even The Witcher 3 running successfully.
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Improved Performance & Resource Usage For XFS Checksumming With Linux 7.4
Among the many VFS pull requests merged as the initial material for the in-development Linux 7.4, the VFS IOmap pull introduced lazy bounce buffering for checksummed reads. This improvement is benefiting checksumming on XFS with improved performance and lower resource usage...
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OpenBSD 8.0 Released with 64-vCPU VM Support, Intel Arc Graphics
OpenBSD 8.0 is out with support for 64-vCPU virtual machines, Intel Arc graphics, ARM64 hibernation, and updated DRM drivers.
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Intel & AMD Now Collaborating On Software Optimizations With PyTorch/oneDNN
Intel has long worked on tuning their oneDNN neural network library for their hardware and saw its adoption by PyTorch and other AI frameworks. AMD has maintained ZenDNN as their downstream fork that is oneDNN API compatible while catering to their Zen processor designs. As an interesting twist, AMD and Intel jointly announced today they will be…
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VSCode Tutorial: Features, Installation Guide, and Top Extensions
In this article, you will learn how to install VSCode on your preferred Linux system, including the top extensions recommended by me.
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17k Lines Of New Rust Kernel Code Heading Into Linux 7.4
Miguel Ojeda sent out his pull request of the new Rust kernel code slated for introduction in Linux 7.4. It's a big one this round due to updating the Zerocopy vendored library plus updating other Rust crates for the kernel...
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Server-class 46-core RISC-V CPU runs mainstream Linux
SpacemiT’s V100 is a server-class RISC-V processor developed with the XiangShan team, featuring 46 CPU cores, DDR5-4800 memory support, and PCIe 5.0 connectivity. Supporting up to 92 cores in dual-socket configurations, the chip is claimed to be the first to fully comply with the RISC-V Server Specification, enabling compatibility with mainstream Linux…
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Omarchy 4.5 Expanding To AArch64 World With Snapdragon X & NVIDIA N1X Laptops
The Omarchy Linux distribution to date has been centered on x86_64 support for this Arch Linux distribution. Released today was Omarchy 4.5-RC1 and with this new version there is initial AArch64 support centered around Snapdragon X and NVIDIA N1X laptop support...
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KDE Plasma 6.8.1 Desktop Environment Released with Various Bug Fixes
The KDE Project released KDE Plasma 6.8.1 today as the first maintenance update to the latest KDE Plasma 6.8 desktop environment series with an initial batch of bug fixes.
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Modernizing the console with kmscon
For decades, the Linux virtual console has relied on the kernel fbcon driver, to draw the framebuffer, to manage fonts, and to handle keyboard layout. Starting with Fedora 45, we’re switching to a userspace utility called kmscon. Depending on your usage of virtual console, this may impact your workflow. If you’re not a developer or
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GNU Linux-libre 7.3-gnu Removes More Firmware Blobs
GNU Linux-libre 7.3 is now available following yesterday's Linux 7.3 release. The GNU Linux-libre downstream continues stripping out driver/hardware support where dependent upon firmware blobs or other proprietary elements deemed out of line with free software ideals...
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LXD 6.10 Container & Virtual Machine Manager Released as New LTS
LXD 6.10 LTS is out with new image registries, improved disaster recovery, enhanced clustering, and long-term support through 2031.
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SpacemiT Announces The V100 Server-Class RISC-V Processor
Following the interesting SpacemiT K3 RVA23 RISC-V SoC, SpacemiT today announced the V100 server-class RISC-V processor...
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Gentoo-Based MocaccinoOS 26.10 Released with COSMIC 1.10 and KDE Plasma 6.7.5
The development team behind MocaccinoOS, a Gentoo-based, independent distribution for desktops, released MocaccinoOS 26.10 today as the latest stable ISO snapshot with updated components.
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AMD GAIA 0.25 Brings Several Improvements For Local AI Agents On Ryzen AI
AMD GAIA 0.25 is out this week as the latest feature release for this open-source project that began as "Generative AI Is Awesome" and is now going on a tag line of "AMD's open-source agent factory" in building/using local AI agents on AMD Ryzen AI hardware...
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How to Disable On Screen Keyboard on SDDM Login Screen in EndeavourOS KDE Plasma
In this video, I show how to disable the automatic on-screen keyboard on the KDE Plasma SDDM login screen.
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Linux Kernel 7.3 Is Out with New FailFS, Scheduler Changes, and More
Linux 7.3 introduces the FailFS filesystem, an overhauled CPU scheduler, OverlayFS improvements, and expanded Rust and hardware support.
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Linus Torvalds' AI Code Improved: Huge Performance Wins With Reworked Code
Last week I wrote about Linus Torvalds leveraging AI to come up with a hefty Linux kernel improvement using Claude Code. The code is for reading from the page cache without folio references to help workloads of small reads from a single file across many CPU threads. Meta engineer Kiryl Shutsemau has taken that code and reworked it and showing extremely…
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Thin XFS LVs provisioning and Libvirt hooks for State Isolated KVM Server on openSUSE Tumbleweed
Following below is review/verification approach to Thin XFS LVs provisioning and Libvirt hooks proposed by Google AI. In case of openSUSE Tumbleweed YaST Installer requires minimal manual CLI intervention due to GUI interface enables thin pools and thin LVs . In case Debian 14 network installation you have an option to associate vg_debian group with…
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9to5Linux Weekly Roundup: October 18th, 2026
The 314th installment of the 9to5Linux Weekly Roundup is here for the week ending October 18th, 2026, keeping you updated on the most important developments in the Linux world.
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Omarchy Gets The Web Browser Launching Faster By Avoiding XDG Overhead
Omarchy 4.0.5 released this weeekend as the newest version of this Arch Linux based distribution built around the Hyprland desktop. Omarchy 4.0.5 pulls in the latest Linux 7.2 stable kernel with BORE scheduler, updates against the Qt 6.12 toolkit, and a variety of smaller improvements...
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Gentoo Plans to Drop Chromium, Google Chrome Remains Available
Gentoo is preparing to drop Chromium as maintaining the source-built browser becomes increasingly difficult. Google Chrome and Flatpak remain alternatives.
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Adafruit Floppsy Rev D Revives Floppy Disk Archiving with RP2350
Adafruit has previewed Floppsy Rev D, an RP2350-based floppy disk archiver and emulator designed to preserve and access legacy computer storage media. The standalone device supports floppy drives used with PCs and Apple Disk II systems, offering disk imaging, flux-level data capture, and emulation capabilities alongside a touchscreen interface and removable…
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Linux 7.3 Released With Faster I/O Performance, AMD Zen 6 Preparations & More
The Linux 7.3 kernel is out today for an on-time release of this next stable kernel version...
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Linuxiac Weekly Wrap-Up: Week 42, 2026 (October 12 – 18)
Catch up on the latest Linux news: Ubuntu 26.10, GNOME OS Preview, KDE Plasma 6.8, Firefox 158, Wine 11.20, Linus Torvalds rejects AI coding bans, and more.
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Linux Kernel 7.3 Officially Released, This Is What’s New
Linux kernel 7.3 is now available for download, as announced today by Linus Torvalds himself, featuring enhanced hardware support, filesystem and networking improvements, security enhancements, new drivers, and many other changes.
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GNOME 51.1 Improves Drag and Drop Between Wayland and Xwayland Clients
The GNOME project released GNOME 51.1 today as the first point release in the latest GNOME 51 desktop environment series to fix bugs, update translations, and add a few enhancements.
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Fedora Linux 45 Delayed, New Release Date Set for October 27
Fedora developers have postponed Fedora Linux 45 until October 27 after no suitable final release candidate was available for evaluation.
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This Week in Tech: AI Gets Bigger, Gadgets Get Smarter, and Security Risks Mount
This Week in Tech: AI Gets Bigger, Gadgets Get Smarter, and Security Risks Mount appeared first on TechRepublic.