For those interested in the prospects of running Snapdragon X2 laptops on Linux rather than Windows 11 on ARM, the Lenovo Yoga Slim 7x Gen11 has emerged as one of the initial X2 laptops with tentative Device Tree handling to allow Linux to
The upcoming Linux 7.2 mainline kernel is expected to be able to boot on Apple M3 devices including the M3-powered iMac and MacBook products. But before getting too excited it’s still a long ways to go before it will actually be useful for
Following thr 3mdeb consulting firm’s recent release of their Dasharo build of Coreboot and AMD openSIL for the Gigabyte MZ33-ARI1 EPYC 9005 series motherboard, the same engineers continue working on their port of Coreboot and the openSIL C
The libinput input handling library used by both X.Org and Wayland environments on modern Linux desktops is out with a new security fix release. A new vulnerability is now public allowing for arbitrary root code execution…
COSMIC Epoch 1.0.15 was released today and while it doesn’t yet contain the new “Frosted Glass” option for the desktop UI, COSMIC Epoch 1.0.15 does contain some other notable enhancements…
Intel this week rolled out new versions of their open-source XPU Manager and Linux NPU driver software…
As another interesting takeaway from this week’s Microsoft Build 2026 conference beyond their open-source Intelligent Terminal project is Coreutils for Windows. Microsoft is maintaining a fork of Rust Coreutils for Windows to ease the devel
As a follow-up to the article last week about KRAID as a new compiler for modern Arm Mali graphics, that initial code has now been merged to Mesa 26.2 for benefiting the Panfrost and PanVK open-source drivers…
After announcing the AMD EPYC 8005 “Sorano” series back in February, AMD recently began shipping these Zen 5 successors to the EPYC 8004 “Siena” line-up. With the EPYC 8005 product stack ranging from 8 to 84 cores and being drop-in upgr
Along with some GCC compiler tuning for Nova Lake and Diamond Rapids to deal with some new APX capabilities not proving beneficial for performance, new patch activity today is preparing GCC for function multi-versioning (FMV) for the AVX10.