📰 My old Android phone became a Linux server, and it handles more than I expected

I've been trying to find a good use for the old Android phone that I have lying around. It has capable hardware with 8 GB RAM and a fairly modern processor. For the longest time, I have only used it as a portable hotspot when I am traveling and sometimes as a webcam for online meetings. Both of these use cases were not making the most out of the hardware that is inside this phone, so I decided to turn it into a Linux server.

🔗 Source: https://www.xda-developers.com/old-android-phone-linux-server-handles-more-expected/

#android #linux

📰 Patches Provide For Much Faster In-Kernel Zstd Due To Embarrassingly Bad Inefficiency

Patches sent out to the Linux kernel mailing list today can provide much more efficient Zstd compression and decompression by addressing a very unfortunate oversight in the existing code...

🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/In-Kernel-Zstd-BMI2-Probing

#kernel #linux

📰 This 20-year-old open-source Adobe alternative makes modern PDF readers feel bloated

This open-source Adobe Acrobat alternative brings back the joy of simple software.

🔗 Source: https://www.xda-developers.com/old-open-source-adobe-alternative-makes-modern-pdf-readers-feel-bloated/

#opensource

📰 Asahi Linux Hopes To Ship A Release Soon With Apple M3 Device Support

The Asahi Linux crew working to bring Linux support to Apple Silicon hardware is out today with a new status update on their initiatives, largely around Apple M3 bring-up as well as some M4/M5 achievements...

🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/Asahi-Linux-M3-Release-Soon

#linux

📰 Darktable 5.6.1 RAW Image Editor Improves UI Performance and Fixes More Bugs

Darktable 5.6.1 open-source RAW image editor is now available for download with UI performance improvements and various bug fixes.

🔗 Source: https://9to5linux.com/darktable-5-6-1-raw-image-editor-improves-ui-performance-and-fixes-more-bugs

#opensource

📰 Lemonade 11.8 Makes It Easy To Run DeepSeek V4 Flash On AMD Strix Halo

For those interested in making use of the recently released DeepSeek V4 Flash model, AMD developers have released Lemonade 11.8 that now makes it rather trivial to get DeepSeek V4 Flash up and running on AMD Ryzen AI+ Max "Strix Halo" systems...

🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/AMD-Lemonade-11.8

#amd

📰 Btrfs, EXT4, F2FS & XFS On Linux 7.2 vs. Linux 7.3 Performance

Earlier this week I showed off some of the very nice Btrfs performance gains on Linux 7.3. For those wondering what kernel optimizations may have carried over to other file-systems or other file-system specific enhancements, here are Linux 7.2 vs. 7.3 Git performance benchmarks across Btrfs, EXT4, F2FS, and XFS on the same system.

🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/review/linux-73-filesystems

#kernel #linux

📰 I went hands-on with Ubuntu’s AI voice typing feature

AI-powered voice typing is coming to Ubuntu in Myna, a speech-to-text feature that lets you talk into any valid text field. It’s still a work in progress, but I grabbed an early build to see how it’s shaping up. With Ubuntu 26.10 now entering its freeze, the user-facing pieces of myna are falling in to place. This week, a new GNOME Shell extension was added to default installs to provide an on-screen indicator when myna is listening and...

🔗 Source: https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2026/08/testing-ubuntu-ai-voice-dictation

#gnome #ubuntu

📰 AMD Preparing To Enable HDMI 2.1 FRL Support By Default For Linux

It was back in May that the surprising event happened of AMD posting HDMI 2.1 FRL patches for their open-source AMDGPU Linux driver as part of their broader HDMI 2.1 bring-up. For years the open-source HDMI 2.1 support in AMDGPU was blocked by the HDMI Forum but whether it was due to Valve or some other event, the code was finally unblocked. While it's been part of the kernel since Linux 7.

🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/AMDGPU-HDMI-2.1-FRL-Default

#amd #kernel #linux #opensource

📰 MediaTek Genio upstream update: from HDMI 2.0 to booting on U-Boot and TF-A

Collabora and MediaTek continue expanding upstream support across the Genio IoT family, with HDMI 2.0 now enabled for existing boards, Genio 520 and 720 support progressing in Linux, and Genio Pro 5100 enablement extending into U-Boot and Trusted Firmware-A.

🔗 Source: https://www.collabora.com/news-and-blog/news-and-events/mediatek-genio-upstream-update-from-hdmi-20-to-booting-uboot-trusted-firmware-a.html

#linux

📰 Intel’s Linux Vulkan Driver Adds AV1 Video Encoding for Arc Alchemist GPUs

by George WhittakerIntel’s open-source Linux graphics stack has taken another step forward with hardware-accelerated AV1 encoding through Vulkan Video. New code merged for Mesa’s ANV Vulkan driver enables the VK_KHR_video_encode_av1 extension on Intel’s DG2/Alchemist graphics hardware, including Arc A-Series GPUs.The development expands Intel’s Vulkan Video capabilities on Linux and gives applications another standardized way to access the...

🔗 Source: https://www.linuxjournal.com/content/intels-linux-vulkan-driver-adds-av1-video-encoding-arc-alchemist-gpus

#intel #linux #opensource

📰 Intel Linux Driver Orphaned For Limiting RF Exposure To Humans

Over the past year and a half a number of open-source drivers in the Linux kernel have been orphaned as a result of departures from the company. The impact has ranged from the Intel CPU "coretemp" temperature driver being orphaned without a maintainer to other lesser known Intel drivers. Another lesser known Intel driver is now being orphaned with no longer having a maintainer at the company: the Intel Specific Absorption Rate Driver...

🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/Intel-Linux-SAR-Driver-Orphaned

#intel #kernel #linux #opensource

📰 New Linux “Steal Governor” Targets CPU Contention in Overcommitted Virtual Machines

by George WhittakerLinux kernel developers are considering a new “steal governor” designed to improve performance when multiple virtual machines compete for limited physical CPU resources. The proposal uses the amount of CPU steal time observed inside a guest to dynamically reduce or expand the number of virtual CPUs on which that VM prefers to schedule work.

🔗 Source: https://www.linuxjournal.com/content/new-linux-steal-governor-targets-cpu-contention-overcommitted-virtual-machines

#kernel #linux

📰 Ubuntu 26.04.1 LTS is now available to download

Ubuntu 26.04.1 LTS is now available to download, the first of 5 point releases scheduled for the ‘Resolute Raccoon’ in the 3 years. The release doesn’t add new features, but brings a refreshed installation image (.iso) that includes all of the bug fixes, security patches and package updates released since the Ubuntu 26.04 LTS release back in April.

🔗 Source: https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2026/08/ubuntu-26041-lts-point-release-download

#ubuntu

📰 Germany invests €500,000 in Flatpak as Europe takes another step toward digital sovereignty

It's one of two big Linux-based investments the agency has made in 2026,.

🔗 Source: https://www.xda-developers.com/germany-invests-500000-in-flatpak-as-europe-takes-another-step-toward-digital-sovereignty/

#flatpak #linux #linuxbased

📰 GPU Reset Recovery Merge Request For GNOME Mutter Submitted

Google Summer of Code 2026 featured a project working on GPU reset recovery for GNOME's Mutter compositor. GSoC has now wrapped up and the project overall was largely successful although some outstanding work remains. In this last week the merge request has been opened to conduct code review on this GPU reset recovery implementation for GNOME...

🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/GNOME-GPU-Reset-Recovery-PR

#gnome

📰 The Linux Kernel Is Approaching 2,000 CVEs Per Release

With the proliferation of AI/LLM models analyzing the Linux kernel's vast codebase, there has been a surge in the number of CVEs per kernel release. After typically being around 500 CVEs fixed per release, we are now approaching 2,000 CVEs fixed per release and perhaps will break that threshold for Linux 7.3...

🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-Kernel-CVEs-Nearly-2000

#kernel #linux

📰 OpenShot 4.0 adds colour grading, recording dock and Qt 6 support

OpenShot 4.0 sees the open-source video editor add colour grading tools, a recording dock for audio and screen capture and new AI effects.You're reading OpenShot 4.0 adds colour grading, recording dock and Qt 6 support, a blog post from OMG! Ubuntu. Do not reproduce elsewhere without permission.

🔗 Source: https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2026/08/openshot-4-0-release

#opensource #ubuntu

📰 Calibre ebook manager lets you generate AI book covers

Calibre, the open-source ebook manager, now lets you generate AI ebook covers for content in your library, using genre prompts or custom ones. You're reading Calibre ebook manager lets you generate AI book covers, a blog post from OMG! Ubuntu. Do not reproduce elsewhere without permission.

🔗 Source: https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2026/08/calibre-ebook-ai-covers

#opensource #ubuntu

📰 The Challenges In Bringing AMD ROCm To FreeBSD

This summer an intern with the FreeBSD Foundation worked on porting AMD ROCm to FreeBSD. The internship is concluding while the FreeBSD ROCm code is almost to the stage of being able to perform simple vector addition workloads...

🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/AMD-ROCm-FreeBSD-Intern-Report

#amd

📰 Debian Project Formalizes Responsible Use of Generative AI

The Debian Project has voted to adopt a formal position on the use of generative AI within the project, with "Responsible Use of Generative AI" winning out in the general resolution.

🔗 Source: https://9to5linux.com/debian-project-formalizes-responsible-use-of-generative-ai

#debian