📰 OpenMandriva ROME 26.09 Released With More AI Apps, Snaps & PGO + LTO Optimizations

For ending out the month of September the OpenMandriva Linux distribution crew released OpenMandriva ROME 26.0 as their long overdue release held up by various technical issues and a reported sabotage attempt to their platform. With OpenMandriva ROME 24.12 having been their last release, this is quite a big update...

🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/OpenMandriva-ROME-26.09

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📰 New Linux Patches Trying To Mainline Renesas SH7305 CPU Support

The Renesas SH7305 isn't a new processor and is well known for powering various Casio graphing calculators over the past decde and a half. But finally the mainline Linux kernel may end up seeing support for this 32-bit SH-4a RISC core...

🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/Renesas-SH7305-Linux-Patches

#kernel #linux

📰 Parrot OS 7.4 Released with AnonSurf 6.0, Updated Raspberry Pi Images

Parrot OS 7.4 security-oriented distribution is now available for download with Linux kernel 7.1, updated tools, optimized builds, updated Raspberry Pi and ARM images, and other changes.

🔗 Source: https://9to5linux.com/parrot-os-7-4-released-with-anonsurf-6-0-updated-raspberry-pi-images

#arm #kernel #linux #raspberry

📰 The Amazing Work By Valve's Timur Kristóf On Improving Old AMD GPUs On Linux

Over the past year Timur Kristóf of Valve's Linux graphics driver team has made multiple very nice improvements to the AMDGPU kernel driver for enhancing support for old (GCN 1.0/1.1 era from a decade ago) graphics cards so that they can better handle Linux gaming and other tasks. This week in Toronto, Kristóf presented on this AMDGPU work that he initially began as a kernel driver development exercise after initially spending years in...

🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/XDC-2026-Valve-Timur-AMDGPU

#amd #kernel #linux

📰 PhotoSuite Is a Free Photoshop-Like Editor With Native PSD Support

PhotoSuite is a free, open-source image editor for Linux, Windows, and macOS, offering a Photoshop-like workflow and native PSD/PSB support.

🔗 Source: https://linuxiac.com/photosuite-is-a-free-photoshop-like-editor-with-native-psd-support/

#linux #opensource

📰 Arm Working On "TLBID" For Linux To Increase Performance On High Core Count CPUs

Arm sent out an initial set of patches this week working on support in the Linux kernel for TLBI Domains. This "TLBID" feature is an upcoming Arm architecture capability designed to increase performance on high core count systems...

🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/ARM64-Linux-TLBI-Domains

#arm #kernel #linux

📰 AMD Sends In More New GPU Hardware Enablement For Linux 7.4, Bug Fixes

We are nearing the cut-off of new Direct Rendering Manager (DRM) subsystem material for the upcoming Linux 7.4 cycle. AMD this week sent in another feature pull to DRM-Next that is moving over to mostly bug fixing but does contain the enablement of some new GPU intellectual property blocks for upcoming graphics hardware...

🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/More-AMDGPU-Linux-7.4

#amd #linux

📰 Kagi Ends Orion Browser Development for Linux, Will Open-Source It

Kagi ends development of Orion Browser for Linux and Windows, with plans to open-source both versions and hand them over to the community.

🔗 Source: https://linuxiac.com/kagi-ends-orion-browser-development-for-linux-will-open-source-it/

#linux #opensource

📰 openSUSE Turns To ZUPT For Post-Quantum Backups

OpenSUSE developers have announced they are making ZUPT available on their Linux distribution as a solution for providing post-quantum backups. ZUPT combines backup creation, compression, integrity verification, and encryption all via this single open-source utility...

🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/openSUSE-ZUPT-Backups

#linux #opensource #opensuse

📰 Pangolin 1.24 Tunneled Reverse Proxy Adds Exit Nodes, Linux Subnet Routing

Pangolin 1.24 introduces full-tunnel Exit Nodes, Linux Subnet Router support, and major client improvements across desktop and mobile.

🔗 Source: https://linuxiac.com/pangolin-1-24-tunneled-reverse-proxy-adds-exit-nodes-linux-subnet-routing/

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📰 Linux Begins Seeing Workarounds For Fujitsu MONAKA CPU Bugs

Last month Fujitsu formally announced their MONAKA CPU as a 144 core Arm-based server processor geared for AI infrastructure. This comes after two years of seeing various Monaka patches to the GCC compiler and other open-source components. Now that MONAKA is announced, we are seeing more patches surface for the Linux kernel with this week seeing several workarounds for MONAKA CPU bugs...

🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-MONAKA-CPU-Workarounds

#arm #kernel #linux #opensource

📰 Darktable 5.6.2 Adds White Balance Presets for Leica SL3-P and Sony Alpha 7R VI

Darktable 5.6.2 open-source RAW image editor is now available for download with white balance presets for Leica SL3-P and Sony Alpha 7R VI cameras, as well as various bug fixes.

🔗 Source: https://9to5linux.com/darktable-5-6-2-adds-white-balance-presets-for-leica-sl3-p-and-sony-alpha-7r-vi

#opensource

📰 NVIDIA's Results Of Conducting Wayland vs. X.Org Latency Testing

In addition to NVIDIA announcing their Display Config Server project at XDC 2026 in Toronto, at this annual developer's conference they also presented their findings on scientific testing of X.Org vs. Wayland latency...

🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/NVIDIA-Wayland-Xorg-Latency

#wayland

📰 Banana Pi BPI-CM7, a modern iPoad, and a DIY Mini Laptop with an ATmega2560 Microcontroller: Liliputing News Roundup

Smartphones have largely replaced iPods and other dedicated music players for most folks • The Banana Pi BPI-CM7 is a compute module with a 1.5 GHz Allwinner H618 quad-core Arm Cortex-A53 CPU, Mali-G31 graphics, LPDDR4 memory, eMMC storage, WiFi 5 and BT 5.0, USB 2.0, HDMI, and 10/100 Ethernet support • The rising costs of RAM and other components are even driving up prices of older consumer electronics devices.

🔗 Source: https://liliputing.com/banana-pi-bpi-cm7-a-modern-ipoad-and-a-diy-mini-laptop-with-an-atmega2560-microcontroller-liliputing-news-roundup/

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📰 OpenCourant: Rocky Linux Developers Create Community Fork Of OpenRadioss

This week was the surprising and unfortunate decision of Siemens shutting down the OpenRadioss project as the four year old open-source project started by Altair Engineering with their prominent Radioss finite element solver. Siemens didn't just end the project but they shutdown the GitHub repository that hosted the open-source code and removed other resources that had built around it.

🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/OpenRadioss-OpenCourant

#linux #opensource

📰 Proton-CachyOS version 11.0-20261005 released

The popular Proton-CachyOS for running Windows games on SteamOS / Linux has a fresh release out now to update various parts of it.Read the full article on GamingOnLinux.

🔗 Source: https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/10/proton-cachyos-version-11-0-20261005-released/

#linux #proton