📰 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/

#arm

📰 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

📰 Linux 7.3-rc6 Released: Normal For The New "AI Normal"

Linus Torvalds just released Linux 7.3-rc7 as we work toward the stable Linux 7.3 kernel release in two weeks...

🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-7.3-rc6-Released

#kernel #linux

📰 I moved my Steam library to a cheap external SSD, and load times barely changed

Inexpensive storage doesn't necessarily mean slow games.

🔗 Source: https://www.xda-developers.com/moved-steam-library-to-cheap-external-ssd-and-load-times-barely-changed/

#steam

📰 Check out some of the most highly rated Steam Deck Verified games from September 2026

Here's some of the highest-rated Steam Deck Verified games released on Steam during September 2026. Helping you find something great to play on the go!Read the full article on GamingOnLinux.

🔗 Source: https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/10/check-out-some-of-the-most-highly-rated-steam-deck-verified-games-from-september-2026/

#steam

📰 Mold 3.0 High Speed Linker Released Following Rust Rewrite

The Mold high speed linker alternative to the likes of GNU Gold/LD and LLVM LLD recently has been going through a rewrite from C++ to Rust as well as having high ambitions of eventually becoming the default linker on Linux systems. Today marks the release of Mold 3.0 for this Rust-based high performance linker...

🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/Mold-3.0-Released

#gnu #linux #rust

📰 Phosh 0.58 Linux Mobile Shell Improves Screenshots and Flatpak Apps

Phosh 0.58 brings better screenshot notifications, improved Flatpak startup tracking, configurable Caffeine behavior, and multiple mobile Linux fixes.

🔗 Source: https://linuxiac.com/phosh-0-58-linux-mobile-shell-improves-screenshots-and-flatpak-apps/

#flatpak #linux

📰 Qualcomm Patching Linux For Hardware Thermal Binning To Benefit Snapdragon X Laptops

A new patch series sent out from Qualcomm that aims to help at least the Snapdragon X series laptops is hardware-binned trip point support. Some Qualcomm SoCs are available in different multiple thermal/package bins with different junction temperature limits but otherwise being the same silicon. The new Linux patches are working to properly convey that information around the thermal limits for a given piece of silicon...

🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/Qualcomm-HW-BIn-Trip-Point

#linux

📰 Raspberry Pi 4 and Raspberry Pi 5 2GB get price increases due to RAM demand

The RAM crisis continues to deepen thanks to the mass hardware buying from data centres, with Raspberry Pi yet again raising some prices.Read the full article on GamingOnLinux.

🔗 Source: https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/10/raspberry-pi-4-and-raspberry-pi-5-2gb-get-price-increases-due-to-ram-demand/

#raspberry

📰 Ubuntu 'Stonking Stingray' beta swims out: Deeper Rust 'oxidization' plus LLM speech-to-text

GNOME 51 is here, and Ubuntu interim releases are getting interesting again.

🔗 Source: https://www.theregister.com/os-platforms/2026/10/05/ubuntu-stonking-stingray-beta-swims-out-deeper-rust-oxidization-plus-llm-speech-to-text/5301023

#gnome #rust #ubuntu

📰 Valve give game developers more Steam Deck Framerate data

Valve have expanded their feedback for developers whose games are Steam Deck Verified to provide more performance data.Read the full article on GamingOnLinux.

🔗 Source: https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/10/valve-give-game-developers-more-steam-deck-framerate-data/

#steam

📰 Linux's ZRAM Reworked For Greater Memory Savings, Better Performance

With today's very high memory prices, the Linux ZRAM code for compressed block devices in RAM has seen a rework to provide greater memory savings...

🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-ZRAM-Rework-Savings

#linux

📰 Debian's latest kernel security update has 1,313 reasons to patch

AI-assisted bug hunting adds to maintainers' workload, while broad CVE rules help explain the sprawling tally.

🔗 Source: https://www.theregister.com/os-platforms/2026/10/05/debians-latest-kernel-security-update-has-1313-reasons-to-patch/5301124

#debian #kernel