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…
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…
This is a submission for the Hacktoberfest Weekend Challenge: Build for a Friend What I Built I built Linux Buddy, a simple learning assistant for students who are starting with Linux. While working on Linux learning content, I noticed that students often remember individual commands but struggle…
Whenever I used to spin up a new Linux server, my manual setup routine was always the same: SSH in, update system packages, configure UFW firewall rules, set up Fail2ban jails, write Nginx proxy configurations with security headers, and verify that services were enabled at boot. Manually running…
Running LLMs locally on Linux: what actually works on a Raspberry Pi A 5B-parameter model can run on a Raspberry Pi 5 every day. It is not fast. It is also completely offline, costs nothing per token, and never phones home. That trade is worth making for a specific class of work, and worthless for…
I was almost ready to install Omarchy. The workflow looked great. Keyboard-first, fast workspaces, tiling, minimal mouse usage — pretty much how I wanted to use my computer. But I stopped before switching. I'm generally becoming more skeptical when a project or ecosystem starts getting surrounded…
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...
Phoronix reports: Steam on Linux use in March hit an all-time high of around 5.33% marketshare. Since then it pulled back to around 4% while for September 2026 the Steam Survey results... indicate a rather steep decline of 0.85%, down to 3.05%. Meanwhile macOS is at 1.92% and Microsoft Windows at…
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…
Linaro engineer Vincent Guittot sent out a set of patches on Friday working on scheduling latency improvements, especially when multiple short slice tasks are running concurrently on the same system...
