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As the first update to the Intel Thermal Daemon since February when v2.5.9 brought Panther Lake support, Intel Thermal Daemon 2.5.10 was tagged on Thursday...

The Slab pull request was merged this evening for the ongoing Linux 6.18 merge window. Most notable with the Slab updates is the introduction of Sheaves...

Lip-Bu Tan opravdu mění Intel výrazným tempem. Do firmy míří některé nové investice a rýsují se různé potenciální spolupráce s dřívějšími konkurenty. Nevytratí se ale duch společnosti, která byla v mnoha ohledech unikátní?

For those wanting to run virtual machines with more than 255 vCPUs on modern AMD EPYC servers, an important code refactoring was merged for Linux 6.18 to ensure the proper topology information is exposed to KVM guest VMs...

After Linus Torvalds yesterday shot down RISC-V big endian prospects for the Linux kernel, today he has used his authority to wage a war on "crazy" Rust code formatting as well as to critique poor text formatting...

ZLUDA 5 is out today as the newest version of this open-source software for running CUDA software on non-NVIDIA GPUs...

The many SoC and platform/machine DeviceTree additions have been merged for the Linux 6.18 kernel! This includes finally having mainline support for the SiFive HiFive Premier P550 RISC-V development board and its EIC7700 SoC, Apple M2 Pro / Max / Ultra DeviceTrees added and associated Apple Mac system support, various new Snapdragon X1 laptops now being supported by the mainline kernel and much more...

The Kbuild changes have been merged for the in-development Linux 6.18 kernel...

Following last month's release of the first KDE Plasma 6.5 Beta, a second beta milestone was released today ahead of the stable release coming later in October...

So far Intel has posted very few Linux kernel driver enablement patches around Nova Lake but it looks like that is about to change...

Following the recent Raspberry Pi 500+ launch, the latest Raspberry Pi news is the release of Raspberry Pi OS now re-based against Debian 13 "Trixie" along with some additional changes...

The BPF changes have been merged for the in-development Linux 6.18 kernel...

Valve just published the Steam Survey results for September with a slight increase to the Linux gaming userbase...

TrueNAS 25.10-RC1 is out today as the newest test release of this OpenZFS+Linux-based operating system for network attached storage (NAS) hardware and other storage devices...

Sent out today was the x86/mm pull request of the x86/x86_64 memory management changes destined for this next version of the Linux kernel. This pull has just one new patch but is worth mentioning...

Mnoho z nás má z dětství celou řadu vzpomínek na hodiny a dny proseděné před televizorem s připojeným ZX Spectrem nebo Didaktikem. Dnes si můžete přivodit zážitky s moderním klonem eLeMeNt ZX.

Ukážeme si některé další možnosti použití Llama Stacku, a to (opět) v oblasti velkých jazykových modelů. Například bude popsáno, jak může systém získávat informace z vektorizovaných dokumentů (znalostní databáze).

Made public and mitigated within the mainline Linux kernel last month was the VMSCAPE vulnerability affecting both AMD and Intel CPUs. Now merged for the in-development Linux 6.18 kernel is adding VMSCAPE to the recently-introduced Attack Vector Controls functionality...

The hardware monitoring "HWMON" subsystem updates have been sent out for the Linux 6.18 kernel with some notable additions...

During the month of September on Phoronix were 271 original Linux/open-source news articles and another 19 featured Linux hardware reviews and benchmark articles, all written by your's truly. Here is a look back at what excited Linux enthusiasts the most on Phoronix during September...