📰 ZimaBoard 2: An Interesting Intel-Powered Linux Home Mini Server

For those looking for a low-power, well-built small office / home office Linux server with interesting connectivity options, the ZimaBoard 2 is an interesting option that has been available for some months now and powered by the Intel N150 processor. Besides the interesting single board hardware and well built aluminum chassis, the offering is rounded out by being preloaded with ZimaOS as a Linux-based "personal cloud OS" to easily get hosting...

🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/review/zimaboard2

#intel #linux #linuxbased

📰 New ASUS, Dell & OneXPlayer Hardware Support In Linux 7.0-rc3

A pull request sent out today and already merged to Linux Git ahead of Sunday's Linux 7.0-rc3 has some new hardware driver support additions for the likes of ASUS, HP, Dell, and OneXPlayer...

🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-7.0-rc3-Platform-Drivers

#linux

📰 Wine 11.4 Released With More Improvements

Wine 11.4 is out today as the latest bi-weekly development release of this open-source software that powers Valve's Steam Play (Proton) and allows for Windows games and applications to run on Linux and macOS...

🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/Wine-11.4-Released

#opensource #steam #linux

📰 FreeBSD 15.1 On Track With Better Realtek WiFi & KDE Desktop Install Option

The effort around improving FreeBSD on laptops continues full speed ahead in 2026. The upcoming FreeBSD 15.1 remains on track with not only having a KDE desktop option from FreeBSD's text-based installer UI but also improved Realtek WiFi adapter support is on the way, updating of the graphics drivers from Linux, and more...

🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/FreeBSD-15.1-Realtek-KDE-Wins

#kde #linux

📰 Fastfetch 2.60 System Information Tool Adds Moss Package Support

Fastfetch 2.60 introduces Zed editor detection, moss package support, and enhanced window manager detection on Linux.

🔗 Source: https://linuxiac.com/fastfetch-2-60-system-information-tool-adds-moss-package-support/

#linux

📰 Budgie 10.10.2 Brings Improved Labwc Wayland Compositor Integration

Out today is Budgie 10.10.2 as the latest minor update to this open-source desktop environment that began as part of the Solus Linux project...

🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/Budgie-10.10.2-Released

#wayland #budgie #opensource #linux

📰 4 derivatives of popular Linux distros that are better than the originals

There will always be a dedicated group of people that think the original is better than the spin-off, and that's true with Linux distros as well. The big names like Ubuntu, Fedora, Arch, and others have played a massive role in the creation of other distros, and as a beginner, you wouldn't be blamed for thinking that using one of the originals should be better because of their ubiquity.

🔗 Source: https://www.xda-developers.com/derivatives-of-popular-linux-distros-that-are-better-than-the-originals/

#fedora #arch #ubuntu #linux

📰 Notable Intel & AMD CPU Changes Merged For Linux 7.0-rc3

This week's batch of "x86/urgent" patches that were merged overnight for Linux 7.0 contain some fixes and other adjustments worth highlighting for both AMD and Intel...

🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/Intel-AMD-x86-Linux-7.0-rc3

#intel #linux #amd

📰 OpenWrt 25.12 Released with APK Package Manager Replacing opkg

OpenWrt 25.12 open-source router firmware arrives with a major shift to the APK package manager, replacing opkg, alongside Linux kernel 6.12.

🔗 Source: https://linuxiac.com/openwrt-25-12-released-with-apk-package-manager-replacing-opkg/

#kernel #linux #opensource

📰 AMD Ryzen AI NPUs Are Finally Useful Under Linux For Running LLMs

Over the past two years AMD has developed the AMDXDNA accelerator driver in the mainline Linux kernel for supporting the AMD Ryzen AI NPUs. But when it comes to user-space software on Linux actually able to leave the Ryzen AI NPUs it's been... extremely limited with nothing really useful besides some niche bits of code. Even AMD's own software like their GAIA on Linux has used Vulkan with their iGPUs rather than any NPU support.

🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/AMD-Ryzen-AI-NPUs-Linux-LLMs

#kernel #linux #amd