ARM Give a man a fire and he's warm for a day, but set fire to him and he's warm for the rest of his life (Terry Pratchett, Jingo)

Raspberry Pi Announces Price Hikes Due To RAM Demand, 1GB Raspberry Pi 5 Launched

([Raspberry Pi] 1 December 06:16 AM EST Higher Raspberry Pi Prices)

Due to the ongoing RAM shortages in the industry amid ongoing massive demand for AI servers,Raspberry Pi announced today they are having to raise prices on the Raspberry Pi 4 and Raspberry Pi 5 single board computers. They have also launched a 1GB Raspberry Pi 5 version too for those not needing much memory and wanting to keep pricing to a minimum.


Apple HFS/HFS+ File-System Drivers Receive Corruption Fixes & More For Linux 6.19

([Apple] 1 December 06:05 AM EST Linux 6.19 HFS)

It was just earlier this year that Linux developers considered dropping the Apple HFS and HFS+ file-system drivers from the mainline Linux kernel for being unmaintained. But then some new developers stepped up to maintain the drivers and there has been new HFS/HFS+ file-system patches each kernel cycle since. With the now in-development Linux 6.19 kernel there are some nice year-end clean-ups to these file-system drivers.


Steam Machine, Continued Open-Source Rust Usage & Linux Kernel Happenings In November

([Phoronix] 1 December 04:00 AM EST November 2025)

It was an eventful past month with Valve announcing the new Steam Machine, a lot of new Linux kernel activity, the continued increase of Rust programming language adoption by open-source projects, a lot of fun hardware benchmarks, and more. There were 283 original news articles on Phoronix the past month about Linux/open-source software and hardware plus another 18 featured Linux hardware reviews / multi-page benchmark articles. Here is a look back at the most popular content over the past month.


Intel Finally Posts Open-Source Gaudi 3 Driver Code For The Linux Kernel

([Intel] 30 November 08:28 PM EST Gaudi 3 Open-Source)

The good news is that Intel tonight posted a pull request for open-source Gaudi 3 accelerator support for the mainline Linux kernel! The bad news is that it's coming quite late in the product cycle, much later than the former excellent Habana Labs open-source track record, and their hopes of squeezing this code into the Linux 6.19 kernel may be dashed.


Linux 6.18 Released With Many New Features, Likely This Year's LTS Kernel

([Linux Kernel] 30 November 06:23 PM EST Linux 6.18)

Linux 6.18 stable is now available! Linux 6.18 ushers in many new features and changes while also is expected to become this year's Long Term Support "LTS" kernel version.


NixOS 25.11 Released With 7,002 New Packages Added

([Operating Systems] 30 November 03:41 PM EST NixOS 25.11)

It's been an exciting weekend for Linux distribution released with new versions of Endeavour OS, CachyOS, Solus and now a new NixOS release.


Features Expected For Linux 6.19: ASUS Armoury, Many Intel Bits, AMD GCN 1.0/1.1 Enhanced

([Linux Kernel] 30 November 11:32 AM EST Linux 6.19 Features Early Look)

With the Linux 6.18 kernel likely being released later today, here is a look at some of the features on the table for the next kernel cycle, Linux 6.19. The list is based on changes queued in various "-next" branches ahead of the Linux 6.19 merge window. There's always the possibility of last minute change of plans or objections raised by Linus Torvalds, but this should provide an early look at some of the features more than likely to be merged for Linux 6.19.


Sylve Maturing As A FreeBSD Unified Web Management Interface

([BSD] 30 November 07:07 AM EST FreeBSD 2025-Q3 Highlights)

Ahead of the FreeBSD 15.0 stable release expected to be announced next week, the FreeBSD project today published their Q3-2025 status report to outline their various development accomplishments from July through September.


Linux 6.19 Will Allow You To Write I2C Drivers In Rust

([Linux Kernel] 30 November 06:32 AM EST Rust I2C Drivers)

With the upcoming Linux 6.19 kernel cycle there are yet more Rust kernel bindings being introduced and other additions to make it possible to write more Linux kernel drivers within the Rust programming language. Among the new Rust additions expected for Linux 6.19 are making it possible to write Inter-Integrated Circuit (I2C) bus drivers in Rust.


Broadcom "BNG_RE" Next-Generation RoCE Driver Slated For Linux 6.19

([Linux Networking] 30 November 06:20 AM EST BNG_RE)

Queued up via the Linux kernel's RDMA development Git tree is "BNG_RE" as the next-generation RoCE driver from Broadcom.


Black Sesame SoC Support To Be Merged For Linux 6.19

([Hardware] 30 November 06:05 AM EST Black Sesame Technologies)

A new SoC vendor and in turn new SoC/platform support is set to premiere in the Linux 6.19 kernel with the initial Black Sesame Technologies C1200 support.


Genode OS Framework 25.11 Adds Intel Alder Lake Graphics Support

([Operating Systems] 30 November 05:46 AM EST Genode OS 25.11)

The Genode OS Framework 25.11 release was issued this weekend as the newest update to this original open-source operating system effort built around a micro-kernel design and various novel design approaches.


Algol 68 Programming Language Front-End Merged Into GCC 16

([GNU] 29 November 08:47 PM EST Algol 68)

Making for an exciting holiday weekend night is the Algol 68 programming language front-end "ga68" being merged into the GNU Compiler Collection (GCC) codebase. After COBOL language support landed in GCC 15 earlier this year, next year's GCC 16 release is adding support for the half-century old Algol 68 programming language.


Solus Linux 4.8 Released With Python 2 Finally Removed, Abandons Solus Software Center

([Operating Systems] 29 November 03:41 PM EST Solus 4.8)

In addition to the releases today of updated Endeavour OS and CachyOS, Solus 4.8 is out as the latest version of another desktop Linux distribution popular with enthusiasts.


CachyOS Improves Intel Video Acceleration Experience

([Arch Linux] 29 November 01:55 PM EST CachyOS November 2025)

In addition to the release today of a big refresh to Endeavour OS, CachyOS is out with their latest ISO refresh for this additional Arch Linux powered desktop OS. CachyOS for its November 2025 refresh brings installer improvements, now installs additional packages for media acceleration when capable Intel graphics are detected, handling for Bcachefs with its DKMS module, and other improvements.


Linux 6.18 Features From Apple M2 To Sheaves, DM-PCACHE & More Intel + AMD Hardware

([Linux Kernel] 29 November 12:25 PM EST Linux 6.18 Features)

With the Linux 6.18 stable kernel release expected to take place tomorrow on 30 November, here is a reminder about some of the new hardware support and other interesting features coming in this next stable version of the Linux kernel.


GNOME Gains New Clipboard Manager Option With "Copyous"

([GNOME] 29 November 09:32 AM EST GNOME Copyous)

For those looking to improve their clipboard management experience on the GNOME desktop, Copyous is a new GNOME Shell extension serving as a new clipboard manager.


Arch Linux Based Endeavour OS Updated After ISO Refresh Hiatus

([Arch Linux] 29 November 06:52 AM EST Endeavour OS 2025.11.24)

Endeavour OS is one of the popular desktop Linux distributions built around Arch Linux providing a nice out-of-the-box experience. Since their last ISO refresh back in March there hadn't been much news from the project nor any new ISO releases for this rolling-release distro. But thankfully today they are back in the saddle with a new ISO release, Endeavour OS 2025.11.24 "Ganymede".


Framework Computer Now Sponsoring LVFS / Fwupd Development

([Hardware] 29 November 06:43 AM EST Framework + LVFS)

With the Linux Vendor Firmware Service serving more than 135 million downloads for Linux users updating their system and device firmware, LVFS has been working to get more hardware vendors to contribute either engineering resources or directly contributing annual dues as sponsors. Framework Computer is now the first one to have executed an agreement under these new sponsorship efforts.


Intel Hiring Two More Experienced Linux Kernel Engineers

([Intel] 29 November 06:27 AM EST Intel Hiring For Linux)

While there have been a number of Intel Linux engineers laid off over roughly the past year, other Linux kernel engineers opting to pursue employment opportunities elsewhere amid the ongoing challenges and restructuring at the company, and shifts in their open-source strategy, there's some good news as we work toward the 2025 holidays. Intel is currently hiring for two more experienced Linux kernel software engineers.


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Here is the fact of the week, maybe even the fact of the month.
According to probably reliable sources, the Coca-Cola people are experiencing
severe marketing anxiety in China.
The words "Coca-Cola" translate into Chinese as either (depending
on the inflection) "wax-fattened mare" or "bite the wax tadpole".
Bite the wax tadpole.
There is a sort of rough justice, is there not?
The trouble with this fact, as lovely as it is, is that it's hard
to get a whole column out of it. I'd like to teach the world to bite a wax
tadpole. Coke -- it's the real wax-fattened mare. Not bad, but broad
satiric vistas do not open up.
-- John Carrol, The San Francisco Chronicle