Hardware on Linux: laptops, mini PCs, single-board computers like the Raspberry Pi, graphics cards, CPUs and peripherals – and how well they work with free software.
PhoronixHardwareThe RISC-V RVA23 profile is a big deal for reducing fragmentation in the RISC-V ecosystem and standardizing more of the ISA to make it easier to distribute modern RISC-V binaries and the like.
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There were a few software package updates for openSUSE Tumbleweed ARM this month with snapshots reaching the ARM port. The second half of September and the f...
Bitmerse’s Romu recently debuted on Crowd Supply as an ultra-compact development board based on the Raspberry Pi RP2354A microcontroller.
PhoronixHardwareWhile Mesa is predominantly used for GPU drivers, open-source developer Tomeu Vizoso continues advancing the capabilities of NPUs within the Mesa driver stack...
PhoronixENPhoronixHardwareIntel ISPC 1.32 released today as the newest version of this Intel Implicit SPMD Program Compiler built atop LLVM/Clang. ISPC is a variant of the C programming language with extensiosn catering to …
PhoronixENPhoronixHardwareLast year Framework Computer launched the Framework Laptop 12 as a convertible, 2-in-1 laptop that was friendly with Linux and upgradeable inline with the beloved Framework Laptop 13 and 16 models.
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TUXEDO Stellaris 16 Gen8 Linux laptop is now available with Intel Core Ultra 9 290HX Plus processors and NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5000 Series graphics.
PhoronixHardwareIntel announced today the GPU D Series for the enterprise-focused, inference-optimized GPU accelerators known to now as Crescent Island...
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The multi-OS NexPhone went up for pre-order at the start of 2026, 14 years later than initially planned. Fitting, then, to hear the handset's arrival has
Intel today has unveiled its official performance specifications and branding for its upcoming "Crescent Island" data center AI inference cards.
PhoronixHardwareWith all the recent progress on Mesa's Rusticl driver as a Rust-based OpenCL driver working across the different Mesa Gallium3D hardware drivers, a Phoronix Premium supporter inquired about seeing …
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Tiny Tina’s Wonderlands on the BOSGAME VTA-439 under CachyOS, testing Radeon 890M performance at 1080p across five quality presets.
PhoronixHardwareFor those looking to run Linux on new Qualcomm Snapdragon X2 hardware, there are laptops from ASUS, HP, and Lenovo that are powered by the X2 Elite and will be supported with the mainline Linux 7.4 …
PhoronixENPhoronixKernelFollowing AMD completing their HDMI 2.1 implementation for the open-source AMDGPU Linux driver after beginning with HDMI FRL patches earlier in the year, Intel's open-source driver developers are …
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Following the recent launch of AMD's EPYC 8005 Sorano server CPUs, we are taking a look at the various SKU options among chips, and what configurations offer the best value for different needs
Sipeed’s SLogic32U3 is a 32-channel logic analyzer designed for high-speed digital capture over USB 3.2 Gen2. The device supports configurable sample rates based on the number of active channels …
9to5Linux Weekly Roundup for October 4th, 2026, brings news about COSMIC 1.10, Raspberry Pi Desktop, NVIDIA 615.78.08, Raspberry Pi Imager 2.0.12, Q4OS 6.10, Ventoy 1.1.18, KDE Gear 26.08.2 …
PhoronixKernelThe Linux kernel build for RISC-V doesn't currently make use of the CPU ISA's Vector extension. but leveraging it with compiler auto vectorization is showing the ability to provide nice performance …
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Abietec, a subsidiary of Raytac, offers the AX61 series of wireless modules based on NXP’s RW612 and RW610 microcontrollers.
Zymbit’s ZYMKEY 5 is a hardware security module for Raspberry Pi systems, offering 640 key slots, filesystem encryption, device authentication, and physical tamper detection.
SPEC has released version 15.0.1 of SPECviewperf Linux Edition, bringing a slew of upgrades and official Arm support to Linux's key workstation graphics benchmark suite.
Installing the Ubuntu desktop on RISC-V hardware is made easier with 26.10, as Canonical is now building official riscv64 desktop images. Experimental
The Radxa Dragon Q8B is more than twice as fast, has twice the I/O, and is only a little bit larger than the Raspberry Pi 5. But it costs a smidge more, and can be hard to find.
OnLogic’s newest industrial edge gateway, the Helix 320, features a fanless design powered by Intel N-Series Twin Lake processors.
IBASE has announced the IB966, a 3.5-inch SBC based on Intel Core Ultra Series 3 “Panther Lake” processors, with up to 180 TOPS of aggregate AI performance, 128GB of DDR5-7200 memory, dual 2.5GbE …
Hellomatik has published a study and a modified distributed-llama implementation for running the Qwen3-30B-A3B language model across four Raspberry Pi 5 boards.
Auto-cpufreq, the automatic CPU speed & power optimizer for Linux, released new 3.2.0 version yesterday. The new version of this free open-source software added configure option to enable/disable …
Scrcpy, the popular application for mirroring / controlling Android screen on your computer, released new 5.0 version yesterday.
TELOS-AI4000 by TechNexion is a compact edge-AI accelerator module based on NXP’s Ara240 discrete neural processing unit. The module delivers up to 40 TOPS of AI performance, supports up to 16GB of …
Efinix announced this week the Sapphire RV64, a configurable 64-bit RISC-V soft SoC intended for embedded Linux, edge AI and other applications requiring more memory and processing capability than …
