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For those dabbling with generative AI on the weekends, the AMD-led Lemonade SDK 11.6 is out today with its newest feature release of this open-source software for running local AI apps with optimized LLMs across CPUs, GPUs, and NPUs. Lemonade 11.6 adds Muse Glimmer 30B GGUF model support into Lemonade’s Llama.cpp catalog with draft decoding,…
KDE Plasma 6.6 is officially becoming a long-term support release, with three years of maintenance planned under a newly funded initiative that also extends beyond Plasma itself to KDE Frameworks 6.24 and the KDE Gear 25.12 apps collection. The move is notable because KDE discontinued its previous Plasma LTS model last year. According to KDE…
You wake up one morning to find your home server unresponsive, after some investigation you discover a failed NVMe drive taking your self-hosted services and data with it. Perhaps you’re a system administrator and a workstation’s SSD has been silently accumulating errors for months, and now a user is reporting corrupted files. Drive failures are…
LightDM, Ubuntu’s former display manager, has had its first new release in four years – and the first under a new set of maintainers. LightDM v1.33.0 is a ‘catch up’ release that adds Qt6 support (Qt5 still works, don’t worry) and clears a backlog of fixes that had built up since the previous release in…
18 Sarah’s Security Brief: Your Intel CPU runs firmware-level patches called microcode, and they are your first line of defense against hardware-level exploits. Intel just dropped microcode-20260811 fixing eight security advisories today. I am going to show you exactly how to check, install, and verify these updates on Ubuntu, Fedora, and Arch, step by step….
When you reproduce a bug or restart a service, the most useful view is often the log scrolling live as it happens. You want to see each new line when it is written, but you may also need to hide routine entries so the warning or error that matters does not disappear in the noise….
Hyperswitch is an open-source payments switch from Juspay that you can run on your own Linux server. This guide covers setting it up with Docker, checking the ports the stack opens, running a curl health check, and processing a test payment to make sure everything is working. Most payment integrations start out simple. You connect…
Love them or hate them, rolling release distros have managed to take a slice out of the Linux desktop market share. They provide a bleeding-edge experience that stays quite stable if cared for and bites a user’s a** if handled poorly. CachyOS is one of those options that has been only getting more popular as…
Expected to be merged during the upcoming Linux 7.3 merge window is a Kernel Control Flow Integrity (KCFI) improvement intended to benefit older Intel processors. Peter Zijlstra of Intel worked through a KCFI improvement for older platforms that lack support for FineIBT. Peter explained with the pending patch: “As noted in commit 85a2d4a890dc (“x86,ibt: Use…
Welcome to Week 32 of Linuxiac’s 2026 Weekly Roundup, your source for Linux and open-source news. Below are the key Linux and FOSS highlights from August 3 to 9. Linux Distributions This week brought three updates in the Linux world, and I’ve covered each one in the articles below. Software Updates In addition, here is…
