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openEuler Wants Linux to Treat an Entire AI Cluster Like One Single Machine
At Open Source Summit Europe 2026, openEuler laid out how SuperPoD OS and Agentic Scaling change what an operating system is expected to do.
[$] Owning C types from Rust code
Rust's system of ownership and borrowed references is convenient when it can correctly model a program's needs. The Rust for Linux project has worked to provide adapters between Rust's semantics and the existing C code in the kernel. At Kangrejos 2026, Andreas Hindborg spoke about a patch series implementing the next such adaptor: an Ownable trait for representing objects that are allocated in C code, but which Rust code is responsible for cleaning up (if not necessarily deallocating) when it is done with them. He hoped to finally reach a consensus on the patch series, after months of discussion on the mailing list.
Linux Kernel Developers Plan To Remove "Assisted-By" Tag Requirement For AI/LLM Usage
Currently there is a policy requirement for Linux kernel patches where AI tools contributed, they should be documented with an "Assisted-by:" tag to make clear AI was used in the creation of said patch. But Linux kernel developers are now looking at dropping this requirement amid the rampant use of AI/LLMs...
Eisentraut: The reverts will continue until morale improves
PostgreSQL core team member Peter Eisentraut has written a blog post reflecting on the " unusually high number of features " that have been taken out of the upcoming PostgreSQL 19 release since the beta period began. Some of the reverted features had significant architectural defects that would have been hard to fix quickly and during beta. But there was also a long tail of relatively harmless issues involving various edge cases. In past times, many of these would not have surfaced until much later and we would have fixed them bit by bit over the subsequent five years. But with LLM-assisted code review, these kinds of things can get found much faster, and then you're staring at a list of like forty defect reports. And even if each of them requires only a three-line fix on average, there is a fixed overhead to dealing with each of these, and then you run out of time. Most if not all of the affected reverted features were written a long time ago when LLM-assisted code review was not as useful as it is now, meaning that the effective quality bar has been raised after the time the feature was written and committed. Unless the capabilities of LLM-assisted code review keep improving at the current rate, this situation should sort itself out for future development cycles. A corollary of that is that, at least for the most part, as far as I can tell, this situation is not due to "vibe coding". This code was written well before that was a possibility. LWN covered the unusually large number of bug fixes required for PostgreSQL 19 features in September.
Firefox 159 Beta Released With Fix For Tabs On Wayland
With Firefox 158 released, Firefox 159 is now in beta ahead of its official release in two weeks...
Asterinas 0.19.0 released
Asterinas is a project to build a new operating-system kernel in Rust; it was covered here in 2025. Version 0.19.0 of the Asterinas kernel has been released; changes include a new graphics subsystem capable of running X.org, " minimal but usable " 64-bit Arm support, better virtualization support, and more.
Linux Mint 27 Continues Working Toward Christmas Release With Many Features
Linux Mint developers continue enjoying their relaxed release schedule in moving from a six to twelve month release cycle. Linux Mint 27 "Adrien" continues tracking for a Christmas release...
ONLYOFFICE !0.0 Released With AI Features, 1,000+ Bug Fixes
ONLYOFFICE 10.0 is now available for this open-source office suite alternative to the likes of LibreOffice...
NVIDIA's Nova Driver Continues Leading The Way For Linux Rust GPU Drivers
The DRM Rust changes targeting the Linux 7.4 merge window have been submitted for pulling into DRM-Next ahead of that cycle kicking off (hopefully) next week. The NVIDIA Nova driver continues leading the way for the development of in-kernel Rust GPU drivers and in the process building out the Rust Direct Rendering Manager (DRM) infrastructure...
Asterinas 0.19.0 Brings Up X.Org & Other Improvements To This Rust-Written OS
Asterinas is the open-source project developing a Rust-based, memory-safe Linux alternative OS while striving for Linux software compatibility. Out now is Asterinas 0.19 as the project continues advancing on its goals...
IREE 3.12 Introduces Rolls Out Rewritten Vulkan Driver, Experimental AMD HSA HAL
Rolling out last week was a new version of IREE as the Intermediate Representation Execution Environment for MLIR-based end-to-end compiler and run-time for lowering machine learning models into a unified IR and working across different hardware/driver stacks. Making IREE 3.12 notable is a rewrite to its Vulkan code...
With 10.0 Release, ONLYOFFICE Goes All in on AI, Making it the Most Modern Office Choice for Team Collaboration
There are apps for workflows and then every editor gets AI tools and new upgrades of its own in the latest release of ONLYOFFICE.
FreeType 2.15 Released With Apple HVF Driver, ISO Open Font Format Edition 5
FreeType 2.15 is now available for this widely-used font rendering library used across many different operating systems and software applications...
Intel Announces The GPU D Series For Crescent Island
Intel announced today the GPU D Series for the enterprise-focused, inference-optimized GPU accelerators known to now as Crescent Island...
NexPhone, the multi-OS smartphone, delayed until 2027
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 been delayed until 2027. Nex Computer CEO Emre Kosmaz says devices won’t begin shipping until March 2027 because of issues with antenna placement and casing issues. Given that it took 14 years for this to go from vapourware to tangible product, I doubt long-time fans of the concept will see a delay from Q3 2026 to Q1 2027 as a comparative blink of the eye. While they sort out the the hardware snags, work […] You're reading NexPhone, the multi-OS smartphone, delayed until 2027 , a blog post from OMG! Ubuntu . Do not reproduce elsewhere without permission.
Ubuntu 27.04 codename revealed as ‘Tenacious T-Rex’
Canonical has confirmed the codename of next year’s Ubuntu 27.04 release as Tenacious T-Rex. It follows Ubuntu 26.10 Stonking Stingray, which is out on 15 October, both sequentially and alphabetically. The previous T release was Ubuntu 14.04 LTS Trusty Tahr. Quite a contrast in creature between the two, no? As you likely know, every Ubuntu release has an alliterative codename coupling combining an adjective with an animal (or, on rare occasions, a mythological beast like a minotaur, werewolf or jackalope). The first part of the codename is not fluff, but a critical label used to distinguish and keep the backend […] You're reading Ubuntu 27.04 codename revealed as ‘Tenacious T-Rex’ , a blog post from OMG! Ubuntu . Do not reproduce elsewhere without permission.
Ubuntu's Myna Speech-To-Text Now Available In Tech Preview
A few months ago Canonical announced Myna as a speech-to-text solution for Ubuntu 26.10 as part of their effort for building a context-aware desktop. Myna as of today is available in "tech preview" form not only for Ubuntu 26.10 but also the LTS releases...
Ubuntu release tech preview of Myna, its AI voice dictation
Canonical has announced that Myna, its new AI-powered speech-to-text tool for Ubuntu desktop, is now available as a technology preview. Myna uses a local, offline automatic speech recognition (ASR) AI model to let you dictate into any text field on the Ubuntu desktop, be it a word processor, web browser or even the terminal. Ubuntu 24.04 LTS, 26.04 LTS and 26.10 are supported, though only when using the default GNOME desktop with Wayland. Canonical’s Jean Baptiste Lallement says it is “still early days” for the feature, but that it is now “ready for the community to try”. It’s already multi-lingual, […] You're reading Ubuntu release tech preview of Myna, its AI voice dictation , a blog post from OMG! Ubuntu . Do not reproduce elsewhere without permission.
Linus Torvalds Says He Likes Using AI, While His New Kernel Branch Credits Claude Code
His eight-patch series takes advantage of AI assistance to cut the extra work the kernel does when many threads read the same file.
ROCm 10 OpenCL vs. Mesa 26.3-dev Rusticl Performance On AMD Strix Halo
With 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 some fresh benchmarks of this open-source OpenCL solution. Here is a look at how the Mesa 26.3 Rusticl driver is looking against AMD's official OpenCL driver within ROCm 10.
[$] The 2026 Maintainers Summit
The Maintainers Summit is a one-day, invitation-only gathering of about 30 kernel developers; it is held once each year to discuss policy-related issues that are not always amenable to resolution via email. The 2026 event was scheduled for October 8 in Prague, Czechia. Unsurprisingly, the discussion there was dominated by large language models (LLMs) and their effect on the development community, but some time was also found to talk about security bugs and long-term succession planning.
Firefox 158 released with JPEG XL support
Firefox 158 is now available to download, providing out-of-the-box support for JPEG XL images. JPEG XL is said to have better compression than other image formats, including WebP, PNG and regular ol’ JPEG. It supports wider colour gamut, HDR and high bit-depth, as well as animation, alpha channels and lossless and progressive encoding. Mozilla has spent several months testing JPEG XL support in Firefox, providing an opt-in toggle to try it out via the browser’s Labs page. Other changes and fixes Firefox’s Smart Window, the AI-powered browsing mode that uses a cloud-based provider like OpenAI and Alibaba to help you […] You're reading Firefox 158 released with JPEG XL support , a blog post from OMG! Ubuntu . Do not reproduce elsewhere without permission.
openEuler is Revamping the Development Experience of the Open Source Community With an AI Toolchain
AI now reviews code and fixes CVEs in the community's pipelines, DevStation moves to a 2-week update cycle, and openEuler is layering an agent-native OS on top.
LineageOS 24 released
The LineageOS project, which produces an Android-based distribution for mobile devices, has announced the release of LineageOS 24.0. We're a bit sentimental about this release, as it precedes a really fun upcoming milestone. On December 24, 2026, LineageOS will celebrate 10 years. It's a remarkable milestone for a project built by a passionate community of developers, maintainers, contributors, and users who have kept so many devices alive along the way. [...] We've been hard at work rebasing all of our changes and features since Android 17's release in June. Android 17's first release mainly contained iterative improvements and some UI/UX refinements, but due to our previous efforts adapting to Google's heavy refactoring over the last several versions, we were able to rebase onto Android 17's code-base faster than anticipated. Yes you read that right: We're early this year!