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📰 SteamOS Ported to Arm handhelds, PixelMob Portable NAS, and Amazon’s new Fire TV Stick 4K with Vega OS: Liliputing News Roundup Valve developed an ARM version of SteamOS for its Steam Frame VR headset • PixelMob is a new portable NAS/mini PC from UnifyDrive for media backup, with an RK3588 chip, up to 3 M.2 2280 slots for storage, CFexpress, SD, and microSD card support a 7 inch AMOLED display, USB4 (40 Gbps), and 2.5 GbE LAN • Apple is said to be planning to launch a new smart home product on Oct 13 with a "6-inch square display" that can be wall mounted or placed on a... 🔗 Source: https://liliputing.com/steamos-ported-to-arm-handhelds-pixelmob-portable-nas-and-amazons-new-fire-tv-stick-4k-with-vega-os-liliputing-news-roundup/ #arm #steam

📰 Valve's Work On Foveated Rendering For The Open-Source Turnip Driver On The Steam Frame As part of Valve's work on developing the Steam Frame VR headset, they worked on foveated rendering support for the Mesa Turnip driver that supports the Qualcomm Adreno graphics with open-source Vulkan API support. Foveated rendering is the technique to more closely mimic human vision by rendering high detail at your direct gaze point and lower quality in the peripheral vision. 🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/Steam-Frame-Turnip-Foveated #opensource #steam

📰 Canonical begins pushing Resolute Raccoon Users on Ubuntu 24.04 will begin to get nagged to update to 26.04.1. Here's how to proceed. 🔗 Source: https://www.theregister.com/os-platforms/2026/09/30/canonical-begins-pushing-resolute-raccoon/5300225 #ubuntu

📰 OpenMandriva ROME 26.09 Released With More AI Apps, Snaps & PGO + LTO Optimizations For ending out the month of September the OpenMandriva Linux distribution crew released OpenMandriva ROME 26.0 as their long overdue release held up by various technical issues and a reported sabotage attempt to their platform. With OpenMandriva ROME 24.12 having been their last release, this is quite a big update... 🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/OpenMandriva-ROME-26.09 #linux

📰 New Linux Patches Trying To Mainline Renesas SH7305 CPU Support The Renesas SH7305 isn't a new processor and is well known for powering various Casio graphing calculators over the past decde and a half. But finally the mainline Linux kernel may end up seeing support for this 32-bit SH-4a RISC core... 🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/Renesas-SH7305-Linux-Patches #kernel #linux

📰 Parrot OS 7.4 Released with AnonSurf 6.0, Updated Raspberry Pi Images Parrot OS 7.4 security-oriented distribution is now available for download with Linux kernel 7.1, updated tools, optimized builds, updated Raspberry Pi and ARM images, and other changes. 🔗 Source: https://9to5linux.com/parrot-os-7-4-released-with-anonsurf-6-0-updated-raspberry-pi-images #arm #kernel #linux #raspberry

📰 The Amazing Work By Valve's Timur Kristóf On Improving Old AMD GPUs On Linux Over the past year Timur Kristóf of Valve's Linux graphics driver team has made multiple very nice improvements to the AMDGPU kernel driver for enhancing support for old (GCN 1.0/1.1 era from a decade ago) graphics cards so that they can better handle Linux gaming and other tasks. This week in Toronto, Kristóf presented on this AMDGPU work that he initially began as a kernel driver development exercise after initially spending years in... 🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/XDC-2026-Valve-Timur-AMDGPU #amd #kernel #linux

I still don't really understand why we need Rust for that. 🤷‍♀️ I mean, C and C++ do support multithreading. It is not like it is hard to do it. A bit much boilerplatecode maybe (for me personally) but it can easily be done if you do proper bookkeeping.

If I would call out one downside of using more Rust (other than C getting a slight edge in performance which matters if done well): Rust is less transparant. It is a higher level language than C and that also comes with the downside of being less transparant, being more a black box. Yes, a good programmer knows exactly what happens but less skilled programmers easily can make wrong assumptions or not think at all about what happens and then you get bugs and undesired effects. Whether that will be a problem for a project like this remains to be seen but it is a reasonably expected risk in my opinion. In software like in engineering in general it all is about abstraction layers, for nothing this applies more than computers and programming. The advantage: abstraction makes it possible to work efficiently because you don't have to think about what exactly happens so you can get work done. Downside: it makes it easy to work sloppily and guess instead of know and understand. The ideal engineer learned what happens on the lower layers and then uses the abstraction on the higher layer. It is why many great programmers agree that you should learn assembly even if you write in Rust or Java or whatever.

📰 PhotoSuite Is a Free Photoshop-Like Editor With Native PSD Support PhotoSuite is a free, open-source image editor for Linux, Windows, and macOS, offering a Photoshop-like workflow and native PSD/PSB support. 🔗 Source: https://linuxiac.com/photosuite-is-a-free-photoshop-like-editor-with-native-psd-support/ #linux #opensource

except that mx linux is not really a house of cards, it is well built, imo... and word of mouth is not really a reliable method for building experience and finding what fits you because people are different... for example, some users don't mind systemd, so far it doesn't get in the way...most of those who are against systemd is largely due to philosophical reasons and taking preventive meausres at this point... some users don't mind wayland due to using newer systems and certain workflows...others don't do much outside a cli or tui, so they don't and can never see the reasons for wayland... and how is it cheating telling users of a particular distro to increase their distrowatch rank? it is no different from asking viewers of a video to comment, like and subscribe as it signals the algorithm to push that video or channel to a wider audience???

it is high time we realize that workflow is key for every user, not skill me personally, a big fan of GUI but on every install, I go through the process of configuring my install with hibernate support which is what is advocated in the linux ecosystem but I would always say the distro is the issue if there is a lack of hibernate support because I have been on distros, partially clean install - selectively carried over the config and files of certain apps from previous install as I have a separate home partition - like I was saying, I have been on distros where I didn't need to fiddle with grub or any of that and hibernate worked perfectly well...same with swap partitions...

antix is built to be used the antix way, if you want to use it the conventional way, you encounter insurmountable walls - insurmountable because by the time you scale the wall, you are on a 'different' distro...

📰 Arm Working On "TLBID" For Linux To Increase Performance On High Core Count CPUs Arm sent out an initial set of patches this week working on support in the Linux kernel for TLBI Domains. This "TLBID" feature is an upcoming Arm architecture capability designed to increase performance on high core count systems... 🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/ARM64-Linux-TLBI-Domains #arm #kernel #linux

📰 AMD Sends In More New GPU Hardware Enablement For Linux 7.4, Bug Fixes We are nearing the cut-off of new Direct Rendering Manager (DRM) subsystem material for the upcoming Linux 7.4 cycle. AMD this week sent in another feature pull to DRM-Next that is moving over to mostly bug fixing but does contain the enablement of some new GPU intellectual property blocks for upcoming graphics hardware... 🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/More-AMDGPU-Linux-7.4 #amd #linux