Qualcomm upstreamed new Cloud AI 100 "AIC100" firmware today to linux-firmware.git to fix a rather significant power/performance issue for these AI accelerators.

It turns out that the Qualcomm Cloud AI accelerators had a rather egreious firmware issue causing excessive power use for some workloads that in turn led to thermal throttling and lower performance.

A proposal has been raised by two CPython core developers to introduce the Rust programming language to CPython. Initially the focus is on allowing Rust to be used for developing optional extension modules for CPython but ultimately their goal is for Rust to become a hard dependency of CPython and used throughout its codebase.

CPython as the reference Python implementation could soon begin allowing Rust code to be used for building new modules while ultimately this proposal looks to let Rust be used throughout CPython:

"We (@emmatyping, @eclips4) propose introducing

SUSE developers working on their modern Agama operating system installer used by SUSE Linux Enterprise 16 and openSUSE is out with a new release. With Agama 18 they have officially dropped support for 32-bit / i586 processors.

The Agama 18 OS installer brings improvements to its storage management section of the installer, better handling of the JSON configuration for OS installations, self-update functionality for the installer, and work toward supporting openSUSE Kalpa installations.

In addition to talking about the Valve-backed open-source driver work for old AMD Radeon GPUs , Timur Kristóf also presented at the XDC2025 conference on the state of the RADV Vulkan driver. Timur was joined by Daniel Schürmann to talk about the great Linux gaming experience now possible on the RADV driver with the work done by Valve, AMD, Red Hat, Google, and the open-source community. RADV ray-tracing is much better today than in the past, the

MLPerf Client as MLCommons' machine language inferencing benchmark for client form factors / PCs now has a Linux build. MLPerf Client 1.5 was released yesterday with an experimental Linux build but for now at least is not nearly as full-featured as this AI benchmark on Windows and macOS.

MLPerf Client is designed to evaluate large language models (LLMs) and other AI workloads on hardware from laptops and desktops to workstations, compared to MLPerf proper running on GPU-accelerated AI servers.

MLPerf Client on Windows x64 supports

Following OpenZFS 2.4-rc3 from nearly one month ago is now a fourth release candidate for the upcoming OpenZFS 2.4. A few more features and improvements have been squeezed into this release in nearing the stable milestone.

There is now support for default user/group/project quotas including object quotas, support in the Direct IO mode to fallback to lightweight uncached IO when dealing with unaligned writes (wiring O_DIRECT also to Uncached I/O), unified allocation throttling as a new means to reduce

Last year GIMP developers expressed a goal of releasing GIMP 3.2 within one year of GIMP 3.0 . With GIMP 3.0 having released in March , it looks like their GIMP 3.2 release goal will become a reality with the GIMP 3.2-RC1 debuting today.

Following the GIMP 3.1 development releases , the GIMP 3.2 release candidate surfaced today with renewed confidence of seeing GIMP 3.2.0 stable within the coming months.

GIMP 3.2-RC1

FreeBSD 15.0-RC1 is available today for testing as this leading BSD operating system works toward the stable release in early December.

FreeBSD 15.0 continues shaping up to be a significant release for this BSD operating system with reproducible build capabilities, much better hardware support, continued enhancements around the FreeBSD laptop experience, and a wide assortment of other enhancements for FreeBSD 15 compared to the current FreeBSD 14 series.

FreeBSD 15.0-RC1 builds off the week old FreeBSD 15

At the start of the year developers behind the Budgie desktop environment hoped for shipping Budgie 10.10 in Q1-2025 . We are now in Q4 without a stable release but at long last a preview version is at least available. Budgie 10.10 is the point at which Budgie is going all-in on Wayland in leaving behind the X11 desktop session support.

Budgie 10.10 is the last planned version before shifting to the Budgie 11