Ubuntu 25.10's transition to using Rust Coreutils in place of GNU Coreutils has uncovered a few performance issues so far with the Rust version being slower than the C-based GNU Coreutils. Fortunately there still are a few weeks to go until Ubuntu 25.10 releases as stable and upstream developers are working to address these performance gaps.

The recent Rust Coreutils 0.2.2 release with faster base64 turned out to stem from an Ubuntu developer pointing out the performance disparity. That

Back in late 2023 ASRock announced AI QuickSet to make it easier to get up and running with AI workloads on their hardware under Windows or Linux. Today they announced their second incarnation of that as "AI QuickSet WSL" as making it quicker and easier to setup AMD ROCm under Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL) and streamlining the deployment of various AI Linux software packages under WSL.

ASRock's AI QuickSet WSL aims to make it easy to "run Linux AI apps on Windows" via the automated ROCm

CRIU is for Checkpoint/Restore in Userspace to be able to freeze a running container or app, preserve its state to disk, and later restore said running workload. A few years ago we saw AMD working on being able to checkpoint/restore running ROCm workloads . As seemingly the first work in a while on the matter by the AMDGPU/AMDKFD kernel drivers, there are some new CRIU elements coming for Linux 6.18.

Last week's AMDGPU pull request of additional material for Linux 6.18

The latest tranche of Rust code ready to go for the upcoming Linux 6.18 kernel is now ready to go and has been queued into a TIP branch ahead of the merge window.

The latest work on Rust atomic changes for the Linux kernel have been queued into tip/tip.git's "locking/core" branch and now putting it on trajectory for landing in the Linux 6.18 merge window in two weeks.

The Rust atomic changes for this next kernel version include support for the generic

For fans of open-source projects embracing the Rust programming language, merged for the LibreOffice 26.2 development code for this open-source office suite is "Rustmaker" as a Rust code maker for UNO integration with this open-source office suite.

LibreOffice 26.2 as the next major release of this leading Microsoft Office alternative is now coming new bindings to enhance the Rust programming language support.

Merged this weekend was Rustmaker as the Rust code maker for Universal Network Objects (UNO) integration in LibreOffice.

The second alpha release of the upcoming FreeBSD 15 is now available for testing ahead of its planned official release in December.

As noted in the earlier alpha one announcement, there are many new features coming for FreeBSD 15.0 including a KDE desktop install option from the installer, better WiFi and power management and other enhancements to benefit FreeBSD on laptops, continued efforts around reproducible builds, the latest OpenZFS file-system capabilities, and much more.

Changed over the past week for FreeBSD 15.0 Alpha 2

The newest weekly test release of Linux 6.17 is now available as we work toward the stable kernel release around the end of September.

Linux 6.17-rc6 was just released by Linus Torvalds. Pulled into Linux 6.17-rc6 is a fix to address some "serious breakage" around system hibernation support as a regression introduced in Linux 6.16. Fixes to both the Intel and AMD P-State drivers also landed this week as part of the Linux 6.

It's unfortunate the number of significant Linux engineering losses at Intel this year. Beyond the staffing reductions throughout the company, seeing the loss of Linux engineering talent and many of their open-source contributors outside of kernel space too has been especially hard hitting to see. Intel for years has been very well regarded for their prolific open-source contributions and typically leading early hardware enablement within the Linux kernel, compiler toolchains, and related components. There's another hit to the Intel Linux team with one of their USB

Adding to the list of feature caveats around the different Qualcomm Snapdragon X Elite laptops and the varying Linux state is video acceleration support. But patches were posted this week by a Linaro engineer enabling hardware accelerated video playback for two X Elite laptop models.

Linaro engineer Stephan Gerhold posted the patches enabling IRIS video acceleration decoding for the X1 Elite Compute Reference Design (CRD) and the Lenovo ThinkPad T14s. The CRD support isn't too useful for consumers themselves. The Lenovo ThinkPad T14s continues to