While the Framework 13 was upgraded earlier this year with a motherboard upgrade for the AMD Ryzen AI 300 series "Strix Point", the larger Framework 16 has been stuck in the Zen 4 era. But today Framework announced a new upgrade path for this 16-inch modular laptop for the Ryzen AI 300 series as well as NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5070 discrete graphics.

The Framework Laptop 16 can now be bought or upgraded to either the AMD Ryzen AI 7 350

LLVM 21.1 is out today as the first stable version of the LLVM 21 compiler stack. This half-year stable release to the open-source LLVM compiler software brings new hardware support, new language features, and a lot of other enhancements throughout this massive and widely-used codebase.

LLVM 21.1.0 is released right on schedule following three release candidates over the past month. LLVM 21.1.0 was just tagged and is now available for downloading from GitHub as -

While the ATI Radeon 9000 / X300 / X500 / X600 series "R300" GPU support has long been unmaintained on the Microsoft Windows driver side, thanks to the open-source community the Linux driver support keeps going for the old ATI R300 GPUs with that driver also supporting the X700 / X800 "R400" and X1000 "R500" series graphics

Mir 2.22 is out today as the newest version of this Canonical project providing libraries for building Wayland-based shells/compositors. Mir 2.22 brings some notable improvements around NVIDIA GPU/driver support as well as initial preparations for Rust programming language support.

Mir 2.22 brings NVIDIA support through the atomic KMS / GBM platforms code path. A few changes were needed for getting the official NVIDIA Linux driver playing nicely with the Mir code.

Mir 2.22 also brings some initial Rust

AMD and IBM announced a joint collaboration today around quantum-centric supercomputing. IBM's quantum computing expertise is to be paired with AMD's AI and HPC technology like their Instinct accelerators to help accelerate quantum-centric supercomputing.

The two companies are focusing on a hybrid approach to quantum computing with IBM's quantum computing IP paired with AMD's "CPUs, GPUs, and FPGAs." The creations are said to be " scalable, open-source platforms ."

An initial demonstration of the joint work by

Linux's classic initial RAM disk "initrd" support might finally be on its way out of the Linux kernel depending upon feedback from stakeholders. Long live initramfs.

Earlier this year was a proposed patch for adding EROFS file-system support for initrd so this modern read-only file-system could serve as the compressed file-system image. That patch was rejected by Christoph Hellwig on the basis of initrd support should be going away rather than tacking on new code:

"We've been trying to kill off

Red Hat engineers have been rewriting Greenboot in the Rust programming language to replace the Bash-written version of this generic health check framework for systemd, bootc, and RPM-OSTree based Linux environments. That Rust rewrite of Greenboot is now cleared for appearing in the Fedora Linux 43 release.

The modern Greenboot written in Rust provides health checks and rollback functionality for RPM-OSTree based systems as before and now bootc systems too. The functionality is effectively the same as the former Bash code and has played a big role in

GhostBSD 25.02-R14.3p2 was announced this evening as the newest incremental update to this FreeBSD 14 based operating system focused on providing a nice out-of-the-box desktop experience. Notable with this new GhostBSD release is now shipping a Gershwin community preview for this desktop environment focused on providing a Mac OS X like user experience, complete with GNUstep usage.

GhostBSD 25.02-R14.3p2 builds off upstream FreeBSD 14.

OpenZFS 2.4-rc1 was released a few days ago with faster encryption performance using AVX2 and other enhancements. For those just looking for bug fixes and expanded Linux kernel compatibility, OpenZFS 2.3.4 is out today as the newest stable point release.

OpenZFS 2.3.4 brings support for the latest Linux 6.16 stable kernel where as the prior 2.3.3 release tapped out at Linux 6.15. OpenZFS 2.3.4 continues to support back