It's been 15 years already since the Illumos project was formed as based on the OpenSolaris codebase after Oracle's acquisition of Sun Microsystems and closing down OpenSolaris. Illumos Cafe is a new effort akin to BSD Cafe aiming to be a resource and helping to reinvigorate interest in Illumos-based platforms.

Illumos Cafe aims to be a resource to help in building interest and support around Illumos-based operating systems like OpenIndiana, SmartOS, OmnisOS, and Tribblix. The volunteer-run space wants to help in "fighting

The SDL3 library that is widely-used by cross-platform games has landed new code for revising how it selects the high performance GPU in multi-GPU systems.

The new code merged today for the Simple DirectMedia Layer project is picking the dedicated GPU with the highest amount of video RAM for the Vulkan renderer.

In cases beyond just having a single dedicated GPU to complement any integrated graphics, the SDL3 library is now set to pick the dedicated GPU with the most amount of vRAM available on the basis that it

Ahead of the next Intel Compute Runtime oneAPI/OpenCL release, a new version of the Intel Graphics Compiler "IGC" has been released for Windows and Linux.

The Intel Graphics Compiler 2.16 release introduces a new "intel-igc-core-devel" Package to restore providing files that were dropped in older versions of this compiler.

The newest hardware offering announced by Raspberry Pi today is a 5-inch variant of the Raspberry Pi Touch Display 2.

The 5" version of the Raspberry Pi Touch Display 2 features the same resolution and setup as the 7" Raspberry Pi Touch Display 2 that launched last year. But for those wanting the smaller size and greater pixel density, now there is this 5-inch touch display option for just $40 USD.

The new product features a 5-inch diagonal display while having 720 x 1

Linux 6.17-rc2 is now available to facilitate the latest weekly testing of the Linux 6.17 kernel.

Following last Sunday's Linux 6.17-rc1 release that capped off the Linux 6.17 merge window, this week saw various bug and regression fixes land. Among those changes this week were fixing an early performance regression introduced in the v6.17 code. Linux 6.17 performance is looking nice in testing thus far. Another notable fix

Last week I ran some early Linux 6.17 benchmarks showing some improvements and regressions when testing with AMD Ryzen AI Max "Strix Halo". Since then there have been some performance regression fixes along with addressing other early fallout from this fresh kernel code. Repeating the tests now on the latest Linux 6.17 Git state ahead of today's Linux 6.17-rc2 tagging is showing some nice improvements and fixes from the code churn this week.

When carrying out the tests on the same

One of the new exciting security features with Linux 6.17 is Attack Vector Controls as a means of easier managing CPU security mitigations depending upon the system/server use-case. It drastically simplifies CPU security mitigation management for only activating the mitigations relevant to intended use. With the Linux 6.17-rc2 kernel due out later today, Attack Vector Controls refines its logic around the Speculative Return Stack Overflow (SRSO) mitigation.

Sent out today were the x86 fixes ahead of Linux 6.

Merged this week as part of the sound fixes for the Linux 6.17 cycle and now to be back-ported to the stable kernel versions is a headset detection fix/workaround for the Framework 13 Laptop powered by the AMD Ryzen AI 300 series .

Similar to other Framework Laptop models needing a workaround for proper headset detection handling, the newest Ryzen AI 300 series motherboard also needs this ALC295 quirk.

It's a simple one line patch needed for setting the quirk for

Released last month was Shotcut 25.07 with many improvements to this popular open-source and cross platform video editor. Released today was Shotcut 25.08 to provide more fixes atop that latest video editor release.

Shotcut 25.08 is just about shipping more bug fixes on top of last month's feature release. There isn't anything big and shiny about Shotcut 25.08 but it's just another step forward for this popular video editing option on Linux systems