Intel Announces It's Shutting Down Clear Linux
The most depressing news of the week: Intel is ending their performance-optimized Clear Linux distribution. Over the past decade the Clear Linux operating system has shown what's possible with out-of-the-box performance on x86_64 hardware... Not just f...
Bcachefs Lands More Fixes Ahead Of Linux 6.16-rc7
As we await to see what Linus Torvalds will end up doing about the Bcachefs file-system come Linux 6.17, for the ongoing Linux 6.16 cycle he continues to honor the Bcachefs pull requests containing fixes...
Ubuntu 25.10 Shrinks its Install Footprint on Raspberry Pi
Ubuntu 25.10 uses a minimal default install on Raspberry Pi, reducing install size. See what's changed and why the move makes sense for developers. You're reading Ubuntu 25.10 Shrinks its Install Footprint on Raspberry Pi, a blog post from OMG! Ubuntu....
Ubuntu 25.10 Shrinks its Raspberry Pi Install Footprint
Ubuntu 25.10 uses a minimal default install on Raspberry Pi, reducing install size. See what's changed and why the move makes sense for developers. You're reading Ubuntu 25.10 Shrinks its Raspberry Pi Install Footprint, a blog post from OMG! Ubuntu. Do...
Fde Rogue Devices
Protecting against rogue devices in openSUSE with Full Disk Encryption openSUSE have now multiple ways to configure a Full Disk Encryption (FDE) installation. A very secure and easy way (YaST2) of doing this is via user space tools, as we described mul...
AMD Announces ROCm-LS, hipCIM As Port Of NVIDIA's cuCIM
Back in May was the announcement by AMD of ROCm-DS as a new toolkit geared for real-world data science problems with various helpers to accelerate data processing on Instinct accelerators. AMD today is complementing ROCm-DS by announcing ROCm-LS and hi...
Alternative clouds are on the rise
After attending a recent analyst and influencer event hosted by one of the major hyperscalers, I found myself reflecting not just on the future of the big cloud providers but also on the evolution of the entire cloud computing market. The event’s fo...
AI’s not-so-secret agents
The buzz around agentic AI is getting louder, and this month’s picks showcase the breadth of what is possible—or in some cases, not yet possible. Spin up an AI agent of your own with Google’s new Agent Development Kit, take notes on how Deutsche...
Intel QATlib 25.08 Brings Hugepages Support & Other Improvements
Intel engineers yesterday released QATlib 25.08 as the first new update in nearly one year for this QuickAssist Technology library. Intel QuickAssist allows hardware-accelerated offloading of various security authentication and compression operations f...
AWS previews enterprise services to ease AI agent deployment
AWS has launched a preview of Amazon Bedrock AgentCore, a set of enterprise-grade services developers can use to securely deploy and operate AI agents at scale using any framework and model. Announced July 16, AgentCore services can be hosted on Amazo...
