With the AMD Ryzen AI Halo developer platform there is the option of ordering this Ryzen AI Max+ mini PC with either Microsoft Windows 11 or "Linux OS". When receiving a AMD Ryzen AI Halo review sample last month, I fully expected it to just be an Ubuntu LTS install with ROCm preloaded. I was quite surprised when powering it up to find that it's an OS called the AMD Ryzen AI Developer Platform 1 "Rex" and is based on Debian Linux.

People often mistake the word “stable” in different contexts and I wish to clear up the confusion. There are two main meanings in the world of GNU/Linux for the word above and these two meanings are vastly different: once booted the system does not crash, therefore it is stable once installed the system behaves exactly the same for the lifetime of this install, therefore it is stable In both examples above you can mix-in the word “reliable” in more than one way as well, but for me personally the word reliable means that I can rely on my computer to be ready to do my bidding when I am ready to use the system.

Honest question: what would a Linux distribution have to do to earn 30 years of your loyalty?

An effort to revive and reinvigorate the 2002 Gtk2 GUI programming toolkit is growing and gaining interest… as we predicted would happen a few months ago.

With half-way through the Debian 14 "Forky" development cycle, the Debian release team is out with an update this weekend and some big news.

Installing Davinci Resolve on Debian with MakeResolveDeb + basic usage

Univeristy student keen to gain open source skills this summer? If you, or someone you know, want to contribute to Debian with Google's sponsorship, explore the GSoC 2026 project ideas now: https://wiki.debian.org/SummerOfCode2026/Projects

Applications open until end of March - look into project ideas already this weekend!

Two years and a few months after LoongArch 64-bit "Loong64" was added to Debian Ports, it's now been promoted to being an official architecture for Debian Linux.

LoongArch 64-bit is now an official architecture of Debian and will be part of the next Debian 14 "Forky" release. The announcement came down today that Loong64 is now an official architecture for Debian:

"I am happy to announce that a little more than two years after the initial bootstrap in Debian Ports, loong64 has become an official architecture in Debian and will therefore be part of the upcoming Debian 14 ("forky") release if everything goes along as planned.

So far, we have manually built and imported an initial set of 112 packages with the help of the packages in Debian Ports. This was enough to create an initial chroot and set up the first buildd which is now churning through the build queue. Over night, the currently single buildd instance already built and uploaded 300 new packages.

It is expected that this initial bootstrap will take about a week depending on whether additional buildd instances will be added later the next days which would increase the build throughput."

LoongArch is the CPU architecture developed by Loongson in China and inspired by MIPS and RISC-V. Coincidentally this week I also received word from Loongson of interest in sending over review samples, so hopefully soon there will finally be some LoongArch benchmarks appearing on Phoronix.

Debian 14 "Forky" with official LoongArch support and many other new features should be out in 2027.