The NexPhone is finally available for pre-order, some 14 years after it was first announced (but “available” is be a tad generous since manufacturing is yet to begin). Created by Nex Computer, the company behind the NexDock laptop shells, the NexPhone aims to deliver what Canonical’s Ubuntu Phone ultimately didn’t: convergence. The tech scene has changed dramatically since the NexPhone’s 2012 crowdfunder pitch. Back then, this phone was aiming to run Ubuntu Phone as its primary OS. As that didn’t last long, the 2026 NexPhone runs Android, Debian and Windows – some at the same time, if needed. It is […]

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While the Linux kernel has been seeing preparations from NVIDIA for 1.6 Tb/s networking in preparing for next-generation super-computing, the kernel has still retained support to now for the High Performance Parallel Interface. HIPPI was the standard for connecting supercomputers in the late 1980s and a portion of the 1990s with being the first networking standard for near-Gigabit connectivity at 800 Mb/s over distances up to 25 meters. But HIPPI looks like it will be retired from the mainline kernel with Linux 7.0...

Sent out to the Linux kernel mailing list this afternoon were a set of 19 patches in preparing for some new CPU features presumably to be found with AMD's next-generation EPYC "Venice" processors...