# Linux Doctor

> Linux Doctor is a free daily email digest of Linux and local-AI news: open models, AI agents on Linux, GPU/driver/CUDA/ROCm updates, kernel and distro news, dev tooling and vibe coding. Pick your sources, get one short summary a day.

Linux Doctor (linux-doctor.com) is a free service. Visitors choose from 39 curated sources and receive one summarized email digest per day covering the previous 24 hours. No accounts, no tracking pixels; every email has a one-click unsubscribe.

## Pages

- [Home](https://linux-doctor.com/): pick sources and subscribe
- [Sources](https://linux-doctor.com/sources): every source with a description and topic tags
- [Latest checkup](https://linux-doctor.com/latest): the most recent public daily digest (titles, short snippets, links); archive at https://linux-doctor.com/archive; RSS at https://linux-doctor.com/feed.xml
- [Linux news](https://linux-doctor.com/topics/linux): sources and background
- [Linux kernel news](https://linux-doctor.com/topics/kernel): sources and background
- [Linux distribution news](https://linux-doctor.com/topics/distros): sources and background
- [GPU and driver news](https://linux-doctor.com/topics/gpu-drivers): sources and background
- [Local AI news](https://linux-doctor.com/topics/local-ai): sources and background
- [Open models news](https://linux-doctor.com/topics/open-models): sources and background
- [AI agents news](https://linux-doctor.com/topics/agents): sources and background
- [Vibe coding & dev tooling news](https://linux-doctor.com/topics/vibe-coding): sources and background
- [Best Linux news sources (2026)](https://linux-doctor.com/guides/best-linux-news-sources): guide
- [Best local AI sources (2026)](https://linux-doctor.com/guides/best-local-ai-sources): guide
- [Privacy](https://linux-doctor.com/privacy)
- [Imprint](https://linux-doctor.com/imprint)
- [Sitemap](https://linux-doctor.com/sitemap.xml)
- [Sources as JSON](https://linux-doctor.com/api/sources): machine-readable list

## Topics covered

- Linux news (`linux`)
- Kernel (`kernel`)
- Distros (`distros`)
- GPU & drivers (CUDA/ROCm/Mesa) (`gpu-drivers`)
- Local AI (`local-ai`)
- Open models (`open-models`)
- AI agents (`agents`)
- Dev tooling & vibe coding (`vibe-coding`)
- Research (`research`)

## Sources

- [LWN.net](https://lwn.net/): In-depth Linux and free-software reporting, with the best kernel development coverage around.
- [Linux Kernel Releases](https://www.kernel.org/): Every stable, longterm and mainline kernel release as it lands on kernel.org.
- [Phoronix](https://www.phoronix.com/): Linux hardware and open-source news: GPU drivers, Mesa, kernel features and benchmarks.
- [9to5Linux](https://9to5linux.com/): Fast Linux news: distro releases, desktop updates and kernel versions.
- [OMG! Ubuntu](https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/): Ubuntu and GNOME news, releases and app picks.
- [It's FOSS](https://itsfoss.com/): Linux news, how-tos and open-source tooling explained for humans.
- [Fedora Magazine](https://fedoramagazine.org/): Guides and news from the Fedora community, including AI/ML on Fedora.
- [Arch Linux News](https://archlinux.org/news/): Official Arch announcements, including manual interventions you must not miss.
- [Ubuntu Blog](https://ubuntu.com/blog): Canonical's news on Ubuntu releases, AI workloads and GPU enablement.
- [r/linux](https://www.reddit.com/r/linux/): Top daily community posts about Linux.
- [NVIDIA Technical Blog](https://developer.nvidia.com/blog/): CUDA, inference optimisation and GPU-accelerated AI deep dives.
- [AMD ROCm Blogs](https://rocm.blogs.amd.com/): AMD's ROCm engineering blog: running AI on Radeon and Instinct GPUs.
- [ROCm Releases](https://github.com/ROCm/ROCm/releases): Release notes for the ROCm GPU compute stack.
- [r/LocalLLaMA](https://www.reddit.com/r/LocalLLaMA/): Top daily posts about running LLMs locally and open-weight releases.
- [Hugging Face Blog](https://huggingface.co/blog): Open models, datasets, tooling and tutorials from the open-source ML hub.
- [Hugging Face Daily Papers](https://huggingface.co/papers): Community-curated trending ML papers (community-run feed).
- [llama.cpp Releases](https://github.com/ggml-org/llama.cpp/releases): Release notes for llama.cpp, the core local-inference engine.
- [Ollama Releases](https://github.com/ollama/ollama/releases): Release notes for Ollama, the easy local model runner.
- [vLLM Releases](https://github.com/vllm-project/vllm/releases): Release notes for the vLLM high-throughput inference server.
- [Open WebUI Releases](https://github.com/open-webui/open-webui/releases): Release notes for Open WebUI, the self-hosted chat front end for local models.
- [LM Studio Blog](https://lmstudio.ai/blog): News from LM Studio on running models on your own machine.
- [Mistral AI News](https://mistral.ai/news): Announcements for Mistral's open-weight and frontier models.
- [Interconnects](https://www.interconnects.ai/): Nathan Lambert on open models, post-training and RLHF.
- [Ahead of AI (Sebastian Raschka)](https://magazine.sebastianraschka.com/): Hands-on explanations of LLM research and training techniques.
- [Claude Code Releases](https://github.com/anthropics/claude-code/releases): Release notes for Claude Code, the terminal coding agent.
- [OpenAI Codex CLI Releases](https://github.com/openai/codex/releases): Release notes for Codex CLI, an open-source terminal coding agent.
- [Aider Releases](https://github.com/Aider-AI/aider/releases): Release notes for Aider, AI pair programming in your terminal.
- [Simon Willison's Weblog](https://simonwillison.net/): Daily notes on LLMs, local models, tools and practical AI hacking.
- [Latent Space](https://www.latent.space/): Newsletter/podcast for AI engineers: agents, coding tools, infra.
- [Hacker News: Linux](https://news.ycombinator.com/): Hacker News stories about Linux, kernels, distros and GPU stacks with 100+ points.
- [Hacker News: LLMs](https://news.ycombinator.com/): Hacker News stories about LLMs and local models with 100+ points.
- [Hacker News Best](https://news.ycombinator.com/best): The best-voted stories on Hacker News (all topics, tech-heavy).
- [OpenAI News](https://openai.com/news/): Product launches, model releases and research from OpenAI.
- [Google DeepMind Blog](https://deepmind.google/discover/blog/): Research breakthroughs and model announcements from Google DeepMind.
- [Microsoft Research Blog](https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/blog/): Research updates incl. agents, small models and AI systems.
- [Import AI](https://importai.substack.com/): Jack Clark's weekly newsletter on AI research and policy.
- [Ars Technica AI](https://arstechnica.com/ai/): Tech journalism on AI products, models and industry.
- [arXiv cs.AI](https://arxiv.org/list/cs.AI/recent): New papers in Artificial Intelligence (high volume).
- [arXiv cs.CL](https://arxiv.org/list/cs.CL/recent): New papers on language models (high volume).

## Contact

- hello@linux-doctor.com