Linux 6.15 Crypto Subsystem Delivers Faster AES-CTR For AMD Zen 5 & Other x86_64 CPUs
The cryptography subsystem updates for the in-development Linux 6.15 merge window are quite exciting with some optimizations for modern x86_64 Intel/AMD processors enticing us the most...
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Along with the staging updates, driver core, and char/misc merges this week for the areas of the kernel overseen by Greg Kroah-Hartman, he also sent out the USB and Thunderbolt updates for the Linux 6.15 kernel.lxer.com
A news aggregator is software which collect news, weblog posts, and other info from the web so that they can be read in a single location.Steve Emms (LinuxLinks)
RISC-V With Linux 6.15 Adds Support For BFloat16 "BF16" Instructions
Merged on Friday for the nearly-over Linux 6.15 merge window were the RISC-V CPU architecture updates for this next kernel release...
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The attacks on Linux have escalated to information warfareRoy Schestowitz
Debian APT 3.0 Stable Released With New Package Solver & Refined Text UI
APT 3.0 has been officially released as the first stable version following an interesting development cycle. APT 3.0 has been dedicated to the late Steve Langasek with his many Debian and Ubuntu contributions over the years...
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Resources 1.8 Released As A Great System Resource Monitor For GNOME
In addition to all the KDE Plasma activity this week, GNOME developers have also been quiet busy working on a variety of improvements to the open-source desktop on their side of the pond...
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FEX 2504 Ships More Optimizations For Running x86_64 Linux Binaries On ARM64
FEX 2504 is out with its newest monthly feature update for this open-source emulator that allows running x86/x86_64 binaries on AArch64 Linux hosts. This alternative to QEMU and Box64 continues focusing on new performance optimizations to further enhance the appeal and speedy potential of this x86_64-on-ARM64 emulator...
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LACT 0.7.3 Further Enhances This GPU Configuration & Monitoring Tool
LACT 0.7.3 is out this weekend as the newest feature update to this Linux GPU configuration and monitoring tool. LACT helps make up for the lack of any official GUI-based GPU configuration tool on Linux provided by AMD or Intel. It also works on NVIDIA GPUs too for providing a nice unified app for GPU configuration from all three major GPU vendors...
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Intel Open Image Denoise Adds Support For AMD RDNA4 & NVIDIA Blackwell
Intel's Open Image Denoise library that is part of their oneAPI Rendering Toolkit as a set of open-source, high performance denoising filters for ray-traced images is out with a new release. Open Image Denoise is used by applications like Blender and with this version 2.3.3 release is expanded GPU support...
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In addition to all of the memory management 'MM' changes merged for the Linux 6.15 kernel, a secondary round of MM updates was submitted and subsequently merged for this next kernel versionlxer.com
KDE Plasma Lands More Crash Fixes This Week, Refines Its Crash Reporting Wizard
It's been a busy start to April for KDE Plasma developers as they continue working toward the Plasma 6.4 feature release. There have been yet more crash fixes along with other polishing and stability enhancements to kick off the new month...
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Calibre 8.2 ebook manager adds new Kobo firmware support, Kindle personal document marking, and bug fixes for macOS, Quickview, and KEPUB rendering.Bobby Borisov (Linuxiac)
What is the HTTP 406 Not Acceptable Status Code and how can you fix it? Learn everything you need to know in our latest guide.Jeff Wilson (RoseHosting)
: 'Pudgy' might be more apt given the download sizeLiam Proven (The Register)
Celluloid 0.28 open-source video player is out with a refreshed interface, playlist duration display, and playlist navigation via next/previous buttons.Bobby Borisov (Linuxiac)
With having a new Lenovo ThinkPad T14s Gen 6 laptop in the lab, a lot of Linux benchmarks are forthcoming from this ThinkPad laptop powered by an AMD Ryzen AI 7 PRO 360 SoC.lxer.com
These Ugly Big Box Stores are Literally Bankrupting Cities
North American suburbs are littered with these giant ugly "Big Box" stores. People like them because they're easy to drive to and they sell a lot of stuff at pretty cheap prices, but the way they operate is by literally bankrupting cities.
:first: Nebula First
Wine 10.5 Brings Vulkan H.264 Video Decoding, Mono 10.0 & Bluetooth Pairing
Wine 10.5 is out today as the newest bi-weekly development release of this open-source software that is the basis for Valve's Steam Play and allows Windows games and applications to run on Linux systems and elsewhere...
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While Fedora 42 isn't being released until later in the month, already a number of new features for Fedora 43 have been granted approval by the Fedora Engineering and Steering Committee.lxer.com
Invitation to contribute at the Fedora Linux 42 Kernel 6.14 and a11y test weeksSumantro Mukherjee (Fedora Project)
Pico.sh is a set of developer services powered by SSH to host static websites, share code snippets, create secure web tunnels and more.sk (OSTechNix)
Vulkan 1.4.312 Brings Two New Extensions From NVIDIA & Qualcomm
Vulkan 1.4.312 is out today as the newest routine spec update to this high performance graphics and compute API. In addition to the usual mundane clarifications and fixes, this update brings two new extensions from Qualcomm and NVIDIA...
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Calibre 8.2 open-source ebook manager is now available for download with an updated Kobo driver that includes support for new Tolino firmware.Marius Nestor (9to5Linux)
Linux 6.15 USB/Thunderbolt Changes Include The New PS883X Driver
Along with the staging updates, driver core, and char/misc merges this week for the areas of the kernel overseen by Greg Kroah-Hartman, he also sent out the USB and Thunderbolt updates for the Linux 6.15 kernel...
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Here is open-source at its finest with a NVIDIA Linux kernel engineer ultimately making a fix to a performance regression that came up for AMD integrated and discrete graphics when running on the early Linux 6.15 kernel code.lxer.com
Rust Is Looking For Your Feedback To Help Guide Its Future
With Rust turning ten years old this year, they are reflecting and working to draft plans for the next decade. They have started the Rust Vision Survey where they are looking for feedback from all Rust skill-sets as they look toward the future...
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Fedora 43 will include RPM 6, a major upgrade approved by FESCo this week, plus, Jef Spaleta steps in as the new Fedora Project Leader.Bobby Borisov (Linuxiac)
AMD RDNA 3.5 Graphics On 2025 Drivers: Windows 11 vs. Ubuntu 25.04 iGPU Performance
With having a new Lenovo ThinkPad T14s Gen 6 laptop in the lab, a lot of Linux benchmarks are forthcoming from this ThinkPad laptop powered by an AMD Ryzen AI 7 PRO 360 SoC. This AMD Zen 5 SoC with Radeon 880M RDNA 3.5 integrated graphics had me curious how the Windows 11 vs. Linux iGPU performance is looking now more than a half-year after launch. Prior to…
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: Boosted human-computer interface promises better communication for patients who lost ability to speakThomas Claburn (The Register)
ZLUDA Continues Working On PyTorch Support, Eyes 32-bit PhysX Support
The ZLUDA open-source project for "CUDA on non-NVIDIA GPUs" continues being developed for enabling CUDA like GeekBench and AI workloads on AMD GPUs and other hardware vendors. The ZLUDA project hopes to have PyTorch up and running on it this year along with eyeing 32-bit PhysX support since NVIDIA has dropped support upstream for the 32-bit PhysX libraries with the recent RTX 50 Bl…
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The ZLUDA open-source project for 'CUDA on non-NVIDIA GPUs' continues being developed for enabling CUDA like GeekBench and AI workloads on AMD GPUs and other hardware vendorswww.phoronix.com
So far it's just a proof-of-concept, but it wants to be a modular Linux distro that can become the workhorse of the European Union.Larry Cafiero (FOSS Force)
NVIDIA Engineer Fixes Early Linux 6.15 Performance Regression Affecting AMD GPU Drivers
Here is open-source at its finest with a NVIDIA Linux kernel engineer ultimately making a fix to a performance regression that came up for AMD integrated and discrete graphics when running on the early Linux 6.15 kernel code...
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Linux Bring-Up For The Apple M4 Looks Like It Will Be "Rather Painful"
Sven Peter who remains one of the very active Asahi Linux developers and working on upstreaming various elements of Apple Silicon support for the Linux kernel has sent up warning flares around the eventual Apple M4 support...
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MSEAL Protection Of System Mappings Merged For Linux 6.15
In addition to all of the memory management "MM" changes merged for the Linux 6.15 kernel, a secondary round of MM updates was submitted and subsequently merged for this next kernel version. Interesting here is using the recent MSEAL system call for being able to now seal system mappings...
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In addition to all of the memory management 'MM' changes merged for the Linux 6.15 kernel, a secondary round of MM updates was submitted and subsequently merged for this next kernel versionwww.phoronix.com
Linux Patches Being Worked On For The HP EliteBook Ultra G1q
Yet another Qualcomm Snapdragon X1 Elite powered laptop seeing new DeviceTree patches for enabling Linux support is the HP EliteBook Ultra G1q...
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Tails 6.14.1, a privacy-focused Linux distro, brings better Tor Browser usability, security fixes, and updated components.Bobby Borisov (Linuxiac)
: Arm-based silicon to help Google hardware muscle in on territory of Microsoft's own Arm-based PCsDan Robinson (The Register)
