Last July it was announced Holly Million was stepping down as the GNOME Foundation's Exeuctive Director after less than a year at the helmlxer.com
Fwupd 2.0.9 open-source Linux firmware updater is now available for download with support for Intel Arc 'Battlemage' GPUs and other changes.Marius Nestor (9to5Linux)
Python 3.14 Reaches Beta With New Tail-Call Interpreter For Better Performance
Python 3.14 Beta 1 is now available in working toward this next major Python release due out in early October...
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Fwupd 2.0.9 improves firmware security with UEFI dbx updates, certificate insights, and streamlined device parsing.Bobby Borisov (Linuxiac)
Mesa 25.1 is out today as the new quarterly feature release for this set of open-source user-space graphics drivers primarily consisting of OpenGL and Vulkan driver support on Linux systems.lxer.com
Intel Teases New Arc Pro Graphics Cards Ahead Of Computex
Intel is teasing new Arc Pro graphics cards coming to market...
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Mesa 25.1 open-source graphics stack for Linux is now available for download with numerous new features and improvements for many video games.Marius Nestor (9to5Linux)
New GNOME Executive Director Named: Steven Deobald
Last July it was announced Holly Million was stepping down as the GNOME Foundation's Exeuctive Director after less than a year at the helm. Richard Littauer took over as interim Executive Director while this week a new GNOME Foundation Executive Director was hired...
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Mesa 25.1 Released With Many Open-Source Vulkan Driver Improvements
Mesa 25.1 is out today as the new quarterly feature release for this set of open-source user-space graphics drivers primarily consisting of OpenGL and Vulkan driver support on Linux systems...
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Fwupd 2.0.9 Released With Firmware Updating Support For Intel Arc Battlemage
Following his recent PremDay talk on LVFS/Fwupd, Richard Hughes of Red Hat today released Fwupd 2.0.9 as the newest feature release for this open-source firmware updating utility for Linux systems...
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Raspberry Pi OS Updated With More Wayland Work, Likely The Last Based On Debian 12
Raspberry Pi today announced the latest update to their Raspberry Pi OS, which continues to be based on Debian Linux and likely their last major release before migrating from a Debian 12 base to Debian 13 later in the year...
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AMD Strix Point & Intel Lunar Lake: Windows 11 vs. Ubuntu 25.04 Linux Performance
Last month was a fresh look at the Intel Lunar Lake graphics performance between Windows and Linux while this article is Microsoft Windows 11 Pro vs. Ubuntu 25.04 again but looking at the CPU performance between these competing operating systems. For additional reference, some of the recently completed AMD Strix Point Windows vs. Linux benchmarks were…
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Loongson To Up Linux Kernel Limit To 2,048 LoongArch CPU Cores
Currently when building the Linux kernel for LoongArch processors there is a maximum limit of 256 CPU cores supported but with a pending patch that limit would be upped to 2,048 CPU cores...
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Clonezilla Live 3.2.1-28 disk imaging/cloning distribution is now available for download based on Ubuntu 25.04 and Linux kernel 6.14.Marius Nestor (9to5Linux)
The VP2430 is a compact, fanless network appliance based on Intel’s N-series platform. As part of the Vault Pro series, it builds on earlier models such as the VP2410 and VP2420, introducing incremental enhancements in processing capability, thermal …Giorgio Mendoza (LinuxGizmos.com)
Linux 6.16 To Introduce Block Write Streams For NVMe Flexible Data Placement "FDP"
Linux block subsystem maintainer Jens Axboe has queued up a set of patches being worked on the past number of months around block write streams for making use of NVMe SSDs supporting the NVMe Flexible Data Placement (FDP) specification...
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Intel Introducing QAT "GEN6" Driver To The Linux Kernel
Intel has readied a new "qat_6xxx" driver for the Linux kernel for supporting QAT GEN6 devices with QuickAssist Technology. QAT GEN6 will presumably be found with upcoming Xeon 6 Clearwater Forest and Diamond Rapids processors while the Linux kernel driver should be introduced for Linux 6.16...
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Intel has readied a new 'qat_6xxx' driver for the Linux kernel for supporting QAT GEN6 devices with QuickAssist Technologywww.phoronix.com
Intel P-State Energy Aware Scheduling May Be Ready For Lunar Lake
Going back to last year there have been patches for adapting the Intel P-State Linux driver with support for Energy Aware Scheduling (EAS) as what began as an Arm big.LITTLE feature but since being explored for use by the Intel P-State driver for hybrid CPUs without SMT which for the moment means Lunar Lake SoCs. A new version of the patches were posted on Tuesday and l…
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Clonezilla Live's May update includes an Ubuntu 25.04 base, Linux kernel 6.14, improved USB support, and key bug fixes.Bobby Borisov (Linuxiac)
: From ubiquitous go-to system for early Noughties startups to a legacy like no otherLindsay Clark (The Register)
With the spring Linux distribution/OS updates upon us, in recent weeks I've looked at the Ubuntu 25.04 performance gains on AMD EPYC 9005 'Turin' and also the performance of Fedora Server 42.lxer.com
With Ubuntu 25.10 Canonical is planning to make use of more Rust-written system components and so far most of that talk has been about transitioning to Rust Coreutils 'uutils' in place of GNU Coreutilslxer.com
Ampere Computing last year talked up AmpereOne M for 12-channel DDR5 memory and up to 192 cores up from the 8-channel DDR5 memory found with the initial AmpereOne processorslxer.com
KDE Plasma 6.3.5 is now available for download as the last point release to the latest KDE Plasma 6.3 desktop environment series.Marius Nestor (9to5Linux)
KDE Plasma 6.3.5 is a bugfix release improving applets, notifications, and core behavior, with over two dozen issues resolved.Bobby Borisov (Linuxiac)
Valve Releases Updated Proton 10.0 Beta For Testing
Last week Valve introduced Proton 10.0 beta as the newest version of their Wine-derived software for Steam Play that enables countless Windows games to run well for Linux gamers on the desktop and with the extremely popular Steam Deck. Out today is another Proton 10.0 beta update with some additional bug and regression fixes over what was shipped last week...
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RISC-V LLVM Scheduler Tuning For SpacemiT-X60 On Clang Yields 4~18% Speedups
The SpacemiT-X60 RISC-V SoC can enjoy some very healthy performance improvements with scheduler definitions now merged for the LLVM/Clang 21 compiler...
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Microsoft announced today that Fedora Linux is now treated as an official distribution within their Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL) confines.lxer.com
Lead LVFS/Fwupd developer Richard Hughes of Red Hat was at the PremDay on-premise computing conference in Paris to talk up this open-source firmware updating solution and being what customers wantlxer.com
Microsoft Welcomes Fedora Linux As An Official WSL Distro
Microsoft announced today that Fedora Linux is now treated as an official distribution within their Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL) confines...
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Ampere Computing Soft Announces AmpereOne M With 12 Channel DDR5 Memory
Ampere Computing last year talked up AmpereOne M for 12-channel DDR5 memory and up to 192 cores up from the 8-channel DDR5 memory found with the initial AmpereOne processors. They said at the time AmpereOne M would be shipping in Q4-2024. Now half way into 2025, it looks like they quietly announced the AmpereOne M processors...
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Tired of SSH connections dropping during remote tasks? Learn why tmux is a must-have tool for keeping your commands running on unstable networks.sk (OSTechNix)
Kurchu Tool Taking Shape For Assembling Fedora / CentOS Linux Distro ISOs
As an alternative to the likes of the Pungi tool, Kurchu is a newer project within the CentOS/Fedora space for assembling content collections or ISO images of Linux distribution builds. Kurchu is already seeing use by the CentOS Hyperscale SIG for assembling their images while additional functionality continues to be worked on for those wanting to craft their own Fedora/CentOS…
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As an alternative to the likes of the Pungi tool, Kurchu is a newer project within the CentOS/Fedora space for assembling content collections or ISO images of Linux distribution buildswww.phoronix.com
Intel's Clear Linux Demonstrates Software Optimization Benefits On AMD EPYC 9005 Series
With the spring Linux distribution/OS updates upon us, in recent weeks I've looked at the Ubuntu 25.04 performance gains on AMD EPYC 9005 "Turin" and also the performance of Fedora Server 42. Following that I expanded the scope of the Linux operating systems (distributions) benchmarks on the latest 5th Gen AMD EPYC server hardware. Here is a look at how…
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With the spring Linux distribution/OS updates upon us, in recent weeks I've looked at the Ubuntu 25.04 performance gains on AMD EPYC 9005 'Turin' and also the performance of Fedora Server 42.www.phoronix.com
The PeerTube mobile app has reached version 1, allowing users to easily edit playlists, comment on videos, and switch between accounts.Bobby Borisov (Linuxiac)
Ubuntu 25.10 Plans To Use sudo-rs By Default For Memory-Safe, Rust-Based sudo
With Ubuntu 25.10 Canonical is planning to make use of more Rust-written system components and so far most of that talk has been about transitioning to Rust Coreutils "uutils" in place of GNU Coreutils. It's also been firmed up today that Canonical is planning on using sudo-rs by default as a replacement to sudo...
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With Ubuntu 25.10 Canonical is planning to make use of more Rust-written system components and so far most of that talk has been about transitioning to Rust Coreutils 'uutils' in place of GNU Coreutilswww.phoronix.com
PoCL 7.0 RC1 Released With Official OpenCL 3.0 Conformance On CPUs & Level Zero
PoCL 7.0 is on approach as the newest version of this "Portable Computing Language" implementation that began as a CPU-based OpenCL driver implementation but with time has added support for other back-ends from Intel Level Zero to NVIDIA PTX and AMD HSA...
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PoCL 7.0 is on approach as the newest version of this 'Portable Computing Language' implementation that began as a CPU-based OpenCL driver implementation but with time has added support for other back-ends from Intel Level Zero to NVIDIA PTX and AMD …www.phoronix.com
: One distro has to be the most extra – and here it isLiam Proven (The Register)
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