Mediatek DRM Driver Prepares For HDMI 2.0 With MT8195/MT8188
The Direct Rendering Manager (DRM) updates have been submitted for the Mediatek driver in advance of the upcoming Linux 6.16 merge window...
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Llamafile 0.9.3 Brings Support For Qwen3 & Phi4
Llamafile continues pushing forward as the interesting Mozilla project to allow easily distributing and running AI large language models (LLMs) from a single file and in a cross-platform and cross-vendor hardware manner. Llamafile 0.9.3 is out today with more enhancements to this Mozilla Ocho project...
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The future of LLMs is open source, Salesforce's Benioff says
: Cheaper, open source AI will commoditize the market at expense of their bloated counterpartsLindsay Clark (The Register)
AMD Ryzen 9 9900 Series Linux Performance Since Launch Review
After recently looking at how the Intel Core Ultra 9 285K 'Arrow Lake' Linux performance has evolved since launch, many Phoronix readers were curious how a similar launch-day vs.lxer.com
Ubuntu Maker Canonical Donates to Support Open Source Developers
Ubuntu maker Canonical now donates $10K monthly via thanks.dev to support smaller open source projects powering its work, giving back to the developer community.Bobby Borisov (Linuxiac)
Red Hat Has Unofficially Released RHEL 10 - FOSS Force
By all indications, Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10 (RHEL 10) was evidently overnight quietly rolled out to paying customers.Christine Hall (FOSS Force)
Grafana 12 Observability Platform Released with Major Upgrades
Grafana 12 observability platform lands with Drilldown GA, dynamic dashboards, Git Sync, SCIM support, blazing-fast tables, new theming options, and more.Bobby Borisov (Linuxiac)
AMD Ryzen 9 9900 Series Linux Performance Since Launch
After recently looking at how the Intel Core Ultra 9 285K "Arrow Lake" Linux performance has evolved since launch, many Phoronix readers were curious how a similar launch-day vs. now comparison would look on the AMD Zen 5 side. The article today is looking at how the AMD Ryzen 9 9900X and Ryzen 9 9950X Linux performance has evolved since their launch last year. These numbers are put alo…
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AMD Ryzen 9 9900 Series Linux Performance Since Launch Review
After recently looking at how the Intel Core Ultra 9 285K 'Arrow Lake' Linux performance has evolved since launch, many Phoronix readers were curious how a similar launch-day vs.www.phoronix.com
New Features Approved For Fedora 43
With Fedora 42 having released last month, feature work on Fedora 43 continues heating up in working toward this next major Fedora Linux release due out around October.lxer.com
Clippy Desktop Assistant: Run LLMs Locally with 90s UI
Clippy Desktop Assistant is an open-source Electron application that allows you to run large language models (LLMs) locally!sk (OSTechNix)
Firefox Source Code Now Hosted On GitHub
The Mozilla Firefox source code is now officially available on GitHub as they work to transition from their hg.mozilla.org servers.lxer.com
Oracle Talks Up Its Adaptived Daemon For Linux Systems
Adaptived is a cause-and-effect daemon developed by Oracle that ties into their work on adaptive memory management (adaptivemm) for proactive memory handling and the OOMD out-of-memory daemon...
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Sovereign Tech Agency Investing In GCC's Fortran Frontend "GFortran"
Germany's Sovereign Tech Agency (formerly Sovereign Tech Fund) announced they have begun investing in GFortran for advancing this leading open-source Fortran code compiler...
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RISC-V and RISE Partner to a Take a Role in the Yocto Project - FOSS Force
The Yocto Project, RISC-V and the Rise Project working together in tandem can't be anything but good for the open source universe.Christine Hall (FOSS Force)
Fedora-Based Nobara Linux Goes Rolling
Nobara Linux 42 adopts Brave as default, offers kernel 6.14, GNOME 48, KDE 6.3.4, and a new universal flatpak manager.Bobby Borisov (Linuxiac)
New Features Approved For Fedora 43
With Fedora 42 having released last month, feature work on Fedora 43 continues heating up in working toward this next major Fedora Linux release due out around October...
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IPFire 2.29 Core Update 194 Brings Linux Kernel 6.12.23 LTS and Other Updates - 9to5Linux
IPFire 2.29 Core Update 194 Linux firewall distribution is now available for download with Linux kernel 6.12.23 LTS and other updates.Marius Nestor (9to5Linux)
Rustls Server-Side Performance Looking Very Good Compared To OpenSSL
Rustls as a modern TLS library written in the Rust programming language has long been showing promising performance and competitive to OpenSSL and other alternatives. In a fresh exploration of Rustls server-side performance, it's easily beating OpenSSL...
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LILYGO T-Embed SI4732 Combines ESP32 S3 with All Band Radio Tuning LILYGO T-Embed SI4732 Combines ESP32 S3 with All Band Radio Tuning
LILYGO has introduced a new version of its T-Embed series that incorporates the SI4732 A10 tuner module. This version supports AM, FM, shortwave, and longwave radio bands in a handheld format that visually resembles devices like the Flipper Zero.Giorgio Mendoza (LinuxGizmos.com)
AMD Begins Process Of Preparing The Linux Kernel For Zen 6 CPUs
The first AMD Zen 6 patch for the Linux kernel has been queued up for submission soon to the mainline kernel...
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Oracle Solaris 11.4.81 CBE Released After Three Year Hiatus
Oracle Solaris 11.4.81 CBE is now available as the newest release of this Oracle Solaris "Common Build Environment" version that is essentially a community-supported. non-production version of Solaris intended for free / open-source software developers. Oracle Solaris 11.4.81 CBE comes after not seeing any CBE updates the past three years and now rather unexpectedly seeing this …
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Oracle Solaris 11.4.81 CBE Released After Three Year Hiatus
Oracle Solaris 11.4.81 CBE is now available as the newest release of this Oracle Solaris 'Common Build Environment' version that is essentially a community-supportedwww.phoronix.com
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10 Reaches GA
Various Red Hat documentation pages began seeing updates yesterday along with RHEL 10.0 ISOs appearing in the customer download portal to reflect RHEL10 reaching general availability (GA) status...
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Jump into Firefox Labs: A place to try new features and help shape Firefox
Firefox Labs is our space for sharing experimental features with our community before they’re fully baked. It’s a chance to play around with new ideas, tell us what’s working (and what’s not) and help shape the future of Firefox together.Jenifer Boscacci (The Mozilla Blog)
Unless a Third of All Microsoft Layoffs Worldwide Are in Redmond (Washington) Alone, Microsoft Has Just Lied to Everyone Via Jordan Novet in CNBC (i.e. the Usual Any Time There's Mass Layoffs and Novet Weighs in With False Numbers)
Maybe when Microsoft said 3% it meant ~6,000 or more in the US aloneRoy Schestowitz
ALPHA-One Leverages RISC-V StarPro64 for Compact Local LLM Deployment ALPHA-One 7B Leverages RISC-V StarPro64 for Compact Local LLM Deployment
PINE64 has shared early details of the ALPHA-One 7B, a compact generative AI agent powered by the RISC-V-based StarPro64 SBC. Priced at $329.Giorgio Mendoza (LinuxGizmos.com)
Canonical Provides Status Update For Snapdragon X Elite Laptops On Ubuntu 25.04
Canonical provided a status update concerning the Qualcomm Snapdragon X Elite powered laptops on the recently released Ubuntu 25.04.lxer.com
Neptune OS - A German Distro With a Multimedia Focus - FOSS Force
This is the start of a new weekly feature on FOSS Force, which is officially going to run on Thursdays or Fridays (we're still deciding).Larry Cafiero (FOSS Force)
Branch Privilege Injection Vulnerability Disclosed For Intel CPUs
It was just yesterday that Training Solo was made public as a new speculative execution CPU vulnerability affecting some Intel and Arm CPUs... Today another one is now public for Intel processors: Branch Privilege Injection...
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GNU Screen 5.0.1 Released Due To Several Security Vulnerabilities
GNU Screen 5.0.1 has been released to address several security issues.lxer.com
Linus Torvalds goes back to a mechanical keyboard after making too many typos
: Linux 6.15 is coming along nicely too, unless autocorrect messes things upSimon Sharwood (The Register)
Inkscape 1.4.2 Lands with Bug Fixes, Format Enhancements
Inkscape 1.4.2, an open-source vector graphics editor, is out, merging 1.4.1 with over 70 bug fixes, file import improvements, and new features.Bobby Borisov (Linuxiac)
AMD EPYC 4565P & EPYC 4585PX Benchmarks Against Xeon 6369P: EPYC 4005 Champions Entry-Level Server Performance
With today's announcement of the AMD EPYC 4005P "Grado" entry-level server processors, up for review today are the EPYC 4565P and EPYC 4585PX processors as the top-end Zen 5 processors for budget server builds and basic bare metal server hosting. With the prior-generation EPYC 4004 series AMD was already leaving over Int…
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AMD EPYC 4565P & EPYC 4585PX Benchmarks Against Xeon 6369P: EPYC 4005 Champions Entry-Level Server Performance Review
With today's announcement of the AMD EPYC 4005P 'Grado' entry-level server processors, up for review today are the EPYC 4565P and EPYC 4585PX processors as the top-end Zen 5 processors for budget server builds and basic bare metal server hosting.www.phoronix.com
AMD EPYC 4005 Series Launches For Entry-Level Zen 5 Servers
Last year AMD launched the EPYC 4004 series for taking Ryzen based processor designs into the EPYC segment for entry-level servers with ECC memory support, server designs with BMCs, and various enterprise software certifications and industry qualifications. Today they are launching the EPYC 4005 series as their new Zen 5 based offerings for entry-level / budget server deploym…
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AMD EPYC 4005 Series Launches For Entry-Level Zen 5 Servers Review
Last year AMD launched the EPYC 4004 series for taking Ryzen based processor designs into the EPYC segment for entry-level servers with ECC memory support, server designs with BMCs, and various enterprise software certifications and industry qualific…www.phoronix.com
Shotcut 25.05 Open-Source Video Editor Released with Alpha Strobe Video Filter - 9to5Linux
Shotcut 25.05 open-source video editor is now available for download with new filters, new options, and various improvements.Marius Nestor (9to5Linux)
Canonical Provides Status Update For Snapdragon X Elite Laptops On Ubuntu 25.04
Canonical provided a status update concerning the Qualcomm Snapdragon X Elite powered laptops on the recently released Ubuntu 25.04...
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