Partner content: There isn’t a datacenter workload whose performance or efficiency isn’t improved by using Xeon 6 chipsContributed by Intel (The Register)
Arch Linux Installer Adds Labwc & Niri Wayland Compositor Options
Archinstall 3.0.5 is now available as the latest update to this easy-to-use, text-based Arch Linux OS installer...
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Linux Swap Table Code Shows The Potential For Huge Performance Gains
Following recent discussions by Linux kernel developers around integrating swap cache and swap maps functionality with the swap allocator, Swap Table was born. With Swap Tables the hope is for lower memory use, higher performance, dynamic swap allocation and growth, greater extensibility, and other improvements over the existing swap code within the Linux kernel...
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Vulkan 1.4.315 With VK_EXT_zero_initialize_device_memory For VKD3D-Proton & More
Released last week was the Vulkan 1.4.315 spec update and with it comes the new VK_EXT_zero_initialize_device_memory extension for allowing device memory allocations to be zero-initialized...
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This is a step-by-step and easy-to-follow tutorial (with screenshots) to show you how to upgrade your Ubuntu 24.10 to Ubuntu 25.04.Marius Nestor (9to5Linux)
: GA date slips out on Japanese site, vanishes from EnglishLiam Proven (The Register)
Intel ANV Driver Lands Fixes For AV1 Decoding With Vulkan Video
For those interested in making use of GPU-accelerated AV1 video decoding with Intel graphics hardware using the Vulkan Video API, some important fixes were merged to Mesa 25.2-devel and will presumably be backported soon to existing Mesa releases...
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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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: Cheaper, open source AI will commoditize the market at expense of their bloated counterpartsLindsay Clark (The Register)
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 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)
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 lands with Drilldown GA, dynamic dashboards, Git Sync, SCIM support, blazing-fast tables, new theming options, and more.Bobby Borisov (Linuxiac)
The alleged "Steam data breach" appears to be SMS delivery logs from some provider, if it is true at all. Twilio says there is no indication that this data was obtained from Twilio.
You don't have to change your password, such a provider would not have your account information.
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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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
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 is an open-source Electron application that allows you to run large language models (LLMs) locally!sk (OSTechNix)
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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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)
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 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 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 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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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)
Maybe when Microsoft said 3% it meant ~6,000 or more in the US aloneRoy Schestowitz
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 provided a status update concerning the Qualcomm Snapdragon X Elite powered laptops on the recently released Ubuntu 25.04.lxer.com
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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