Linux Improvements Boost AMD Ryzen Threadripper 7000 Series Performance Since Launch
With the AMD Ryzen Threadripper 9000 series having just been announced at Computex, it's a good time to revisit the Ryzen Threadripper 7000 series performance ahead of those Zen 5 HEDT CPUs launching in July. In this article is a look at how the AMD Ryzen Threadripper 7970X 32-core and 7980X 64-core HEDT processors have evolved on the same system with …
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Fwupd 2.0.10 Brings Support For New Logitech & Lenovo Devices
Fwupd 2.0.10 is out today as the newest feature update to this open-source firmware updating solution built around the Linux Vendor Firmware Service (LVFS)...
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AlmaLinux 9.6 (Sage Margay) is out now with updated toolchains, enhanced virtualization, and images for x86_64, ARM64, PowerPC, and IBM Z architectures.Bobby Borisov (Linuxiac)
AMD To Focus On Better ROCm Linux Experience In H2-2025, Day-One Client Support
At the AMD Computex keynote last night in addition to announcing the Ryzen Threadripper 9000 series, Radeon RX 9060 XT, and Ryzen AI PRO R9700, they also brief talked about the ROCm compute stack and their plans for the second half of 2025...
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The Fedora Engineering and Steering Committee (FESCo) today signed off on the planned change for Fedora 43 that the GNOME desktop will be Wayland-only: the GNOME X11 packages will be removed in this next Fedora Linux release.lxer.com
NVIDIA Outlines Current Wayland Limitations & Future Driver Plans
Last year NVIDIA began publicly outlining known Wayland limitations for their driver and future support plans. This week NVIDIA put out updated information concerning known gaps in Wayland support as well as their ongoing future driver plans for enhancing the feature compatibility under this X11 successor...
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Valve released a new stable Steam Client update on May 20th, 2025, to further improve game recordings and remote play on Linux and fix bugs.Marius Nestor (9to5Linux)
FreeBSD Continues Improving Hardware Support For Framework Laptops, WiFi Devices
The FreeBSD project today published their status report outlining their development happenings during Q1'2025. There's been a lot going on in the FreeBSD world, especially for improving laptop support and other modern hardware coverage for this BSD operating system...
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Intel Compute Runtime 25.18.33578.6 Brings ULLS For Lunar Lake
Released yesterday was the newest monthly feature update to the Intel Compute Runtime as their open-source GPU compute stack for OpenCL and oneAPI Level Zero support on Intel integrated and discrete graphics processors...
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ASUS IoT has announced the RUC-1000 series at Computex 2025, introducing what it describes as the world’s first 2U 19-inch rugged edge AI GPU computer with PCIe 5.0 support for up to 600W GPUs.Giorgio Mendoza (LinuxGizmos.com)
GNOME GDM Now Disables The X11/X.Org Session By Default
Merged yesterday to the GNOME Display Manager "GDM" codebase is disabling of the X11/X.Org session by default as the first step toward deprecating GNOME's X11 session support...
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Merged yesterday to the GNOME Display Manager 'GDM' codebase is disabling of the X11/X.Org session by default as the first step toward deprecating GNOME's X11 session support.www.phoronix.com
DRM IN_FORMATS_ASYNC Coming For The Intel Driver With Linux 6.16
Sent out last week was one final batch of drm-misc-next updates ahead of the upcoming Linux 6.16 kernel cycle. Besides a couple fixes, most notable was new async flipping code for the Intel DRM driver with the IN_FORMATS_ASYNC DRM property...
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Wayland Looks To Do Away With Alpha & Beta Releases
Ongoing Wayland release manager Simon Ser has proposed doing away with alpha and beta releases moving forward as a sign of Wayland's maturity and to ease the release management process...
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Mesa 25.1.1 Released With Radeon Workarounds For DOOM: The Dark Ages
Following the Mesa 25.1 stable release from earlier this month, Mesa 25.1.1 is now available as the first point release bringing an assortment of different OpenGL and Vulkan driver fixes...
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Not only was there RHEL 10, FOSS Force was able to get Red Hat CEO Matt Hicks to weigh-in on the open source AI controversy.Christine Hall (FOSS Force)
Learn how to install the Yarn package manager on Ubuntu using NPM, Corepack, and the APT repository with practical examples.Ubuntu Shell
false claims and loaded statementRoy Schestowitz
AMD Ryzen Threadripper 9000 Series Launching In July For Linux Workstations
Along with announcing the Radeon AI PRO R9700 and Radeon RX 9060 XT specifications, on the CPU side AMD used their Computex 2025 keynote for introducing the Ryzen Threadripper 9000 series that will be launching in July...
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AMD Announces The Radeon AI PRO R9700 Graphics Coming In July
From the AMD keynote at Computex today the Raeon AI PRO R9700 Graphics were announced in delivering RDNA4 graphics for professionals...
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AMD Provides Initial Details On The Radeon RX 9060 XT
In addition to announcing the Radeon AI PRO R9700 and Threadripper 9000 series processors, AMD also introduced the Radeon RX 9060 XT graphics card at Computex 2025...
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Our Marco Fioretti shares his thoughts on Google's (and others') bad boy behavior against Nextcloud (and others).Marco Fioretti (FOSS Force)
In addition to the Nouveau driver set to see NVIDIA Blackwell and Hopper GPU support with the upcoming Linux 6.lxer.com
AMD Announces ROCm-DS
AMD this evening announced ROCm-DS as a new toolkit for their ROCm compute stack to accelerate data processing workloads on Instinct accelerators...
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: Another distro for Windows users – presumably ones who love blingLiam Proven (The Register)
In early 2022 Samsung engineers began working on upstreaming support for the Tesla Full Self-Driving 'FSD' SoC to the mainline Linux kernellxer.com
Opinion: There’s something wrong with keyboard design, but we can’t put our finger on itRupert Goodwins (The Register)
Linux Scheduler Patches Aim To Address Performance Regressions Since Last Year
A set of Linux kernel scheduler patches posted today are trying to address some performance regressions observed since the Linux 6.11 kernel that was released back in September 2025. These performance-fixing patches are flying under a "request for comments" flag and some of the regressions are tricky and perhaps not completely resolved, but it looks to be…
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How far has GNU/Linux gotten? Very far!Roy Schestowitz
Fedora 43 Cleared To Ship With Wayland-Only GNOME
The Fedora Engineering and Steering Committee (FESCo) today signed off on the planned change for Fedora 43 that the GNOME desktop will be Wayland-only: the GNOME X11 packages will be removed in this next Fedora Linux release...
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RHEL 10 debuts with built-in AI guidance, post-quantum cryptography, and streamlined OS-container management for modern hybrid infrastructure.Bobby Borisov (Linuxiac)
After years of work, Microsoft has made the WSL code publicly available. Yes, Windows Subsystem for Linux is now officially Open Source!sk (OSTechNix)
Red Hat & AMD Collaborating To Further Enhance Open-Source GPU Stack For AI
In addition to AMD being involved with Red Hat on the new llm-d open-source project for Gen AI, AMD and Red Hat also announced today further collaboration around open-source GPU/accelerator support for AI workloads...
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Red Hat Announces The llm-d Open-Source Project For Gen AI
In addition to rolling out Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10, Red Hat used their annual developer summit today for introducing llm-d as their newest open-source project...
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Some Minor Performance Hits Observed With New Intel Arrow Lake 0x118 CPU Microcode
Last week Intel released new CPU microcode for a number of processor generations due to the Training Solo vulnerability and Branch Privilege Injection. In this article today are some benchmarks looking at the performance difference from simply upgrading to the new CPU microcode on an Intel Core Ultra 9 285K "Arrow Lake" desktop system...
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LibreOffice 25.8 Alpha 1 Released With Performance Optimizations
The first alpha release of LibreOffice 25.8 is now available for testing of this cross-platform, free software office suite...
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Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10.0 Formally Announced, Joined By RISC-V Developer Preview
While Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10.0 GA images have been available for download since last week, Red Hat used the Red Hat Summit this week in Boston to formally announce the Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10 availability...
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VKD3D 1.16 Released With DXIL Shader Support
VKD3D 1.16 was released today by Wine/CodeWeavers developers as this upstream Direct3D 12 over Vulkan API implementation used by Wine for running D3D12 Windows games/applications on Linux...
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Adaptive Sharpness Property Still Being Worked On For Intel Lunar Lake & Newer On Linux
Since last summer Intel open-source driver engineers have been working to make use of Lunar Lake's new adaptive sharpening capabilities under Linux. This is being done via a proposed DRM sharpness property for communicating sharpness preferences while the hardware capabilities within Lunar Lake equate to minimal power and performance costs when in us…
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These all just look like the same image with the saturation boosted, no?
Edit: Actually the bottom right one does seem to have some sharpening going on with the colour bands, but it looks pretty bad.
Intel Enabling Platform Temperature Control Interface For Linux 6.16
Queued up within the Linux power management subsystem's "linux-next" branch is enabling support for the Intel Platform Temperature Control Interface...
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Queued up within the Linux power management subsystem's 'linux-next' branch is enabling support for the Intel Platform Temperature Control Interface.www.phoronix.com
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