AMD Radeon 8050S "Strix Halo" Linux Graphics Performance
Last month I began the much anticipated AMD Strix Halo Linux benchmarking at Phoronix by testing the top-end Ryzen AI Max+ PRO 395 that features 16 cores / 32 threads and the very impressive Radeon 8060S integrated graphics. Coming in one step below that flagship Strix Halo SoC is the Ryzen AI Max (PRO) 390 with Radeon 8050S graphics. Coming out today on Phoronix - coincidentally …
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AMD Ryzen AI Max 390 Performance - 12-Core Strix Halo
For some very fun Linux benchmarking on this 21st anniversary of starting Phoronix is looking at the Ryzen AI Max (PRO) 390 Linux performance, the 12-core Strix Halo SoC with Radeon 8050S Graphics. While there have been various benchmarks of the AMD Ryzen AI Max+ (PRO) 395 in recent weeks on Phoronix and other publications, the other Ryzen AI Max "Strix Halo" SoCs haven't been as widely s…
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Bcachefs Lands More Improvements For Linux 6.16 After Data Loss Bug Hit v6.15
Last week many Bcachefs performance optimizations, recovery work, and enhanced error messages were merged at the start of the Linux 6.16 merge window. Now ahead of the Linux 6.16-rc1 release coming on Sunday to cap off the merge window, a second round of Bcachefs enhancements and fixes were merged...
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Learn how to install, enable, and configure GUFW, a GUI firewall tool for Ubuntu, to manage and secure your network easily.Anees Asghar (Make Tech Easier)
Rocky Linux 9.6 distribution is now available for download as a free and open-source alternative to Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9.6.Marius Nestor (9to5Linux)
Marking 21 Years Of Covering Linux Hardware
Phoronix has made it another year. Today marks 21 years since I started Phoronix.com with a focus on providing Linux hardware reviews. Linux hardware support is a night and day difference then to today as is the overall ecosystem with all the major hardware vendors these days having some -- often significant -- levels of interest in Linux support. No longer is it typically a worry of whether your mouse,…
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PeerTube 7.2, an open-source, decentralized video platform, rolls out with redesigned video management, enhanced filtering, and refined handling of sensitive content.Bobby Borisov (Linuxiac)
For those not liking the direction of the Linux desktop with its Wayland-first focus, the Rust-written Redox OS has begun rolling out X11 support within its Orbital display server.lxer.com
: Encourages move to Linux but, for goodness sake, RTFM firstRichard Speed (The Register)
Murena is out with a new major release of its deGoogled and improved version of the Android operating system -- /e/OS 3.0Christine Hall (FOSS Force)
FEX 2506 Makes Big Improvements To Its JIT For x86_64 Binaries On ARM64 Linux
FEX 2506 released today as the newest version of this open-source emulator for running x86/x86_64 binaries on AArch64 (ARM64) Linux systems...
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Is open source truly open for all? Explore how unpaid contributions fuel billion-dollar projects, and where meritocracy meets hidden exploitation.Linux Jobs & Careers
Greg Kroah-Hartman today released Linux 6.15.1 as the first stable point release to the Linux 6.15 kernel that first shipped a week and a half agolxer.com
Learn how to install WordPress on Debian 13 using our step-by-step guide or have one of our Linux system admins install it for you.Jeff Wilson (RoseHosting)
Rust-Based Redox OS Begins Implements X11 Support, GTK3 Port
For those not liking the direction of the Linux desktop with its Wayland-first focus, the Rust-written Redox OS has begun rolling out X11 support within its Orbital display server...
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Fwupd 2.0.11 open-source Linux firmware updater is now available for download with support for Lenovo Thunderbolt 5 Smart Dock.Marius Nestor (9to5Linux)
Mesa 25.1.2 Released With More Intel Battlemage & Panther Lake IDs Added
Mesa 25.1.2 is out today as the newest stable bi-weekly point release to this collection of open-source OpenGL/Vulkan/video drivers widely relied upon by Linux systems...
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Linux 6.16 Exposes Statistics For NUMA Task Migration & Swapping
In addition to the memory management "MM" changes merged last week that included features like Kernel HandOver "KHO" support, a second batch of MM changes were submitted and merged this week for Linux 6.16...
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In addition to the memory management 'MM' changes merged last week that included features like Kernel HandOver 'KHO' support, a second batch of MM changes were submitted and merged this week for Linux 6.16www.phoronix.com
Linux 6.15.1 Ships With Fix To Prevent Snapdragon X1 GPUs From Severely Overheating
Greg Kroah-Hartman today released Linux 6.15.1 as the first stable point release to the Linux 6.15 kernel that first shipped a week and a half ago. Linux 6.15.1 brings an initial batch of fixes, which are particularly noteworthy if trying to use a Qualcomm Snapdragon X1 laptop on Linux...
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The numerous hardware monitoring 'HWMON' subsystem updates were merged to Linux 6.16 on Tuesday for further enhancing the desktop hardware reporting capabilities and more with this next kernel release.lxer.com
AMD Makes Another Software Acquisition To Bolster Their AI & Compiler Talent
In addition to the excitement this morning of the Radeon RX 9060 XT review embargo lift, today also serves as another special day at AMD as they announced they have acquired software firm Brium...
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AMD Radeon RX 9060 XT Linux Performance
Ahead of the AMD Radeon RX 9060 XT graphics card hitting retailers tomorrow, today the review embargo lifts on this latest addition to the RDNA4 family. Here are the initial Linux graphics performance benchmarks for this new $349 graphics card compared to other AMD Radeon graphics cards as well as the NVIDIA GeForce and Intel Arc competition.
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Raspberry Pi Imager 1.9.4, an easy-to-use SD card preparation tool by Raspberry Pi, lands as the first official 1.9.x release, bringing a refined UI.Bobby Borisov (Linuxiac)
WHIP Muxer Merged To FFmpeg For Sub-Second Latency Streaming
A big project was merged into FFmpeg overnight in providing a WHIP muxer for sub-second latency streaming...
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New CXL RAS Features Upstreamed For Linux 6.16
Linux kernel developers continue building out the support around the Compute Express Link (CXL) specification for benefiting modern high performance servers. With the in-development Linux 6.16 kernel there are more CXL features now in place...
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Ubuntu Developers Discuss The Difficult Issue Of Splitting Up Firmware Packages
Ubuntu developers have recently started a discussion over possibly splitting up the "linux-firmware" package into multiple sub-packages given the growing size of all the different firmware binaries needed to support the diverse range of hardware supported by the Linux kernel. It's nice in theory for helping to reduce the install footprint of Ubuntu Linux bu…
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Ubuntu developers have recently started a discussion over possibly splitting up the 'linux-firmware' package into multiple sub-packages given the growing size of all the different firmware binaries needed to support the diverse range of hardware supp…www.phoronix.com
SquashFS-Tools 4.7 is out today as a big feature update to the user-space utilities for creating/modifying/extracting SquashFS read-only file-system imageslxer.com
Sched_Ext Boasts CPU Selection Improvements In Linux 6.16
One of the niftiest kernel innovations to be upstreamed into Linux over the past year was sched_ext for extensible scheduler behavior in allowing kernel schedulers to be implemented via BPG programs. Sched_ext can allow for interesting scheduler improvements with a variety of use-cases and showed much potential even before being upstreamed. The work on sched_ext isn't yet over though an…
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Hardware Monitoring For More ASUS Motherboards & Additional Zen 5 CPUs In Linux 6.16
The numerous hardware monitoring "HWMON" subsystem updates were merged to Linux 6.16 on Tuesday for further enhancing the desktop hardware reporting capabilities and more with this next kernel release...
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The numerous hardware monitoring 'HWMON' subsystem updates were merged to Linux 6.16 on Tuesday for further enhancing the desktop hardware reporting capabilities and more with this next kernel release.www.phoronix.com
VirtualBox 7.1.10 lands with key bug fixes for Windows and Linux hosts, plus support for kernel 6.15 and 6.16-RC0 on Linux guests.Bobby Borisov (Linuxiac)
While Intel opted against implementing Hyper Threading for their latest Arrow Lake and Lunar Lake processors, Simultaneous Multi-Threading (SMT) still proves very effective on the AMD side.lxer.com
Ubuntu Touch OTA-9 is now rolling out to all supported devices with various improvements and fixes. Here’s what’s new!Marius Nestor (9to5Linux)
The wide assortment of x86 platform driver updates have been merged for the Linux 6.16 kernel due out as stable in Julylxer.com
The Web is really getting bad; it's also overwhelmed by fake material or plagiarised material, wherein the plagiarism gets disguised/hidden by LLM sausage factoriesRoy Schestowitz
RawTherapee 5.12, a raw image processing program, introduces powerful new color tools, tone mappers, and better support for Canon, Sony, and Fujifilm RAW formats.Bobby Borisov (Linuxiac)
SquashFS Tools 4.7 Released: "20% To More Than Ten Times Faster"
SquashFS-Tools 4.7 is out today as a big feature update to the user-space utilities for creating/modifying/extracting SquashFS read-only file-system images. SquashFS 4.7 delivers some big performance improvements and other nice enhancements...
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Alpine Linux is known as a small-footprint OS for containers and IoT devices. We decided to see how well it performs on a desktop.Jack Wallen (FOSS Force)
FriendlyElec has introduced the NanoPi M5, a compact single-board computer based on the Rockchip RK3576 processor. It features a 6 TOPS INT8 NPU, supports LPDDR4X or LPDDR5 memory, and offers UFS 2.Giorgio Mendoza (LinuxGizmos.com)
Linux 6.16 Merges Support For The Apple Magic Mouse 2 USB-C
While Linux 5.13 back in 2021 added support for the Apple Magic Mouse 2, only now with the Linux 6.16 kernel is there support arriving for the USB-C version of the Apple Magic Mouse 2 that debuted last year...
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Learn how to check disk health in Linux using smartctl, badblocks, and fsck utilities. Identify failing HDDs/SSDs early and prevent data loss.sk (OSTechNix)
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