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Fastfetch 2.45 System Information Tool Brings New GPU Vendor Detection lxer.com/module/newswire/ext_l…


New AMD-SBI Code Merged For Linux 6.16

New AMD code merged today to the mainline Linux 6.16 kernel that's in-development is the introduction of the AMD-SBI driver/subsystem for primarily benefiting EPYC server platforms. AMD-SBI is for their Side-Band Interface also known as the Advanced Platform Management Link (APML)...
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Intel Vulkan Driver Lands Improvement For Helping Direct3D Games Under Steam Play

Merged today to Mesa 25.2 is an adjustment for the Intel "ANV" open-source Vulkan driver to help with Direct3D games running under Linux with Valve's Steam Play via Proton + VKD3D...
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Linux System Administrator Salaries in the U.S. (2025) lxer.com/module/newswire/ext_l…


LibreOffice 25.2.4 Office Suite Is Now Available for Download with 52 Bug Fixes lxer.com/module/newswire/ext_l…


Setup Hyprland with ML4W 2.9.8.6 Dotfiles as second DE for CachyOS 053025 Gnome lxer.com/module/newswire/ext_l…



Intel Linux Driver Patch Posted For Wildcat Lake NPU Accelerator Support

Last month Intel software engineers began posting Linux enablement patches for Wildcat Lake. Some of those first patches were merged for Linux 6.16 while more work is forthcoming. Posted yesterday for the first time on the Linux kernel mailing list was enabling the NPU accelerator support for Wildcat Lake...
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Qualcomm Snapdragon X1 Elite GCC vs. LLVM Clang Compiler Performance

Since recently picking up a Qualcomm Snapdragon X Elite laptop for Linux testing now that the Linux support is starting to evolve into better shape (albeit still with many rough corners limiting the daily usability of such devices with Linux), one of the areas I was curious about was looking at the performance of Linux binaries with GCC vs. LLVM Clang. Here are some benc…
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Box64 v0.3.6 Brings Better AVX Handling, Volatile Metadata For Windows Executables

Just a few days after the FEX 2506 release for that open-source emulator enabling x86_64 binaries to run on ARM64 (AArch64) hosts, Box64 is out with its newest feature update for this open-source project with similar goals...
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The Performance Gains Brought By Linux 6.15+ & Mesa 25.2 For AMD Strix Halo

While the AMD Ryzen AI Max+ Strix Halo SoCs have a nice out-of-the-box experience with modern Linux distributions for the Radeon 8050S and Radeon 8060S graphics, if going for the recently-released Linux 6.15 kernel there are some performance gains to enjoy as well as if opting for the latest Mesa 25.2 development code for the latest RadeonSI OpenGL and RADV …
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AMD's Kernel Compute Driver "AMDKFD" Can Now Be Enabled On RISC-V

Following all of the Linux kernel graphics driver features merged last week for the Linux 6.16 kernel, sent out this morning were the initial batch of fixes to the Direct Rendering Manager (DRM) code. Besides fixes to these graphics / display / accelerator drivers, there is one new feature: the AMDKFD kernel compute driver can now be enabled on RISC-V systems...
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KDE Gear 25.04.2 Released with More Improvements for Your Favorite KDE Apps lxer.com/module/newswire/ext_l…


Apple M2 Pro / Max / Ultra PCIe Support Upstreamed In Linux 6.16

The many PCI subsystem changes have been merged for the in-development Linux 6.16 merge window...
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Linux 6.16 NFS Client Exposes LOCALIO State Via sysfs

In addition to the NFS server changes for Linux 6.16 with now supporting larger I/O block sizes, the Network File-System (NFS) client changes were merged this week for this next kernel version...
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More KVM Changes Merged For Linux 6.16: AMD "ALLOWED_SEV_FEATURES" Merged

Following the Intel TDX host support for KVM being merged for the Linux 6.16 merge window, another batch of Kernel-based Virtual Machine (KVM) changes were merged for the ongoing Linux 6.16 merge window...
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Mesa's Rusticl Lands OpenCL FP16 Half-Float Support lxer.com/module/newswire/ext_l…


How GitHub Copilot Is Revolutionizing DevOps & DevSecOps lxer.com/module/newswire/ext_l…


Karton: KDE’s Libvirt-Powered Answer to GNOME Boxes and Virt-Manager lxer.com/module/newswire/ext_l…


Wireshark 4.4.7 Network Protocol Analyzer Patches Security Flaw and Fixes Bugs lxer.com/module/newswire/ext_l…


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FreeBSD Developers Deciding What To Do For WiFi With FreeBSD 15: Stable Or Unstable lxer.com/module/newswire/ext_l…


Linux Display Managers: Complete Beginner’s Guide lxer.com/module/newswire/ext_l…


Mesa's Rusticl Lands OpenCL FP16 Half-Float Support

Mesa's modern Rust-written OpenCL driver for Gallium3D "Rusticl" has closed one of the few remaining gaps with the former Clover OpenCL state tracker. Merged today for Mesa 25.2 is native FP16 support...
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Pushing Microsoft's Proprietary Trash/Trap as "Open" and "Linux" (Windows is 'Linux' Now?) lxer.com/module/newswire/ext_l…


AI can spew code, but kids should still suffer like we did, says Raspberry Pi lxer.com/module/newswire/ext_l…
in reply to LinuxToday

"Raspberry Pi... is warning that "vibe coding" cannot replace the skills picked up during the process of learning to code." Well, duh.


Canonical Finally Phasing Out Bazaar Code Hosting lxer.com/module/newswire/ext_l…


KDE Gear 25.04.2 Apps Collection Rolls Out, Here’s What’s New lxer.com/module/newswire/ext_l…


Linux 6.15 & Early Linux 6.16 Delivering Some Additional Gains For AMD Strix Halo

As some extra benchmarks to put out today for the Phoronix.com 21st birthday, there is some additional data points to share on AMD Strix Halo when using Linux 6.15 stable and the early development state of Linux 6.16 Git ahead of its v6.16-rc1 tagging this weekend. The Linux kernel performance is moving in the right direction at least with this round of…
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Proposed Persistent Cache For Block Devices "PCACHE" Ported To DM Framework

An initial patch series sent back out in April proposed PCACHE as a persistent memory cache for block devices. PCACHE was born out of the CXL block device driver and brings some benefits over the likes of BCache and dm-writecache...
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Europe's Federated Cloud Vision Is Right -- Now Comes the Hard Part lxer.com/module/newswire/ext_l…


FreeBSD Developers Deciding What To Do For WiFi With FreeBSD 15: Stable Or Unstable

FreeBSD developers have been working a lot on their wireless/WiFi driver support in recent months as part of their broader initiative for improving their operating system support for laptops. While a lot of progress has been made on seeing more modern WiFi support and recent WiFi chipsets being enabled, it's still not complete and that puts FreeBSD 15 in a tou…
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How to Find Your Active Display Manager in Linux (and Why It Matters) lxer.com/module/newswire/ext_l…


AMD Radeon RX 9060 XT Linux Performance lxer.com/module/newswire/ext_l…



Avalue Introduces ACP-PI Boards as Raspberry Pi Alternatives lxer.com/module/newswire/ext_l…


Rocky Linux 9.6 Released with New WSL Support, Updated Packages lxer.com/module/newswire/ext_l…


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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