PCI Express 7.0 Final Specification Published Along With PCIe Optical Interconnect
PCI Express 7.0 was announced back in 2022 as coming in 2025 with 128 GT/s Since then draft specifications were published while today PCI-SIG is announcing the formal PCI Express 7.0 specification release along with a new PCIe Optical Interconnect Solution...
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Learn why and how to run multiple shells in Linux. Test your scripts in different shells such as Bash, Dash, Fish, and Zsh for compatibility.sk (OSTechNix)
Linus Torvalds Rejects The Idea Of Enabling DAMON By Default In The Linux Kernel
DAMON is a nifty data access monitoring solution for the Linux kernel developed by Amazon and other parties for system monitoring and performance/efficiency optimizations and more. But it's not so ground-breaking that it's worth enabling by default in all Linux kernel builds, Linus Torvalds has decided...
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Ubuntu 25.10 "Questing Quokka" removes Xorg-based sessions, fully embracing Wayland as the new default for GNOME.Bobby Borisov (Linuxiac)
Ultra Ethernet Consortium Publishes UEC 1.0 Specification
The Ultra Ethernet Consortium today published the UEC Specification 1.0 release. Nearly two years ago the Ultra Ethernet Consortium was started by Intel, AMD, Meta, HPE, and others and hosted by the Linux Foundation for open and high performance networking with an emphasis on AI and HPC...
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In aligning with upstream GNOME 49 expected to ship with X11 support disabled by default, Canonical announced today that the upcoming Ubuntu 25.10 release will also ship without support for running the GNOME desktop on X11.lxer.com
DragonFlyBSD Updates Its Graphics Drivers With New GPU Support But Still Years Behind
DragonFlyBSD has updated its Direct Rendering Manager (DRM) kernel graphics/display driver code that it ports over from what's available in the upstream Linux kernel. The latest revision to the DragonFlyBSD kernel graphics driver code enables support for some new hardware platforms but remains woefully behind the latest generation dGPUs/iGPUs and wh…
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DXVK 2.6.2 Vulkan-based implementation of D3D9, D3D10, and D3D11 for Linux / Wine is now available for download with various improvements.Marius Nestor (9to5Linux)
: Project to modernize the X.org X11 server seems to actively court controversyLiam Proven (The Register)
In this article, you will learn how to use the strip command to remove unnecessary information from your compiled object file with examples.Linux TLDR
Taking AMD Ryzen AI Max Performance To The Max With Clear Linux & CachyOS
With the HP ZBook Ultra G1a Strix Halo laptop sporting the AMD Ryzen AI Max+ PRO 395 with Radeon 8060S Graphics it offers incredible performance potential as shown in my many benchmarks over the past month on Ubuntu Linux. But if wanting to push the Ryzen AI Max even further, with performance-optimized Linux distributions like CachyOS and Intel's Clear Linux it's pos…
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Intel Iris Linux Driver Lands Shared Virtual Memory Support
In late May the Rust-written "Rusticl" OpenCL driver within Mesa landed support for Shared Virtual Memory (SVM). Following that, the Intel Iris Gallium3D driver has now seen its support merged for SVM...
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In late May the Rust-written 'Rusticl' OpenCL driver within Mesa landed support for Shared Virtual Memory (SVM)www.phoronix.com
Linux kernel 6.14 reached end of life and all users are now recommended to upgrade their systems to the latest Linux 6.15 kernel series.Marius Nestor (9to5Linux)
Ubuntu Server Weighing Tmus vs. Screen, Wget vs. Curl
With less than one year to go until the Ubuntu 26.04 LTS release and trying to get any major changes into Ubuntu 25.10 for extra baking, Ubuntu engineers have been evaluating some Ubuntu Server seed changes...
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As Windows 10 nears end-of-life, should you upgrade or switch? Here’s a practical look at life after support—and how Linux compares.Bobby Borisov (Linuxiac)
Going back to last year there have been patches worked on by SUSE for upstreaming Raspberry Pi's RP1 PCI device supportlxer.com
Canonical announced that they plan to remove the GNOME on Xorg (X11) session from the upcoming Ubuntu 25.10 "Questing Quokka" release.Marius Nestor (9to5Linux)
Learn how to insert the last command argument in Bash, Fish, and Zsh shells. Save time and avoid typing mistakes using these tips.sk (OSTechNix)
Audacity 3.7.4 open-source audio editor is now available for download with variious bug fixes and improvements.Marius Nestor (9to5Linux)
Docker Desktop 4.42 adds native IPv6 support, debuts built-in MCP Toolkit, and expands AI tooling.Bobby Borisov (Linuxiac)
You'll think you're cruising through hyperspace -- Warp brings speed, insight, and next-level productivity to the command line.Jack Wallen (FOSS Force)
Experimental Patch Brings Very Primitive AMD Instinct MI300 Support To GCC Compiler
With AMD continuing to be focused on their AMDGPU LLVM compiler back-end for their GPU compiler needs from compute to graphics shaders, the AMD GPU/accelerator hardware support within the GNU Compiler Collection "GCC" has long taken a backseat and left to third-party firms to implement. Posted today was an experimental patch providing very early support…
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With AMD continuing to be focused on their AMDGPU LLVM compiler back-end for their GPU compiler needs from compute to graphics shaders, the AMD GPU/accelerator hardware support within the GNU Compiler Collection 'GCC' has long taken a backseat and le…www.phoronix.com
Linux 6.15 Delivering Some Performance Gains On AMD EPYC For AI, HPC & Databases
The Linux 6.15 kernel cycle started off a bit rough with a heavy hitting performance regression spotted and then fixed but to only then discover another Linux 6.15 performance regression affecting modern AMD CPUs. Fortunately those issues were cleared out in time for the recent Linux 6.15 stable release. Linux 6.15 stable is looking good especially on 5th …
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Radxa’s UFS/eMMC Module Reader is a compact USB 3.0 adapter for flashing OS images, accessing firmware, and transferring large files. It supports both eMMC v5.0 and UFS 2.Giorgio Mendoza (LinuxGizmos.com)
Amazon/AWS Is Now Sponsoring & Powering All Of GNOME's Web Infrastructure
On the GNOME Foundation blog today is an interesting post how Amazon Web Services (AWS) has ended up sponsoring and powering all of the GNOME web infrastructure...
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As a nice stepping stone until FreeBSD 15 is ready to ship later in the calendar year, FreeBSD 14.3 stable is out today as the newest point release for this leading BSD operating system.lxer.com
Linux 6.15.2 Fixes "Quite Dramatically...Potentially Dangerous" Idle Power Regression
Along with releasing Linux 6.14.11 today to end-of-life the Linux 6.14 kernel series, Greg Kroah-Hartman released Linux 6.15.2 as the newest stable point release. There is a notable fix here for the CPU idle power regressing on some systems since moving to Linux 6.15...
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DXVK 2.6.2 Released For Direct3D On Vulkan
DXVK 2.6.2 was released this morning as the newest update to this Direct3D 8 / 9 / 10 / 11 over Vulkan API implementation. DXVK continues to be most notably used by Valve's Steam Play (Proton) for running countless Windows games well on Linux...
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: Swift-based containerization framework aims to improve performance and securityThomas Claburn (The Register)
Kdenlive 25.04.2 open-source video editing software is out with fixes for audio thumbnails, subtitle grabbing, OTIO path issues, and more.Bobby Borisov (Linuxiac)
AMD Radeon RX 9060 XT Linux GPU Compute Performance
Following last week's AMD Radeon RX 9060 XT Linux graphics/gaming review for launch day, today's article is providing an initial look at the GPU compute performance for this new RDNA4-powered ~$349 graphics card on Linux with ROCm 6.4.1.
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Learn how to show progress of cp, mv, rm, rsync, dd, scp, adb, tar, gzip, zip, 7z, unzip, etc., commands in Linux with/without using any tool.Linux TLDR
The turbostat utility that lives within the Linux kernel source tree for reporting processor frequency and idle statistics along with other CPU information saw some last minute updates during the Linux 6.16 merge window.lxer.com
Canonical Confirms Ubuntu 25.10 Will Drop Support For GNOME On X.Org
In aligning with upstream GNOME 49 expected to ship with X11 support disabled by default, Canonical announced today that the upcoming Ubuntu 25.10 release will also ship without support for running the GNOME desktop on X11...
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Raspberry Pi RP1 PCI Device Support On Path For Linux 6.17 Upstreaming
Going back to last year there have been patches worked on by SUSE for upstreaming Raspberry Pi's RP1 PCI device support. It looks like for the Linux 6.17 kernel later this year that work will finally be upstreamed...
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AMD Linux Patches Aim To Improve S5 Power Consumption
An ongoing area of work for AMD's Linux client team is on enhancing the power management and overall power savings/efficiency support for Ryzen platforms on Linux. An updated patch series was posted on Monday for making the system S5 power state handling more ideal when powering off the system...
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IO_uring Shows Promising Potential For Linux Accelerator Drivers
Last year there was some ideas raised around potentially making use of the Linux kernel's IO_uring functionality for graphics drivers to help with better performance and synchronization. It turns out Qualcomm engineers have recently been exploring IO_uring use for the DRM accelerator drivers with very promising results on their Cloud AI hardware in seeing around 50% spee…
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Learn how to test microphones on Debian and Ubuntu-based distributions, then learn how to troubleshoot the issue with a few practical examples.Ubuntu Shell
The ROC-RK3506J-CC is a compact single-board computer based on Rockchip’s RK3506J processor. Designed for embedded systems with real-time demands, it supports a wide range of I/O and OS options and is available in both industrial and commercial varia…Giorgio Mendoza (LinuxGizmos.com)
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