Intel Vulkan Linux Driver Lands Initial Support For VP9 Decoding
Introduced last week with Vulkan 1.4.317 was Vulkan Video support for VP9 video decoding. Following that the open-source Radeon "RADV" Vulkan driver landed its VK_KHR_video_decode_vp9 support and now similarly the open-source Intel Vulkan driver has too...
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The FireBeetle 2 ESP32-P4 is an upcoming compact development board designed for real-time image processing, video streaming, and wireless communication.Giorgio Mendoza (LinuxGizmos.com)
GNU Nano 8.5 command-line text editor rolls out with saved anchors, improved syntax coloring, and updated keystrokes.Bobby Borisov (Linuxiac)
Back in April I published Linux benchmarks of the Lenovo ThinkPad T14s Gen 6 with the AMD Ryzen AI 7 PRO 360 SoClxer.com
LibreOffice 25.8 Beta Released For Testing
LibreOffice 25.8 beta is now available for this popular open-source office suite. LibreOffice 25.8 has been baking many improvements for this popular Microsoft Office alternative and leading office suite option for the Linux desktop...
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The Nucleo N657X0-Q is a development board from STMicroelectronics built around the STM32N657 microcontroller.Giorgio Mendoza (LinuxGizmos.com)
OpenMoonRay Introduces NUMA Support
Two years ago DreamWorks Animation open-sourced their MoonRay renderer that is an award-winning, state-of-the-art production MCRT renderer used for a number of feature films. Since then they have continued advancing this open-source code as OpenMoonRay and adding more features. The newest feature release of OpenMoonRay is now available with yet more capabilities for this impressive renderer...
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Archinstall 3.0.8, a guided installer for Arch Linux, introduces breaking changes, updates log handlers, and removes internal function arguments.Bobby Borisov (Linuxiac)
Google Cloud C4D Performance Benchmarks At The Top-End Show 39% Generational Improvement With EPYC Turin
Back in April at Google Cloud Next was the introduction of the new C4D family of VMs powered by AMD EPYC 9005 "Turin" processors. Back on launch day I looked at the C3D vs. C4D performance at some of the smaller, more common VM sizes. In today's article is a look at the top-end performance of the C4D family with 384 vCPUs. For those wonde…
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Back in April at Google Cloud Next was the introduction of the new C4D family of VMs powered by AMD EPYC 9005 'Turin' processors.www.phoronix.com
Vulkan 1.4.318 Released With A New Valve Extension
Just one week past the notable Vulkan 1.4.317 release, Vulkan 1.4.318 is out with some documentation clarifications plus two new extensions...
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Wayland Protocols 1.45 Brings Background Effects, Pointer Warp & Session Management
Wayland Protocols 1.45 was released today with new staging and experimental protocols for Wayland compositors to begin rolling out...
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Sound Open Firmware 2.13 Released With Intel Panther Lake & Wildcat Lake Support
Sound Open Firmware 2.13 debuted today as the newest feature update to this open-source audio DSP stack started by Intel. With Sound Open Firmware 2.13 comes support for new Intel platforms and other enhancements...
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: Distros align with GNOME 49's move to make Wayland the only supported sessionLiam Proven (The Register)
Brazil’s BigLinux delivers a feature-packed, user-friendly Linux experience -- with a few playful twists along the way.Larry Cafiero (FOSS Force)
Over the past month I have been testing out the HP ZBook Ultra G1a powered by AMD Ryzen AI Max+ PRO Strix Halo.lxer.com
Gitea 1.24 self-hosted Git service released with performance boosts, enforced 2FA, improved markdown rendering, and more.Bobby Borisov (Linuxiac)
In this article, you will learn how to navigate the Arch User Repository, clone packages, inspect PKGBUILD files, and install packages from AUR safely.Linux TLDR
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.lxer.com
Learn to install and configure Umami on Ubuntu 25.04, set up Umami with Nginx, configure an SSL certificate, and add a new website for tracking in Umami Analytics.Ubuntu Shell
AMD Previews Instinct MI400 Series & Helios AI Rack
On top of announcing today the AMD Instinct MI350 series, ROCm 7.0, and introducing the AMD Developer Cloud, AMD also teased the next-generation Instinct MI400 / Instinct MI450 series coming in 2026...
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AMD Developer Cloud Announced In Enabling Developer Access To Instinct MI355X & More
What will likely be one of the most under-reported announcements from AMD AI Day 2025 is the AMD Developer Cloud... It's set to play a big role moving forward but today isn't as exciting itself as the likes of the Instinct MI350 series and ROCm 7.0 software...
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Rocky Linux 10.0 Reaches GA As Free RHEL 10 Alternative
Following the Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10.0 release going GA in May, Rocky Linux 10.0 is now available as this free alternative to RHEL 10...
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OpenZFS 2.2.8 Released With Newer Linux Kernel Support
While OpenZFS 2.3 has been stable for several months, for those still relying on the OpenZFS 2.2 series there is a new stable point release...
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ROCm 7.0 Goes Into Preview With MI350X/MI355X Support, Big Performance Improvements
Alongside announcing the AMD Instinct MI350 series at their AI day, ROCm 7.0 was also introduced and will be available today in preview form...
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AMD Announces Instinct MI350X & MI355X With Fully Upstream Open-Source Linux Support
AMD at its Advancing AI Day event in San Jose announced the Instinct MI350X and MI355X accelerators. Exciting open-source fans will be that the Instinct MI350 series features fully open-source driver support and that is already mainline within the Linux kernel...
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The MBM-T113 is a 60x60mm Mobile-ITX embedded board from FusionTech, built around the Allwinner T113-S3 processor.Giorgio Mendoza (LinuxGizmos.com)
Just launched: the Screenly Player Max Mk II- the fastest, most secure digital signage player available.
Built with @system76
Powered by 13th-gen Intel
Locked down with TPM + Secure Boot
Assembled in the U.S.
A serious device for serious deployments.
Learn more about our latest and most powerful Screenly Player Max Mk II, made in conjuction with system76.Daniel Mountcastle (Screenly, Inc)
OpenGL 4.6 Now Exposed For Old AMD Evergreen & Cayman GPUs On Linux Driver
Merged yesterday for Mesa 25.2 is an exciting change for those still making use of vintage Radeon GPUs... OpenGL 4.6 support is now exposed for the Radeon R600g Gallium3D driver...
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Apple introduced a Swift-powered, open-source alternative to Docker for running Linux containers on macOS, focused on security and isolation.Bobby Borisov (Linuxiac)
Rocky Linux 10 distribution is now available for download based on Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10 and featuring RISC-V support.Marius Nestor (9to5Linux)
Measuring The Performance Cost To AMD Memory Guard With Ryzen AI PRO CPUs
While the AMD Ryzen AI Max+ PRO 395 and Ryzen AI Max+ 395 are very similar processors just as the Ryzen PRO processors are to other non-PRO parts, one of the differences with the AMD PRO Technologies come down to AMD Memory Guard providing full system memory encryption. From the HP BIOS with the ZBook Ultra G1a there is a convenient toggle for this full memory …
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While the AMD Ryzen AI Max+ PRO 395 and Ryzen AI Max+ 395 are very similar processors just as the Ryzen PRO processors are to other non-PRO parts, one of the differences with the AMD PRO Technologies come down to AMD Memory Guard providing full syste…www.phoronix.com
Platform Profile Power/Performance Impact For ThinkPad T14s G6 + AMD Ryzen AI 7 PRO 360
Back in April I published Linux benchmarks of the Lenovo ThinkPad T14s Gen 6 with the AMD Ryzen AI 7 PRO 360 SoC. Some follow-up benchmarks I did back then that I have been meaning to publish is looking at the ACPI Platform Profile impact on performance and power for this ThinkPad laptop under Linux. Here are those numbers...
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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 morelxer.com
Explore a step-by-step guide for installing, configuring, and running Pydio Cells on Ubuntu to manage and collaborate on your document files.Ubuntu Shell
The Ultra Ethernet Consortium today published the UEC Specification 1.0 releaselxer.com
Mozilla has decided to throw in the towel on Pocket, a social-bookmarking service that it acqui [...]LWN.net
HP ZBook Ultra G1a: An Incredible, Powerful Mobile Workstation Powered By AMD's Ryzen AI Max
Over the past month I have been testing out the HP ZBook Ultra G1a powered by AMD Ryzen AI Max+ PRO Strix Halo. Simply put: WOW! I don't remember the last time I have been so fascinated by a laptop SoC from its incredible performance generationally and even compared to existing AMD SoCs within the Ryzen AI 300 series and outright dominating against the…
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Audacity 3.7.4 open-source audio editor fixes crashes, waveform rendering, and clip deletion issues.Bobby Borisov (Linuxiac)