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AMD & System76 Teaming Up For ROCm "Radeon Test Drive"

AMD's Advancing AI 2025 event last week was very busy with announcing the Instinct MI350X and MI355X, the ROCm 7.0 preview, and debuting the AMD Developer Cloud. In addition, they held pre-briefs around the Ryzen Threadripper 9000 series and buried in as part of that was another new disclosure: Radeon Test Drive. Radeon Test Drive was brought up as something that's coming later this summe…
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AMD Shares More Details On The Ryzen Threadripper 9000 Series

Prior to the AMD Advancing AI 2025 event last week, AMD shared additional details on their forthcoming Ryzen Threadripper 9000 series processors.
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Qt 6.10 Beta Released With Native PipeWire Audio Backend For Qt Multimedia

Qt 6.10 Beta 1 released today as the next stepping stone for this open-source, cross-platform toolkit. Qt 6.10 isn't bringing any new modules but is deprecating the Qt Charts and Qt Data Visualization code...
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KDE Plasma 6.4 Desktop Released With Many Fantastic Improvements

KDE Plasma 6.4 is out today with many fantastic improvements for this open-source desktop...
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i wish one of the new features would be fewer crashes of plasmashell...


Intel's Next-Gen QAT Hardware Can Be Optimized For Just Decompression Use

Merged recently for the Linux 6.16 kernel was initial support for Intel QAT Gen6 hardware. A new qat_6xxx driver was added for supporting the next-gen QuickAssist Technology accelerator IP being found with upcoming Intel Xeon processors. Patches being prepared now for the Linux 6.17 kernel are building out a new decompression service for that next-generation hardwar…
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Intel THC Linux Driver Ready To Support Wake-on-Touch "WoT"

Merged for Linux 6.14 at the beginning of the year were the Intel THC drivers for supporting the Touch Host Controller IP found in modern Intel Core Ultra laptops for dealing with the touchpad, touchscreen, and related touch-control functionality. This open-source driver is still being built-out ahead of next-generation Core Ultra laptops hitting the market...
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Dbus-Broker 37 Released For High Performance & Reliable D-Bus

The Dbus-Broker project from the BUS1/systemd developers is out with its first update in more than one year for this D-Bus implementation that aims to be more reliable and higher performing than D-Bus itself...
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LibreOffice adds voice to 'ditch Windows for Linux' campaign lxer.com/module/newswire/ext_l…





Rust Surveying Developers To Find Biggest Compiler Performance Issues lxer.com/module/newswire/ext_l…


Arch Linux Shifts to Pure WoW64 Builds for Wine and Wine-Staging lxer.com/module/newswire/ext_l…


How to Run GUI-Based Applications in Docker lxer.com/module/newswire/ext_l…


Git 2.50 Lands: Say Goodbye to Recursive Merges lxer.com/module/newswire/ext_l…


Intel Mesa Drivers Now Properly Report Battlemage BMG-G31 GPUs

Posted by Intel engineers a few days ago were a Mesa patch to begin recognizing some Intel Battlemage graphics cards as being the larger "BMG G31" variant. This evening those patches were merged for Mesa 25.2 for what's rumored to be potentially the Arc B770 graphics cards to launch later in the year...
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FreeRDP 3.16 Released With Better SDL3 Client Support lxer.com/module/newswire/ext_l…


NEW Hyprland Starter and Dotfiles Installer App for openSuse per Stephan Raabe lxer.com/module/newswire/ext_l…


The Latest X.Org Server Activity Are A Lot Of Code Reverts lxer.com/module/newswire/ext_l…


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Dozzle 8.13 Real?Time Docker Log Viewer Released lxer.com/module/newswire/ext_l…


ReactOS Merges Better Support For Fullscreen Applications lxer.com/module/newswire/ext_l…


Why Is FOSS Force Reporting on a ‘No Kings’ Event in Elkin, NC lxer.com/module/newswire/ext_l…


Slowing the flow of core-dump-related CVEs lxer.com/module/newswire/ext_l…


Trying Out The AMD Developer Cloud For Evaluating Instinct + ROCm

Last week alongside announcing the AMD Instinct MI350X/MI355X and the ROCm 7.0 software preview, AMD also introduced the AMD Developer Cloud as a new means for developers to easy try out Instinct accelerators with their own software and with the ROCm compute stack already setup. Having tried out prior AMD cloud compute environments, as soon as my email invite for the AMD Develo…
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Rust Surveying Developers To Find Biggest Compiler Performance Issues

Rust developers acknowledge lengthy compiler times can be a significant issue that limits the productivity of developers working with this programming language. For helping in determining different combinations of issues around compiler performance, the Rust team has started a survey to collect more information on the issues...
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Linux Sensor Monitoring Coming For The ASUS ProArt X870E-CREATOR WIFI

For those interested in a high-end motherboard for AMD Ryzen 9000 / 8000 / 7000 series processors that is marketed for creators and equipped with high-end features, the ASUS ProArt X870E-CREATOR WIFI motherboard that retails for $500+ USD will soon see hardware monitoring support under Linux...
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ReactOS Merges Better Support For Fullscreen Applications

ReactOS as the "open-source Windows" project providing an operating system with binary compatibility for Windows software and drivers can finally properly handle full-screen games/apps...
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FreeRDP 3.16 Released With Better SDL3 Client Support

FreeRDP 3.16 is out today as the newest update to this open-source Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP) library and client implementation. This Apache-licensed project continues to be one of the leading implementations of the Microsoft RDP protocol for use outside the confines of Windows...
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Uniwill Laptop Driver Proposed For Linux To Enable Additional Features

For those with a laptop from Taiwanese OEM/ODM manufacturer Uniwill, two new drivers are being proposed to enhance the mainline Linux kernel support for Uniwill laptops by enabling additional functionality to work under Linux...
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Intel Performance Counters Support Merged To Mesa For Panther Lake

The Intel Observation Architecture "OA" performance counters support has been upstreamed to Mesa for upcoming Xe3 Panther Lake integrated graphics...
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Linuxiac Weekly Wrap-Up: Week 24 (Jun 9 – 15, 2025) lxer.com/module/newswire/ext_l…



Graphics Driver Changes Begin Queuing Ahead Of Linux 6.17 lxer.com/module/newswire/ext_l…