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AMD Instinct MI350X Series Microcode Upstreamed - Other AMD GPUs See Updates Too

A number of AMD firmware/microcode updates were upstreamed today to the linux-firmware.git repository, including introducing the AMD Instinct MI350 series files that are necessary for the open-source Linux compute driver stack to function for those newly-announced Instinct accelerators...
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AMD Instinct MI350X Series Microcode Upstreamed - Other AMD GPUs See Updates Too

A number of AMD firmware/microcode updates were upstreamed today to the linux-firmware.git repository, including introducing the AMD Instinct MI350 series files that are necessary for the open-source Linux compute driver stack to function for those n…
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HydraSDR RFOne Preview Highlights Extensible SDR Design with Open Firmware lxer.com/module/newswire/ext_l…

HydraSDR RFOne Preview Highlights Extensible SDR Design with Open Firmware HydraSDR RFOne Preview Highlights Extensible SDR Design with Open Firmware

HydraSDR RFOne is a USB software-defined radio receiver capable of capturing up to 10 MHz of bandwidth across a continuous range from 24 MHz to 1.8 GHz.
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Intel Continues Working On Linear Address Space Separation "LASS" For Linux

Going back to January of 2023 there were the initial Intel patches for the Linux kernel introducing Linear Address Space Separation (LASS). Two and a half years later, these Intel LASS patches remain in-development with today the sixth iteration of these patches having been posted...
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Intel Continues Working On Linear Address Space Separation "LASS" For Linux

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Apple x86 Touch Bar Input & Apple Magic Keyboard USB-C Support In Linux 6.17

Over the past week a number of Apple device support additions have been queued up into the HID subsystem's "for-next" branch ahead of the Linux 6.17 kernel cycle...
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Apple x86 Touch Bar Input & Apple Magic Keyboard USB-C Support In Linux 6.17

Over the past week a number of Apple device support additions have been queued up into the HID subsystem's 'for-next' branch ahead of the Linux 6.17 kernel cycle.
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Bela Upgrades Embedded DSP Platforms with PocketBeagle 2 Support and New Web IDE lxer.com/module/newswire/ext_l…

Bela Upgrades Embedded DSP Platforms with PocketBeagle 2 Support and New Web IDE Bela Upgrades Embedded DSP Platforms with PocketBeagle 2 Support and New Web IDE

Bela.io has unveiled the Gem Stereo and Gem Multi, two new open-source boards that expand PocketBeagle 2 into a real-time digital signal processing platform.
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Linux Delivering Driver Fix For 30 Year Old Creative SoundBlaster AWE32 ISA Sound Card

Thirty-one years after Creative Technology introduced the Sound Blaster AWE32 ISA-based sound card, the open-source driver support within the Linux kernel continues to be worked on... Submitted today for Linux 6.16 is fixing support for this once mighty ISA sound card from the mid 90's...
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Linux Delivering Driver Fix For 30 Year Old Creative SoundBlaster AWE32 ISA Sound Card

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AAEON Adds to UP Lineup with UP TWL and UP TWLS Developer Boards for Edge and IoT Applications lxer.com/module/newswire/ext_l…

AAEON Adds to UP Lineup with UP TWL and UP TWLS Developer Boards for Edge and IoT Applications AAEON Adds to UP Lineup with UP TWL and UP TWLS Developer Boards for Edge and IoT Applications

AAEON has launched two new developer boards under its UP brand: the UP TWL and UP TWLS. Based on Intel’s N-series platform (formerly Twin Lake), the UP TWL targets classic development needs, while the UP TWLS offers a slimmer layout for compact, IoT-…
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Latest Bcachefs Code Draws Torvalds' Ire Over Late Feature Code

There is some tension on the Linux kernel mailing list with some late Bcachefs feature work sent in as part of "fixes" for the ongoing Linux 6.16 kernel cycle. Established rules aim for only new feature code to be introduced during the kernel merge windows, which ended nearly two weeks ago for Linux 6.16, but Bcachefs wanting to be exempt to continue to allow new featur…
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Latest Bcachefs Code Draws Torvalds' Ire Over Late Feature Code

There is some tension on the Linux kernel mailing list with some late Bcachefs feature work sent in as part of 'fixes' for the ongoing Linux 6.16 kernel cycle
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antiX Linux: A ‘Proudly Anti-Fascist’ Distro That’s ‘Suitable for Old and New Computers’ lxer.com/module/newswire/ext_l…

antiX Linux: A 'Proudly Anti-Fascist' Distro That's 'Suitable for Old and New Computers' - FOSS Force

We find antiX Linux a distro that runs on computers big and small—and centers its identity on an antifascist stance—surprisingly refreshing!
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AMD Releases Updated ROCm 7.0 Preview For HIP Testing

AMD originally released a ROCm 7.0 preview build back in May as it works to align their HIP API more closely with NVIDIA's CUDA. Last month was the big ROCm 7.0 preview announcement form AMD's Advancing AI Day in San Jose while this week is another new 7.0 preview build focused on further testing of the ROCm 7.0 HIP changes...
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AMD Releases Updated ROCm 7.0 Preview For HIP Testing

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Intel Cleans Up LLVM/Clang For Misreporting CLDEMOTE On Arrow Lake & Future Hybrid CPUs

Code compilers like the prominent GCC and LLVM/Clang have been advertising support for the Cache Line Demote "CLDEMOTE" instruction on Arrow Lake processors as well as Lunar Lake and upcoming Panther Lake hybrid processors. Intel engineers added that compiler plumbing but was inaccurate and inadvertently missed until now with this prominent instructi…
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Intel Cleans Up LLVM/Clang For Misreporting CLDEMOTE On Arrow Lake & Future Hybrid CPUs

Code compilers like the prominent GCC and LLVM/Clang have been advertising support for the Cache Line Demote 'CLDEMOTE' instruction on Arrow Lake processors as well as Lunar Lake and upcoming Panther Lake hybrid processors
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Making sense of software licensing with FSFE REUSE: A beginner's guide for open source developers lxer.com/module/newswire/ext_l…

Making sense of software licensing with FSFE REUSE: A beginner's guide for open source developers - Fedora Magazine

Learn how the REUSE specification from FSFE helps bring clarity to open source licensing. This article covers real-world examples, and tips to make your project REUSE compliant.
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Windows 11 vs. Ubuntu Linux Performance On The AMD Ryzen AI Max PRO 390 "Strix Halo"

While the results shouldn't be too surprising given the recent AMD Ryzen AI Max+ 395 Windows 11 vs. Linux testing, when the HP ZBook Ultra G1a powered by the step-down AMD Ryzen AI Max PRO 390 arrived with Microsoft Windows 11 Pro, I also took the opportunity to run some Windows vs. Linux performance benchmarks on that AMD Strix Halo SoC.
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Windows 11 vs. Ubuntu Linux Performance On The AMD Ryzen AI Max PRO 390 "Strix Halo"

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Fwupd 2.0.12 Released With More Intel Battlemage GPUs & HP USB-C Hub Supported

Richard Hughes of Red Hat just released Fwupd 2.0.12 as the newest version of this open-source firmware updating utility that pairs with the Linux Vendor Firmware Service (LVFS) for a nice Linux system/device firmware updating experience...
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Fwupd 2.0.12 Released With More Intel Battlemage GPUs & HP USB-C Hub Supported

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Intel NPU Accelerator Driver Readies "Turbo Mode" For Better Performance

Sent out today was the latest weekly batch of drm-misc-next changes for consisting of various Direct Rendering Manager (DRM) core updates as well as changes to the smaller display/graphics kernel drivers plus the growing work around accelerator "accel" drivers within the kernel. Intel NPU accelerator driver changes stand out for this week's pull request ahead o…
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Intel NPU Accelerator Driver Readies "Turbo Mode" For Better Performance

Sent out today was the latest weekly batch of drm-misc-next changes for consisting of various Direct Rendering Manager (DRM) core updates as well as changes to the smaller display/graphics kernel drivers plus the growing work around accelerator 'acce…
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Intel Begins Sending In Kernel Graphics Driver Changes For Linux 6.17

Intel open-source software driver engineers have begun sending in their new kernel graphics driver feature pulls to DRM-Next ahead of the Linux 6.17 merge window coming up by early August. There is some new feature work included as part of Intel's pull requests for the weeks along with more PCI device IDs being introduced, bug fixes, and other code refactoring...
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Intel Begins Sending In Kernel Graphics Driver Changes For Linux 6.17

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Mesa 25.1.4 Delivers Latest Open-Source OpenGL & Vulkan Driver Fixes

Eric Engestrom released Mesa 25.1.4 on Wednesday as the latest bi-weekly point release for this collection of open-source OpenGL and Vulkan drivers predominantly used on Linux systems...
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Mesa 25.1.4 Delivers Latest Open-Source OpenGL & Vulkan Driver Fixes

Eric Engestrom released Mesa 25.1.4 on Wednesday as the latest bi-weekly point release for this collection of open-source OpenGL and Vulkan drivers predominantly used on Linux systems.
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