Firefox 141 Beta Lowering RAM Use On Linux But Still Benchmarking Behind Chrome
Following this week's release of Firefox 140, Firefox 141 was promoted to beta. Most exciting for Linux users with next month's Firefox 141 release is finally lowering system RAM use! I've been running some benchmarks looking at the impact.
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While the latest Intel Core Ultra processors have done away with Hyper Threading (HT), Intel Xeon CPUs continue supporting HT/SMT, including with their latest Xeon 6300 series budget server processors.lxer.com
Ubuntu 25.10 Snapshot 2 Released
Last month Canonical announced plans for releasing monthly Ubuntu Linux development snapshots and was followed by the Questing Snapshot 1 release in the road toward Ubuntu 25.10. Out today is the Questing Snapshot 2 release for incorporating the latest Ubuntu 25.10 development changes...
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AMD CPUID Faulting Support Looks To Be Coming For Linux 6.17
As a follow-up to the article a few weeks ago about AMD enabling User CPUID Faulting support for Linux, that code looks like it's ready to go for being introduced in the upcoming Linux 6.17 kernel...
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Bochs DRM Panic Support, Panfrost Adds Mediatek MT8370 SoC For Linux 6.17
Maxime Ripard at Red Hat sent out the latest weekly pull of "drm-misc-next" changes to DRM-Next for queuing of these kernel graphics/display driver changes ahead of the Linux 6.17 merge window opening up in about one month's time...
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Maxime Ripard at Red Hat sent out the latest weekly pull of 'drm-misc-next' changes to DRM-Next for queuing of these kernel graphics/display driver changes ahead of the Linux 6.17 merge window opening up in about one month's time.www.phoronix.com
Blender 5.0 Introducing HDR Support On Linux With Vulkan + Wayland
The upcoming Blender 5.0 3D modeling software application is introducing High Dynamic Range (HDR) display support on Linux when making use of Wayland -- no X11 support for HDR -- and Vulkan graphics accelerator...
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The controversial proposal to replace the upstream X.Org X11 server packages on Fedora Linux with XLibre is not going to happen..lxer.com
Firefox 141 open-source web browser is now available for public beta testing with various new features and improvements.Marius Nestor (9to5Linux)
Diamond Technologies, Inc. has launched a new line of Embedded Computing Modules based on NXP’s i.MX 8M series processors.Giorgio Mendoza (LinuxGizmos.com)
Dutch electronics company Fairphone today announced their Fairphone Gen 6 smartphone as the successor to the Fairphone 5lxer.com
While WebP and AVIF generate much of the interest these days from a tech perspective for modern image formats, the PNG image format was just updated with new features.lxer.com
NVIDIA Engineer Now Co-Maintainer Of "NOVA" Open-Source Rust NVIDIA GPU Driver
The NOVA-Core driver as the basis for a modern, Rust-written open-source NVIDIA GPU driver for the upstream Linux kernel and eventual successor to the reverse-engineered Nouveau DRM driver has a new co-maintainer...
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The AMD EPYC 4005 'Grado'' processors launched by AMD in May for entry-level servers offer downright amazing value, performance, and power efficiency over the Intel Xeon 6300 / Xeon E-2400 series competition.lxer.com
Released last week, this minor point release of KDE Plasma 6.4 packs enough new features to make it worth your attention.Jack Wallen (FOSS Force)
interview: Learning from the lessons of the pastRichard Speed (The Register)
Proposal To Ship XLibre As X11 Server Packages On Fedora Linux Is Withdrawn
The controversial proposal to replace the upstream X.Org X11 server packages on Fedora Linux with XLibre is not going to happen... At least not for now. The change proposal has been withdrawn prior to being voted on by the Fedora Engineering and Steering Committee (FESCo)...
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Mozilla Formally Discontinues Its DeepSpeech Project
One of the interesting projects engaged in by Mozilla that directly wasn't related to their web browser efforts was DeepSpeech, an embedded/offline speech-to-text engine. To not much surprise given the lack of activity in recent years, last week they finally and formally discontinued the open-source project...
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AVX-512's Enormous Advantage On AMD EPYC 4005 Series Performance
The AMD EPYC 4005 "Grado"" processors launched by AMD in May for entry-level servers offer downright amazing value, performance, and power efficiency over the Intel Xeon 6300 / Xeon E-2400 series competition. Intel's top-of-stack Xeon 6300 (Xeon 6369P) / Xeon E processors fail to compete with even the mid-tier EPYC 4005 series processors in either performance, power, or cost ef…
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The AMD EPYC 4005 'Grado'' processors launched by AMD in May for entry-level servers offer downright amazing value, performance, and power efficiency over the Intel Xeon 6300 / Xeon E-2400 series competition.www.phoronix.com
: Split your shell for fun and profit – even over remote connectionsLiam Proven (The Register)
In addition to the Fedora Engineering and Steering Committee (FESCo) having to decide on whether i686 support should end for Fedora Linux (including multilib), another contentious proposal is on replacing the X.lxer.com
RADV Driver Introduces Limited Support For NVIDIA Cooperative Matrix Extension
The Mesa Radeon Vulkan driver "RADV" has merged support for the VK_NV_cooperative_matrix2 NVIDIA Vulkan extension but it's hidden by default and only partially supported with a focus on helping FidelityFX Super Resolution 4 and VKD3D-Proton...
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The Mesa Radeon Vulkan driver 'RADV' has merged support for the VK_NV_cooperative_matrix2 NVIDIA Vulkan extension but it's hidden by default and only partially supported with a focus on helping FidelityFX Super Resolution 4 and VKD3D-Proton.www.phoronix.com
Intel Preps Linux PTC "Throttling Control Interface" To Run Hotter For Better Performance
With the Linux 6.16 kernel Intel enabled the new Platform Temperature Control (PTC) interface as part of their int340x thermal driver. Now ahead of the Linux 6.17 kernel Intel PTC is being extended to support a Throttling Control Interface for those that may prefer running their system(s) hotter in order to enjoy better performance...
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Fairphone 6 Announced With Same-Day Linux Support Patches
Dutch electronics company Fairphone today announced their Fairphone Gen 6 smartphone as the successor to the Fairphone 5. Fairphone 6 continues to be repair-friendly and was just announced this morning while already the Linux support patches have hit the Linux kernel mailing list...
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Cryptsetup 2.8 is out today as the newest feature release for this widely-used utility used to setup disk encryption under Linux around the DM-CRYPT kernel functionality for LUKS volumes and more.lxer.com
Intel Open-Source Software Begins Adding Notices For Generative AI Use
Intel open-source software projects are beginning to relay notices that they may have been developed with support from Intel-operated generative AI solutions...
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PNG Spec Updated For HDR Images & Animated PNGs
While WebP and AVIF generate much of the interest these days from a tech perspective for modern image formats, the PNG image format was just updated with new features...
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The Intel Graphics Compiler 'IGC' 2.12.5 release just occurred as the next feature release to this open-source graphics compiler used by the Intel Compute Runtime and also by various graphics APIs under Microsoft Windows with the Intel graphics drive…lxer.com
Fedora targets Fedora 44 to remove i686 packages and multilib support, impacting Wine, Steam, and any remaining 32-bit dependencies on 64-bit installations.Bobby Borisov (Linuxiac)
It has been one month since Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10 was officially announced and it's proving to be a nice upgrade for enterprise Linux use.lxer.com
: The problem is focusing on property rights rather than privacyThomas Claburn (The Register)
Today marks the debut of mmc-utils 1.0 as the inaugural release for this de facto solution for managing MMC storage devices under Linux.lxer.com
Former Btrfs Lead Developer Chris Mason Announces New "rsched" Tool
Open-source Linux developer Chris Mason who is known for being the original lead developer of the Btrfs file-system recently began hacking on a new tool that he announced today, rsched...
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KDE Plasma 6.4.1 is now available as the first maintenance update to the latest KDE Plasma 6.4 desktop environment series with bug fixes.Marius Nestor (9to5Linux)
: Anthropic scores a qualified victory in fair use case, but got slapped for using over 7 million pirated copiesIain Thomson (The Register)
While not talked about as much as the Intel CPU security mitigations, Intel graphics security mitigations have added up over time that if disabling Intel graphics security mitigations for their GPU compute stack for OpenCL and Level Zero can yield a …lxer.com
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