A Microsoft engineer made a Linux distro... lxer.com/module/newswire/ext_l…

Intel Lunar Lake Showing Some Performance Improvements With Linux 6.16

For those on an Intel Core Ultra Series 2 "Lunar Lake" system, the upcoming Linux 6.16 kernel is looking to be in better shape for those newest Intel SoCs. In testing carried out using a Lenovo ThinkPad X1 Carbon Gen 13 Aura edition laptop, there are performance gains in some areas with the Linux 6.16 development kernel.
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Improved TTM Memory Management Eviction Submitted Ahead Of Linux 6.17

Sent out today was the newest drm-misc-next pull request of changes built up over the past week for DRM-Next ahead of the Linux 6.17 kernel cycle. The drm-misc-next material is the usual random assortment of DRM display/graphics driver changes and core improvements, which this week includes some TTM eviction work...
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Libreboot 25.06 Released With Support For Two More Outdated Systems

Libreboot 25.06 released this week as the newest version of this Coreboot downstream focused on shipping only with free and open-source components. But due to the strict open-source nature of Libreboot, it continues to primarily see support for long outdated platforms...
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Shuttle NT10H Leverages Intel Core Ultra and Available in Barebones option lxer.com/module/newswire/ext_l…

Firefox 120 To Firefox 141 Web Browser Benchmarks lxer.com/module/newswire/ext_l…

Steam On Linux Usage Dips Slightly For June, AMD Linux CPU Usage Hits 69%

Steam Survey issues prevented the survey results from being posted on the evening of the 1st as is traditionally done, but the results were just uploaded now to the Steam website. Steam on Linux usage dipped slightly but overall remains healthy with much excitement still around the Steam Deck and SteamOS efforts...
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YY3588 Development Board with up to 32GB RAM, 2.5GbE Port and Onboard NFC lxer.com/module/newswire/ext_l…

ZLUDA Making Progress In 2025 On Bringing CUDA To Non-NVIDIA GPUs

The ZLUDA open-source effort that started off a half-decade ago as a drop-in CUDA implementation for Intel GPUs and then for several years was funded by AMD as a CUDA implementation for Radeon GPUs atop ROCm and then open-sourced but then reverted has been continuing to push along a new path since last year. The current take on ZLUDA is a multi-vendor CUDA implementation for non…
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LTM Monthly Roundup #25.01: Sudo Flaws, Nitrux Hyprland, Disqus Alternative, Network Monitoring, Clipboard on Ubuntu, Coreboot Laptop & More! lxer.com/module/newswire/ext_l…

AMD Posts Linux Patches For New AI Engine Driver "amd-ai-engine"

Not to be confused with the AMDXDNA accelerator driver for the Ryzen AI NPUs, AMD software engineers today posted patches for review on the "amd-ai-engine" accelerator driver. This new AMD AI Engine driver is for supporting the IP found on their Versal adaptive SoCs...
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Firefox 120 To Firefox 141 Web Browser Benchmarks

For those curious about the direction of Mozilla Firefox web browser performance over the past year and a half, here are web browser benchmarks for every Firefox release from Firefox 120 in November 2023 through the newest Firefox 140 stable and Firefox 140 beta releases from a few days ago. Every major Firefox release was benchmarked on the same Ubuntu Linux system with AMD Ryzen 9 995…
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