Intel Enables Wildcat Lake Display & Experimental Flip Queue For Linux 6.17 Graphics

Intel today sent out a batch of new kernel graphics/display driver code for queuing ahead of the Linux 6.17 merge window opening in a few weeks. There is now DRM Panic support for the Intel i915 and Xe kernel drivers, Wildcat Lake "WCL" display enablement, and experimental flip queue support for Lunar Lake and Panther Lake hardware, among other chan…
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Debian Looks To Attract More Contributors, Eyes Budget For AI/LLM Usage By Debian Developers

The Debian project is hoping to address challenges of mentoring newcomers to contribute to the Debian Linux distribution as well as making it more known that open-source contributors can do more than just work on Debian packaging but that help is needed for documentation writing, web page creation, sorting out licensing issues, finding project sp…
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Redis 8.2 Preparing More Performance Optimizations, SVS-VAMANA

The first release candidate of Redis 8.2 is now available for testing of this popular in-memory key-value database. Redis 8.2 is building off the recent Redis 8.0 release that ended up going tri-licensing with the AGPLv3 stemming from developer/community feedback...
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RP2350-PiZero Pairs RP2350 Microcontroller with Raspberry Pi Zero Form Factor lxer.com/module/newswire/ext_l…

Red Pitaya and Texas Instruments Collaborate on New STEMlab Boards for High-Performance Data Acquisition lxer.com/module/newswire/ext_l…

Fedora Linux Looks To End Support For UEFI On MBR-Paritioned Disks

A proposal raised for Fedora 43 would end support for allowing UEFI installations on MBR-partitioned disks for x86_64 systems in the Anaconda installer. This would enforce a requirement on using GPT partition tables for all UEFI-based Fedora installations in the x86 world...
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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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