KDE Plasma 6.3.6 enhances tablet and multi-monitor support, updates brightness handling, and fixes notification quirks.Bobby Borisov (Linuxiac)
Following all of the Linux and broader open-source software enablement around Power11 the past three or so years, IBM today formally announced their new Power11 hardware.lxer.com
GlobalFoundries Acquiring MIPS
Here's an unexpected company match... GlobalFoundries announced today they have entered into a definitive agreement to acquire MIPS. Yes, the company formerly part of Wave Computing and before that Imagination and Silicon Graphics during its long history. MIPS in recent years hasn't been focused on its namesake CPU architecture but rather RISC-V core designs...
phoronix.com/news/GlobalFounda…
Linux Patched For Transient Scheduler Attacks "TSA" Impacting AMD CPUs
Made public minutes ago is Transient Scheduler Attacks (TSA) as a new class of class of speculative side channel attacks affecting AMD processors...
phoronix.com/news/Transient-Sc…
Framework 12 Platform Tuning For Better Performance Or Power Efficiency
Last month the Framework Laptop 12 began shipping as an upgrade-friendly, convertible 2-in-1 laptop that is friendly with Linux as we've come to expect out of Framework Computer devices. The launch-day Linux testing at Phoronix of the Framework 12 was done out-of-the-box on Ubuntu Linux with the defaults on it and the other comparison laptops tested. But as we've sho…
phoronix.com/review/framework-…
IBM Announces Power11 With "99.9999%" Uptime, 55% Better Core Performance Than Power9
Following all of the Linux and broader open-source software enablement around Power11 the past three or so years, IBM today formally announced their new Power11 hardware...
phoronix.com/news/IBM-Power11-…
AMD Hardware Feedback Driver Destined For Linux 6.17 To Benefit Heterogeneous CPUs
The AMD Hardware Feedback Driver has been queued up via a TIP branch for expected merging during the upcoming Linux 6.17 kernel cycle. This new open-source AMD driver is designed to help make the kernel's scheduler make better decisions around task placement for heterogeneous processor designs with a mix of the "classic" and "dense" cores...
phoronix.com/news/AMD-Hardware…
openSUSE's new Agama installer v16 now boots with Wayland instead of X11 and offers a new minimal Rescue Mode.Bobby Borisov (Linuxiac)
Fan Control Firmware Updated For Intel Battlemage Graphics Cards On Linux
In addition to Intel upstreaming the Xe3 graphics firmware needed for upcoming Panther Lake SoCs to linux-firmware.git so those firmware binaries can get picked up by Linux distributions ahead of Panther Lake laptops shipping, Intel also upstreamed fan control firmware as a first for their graphics card efforts...
phoronix.com/news/Fan-Control-…
U-Boot 2025.07 is out today as the newest version of this popular open-source boot loader that is widely-used among embedded devices across different CPU architectures.lxer.com
Ardour Digital Audio Workstation Drops GTK+ Option In Favor Of Its "YTK" Fork
The Ardour digital audio workstation (DAW) software has removed its build support for the GTK+ (GTK2) toolkit in favor of now exclusively relying upon "YTK" as its own localized fork of this toolkit...
phoronix.com/news/Ardour-Remov…
The Ardour digital audio workstation (DAW) software has removed its build support for the GTK+ (GTK2) toolkit in favor of now exclusively relying upon 'YTK' as its own localized fork of this toolkit.www.phoronix.com
AMD Merges New RDNA 3.5 iGPU Firmware Files Ahead Of Next Product Launch
Interestingly a batch of new AMD GPU firmware files were upstreamed to linux-firmware.git yesterday in preparing for the next AMD product launch of hardware featuring RDNA 3.5 integrated graphics...
phoronix.com/news/AMDGPU-Firmw…
FEX 2507 Brings New Optimizations & Gets Some Ubisoft Games Running
FEX 2507 is now available for this open-source emulator that allows running x86/x86_64 games and applications atop 64-bit ARM Linux devices whether they be AArch64 servers or ARM64 single board computers and other devices...
phoronix.com/news/FEX-2507
GNOME 49 Alpha desktop environment is now available for public testing with support for the X11 (GNOME on Xorg) session disabled by default.Marius Nestor (9to5Linux)
The Thunderbird mail client developers today formally announced Thunderbird 140 as the newest Extended Support Release (ESR) for this cross-platform alternative to Microsoft Outlook.lxer.com
OBS Studio 31.1 open-source video recording and live streaming software is now available for download with new features and improvements.Marius Nestor (9to5Linux)
Wayland 1.24 open-source replacement for the X11 window system protocol is now available for download with new features and bug fixes.Marius Nestor (9to5Linux)
Learn how to enable HTTPS on Debian 13 using our latest guide or have our experienced Linux admins do it all for you.Jeff Wilson (RoseHosting)
Parrot OS 6.4 Linux distribution for ethical hacking and penetration testing is now available for download with new and updated tools.Marius Nestor (9to5Linux)
OBS Studio 31.1 Released With Explicit Sync For PipeWire Screen Capture
OBS Studio 31.1 is now available for those using this cross-platform free software for screencasting and other screen recording purposes. OBS Studio 31.1 is another great step forward for this open-source software that has a devoted following and user-base across Windows, macOS, and Linux...
phoronix.com/news/OBS-Studio-3…
Mozilla Thunderbird 140 “Eclipse” open-source email client lands with experimental native Exchange setup, adaptive dark messaging, and more.Bobby Borisov (Linuxiac)
U-Boot 2025.07 Brings New Code For Apple M1/M2 & Raspberry Pi, exFAT Support
U-Boot 2025.07 is out today as the newest version of this popular open-source boot loader that is widely-used among embedded devices across different CPU architectures...
phoronix.com/news/U-Boot-2025.…
Sure, Gemini CLI is fun to play with, but don’t forget: it’s Google under the hood. Privacy shields up!Christine Hall (FOSS Force)
Thunderbird 140 Mail Client Debuts As Newest ESR Release
The Thunderbird mail client developers today formally announced Thunderbird 140 as the newest Extended Support Release (ESR) for this cross-platform alternative to Microsoft Outlook...
phoronix.com/news/Thunderbird-…
A change proposal has been raised to compress the initrd by default using Zstd compression rather than XZlxer.com
MayQueen has introduced the PANZER-LITE93, a compact fanless edge computing device built on the NXP i.Giorgio Mendoza (LinuxGizmos.com)
While coming a few weeks too late for making it into the LibreOffice 25.8 open-source office suite release, merged today to LibreOffice Git for next year's LibreOffice 26.lxer.com
AMD openSIL PoC Still Being Worked On For Phoenix SoCs, Turin Code Published
One topic we haven't heard AMD talk too much about publicly this year has been their openSIL effort that was announced back in 2023 as their eventual replacement to AGESA and being an open-source CPU silicon initialization effort. They still appear to be working toward making openSIL production-ready for next-generation Zen 6 platforms but some of their proo…
phoronix.com/news/AMD-openSIL-…
We start with attempt to install Pamac-GUI on CachyOS 250530. When install of Pamac-GUI succeeded we synchronize instance with AUR and m...lxer.com
Lenovo WMI Gaming Series Drivers Expected To Debut In Linux 6.17
Being worked on for a number of months now has been the Lenovo Gaming Series WMI Drivers for Linux to expose additional power/performance settings for Lenovo gaming series hardware like the Lenovo Legion Go S gaming handheld with Steam OS. With the upcoming Linux 6.17 kernel, the Lenovo WMI Gaming Series Drivers are expected to be finally upstreamed...
phoronix.com/news/Lenovo-WMI-G…
GNOME 49 Alpha Released With X11 Support Disabled By Default, Many New Features
The GNOME 49 Alpha "49.alpha" release was just announced as the first formal test release in the road to the GNOME 49 desktop release due out in September...
phoronix.com/news/GNOME-49-Alp…
The GNOME 49 Alpha '49.alpha' release was just announced as the first formal test release in the road to the GNOME 49 desktop release due out in September.www.phoronix.com
Catch up on the latest Linux news: Rhino 2025.3, Bash 5.3, 7-Zip v25, Plasma 6.4.2, Thunderbird 140, Let’s Encrypt IP certificates, Fedora holds off on dropping i686, and more.Bobby Borisov (Linuxiac)
LLVM Clang Merges -mcpu=gb10 Support For NVIDIA GB10 Superchip
Merged today for the LLVM/Clang compiler is -mcpu=gb10 support for catering to NVIDIA's forthcoming Grace Blackwell GB10 Superchip...
phoronix.com/news/LLVM-Clang-N…
LibreOffice Begins Landing Markdown File Import Support
While coming a few weeks too late for making it into the LibreOffice 25.8 open-source office suite release, merged today to LibreOffice Git for next year's LibreOffice 26.2 is adding initial support for importing Markdown files into the LibreOffice Writer word processor...
phoronix.com/news/LibreOffice-…
AMDKFD Kernel Compute Driver Used By ROCm Can Work On LoongArch Hardware
The AMDKFD "Kernel Fusion Driver" used as the Linux kernel GPU compute driver and necessary part of their ROCm compute stack it turns out can build and run on the Chinese-developed LoongArch systems rather easily...
phoronix.com/news/AMDKFD-Loong…
The AMDKFD 'Kernel Fusion Driver' used as the Linux kernel GPU compute driver and necessary part of their ROCm compute stack it turns out can build and run on the Chinese-developed LoongArch systems rather easily.www.phoronix.com
Intel Panther Lake Xe3 Integrated Graphics Firmware Upstreamed
As a good sign of the progress being made on the Xe3 integrated graphics Linux support and of the Core Ultra Panther Lake launch approaching, the necessary graphics firmware binaries have now been upstreamed to the linux-firmware.git repository...
phoronix.com/news/Intel-PTL-Xe…
TornadoVM 1.1.1 Released For Java Programming Of Heterogeneous Hardware
TornadoVM version 1.1.1 is now available for this OpenJDK and GraalVM plug-in that supports Java offloading to GPUs, FPGAs, and other heterogeneous hardware. The past few years TornadoVM has been making a lot of progress to automatically run Java programs across GPUs and other devices supporting OpenCL, NVIDIA PTX, and Khronos SPIR-V/Vulkan...
phoronix.com/news/TornadoVM-1.…
Linus Torvalds just tagged Linux 6.16-rc5 as the newest test release of Linux 6.16.lxer.com