What happens when two open source reformers decide the old rules no longer work? Are you ready for the license that could change everything?Christine Hall (FOSS Force)
Linux 6.17 Readies EDAC Support For Intel Granite Rapids D, Wildcat Lake, Raptor Lake HX
In addition to Intel preparing Bartlett Lake S EDAC driver support for Linux 6.17, several other recent and upcoming Intel processors are also set to see Error Detection and Correction (EDAC) driver coverage with this next version of the Linux kernel...
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In addition to Intel preparing Bartlett Lake S EDAC driver support for Linux 6.17, several other recent and upcoming Intel processors are also set to see Error Detection and Correction (EDAC) driver coverage with this next version of the Linux kernel…www.phoronix.com
NVIDIA Publishes RTXNTC 0.7 Beta For Neural Texture Compression
NVIDIA software engineers ended out the week by releasing a new beta of their RTX Neural Texture Compression (NTC) SDK. The RTXNTC software is NVIDIA's interesting solution for compressing material texture sets with very promising results for helping to reduce game data sizes moving forward...
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GNOME Builder & Digital Wellbeing Code Improved This Week
On top of this week's release of the GNOME 49 Alpha, other application improvements and more came about in the past few days...
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KDE Preps More Crash KWin Crash Fixes, New Feature Work For Plasma 6.5
KDE developer Nate Graham is out with his weekly development recap of all interesting things and fixes merged for the week to Plasma...
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Wine 10.12 is out with optional EGL backend, Bluetooth Low Energy support, and various bug fixes, including improvements for games and system utilities.Bobby Borisov (Linuxiac)
Learn how to install Magento on AlmaLinux 10 or get our system admins to install it for you and get your shop up and running immediately.Jeff Wilson (RoseHosting)
Wireless-Tag’s WT99P4C5-S1 is a versatile multimedia development board built around the WT0132P4-A1 core module, which integrates Espressif’s ESP32-P4 dual-core RISC-V SoC.Giorgio Mendoza (LinuxGizmos.com)
For those who seldom update to new compiler versions, GCC 12.5 was released today as the newest and final update to the GCC 12 compiler that debuted back in 2022.lxer.com
Follow https://github.com/mylinuxforwork/dotfiles/ and start script $ bash -c "$(curl -s https://raw.githubusercontent.com/mylinuxforwo...lxer.com
Calibre 8.6 open-source ebook manager is now available for download with various new features, improvements, and bug fixes.Marius Nestor (9to5Linux)
QuestDB 9.0 debuted today as the latest major update to this high performance, time-series database that is open-source under an Apache 2.0 licenselxer.com
Wine 10.12 Released With Experimental EGL Backend For The X11 Driver
Wine 10.12 has been uncorked as the latest bi-weekly development release of this open-source software running Windows games and applications on Linux and other operating systems...
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The Radxa E24C is a fanless network computer based on the Rockchip RK3528A processor, designed for routing, edge networking, and industrial tasks. It combines four RJ45 ports, 4K HDMI output, and an M.Giorgio Mendoza (LinuxGizmos.com)
The FireBeetle 2 ESP32-P4, previewed earlier this year, is now available from DFRobot starting at $11.90.Giorgio Mendoza (LinuxGizmos.com)
KDE Frameworks 6.16 open-source software suite is out now with various improvements and bug fixes for KDE apps and the Plasma desktop.Marius Nestor (9to5Linux)
Attack Vector Controls Could Be Ready For Linux 6.17 Introduction
The AMD engineering led work on Attack Vector Controls for the Linux kernel could be mainlined with the upcoming Linux 6.17 kernel with the remaining patches now being queued within a TIP branch...
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AMD Radeon RX 9070 Ray-Tracing Performance Improving With Mesa 25.2
With the feature freeze and code branching for Mesa 25.2 expected to take place next week and kick off the release process for this quarterly Mesa 3D version to debut as stable in August, I've begun running more benchmarks of this latest code on popular GPUs. As it pertains to the newest AMD Radeon RX 9000 series RDNA4 graphics processors, the most exciting area with Mesa …
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With the feature freeze and code branching for Mesa 25.2 expected to take place next week and kick off the release process for this quarterly Mesa 3D version to debut as stable in August, I've begun running more benchmarks of this latest code on popu…www.phoronix.com
Smarter Cache Flushing For AMD SEV KVM Guest VMs Expected For Linux 6.17
Going back several months have been patches out of Google to optimize AMD cache flushing for KVM-based Linux guest virtual machines when making use of Secure Encrypted Virtualization (SEV). As anticipated, that AMD SEV cache flushing optimization work looks like it will be merged for the upcoming Linux 6.17 kernel cycle...
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Improved Debugging Support For AMDGPU Driver Expected For Linux 6.17
Sent out on Thursday along with Intel's huge Xe driver pull request with new features was the drm-misc-next material for the week. Notable with the drm-misc-next code were actually a set of AMDGPU driver patches to enhance the debugging with the information exposed via the DebugFS interface...
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RadeonSI Begins Upstreaming Its OpenGL Mesh Shader Support
OpenGL doesn't receive nearly as much love these days as the Vulkan API, but over the past several months there's been at least one notable new extension in the works: cross-vendor mesh shader support with the pending GL_EXT_mesh_shader extension. Beginning today the AMD RadeonSI Gallium3D upstreaming process has begun for introducing mesh shader support for this Radeon OpenGL dr…
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QuestDB 9.0 Released For High Performance, Time-Series Database
QuestDB 9.0 debuted today as the latest major update to this high performance, time-series database that is open-source under an Apache 2.0 license. QuestDB continues to be built using a combination of Java, C++, and Rust for being an interesting time-series database...
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GCC 12.5 Compiler Released To End Out The GCC 12 Series With 241+ Bug Fixes
For those seldom update to new compiler versions, GCC 12.5 was released today as the newest and final update to the GCC 12 compiler that debuted back in 2022...
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Ubuntu 24.10 “Oracular Oriole” reached end of life on July 10th, 2025, and it will no longer be supported by Canonical.Marius Nestor (9to5Linux)
The new Adder WS by System76 offers top-tier Linux laptop performance, featuring Intel Ultra 9 CPUs, RTX 50 Series GPUs, and up to 96GB of RAM.Bobby Borisov (Linuxiac)
It’s not magic—it just feels totally like it. Meet Albert, your open source/not open source desktop superpower.Jack Wallen (FOSS Force)
The release candidate of the Blender 4.5 3D modeling software is now available for testinglxer.com
Greg Kroah-Hartman just released the Linux 6.15.6 point release as well as the Linux 6.12.37 LTS kernel and new point releases in prior-year Long Term Support kernel versionslxer.com
: Source code and weights coming later this summer with an Apache 2.0 bow on topTobias Mann (The Register)
Intel Readies Big Graphics Driver Changes For Linux 6.17: Multi-Device Prep, SR-IOV, WCL
Intel has some terrific improvements lined up for their modern "Xe" kernel graphics driver with the upcoming Linux 6.17 kernel cycle. New hardware support, SR-IOV preparations for Battlemage, other Intel Battlemage work, and also preparations for the upcoming multi-device support...
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Intel has some terrific improvements lined up for their modern 'Xe' kernel graphics driver with the upcoming Linux 6.17 kernel cyclewww.phoronix.com
NovaCustom Launching An Intel Meteor Lake NUC Box Running On Dasharo/Coreboot
For those interested in a small form factor PC running on the open-source Coreboot firmware, Netherlands-based vendor NovaCustom is launching an Intel Meteor Lake powered NUC box running on the Dasharo downstream of Coreboot...
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Our reviewer dives into Sparky Linux and discovers a distro bursting with choices, flexibility, and user-friendly features.Larry Cafiero (FOSS Force)
OpenCL 3.0.19 Released With SPIR-V Queries & Android Hardware Buffer Extensions
The Khronos Group today published the OpenCL 3.0.19 documentation as the latest specification for the OpenCL 3.0 compute API...
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Nouveau NAK Lands A Big Improvement For NVIDIA Kepler GPUs: As Much As 2.5x Faster
Merged today to the open-source NVIDIA "NAK" compiler code within Mesa 25.2 is Kepler instruction scheduling. This real instruction scheduling support for GeForce GTX 600/700 "Kepler" graphics processors can provide some significant performance benefits in select workloads...
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Merged today to the open-source NVIDIA 'NAK' compiler code within Mesa 25.2 is Kepler instruction schedulingwww.phoronix.com
Arduino and Red Pitaya have partnered to create a combined hardware bundle and structured curriculum designed to help students, educators, and hobbyists move from basic electronics projects to advanced signal analysis and real-world system prototypin…Giorgio Mendoza (LinuxGizmos.com)
Linux 6.15.6, 6.12.37 LTS & Other Stable Kernels Deliver TSA Mitigations
Greg Kroah-Hartman just released the Linux 6.15.6 point release as well as the Linux 6.12.37 LTS kernel and new point releases in prior-year Long Term Support kernel versions. The main headline of today's stable kernel releases are picking up the mitigations for the Transient Scheduler Attacks (TSA) mitigations that were disclosed this week for AMD processors...
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Miracle-WM 0.6.0 tiling Wayland window manager lands with rounded corners, runtime display management, smoother animations, and more.Bobby Borisov (Linuxiac)
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