LLVM 22 Compiler Enters Development With LLVM 21 Now Branched
The LLVM 21 compiler stack was branched today as release preparations get underway for shipping this next half-year compiler release as stable in late August or early September. In turn that now opens up LLVM 22 for development...
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GTK3 Port Of The Kernel's gconfig Utility Appears Ready For Linux 6.17
Last month patches were posted for porting the Linux kernel's "gconfig" graphical kernel configuration utility from GTK2 to GTK3. It looks like those patches for the GTK3-ified gconfig are ready for upstreaming come Linux 6.17...
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Last month patches were posted for porting the Linux kernel's 'gconfig' graphical kernel configuration utility from GTK2 to GTK3www.phoronix.com
KDE Plasma 6.4.3 introduces important fixes for KWin, Discover, and Spectacle, along with translation updates and enhanced accessibility.Bobby Borisov (Linuxiac)
Intel ANV Driver Now Exposes Vulkan Video AV1 Decode On Battlemage & Lunar Lake
While the Intel Media SDK with VA-API has long supported accelerated video decoding, the latest Mesa 25.2 development code has now landed support for AV1 decoding using the Vulkan Video API with the Intel ANV driver for Xe2 Battlemage / Lunar Lake graphics and Gfx125 Xe graphics too...
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Latest Intel Engineering Layoffs Lead To An Intel Linux Driver Being Orphaned
The latest round of cost-cutting at Intel seems to be having a larger impact on their software engineering efforts than some of their previous rounds of layoffs. In addition to a prominent Linux kernel developer veteran leaving Intel last week where he worked for the past 14 years and responsible for many great upstream improvements, other Intel software enginee…
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Google Publishes Updated Proposal For Standardizing Haptic Touchpads On Linux
As part of work going back to 2019, an engineer on Google's Chromium OS team submitted an updated proposal on Monday for seeking to standardize the haptic touchpad support within the Linux kernel...
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RADV Lands Experimental Host Image Copy Support (VK_EXT_host_image_copy)
Making it into the RADV Vulkan driver ahead of this week's Mesa 25.2 feature freeze is experimental support for the VK_EXT_host_image_copy extension. The Vulkan host image copy extension was worked on by Valve and others for letting applications/games copy data between the host memory and images on the host processor without having to first stage via a GPU-accessible buf…
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The Mustang Mach-E recall isn’t just a glitch—it’s a sign that sometimes, the simplest solutions are the ones we’ve left behind.Marco Fioretti (FOSS Force)
The LTTng tracing toolkit is twenty years old this year and it's seen significant adoption by different hyperscalers and other notable organizations like IBM and Sony and Siemens beyond basic end-users and administrators for system tracing/debugginglxer.com
With the upcoming Linux 6.17 kernel the Intel Xe kernel graphics driver is enabling Panther Lake graphics out-of-the-boxlxer.com
IceWM 3.8.1 window manager for the X Window System brings memory usage optimizations, improved toolbar behavior, and more.Bobby Borisov (Linuxiac)
In addition to last minute feature work on the latest AMD RDNA4 graphics cards ahead of the Mesa 25.2 code branching, there's also some new fixes going into Mesa for the open-source Radeon driver code..lxer.com
New Effort To Upstream LTTng In The Linux Kernel Draws Criticism From Torvalds
The LTTng tracing toolkit is twenty years old this year and it's seen significant adoption by different hyperscalers and other notable organizations like IBM and Sony and Siemens beyond basic end-users and administrators for system tracing/debugging. While having many successes over the past two decades, the kernel modules remain outside of the kernel tree. Eve…
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LMDE 7 is officially named “Gigi” and will feature OEM install support along with all the enhancements introduced in Linux Mint 22.2.Bobby Borisov (Linuxiac)
: Latest release handles NBD and bcachefs, but you’ll need 64-bit hardware to boot itLiam Proven (The Register)
Intel Xe3 Panther Lake OpenGL & Vulkan Support Now Enabled By Default On Linux
With the upcoming Linux 6.17 kernel the Intel Xe kernel graphics driver is enabling Panther Lake graphics out-of-the-box. Now going along with that Linux 6.17+ support out-of-the-box, the Mesa OpenGL and Vulkan user-space drivers are also ready to declare their Xe3 Panther Lake graphics support by default...
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Following the NanoPi R3S LTS, FriendlyELEC has launched the NanoPi R76S, a compact router board powered by the Rockchip RK3576. Designed for edge networking and IoT, it features dual 2.5Gbps Ethernet, HDMI, USB 3.2, and AI acceleration.Giorgio Mendoza (LinuxGizmos.com)
New Linux Patches Enable Support For The Snapdragon X1 Powered Microsoft Surface Pro 11
Posted today to the Linux kernel mailing list are a set of nine patches for bringing up support for the Qualcomm Snapdragon X Elite/Plus powered Microsoft Surface Pro 11 2-in-1 laptop...
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Debian's annual Debian Conference 'DebConf' started this morning and runs all week in Brest, France.lxer.com
PINE64 has shared early details of the ALPHA-One 7B, a compact generative AI agent powered by the RISC-V-based StarPro64 SBC. Priced at $329.Giorgio Mendoza (LinuxGizmos.com)
Mesa 25.2 NVK vs. NVIDIA R575 Linux Graphics Performance For GeForce RTX 40 Series
A number of Phoronix readers have been interested in seeing some fresh benchmarks of Mesa's NVK Vulkan driver in providing open-source Vulkan API support on NVIDIA GeForce graphics cards as well as the modern OpenGL approach of using Zink for layering OpenGL atop Vulkan. Here are some fresh benchmarks using the very latest Mesa 25.2 code for NVK on the latest u…
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A number of Phoronix readers have been interested in seeing some fresh benchmarks of Mesa's NVK Vulkan driver in providing open-source Vulkan API support on NVIDIA GeForce graphics cards as well as the modern OpenGL approach of using Zink for layerin…www.phoronix.com
SFrame Support Upstreamed To GNU C Library For Glibc 2.42
Merged today into the upstream GNU C Library code ahead of next month's Glibc 2.42 release is support for SFrame stack tracing with ELF binaries on x86 and AArch64 architectures...
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Catch up on the latest Linux news: CachyOS, Krita 5.2.10, OBS Studio 31.1, Plasma 6.3.6, KDE ISO Image Writer, Amarok 3.3, Thunderbird 140, Red Hat offers free RHEL access, and more.Bobby Borisov (Linuxiac)
NVMe Controller Data Queue "CDQ" Patches Posted For Linux
New feature patches posted for review today on the Linux kernel mailing list are working to implement the NVMe specification's Controller Data Queue (CDQ) functionality within the NVMe storage driver...
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Old Radeon HD 2000/3000/4000 GPUs Still Seeing Open-Source Driver Fixes In 2025
In addition to last minute feature work on the latest AMD RDNA4 graphics cards ahead of the Mesa 25.2 code branching, there's also some new fixes going into Mesa for the open-source Radeon driver code... Coming in this Monday morning by surprise are some fixes for the Radeon HD 2000/3000 series approaching two decades old as well as a fix for the Radeon HD 40…
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RADV Vulkan Video Improvements Make It Into Mesa 25.2 For AMD RDNA4 GPUs
Ahead of the Mesa 25.2 code branching / feature freeze expected later this week, last minute feature additions and other changes continue landing in the codebase for these open-source OpenGL and Vulkan drivers. One of the additions today worth mentioning are continued Vulkan Video improvements for AMD Radeon graphics...
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Intel Mesa Drivers Add Option To Disable Xe3's Variable Register Thread "VRT" Feature
One of the interesting new additions with the upcoming Intel Xe3 integrated and discrete graphics is the Variable Register Thread "VRT" feature. Making use of Variable Register Thread can reduce register splitting, reduce bandwidth consumption, and improve overall performance. More background information on Intel VRT can be found in that aforelinked Phoronix…
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One of the interesting new additions with the upcoming Intel Xe3 integrated and discrete graphics is the Variable Register Thread 'VRT' featurewww.phoronix.com
Last month when the Fairphone 6 smartphone was announced, same-day Linux support patches were posted for this modular and repair-friendly smartphonelxer.com
LMDE 7 Will Follow Linux Mint 22.2
The Linux Mint developers have put out their monthly status update to outline their work in recent weeks. Over the course of June, Linux Mint developers were primarily focused on Linux Mint 22.2 with the beta release expected soon...
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In May, NordVPN got full scale on board with Linux with it released a Linux client. We just took it for a spin!Christine Hall (FOSS Force)
Debian's DebConf25 Kicks Off On France - Video Streams Available
Debian's annual Debian Conference "DebConf" started this morning and runs all week in Brest, France...
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Debian's annual Debian Conference 'DebConf' started this morning and runs all week in Brest, France.www.phoronix.com
A step-by-step guide to installing Docker on Rocky Linux 10, offering a solid Enterprise Linux foundation for containerized workloads.Bobby Borisov (Linuxiac)
The Haiku open-source operating system project inspired by BeOS had a busy month of June with a number of enhancements made to this OSlxer.com
The 9to5Linux Weekly Roundup for July 13th, 2025, brings news about GNOME 49 Alpha, Amarok 3.3, Calibre 8.6, Ubuntu 24.10 EOL, and more.Marius Nestor (9to5Linux)
As we approach the stable Linux 6.16 kernel release later this month, Linux 6.16-rc6 is out today as the newest weekly test candidate.lxer.com
GParted Live 1.7.0-8 open-source partition editor is now available for download with a mechanism to reduce the random order of block devices.Marius Nestor (9to5Linux)
The HH-SCDAYU800A is another RISC-V development board built around the Alibaba T-Head TH1520 system-on-chip.Giorgio Mendoza (LinuxGizmos.com)
Linux 6.16-rc6 Released With Transient Scheduler Attacks Mitigations, AMD Zen 2 Fixes
As we approach the stable Linux 6.16 kernel release later this month, Linux 6.16-rc6 is out today as the newest weekly test candidate...
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