After a decade of development, Intel has officially shut down Clear Linux OS. The project’s GitHub repo is now archived and read-only.Bobby Borisov (Linuxiac)
NVIDIA Bringing CUDA To RISC-V
NVIDIA announced this week that they are bringing their CUDA software to RISC-V processors...
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Linux Kernel Patches Speed-Up CRC32 Performance For CPUs With "Good" AVX-512
Google engineer Eric Biggers who has been responsible for many great Linux cryptography subsystem performance optimizations in recent years has another exciting patch series. Biggers has done some great work for optimizing various functions for modern Intel/AMD CPUs especially around AVX-512 implementations and now he has another big optimization coming for the CRC…
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Debian 13.0 Ready To Introduce Formal RISC-V Support But Still Bound By Slow Hardware
With the Debian 13.0 release planned for 9 August, one of the notable fundamental features with this Debian "Trixie" release is now supporting RISC-V as an official CPU architecture. This is the first release where RISC-V 64-bit is officially supported by Debian Linux albeit with limited board support and the Debian RISC-V build process is handicapped by sl…
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With the Debian 13.0 release planned for 9 August, one of the notable fundamental features with this Debian 'Trixie' release is now supporting RISC-V as an official CPU architecturewww.phoronix.com
SFrame Support Beginning To Materialize For LLVM/Clang
SFrame is the lightweight stack trace format that can overcome some of the performance obstacles for tracing ELF files compared to frame pointers. In addition to the SFrame support coming together in the GNU toolchain, the SFrame support for LLVM/Clang is beginning to reach upstream...
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For Linux 6.17 in addition to Intel enabling SR-IOV for Battlemage graphics cards and many other big Intel Xe kernel graphics cards and then more AMD graphics driver features too, the NOVA driver for modern open-source NVIDIA driver support is contin…lxer.com
Arch Linux deletes three browser-related AUR packages infected with a Remote Access Trojan, urges users to uninstall and check systems for compromise.Bobby Borisov (Linuxiac)
Radeon Vulkan Driver's Emulated Ray-Tracing Scores A ~40% Improvement For Quake II RTX
In addition to Mesa's open-source Radeon Vulkan driver "RADV" making some nice performance improvements for modern AMD GPUs with hardware ray-tracing, the emulated ray-tracing code path in RADV for primarily older GPUs has seen some improvements merged this weekend. In fact, so significant that from one merge request is around 40% faster performance fo…
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In addition to Mesa's open-source Radeon Vulkan driver 'RADV' making some nice performance improvements for modern AMD GPUs with hardware ray-tracing, the emulated ray-tracing code path in RADV for primarily older GPUs has seen some improvements merg…www.phoronix.com
The Debian release team today shared their final release plans for Debian 13 'Trixie' that aims to be out as stable in less than one month's time.lxer.com
The new Garuda Linux update replaces outdated video driver metapackages with modern hardware profiles.Bobby Borisov (Linuxiac)
Discover the critical security vulnerabilities exposed by the distribution of CHAOS remote access trojan through malicious AUR packages in July 2025. Learn about the impact, technical details, and essential security practices for Arch Linux users.Lucas Rees (LinuxConfig)
The open-source and Rust-based Burn deep learning framework developed by Tracel AI shared that their open-source matrix multiplication kernel performance can compete with and even outperform the NVIDIA CUDA cuBLAS performancelxer.com
Debian 13.0 "Trixie" Planning For Release On August 9
The Debian release team today shared their final release plans for Debian 13 "Trixie" that aims to be out as stable in less than one month's time...
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The Debian release team today shared their final release plans for Debian 13 'Trixie' that aims to be out as stable in less than one month's time.www.phoronix.com
Calibre 8.7 open-source e-book manager is now available for download with updated Kindle, Kobo, and MTP drivers, and other changes.Marius Nestor (9to5Linux)
Rust-Written NOVA Open-Source NVIDIA Driver Being Further Built Out In Linux 6.17
For Linux 6.17 in addition to Intel enabling SR-IOV for Battlemage graphics cards and many other big Intel Xe kernel graphics cards and then more AMD graphics driver features too, the NOVA driver for modern open-source NVIDIA driver support is continuing to be further built out in this next kernel version...
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For Linux 6.17 in addition to Intel enabling SR-IOV for Battlemage graphics cards and many other big Intel Xe kernel graphics cards and then more AMD graphics driver features too, the NOVA driver for modern open-source NVIDIA driver support is contin…www.phoronix.com
: It did get sourced, but nobody caredLiam Proven (The Register)
Open-Source & Rust-Written Burn MATMUL Kernels Can Compete With NVIDIA's CUDA/cuBLAS
The open-source and Rust-based Burn deep learning framework developed by Tracel AI shared that their open-source matrix multiplication kernel performance can compete with and even outperform the NVIDIA CUDA cuBLAS performance. Plus Burn isn't limited to just NVIDIA GPUs but can work on most hardware/drivers, including a Vulkan back-end...
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The most depressing news of the week: Intel is ending their performance-optimized Clear Linux distributionlxer.com
Wayland Color Management For HDR Under Review For Chrome/Chromium
The latest software with pending Wayland color management support for enabling HDR display support is the open-source Google Chromium code for the Chrome web browser...
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KDE Plasma 6.5 Brings Rounded Bottom Corners For Windows By Default
KDE Plasma 6.5 is introducing a change that has been "years in the wanting" and that is rounded bottom corners for windows...
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KDE Plasma 6.5 is introducing a change that has been 'years in the wanting' and that is rounded bottom corners for windows.www.phoronix.com
Luckfox has introduced the Lyra Pi, a compact single-board computer with a Raspberry Pi-like form factor, built around the Core3506 module and a triple-core ARM Cortex-A7 processor.Giorgio Mendoza (LinuxGizmos.com)
: GPAI code asks for transparency, copyright, and safety pledgesThomas Claburn (The Register)
The Servo open-source web layout engine continues advancing with its demo Servoshell and continued work around making it suitable for embedding into other softwarelxer.com
Calibre 8.7 e-book manager adds APNX file support for newer Kindles and improves author matching, while fixing regressions with Kobo devices and book sending.Bobby Borisov (Linuxiac)
Arch Linux AUR Packages For Firefox & Other Browsers Removed For Containing Malware
While the Arch Linux AUR repository can be popular for fetching some packages not found in Arch Linux proper, it's important to keep in mind that AUR stands for the Arch User Repository. These user packages aren't always the best and rarely can be done with malicious intent as shown this week with an advisory over several malicious browser packages being b…
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The Ubuntu 25.10 images geared for the Raspberry Pi will be much more lean than current Ubuntu Linux releases for the Raspberry Pi thanks to changes merged this week.lxer.com
: 2.6.1 adds Plucky Puffin and Firefox actually works this timeLiam Proven (The Register)
Intel Announces It's Shutting Down Clear Linux
The most depressing news of the week: Intel is ending their performance-optimized Clear Linux distribution. Over the past decade the Clear Linux operating system has shown what's possible with out-of-the-box performance on x86_64 hardware... Not just for Intel platforms but even showing extremely great performance results on AMD x86_64 too. But with the cost-cutting going on at Intel, Clear Linu…
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Maix4-HAT is a compact AI inference module developed by Sipeed for edge-side deployment of large models.Giorgio Mendoza (LinuxGizmos.com)
Bcachefs Lands More Fixes Ahead Of Linux 6.16-rc7
As we await to see what Linus Torvalds will end up doing about the Bcachefs file-system come Linux 6.17, for the ongoing Linux 6.16 cycle he continues to honor the Bcachefs pull requests containing fixes...
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Ubuntu 25.10 Raspberry Pi Images Will Be Much More Lean
The Ubuntu 25.10 images geared for the Raspberry Pi will be much more lean than current Ubuntu Linux releases for the Raspberry Pi thanks to changes merged this week...
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AMD Announces ROCm-LS, hipCIM As Port Of NVIDIA's cuCIM
Back in May was the announcement by AMD of ROCm-DS as a new toolkit geared for real-world data science problems with various helpers to accelerate data processing on Instinct accelerators. AMD today is complementing ROCm-DS by announcing ROCm-LS and hipCIM...
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Intel Compute Runtime 25.27.34303.5 Brings Support For Wildcat Lake & BMG G31
Intel is out today with its monthly feature update to the Compute Runtime as their open-source GPU compute stack providing Level Zero and OpenCL API support on Windows and Linux systems. This month there is new hardware support, more performance optimizations, and some new features...
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Imagination Kernel Graphics Driver Being Extended To AM62P/AM67A/J722S SoCs
The open-source and upstream Imagination Direct Rendering Manager (DRM) kernel graphics driver for supporting their modern graphics IP and pairing with their PowerVR Vulkan driver within Mesa is now being extended to work on the TI AM62P, AM67A, and J722S SoCs...
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The open-source and upstream Imagination Direct Rendering Manager (DRM) kernel graphics driver for supporting their modern graphics IP and pairing with their PowerVR Vulkan driver within Mesa is now being extended to work on the TI AM62P, AM67A, and …www.phoronix.com
The first release candidate of LLVM 21.1 is now available for testing, which under their modern versioning scheme will represent the first stable version of the LLVM 21 compiler stack.lxer.com
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