HarfBuzz 11.3 Delivers Significant Performance Improvements
HarfBuzz 11.3 released on Sunday as the newest release of this open-source text shaping engine. HarfBuzz 11.3 brings some nice performance improvements for this text shaping engine that is used by many prominent software programs and toolkits like Google Chrome, Firefox, GNOME / GTK, KDE / Qt, LibreOffice, OpenJDK, Godot, and many closed-source programs too like Adoboe Photoshop and…
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Dream Boards has released the DreamHAT+ Radar, a compact add-on board that brings high-precision 60 GHz mm-wave radar capabilities to Raspberry Pi 4B and 5.Giorgio Mendoza (LinuxGizmos.com)
Don't make the same missteps I didSimon Batt (XDA)
The seventh weekly release candidate of Linux 6.16 is now availablr for testing with the stable release debuting hopefully next Sunday otherwise the following week.lxer.com
The 9to5Linux Weekly Roundup for July 20th, 2025, brings news about KDE Plasma 6.4.3, Blender 4.5 LTS, VirtualBox 7.1.12, and more.Marius Nestor (9to5Linux)
Chromium adds Wayland color-management-v1 support, allowing HDR rendering on supported platforms with a default-enabled feature flag.Bobby Borisov (Linuxiac)
Linux 6.16-rc7 Released: "I Think We're In Good Shape"
The seventh weekly release candidate of Linux 6.16 is now availablr for testing with the stable release debuting hopefully next Sunday otherwise the following week...
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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 architecturelxer.com
Debian 13 (Trixie) is scheduled for release on August 9, featuring KDE Plasma 6.3.5, GNOME 48, and Linux kernel 6.12 LTS.Bobby Borisov (Linuxiac)
Linux 6.16-rc7 Bringing Fix For Possible Bogus/Miscalculated Load Averages
Among the fixes merged today ahead of Linus Torvalds releasing the Linux 6.16-rc7 test kernel release is a lone patch on the "sched/urgent" side to fix possible bogus load average values. Reported system load averages within the kernel's scheduler code could potentially be off going back to May of 2021...
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Among the fixes merged today ahead of Linus Torvalds releasing the Linux 6.16-rc7 test kernel release is a lone patch on the 'sched/urgent' side to fix possible bogus load average valueswww.phoronix.com
Following below is attempt to setup Hyprland with ML4W Dotfiles 2.9.8.7 (Stephan Raabe) on Fedora Rawhide . Several Copr repositories , ...lxer.com
NVIDIA announced this week that they are bringing their CUDA software to RISC-V processors.lxer.com
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)
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