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)
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 valuestcaf.com
Chromium adds Wayland color-management-v1 support, allowing HDR rendering on supported platforms with a default-enabled feature flag.Bobby Borisov (Linuxiac)
The new Garuda Linux update replaces outdated video driver metapackages with modern hardware profiles.Bobby Borisov (Linuxiac)
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…tcaf.com
NVIDIA announced this week that they are bringing their CUDA software to RISC-V processors.tcaf.com
Don't make the same missteps I didSimon Batt (XDA)
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)
The seventh weekly release candidate of Linux 6.16 is now available for testing with the stable release debuting hopefully next Sunday otherwise the following week.tcaf.com
NVIDIA Makes More Hopper & Blackwell Header Files Open-Source
Last week NVIDIA open-sourced 12k lines of C header files for Blackwell GPUs to help in the open-source driver efforts, namely for Nouveau / NVK and the in-development NOVA Rust driver. On Friday they made public some additional header files for helping in the Blackwell and Hopper open-source driver enablement...
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AMD Strix Halo Radeon 8060S Enjoys Improved Ray-Tracing With Mesa 25.2
With the Mesa 25.2 open-source OpenGL and Vulkan graphics driver code having been branched last week ahead of its stable release in August, I carried out some fresh benchmarks on AMD's exciting Strix Halo platform using the Ryzen AI Max+ PRO 395 with Radeon 8060S Graphics to see where the Linux performance is now at for the RDNA 3.5 integrated graphics.
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With the Mesa 25.2 open-source OpenGL and Vulkan graphics driver code having been branched last week ahead of its stable release in August, I carried out some fresh benchmarks on AMD's exciting Strix Halo platform using the Ryzen AI Max+ PRO 395 with…www.phoronix.com
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 valueslxer.com
Firefox 141 open-source web browser is now available for download with various new features and improvements.Marius Nestor (9to5Linux)
EROFS Implementing Metadata Compression For Even Smaller Image Sizes
The EROFS read-only file-system ahead of the upcoming Linux 6.17 merge window has been working on metadata compression support to allow for even smaller container image sizes but at the cost of higher I/O latency...
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Catch up on the latest Linux news: Sparky 7.8, Plasma 6.4.3, VirtualBox 7.1.12, Hyprland 0.50, Blender 4.5, Debian 13 release date revealed, Clear Linux shuts down, and more.Bobby Borisov (Linuxiac)
The Most Popular Clear Linux Benchmarks & Intel's Software Innovations Over Its History
Breaking on Friday afternoon was word that Intel is shutting down its Clear Linux project effective immediately after ten years of maintaining this high performance Linux distribution that relentlessly optimized for the best Linux x86_64 performance -- even when it benefited AMD x86_64 processors too. Here is a look back at the most popular of our Clea…
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Breaking on Friday afternoon was word that Intel is shutting down its Clear Linux project effective immediately after ten years of maintaining this high performance Linux distribution that relentlessly optimized for the best Linux x86_64 performance …www.phoronix.com
LLVM Begins Landing Distributed ThinLTO "DTLTO" Support
The LLVM compiler toolchain has begun upstreaming support for Distributed ThinLTO "DTLTO" as a new means of handling ThinLTO compilations for leveraging link-time optimizations...
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The LLVM compiler toolchain has begun upstreaming support for Distributed ThinLTO 'DTLTO' as a new means of handling ThinLTO compilations for leveraging link-time optimizations.www.phoronix.com
Around 8% Of Debian Source Packages Are Building Against Rust Libraries
At last week's DebConf25 Debian developer conference in France, Rust packaging within Debian Linux was talked about by Fabian Grünbichler. There an interesting statistic was shared around the growing expanse of Rust usage within Debian and the open-source ecosystem at large...
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Firefox 141 Release Brings Lower RAM Usage On Linux
The Mozilla Firefox 141.0 release binaries are out today for this monthly update to this cross-platform, open-source web browser...
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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)
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