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Arm Publishes Open-Source Accelerator Driver For Ethos-U65/85 NPUs

The newest open-source Linux kernel driver being worked on for the growing accelerator "accel" subsystem is a new hardware driver courtesy of Arm for enabling their Ethos U65 and U85 NPUs...
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Arm Publishes Open-Source Accelerator Driver For Ethos-U65/85 NPUs

The newest open-source Linux kernel driver being worked on for the growing accelerator 'accel' subsystem is a new hardware driver courtesy of Arm for enabling their Ethos U65 and U85 NPUs.
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Fedora Weighs Dropping Release Criteria For DVD Optical Media lxer.com/module/newswire/ext_l…

Fedora Weighs Dropping Release Criteria For DVD Optical Media

The Fedora project is seeking feedback from its user and developer community over potentially updating its release criteria to no longer block on optical media boot issues (DVD images) as well as whether to continue honoring dual boot issues for Inte…
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NVIDIA Jetson AGX Thor Developer Kit Delivers 2070 TFLOPS AI for Advanced Robotics lxer.com/module/newswire/ext_l…

NVIDIA Jetson AGX Thor Developer Kit to Launch in Mid-August with 2070 TFLOPS AI Performance, Priced at $3499

The Jetson AGX Thor Developer Kit is an upcoming high-performance platform built for next-generation humanoid robotics, real-time sensor fusion, and generative AI at the edge.
Giorgio Mendoza (LinuxGizmos.com)

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Fedora Weighs Dropping Release Criteria For DVD Optical Media

The Fedora project is seeking feedback from its user and developer community over potentially updating its release criteria to no longer block on optimal media boot issues (DVD images) as well as whether to continue honoring dual boot issues for Intel-based Macs as release-blocking...
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Fedora Weighs Dropping Release Criteria For DVD Optical Media

The Fedora project is seeking feedback from its user and developer community over potentially updating its release criteria to no longer block on optimal media boot issues (DVD images) as well as whether to continue honoring dual boot issues for Inte…
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A Number Of Problems Make Debian & Other Linux Distros A Pain On Snapdragon X Laptops

While downstream Ubuntu is the most popular Linux option for the Qualcomm Snapdragon X powered "Windows on Arm" laptops, that's because of their concept images containing a number of "hacked packages" to lead to a decent user experience. But for upstream Debian Linux the prospects of running it on Snapdragon X Elite/Plus laptops is less than ideal wit…
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A Number Of Problems Make Debian & Other Linux Distros A Pain On Snapdragon X Laptops

While downstream Ubuntu is the most popular Linux option for the Qualcomm Snapdragon X powered 'Windows on Arm' laptops, that's because of their concept images containing a number of 'hacked packages' to lead to a decent user experience
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AMDGPU LLVM Backend Flips On "True16" Mode For All RDNA3 GPUs

A late change to the AMDGPU LLVM compiler back-end that may help efforts particularly for the ROCm compute support on RDNA3 hardware is finally merging support for using true 16-bit instructions and registers on all RDNA3 GPUs...
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AMDGPU LLVM Backend Flips On "True16" Mode For All RDNA3 GPUs

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Arm Preparing Support For Latest Mali GPUs With Panthor Open-Source Driver

Arm engineer Karunika Choo has been leading the effort to enable support for the latest Mali GPUs within the open-source and upstream "Panthor" DRM kernel graphics driver for Linux. This work includes being able to enable the latest Mali 5th Gen GPUs on this open-source graphics driver...
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Arm Preparing Support For Latest Mali GPUs With Panthor Open-Source Driver

Arm engineer Karunika Choo has been leading the effort to enable support for the latest Mali GPUs within the open-source and upstream 'Panthor' DRM kernel graphics driver for Linux
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Mesa 25.3 Merges Vulkan WSI Support For Using Atomic Mode-Setting

A nearly five year old merge request was merged today to Mesa Git for Q4's Mesa 25.3 release. This merge transitions the Vulkan windowing system integration (WSI) from using the DRM "legacy" kernel mode-setting APIs over to the modern atomic mode-setting interfaces...
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Mesa 25.3 Merges Vulkan WSI Support For Using Atomic Mode-Setting

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Intel Wildcat Lake OpenGL & Vulkan Support Upstreamed In Mesa

Intel Linux software engineers have recently been busy working on Wildcat Lake support primarily for the kernel drivers while now that work has been extended to Mesa for the Intel Iris Gallium3D (OpenGL) and ANV Vulkan drivers...
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Intel Wildcat Lake OpenGL & Vulkan Support Upstreamed In Mesa

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The Most Popular Clear Linux Benchmarks & Intel's Software Innovations Over Its History lxer.com/module/newswire/ext_l…

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 …
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AMD ROCm 6.4.2 Released With Official Support For The Radeon RX 7700 XT

While we await AMD to officially release ROCm 7.0 as the next major release of their open-source GPU compute stack, out this afternoon is ROCm 6.4.2 as the newest stable point release. ROCm 6.4.2 expands the officially supported Radeon consumer GPUs as well as bringing various fixes and enhancements to the various libraries and components making up this AMD GPU compute ecosystem…
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AMD ROCm 6.4.2 Released With Official Support For The Radeon RX 7700 XT

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Raspberry Pi Expands Embedded Lineup with Low-Cost Radio and Camera Modules lxer.com/module/newswire/ext_l…

Raspberry Pi Expands Embedded Lineup with Low-Cost Radio and Camera Modules Raspberry Pi Expands Embedded Lineup with Low-Cost Radio and Camera Modules

This month, Raspberry Pi launched two new components for embedded designs. The $4 Radio Module 2 adds Wi-Fi and Bluetooth to RP2040 and RP2350 projects, while the Camera Module 3 Sensor Assemblies offer a compact way to integrate Raspberry Pi’s 12MP …
Giorgio Mendoza (LinuxGizmos.com)
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