Final Benchmarks Of Clear Linux On Intel: ~48% Faster Than Ubuntu Out-Of-The-Box
Last week Friday the unfortunate news came down that Intel was discontinuing their Clear Linux project effective immediately. For the past ten years Intel software engineers have been crafting Clear Linux as a high performance distribution that is extensively optimized for x86_64 processors via aggressive compiler tuning, various patches to the Linux kernel an…
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Threadripper 9000 Series Available On 31 July, 9980X For $4999 USD
Last month AMD detailed the Ryzen Threadripper 9000 series as the new Zen 5 Threadrippers. After the Threadripper PRO 9000WX Series debuted this week, AMD announced today that the Threadripper 9000 series will begin hitting retailers next week...
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: Complete with new website – but the software's still alpha level stuff, so be carefulLiam Proven (The Register)
The Debian Wiki is set to get a revamp as the project transitions to MediaWiki, leaving behind the aging MoinMoin platform.Bobby Borisov (Linuxiac)
Fedora Considers Reducing The Scope That BIOS Systems Can Hold Up A Release
Given that non-UEFI BIOS systems are quite old at this point and Intel/AMD systems for the past number of years have all supported UEFI, another change proposal being considered this week by Fedoa Linux is limiting the release-blocking status of various (non-UEFI) BIOS systems...
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Given that non-UEFI BIOS systems are quite old at this point and Intel/AMD systems for the past number of years have all supported UEFI, another change proposal being considered this week by Fedoa Linux is limiting the release-blocking status of vari…www.phoronix.com
Immich 1.136 brings a major breaking change to media paths—users with relative paths must update to absolute paths and run a database migration tool.Bobby Borisov (Linuxiac)
In addition to Blender 5.0 supporting HDR on Linux when using the Vulkan API and with Wayland, another important high dynamic range (HDR) milestone landed this week into Blender: the ability to both import and export HDR videos.lxer.com
: 'Industry, national governments, and the EU' must pay for maintainers. El Reg says charity shouldn't start at homeGareth Halfacree (The Register)
See https://github.com/mylinuxforwork/dotfiles/issues/1053 I have to notice that during business day 07/24/25 " Mylinuxforwork" suggested ...lxer.com
Ayn Gaming Handhelds To See Better Linux Support With New Open-Source Driver
Ayn is a Chinese brand of handheld gaming devices that have included Arm-based devices shipping Android as well as AMD Ryzen powered handhelds with Windows 11 or even the option of installing Ubuntu. Better support for the Ayn x86 gaming handheld devices is on the way with patches posted for a new Ayn platform driver for the Linux kernel...
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Red Hat Has Been Rewriting Bash-Based Greenboot In Rust
Greenboot is a generic health check framework for systemd on RPM-OSTree based Linux distributions. Red Hat engineers have worked on Greenboot as part of the likes of Fedora IoT and their other RPM-OSTree initiatives for checking on the overall system health with ease...
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Fedora 43 Looks To Offer Support For The Hare Programming Language
Fedora 43 is looking to offer packages to support the Hare system programming language...
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Vulkan + Mesa Drivers For AI Inferencing? It's Already Showing Potential On Radeon RADV
Following the Vulkanised 2025 presentation how NVIDIA is finding great success with Vulkan for AI / machine learning and already competitive to CUDA in some areas, Red Hat engineer and DRM subsystem lead maintainer David Airlie began exploring the potential of Mesa Vulkan drivers for AI inferencing. He was successful in using the Intel ANV, NVIDIA …
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Following the Vulkanised 2025 presentation how NVIDIA is finding great success with Vulkan for AI / machine learning and already competitive to CUDA in some areas, Red Hat engineer and DRM subsystem lead maintainer David Airlie began exploring the po…www.phoronix.com
New AMD Linux Driver Ushers In Seamless Firmware Servicing "SFS"
A new Linux driver patch series posted by AMD today introduces a new kernel driver "SFS" for Seamless Firmware Servicing. I hadn't heard AMD talk about Seamless Firmware Servicing at any previous events but it appears to be supported for current-generation AMD EPYC 5th Gen "Turin" processors...
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A new Linux driver patch series posted by AMD today introduces a new kernel driver 'SFS' for Seamless Firmware Servicingwww.phoronix.com
Unconventional, opinionated, and undeniably unique — Rhino Linux might change the way you see your desktop. Or at least keep you guessing.Larry Cafiero (FOSS Force)
One of the CPU architectures continuing to be supported by the mainline Linux kernel but rarely ever seeing any code activity is the SPARC64 architecture port for the once-interesting processors from Sun Microsystems.lxer.com
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Learn how to fix Docker's "Invalid Reference Format" error by understanding image naming rules, tags, variables, and syntax.Anees Asghar (Make Tech Easier)
Linux 6.16 Brings Some Minor Performance Boosts For Strix Halo's Radeon Graphics
With the Linux 6.16 kernel that will be debuting as stable as soon as this coming Sunday there are some minor performance benefits for the Radeon integrated graphics with the incredible Strix Halo SoC. Here are some comparison benchmarks of Linux 6.15 vs. Linux 6.16 Git for the AMD Radeon graphics of the Ryzen AI Max+ 395 with the HP ZBook Ultra G1a laptop...
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PipeWire 1.4.7 multimedia framework is out now, offering improved echo cancellation latency handling, enhanced resampling, and more.Bobby Borisov (Linuxiac)
Ubuntu Concept For Snapdragon X1 Laptops Moves To Linux 6.16, Enables More Devices
The Ubuntu Concept ISO images that contain experimental patches -- or "hacks" to make things work -- to enable Ubuntu Linux on the Qualcomm Snapdragon X1 Elite powered laptops is out with a fresh spin. The new Ubuntu Concept ISOs move to using the Linux 6.16 kernel while also enabling some additional Snapdragon X laptop models...
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The Ubuntu Concept ISO images that contain experimental patches -- or 'hacks' to make things work -- to enable Ubuntu Linux on the Qualcomm Snapdragon X1 Elite powered laptops is out with a fresh spinwww.phoronix.com
The slowness of progress in the area of production level Snapdragon support in Linux is painful.
I still like Linux so much more than MacOS that it's worth being on the x86 side, but there's some envy at that great Apple hardware.
The Zed open-source code editor that is written in Rust, has begun supporting Linux rather well, and has continued tacking on new features to assist developer workflows has introduced another new feature: the ability to easily disable all AI features…lxer.com
Mesa 25.3 Merges Vulkan AMD Anti-Lag Support
An exciting addition landing into the Mesa 25.3 codebase today is support for AMD's Vulkan anti-lag extension, VK_AMD_anti_lag...
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AMD RadeonSI Driver Enables OpenGL Sparse Texture Support For RDNA4 GPUs
Well known open-source AMD Mesa developer Marek Olšák has landed his latest set of 16 patches into Mesa 25.3-devel for enhancing the RadeonSI Gallium3D driver. Notable here is getting OpenGL sparse textures working on the latest Radeon RX 9000 series RDNA4/GFX12 graphics cards...
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The Linux Kernel Seeing Rare Code Activity Around SPARC64
One of the CPU architectures continuing to be supported by the mainline Linux kernel but rarely ever seeing any code activity is the SPARC64 architecture port for the once-interesting processors from Sun Microsystems...
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OPNsense 25.7 open-source firewall and routing platform is out now, featuring a refreshed frontend, SFTP backups, and FreeBSD 14.3 under the hood.Bobby Borisov (Linuxiac)
Systemd 257 debuted last December and now finally systemd 258 is preparing to roll out..lxer.com
FreeBSD 15.0 aims to introduce a KDE desktop installation option, allowing users to boot directly into a graphical login with minimal setup required.Bobby Borisov (Linuxiac)
Futuristic KDE Plasma Customization | Purple Mecha CyberpunkGlobal themes: Gently (Gently-Dark-global-6)Color: Custom Color purple , Xeno (Xeno-Opaque)Applic...YouTube
LILYGO has unveiled the T-Watch Ultra, a multifunctional smartwatch platform that integrates wireless connectivity, location tracking, long-range communication, and intelligent motion sensing in a compact form.Giorgio Mendoza (LinuxGizmos.com)
Learn what general-purpose Linux distros are and why they’re the go-to choice for many desktop and server users.Bobby Borisov (Linuxiac)
: But there are tweaks for everyone – even if some are less welcome than othersLiam Proven (The Register)
Valve Linux Engineer Working On A Big Improvement For Old AMD Radeon GPUs
Timur Kristóf as a contractor on Valve's open-source Linux graphics driver team is known for his work on the RADV Vulkan driver and ACO shader compiler but recently he's been working on some improvements to the AMDGPU kernel driver. A big feat he's been tackling is enabling support for analog display connectors within the AMDGPU driver for the "DC" code. Besides …
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GNOME Foundry Taking Shape As "An IDE In A Box" With CLI Tooling
Born out of his work on developing the GNOME Builder integrated development environment (IDE) over the past decade, one of the recent initiatives by GNOME developer Christian Hergert has been on Foundry, a new "IDE in a box" of sorts and with CLI tooling complementary to the GNOME Builder IDE graphical environment...
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Born out of his work on developing the GNOME Builder integrated development environment (IDE) over the past decade, one of the recent initiatives by GNOME developer Christian Hergert has been on Foundry, a new 'IDE in a box' of sorts and with CLI too…www.phoronix.com
Learn how to install PrestaShop on AlmaLinux 10 using our latest step-by-step guide or ask our Linux admins to install and set it up for you.Jeff Wilson (RoseHosting)
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.lxer.com
The FOSS Force Linux App of the Week — Stacer Want complete control over your Linux system—without the command line? Discover how Stacer can clean,…Jack Wallen (FOSS Force)
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