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Fedora Considers Reducing The Scope That BIOS Systems Can Hold Up A Release lxer.com/module/newswire/ext_l…

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 Fedora Linux is limiting the release-blocking status of var…
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MS-C926: Ultra-Slim Fanless Embedded System with Dual 2.5 GbE and M.2 Expansion lxer.com/module/newswire/ext_l…

MS-C926: Ultra-Slim Fanless Embedded System with Dual 2.5 GbE and M.2 Expansion MS-C926: Ultra-Slim Fanless Embedded System with Dual 2.5 GbE and M.2 Expansion

MSI has introduced the MS-C926, an ultra-slim, fanless embedded box PC based on the Intel Alder Lake-N and Twin Lake platforms.
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Linux 6.17 Looks To Address An Old & Obscure Kernel Limitation From 1993 lxer.com/module/newswire/ext_l…

Linux 6.17 Looks To Address An Old & Obscure Kernel Limitation From 1993

Assuming no objections are raised by Linus Torvalds, an early pull request has been submitted for the upcoming Linux 6.17 merge window to address an obscure kernel limitation that has been in place going back all the way to 1993 during the Linux v0.
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Linux 6.17 Looks To Address An Old & Obscure Kernel Limitation From 1993

Assuming no objections are raised by Linus Torvalds, an early pull request has been submitted for the upcoming Linux 6.17 merge window to address an obscure kernel limitation that has been in place going back all the way to 1993 during the Linux v0.99 kernel days...
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Linux 6.17 Looks To Address An Old & Obscure Kernel Limitation From 1993

Assuming no objections are raised by Linus Torvalds, an early pull request has been submitted for the upcoming Linux 6.17 merge window to address an obscure kernel limitation that has been in place going back all the way to 1993 during the Linux v0.
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Linux Kernel Proposal Documents Rules For Using AI Coding Assistants lxer.com/module/newswire/ext_l…

Linux Kernel Proposal Documents Rules For Using AI Coding Assistants

Longtime Linux developer Sasha Levin of NVIDIA (and formerly of Google and Microsoft) as well as being the Linux LTS kernel co-maintainer today proposed a Linux kernel AI coding assistant configuration and documentation/rules for contributing to the …
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Qualcomm Prepares IFPC Feature For Adreno X1-85 GPU With The Snapdragon X Laptops

This past week Qualcomm sent out a set of 17 patches for the MSM DRM kernel graphics driver for enabling support for the Inter Frame Power Collapse (IFPC) feature with the X1-85 GPU found in the current Snapdragon X laptops...
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Qualcomm Prepares IFPC Feature For Adreno X1-85 GPU With The Snapdragon X Laptops

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Linux's Modern NTFS Driver Will Now Correctly Handle Symlinks Created On Windows

One of the nice Linux kernel accomplishments during the pandemic was getting the NTFS3 driver upstreamed for that modern NTFS file-system read/write driver developed by Paragon Software. In recent times that NTFS3 driver has been seeing occasional fixes and for the Linux 6.17 kernel -- and perhaps then back-ported to existing kernels -- are some notable fi…
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Linux's Modern NTFS Driver Will Now Correctly Handle Symlinks Created On Windows

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Intel oneDNN 3.9 Making More Preparations For Xe3, Nova Lake & Diamond Rapids

Released on Friday was a new version of the oneDNN deep neural network library maintained by Intel and the UXL Foundation. This library used by various deep learning applications continues preparing for upcoming Intel CPUs and GPUs...
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Intel oneDNN 3.9 Making More Preparations For Xe3, Nova Lake & Diamond Rapids

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Linux 6.16 Is Exciting For Open-Source NVIDIA, OpenVPN DCO & More Performance lxer.com/module/newswire/ext_l…

Linux 6.16 Is Exciting For Open-Source NVIDIA, OpenVPN DCO & More Performance

The Linux 6.16 kernel is expected to be released as stable this coming Sunday, 27 July, barring any last minute issues that cause Linus Torvalds to have reservations over issuing v6.16 stable and to instead do a v6.16-rc8 test release
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KDE Plasma 6.5 Adds Notifications For Low Printer Ink Levels

One week ago in the KDE Plasma land it was talking about rounded bottom corners for windows by default while this week in the KDE Plasma space is another long overdue feature: notifications for Plasma around low printer ink cartridge levels. The upcoming KDE Plasma 6.5 will finally feature built-in notifications on printer ink levels running low...
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KDE Plasma 6.5 Adds Notifications For Low Printer Ink Levels

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LILYGO Launches Four New ESP32-S3 Boards for LoRa, Display, Motion, and CAN Applications lxer.com/module/newswire/ext_l…

LILYGO Launches Four New ESP32-S3 Boards for LoRa, Display, Motion, and CAN Applications LILYGO Launches Four New ESP32-S3 Boards for LoRa, Display, Motion, and CAN Applications

LILYGO has announced four new ESP32-S3-based development boards targeting a diverse range of embedded and IoT applications.
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Linux 6.17 Will Be Exciting With Intel "Project Battlematrix" GPU Driver Changes & More

With Linux 6.16 expected to be released on Sunday unless an extra week of testing is deemed necessary, the Linux 6.17 merge window will then kickoff the next day. Based on monitoring the various subsystem "-next" trees and other mailing list activity, here is a look at many of the changes expected for Linux 6.17 barring last minute issues or other obje…
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Linux 6.17 Will Be Exciting With Intel "Project Battlematrix" GPU Driver Changes & More

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Ayn Gaming Handhelds To See Better Linux Support With New Open-Source Driver lxer.com/module/newswire/ext_l…

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
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Linux Kernel Proposal Documents Rules For Using AI Coding Assistants

Longtime Linux developer Sasha Levin of NVIDIA (and formerly of Google and Microsoft) as well as being the Linux LTS kernel co-maintainer today proposed a Linux kernel AI coding assistant configuration and documentation/rules for contributing to the Linux kernel with patches that are (co)authored by AI coding utilities...
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Linux Kernel Proposal Documents Rules For Using AI Coding Assistants

Longtime Linux developer Sasha Levin of NVIDIA (and formerly of Google and Microsoft) as well as being the Linux LTS kernel co-maintainer today proposed a Linux kernel AI coding assistant configuration and documentation/rules for contributing to the …
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Linux Will Finally Be Able To Reboot Apple M1/M2 Macs With The v6.17 Kernel

While there have been various elements of the Apple M1 and M2 SoC support in the mainline Linux kernel along with support for various Macs, different features have been missing from the upstream kernel such as the Apple GPU kernel graphics driver as one big example. On a more fundamental level, the upcoming Linux 6.17 kernel is going to cross off another low-level expe…
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Linux Will Finally Be Able To Reboot Apple M1/M2 Macs With The v6.17 Kernel

While there have been various elements of the Apple M1 and M2 SoC support in the mainline Linux kernel along with support for various Macs, different features have been missing from the upstream kernel such as the Apple GPU kernel graphics driver as …
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Intel Quietly Sunset Its PlaidML Open-Source Deep Learning Software

Another hit to the open-source Intel software ecosystem this year was the company formally archiving/discontinuing work on the PlaidML deep learning software. PlaidML was the deep learning framework that Intel acquired back in 2018 as part of their acquisition of Vertex.AI. PlaidML had a goal of "deep learning for every platform" but unfortunately those ambitions didn't mate…
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Intel Quietly Sunset Its PlaidML Open-Source Deep Learning Software

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Linux 6.16 Is Exciting For Open-Source NVIDIA, OpenVPN DCO & More Performance

The Linux 6.16 kernel is expected to be released as stable this coming Sunday, 27 July, barring any last minute issues that cause Linus Torvalds to have reservations over issuing v6.16 stable and to instead do a v6.16-rc8 test release. With Linux 6.16 imminent, here's a reminder about some of the most interesting features in this next Linux kernel version...
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Linux 6.16 Is Exciting For Open-Source NVIDIA, OpenVPN DCO & More Performance

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