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New Ubuntu Concept Snapdragon X Laptop ISOs Published - Your Mileage May Vary lxer.com/module/newswire/ext_l…

New Ubuntu Concept Snapdragon X Laptop ISOs Published - Your Mileage May Vary

A few days back I wrote about Canonical releasing new Ubuntu 25.04 'Concept' ISOs for the Snapdragon X laptops with the new install images being re-based to the Linux 6.16 kernel and expanding the device support
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Linux 6.16 Released - Better Performance, NVIDIA Blackwell Open-Source & Intel APX

As anticipated the Linux 6.16 kernel was promoted to stable. Linux 6.16 now greets the world with various performance improvements, NVIDIA Hopper and Blackwell open-source GPU driver support in Nouveau, Intel Advanced Performance Extensions (APX) preparations, and many other exciting enhancements...
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Linux 6.16 Released - Better Performance, NVIDIA Blackwell Open-Source & Intel APX

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AMD Kernel Graphics Driver Exceeds 5.9 Million Lines In Linux 6.16

The modern AMD Kernel graphics driver consisting of AMDGPU, the AMDKFD compute code, and associated infrastructure continues to easily be the largest mainline open-source driver. With the Linux 6.16 kernel debuting as stable as soon as later today, the AMD kernel graphics driver cracks the 5.9 million line threshold. In comparison, the entire Linux kernel source tree c…
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AMD Kernel Graphics Driver Exceeds 5.9 Million Lines In Linux 6.16

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Linux 6.17 Introducing Support For The NVIDIA Tegra T264/Thor, New RISC-V SoCs

In advance of the Linux 6.17 merge window expected to open soon following the Linux 6.16 release, all of the SoC updates have been submitted to Linus Torvalds for this next kernel version...
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Linux 6.17 Introducing Support For The NVIDIA Tegra T264/Thor, New RISC-V SoCs

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New Ubuntu Concept Snapdragon X Laptop ISOs Published - Your Mileage May Vary

A few days back I wrote about Canonical releasing new Ubuntu 25.04 "Concept" ISOs for the Snapdragon X laptops with the new install images being re-based to the Linux 6.16 kernel and expanding the device support. But as I found out from my own testing, depending upon the laptop the support was still less than ideal. Since then there have been two more ISO releas…
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New Ubuntu Concept Snapdragon X Laptop ISOs Published - Your Mileage May Vary

A few days back I wrote about Canonical releasing new Ubuntu 25.04 'Concept' ISOs for the Snapdragon X laptops with the new install images being re-based to the Linux 6.16 kernel and expanding the device support
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Linux Will Finally Be Able To Reboot Apple M1/M2 Macs With The v6.17 Kernel lxer.com/module/newswire/ext_l…

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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Qualcomm Prepares IFPC Feature For Adreno X1-85 GPU With The Snapdragon X Laptops lxer.com/module/newswire/ext_l…

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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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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