This Monday WebProNews Absolutely Flooded the Web With Fake (LLM Slop) 'Articles' About "Linux", Google News Promoted Them as Legitimate lxer.com/module/newswire/ext_l…
Linux 6.17 Will Let Multi-Device Filesystems Better Cope With Losing A Disk
The VFS changes were merged a short time ago to the in-development Linux 6.17 kernel. Among the notable changes there is a patch that will allow file-systems like Btrfs and Bcachefs to better handle losing a disk in their built-in RAID/multi-device capabilities... phoronix.com/news/Linux-6.17-S…
The CM5 MINIMA is a compact carrier board built for the Raspberry Pi Compute Module 5, developed in collaboration with Seeed Studio and Pierluigi Colangeli.
Hyprland Wayland Compositor Launches Subscription Service For "Premium Desktop Experience"
The Hyprland Wayland compositor that is popular with some Linux enthusiasts today formally announced Hyprperks, its new paid subscription service offering a "premium desktop experience" and other benefits... phoronix.com/news/Hyprland-Hyp…
The Hyprland Wayland compositor that is popular with some Linux enthusiasts today formally announced Hyprperks, its new paid subscription service offering a 'premium desktop experience' and other benefits.
Linux 6.17 Preps Many Networking Changes From Broadcom 800G To More WiFi 7
Jakub Kicinski on Sunday sent out the big set of networking subsystem updates heading into the Linux 6.17 kernel. From high-end enterprise and data center hardware down to consumer Ethernet and WiFi devices, the Linux networking space continues to be as busy as ever... phoronix.com/news/Linux-6.17-N…
Linux kernel 6.16 introduces comprehensive AMD SEV vTPM support, enhancing virtual machine security and confidential computing capabilities with hardware-backed attestation and secure boot verification.
Bcachefs To Remove Its Experimental Label In Linux 6.18 - If It's Still In The Kernel
With the Linux 6.17 merge window now open, Bcachefs file-system lead developer Kent Overstreet has submitted his planned changes for this next kernel version. But we await to see how Linus Torvalds will respond... phoronix.com/news/Bcachefs-Lin…
Linux 6.16's New "X86_NATIVE_CPU" Option Enhances I/O & Some Graphics/Gaming Workloads
With the newly-released Linux 6.16 kernel there is the new X86_NATIVE_CPU build option if wanting to optimize your kernel build for your local CPU in use. Enabling CONFIG_X86_NATIVE_CPU is setting the "-march=native" compiler optimizations for the kernel build in an effort to ensure peak performance/optimizations for the local system. Here are some ben… phoronix.com/review/linux-616-…
Ubuntu To Keep Up-To-Date With Linux Kernel Versions During Development
Last year Canonical established a policy to always ship the latest Linux kernel version at Ubuntu release time which for the upcoming Ubuntu 25.10 will mean shipping with Linux v6.17. But during the Ubuntu development cycles they typically don't aggressively update to new interim versions tracking upstream, except that will now change to allow for better kernel te… phoronix.com/news/Ubuntu-Keepi…
The iPhone keyboard has done more to damage written language than anything else in the history of the world. Making capital letters and punctuation an extra keypress away has emboldened peoples' natural laziness and given them an 'excuse' to not use them.
Runtime PM For The V3D Raspberry Pi Driver Will Finally Lower The GPU Clock When Idle
While the Broadcom V3D driver has been part of the mainline kernel for supporting the graphics found on recent Raspberry Pi boards, currently it doesn't support run-time power management. The lack of runtime PM has meant the GPU clock remains at full-speed even while idle... phoronix.com/news/Runtime-PM-R…
Intel QAT Accelerators Being Demoted On Linux By FSCRYPT: Bug Prone & Slow
Intel's accelerator efforts in recent generations of Xeon processors have been challenging to say the least. From limited software support and configuration obstacles to some current-generation accelerators not being safe for VM use due to security issues to having to deal with higher latency and other nuances if wanting to achieve decent performance. One of the… phoronix.com/news/Intel-QAT-FS…
Linux 6.17 Power Management Refines Async Suspend/Resume, Adds More Intel Hardware
Among the number of early pull requests submitted in advance for the Linux 6.17 merge window were all the power management updates as well as to related areas like ACPI and thermal control drivers... phoronix.com/news/Linux-6.17-P…
Rockchip NPU Driver "Rocket" Expected By Linux 6.18, Mesa 25.3 Brings User-Space Code
The open-source, reverse-engineered Rockchip NPU driver "Rocket" developed by Tomeu Vizoso will soon be in the mainline kernel. The Rocket Gallium3D driver was also merged today for Mesa 25.3 in the user-space code for their AI accelerator support... phoronix.com/news/Rockchip-NPU…
Ubuntu 25.10 TPM-Backed Full Disk Encryption Will Be Considered Experimental
For the past two years Ubuntu developers have been talking about adding TPM-based full disk encryption to the installer for those wanting to leverage their system's Trusted Platform Module 2.0 capabilities to enhance security. It looks like for Ubuntu 25.10 this October that support will finally be in good shape... phoronix.com/news/Ubuntu-25.10…
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