TUXEDO InfinityBook Pro 15 Gen10 Laptop Announced - Powered By AMD Strix Point

For those shopping for a Linux friendly laptop powered by AMD Ryzen AI 300 series "Strix Point" with Zen 5 cores and integrated Radeon graphics plus allowing up to 128GB of RAM, the 15.3-inch InfinityBook Pro 15 Gen10 was announced this morning...
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Huge Speedups For CRC32C With Modern AVX-512 CPUs Merged To Linux 6.17

The CRC32C cyclic redundancy check code path within the Linux kernel for error detection is much, much faster with the in-development Linux 6.17 kernel when running on modern Intel and AMD AVX-512 processors...
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Linux 6.17 Will Allow Writing Zeroes More Efficiently To SSDs

In addition to the VFS changes merrged yesterday for allowing multi-device file-systems to better cope with losing a disk, another notable change as part of the VFS pull requests for Linux 6.17 allows more efficiently zeroing out a range on modern NVMe SSDs or SCSI drives...
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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...
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GNU C Library 2.42 Released With SFrame Support, Newer Intel CPU Detection

Following yesterday's release of GNU Binutils 2.45, the GNU C Library 2.42 released today...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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…
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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…
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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...
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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…
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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...
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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...
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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...
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Intel Panther Lake Perf Integration Ready For Linux 6.17

The Linux support for Intel's next-generation Panther Lake SoCs appears to be largely set with Linux 6.16 ahead of the Core Ultra Series 3 laptops debuting in the coming months. There are though a few stragglers of Panther Lake support such as the performance events code in Linux 6.17 only now landing the perf integration...
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GNU Linux-libre 6.16 Fights Firmware In Nouveau, NOVA, Ath12k & Other Drivers

Following the Linux 6.16 kernel release from Sunday evening, GNU Linux-libre 6.16-gnu is now available for that kernel downstream that strips out driver/kernel code dependent upon non-free-software microcode/firmware, the ability to load proprietary kernel modules, and carving out other bits of the Linux kernel not meeting their stringent free software standards...
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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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