Render a Guitar Pro Score in Real Time - Fedora Magazine
Guide to setting up and using Tuxguitar for rendering a score in real time using Fluidsynth or MIDIYann Collette (Fedora Project)
Raspberry Pi OS Update Finalizes Bookworm-Based Release Ahead of Debian Trixie
A new version of Raspberry Pi OS is now available, marking what is likely the final release based on Debian Bookworm before the upcoming transition to Debian Trixie later this year.Giorgio Mendoza (LinuxGizmos.com)
Training Solo: New Set Of Serious Security Vulnerabilities Exposed For Intel & Arm CPUs
The VUSec security researchers are at it again... The embargo is now lifted on another set of of security vulnerabilities affecting Intel processors as well as Arm core designs. This new vulnerability is dubbed Training Solo...
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Kitty 0.42 Launches With Quick-Access Terminal
Kitty 0.42, a GPU-accelerated terminal emulator, brings a Quake-style quick-access terminal, Unicode 16-compliant grapheme segmentation, and more.Bobby Borisov (Linuxiac)
Linux 6.15 Fix Merged For Sizable Performance Regression On Newer AMD CPUs
At the end of April I reported on a significant performance regression affecting newer AMD CPUs and was bisected to a change in the AMD SRSO mitigation handling for Zen 4/5 processors with the Linux 6.15 kernellxer.com
AMD Ryzen AI Max+ PRO 395 Linux Benchmarks: Outright Incredible Performance
We finally have AMD's Strix Halo in the lab for benchmarking! HP has kindly sent over their ZBook Ultra 14-inch G1a mobile workstation: it's a beast being powered by the top-end AMD Ryzen AI Max+ PRO 395 SoC with 16 cores / 32 threads and powerful integrated Radeon 8060S graphics, 128GB of system memory, a nice 14-inch 2.8K display, and other top-end features to …
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AMD Ryzen AI Max+ PRO 395 Linux Benchmarks: Outright Incredible Performance Review
We finally have AMD's Strix Halo in the lab for benchmarking! HP has kindly sent over their ZBook Ultra 14-inch G1a mobile workstation: it's a beast being powered by the top-end AMD Ryzen AI Max+ PRO 395 SoC with 16 cores / 32 threads and powerful in…www.phoronix.com
AMD Radeon 8060S Linux Graphics Performance With Strix Halo
As shown in today's article the AMD Ryzen AI Max+ PRO 395 Linux performance is incredible with its 16 Zen 5 cores delivering staggering laptop / mobile workstation performance with a 55 Watt default TDP. But that's only half the magic of Strix Halo, with the other aspect being the very capable integrated RDNA 3.5 graphics with unified memory support. Given this being an equally in…
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GSoC 2025 Projects: AI-Powered Log Analyzer For Fedora, Better AMD ROCm On Debian
This week Google announced all of the accepted projects for this year's Google Summer of Code (GSoC)lxer.com
Updated Nouveau Driver Patches For NVIDIA Hopper & Blackwell GPUs
At the end of April was the open-source surprise of NVIDIA posting Nouveau Linux driver patches for their Hopper and Blackwell GPUs. This comes to complement their official (open-source but out of tree) kernel driver support for these newer NVIDIA GPUs and in the absence of the modern Rust-based NOVA Linux kernel driver not being in working shape yet on the mainline kerne…
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9to5Linux Weekly Roundup: May 11th, 2025 - 9to5Linux
The 9to5Linux Weekly Roundup for May 11th, 2025, brings news about Mesa 25.1, Linux Mint 22.2, Calibre 8.4, KDE Frameworks 6.14, and more.Marius Nestor (9to5Linux)
Support For New RISC-V SiFive Vendor Extensions On The Way For Linux 6.16
Queued within the development tree for the RISC-V processor code for the Linux kernel is supporting several new vendor-specific ISA extensions for SiFive RISC-V CPU cores...
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Linux 6.15-rc6 Released With AMD Performance Fix & Other Bugs Addressed
Linus Torvalds has released Linux 6.15-rc6 today with hopes of releasing Linux 6.15 stable in two weeks.lxer.com
Shotcut 25.05 Video Editor Working Toward HDR Support
Shotcut 25.05 was released on Sunday as the newest feature release for this non-linear, open-source video editing software...
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DragonFlyBSD 6.4.2 Released With Fixes To Help QEMU & Chrome
While it took two and a half years for DragonFlyBSD 6.4.1 to materialize from DragonFlyBSD 6.4, only one week passed since that recent v6.4.1 release to now see v6.4.2...
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Flatpak 1.16.1 Linux App Sandboxing Framework Brings More Enhancements - 9to5Linux
Flatpak 1.16.1 Linux app sandboxing and distribution framework is now available for download with various enahncements and bug fixes.Marius Nestor (9to5Linux)
Linux 6.15 Adds Support For Several More Gaming Controllers
Merged today to Linux Git ahead of the Linux 6.15-rc6 release is support for several more gaming controllers.lxer.com
Linuxiac Weekly Wrap-Up: Week 19 (May 5 - 11, 2025)
Catch up on the latest Linux news: Raspberry Pi OS, Plasma 6.3.5, Kitty 0.42, Hyprland 0.49, 'End of 10' campaign, openSUSE removing the Deepin desktop, Mint's theme gets a modern touch, and more.Bobby Borisov (Linuxiac)
Linux 6.15-rc6 Released With AMD Performance Fix & Other Bugs Addressed
Linus Torvalds has released Linux 6.15-rc6 today with hopes of releasing Linux 6.15 stable in two weeks...
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Linux 6.15 Fix Merged For Sizable Performance Regression On Newer AMD CPUs
At the end of April I reported on a significant performance regression affecting newer AMD CPUs and was bisected to a change in the AMD SRSO mitigation handling for Zen 4/5 processors with the Linux 6.15 kernel. The fix for that significant performance regression was merged today ahead of the imminent Linux 6.15-rc6 release...
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Linux 6.15 Adds Support For Several More Gaming Controllers
Merged today to Linux Git ahead of the Linux 6.15-rc6 release is support for several more gaming controllers...
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The Linux Kernel Dropping Its Unused Built-In Software Echo Cancellation Code
Queued up for removal in the upcoming Linux 6.16 kernel cycle is dropping 'echo', a software-based echo cancellation code within the kernel intended for telecommunications uselxer.com
Raspberry Pi Connect Goes Stable
With version 2.5, Raspberry Pi Connect drops its beta tag and introduces smarter, faster, and lighter remote access capabilities for Pi users.Bobby Borisov (Linuxiac)
Intel Arc Graphics B570 & B580 Gaming Performance On Linux For Mid 2025
A number of Phoronix readers have been inquiring in recent weeks around seeing updated Linux graphics/gaming benchmarks for the Intel Arc B-Series "Battlemage" graphics cards. So for your viewing pleasure today is a look at the Arc Graphics B580 and B570 graphics cards on Ubuntu 25.04 for showing how the graphics performance have improved with the open-source I…
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Intel Arc Graphics B570 & B580 Gaming Performance On Linux For Mid 2025
A number of Phoronix readers have been inquiring in recent weeks around seeing updated Linux graphics/gaming benchmarks for the Intel Arc B-Series 'Battlemage' graphics cards.www.phoronix.com
Raspberry Pi Connect Exits Beta with Version 2.5 Release Raspberry Pi Connect Exits Beta with Version 2.5 Release
Raspberry Pi has officially ended the beta phase of Raspberry Pi Connect, its remote access platform for connecting to Raspberry Pi devices from anywhere. With the release of version 2.Giorgio Mendoza (LinuxGizmos.com)
GNOME Showtime Accepted As Video Player App For GNOME 49
Back in January you may recall the news of GNOME's Showtime app looking to replace Totem as the default video playerlxer.com
How to Install MariaDB on AlmaLinux 10 | RoseHosting
Learn how to install MariaDB on AlmaLinux 10 using our latest easy-to-follow guide, or have our Linux admins install it for you.Jeff Wilson (RoseHosting)
Hyprland 0.49 Introduces Fine-Grained Permissions
Hyprland 0.49 tiling Wayland compositor is out with permission management, breaking changes, new protocols, and many fixes.Bobby Borisov (Linuxiac)
GSoC 2025 Projects: AI-Powered Log Analyzer For Fedora, Better AMD ROCm On Debian
This week Google announced all of the accepted projects for this year's Google Summer of Code (GSoC). There are 1,272 accepted students/projects this year for student developers working on various interesting open-source efforts over the summer...
phoronix.com/news/GSoC-2025-Pr…
The Linux Kernel Dropping Its Unused Built-In Software Echo Cancellation Code
Queued up for removal in the upcoming Linux 6.16 kernel cycle is dropping "echo", a software-based echo cancellation code within the kernel intended for telecommunications use. But it's old, unmaintained, and likely not actively used...
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The Linux Kernel Dropping Its Unused Built-In Software Echo Cancellation Code
Queued up for removal in the upcoming Linux 6.16 kernel cycle is dropping 'echo', a software-based echo cancellation code within the kernel intended for telecommunications usewww.phoronix.com
SiFive and Kinara Partner to Launch USB-Based X280 RISC-V Vector Development Board SiFive and Kinara Partner to Launch USB-Based X280 RISC-V Vector Development Board
SiFive and Kinara have announced a new partnership to offer developers direct access to the SiFive Intelligence X280 RISC-V vector processor through a compact USB-based enablement board.Giorgio Mendoza (LinuxGizmos.com)
KDE Frameworks 6.14 Revamps New Files Dialog, Expands KRunner Unit Conversion - 9to5Linux
KDE Frameworks 6.14 open-source software suite is out now with various improvements and bug fixes for KDE apps and the Plasma desktop.Marius Nestor (9to5Linux)
Intel oneDNN 3.8 Brings More CPU & GPU Performance Optimizations
Intel software engineers released oneDNN 3.8 to end out the week with various new performance optimizations and more...
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Bcachefs, Btrfs, EXT4, F2FS & XFS File-System Performance On Linux 6.15
With the copy-on-write Bcachefs file-system considering its on-disk format now 'soft frozen' and nearing the point of potentially removing the 'EXPERIMENTAL' flag on it, a number of Phoronix readers have been requesting some fresh benchmarks of this …lxer.com
Milk-V Showcases Jupiter NX, a RISC-V-Based Alternative to Jetson Nano Modules
Milk-V has unveiled the Jupiter NX, a compact system-on-module built around the SpacemIT K1/M1 octa-core processor based on the RISC-V architecture.Giorgio Mendoza (LinuxGizmos.com)
How to Install Node.js on AlmaLinux 10 - RoseHosting
Learn how to install Node.js on AlmaLinux 10 using our latest easy-to-follow guide, or have our Linux admins install it for you.Jeff Wilson (RoseHosting)
Debian Endorses “End of 10” Campaign, Calls for Broader Action on Dormant Packages
The Debian Project supports “End of 10” to defend software freedom, while also seeking better tools to revive or retire neglected packages.Bobby Borisov (Linuxiac)
KDE Frameworks 6.14 Revamps New Files Dialog, Expands KRunner Unit Conversion - 9to5Linux
KDE Frameworks 6.14 open-source software suite is out now with various improvements and bug fixes for KDE apps and the Plasma desktop.Marius Nestor (9to5Linux)
openSUSE deep sixes Deepin desktop over security stink
: Linux giant finds Chinese environment to be perilous beneath pretty exteriorLiam Proven (The Register)