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AMD EPYC 4005 Series Launches For Entry-Level Zen 5 Servers

Last year AMD launched the EPYC 4004 series for taking Ryzen based processor designs into the EPYC segment for entry-level servers with ECC memory support, server designs with BMCs, and various enterprise software certifications and industry qualifications. Today they are launching the EPYC 4005 series as their new Zen 5 based offerings for entry-level / budget server deploym…
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Shotcut 25.05 Open-Source Video Editor Released with Alpha Strobe Video Filter lxer.com/module/newswire/ext_l…


Canonical Provides Status Update For Snapdragon X Elite Laptops On Ubuntu 25.04

Canonical provided a status update concerning the Qualcomm Snapdragon X Elite powered laptops on the recently released Ubuntu 25.04...
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Traefik Proxy 3.4 Debuts with Distributed Rate-Limiting and Smarter Load Balancing lxer.com/module/newswire/ext_l…


Firefox Source Code Now Hosted On GitHub

The Mozilla Firefox source code is now officially available on GitHub as they work to transition from their hg.mozilla.org servers...
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Support For New RISC-V SiFive Vendor Extensions On The Way For Linux 6.16 lxer.com/module/newswire/ext_l…


Mesa 25.2 RADV Merges Ray-Tracing Improvements For Radeon RX 9070 Series / RDNA4

Merged for the Mesa 25.2 release next quarter are some further enhancements to the Vulkan ray-tracing support with the RADV open-source driver for AMD's new RDNA4 graphics cards...
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NAK Compiler For Mesa's NVK Driver Adds Support For More NVIDIA Kepler GPUs

The Rust-written NAK shader compiler used by Mesa's NVK open-source Vulkan driver for NVIDIA GPUs has merged support for SM32 as the "KeplerB" / Kepler 2.0 graphics processors...
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AMD Ryzen AI Max+ PRO 395 Linux Benchmarks: Outright Incredible Performance lxer.com/module/newswire/ext_l…


GNU Screen 5.0.1 Released Due To Several Security Vulnerabilities

GNU Screen 5.0.1 has been released to address several security issues...
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Intel Releases Updated CPU Microcode Due To "Training Solo"

Following Monday's public disclosure of the "Training Solo" security disclosure for this set of issues affecting multiple generations of Intel processors, new Intel CPU microcode has been released for Linux users as part of the mitigation process...
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Haiku OS Adds Support For More AMD Polaris GPUs & Other Changes In April

The BeOS-inspired Haiku open-source operating system project has published their April 2025 progress report...
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Inkscape 1.4.2 Adds Initial Support for Importing Vectornator / Linearity Curve Files lxer.com/module/newswire/ext_l…


Armbian Updates Add OMV Support, Boot Improvements, and Rockchip Optimizations lxer.com/module/newswire/ext_l…


Shotcut 25.05 Video Editor Adds Powerful Editing Tools lxer.com/module/newswire/ext_l…


Updated Nouveau Driver Patches For NVIDIA Hopper & Blackwell GPUs lxer.com/module/newswire/ext_l…


Render a Guitar Pro Score in Real Time lxer.com/module/newswire/ext_l…


Raspberry Pi OS Update Finalizes Bookworm-Based Release Ahead of Debian Trixie lxer.com/module/newswire/ext_l…


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 lxer.com/module/newswire/ext_l…


Linux 6.15 Fix Merged For Sizable Performance Regression On Newer AMD CPUs lxer.com/module/newswire/ext_l…


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 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 lxer.com/module/newswire/ext_l…


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 lxer.com/module/newswire/ext_l…


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 lxer.com/module/newswire/ext_l…


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 lxer.com/module/newswire/ext_l…


Linux 6.15 Adds Support For Several More Gaming Controllers lxer.com/module/newswire/ext_l…


Linuxiac Weekly Wrap-Up: Week 19 (May 5 – 11, 2025) lxer.com/module/newswire/ext_l…


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 lxer.com/module/newswire/ext_l…


One is Simply Doomed to Fail When Working for Violent Men From Microsoft and Attacking Women as Well as People Who Merely Expose Crimes or Report Real Crimes lxer.com/module/newswire/ext_l…


Raspberry Pi Connect Goes Stable lxer.com/module/newswire/ext_l…