Lenovo Thinkbook 16 X1 Plus Laptop Sees Linux Patches But Not Yet Ready For Daily Use
Device Tree patches have been posted for enabling Linux support on the Lenovo Thinkbook 16 G7 QOY powered by the Qualcomm Snapdragon X1 Plus SoC...
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Google Posts New Version Of Live Update Orchestrator For Speedy Kernel Updates In Production Environments
Back in March Google unveiled the Live Update Orchestrator "LUO" as a new means of live kernel updates for running production systems with a particular emphasis on servers running cloud workloads. A second iteration of the Live Update Orchestrator patches were posted for review today...
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Google Posts New Version Of Live Update Orchestrator For Speedy Kernel Updates In Production Environments
Back in March Google unveiled the Live Update Orchestrator 'LUO' as a new means of live kernel updates for running production systems with a particular emphasis on servers running cloud workloadswww.phoronix.com
Linux Swap Table Code Shows The Potential For Huge Performance Gains
Following recent discussions by Linux kernel developers around integrating swap cache and swap maps functionality with the swap allocator, Swap Table was bornlxer.com
A year on, Valkey charts path to v9 after break from Redis
Interview: Fork focuses on stability and inclusion as it preps for more ambitious changesRichard Speed (The Register)
Google vs. Nextcloud: File Uploads Broken, Competition in Jeopardy
Nextcloud slams Google for blocking full file uploads in its Android app, blaming Big Tech gatekeeping and anti-competitive practices.Bobby Borisov (Linuxiac)
The 'End of 10' is nigh, but don't bury your PC just yet
: Linux types mobilize website to help people avoid creating more e-wasteLiam Proven (The Register)
How to Install Odoo 18 on AlmaLinux 10 - RoseHosting
Learn how to install Odoo 18 on AlmaLinux 10 using our latest step-by-step guide or ask our Linux admins to install it for you!Jeff Wilson (RoseHosting)
SafeLine Is A Beautiful Open Source WAF For Your Web App
Web application firewalls (WAFs) are important pieces of software that stand between the application and the outside Internet. By doing so, they shield it from hackers and other malicious entities trying to break the application and access user data.FOSS Post Team (FOSS Post)
KDE Plasma 6.4 Beta Released With Aurorae & KWin-X11
The beta release of the KDE Plasma 6.4 beta desktop is now available for testing ahead of its official release in June.lxer.com
Intel Core Ultra 7 256V "Lunar Lake" Linux Performance In Mid-2025 vs. Launch Day
Given the significant gains to the Intel Arrow Lake performance on Linux since launch that I showcased last month on Phoronix, I was also eager to see how the Intel Lunar Lake performance has evolved since its debut last year. In this article is a look at those relatively weak launch-day Linux performance numbers for the Core Ultra 7 256V compared to…
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Rust Language Celebrates Ten Years By Releasing Rust 1.87
Rust 1.87 is now available as the newest version of this popular programming language. With the Rust 1.87 release it also marks ten years already of this system programming language focused on memory safety and modern features...
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Mutter SDK Merged For GNOME 49
Adding to the excitement for this September's GNOME 49 release is introducing the Mutter SDK...
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Arch Linux Installer Now Supports Labwc, Niri, and River Wayland Compositors - 9to5Linux
Archinstall 3.0.5 Arch Linux menu-based installer is now available with support for the Labwc, Niri, and River Wayland compositors.Marius Nestor (9to5Linux)
Archinstall 3.0.5 Rolls Out with Encrypted Credentials
Archinstall 3.0.5 brings user credential encryption, password hashing, new window managers, and more.Bobby Borisov (Linuxiac)
KDE Plasma 6.4 Beta Released With Aurorae & KWin-X11
The beta release of the KDE Plasma 6.4 beta desktop is now available for testing ahead of its official release in June...
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CachyOS, Clear Linux & Debian 13 Deliver The Best Performance On Framework Laptop 13 With AMD Strix Point
For those that may be upgrading to the new Framework 13 with AMD Ryzen AI 300 series "Strix Point" SoCs and curious about hitting the best possible Linux performance, this article is for you. Here is a look at the performance of the Framework Laptop 13 with AMD Ryzen AI 9 HX 370 across CachyOS, Clear Linux, Debian, Fedora Workstat…
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CachyOS, Clear Linux & Debian 13 Deliver The Best Performance On Framework Laptop 13 With AMD Strix Point Review
For those that may be upgrading to the new Framework 13 with AMD Ryzen AI 300 series 'Strix Point' SoCs and curious about hitting the best possible Linux performance, this article is for you.www.phoronix.com
Linux Patches Updated For Dropping Support For Very Old x86 CPUs
Posted last month were Linux patches for removing support for very old i486 and early i586 CPUs. While not yet mainlined to the Linux kernel contrary to some of the reporting elsewhere, this work for removing TSC-less and CX8-less x86 CPUs remains ongoing and out today is the second iteration of the patches...
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Rustls Server-Side Performance Looking Very Good Compared To OpenSSL
Rustls as a modern TLS library written in the Rust programming language has long been showing promising performance and competitive to OpenSSL and other alternativeslxer.com
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10 Reaches GA
Various Red Hat documentation pages began seeing updates yesterday along with RHEL 10.0 ISOs appearing in the customer download portal to reflect RHEL10 reaching general availability (GA) status.lxer.com
Intel Xeon 6 CPUs make their name in AI, HPC
Partner content: There isn’t a datacenter workload whose performance or efficiency isn’t improved by using Xeon 6 chipsContributed by Intel (The Register)
Arch Linux Installer Adds Labwc & Niri Wayland Compositor Options
Archinstall 3.0.5 is now available as the latest update to this easy-to-use, text-based Arch Linux OS installer...
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Linux Swap Table Code Shows The Potential For Huge Performance Gains
Following recent discussions by Linux kernel developers around integrating swap cache and swap maps functionality with the swap allocator, Swap Table was born. With Swap Tables the hope is for lower memory use, higher performance, dynamic swap allocation and growth, greater extensibility, and other improvements over the existing swap code within the Linux kernel...
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Vulkan 1.4.315 With VK_EXT_zero_initialize_device_memory For VKD3D-Proton & More
Released last week was the Vulkan 1.4.315 spec update and with it comes the new VK_EXT_zero_initialize_device_memory extension for allowing device memory allocations to be zero-initialized...
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You Can Now Upgrade Ubuntu 24.10 to Ubuntu 25.04, Here’s How - 9to5Linux
This is a step-by-step and easy-to-follow tutorial (with screenshots) to show you how to upgrade your Ubuntu 24.10 to Ubuntu 25.04.Marius Nestor (9to5Linux)
RHEL 10 quietly leaks ahead of Red Hat Summit
: GA date slips out on Japanese site, vanishes from EnglishLiam Proven (The Register)
Intel ANV Driver Lands Fixes For AV1 Decoding With Vulkan Video
For those interested in making use of GPU-accelerated AV1 video decoding with Intel graphics hardware using the Vulkan Video API, some important fixes were merged to Mesa 25.2-devel and will presumably be backported soon to existing Mesa releases...
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Mediatek DRM Driver Prepares For HDMI 2.0 With MT8195/MT8188
The Direct Rendering Manager (DRM) updates have been submitted for the Mediatek driver in advance of the upcoming Linux 6.16 merge window...
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Llamafile 0.9.3 Brings Support For Qwen3 & Phi4
Llamafile continues pushing forward as the interesting Mozilla project to allow easily distributing and running AI large language models (LLMs) from a single file and in a cross-platform and cross-vendor hardware manner. Llamafile 0.9.3 is out today with more enhancements to this Mozilla Ocho project...
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The future of LLMs is open source, Salesforce's Benioff says
: Cheaper, open source AI will commoditize the market at expense of their bloated counterpartsLindsay Clark (The Register)
AMD Ryzen 9 9900 Series Linux Performance Since Launch Review
After recently looking at how the Intel Core Ultra 9 285K 'Arrow Lake' Linux performance has evolved since launch, many Phoronix readers were curious how a similar launch-day vs.lxer.com
Ubuntu Maker Canonical Donates to Support Open Source Developers
Ubuntu maker Canonical now donates $10K monthly via thanks.dev to support smaller open source projects powering its work, giving back to the developer community.Bobby Borisov (Linuxiac)
Red Hat Has Unofficially Released RHEL 10 - FOSS Force
By all indications, Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10 (RHEL 10) was evidently overnight quietly rolled out to paying customers.Christine Hall (FOSS Force)
Grafana 12 Observability Platform Released with Major Upgrades
Grafana 12 observability platform lands with Drilldown GA, dynamic dashboards, Git Sync, SCIM support, blazing-fast tables, new theming options, and more.Bobby Borisov (Linuxiac)
The alleged "Steam data breach" appears to be SMS delivery logs from some provider, if it is true at all. Twilio says there is no indication that this data was obtained from Twilio.
You don't have to change your password, such a provider would not have your account information.
AMD Ryzen 9 9900 Series Linux Performance Since Launch
After recently looking at how the Intel Core Ultra 9 285K "Arrow Lake" Linux performance has evolved since launch, many Phoronix readers were curious how a similar launch-day vs. now comparison would look on the AMD Zen 5 side. The article today is looking at how the AMD Ryzen 9 9900X and Ryzen 9 9950X Linux performance has evolved since their launch last year. These numbers are put alo…
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AMD Ryzen 9 9900 Series Linux Performance Since Launch Review
After recently looking at how the Intel Core Ultra 9 285K 'Arrow Lake' Linux performance has evolved since launch, many Phoronix readers were curious how a similar launch-day vs.www.phoronix.com
New Features Approved For Fedora 43
With Fedora 42 having released last month, feature work on Fedora 43 continues heating up in working toward this next major Fedora Linux release due out around October.lxer.com
Clippy Desktop Assistant: Run LLMs Locally with 90s UI
Clippy Desktop Assistant is an open-source Electron application that allows you to run large language models (LLMs) locally!sk (OSTechNix)
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.lxer.com
Oracle Talks Up Its Adaptived Daemon For Linux Systems
Adaptived is a cause-and-effect daemon developed by Oracle that ties into their work on adaptive memory management (adaptivemm) for proactive memory handling and the OOMD out-of-memory daemon...
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