Rocky Linux 10 Adds Official RISC-V Support
The upcoming Rocky Linux 10 is on track to officially support RISC-V, with builds for VisionFive 2, QEMU, and HiFive P550.Bobby Borisov (Linuxiac)
AMD Preparing For Some Nice GPU Reset Improvements Under Linux
Longtime AMDGPU driver engineer Alex Deucher has posted an interesting set of patches on Wednesday for enhancing the GPU reset experience under Linux with RDNA graphics cards...
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MSI Linux Driver Aims For Parity To Windows App For The Claw Gaming Handhelds
A recently posted patch series for the MSI WMI platform driver is aiming this open-source driver to reach parity with MSI's official Windows application/driver for the MSI Claw gaming handheld systems...
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Optimized AMD SEV Cache Flushing For KVM Looked At For Linux 6.17
A patch series is baking for likely upstreaming in the Linux v6.17 kernel cycle later in the year to optimize AMD CPU cache flushing when making use of Secure Encrypted Virtualization (SEV) with KVM...
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CentOS Now Providing Initial RISC-V Support
With Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10 providing a RISC-V developer preview, CentOS is now in turn also providing initial RISC-V CPU ISA support...
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Rocky Linux 10 Will Run on RISC-V - FOSS Force
When Rocky Linux 10 is released, it will join a growing number of Linux distros that support the open source RISC-V instruction set.Christine Hall (FOSS Force)
Radxa ROCK 4D with RK3576 SoC, PCIe Gen2 x1, Gigabit Ethernet, and PoE Support Starts at $30 Radxa ROCK 4D with RK3576 SoC, PCIe Gen2 x1, Gigabit Ethernet, and PoE Support
Radxa has introduced a single-board computer with a form factor similar to the Raspberry Pi 3, powered by the octa-core Rockchip RK3576 system-on-chip.Giorgio Mendoza (LinuxGizmos.com)
Fwupd 2.0.10 Linux Firmware Updater Adds Support for Lenovo Legion Touchpad - 9to5Linux
Fwupd 2.0.10 open-source Linux firmware updater is now available for download with support for Lenovo Legion Touchpad and other devices.Marius Nestor (9to5Linux)
AMI Aptio V Firmware Powers Radxa Orion O6 at COMPUTEX 2025 AMI Aptio V Firmware Powers Radxa Orion O6 at COMPUTEX 2025
AMI has announced that its Aptio V UEFI Firmware will power the Radxa Orion O6 demo platform at COMPUTEX Taipei 2025.Giorgio Mendoza (LinuxGizmos.com)
GNOME GDM Now Disables The X11/X.Org Session By Default
Merged yesterday to the GNOME Display Manager 'GDM' codebase is disabling of the X11/X.Org session by default as the first step toward deprecating GNOME's X11 session support.lxer.com
Fedora 43 Drops GNOME X11 Support, Goes All-In on Wayland
Fedora 43 moves to a Wayland-only GNOME experience, officially removing support for the X11 session due to a lack of upstream maintenance.Bobby Borisov (Linuxiac)
AlmaLinux 9.6 Released on Same Day as RHEL 10 - FOSS Force
The AlmaLinux Foundation rolls out AlmaLinux 9.6 on the same day that Red Hat officially releases RHEL 10.Christine Hall (FOSS Force)
Setup KDE Plasma 6.5 Dev on openSUSE Tumbleweed
First step would be to enable required repos, so run as root following script and reboot instance . Versions of some packages have been ins...lxer.com
Red Hat Announces The llm-d Open-Source Project For Gen AI
In addition to rolling out Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10, Red Hat used their annual developer summit today for introducing llm-d as their newest open-source project.lxer.com
AMD Releases ROCm 6.4.1 With RDNA4 GPU Support
Well, this is a pleasant surprise... Less than 24 hours after the AMD Computex 2025 keynote where better/more-timely ROCm support for client GPUs was brought up, AMD ROCm 6.4.1 is now officially released. With ROCm 6.4.1 there is formal support for RDNA4 GPUs, including the Radeon RX 9000 series consumer graphics cards...
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libinput Preparing To Introduce A Lua-Based Plugin System For Modifying Devices/Events
The libinput input handling library that's used by both X11 and Wayland based environments on the Linux desktop is preparing to introduce a Lua-based plug-in system. Via Lua scripts it will be possible to modify evdev input events / input device behavior to deal with quirky/broken input devices and better workaround other problems that aren't currently…
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SiFive and Red Hat Collaborate to Bring RHEL 10 to RISC-V Development
SiFive has announced a new collaboration with Red Hat to deliver a developer preview of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10 for the RISC-V architecture.Giorgio Mendoza (LinuxGizmos.com)
How open systems drive AI performance
Partner content: Open-source philosophy, system-level optimizations prevent nightmare GenAI deployments, says CentML CTOCentML Insights Team (The Register)
Linux Improvements Boost AMD Ryzen Threadripper 7000 Series Performance Since Launch
With the AMD Ryzen Threadripper 9000 series having just been announced at Computex, it's a good time to revisit the Ryzen Threadripper 7000 series performance ahead of those Zen 5 HEDT CPUs launching in July. In this article is a look at how the AMD Ryzen Threadripper 7970X 32-core and 7980X 64-core HEDT processors have evolved on the same system with …
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Fwupd 2.0.10 Brings Support For New Logitech & Lenovo Devices
Fwupd 2.0.10 is out today as the newest feature update to this open-source firmware updating solution built around the Linux Vendor Firmware Service (LVFS)...
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AlmaLinux 9.6 Released, Here’s What’s New
AlmaLinux 9.6 (Sage Margay) is out now with updated toolchains, enhanced virtualization, and images for x86_64, ARM64, PowerPC, and IBM Z architectures.Bobby Borisov (Linuxiac)
AMD To Focus On Better ROCm Linux Experience In H2-2025, Day-One Client Support
At the AMD Computex keynote last night in addition to announcing the Ryzen Threadripper 9000 series, Radeon RX 9060 XT, and Ryzen AI PRO R9700, they also brief talked about the ROCm compute stack and their plans for the second half of 2025...
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Fedora 43 Cleared To Ship With Wayland-Only GNOME
The Fedora Engineering and Steering Committee (FESCo) today signed off on the planned change for Fedora 43 that the GNOME desktop will be Wayland-only: the GNOME X11 packages will be removed in this next Fedora Linux release.lxer.com
NVIDIA Outlines Current Wayland Limitations & Future Driver Plans
Last year NVIDIA began publicly outlining known Wayland limitations for their driver and future support plans. This week NVIDIA put out updated information concerning known gaps in Wayland support as well as their ongoing future driver plans for enhancing the feature compatibility under this X11 successor...
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Latest Steam Client Update Improves Game Recordings and Remote Play on Linux - 9to5Linux
Valve released a new stable Steam Client update on May 20th, 2025, to further improve game recordings and remote play on Linux and fix bugs.Marius Nestor (9to5Linux)
FreeBSD Continues Improving Hardware Support For Framework Laptops, WiFi Devices
The FreeBSD project today published their status report outlining their development happenings during Q1'2025. There's been a lot going on in the FreeBSD world, especially for improving laptop support and other modern hardware coverage for this BSD operating system...
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Intel Compute Runtime 25.18.33578.6 Brings ULLS For Lunar Lake
Released yesterday was the newest monthly feature update to the Intel Compute Runtime as their open-source GPU compute stack for OpenCL and oneAPI Level Zero support on Intel integrated and discrete graphics processors...
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ASUS IoT Unveils RUC-1000 Series with 600W GPU Support and Up to 4000 TOPS at Computex 2025 %
ASUS IoT has announced the RUC-1000 series at Computex 2025, introducing what it describes as the world’s first 2U 19-inch rugged edge AI GPU computer with PCIe 5.0 support for up to 600W GPUs.Giorgio Mendoza (LinuxGizmos.com)
GNOME GDM Now Disables The X11/X.Org Session By Default
Merged yesterday to the GNOME Display Manager "GDM" codebase is disabling of the X11/X.Org session by default as the first step toward deprecating GNOME's X11 session support...
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GNOME GDM Now Disables The X11/X.Org Session By Default
Merged yesterday to the GNOME Display Manager 'GDM' codebase is disabling of the X11/X.Org session by default as the first step toward deprecating GNOME's X11 session support.www.phoronix.com
DRM IN_FORMATS_ASYNC Coming For The Intel Driver With Linux 6.16
Sent out last week was one final batch of drm-misc-next updates ahead of the upcoming Linux 6.16 kernel cycle. Besides a couple fixes, most notable was new async flipping code for the Intel DRM driver with the IN_FORMATS_ASYNC DRM property...
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Wayland Looks To Do Away With Alpha & Beta Releases
Ongoing Wayland release manager Simon Ser has proposed doing away with alpha and beta releases moving forward as a sign of Wayland's maturity and to ease the release management process...
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Mesa 25.1.1 Released With Radeon Workarounds For DOOM: The Dark Ages
Following the Mesa 25.1 stable release from earlier this month, Mesa 25.1.1 is now available as the first point release bringing an assortment of different OpenGL and Vulkan driver fixes...
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RHEL 10 Released at AI-Focused Red Hat Summit - FOSS Force
Not only was there RHEL 10, FOSS Force was able to get Red Hat CEO Matt Hicks to weigh-in on the open source AI controversy.Christine Hall (FOSS Force)
How to Install Yarn on Ubuntu 25.04 (via 3 Methods)
Learn how to install the Yarn package manager on Ubuntu using NPM, Corepack, and the APT repository with practical examples.Ubuntu Shell
Microsofters Targeting the Wife of the Critic of Microsoft
false claims and loaded statementRoy Schestowitz
AMD Ryzen Threadripper 9000 Series Launching In July For Linux Workstations
Along with announcing the Radeon AI PRO R9700 and Radeon RX 9060 XT specifications, on the CPU side AMD used their Computex 2025 keynote for introducing the Ryzen Threadripper 9000 series that will be launching in July...
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AMD Announces The Radeon AI PRO R9700 Graphics Coming In July
From the AMD keynote at Computex today the Raeon AI PRO R9700 Graphics were announced in delivering RDNA4 graphics for professionals...
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AMD Provides Initial Details On The Radeon RX 9060 XT
In addition to announcing the Radeon AI PRO R9700 and Threadripper 9000 series processors, AMD also introduced the Radeon RX 9060 XT graphics card at Computex 2025...
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