Neptune OS is Debian made easy but, boy, does it need some housekeeping
: A media-ready remix with KDE, codecs, and clutter from its BeOS-flavored pastLiam Proven (The Register)
Signal shuts the blinds on Microsoft Recall with the power of DRM
: Chat app blocks Windows' screenshot-happy feature from peeking at private convosRichard Speed (The Register)
Terminator Linux Terminal App Updated After Prolonged Hiatus
After a long break, the Terminator 2.1.5 Linux terminal app brings new features like split-session SSH cloning, reverse search, and UI fixes.Bobby Borisov (Linuxiac)
RISC-V's Big Week Includes RHEL, CentOS Stream, and Rocky Linux - FOSS Force
The open source ISA RISC-V has long been making inroads into Linux distributions, but this week Enterprise Linux distros got on board en masse.Christine Hall (FOSS Force)
PipeWire 1.4.3 Brings netJACK2 Changes, Improves ALSA audio.channels Support - 9to5Linux
PipeWire 1.4.3 open-source server for handling audio/video streams and hardware on Linux is now available for download with various changes.Marius Nestor (9to5Linux)
SteamOS 3.7 Stable Rolls Out With Updated Linux Kernel, Expanding AMD Handheld Support
Valve today released SteamOS 3.7.8 to their stable channel as the first stable version of their Arch Linux based SteamOS 3.7 operating system...
phoronix.com/news/SteamOS-3.7.…
FreeBSD Continues Improving Hardware Support For Framework Laptops, WiFi Devices
The FreeBSD project today published their status report outlining their development happenings during Q1'2025lxer.com
Ubuntu 25.10 Switching To Chrony By Default, Enabling Network Time Security
Ubuntu 25.10 is joining the likes of Red Hat Enterprise Linux and SUSE Linux Enterprise that are using Chrony as their Network Time Protocol (NTP) implementation. Ubuntu 25.10 is switching over to Chrony in enabling Network Time Security (NTS) support on Ubuntu Linux...
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AROS turns any PC into an Amiga with USB-bootable distro
: And other ways to get that Amiga feeling on a budgetLiam Proven (The Register)
Mozilla Is Shutting Down Pocket
Mozilla announced today it's going to be shutting down its Pocket read-it-later bookmarking service this summer...
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How to Install Dolphin Emulator in Ubuntu 25.04
Learn a step-by-step guide to installing and using the Dolphin emulator on Ubuntu 25.04 to play your favorite GameCube and Wii console games.Ubuntu Shell
Canonical Planning For Linux 6.17 To Power Ubuntu 25.10
The Canonical Kernel Team confirmed their plans today that with the Ubuntu 25.10 release in October they are planning to employ the Linux 6.17 kernel...
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Intel Announces New Xeon 6 CPU Models With SST-TF & Priority Core Turbo "PCT"
Adding on to the Intel Xeon 6 "Granite Rapids" CPU family are today three new models focused on delivering enhanced GPU-accelerated AI performance...
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Intel Announces New Xeon 6 CPU Models With SST-TF & Priority Core Turbo "PCT"
Adding on to the Intel Xeon 6 'Granite Rapids' CPU family are today three new models focused on delivering enhanced GPU-accelerated AI performance.www.phoronix.com
LosslessCut: A GUI Front-End for FFmpeg for Audio/Video Editing
Discover an amazing free and open-source cross-platform GUI front-end of FFmpeg for basic editing tasks on your laptop or desktop with fewer system resources.Linux TLDR
Maximizing The Performance & Power Efficiency Of AMD Ryzen AI Max+ 395 With Platform Profiles
Last week I began posting Linux benchmarks of the flagship "Strix Halo" SoC, the AMD Ryzen AI Max+ PRO 395 with powerful Radeon 8060S graphics using the HP ZBook Ultra G1a laptop. Both the CPU and GPU results for the data published thus far have been mighty impressive and done at the Ubuntu Linux defaults... But the Ryzen AI Max+ 395 with…
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Maximizing The Performance & Power Efficiency Of AMD Ryzen AI Max+ 395 With Platform Profiles
Last week I began posting Linux benchmarks of the flagship 'Strix Halo' SoC, the AMD Ryzen AI Max+ PRO 395 with powerful Radeon 8060S graphics using the HP ZBook Ultra G1a laptop.www.phoronix.com
How To Install Latest KDE Plasma 6.4 Beta In Fedora 42
A complete guide to install KDE Plasma 6.4 Beta on Fedora 42. Follow our tutorial to get the latest Plasma beta release on Fedora Linux.sk (OSTechNix)
PoCL 7.0 Released With Official OpenCL 3.0 Conformance On x86_64 CPUs
PoCL 7.0 is out today as the newest version of this "Portable Computing Language" implementation that originally was started for supporting CPU-based OpenCL execution but with time and in leveraging LLVM back-ends has added support for OpenCL atop AMDKFD / NVIDIA PTX / Intel Level Zero and other possible back-ends...
phoronix.com/news/PoCL-7.0-Rel…
PoCL 7.0 Released With Official OpenCL 3.0 Conformance On x86_64 CPUs
PoCL 7.0 is out today as the newest version of this 'Portable Computing Language' implementation that originally was started for supporting CPU-based OpenCL execution but with time and in leveraging LLVM back-ends has added support for OpenCL atop AM…www.phoronix.com
FFmpeg FFV1 Vulkan Encoder Lands +35% Improvement For AMD, +50% For NVIDIA
FFmpeg developers have been working on Vulkan-accelerated FFV1 video encode/decode for that two decade old lossless video coding format. Merged this week to FFmpeg Git were more enhancements to their Vulkan-based FFV1 encoder and yielding big performance improvements for both AMD and NVIDIA graphics processors...
phoronix.com/news/FFmpeg-Faste…
Prime OS on EndeavourOS: Can it Run?
Prime OS can be installed side by side with the Linux system. In the previous post on this blog, I discussed how to install Prime OS. At tha...Illyaz (Jago Desain)
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...
phoronix.com/news/MSI-Linux-Dr…
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...
phoronix.com/news/KVM-Optimize…
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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in reply to Phoronix • • •It would be really nice if Firefox could keep *entire kilobytes worth* of Reader Mode tabs in cache, so I could read a bit offline?
(I can understand why it was impossible, given the vital business need to push Pocket. But now that Pocket is gone…)
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in reply to Phoronix • • •For those who actually want to save webpages for offline viewing, might I recommend Zotero and its Firefox extension?
zotero.org/
They advertise themselves as a bibliography tool that you can use when researching a paper which can then export a BibTeX file. But it works great as long-term document storage and the documents can be webpages too.
Zotero | Your personal research assistant
www.zotero.orgStephen Brooks 🦆
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