Linux 6.16 GPU Driver Changes Land: NVIDIA Blackwell, Asahi UAPI, Intel Xe Fan Speeds
The hearty set of Direct Rendering Manager (DRM) kernel graphics/display driver changes were merged today for the in-development Linux 6.16 kernel. Most notable is preliminary NVIDIA Blackwell and Hopper GPU support atop the mainline kernel with an open-source driver but there are also big ticket items added for the AMD Radeon/Instinct and Intel graphi…
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Git 2.50-rc0 Brings New Improvements
The initial release candidate of Git 2.50 is now available for this widely-used, distributed version control system...
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AlmaLinux “Purple Lion” is here—fully RHEL 10 compatible with added support for frame pointers, x86-64-v2, Secure Boot, SPICE, and more.Bobby Borisov (Linuxiac)
You don't have to use Fedora to attend the Fedora 42 Release Party, but you will have to get up early if you live in the US.Christine Hall (FOSS Force)
Big Linux Patch Series Shakes Up The Scheduler Code For Anyone With Only One CPU Core
For anyone still happening to have only one CPU core in their system and running a uni-processor "UP" kernel build without any simultaneous multi-processing (SMP) support enabled, a big patch series posted today for the Linux kernel may affect you...
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For anyone still happening to have only one CPU core in their system and running a uni-processor 'UP' kernel build without any simultaneous multi-processing (SMP) support enabled, a big patch series posted today for the Linux kernel may affect you.www.phoronix.com
Mesa 25.0.7 Delivers A Last Batch Of Fixes To End The Series
Eric Engestrom just released Mesa 25.0.7 as the newest bi-weekly point release to the Mesa 25.0 series that is also the end of the road for that Q1'2025 release branch...
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Money gets spent censoring/deplatforming people who speak about real issues; no money gets spent actually tackling those underlying issuesRoy Schestowitz
Linux 6.16 Will Be Able To Exit User Mode Faster: 2~11% Improvement
While the "core/entry" changes for the Linux kernel merge window aren't typically too exciting to write about, there is a new optimization for all CPU architectures worth mentioning for the Linux 6.16 cycle...
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While the 'core/entry' changes for the Linux kernel merge window aren't typically too exciting to write about, there is a new optimization for all CPU architectures worth mentioning for the Linux 6.16 cycle.www.phoronix.com
AVX-512 Performance + Power Efficiency Shines With AMD Strix Halo
Several weeks into testing the AMD Ryzen AI MAX+ PRO 395 flagship "Strix Halo" SoC within the HP ZBook Ultra G1a, I continue to be very impressed with its performance capabilities for a wide range of workloads. While the Radeon 8060S integrated graphics easily turn heads and the 16-core / 32-thread Zen 5 cores deliver incredible performance in a laptop form factor, one featur…
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Several weeks into testing the AMD Ryzen AI MAX+ PRO 395 flagship 'Strix Halo' SoC within the HP ZBook Ultra G1a, I continue to be very impressed with its performance capabilities for a wide range of workloads.www.phoronix.com
The open-source Qt toolkit is deeply rooted in C++ code but over the past decade also has enjoyed Python language bindingslxer.com
Intel Wildcat Lake Audio Support Merged For Linux 6.16
All of the sound/audio driver changes have been merged for the Linux 6.16 kernel that include new AMD and Intel hardware support among other new audio hardware as well as various other improvements...
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Google engineer Eric Biggers took time away from all his impressive crypto performance optimizations to the Linux kernel for modern Intel and AMD CPUs to spend time getting support for hardware-wrapped inline encryption keys into the mainline kernellxer.com
Intel Releases Updated Battlemage Driver Preview Support For Ubuntu 24.04 LTS
While there is nice out-of-the-box support for the new Intel Arc "Battlemage" graphics cards on the new Ubuntu 25.04 release, if you prefer running the Ubuntu 24.04 Long Term Support (LTS) release there isn't complete support until the next hardware enablement "HWE" update. But Intel in cooperation with Canonical has now published a new graphics driver prev…
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While there is nice out-of-the-box support for the new Intel Arc 'Battlemage' graphics cards on the new Ubuntu 25.04 release, if you prefer running the Ubuntu 24.www.phoronix.com
Microsoft's Azure Linux Preps For NVIDIA GB200 Servers
Microsoft on Tuesday released a new version of Azure Linux, their in-house Linux distribution that is used for a variety of purposes from the Azure cloud to powering other Microsoft services...
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AlmaLinux OS 10 Linux distribution is now is now available for download as a free alternative to Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10.Marius Nestor (9to5Linux)
Linux 6.16 Merges A Fix For The Macintosh II
Hobbyists continue to tinker around with the Motorola 68000 "m68k" support within the Linux kernel and even landing a fix now in 2025 for the vintage Macintosh II...
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Hobbyists continue to tinker around with the Motorola 68000 'm68k' support within the Linux kernel and even landing a fix now in 2025 for the vintage Macintosh II.www.phoronix.com
Arch Linux Installer Adds Option To Configure Btrfs Snapshots Post-Install
Archinstall 3.0.7 is out today as the newest feature update to this text-based Arch Linux installer that makes it quick and easy to deploy a new Arch Linux installation...
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Comment: Or, rediscovering the KISS principle, the long way roundLiam Proven (The Register)
Merged for the Linux 6.16 kernel are all of the x86 core enhancements that provide a variety of benefits to Intel as well as AMD processors.lxer.com
KaOS Linux 2025.05 independent distribution is now available for download with the KDE Plasma 6.3 desktop environment and Linux kernel 6.14.Marius Nestor (9to5Linux)
Mozilla Thunderbird 139 open-source email client is now available for download with various new features and many bug fixes.Marius Nestor (9to5Linux)
Learn what DNF5 is, how it differs from older DNF, and the significant improvements in the DNF5 package manager with this introductory guide.sk (OSTechNix)
EXT4 For Linux 6.16 Brings A Change Yielding "Really Stupendous Performance"
Ted Ts'o sent out the EXT4 file-system changes today for the Linux 6.16 kernel. While EXT4 may not see as much code churn these days given its mature state compared to say Btrfs and Bcachefs, with Linux 6.16 are some tantalizing performance improvements...
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Firefox 140 open-source web browser is now available for public beta testing as the next ESR (Extended Support Release) series.Marius Nestor (9to5Linux)
Xfce's xfwm4 Merges Wayland Compositor Code Based On wlroots
Merged today for Xfce's Xfwm4 window manager component is a built-in Wayland compositor using wlroots...
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This month I have been running many Linux benchmarks of the HP ZBook Ultra G1a with the very exciting Ryzen AI MAX+ PRO 395 Strix Halo SoC featuring the powerful Radeon 8060S graphics.lxer.com
Learn how to install MariaDB on Debian 13 with our easy easy step-by-step guide, or get our Linux admins to install it for you.Jeff Wilson (RoseHosting)
Linux 6.16 Upstreams Support For Hardware-Wrapped Encryption Keys
Google engineer Eric Biggers took time away from all his impressive crypto performance optimizations to the Linux kernel for modern Intel and AMD CPUs to spend time getting support for hardware-wrapped inline encryption keys into the mainline kernel. Google's Android kernel has been carrying this functionality for several years to help enhance security and will now be…
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Invitation to the Fedora Linux 42 release party, May 29.Aoife Moloney (Fedora Project)
Intel APX Ready With Linux 6.16, Outdated Intel CPU Microcode Reporting Merged
Merged for the Linux 6.16 kernel are all of the x86 core enhancements that provide a variety of benefits to Intel as well as AMD processors...
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AlmaLinux 10.0 Stable Released - Unlike RHEL 10, It Continues Supporting x86-64-v2 CPUs
Building off the recent release of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10.0, AlmaLinux 10.0 stable is now available as this RHEL-derived popular community Linux OS alternative...
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Wayland ext-background-effect-v1 Merged For Background Blur Feature
After being under discussion since January of 2024, the ext-background-effect-v1 staging protocol proposal by KDE developer Xaver Hugl has finally been merged to the Wayland-Protocols repository. This new Wayland protocol is intended for handling effects like background blur on terminals...
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ROCm GPU Compute Performance With AMD Ryzen AI MAX+ "Strix Halo"
This month I have been running many Linux benchmarks of the HP ZBook Ultra G1a with the very exciting Ryzen AI MAX+ PRO 395 Strix Halo SoC featuring the powerful Radeon 8060S graphics. While there were the very promising OpenGL and Vulkan benchmarks shown so far from AMD Strix Halo on Linux -- including the very compelling performance compared to Microsoft Windows 11 …
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The Armbian team has released version 25.5, bringing expanded hardware compatibility, improved system tools, and a growing library of post-install application modules.Giorgio Mendoza (LinuxGizmos.com)
Red Hat unveils RHEL 10 with AI-powered management, launches AI Inference Server, and integrates generative AI across its enterprise platform stack at Red Hat Summit 2025.Sean Michael Kerner (ITPro Today)
XFS Atomic Writes Support Merged For Linux 6.16
Building off the atomic write preparations that landed in prior Linux kernel versions, merged for the Linux 6.16 cycle is atomic write support for the XFS file-system...
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Rav1e v0.8 Released For Rust-Based AV1 Encoding
Rav1e v0.8 was released on Monday for this self-proclaimed "fastest and safest AV1 encoder" that makes use of the Rust programming language...
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Rav1e v0.8 was released on Monday for this self-proclaimed 'fastest and safest AV1 encoder' that makes use of the Rust programming language.www.phoronix.com
Linux 6.16 Adds "X86_NATIVE_CPU" Option To Optimize Your Kernel Build For Your CPU
The X86_NATIVE_CPU Kconfig build time option has been merged for the Linux 6.16 merge window as an easy means of enforcing "-march=native" compiler behavior on AMD and Intel processors to optimize your kernel build for the local CPU architecture/family of your system...
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The X86_NATIVE_CPU Kconfig build time option has been merged for the Linux 6.16 merge window as an easy means of enforcing '-march=native' compiler behavior on AMD and Intel processors to optimize your kernel build for the local CPU architecture/fami…www.phoronix.com
Linux 6.16 Lands "rt_group_sched" Option, Faster Core Offlining & Scheduler Improvements
The many scheduler updates have been merged for the Linux 6.16 kernel which include a wide assortment of different fixes and new improvements...
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