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As EDA Ban Hits China Will Europe Step Up on Open Hardware? lxer.com/module/newswire/ext_l…


New Rust Abstractions Added In Linux 6.16 For More Core Areas lxer.com/module/newswire/ext_l…


Grafito: Systemd Journal Log Viewer with a Beautiful Web UI lxer.com/module/newswire/ext_l…


Updated Steam Client Beta For Linux Fixes Slow Install Speeds For Updates lxer.com/module/newswire/ext_l…


Intel Overclocking Watchdog Driver Merged For Linux 6.16 lxer.com/module/newswire/ext_l…


The Fragmentation Dilemma: Is Linux Its Own Worst Enemy? lxer.com/module/newswire/ext_l…


New Rust Abstractions Added In Linux 6.16 For More Core Pieces

More Rust programming language abstractions for core code of the Linux kernel continues to land for the ongoing Linux 6.16 merge window...
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Updated Steam Client Beta For Linux Fixes Slow Install Speeds For Updates

One day after Steam on Linux set a recent high with the Steam Survey, a new Steam client beta is out today to fix an excruciating annoyance affecting some Linux gamers...
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if only Microsoft could be arsed to fix their own update installer.
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Open-Source TPDE Can Compile Code 10-20x Faster Than LLVM lxer.com/module/newswire/ext_l…


Python CI on Fedora with GitHub Actions lxer.com/module/newswire/ext_l…


More Intel Panther Lake Graphics Device IDs Added To Open-Source Linux Driver

Intel's Linux graphics driver engineers continue working on enabling support for the Xe3 integrated graphics premiering with next-gen Core Ultra "Panther Lake" SoCs. Today a number of additional PCI device IDs have been merged to the Mesa 25.2 code to reflect the growing family...
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Fix Slow Linux Boot Issue and Speed Up Your Linux System in Less Than 5 Minutes lxer.com/module/newswire/ext_l…


Kexec HandOver "KHO" Merged For Linux 6.16

Kexec HandOver "KHO" was merged for the in-development Linux 6.16 kernel as part of all the memory management "MM" changes. Kexec HandOver is providing the basis for some nifty low-level features moving forward...
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Gnome’s New Director Tackles Funding, Pride and Prejudice lxer.com/module/newswire/ext_l…


How to Install Java 21 on AlmaLinux 10 lxer.com/module/newswire/ext_l…


Open-Source TPDE Can Compile Code 10-20x Faster Than LLVM

Researchers from the Technical University of Munich (TUM) have announced TPDE as a fast and adaptable compiler back-end framework. The code is now open-source and they are talking up some very wild compile time improvements... Compiling code for x86_64 and AArch64 with TPDE can be ten to twenty times faster than using the LLVM Clang compiler...
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CachyOS Improves NVIDIA Driver Loading, Better Handheld Device Support lxer.com/module/newswire/ext_l…


Wine 10.9 Lands with vkd3d 1.16 lxer.com/module/newswire/ext_l…


Linux 6.16 Will Now Conveniently Report Hard/Soft Lockups & RCU Stall Counts

A very convenient addition to Linux 6.16 for system administrators is reporting to user-space via sysfs counters for the number of hard and soft lock-ups as well as RCU stalls...
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Power & Performance Tuning For The Framework 13 With AMD Ryzen AI 300 Series

In April we looked at the Framework 13 updated for the AMD Ryzen AI 300 series and its great out-of-the-box performance and nice power efficiency of Strix Point. Via ACPI platform profiles the power/performance mode can be tuned if desiring a longer battery life or preferring even greater performance. Today's article is looking at that power/performance impac…
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9to5Linux Weekly Roundup: June 1st, 2025 lxer.com/module/newswire/ext_l…



NFS Server Supporting Larger I/O Block Size With Linux 6.16

For those running an Network File System "NFS" server, the upcoming Linux 6.16 kernel will allow optionally enabling a larger payload size that may yield better performance. Eventually the default payload size may be increased if all goes well from user feedback and testing...
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Phoronix Turns 21 This Week - Show Your Support For Linux Hardware Reviews

This week on 5 June marks 21 years since I started Phoronix.com for providing Linux hardware reviews and open-source news. In marking the 21st birthday of Phoronix is a special Phoronix Premium offering if you wish to show your support and hopefully provide for a successful year...
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Steam On Linux Use Hit A Recent High Of 2.69% During May lxer.com/module/newswire/ext_l…


Mesa 25.2 Lands RADV VCN5 Video Encode/Decode Support For RDNA4 GPUs

Posted for the AMDGPU Linux kernel driver in early 2024 was the initial Video Core Next 5.0 IP enablement that was part of their bring-up for the Radeon RX 9000 "RDNA4" graphics processors. It's taken until now though for enabling the VCN5 video encode/decode support within the user-space code for the RADV driver with Mesa 25.2...
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Intel TDX Host Support Merged For KVM With Linux 6.16

While Intel Trust Domain Extensions (TDX) has been around since Sapphire Rapids with select SKUs and with widespread availability since Emerald Rapids in late 2023, only now with the Linux 6.16 kernel debuting in H2'2025 is there going to be mainline kernel support for TDX on the host-side with the Kernel-based Virtual Machine (KVM)...
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Touchscreen Smart Box Based on ESP32-P4 with Wi-Fi 6 or Ethernet lxer.com/module/newswire/ext_l…


FreeBSD 14.3 RC1 Brings OCI Images To Docker & GitHub lxer.com/module/newswire/ext_l…


The Openwashing Shills Initiative (OSI) - Part II: Lying to the IRS is a Big Issue lxer.com/module/newswire/ext_l…


Linuxiac Weekly Wrap-Up: Week 22 (May 26 – Jun 1, 2025) lxer.com/module/newswire/ext_l…


Steam On Linux Use Hit A Recent High Of 2.69% During May

Valve just published the Steam Survey results for May 2025 with a nice increase for the Linux gaming marketshare...
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Wine 10.9 Released With EGL Support For All Graphics Drivers

Wine 10.9 fell slightly off its bi-weekly Friday release rhythm with only debuting today, but in any event it's now available for testing with the latest features for enjoying Windows games/applications on Linux and other platforms...
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Intel Overclocking Watchdog Driver Merged For Linux 6.16

Merged today for the Linux 6.16 kernel were all of the Watchdog subsystem updates for monitoring system health and taking action such as rebooting if the system state goes bad. With the Linux 6.16 is the introduction of the Intel Overclocking Watchdog "OC WDT" driver...
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Intel Prepping Linux Driver For Future Data Center GPUs Based On Battlemage lxer.com/module/newswire/ext_l…


Slackware-Based PorteuX 2.1 Is One of the First Distros to Ship with Linux 6.15 lxer.com/module/newswire/ext_l…


Linux 6.15 Shipped With A Nasty Power Regression For Some Systems

The Linux 6.15 kernel that shipped as stable last week mistakenly shipped with a nasty CPU power regression for some systems. The issue is now fixed in Linux 6.16 Git and will be fixed shortly in the Linux 6.15 point releases...
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Linux 6.16 Enables Support For Arm Scalable Matrix Extension "SME"

The Linux kernel had not enabled support for Arm Scalable Matrix Extension (SME) due to bugs, but with the in-development Linux 6.16 kernel those issues have been resolved and so SME can now be enabled for the rare SoCs having said hardware support...
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Apparent Git Scripting Issue Raised Concerns Of Possible Malicious Linux Kernel Activity

The Linux 6.16 merge window this weekend suffered an unexpected twist this weekend when Linus Torvalds noticed some unusual Git activity by a longtime Linux kernel developer. The issue is still being sorted through but it would appear that the possible malicious activity came down to some scripting issues around Git...
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FreeBSD 14.3 RC1 Brings OCI Images To Docker & GitHub

The release candidate of FreeBSD 14.3 is now available for testing ahead of the official operating system release this month...
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