The latest Linux kernel updates deliver groundbreaking performance, security, and hardware support enhancements.Grant Knoetze (ITPro Today)
Servo Browser Engine Finally Supporting Animated GIFs
The Servo browser engine project born out of Mozilla as an early Rust project and now advanced by open-source developers from various firms continues moving forward. Servo has finally scratched animated GIF support off its TODO list among other features...
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Updated AMD ISP4 Driver For Linux Benefits The HP ZBook Ultra G1a, Future Ryzen Laptops
AMD engineers today posted the second iteration of their AMD ISP4 Linux kernel driver, which is for supporting the web-camera with the high-end Strix Halo powered HP ZBook Ultra G1a laptop and presumably many AMD Ryzen laptops in the future...
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Maxlab launched the Tokay Lite in 2023, an open-source ESP32 camera with 2MP video at 15 FPS and edge AI features like facial recognition. The new Tokay Pro upgrades to an NXP i.Giorgio Mendoza (LinuxGizmos.com)
Broadcom BNGE Linux Network Driver Published For BCM5770X
Broadcom has been working on a new Linux Ethernet networking driver dubbed "BNGE" for supporting their new high-end BCM5770X chipset family...
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Broadcom has been working on a new Linux Ethernet networking driver dubbed 'BNGE' for supporting their new high-end BCM5770X chipset family.www.phoronix.com
Arch Linux Moving To WoW64 Wine & Wine-Staging
The Arch Linux project announced this week they are working to transition their Wine and Wine-Staging packages over to pure WoW64 builds. This "Windows on Windows 64-bit" allows for 32-bit Windows applications on 64-bit Linux platforms without needing 32-bit software libraries/prefixes present and overall a big architectural win...
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: China's 'little dragons' pose big challenge to US AI firmsThomas Claburn (The Register)
Alienware "G-Mode" Reverted For Linux: It Actually Hurt Performance
Alienware G-Mode / Game Shift is a feature designed to "enhance gaming performance" on select Dell/Alienware laptops with the press of a key. But at least under Linux with select laptop models it can actually regress performance compared to just running the laptop in the "performance" platform profile...
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Alienware G-Mode / Game Shift is a feature designed to 'enhance gaming performance' on select Dell/Alienware laptops with the press of a keywww.phoronix.com
Qt Creator 17 Released With New Default Themes
The Qt Creator 17 integrated development environment released today with a variety of improvements for this primarily C++/Qt focused developer IDE...
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Mesa's Rusticl Driver Now Supports sRGB Images
Mesa's Rusticl OpenCL driver has supported various elements of 2D image handling while the latest addition in enhancing this open-source driver's support is for sRGB images...
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Prior to the AMD Advancing AI 2025 event last week, AMD shared additional details on their forthcoming Ryzen Threadripper 9000 series processors.lxer.com
For those interested in Intel's Platform Monitoring Technology (PMT) for power and performance telemetry data among other metrics on Intel hardware, the in-development Linux 6.lxer.com
Debian 13 “Trixie” is set to ship with KDE Plasma 6.3.5, now officially migrated to Debian Testing ahead of the stable release.Bobby Borisov (Linuxiac)
Linux 6.16 Adds Support For Intel PMC SSRAM Telemetry For Lunar Lake + Panther Lake
For those interested in Intel's Platform Monitoring Technology (PMT) for power and performance telemetry data among other metrics on Intel hardware, the in-development Linux 6.16 kernel has squeezed in support for existing Lunar Lake and next-gen Panther Lake SoCs into the PMC SSRAM telemetry driver...
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Open 3D Engine 25.05 Brings Vulkan Improvements, Simulation Enhancements
Version 25.05 of the Open 3D Engine "O3DE" was released today for this open-source project born out of Amazon's Lumberyard engine nearly four years ago. With O3DE 25.05, this open-source game/simulation engine continues to be advanced by Amazon/AWS, Meta, Huawei, and other organizations...
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Version 25.05 of the Open 3D Engine 'O3DE' was released today for this open-source project born out of Amazon's Lumberyard engine nearly four years agowww.phoronix.com
X.Org Server 21.1.17 & XWayland 24.1.7 Fix The Latest Batch Of Security Issues
The X.Org Server 21.1.17 and XWayland 24.1.7 point releases were issued today to fix the latest batch of security issues...
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NVIDIA 575.64 Linux Driver Released With A Few Fixes
NVIDIA today released a new version of their R575 series stable Linux driver to provide a few additional fixes for customers...
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AMD & System76 Teaming Up For ROCm "Radeon Test Drive"
AMD's Advancing AI 2025 event last week was very busy with announcing the Instinct MI350X and MI355X, the ROCm 7.0 preview, and debuting the AMD Developer Cloud. In addition, they held pre-briefs around the Ryzen Threadripper 9000 series and buried in as part of that was another new disclosure: Radeon Test Drive. Radeon Test Drive was brought up as something that's coming later this summe…
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AMD Shares More Details On The Ryzen Threadripper 9000 Series
Prior to the AMD Advancing AI 2025 event last week, AMD shared additional details on their forthcoming Ryzen Threadripper 9000 series processors.
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Qt 6.10 Beta Released With Native PipeWire Audio Backend For Qt Multimedia
Qt 6.10 Beta 1 released today as the next stepping stone for this open-source, cross-platform toolkit. Qt 6.10 isn't bringing any new modules but is deprecating the Qt Charts and Qt Data Visualization code...
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KDE Plasma 6.4 Desktop Released With Many Fantastic Improvements
KDE Plasma 6.4 is out today with many fantastic improvements for this open-source desktop...
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Intel's Next-Gen QAT Hardware Can Be Optimized For Just Decompression Use
Merged recently for the Linux 6.16 kernel was initial support for Intel QAT Gen6 hardware. A new qat_6xxx driver was added for supporting the next-gen QuickAssist Technology accelerator IP being found with upcoming Intel Xeon processors. Patches being prepared now for the Linux 6.17 kernel are building out a new decompression service for that next-generation hardwar…
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Intel THC Linux Driver Ready To Support Wake-on-Touch "WoT"
Merged for Linux 6.14 at the beginning of the year were the Intel THC drivers for supporting the Touch Host Controller IP found in modern Intel Core Ultra laptops for dealing with the touchpad, touchscreen, and related touch-control functionality. This open-source driver is still being built-out ahead of next-generation Core Ultra laptops hitting the market...
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Dbus-Broker 37 Released For High Performance & Reliable D-Bus
The Dbus-Broker project from the BUS1/systemd developers is out with its first update in more than one year for this D-Bus implementation that aims to be more reliable and higher performing than D-Bus itself...
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Discover how AIOps and Linux expertise create market opportunity.Lucas Rees (Linux Jobs & Careers)
: Next version to drop Windows 7 through 8.1, and 32-bit Windows support is on the way out, tooLiam Proven (The Register)
Rust developers acknowledge lengthy compiler times can be a significant issue that limits the productivity of developers working with this programming languagelxer.com
Arch Linux transitions wine & wine-staging to pure WoW64 builds, removing multilib dependency.Bobby Borisov (Linuxiac)
Do you want to isolate your applications from the system? Learn how to run GUI-based applications, like Firefox, in Docker containers.Anees Asghar (Make Tech Easier)
Git 2.50 distributed revision control tool removes the legacy recursive merge engine, completing the transition to the faster, more robust ORT engine.Bobby Borisov (Linuxiac)
Intel Mesa Drivers Now Properly Report Battlemage BMG-G31 GPUs
Posted by Intel engineers a few days ago were a Mesa patch to begin recognizing some Intel Battlemage graphics cards as being the larger "BMG G31" variant. This evening those patches were merged for Mesa 25.2 for what's rumored to be potentially the Arc B770 graphics cards to launch later in the year...
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Posted by Intel engineers a few days ago were a Mesa patch to begin recognizing some Intel Battlemage graphics cards as being the larger 'BMG G31' variantwww.phoronix.com
FreeRDP 3.16 is out today as the newest update to this open-source Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP) library and client implementationlxer.com
Following below was attempt to reproduce instructions proposed in https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JFBidsZOWgs on openSUSE Tumbleweed in...lxer.com
The X.Org Server has been seeing a lot of commits this week..lxer.com
Dozzle 8.13 real‑time Docker log viewer improves usability with UI updates and adds a logout icon while fixing several small bugs.Bobby Borisov (Linuxiac)
ReactOS as the 'open-source Windows' project providing an operating system with binary compatibility for Windows software and drivers can finally properly handle full-screen games/apps.lxer.com
On No Kings Day in a small town in North Carolina, our reporter rediscovers that code, community, and politics are intertwined.Christine Hall (FOSS Force)
The 6.16 kernel will include a number of changes to how the kernel handles the processing of co [...]LWN.net
Trying Out The AMD Developer Cloud For Evaluating Instinct + ROCm
Last week alongside announcing the AMD Instinct MI350X/MI355X and the ROCm 7.0 software preview, AMD also introduced the AMD Developer Cloud as a new means for developers to easy try out Instinct accelerators with their own software and with the ROCm compute stack already setup. Having tried out prior AMD cloud compute environments, as soon as my email invite for the AMD Develo…
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Last week alongside announcing the AMD Instinct MI350X/MI355X and the ROCm 7.0 software preview, AMD also introduced the AMD Developer Cloud as a new means for developers to easy try out Instinct accelerators with their own software and with the ROCm…www.phoronix.com
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