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DietPi June 2025 Update Adds Orange Pi 5 Ultra Support and Major Fixes lxer.com/module/newswire/ext_l…

DietPi June 2025 Update Adds Orange Pi 5 Ultra Support and Major Fixes

The June 2025 release of DietPi v9.14 adds support for new Orange Pi boards, introduces the GZDoom game engine, and brings system improvements, bug fixes, and driver refinements for better SBC compatibility.
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RADV vs. AMDVLK Driver Performance For Strix Halo Radeon 8060S Graphics

The latest in our ongoing testing of AMD Strix Halo performance using the HP ZBook Ultra G1a is analyzing the Vulkan API performance between Mesa's RADV driver and the AMDVLK official open-source AMD Vulkan driver for Linux systems. More than one hundred benchmarks were run looking at the performance from Steam Play games to Vulkan compute workloads.
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RADV vs. AMDVLK Driver Performance For Strix Halo Radeon 8060S Graphics

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Ubuntu Concept 25.04 ISOs Published For Qualcomm Snapdragon X Elite Laptops

Similar to the Ubuntu 24.10 concept ISOs for Qualcomm Snapdragon X Elite laptops, Canonical has begun publishing new "concept" images of Ubuntu 25.04 ISOs optimized for use on the growing number of Qualcomm Snpadragon X Elite laptops. This week marks the release of the new ISOs for enhancing Ubuntu Linux on various ARM laptops...
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Ubuntu Concept 25.04 ISOs Published For Qualcomm Snapdragon X Elite Laptops

Similar to the Ubuntu 24.10 concept ISOs for Qualcomm Snapdragon X Elite laptops, Canonical has begun publishing new 'concept' images of Ubuntu 25.04 ISOs optimized for use on the growing number of Qualcomm Snpadragon X Elite laptops
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Canonical Makes Multipass VM Manager Fully Open-Source

Canonical's Multipass lightweight VM manager for not only Linux systems but also Windows and macOS is now considered fully open-source. Multipass started out as a means of running an Ubuntu environment with ease from a single command on major operating systems. With today's Multipass 1.16 release candidate, it's now fully open-source...
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Canonical Makes Multipass VM Manager Fully Open-Source

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NVIDIA Blackwell Support Coming Together For NVK Vulkan In Mesa

Merged for the current Linux 6.16 cycle was initial NVIDIA Blackwell GPU support with the Nouveau open-source driver. NVIDIA Blackwell GPU support was tacked onto the existing Nouveau kernel driver rather than having to wait for the new "NOVA" driver and like prior generations continuing to leverage the GSP firmware. For going along with that Nouveau support, the Mesa NVK Vul…
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NVIDIA Blackwell Support Coming Together For NVK Vulkan In Mesa

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Bcachefs Changes End Up Being Merged Into Linux 6.16, For 6.17: "We'll Be Parting Ways"

Last week was a Bcachefs pull request consisting of fixes and a new "journal_rewind" feature to aide as a disaster recovery tool for the file-system. But with that code being submitted as part of the ongoing Linux 6.16 release candidates, it drew criticism from Linus Torvalds and other kernel developers. However, one week later and that discussion …
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Bcachefs Changes End Up Being Merged Into Linux 6.16, For 6.17: "We'll Be Parting Ways"

Last week was a Bcachefs pull request consisting of fixes and a new 'journal_rewind' feature to aide as a disaster recovery tool for the file-system
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Radxa Unveils Intel N150 SoM and Carrier Board with Dual Ethernet and Support for Six M.2 or U.2 Devices lxer.com/module/newswire/ext_l…

Radxa Unveils Intel N150 SoM and Carrier Board with Dual Ethernet and Support for Six M.2 or U.2 Devices Radxa Unveils Intel N150 SoM and Carrier Board with Dual Ethernet and Support for Six M.2 or U.2 Devices

Radxa has introduced the NX150, a compact System-on-Module featuring the Intel N150 processor and a matching carrier board. Designed in the Jetson Xavier NX form factor, it offers an x86 alternative for edge computing, media, and AI applications.
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Ubuntu Maker Canonical Generated Nearly $300M In Revenue Last Year

A decade ago Canonical did around $81 million in revenue (2014) with a head count of around 337 at the company behind Ubuntu Linux while their Linux desktop efforts were still gaining a footing with OEMs/ODMs pre-loads, within enterprise desktop environments, and the lucrative server/cloud space. Canonical recently filed their 2024 annual report and they are now up to a…
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Ubuntu Maker Canonical Generated Nearly $300M In Revenue Last Year

A decade ago Canonical did around $81 million in revenue (2014) with a head count of around 337 at the company behind Ubuntu Linux while their Linux desktop efforts were still gaining a footing with OEMs/ODMs pre-loads, within enterprise desktop envi…
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Mesa 25.2 RADV Driver Merges Support For AV1 Vulkan Video Encode

Published last November as part of Vulkan 1.3.302 was the VK_KHR_video_encode_av1 extension for adding AV1 video encoding to the Vulkan Video API. Ahead of next quarter's Mesa 25.2 release, the open-source Radeon Vulkan driver "RADV" has merged its AV1 encode support...
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Mesa 25.2 RADV Driver Merges Support For AV1 Vulkan Video Encode

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Firefox 141 Beta Lowering RAM Use On Linux But Still Benchmarking Behind Chrome

Following this week's release of Firefox 140, Firefox 141 was promoted to beta. Most exciting for Linux users with next month's Firefox 141 release is finally lowering system RAM use! I've been running some benchmarks looking at the impact.
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Firefox 141 Beta Lowering RAM Use On Linux But Still Benchmarking Behind Chrome

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Ubuntu 25.10 Snapshot 2 Released

Last month Canonical announced plans for releasing monthly Ubuntu Linux development snapshots and was followed by the Questing Snapshot 1 release in the road toward Ubuntu 25.10. Out today is the Questing Snapshot 2 release for incorporating the latest Ubuntu 25.10 development changes...
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Ubuntu 25.10 Snapshot 2 Released

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Bochs DRM Panic Support, Panfrost Adds Mediatek MT8370 SoC For Linux 6.17

Maxime Ripard at Red Hat sent out the latest weekly pull of "drm-misc-next" changes to DRM-Next for queuing of these kernel graphics/display driver changes ahead of the Linux 6.17 merge window opening up in about one month's time...
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Bochs DRM Panic Support, Panfrost Adds Mediatek MT8370 SoC For Linux 6.17

Maxime Ripard at Red Hat sent out the latest weekly pull of 'drm-misc-next' changes to DRM-Next for queuing of these kernel graphics/display driver changes ahead of the Linux 6.17 merge window opening up in about one month's time.
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NVIDIA Engineer Now Co-Maintainer Of "NOVA" Open-Source Rust NVIDIA GPU Driver

The NOVA-Core driver as the basis for a modern, Rust-written open-source NVIDIA GPU driver for the upstream Linux kernel and eventual successor to the reverse-engineered Nouveau DRM driver has a new co-maintainer...
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NVIDIA Engineer Now Co-Maintainer Of "NOVA" Open-Source Rust GPU Driver

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