Linux 6.17 Preps Many Networking Changes From Broadcom 800G To More WiFi 7
Jakub Kicinski on Sunday sent out the big set of networking subsystem updates heading into the Linux 6.17 kernel. From high-end enterprise and data center hardware down to consumer Ethernet and WiFi devices, the Linux networking space continues to be as busy as ever...
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Linux kernel 6.16 introduces comprehensive AMD SEV vTPM support, enhancing virtual machine security and confidential computing capabilities with hardware-backed attestation and secure boot verification.Lucas Rees (LinuxConfig)
Bcachefs To Remove Its Experimental Label In Linux 6.18 - If It's Still In The Kernel
With the Linux 6.17 merge window now open, Bcachefs file-system lead developer Kent Overstreet has submitted his planned changes for this next kernel version. But we await to see how Linus Torvalds will respond...
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Linux 6.16's New "X86_NATIVE_CPU" Option Enhances I/O & Some Graphics/Gaming Workloads
With the newly-released Linux 6.16 kernel there is the new X86_NATIVE_CPU build option if wanting to optimize your kernel build for your local CPU in use. Enabling CONFIG_X86_NATIVE_CPU is setting the "-march=native" compiler optimizations for the kernel build in an effort to ensure peak performance/optimizations for the local system. Here are some ben…
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Ubuntu To Keep Up-To-Date With Linux Kernel Versions During Development
Last year Canonical established a policy to always ship the latest Linux kernel version at Ubuntu release time which for the upcoming Ubuntu 25.10 will mean shipping with Linux v6.17. But during the Ubuntu development cycles they typically don't aggressively update to new interim versions tracking upstream, except that will now change to allow for better kernel te…
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Linux kernel 6.16 is out with USB audio offload, Intel APX and TDX support, zero-copy TCP from DMABUF, and big Ext4 and XFS updates.Bobby Borisov (Linuxiac)
Runtime PM For The V3D Raspberry Pi Driver Will Finally Lower The GPU Clock When Idle
While the Broadcom V3D driver has been part of the mainline kernel for supporting the graphics found on recent Raspberry Pi boards, currently it doesn't support run-time power management. The lack of runtime PM has meant the GPU clock remains at full-speed even while idle...
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Learn how to easily upgrade Debian 12 Bookworm to Debian 13 Trixie safely. Complete step-by-step guide with preparation, commands.Lubos Rendek (LinuxConfig)
Intel QAT Accelerators Being Demoted On Linux By FSCRYPT: Bug Prone & Slow
Intel's accelerator efforts in recent generations of Xeon processors have been challenging to say the least. From limited software support and configuration obstacles to some current-generation accelerators not being safe for VM use due to security issues to having to deal with higher latency and other nuances if wanting to achieve decent performance. One of the…
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Linux 6.17 Power Management Refines Async Suspend/Resume, Adds More Intel Hardware
Among the number of early pull requests submitted in advance for the Linux 6.17 merge window were all the power management updates as well as to related areas like ACPI and thermal control drivers...
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Rockchip NPU Driver "Rocket" Expected By Linux 6.18, Mesa 25.3 Brings User-Space Code
The open-source, reverse-engineered Rockchip NPU driver "Rocket" developed by Tomeu Vizoso will soon be in the mainline kernel. The Rocket Gallium3D driver was also merged today for Mesa 25.3 in the user-space code for their AI accelerator support...
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The open-source, reverse-engineered Rockchip NPU driver 'Rocket' developed by Tomeu Vizoso will soon be in the mainline kernelwww.phoronix.com
Ubuntu 25.10 TPM-Backed Full Disk Encryption Will Be Considered Experimental
For the past two years Ubuntu developers have been talking about adding TPM-based full disk encryption to the installer for those wanting to leverage their system's Trusted Platform Module 2.0 capabilities to enhance security. It looks like for Ubuntu 25.10 this October that support will finally be in good shape...
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Intel Panther Lake Perf Integration Ready For Linux 6.17
The Linux support for Intel's next-generation Panther Lake SoCs appears to be largely set with Linux 6.16 ahead of the Core Ultra Series 3 laptops debuting in the coming months. There are though a few stragglers of Panther Lake support such as the performance events code in Linux 6.17 only now landing the perf integration...
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GNU Linux-libre 6.16 Fights Firmware In Nouveau, NOVA, Ath12k & Other Drivers
Following the Linux 6.16 kernel release from Sunday evening, GNU Linux-libre 6.16-gnu is now available for that kernel downstream that strips out driver/kernel code dependent upon non-free-software microcode/firmware, the ability to load proprietary kernel modules, and carving out other bits of the Linux kernel not meeting their stringent free software standards...
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As anticipated the Linux 6.16 kernel was promoted to stablelxer.com
Shotcut 25.07 is out today as the newest feature release for this prominent open-source and cross-platform video editing solution.lxer.com
Shotcut 25.07 open-source video editor is now available for download with new Speech to Text model downloader and other changes.Marius Nestor (9to5Linux)
Catch up on the latest Linux news: Firefox 141, Shotcut 25.07, OPNsense 25.7, Insights into Arch users’ preferences, Debian 13 to ship with Plasma 6.3.6, and more.Bobby Borisov (Linuxiac)
A few days back I wrote about Canonical releasing new Ubuntu 25.04 'Concept' ISOs for the Snapdragon X laptops with the new install images being re-based to the Linux 6.16 kernel and expanding the device supportlxer.com
Linux 6.16 Released - Better Performance, NVIDIA Blackwell Open-Source & Intel APX
As anticipated the Linux 6.16 kernel was promoted to stable. Linux 6.16 now greets the world with various performance improvements, NVIDIA Hopper and Blackwell open-source GPU driver support in Nouveau, Intel Advanced Performance Extensions (APX) preparations, and many other exciting enhancements...
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Need Google Chrome on your Enterprise Linux system? Here’s how to install it on Rocky Linux 10.Bobby Borisov (Linuxiac)
In advance of the Linux 6.17 merge window expected to open soon following the Linux 6.16 release, all of the SoC updates have been submitted to Linus Torvalds for this next kernel version.lxer.com
Shotcut 25.07 video editor adds a new Speech to Text model downloader, brings new System and System Fusion UI themes, and more.Bobby Borisov (Linuxiac)
AMD Kernel Graphics Driver Exceeds 5.9 Million Lines In Linux 6.16
The modern AMD Kernel graphics driver consisting of AMDGPU, the AMDKFD compute code, and associated infrastructure continues to easily be the largest mainline open-source driver. With the Linux 6.16 kernel debuting as stable as soon as later today, the AMD kernel graphics driver cracks the 5.9 million line threshold. In comparison, the entire Linux kernel source tree c…
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This post is an immediate follow up for Attempt to workaround currently pending bug with Dotfiles Installer on openSUSE Tumblweed due to...lxer.com
Linux 6.17 Introducing Support For The NVIDIA Tegra T264/Thor, New RISC-V SoCs
In advance of the Linux 6.17 merge window expected to open soon following the Linux 6.16 release, all of the SoC updates have been submitted to Linus Torvalds for this next kernel version...
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New Ubuntu Concept Snapdragon X Laptop ISOs Published - Your Mileage May Vary
A few days back I wrote about Canonical releasing new Ubuntu 25.04 "Concept" ISOs for the Snapdragon X laptops with the new install images being re-based to the Linux 6.16 kernel and expanding the device support. But as I found out from my own testing, depending upon the laptop the support was still less than ideal. Since then there have been two more ISO releas…
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A few days back I wrote about Canonical releasing new Ubuntu 25.04 'Concept' ISOs for the Snapdragon X laptops with the new install images being re-based to the Linux 6.16 kernel and expanding the device supportwww.phoronix.com
While there have been various elements of the Apple M1 and M2 SoC support in the mainline Linux kernel along with support for various Macs, different features have been missing from the upstream kernel such as the Apple GPU kernel graphics driver as …lxer.com
GNU Binutils 2.45 Released With Continued Work Around SFrame Stack Tracing
GNU Binutils 2.45 was released on Sunday morning as the newest version of this set of open-source binary tools...
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AMD SEV Optimizations Ready For Linux 6.17 Plus A 10x Improvement For Intel TDX
There are a few AMD Secure Encrypted Virtualization improvements on the way for the Linux 6.17 kernel worth noting...
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Shotcut 25.07 Video Editor Brings Numerous Improvements
Shotcut 25.07 is out today as the newest feature release for this prominent open-source and cross-platform video editing solution...
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Oops! Yet another year that we forgot to write a SysAdmin Day article. Since we've been around for 15 years, that makes us 0 for 15.Christine Hall (FOSS Force)
This past week Qualcomm sent out a set of 17 patches for the MSM DRM kernel graphics driver for enabling support for the Inter Frame Power Collapse (IFPC) feature with the X1-85 GPU found in the current Snapdragon X laptops.lxer.com
The Radxa AICore AX-M1 is an M.2 M Key AI acceleration module designed for edge computing systems that require high-throughput neural processing.Giorgio Mendoza (LinuxGizmos.com)
Given that non-UEFI BIOS systems are quite old at this point and Intel/AMD systems for the past number of years have all supported UEFI, another change proposal being considered this week by Fedora Linux is limiting the release-blocking status of var…lxer.com
MSI has introduced the MS-C926, an ultra-slim, fanless embedded box PC based on the Intel Alder Lake-N and Twin Lake platforms.Giorgio Mendoza (LinuxGizmos.com)
Assuming no objections are raised by Linus Torvalds, an early pull request has been submitted for the upcoming Linux 6.17 merge window to address an obscure kernel limitation that has been in place going back all the way to 1993 during the Linux v0.lxer.com
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