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Fedora Considers Reducing The Scope That BIOS Systems Can Hold Up A Release

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 Fedoa Linux is limiting the release-blocking status of variou...

2025-07-25 08:49

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Ayn Gaming Handhelds To See Better Linux Support With New Open-Source Driver

Ayn is a Chinese brand of handheld gaming devices that have included Arm-based devices shipping Android as well as AMD Ryzen powered handhelds with Windows 11 or even the option of installing Ubuntu. Better support for the Ayn x86 gaming handheld devic...

2025-07-25 06:41

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Red Hat Has Been Rewriting Bash-Based Greenboot In Rust

Greenboot is a generic health check framework for systemd on RPM-OSTree based Linux distributions. Red Hat engineers have worked on Greenboot as part of the likes of Fedora IoT and their other RPM-OSTree initiatives for checking on the overall system h...

2025-07-25 06:25

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Fedora 43 Looks To Offer Support For The Hare Programming Language

Fedora 43 is looking to offer packages to support the Hare system programming language...

2025-07-25 06:09

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Vulkan + Mesa Drivers For AI Inferencing? It's Already Showing Potential On Radeon RADV

Following the Vulkanised 2025 presentation how NVIDIA is finding great success with Vulkan for AI / machine learning and already competitive to CUDA in some areas, Red Hat engineer and DRM subsystem lead maintainer David Airlie began exploring the pote...

2025-07-24 19:42

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New AMD Linux Driver Ushers In Seamless Firmware Servicing "SFS"

A new Linux driver patch series posted by AMD today introduces a new kernel driver "SFS" for Seamless Firmware Servicing. I hadn't heard AMD talk about Seamless Firmware Servicing at any previous events but it appears to be supported for current-genera...

2025-07-24 17:58

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Linux 6.16 Brings Some Minor Performance Boosts For Strix Halo's Radeon Graphics

With the Linux 6.16 kernel that will be debuting as stable as soon as this coming Sunday there are some minor performance benefits for the Radeon integrated graphics with the incredible Strix Halo SoC. Here are some comparison benchmarks of Linux 6.15 ...

2025-07-24 11:29

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Ubuntu Concept For Snapdragon X1 Laptops Moves To Linux 6.16, Enables More Devices

The Ubuntu Concept ISO images that contain experimental patches -- or "hacks" to make things work -- to enable Ubuntu Linux on the Qualcomm Snapdragon X1 Elite powered laptops is out with a fresh spin. The new Ubuntu Concept ISOs move to using the Linu...

2025-07-24 08:52

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Mesa 25.3 Merges Vulkan AMD Anti-Lag Support

An exciting addition landing into the Mesa 25.3 codebase today is support for AMD's Vulkan anti-lag extension, VK_AMD_anti_lag...

2025-07-24 06:49

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AMD RadeonSI Driver Enables OpenGL Sparse Texture Support For RDNA4 GPUs

Well known open-source AMD Mesa developer Marek Olšák has landed his latest set of 16 patches into Mesa 25.3-devel for enhancing the RadeonSI Gallium3D driver. Notable here is getting OpenGL sparse textures working on the latest Radeon RX 9000 series...

2025-07-24 06:41

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The Linux Kernel Seeing Rare Code Activity Around SPARC64

One of the CPU architectures continuing to be supported by the mainline Linux kernel but rarely ever seeing any code activity is the SPARC64 architecture port for the once-interesting processors from Sun Microsystems...

2025-07-24 06:25

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Valve Linux Engineer Working On A Big Improvement For Old AMD Radeon GPUs

Timur Kristóf as a contractor on Valve's open-source Linux graphics driver team is known for his work on the RADV Vulkan driver and ACO shader compiler but recently he's been working on some improvements to the AMDGPU kernel driver. A big feat he's be...

2025-07-23 20:32

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GNOME Foundry Taking Shape As "An IDE In A Box" With CLI Tooling

Born out of his work on developing the GNOME Builder integrated development environment (IDE) over the past decade, one of the recent initiatives by GNOME developer Christian Hergert has been on Foundry, a new "IDE in a box" of sorts and with CLI tooli...

2025-07-23 16:38

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AMD Strix Point Linux Performance Comparison One Year After Launch

How time flies... This week already marks one year since the debut of AMD's Zen 5 Strix Point laptop processors with the likes of the Ryzen AI 9 HX 370 and Ryzen AI 9 365 that also rolled out the RDNA 3.5 integrated graphics. In marking one year that S...

2025-07-23 14:50

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Wayback 0.1 Released As First Preview Release For X11 Compatibility Layer

Announced just once month ago was Wayback as an X11 compatibility layer build atop Wayland components. In the past month Wayback has been off to a quick start with a goal of being production-ready next year and has also already became a project under t...

2025-07-23 14:46

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systemd 258-rc1 Is A Massive Feature Release With New Tools, More Than 260 Changes

Systemd 257 debuted last December and now finally systemd 258 is preparing to roll out... Systemd 258-rc1 was issued today as the first test release toward this next major release. It's a big one with more than 260 changes noted in the announcement, in...

2025-07-23 14:00

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Zed Editor's Newest Feature: Being Able To Disable All AI Features

The Zed open-source code editor that is written in Rust, has begun supporting Linux rather well, and has continued tacking on new features to assist developer workflows has introduced another new feature: the ability to easily disable all AI features...

2025-07-23 12:00

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Blender Now Supports Properly Importing & Exporting HDR Videos

In addition to Blender 5.0 supporting HDR on Linux when using the Vulkan API and with Wayland, another important high dynamic range (HDR) milestone landed this week into Blender: the ability to both import and export HDR videos...

2025-07-23 11:47

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Mesa 25.2-rc2 Released With Intel Wildcat Lake Enablement, Legacy-X11 Option Deprecated

Eric Engestrom just released Mesa 25.2-rc2 as the newest, on-time weekly release candidate for this quarter's Mesa 25.2 feature series...

2025-07-23 10:41

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Btrfs Preps Performance Improvements & Experimental Large Folios For Linux 6.17

With the Linux 6.16 stable kernel potentially being released this coming Sunday, the Linux 6.17 merge window is quickly approaching. Btrfs maintainer and SUSE engineer David Sterba sent out the Btrfs pull request already of new feature code for this co...

2025-07-23 08:55

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