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Intel IPU7 Driver Merged For Linux 6.17 For Webcams On Lunar Lake & Panther Lake Laptops

The media subsystem updates were submitted and subsequently merged on Thursday for the ongoing Linux 6.17 merge window. There are several notable media changes for Linux 6.17 but arguably most prominent is the IPU7 driver entering staging for working o...

2025-08-01 06:36

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EXT4 Shows Wild Gains With Better Block Allocation Scalability In Linux 6.17

The EXT4 file-system enhancements for Linux 6.17 were merged on Thursday and bring better scalability to the block allocation code as well as fixing the file-system's large folios support. The scalability work can show some wild gains in select areas...

2025-08-01 06:06

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Framework 12, Clear Linux Going EOL, AMD EPYC Performance & Other Excitement In July

During last month on Phoronix were 276 original news articles and another 15 featured reviews/benchmark articles around our forte of Linux hardware. Even with the summer here there has been no slowdown in interesting hardware running on Linux and the p...

2025-08-01 06:00

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Linux 6.17 EDAC Code Supports Several Newer Intel CPUs

The Error Detection And Correction "EDAC" driver improvements were merged earlier this week for the ongoing Linux 6.17 merge window and with that comes a number of Intel hardware platforms now being supported...

2025-08-01 05:35

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Intel XeSS 2.1 Released With Frame Generation For Non-Intel GPUs But Still A Binary Mess

This evening Intel released XeSS 2.1 as the newest version of their Xe Super Sampling library with upscaling, frame generation, and low latency optimizations for gamers. Notable with XeSS 2.1 is that it introduces XeSS Frame Generation with Xe Low Late...

2025-07-31 20:37

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Steam Beta Brings Fix For UI Scaling On XWayland

Valve is ending out the month of July with a new Steam beta release that has a few Linux-specific fixes...

2025-07-31 16:59

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Linux 6.17 GPU Drivers Led By Stable Intel Xe3 Panther Lake & SR-IOV For Battlemage

All of the open-source kernel graphics driver feature changes were merged earlier today for the Linux 6.17 kernel. For Linux 6.17 there is an enormous amount of new feature work ready to go with the modern Intel graphics driver code. Plus the always ac...

2025-07-31 14:46

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Lenovo Legion Gaming Drivers & New Intel Discovery Driver For Telemetry In Linux 6.17

The x86 platform driver updates have been merged for the in-development Linux 6.17 kernel. The x86 platform drivers area traditionally has been around Linux laptop hardware support but in recent years more work on handheld devices too plus Intel/AMD se...

2025-07-31 13:51

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AMD EPYC 4545P: 16 Zen 5 Cores @ 65 Watts For Low-Power / Energy Efficient Servers

Back in May when AMD launched the EPYC 4005 "Grado" processors for low-power, low-cost server processors we tested the EPYC 4565P and EPYC 4585PX. The EPYC 4565P is their standard 16-core offering while the EPYC 4585PX is the 3D V-Cache variant for the...

2025-07-31 11:31

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Ubuntu 25.10 Snapshot 3 Released For Monthly Testing

For the Ubuntu 25.10 development cycle to complement the daily ISOs, Canonical began releasing monthly snapshots to facilitate more testing from the community and also in working to enhance their build automation / infrastructure. Today marks the third...

2025-07-31 10:33

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Apple SMC Driver Merged For Linux 6.17 To Be Able To Reboot Macs

The Apple System Management Controller (SMC) driver was successfully merged this week into Linux 6.17 for being able to reboot modern Apple M1 / M2 Macs under Linux (the Apple M3 / M4 Linux support remains in development). It's the latest improvement f...

2025-07-31 06:40

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Linus Torvalds Continues Using A Radeon RX 580 Graphics Card, Back On An Intel Laptop

The AMD Radeon RX 480 / RX 580 "Polaris" graphics cards remain very popular on the Steam Survey and among enthusiasts/desktop users at large even though they are nearly a decade old. The nine year old Polaris graphics cards have aged well in the market...

2025-07-31 06:20

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Fedora Considers Hardlinking Identical /usr Files By Default For Deduplicating RPM Assets

Another change proposal filed recently for the Fedora Linux 43 release is to hardlink identical files within /usr by default for RPM-provided files that are 100% identical and can be then deduplicated to help conserve disk space and increase system eff...

2025-07-31 06:03

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Linux's Lockdown LSM Back To Being Maintained For Restricted Computing

Upstreamed to the Linux kernel back in 2019 was the Lockdown security module for opt-in hardware/kernel security restrictions. It was a difficult and contentious process getting to the Linux kernel but then was left without any formal maintainer shortl...

2025-07-31 05:56

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libinput 1.29 Released With High Resolution Scroll Wheel Improvement

Libinput 1.29 was just released as the newest version of this open-source input handling library used on the modern Linux desktop both under X.Org and Wayland environments...

2025-07-31 05:40

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Linux Begins Preparing For The Lenovo Legion Go 2 Handheld

In recent days there have been an increasing flow of leaks surrounding the Legion Go 2 as the next-generation handheld from Lenovo. The Lenovo Legion Go 2 is reported to be launching later this year with an AMD Ryzen Z2 Extreme SoC, 144Hz OLED display,...

2025-07-30 20:50

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Linux 6.17 Lands New Driver To Power On The T-HEAD TH1520 RISC-V SoC's GPU

The Linux 6.17 kernel has merged a new driver for powering up the Imagination PowerVR-based graphics processor found within the Alibaba T-HEAD TH1520 RISC-V SoC. This power sequencing driver is just for being able to power-up the GPU before the actual ...

2025-07-30 20:34

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Mesa 25.2-rc3 Released With RADV Vulkan Video Fixes, NVK Conformance Update

The third weekly release candidate of Mesa 25.2 is now available for testing ahead of its planned stable release in August...

2025-07-30 16:29

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AMD Threadripper 9980X + 9970X Linux Benchmarks: Incredible Workstation Performance

Ahead of the Threadripper 9000 series hitting store shelves tomorrow, today the review embargo lifts on these new high-end desktop/workstation Zen 5 processors. I have been testing out the Threadripper 9970X and 9980X this month and have been extremely...

2025-07-30 09:00

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Linux 6.17 Drops Pktcdvd Driver, Many Block & IO_uring Improvements

Merged already for the in-development Linux 6.17 kernel were the many block subsystem and IO_uring changes for enhancing I/O on Linux as we roll toward the H2'2025 Linux distribution releases...

2025-07-30 08:07

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