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Intel’s NPU Driver for Linux is Now Available on the Snap Store

Canonical has put the official Linux Intel NPU driver on the Snap Store. The new Intel NPU Driver snap “bundles many components […] including device firmware, a user space driver and compiler, and an application to validate the user mode driver and...

2024-10-20 15:19

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Intel NPU Driver for Linux is Now Available on the Snap Store

Canonical has put the official Linux Intel NPU driver on the Snap Store. The new Intel NPU Driver snap “bundles many components […] including device firmware, a user space driver and compiler, and an application to validate the user mode driver and...

2024-10-20 15:19

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Intel Posts Patch For Fixing/Boosting Lunar Lake Linux Performance On ASUS Laptops

Since purchasing an Intel Core Ultra Series 2 "Lunar Lake" laptop for Linux testing last month, the performance has been coming in below expectations. Among the tests were finding Xe2 graphics on Lunar Lake performing slower that under Windows 11 and i...

2024-10-20 09:18

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Concerns Raised Over Bitwarden Moving Further Away From Open-Source

Several Phoronix readers have written in this Sunday over concerns of Bitwarden further moving away from open-source. Bitwarden is a password management service that leverages an encrypted vault and supports multiple clients/platforms. Bitwarden operat...

2024-10-20 08:54

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ReiserFS File-System Expected To Be Removed With Linux 6.13

With ReiserFS having been deprecated for two years with plans to remove it in 2025, the upcoming Linux 6.13 cycle for what will be the first major kernel release of the new year and past the Linux 6.12 LTS kernel is expected to do just that... ReiserFS...

2024-10-20 06:53

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Lightweight Guard Pages For Linux Showing 5x Speed-Up For Memory Mapping Invocations

Patches posted this week by Oracle's Lorenzo Stoakes are the latest attempt at lightweight guard pages for the Linux kernel...

2024-10-20 06:38

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Audio Firmware Upstreamed For Qualcomm Snapdragon X1 On Linux

Qualcomm has upstreamed the audio firmware for the Qualcomm Snapdragon X1 "X1E80100" series laptop SoCs to linux-firmware.git...

2024-10-20 06:30

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"100% Free" GNU Boot Discovers Again They Have Been Shipping Non-Free Code

GNU Boot is a "100% free software project aimed at replacing the non-free boot software" and is a downstream of Coreboot, GRUB, and SeaBIOS. While priding itself on being "100% free", last December they had to drop some motherboard support and CPU code...

2024-10-19 15:11

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GNOME Making Progress On Full-Featured USB Portal For Flatpaks

Thanks to funding from the Sovereign Tech Fund, GNOME developers have been working on greater USB permissions/controls for Flatpak-based Linux applications...

2024-10-19 09:55

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Wine-Staging 9.20 Fixes An 11 Year Old Wine Bug Report

Building off yesterday's release of Wine 9.20, Wine-Staging 9.20 is now available for this experimental blend of Wine featuring 357 extra patches currently atop the upstream codebase for various testing/experimental features and functionality...

2024-10-19 07:30

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Linux Might Drop Fieldbus Support For Industrial Systems With No One Maintaining It

Merged back in 2019 was the Fieldbus system for connecting different systems/components/instruments within industrial environments. Five years later the code isn't being well maintained and looks like it will be on its way out the door if no one steps ...

2024-10-19 06:39

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Linux 6.12-rc4 Adding Controller Support For The MSI Claw A1M & 8BitDo Ultimate 2C

Sent out overnight were a few input subsystem patches ahead of the Linux 6.12-rc4 kernel release tomorrow. Notable from this pull is adding input support for the MSI Claw A1M gaming handheld as well as the 8BitDo Ultimate 2C Wireless gaming controller...

2024-10-19 06:29

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KDE Developers Wrapping Up Fallout From Plasma 6.2, Spinning More Plasma 6.3 Features

KDE developers are wrapping up addressing initial fallout/regressions from the recent Plasma 6.2 desktop release as well as pushing ahead with more feature work for Plasma 6.3...

2024-10-19 06:20

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Intel Working On Coreboot Support For Xeon 6 Platforms

Intel announced earlier this week ahead of the OCP Global Summit that they have partnered with the 9elements consulting firm for getting Coreboot up and running on Intel Xeon 6 "Granite Rapids" platforms...

2024-10-18 16:42

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Wine 9.20 Released With WineDbg Now Using Capstone Disassembler

Wine 9.20 is out today as the newest bi-weekly development version of this open-source software to enable running Windows games and applications under Linux and other platforms...

2024-10-18 16:37

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Ubuntu Considers Replacing initramfs-tools WIth Dracut

As a possible change for Ubuntu 25.04, Canonical is evaluating the use of Dracut to replace initramfs-tools for initrd generation on Ubuntu Linux...

2024-10-18 12:55

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Linux 6.13 Poised To Land Prep Patches Working Toward Proxy Execution

Years in the making has been the idea of Proxy Execution for the Linux kernel as a means of implementing priority inheritance by leveraging information from a task's scheduler context and its execution context. While the Proxy Execution patches themsel...

2024-10-18 11:26

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Linux Fixes Indirect Branch Predictor Barrier "IBPB" Handling For Older AMD CPUs

Merged today to Linux 6.12 Git were bug fixes to AMD's Indirect Branch Predictor Barrier (IBPB) handling that can be optionally used as part of the Retbleed and Speculative Return Stack Overflow (SRSO) mitigations on older AMD processors...

2024-10-18 10:42

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Laptop Vendor Malibal Suggests Not Supporting Coreboot

In a rather surprising post this morning, laptop vendor Malibal that offers both Linux and Windows systems is suggesting to not support the Coreboot project for open-source system firmware...

2024-10-18 09:00

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Calibre 7.20 Adds New PDF Input Engine, Updates Tolino Shine 5 Firmware

Calibre 7.20 open-source ebook manager is now available for download with a new default PDF Input engine, new firmware for the Tolino Shine 5 reader, and other changes. Here's what's new! The post Calibre 7.20 Adds New PDF Input Engine, Updates Tolino ...

2024-10-18 07:59

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