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Linus Torvalds Rejects RISC-V Changes For Linux 6.17: "Garbage"

Linus Torvalds has used his authority to reject the RISC-V architecture changes for the Linux 6.17 kernel. The RISC-V updates won't land this cycle and will need to try again for v6.18 later in the year. Linus refers to at least some of the proposed RI...

2025-08-09 06:50

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GNU/Hurd Now An Official Platform For SDL Cross-Platform Gaming Library

GNU/Hurd has made it as an official platform target within SDL that is the open-source library widely-used by cross-platform games and other applications for software/hardware abstractions across operating systems...

2025-08-09 06:28

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GNOME Mutter On Wayland Adds ICC Profile Support, Backlight Improvements

There were a lot of interesting changes that landed in GNOME's Mutter compositor codebase to end out the weekend and ahead of next month's big GNOME 49 release...

2025-08-09 06:19

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KDE Plasma 6.5 Continues Seeing More Features Added & Polishing

Like clockwork KDE developer Nate Graham is out with his weekly recap of all the interesting Plasma changes for the week. There continues to be a lot of feature work and polishing that is building up for the Plasma 6.5 desktop release...

2025-08-09 06:04

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Additional Intel Linux Drivers Left Orphaned & Maintainers Let Go

Well, it's an unpleasant afternoon in Linux land with more signs of the ongoing impact from Intel's corporate-wide restructuring. Just after writing about Intel's CPU temperature monitoring driver now left unmaintained/orphaned, more patches hit the pu...

2025-08-08 16:32

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Intel CPU Temperature Monitoring Driver For Linux Now Unmaintained After Layoffs

There is yet more apparent fallout from Intel's recent layoffs/restructurings as it impacts the Linux kernel... The coretemp driver that provides CPU core temperature monitoring support for all Intel processors going back many years is now set to an or...

2025-08-08 14:55

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Bcachefs Maintainer Comments On The LKML While Waiting To See What Happens

We still don't know what's going to happen for Bcachefs in the Linux 6.17 kernel even with the merge window set to end on Sunday with the Linux 6.17-rc1 release. Linus Torvalds commented over one month ago that they would be parting ways for Linux 6.17...

2025-08-08 14:36

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AMD Linux Driver Prepares For Radeon RDNA4 "Kicker"

A few new firmware files were upstreamed today to the linux-firmware.git repository for supporting a new GFX12.0.1 (RDNA4) "Kicker" graphics processor. There was also an AMDGPU kernel graphics driver patch that just landed as well in Linux 6.17 for the...

2025-08-08 12:25

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DDR5-6400 vs. DDR5-4800 R-DIMM Performance For Threadripper 9980X / 9970X CPUs

Last week the Threadripper 9000 series began shipping and as shown in our launch-day Linux testing there was stunning performance with the 32-core Threadripper 9970X and 64-core Threadripper 9980X processors. Beyond the improvements thanks to the Zen 5...

2025-08-08 10:40

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AMD ROCm 6.4.3 Released With A Few Fixes

While we eagerly await the release of ROCm 7.0, ROCm 6.4.3 is out today as the newest point release to the ROCm 6.4 open-source GPU compute stack...

2025-08-08 10:25

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LVFS Introducing Fair-Use Quota: Asking Major Vendors To Pay Or Contribute Code

The Linux Vendor Firmware Service (LVFS) is rolling out a "fair use" quota where they will be asking the major hardware vendors (OEMs) to sponsor the project or contribute developer resources for the biggest users that rely on LVFS/Fwupd for serving sy...

2025-08-08 10:05

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RADV Implements Triangle Pair Compression For AMD RDNA4 GPUs

The latest Radeon RADV driver ray-tracing optimization being merged to Mesa 25.3 is support for triangle pair compression with RDNA4 (GFX12) graphics processors...

2025-08-08 08:36

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PCIe Improvements With Linux 6.17: Intel Panther Lake, Qualcomm, Sophgo SG2044 & More

The PCI changes were merged last week for the Linux 6.17 merge window. There is new PCIe controller support and some other additions worth mentioning with the new PCI feature code...

2025-08-08 06:42

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FFmpeg 8.0 Merges Vulkan AV1 Encoding & VP9 Decoding

Ahead of the upcoming FFmpeg 8.0 release for this widely-used, open-source multimedia library some more last minute features continue to land. Hitting FFmpeg Git today are some Vulkan Video additions...

2025-08-08 06:20

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GCC 15.2 Released With More Than 123 Bugs Fixed

Following the release of GCC 15.1 at the end of April as the first stable version of the GCC 15 compiler, GCC 15.2 is now available with a variety of bug fixes back-ported...

2025-08-08 06:08

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LACT 0.8.1 Linux GPU Control Panel Improves Voltage/Clock Controls For Older AMD GPUs

LACT 0.8.1 is out with a few important changes for this open-source Linux GPU control application that is written in Rust and rendered using GTK...

2025-08-08 00:00

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MariaDB Community Server 12.0 Released As GA With Greater Oracle Compatibility

MariaDB today announced the general availability "GA" release of the MariaDB Community Server 12.0 release. This first MariaDB 12 release brings many exciting enhancements over MariaDB 11 for this open-source database originally derived from MySQL...

2025-08-07 20:13

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New AMD Zen 6 Linux Patches Posted - Confirming Up To 16 Memory Channels

Following the recent Linux kernel patch adding the AMD Zen 6 synthetic feature flag I suspected more AMD Zen 6 kernel patches would begin flowing... Sure enough, two new patches today noting some new model IDs in the Family 1Ah family as well as confir...

2025-08-07 18:49

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Linux 6.17 Standardizes The Keycode For The "Performance Boost" Key

With the input subsystem updates for Linux 6.17 in addition to now mapping ther F13 to F24 keys by default for PS/2 keyboards, the "performance boost" key beginning to be found on some laptops now has a standardized keycode. With standardizing that key...

2025-08-07 14:51

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Redox OS Saw 500~700% Performance Improvement For Basic File I/O The Past Few Months

The Rust-written open-source Redox OS operating system saw a roughly 500% to 700% performance improvement for basic file copy operations since the end of last year, among other ongoing performance optimizations. Plus various other Redox OS features con...

2025-08-07 12:53

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