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Linux 6.17 Getting More Rusty With Many Rust Language Additions

As has been the trend with recent Linux kernel releases, a lot of Rust programming language abstractions and other additions are coming for the in-development Linux 6.17 kernel...

2025-08-02 20:42

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Linux 6.17 Memory Management Optimizations, DAMON_STAT & Other Improvements

All of the memory management "MM" changes were merged this week for the ongoing Linux 6.17 merge window...

2025-08-02 11:50

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GNOME AI Virtual Assistant "Newelle" Reaches Version 1.0 Milestone

Newelle is a virtual AI assistant developed for the GNOME desktop that supports voice chat and can handle carrying out web searches, terminal command execution, website reading, file management, document editing, and more. Newell v1.0 was released this...

2025-08-02 09:13

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Linux 6.17 Enables x86 MacBook Pro Touch Bars, Intel THC Wake-On-Touch

All of the HID subsystem device driver updates have been merged for the Linux 6.17 merge window...

2025-08-02 08:35

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FEX 2508 Delivers Major Speedups For x86_64 Binaries On ARM: 39% Faster Cyberpunk 2077

FEX 2508 as the open-source emulator that allows running x86_64 Linux binaries on AArch64, including the likes of Wine and Valve's Steam Play, is boasting some "big juicy" optimizations with its new release. Many games are now significantly faster atop...

2025-08-02 06:41

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FireWire IEEE-1394 Support Further Refined In Linux 6.17

While Apple removed FireWire support from the upcoming macOS 26 "Tahoe" release, Linux support for the IEEE-1394 standard continues. With the in-development Linux 6.17 there is some modernization work on the FireWire subsystem code with plan still bein...

2025-08-02 06:24

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KDE Plasma 6.5 Finally Adds Automatic Day/Night Theme Switching

KDE developer Nate Graham is out with his weekly report on the interesting Plasma desktop changes for the week. This week a long-sought feature for the Plasma desktop was finally merged...

2025-08-02 06:11

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Steam Survey For July Shows Linux Use Approaching 3%

Back in February Steam on Linux was at a 1.45% marketshare, then was corrected to 2.33% for Linux gaming in March, 2.27% for April, a nice jump to 2.69% for Linux gaming in May, and June came in at 2.57% for the Linux gaming population as a percent of ...

2025-08-01 20:28

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Wayback 0.2 Brings More Enhancements For This X11 Compatibility Layer

In time for some weekend testing, Wayback 0.2 is now available for this X11 compatibility layer leveraging Wayland components. Wayback 0.2 remains at an alpha quality state but more functionality is now wired up...

2025-08-01 16:51

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Deferred Unwinder Code Upstreamed For Linux 6.17 On Road To SFrame Support

Linus Torvalds today merged the initial deferred unwinder infrastructure into the Linux 6.17 kernel on the path toward enabling SFrame stack trace format support...

2025-08-01 14:22

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Linux Enablement Begins For Intel Nova Lake - The First "Family 18" CPUs

Today the first Linux kernel patch was posted for Intel's Nova Lake as the anticipated successor to the Intel Core Ultra Series 2 "Arrow Lake" processors. Today's patch confirms that Intel Nova Lake will be the first Intel processors under their new "F...

2025-08-01 12:33

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Attack Vector Controls Land In Linux 6.17 To Better Control CPU Security Mitigations

The Attack Vector Controls work is now in Linux 6.17 for those new tuning knobs worked on by AMD engineer David Kaplan to make it more straight-forward for Linux server administrators and power users to more easily select the CPU security mitigations r...

2025-08-01 12:13

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Vulkan 1.4.324 Adds Experimental AMD Extension To Help With Ray-Tracing

Vulkan 1.4.324 is out today as the first Vulkan API specification update in two weeks with a variety of clarifications/corrections plus a new extension from AMD...

2025-08-01 09:00

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More Intel Driver Maintainer Changes In Linux 6.17

Following the recent Intel driver being orphaned due to layoffs at the company and other Intel Linux engineering changes due to the ongoing restructuring at the company, for the Linux 6.17 kernel there are some additional Intel driver maintainer change...

2025-08-01 08:44

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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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