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Sent out today as part of last minute x86 platform driver fixes for Linux 6.15 is a rather important power-savings fix for Intel Arrow Lake U and Arrow Lake H laptops...

Back in April Mesa deprecated Gallium Nine alongside the XA state tracker used for X.Org Server acceleration. Gallium-XA was developed by VMware for use with their DDX driver for accelerating X11 within their virtualized environments. XA isn't really used these days and the generic GLAMOR code is in much better shape. Thus Mesa is now no longer building the XA code as the next step toward its removal...

While there is the AMDXDNA accelerator driver that was upstreamed to the mainline kernel earlier this year with Linux 6.14 for supporting the AMD Ryzen AI NPUs and also their AIE Plugin for IREE user-space components, it seems something more is on the way...

Following the recent decision to no longer issue alpha or beta releases of Wayland, the Wayland 1.24 release candidate was issued on Thursday in working toward that next release...

It looks like the upcoming Linux 6.16 kernel will feature several additions to the FUTEX2 support...

Valve today released SteamOS 3.7.8 to their stable channel as the first stable version of their Arch Linux based SteamOS 3.7 operating system...

Ubuntu 25.10 is joining the likes of Red Hat Enterprise Linux and SUSE Linux Enterprise that are using Chrony as their Network Time Protocol (NTP) implementation. Ubuntu 25.10 is switching over to Chrony in enabling Network Time Security (NTS) support on Ubuntu Linux...

Mozilla announced today it's going to be shutting down its Pocket read-it-later bookmarking service this summer...

The Canonical Kernel Team confirmed their plans today that with the Ubuntu 25.10 release in October they are planning to employ the Linux 6.17 kernel...

Adding on to the Intel Xeon 6 "Granite Rapids" CPU family are today three new models focused on delivering enhanced GPU-accelerated AI performance...

Last week I began posting Linux benchmarks of the flagship "Strix Halo" SoC, the AMD Ryzen AI Max+ PRO 395 with powerful Radeon 8060S graphics using the HP ZBook Ultra G1a laptop. Both the CPU and GPU results for the data published thus far have been mighty impressive and done at the Ubuntu Linux defaults... But the Ryzen AI Max+ 395 within the ZBook Ultra G1a can be pushed even further by leveraging the ACPI Platform Profiles capabilities. In this article is showing how much further performance -- and the power costs -- can be achieved out of this AMD Strix Halo SoC when leveraging the HP Power Profiles as well as the power efficiency for those wanting to run the SoC instead in the "power saver" / "low power" configuration.

PoCL 7.0 is out today as the newest version of this "Portable Computing Language" implementation that originally was started for supporting CPU-based OpenCL execution but with time and in leveraging LLVM back-ends has added support for OpenCL atop AMDKFD / NVIDIA PTX / Intel Level Zero and other possible back-ends...

FFmpeg developers have been working on Vulkan-accelerated FFV1 video encode/decode for that two decade old lossless video coding format. Merged this week to FFmpeg Git were more enhancements to their Vulkan-based FFV1 encoder and yielding big performance improvements for both AMD and NVIDIA graphics processors...

Longtime AMDGPU driver engineer Alex Deucher has posted an interesting set of patches on Wednesday for enhancing the GPU reset experience under Linux with RDNA graphics cards...

A recently posted patch series for the MSI WMI platform driver is aiming this open-source driver to reach parity with MSI's official Windows application/driver for the MSI Claw gaming handheld systems...

A patch series is baking for likely upstreaming in the Linux v6.17 kernel cycle later in the year to optimize AMD CPU cache flushing when making use of Secure Encrypted Virtualization (SEV) with KVM...

With Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10 providing a RISC-V developer preview, CentOS is now in turn also providing initial RISC-V CPU ISA support...

Well, this is a pleasant surprise... Less than 24 hours after the AMD Computex 2025 keynote where better/more-timely ROCm support for client GPUs was brought up, AMD ROCm 6.4.1 is now officially released. With ROCm 6.4.1 there is formal support for RDNA4 GPUs, including the Radeon RX 9000 series consumer graphics cards...

The libinput input handling library that's used by both X11 and Wayland based environments on the Linux desktop is preparing to introduce a Lua-based plug-in system. Via Lua scripts it will be possible to modify evdev input events / input device behavior to deal with quirky/broken input devices and better workaround other problems that aren't currently easily addressable...

With the AMD Ryzen Threadripper 9000 series having just been announced at Computex, it's a good time to revisit the Ryzen Threadripper 7000 series performance ahead of those Zen 5 HEDT CPUs launching in July. In this article is a look at how the AMD Ryzen Threadripper 7970X 32-core and 7980X 64-core HEDT processors have evolved on the same system with the software updates released since their late 2023 debut. Overall the AMD Ryzen Threadripper 7970X and 7980X Linux performance is up by about 8% overall since launch day less than two years ago with the 64-core processor.