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Longtime AMD Linux graphics driver expert Marek Olšák, who joined Valve earlier this year and now focusing more on RADV rather than the RadeonSI Gallium3D driver, has seen some of his latest work now merged for Mesa 26.2. Marek landed a big overhaul to the variable rate shading (VRS) code that in some cases can double the performance...

postmarketOS Brings Plasma 6.7 and Rust-Based USB Tooling to Linux Phones  Linuxiac

The lightest Linux laptop ever just launched, and it challenges the MacBook Air for battery life  TechRadar

16-Year-Old Linux KVM Flaw Lets Guest VMs Escape to Host on Intel and AMD x86 Systems  The Hacker News

Claude Desktop Launches on Linux with Mixed Local AI Results  The Tech Buzz

Claude Desktop Hits Linux, But Local AI Remains a Challenge  The Tech Buzz

I tested the new Claude Desktop on Linux - here's how it compares to rival apps  ZDNET

AMD Ryzen AI Halo Is An Excellent & Powerful Mini PC With Fully Open-Source Software Review  Phoronix

Ryzen AI Developer Platform: AMD's Own Linux Distribution Built Atop Debian  Phoronix

AMD Ryzen AI Halo Is An Excellent & Powerful Mini PC With Fully Open-Source Software Review  Phoronix

With the AMD Ryzen AI Halo developer platform there is the option of ordering this Ryzen AI Max+ mini PC with either Microsoft Windows 11 or "Linux OS". When receiving a AMD Ryzen AI Halo review sample last month, I fully expected it to just be an Ubuntu LTS install with ROCm preloaded. I was quite surprised when powering it up to find that it's an OS called the AMD Ryzen AI Developer Platform 1 "Rex" and is based on Debian Linux.

Earlier this year AMD announced the Ryzen AI Halo as their in-house mini PC offering built around their leading Ryzen AI Max+ "Strix Halo" platform. After pre-orders began last month, the Ryzen AI Halo is officially beginning to ship this week and over the past few weeks we have been testing it out at Phoronix.

Want to convince a Windows user to try Linux? Here's how I do it  ZDNET

I tested the top 5 Linux distros on DistroWatch—here’s how I rank them  How-To Geek

Linux 7.3 Expected To "Flatten The Pick" For Better Scheduling While Gaming & More  Phoronix

Going back to early May there were patches for improving the Linux scheduler to help with gaming performance on old "potato" hardware by providing better cgroup scheduling. Those patches, referred to as the "flatten the pick" patch series, are now slated for introduction in the Linux 7.3 kernel...

Proof-of-Concept Exploit Released for Linux ‘Bad Epoll’ Root Access Vulnerability  SecurityWeek

When it comes to the real-time "RT" patches carried outside of the Linux kernel, a number of them pertain to adjustments around the Intel i915 kernel DRM graphics driver. The mainline Linux kernel and its RT support depend upon not building "PREEMPT_RT" for the i915 driver support while patches have been worked on recently for making this Intel kernel graphics driver code play nicely with real-time Linux...

Intel i915 Driver Nearly Ready To "Work Well" With RT Linux Kernel Sans Display Support  Phoronix

Everything is player controlled in Strikers Club - a free to play football game releasing July 17  GamingOnLinux