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The upcoming Linux 6.19 kernel cycle is set to introduce initial support for Xe3P graphics to be found initially with Nova Lake processors. While that initial support is landing for Linux 6.19, other extra Xe3P features are still to be added to the open-source kernel driver over coming release cycles. One of those extra features being currently tackled is a new element with Xe3P_LPD: the ability to use the system cache for FBC...

Canonical and AMI announced a partnership today so that there will be an Ubuntu Metbookt option added within AMI's UEFI firmware to allow booting to the Ubuntu installer without the need for even having any install media...

Zorin OS 18 racks up a million downloads  Fudzilla.com

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The end of 2025 is quickly approaching and while there are the various end of year holidays, you can still expect to find new and original content on Phoronix each and every single day of the year just as it's been for more than a decade of the now 21-year-old Phoronix.com. The last day without any new content on Phoronix was all the way back in May of 2012. That's due to my passion for Linux hardware and open-source, paired in more recent years with the more grueling environment to make ends meet with the ever increasing state of the web advertising industry, rampant ad-block use, and related challenges for web publishers. If you would like to show your support for Phoronix's Linux hardware content over the past two decades, this week is the "Cyber Week" / "Black Friday" sale to go ad-free, multi-page-articles on a single page, and other benefits at a reduced rate...

Cloud-first safety: EB corbos Linux for Safety Applications on AWS  EE Times

Since the 2022 release of memtest86+ 6.0 as a rewrite of this long-used RAM testing utility, this open-source software has continued advancing nicely after a decade hiatus. Released on Sunday night was memtest86+ 8.0 as the latest iteration of this popular RAM tester for enthusiasts...

Tuxedo Cancels Its Linux Laptop Project Using Snapdragon X Elite After Performance Issues  eTeknix

Linux 6.18-rc7 Released With Late Hardware Improvements  Phoronix

Linux 6.18-rc7 just arrived in the Git tree as the newest weekly test build leading up to Linux 6.18 stable hopefully debuting next Sunday, 30 November...

Why a portable Linux install is my favorite troubleshooting tool  How-To Geek

Wayland Protocols 1.46 released this evening with new experimental protocols for text improvements as well as refinements to the color management protocol for HDR...

No, Linux won’t run on every laptop — check these before you buy  MakeUseOf

NVIDIA has a number of Linux kernel patches on the way to the Linux 6.19 kernel in preparing for 1.6 Tb/s networking on NVIDIA-Mellanox hardware...

NVIDIA Preps 1.6Tb/s Networking For Linux 6.19  Phoronix

Zorin OS’s Million-Download Surge: Windows 10’s End Ignites Linux Exodus  WebProNews

Linux Community Restores Audio on Lenovo Legion Pro 7i Gen 10  WebProNews

AWS engineers have been working on Linux kernel improvements to KVM's VMX code for enhancing the unamanged guest memory when dealing with nested virtual machines. The improved code addresses some correctness issues as well as delivering wild performance improvements within a synthetic benchmark...

Merged this week to the GNU C Library "glibc" code is dropping the ldbl-96 FMA implementation from this library as in doing so they found a 4x improvement to throughput and latency on AMD Zen 3 hardware...

Back in 2022 was the surprising decision by Google that they were going to deprecate JPEG-XL image support in Chrome. By the end of 2022 they went ahead and removed JPEG-XL support from Chrome/Chromium to the frustration of many web developers and end-users interested in this image format. Now though as we get ready to roll into 2026, Google engineers are looking at bringing back JPEG-XL support to the Chrome web browser...