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Linux 7.1 Helping Intel Arc Battlemage Graphics Achieve Better Performance  Phoronix

Recent testing of the Intel Arc B580 Battlemage desktop graphics card has shown that the upcoming Linux 7.1 kernel release is delivering superior graphics performance over the current stable Linux 7.0 kernel.

The belated "This Month in Redox" was posted today for covering improvements made to this open-source, Rust-based operating system during the month of May. Most notable in May is seeing the Xfce desktop ported over to Redox OS...

Canonical engineers are again evaluating the impact of building the Ubuntu Linux archive for the x86-64-v3 "amd64v3" micro-architecture feature level for its performance benefits on modern Intel and AMD systems. An amd64v3 archive is available of Ubuntu 26.10 for testing with the packages targeting this level that allows for AVX/AVX2 and other newer CPU x86_64 ISA capabilities of the past decade...

Canonical Experimenting With x86-64-v3 Packages For Ubuntu 26.10  Phoronix

Linux 7.2 To Add ACPI CPPC v4 Support Authored By NVIDIA  Phoronix

Ahead of NVIDIA Vera ramping up, the upcoming Linux 7.2 kernel is adding the ACPI CPPC v4 support authored by a NVIDIA engineer...

Flatpak 1.18 is out today for providing the latest improvements to this leading open-source app sandboxing and distribution tech...

Flatpak 1.18 Linux App Sandboxing and Distribution Framework Officially Released  9to5Linux

Linux Foundation targets AI’s cost-management problem with Tokenomics Foundation  cio.com

An interesting quandary has arose on the Linux kernel mailing list over maintainership of old, unmaintained code within the Linux kernel. Someone has stepped up to maintain an old, very rare file-system driver but admittedly doesn't even use it and just submitted basic fixes. Or is it just better removing that old code?..

Linux EFS File-System May Have New Maintainer - Or It Might Just Get Removed  Phoronix

As the discussions continue among developers over potentially branching off some of the older Mesa drivers, the AMD R600 Gallium3D driver saw 59 commits on Sunday to Mesa 26.2. Making this code restructuring and code cleaning all the more notable is that the improvements to this old AMD Radeon graphics driver was done in part by GitHub Copilot...

Vintage AMD R600 Graphics Driver Sees Code Cleanups Thanks To GitHub Copilot  Phoronix

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VerdantBamboo Deploys BSD Variant of BRICKSTORM on Linux Appliances  The Hacker News

In addition to the SpacemiT K1 and K3 RISC-V SoC Device Tree updates sent out last week, the RISC-V T-HEAD Device Tree "DT" changes were also sent out last week ahead of the upcoming Linux 7.2 kernel merge window...

BeagleV Ahead & Lichee Pi 4a RISC-V Boards To See Working WiFi With Linux 7.2  Phoronix

Linux Foundation: AI Is Boosting Tech Hiring in Europe  YourStory.com

Linux Mint was throttling my modern hardware by default — 3 changes fixed it completely  MakeUseOf