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Linux 7.1-rc4 Released With Many Fixes, New Documentation For Security/AI Topics

Phoronix - 13 hours 36 min ago
It was another busy week in the Linux 7.1 kernel space that has culminated with the release of Linux 7.1-rc4...

Ubuntu Concept ISOs Published For CIX P1 AI CPU

Phoronix - 18 hours 56 min ago
Similar to Canonical engineers having published "Ubuntu Concept" ISOs for Qualcomm Snapdragon X Elite laptops to provide the very latest hardware-specific support that hasn't yet worked its way to the mainline Linux kernel and other packages, Canonical has begun providing Ubuntu Concept ISOs for the CIX P1 as an "AI" focused platform...

Open-Source "low_latency_layer" Brings Reflex & Anti-Lag 2 To AMD & Intel GPUs On Linux

Phoronix - Sun, 05/17/2026 - 20:00
A new open-source project called low_latency_layer is an implicit Vulkan layer that enables AMD Anti-Lag 2 and NVIDIA Reflex 2 to reportedly work in a hardware-agnostic manner so that AMD and Intel graphics cards can both enjoy Reflex or Anti-Lag 2 working on non-AMD graphics cards as well...

Claude Code Did The Heavy Lifting To Get Adobe Lightroom CC Running On Linux

Phoronix - Sun, 05/17/2026 - 18:20
An open-source developer with the assistance of Claude Code has managed to get the Adobe Lightroom CC software working on Linux under Wine...

FFmpeg Introduces Apple ProRes RAW Vulkan-Powered Video Acceleration

Phoronix - Sun, 05/17/2026 - 18:09
Last year the widely-used, open-source FFmpeg multimedia library introduced Apple ProRes video acceleration using shaders with the Vulkan API. Now FFmpeg has taken it a step further and can support Apple ProRes RAW Vulkan-based video decoding...

Panther Lake Powered Framework Laptop 13 Pro Sees Linux Microphone Fix

Phoronix - Sun, 05/17/2026 - 17:10
Ahead of the new Framework Laptop 13 Pro laptops beginning to ship in June, an audio microphone fix was merged this weekend to the mainline Linux kernel for these new Intel Panther Lake powered devices...

FluidX3D Lands A Big Speed-Up For This OpenCL CFD Software

Phoronix - Sun, 05/17/2026 - 16:09
Released this week was FluidX3D 3.7, the latest feature update to this computational fluid dynamics (CFD) software that is CPU/GPU accelerated by way of OpenCL...

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