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Today's Linux Networking Fixes: "Craziness Continues With No End In Sight"

Phoronix - Fri, 05/22/2026 - 07:04
Driven by AI/LLM bots like Shashiko uncovering new issues within the Linux kernel source tree, including various security vulnerabilities like Dirty Frag, the mailing list has been wild with bug reports and fixes. Today's networking fixes pull request for Linux 7.1 continues to highlight the ongoing craziness and fears that the worst may be yet to come...

CHUWI's $449 USD Wildcat Lake Laptop Should Work Fine With Linux

Phoronix - Fri, 05/22/2026 - 03:53
CHUWI this week announced their UniBook laptop as a ~$449 USD laptop that aims to compete with Apple's MacBook Neo. While shipping with Microsoft Windows 11, it should be Linux-friendly and we'll soon be putting it to the test at Phoronix...

Linux 7.2 To Enable SR-IOV Support For Intel Nova Lake's Xe3P Graphics

Phoronix - Fri, 05/22/2026 - 03:22
Open-source Intel software engineers today sent out their latest round of Xe kernel graphics driver updates to DRM-Next for queuing ahead of next month's Linux 7.2 merge window...

SUSE/openSUSE Agama Installer Now Warns For No-Desktop Installs, Supports systemd-boot

Phoronix - Fri, 05/22/2026 - 02:07
SUSE engineers continue working on their modern "Agama" operating system installer used by the latest SUSE Linux Enterprise and openSUSE Linux distributions. Out today is Agama 21 to incorporate their latest OS installer enhancements...

NVIDIA RTX PRO Blackwell Performance Delivering Excellent Linux Performance

Phoronix - Thu, 05/21/2026 - 23:43
Recently I received the line-up of the NVIDIA RTX PRO "Blackwell" workstation graphics cards for seeing how these newest professional offerings from NVIDIA are performing on Linux and competing against the AMD Radeon AI PRO and Intel Arc Pro B-Series competition.

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