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Ubuntu 25.10 ARM64 Desktop ISO Aims For Better Hardware Experience With "Stubble"

Phoronix - Wed, 08/20/2025 - 21:23
With the Ubuntu 25.10 release in October they are aiming to have a better ARM64 experience with their generic desktop ISO thanks to a new improvement they have been working on called Stubble...

LibreOffice 25.8 Released With UI Enhancements, Better Performance

Phoronix - Wed, 08/20/2025 - 20:05
LibreOffice 25.8 is now available as the latest half-year feature release to this open-source office suite that is one of the most comprehensive alternatives to Microsoft Office for Linux and other platforms...

AMD EPYC 9005 Squeezes Out More Performance On Linux 6.17

Phoronix - Wed, 08/20/2025 - 18:49
Given the promising AMD Strix Halo benchmark results on Linux 6.17 following the recent merge window and early regression fixes landing in the kernel, I was curious to see how Linux 6.17 was fairing on more powerful AMD EPYC server hardware. Here is a brief look at some of the performance improvements found running EPYC 9005 "Turin" with the latest Linux 6.17 development kernel compared to Linux 6.16 stable...

Linux 6.18 To Introduce New Driver For TASCAM US-144MKII USB Audio Interface

Phoronix - Wed, 08/20/2025 - 18:20
One of the new hardware drivers expected to appear in the Linux 6.18 kernel later this year is the "us144mkii" USB sound driver for supporting the TASCAM US-144MKII USB audio interface...

AMD HIPRT Updated With New Features For RDNA 4 GPUs

Phoronix - Wed, 08/20/2025 - 18:09
AMD's GPUOpen HIPRT 3.0.9ba63f3 released today as the first update since HIPRT 2.5 shipped near the beginning of the year. HIPRT is AMD's ray-tracing library built around their HIP Interface for making it easier to enable ray-tracing workloads for HIP-based software like Blender...

Google Chrome/Chromium Merges Wayland Color Management - Enables HDR Video Playback

Phoronix - Wed, 08/20/2025 - 17:55
Merged yesterday to the Chromium open-source codebase for the Google Chrome web browser is Wayland color management support! Linux users running on Wayland will now be able to enjoy high dynamic range (HDR) video playback within Google's web browser...

Ahead Of Ubuntu 26.04 LTS, Ubuntu 25.04 Has AMD SEV-SNP Host Support

Phoronix - Wed, 08/20/2025 - 08:57
While Ubuntu 25.04 has been shipping since April and following software support already upstreamed into the Linux kernel and related virtualization components, Ubuntu maker Canonical today put out a blog post to announce their AMD SEV-SNP host support found in Ubuntu 25.04. This complements the guest-side support present since Ubuntu 22.04 LTS and is an important milestone on the host-side ahead of next year's Ubuntu 26.04 LTS release...

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