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Intel Begins Sending In Kernel Graphics Driver Changes For Linux 6.17

Phoronix - Thu, 06/19/2025 - 18:10
Intel open-source software driver engineers have begun sending in their new kernel graphics driver feature pulls to DRM-Next ahead of the Linux 6.17 merge window coming up by early August. There is some new feature work included as part of Intel's pull requests for the weeks along with more PCI device IDs being introduced, bug fixes, and other code refactoring...

Mesa 25.1.4 Delivers Latest Open-Source OpenGL & Vulkan Driver Fixes

Phoronix - Thu, 06/19/2025 - 17:48
Eric Engestrom released Mesa 25.1.4 on Wednesday as the latest bi-weekly point release for this collection of open-source OpenGL and Vulkan drivers predominantly used on Linux systems...

5 Bash Scripts I Use Daily as a Linux SysAdmin

Tecmint - Thu, 06/19/2025 - 13:00
The post 5 Bash Scripts I Use Daily as a Linux SysAdmin first appeared on Tecmint: Linux Howtos, Tutorials & Guides .

If you’ve spent any time managing Linux systems, you already know how repetitive and time-consuming some tasks can be. Whether

The post 5 Bash Scripts I Use Daily as a Linux SysAdmin first appeared on Tecmint: Linux Howtos, Tutorials & Guides.

Godot 4.5 Beta Released With Better Wayland Support

Phoronix - Thu, 06/19/2025 - 08:26
The first beta release of the Godot 4.5 open-source game engine is now available for testing. Notable for Linux users is the continued quest toward Wayland support at parity to X11...

Cache-Aware Scheduling For Linux Refined - Better AMD & Intel CPU Performance

Phoronix - Thu, 06/19/2025 - 03:18
Going on for several months now has been an effort to wire up cache-aware scheduling / load balancing for the Linux kernel for helping out task placement for processors with multiple cache domains such as modern AMD Ryzen/EPYC and Intel Xeon platforms. This cache-aware scheduling has shown much potential for Linux with further enhancing performance on today's interesting CPUs. Out today is the third iteration of cache-aware scheduling with an important rework...

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