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Asahi Linux Gets Microphone Working For M2 Pro/Max, Eyes Installer Improvements

Phoronix - Wed, 12/17/2025 - 22:25
The Asahi Linux project is out with their latest status report to highlight upstream improvements made for the newly-minted Linux 6.18 kernel as well as some of their efforts going on downstream within Asahi Linux itself...

Debusine Repositories Enter Beta: Ubuntu PPA-Like User Archives For Debian Linux

Phoronix - Wed, 12/17/2025 - 20:52
Colin Watson announced that Debusine repositories are now available in beta form, which can be used to maintain APT-compatible add-on package repositories for Debian Linux. This comes down to being similar in nature to Personal Package Archives (PPAs) that are popular with Ubuntu Linux...

Linux Kernel Rust Code Sees Its First CVE Vulnerability

Phoronix - Wed, 12/17/2025 - 20:44
The first CVE vulnerability has been assigned to a piece of the Linux kernel's Rust code...

AMD Zen 6 Compiler Support Merged For GCC 16

Phoronix - Wed, 12/17/2025 - 19:24
Ahead of AMD releasing their Zen 6 EPYC and Ryzen processors in 2026, AMD today saw their Zen 6 "znver6" support land into the GCC 16 open-source compiler...

Intel Compute Runtime 25.48.36300.8 Brings More Performance Optimizations & Xe3 Fixes

Phoronix - Wed, 12/17/2025 - 19:12
Intel this week released their last planned feature update to their open-source Compute Runtime for 2025. The Intel Compute Runtime 25.48.36300.8 delivers the latest OpenCL and Level Zero performance optimizations, Xe3 workarounds, and other fixes for those on Intel integrated and discrete graphics hardware...

AMD Wants Your Logs To Help Optimize PyTorch & ComfyUI For Strix Halo, Radeon GPUs

Phoronix - Wed, 12/17/2025 - 18:53
If you are not satisfied with the current performance for PyTorch or ComfyUI / Stable Diffusion on your Strix Halo APU system or with other consumer RDNA3/RDNA4 Radeon consumer GPUs, AMD engineers are interested in your logs to help better optimize the performance going forward...

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