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Improved Upstream Kernel Support For TUXEDO Laptops Being Worked On

Phoronix - Tue, 11/25/2025 - 23:47
While TUXEDO Computers recently ended their efforts for a Snapdragon X Elite Linux laptop, their Linux Intel/AMD laptop efforts continue going well and recently they have been posting patches working to enhance the upstream kernel support for those x86_64 devices...

Nix Package Tool Approved For Availability In Fedora 44

Phoronix - Tue, 11/25/2025 - 23:27
Following approval of the /nix top-level directory with Fedora Linux, the Fedora Engineering and Steering Committee (FESCo) has additionally signed off on allowing the Nix package tool to appear in the Fedora 44 repository...

HiSilicon Proposes "Cache Lockdown" Driver For More Control Over L3 Cache

Phoronix - Tue, 11/25/2025 - 21:57
A Huawei engineer sent out a proposed driver for the Linux kernel to enable "cache lockdwon" behavior for HiSilicon ARM64 processors for greater control over the processor's L3 cache usage...

X.Org Server 21.1.21 Released To Fix Several Regressions

Phoronix - Tue, 11/25/2025 - 19:25
For those continuing to make use of the X.Org Server, a new point release is now available in the 21.1 series. While most often X.Org Server stable releases these days are driven by shipping new security fixes, the X.Org Server 21.1.21 release is to fix several regressions introduced for various functional issues...

Intel LLM Scaler vLLM Update Supports More Models

Phoronix - Tue, 11/25/2025 - 19:13
Intel software engineers continue to be hard at work on LLM-Scaler as their solution for running vLLM on Intel GPUs in a Docker containerized environment. A new beta release of LLM-Scaler built around vLLM was released overnight with support for running more large language models...

libinput 1.30 Released With Support For Writing Plug-Ins In Lua

Phoronix - Tue, 11/25/2025 - 18:58
Red Hat's leading Linux input expert Peter Hutterer released libinput 1.30 today as the newest update to this input handling library used on both X.Org and Wayland desktops...

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