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Ubuntu Linux 25.10 Has Arrived  How-To Geek

Ubuntu 25.10 "Questing Quokka" arrives with GNOME 49 and Linux 6.17 in tow  Notebookcheck

PipeWire 1.4.9 Improves ALSA Recovery and Adapts to Newer libcamera Changes  9to5Linux

For the past 21+ years of running Phoronix and even longer than that being a Linux user, I have loved and consistently promoted Intel's open-source efforts and leading Linux support. Even through Intel's difficult periods of delayed and stagnate hardware launches, what had remained consistent at the company and rather legendary had been their open-source contributions. From the Linux kernel to compiler toolchains and hundreds -- if not thousands -- of different open-source projects over the past two decades have been advanced thanks to Intel's open-source leadership. It is with much sadness that my faith and confidence in Intel's open-source leadership position is being questioned and questioning the direction they are now apparently steering their open-source focus/philosophy moving forward.

Details during the Clearwater Forest briefing at Intel Tech Tour Arizona were rather light... Especially as for what's known about the cores already from prior events like Hot Chips and other Intel disclosures around the Darkmont E-core. But we do now know the branding: Xeon 6+ for Clearwater Forest.

In addition to announcing Clearwater Forest as Xeon 6+, Intel also used their Tech Tour 2025 Arizona event for predominantly focusing on upcoming Panther Lake SoCs for laptops shipping in 2026.

Intel Tech Tour 2025 in Arizona was primarily focused on disclosures around Xeon 6+ Clearwater Forest and Panther Lake / Xe3 but during the opening keynote was also teasing a yet-to-be-announced inference-optimized GPU...

At the Intel Tech Tour in Arizona, an entire slot was devoted to talking up their next-gen IPU to be found with upcoming high-end Panther Lake laptops. This was in addition to the main Intel Panther Lake / Xe3 presentation. IPU product marketing manager Tomer Rider presented on their IPU7.5 tech, but unfortunately like we have seen with Intel's IPU tech since Alder Lake, there are user-space binary blobs involved...

Intel IPU 7.5 With Panther Lake Will Rely On Closed-Source Linux Libraries  Phoronix

Intel's Open-Source Strategy Is Changing At Odds With The Ethos Of Open-Source  Phoronix

Intel Refrains From Commenting On Panther Lake Xe3 SR-IOV Support  Phoronix

A few months back it was brought up on the Intel driver mailing list around SR-IOV support for Panther Lake's Xe3 graphics. This goes along with Intel open-source Linux driver developers being quite busy on SR-IOV support for Battlemage dGPUs as part of their Project Battlematrix. Unfortunately, I wasn't provided any answer at Intel Tech Tour in Arizona whether SR-IOV support will be found with all Panther Lake SKUs or reserved for select offerings...

LibreOffice 25.8.2 Office Suite Is Now Available for Download with 70 Bug Fixes  9to5Linux

Proposed last year was GL_EXT_mesh_shader as a cross-vendor mesh shading extension. That OpenGL mesh shader work led by an AMD engineer was merged today into the OpenGL Registry...

Proof-of-Concept Released for Exploited Linux Kernel ksmbd Filesystem Vulnerability  Cyber Press

DEFCON talk on Linux kernel bugs drives AI slop row  The Stack

Microsoft's Local Accounts Crackdown Is Yet Another Reason to Switch to Linux  How-To Geek

Ubuntu Linux 25.10 'Questing Quokka' arrives with memory-safe system tools and better hardware support  BetaNews

Merged overnight to the Linux 6.18 kernel were all of the perf subsystem tool updates. Notable with the perf tooling updates is a new Python application living within the kernel source tree...

PoCL 7.1 is now available for this "Portable Computing Language" implementation that brings OpenCL to CPUs and other devices/accelerators via support for the various LLVM back-ends such as NVIDIA PTX, Intel GPUs via Level Zero, etc...