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While the results shouldn't be too surprising given the recent AMD Ryzen AI Max+ 395 Windows 11 vs. Linux testing, when the HP ZBook Ultra G1a powered by the step-down AMD Ryzen AI Max PRO 390 arrived with Microsoft Windows 11 Pro, I also took the opportunity to run some Windows vs. Linux performance benchmarks on that AMD Strix Halo SoC.

REMATCH is out now and works great on Linux, SteamOS and Steam Deck  GamingOnLinux

Microsoft’s New CLI Text Editor Works Great on Ubuntu  OMG! Ubuntu

Fwupd 2.0.12 Linux Firmware Updater Adds Support for HP Portable USB-C Hubs  9to5Linux

Linux PAM and Udisks LPE Vulnerabilities Allow Root Access on Major Distributions  TechNadu

Richard Hughes of Red Hat just released Fwupd 2.0.12 as the newest version of this open-source firmware updating utility that pairs with the Linux Vendor Firmware Service (LVFS) for a nice Linux system/device firmware updating experience...

Valve's Steam Deck kickstarted a movement that might actually bring us "the year of the Linux desktop"  XDA

Intel NPU Accelerator Driver Readies "Turbo Mode" For Better Performance  Phoronix

Sent out today was the latest weekly batch of drm-misc-next changes for consisting of various Direct Rendering Manager (DRM) core updates as well as changes to the smaller display/graphics kernel drivers plus the growing work around accelerator "accel" drivers within the kernel. Intel NPU accelerator driver changes stand out for this week's pull request ahead of Linux 6.17...

I Install These Linux Terminal Apps on Every System  How-To Geek

OpenBLAS 0.3.30 released this morning as the newest version of this optimized BLAS (Basic Linear Algebra Subprograms) library for multiple CPU architectures...

Debian tag2upload reached an open beta state for allowing Debian developers and maintainers to upload by simply using the git-debpush script for pushing a signed Git tag...

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...

Intel Begins Sending In Kernel Graphics Driver Changes For Linux 6.17  Phoronix

EBU, NABA and Linux partner on MXL software development kit  TVBEurope

I tried using the Legion Go S handheld as my work PC – here’s what happened next!  Tom's Hardware

Attackers exploit Linux vulnerability with PoC exploit  Techzine Global

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...

Mesa 25.1.4 brings more graphics driver fixes for Linux  GamingOnLinux

How CVE-2025-6018 and CVE-2025-6019 Enable Full Root Access on Linux  SOCRadar Extended Threat Intelligence