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Ubuntu 25.10 Planning For Good NVIDIA On Wayland Experience, VRR & RISC-V Desktop

Phoronix - Fri, 05/16/2025 - 14:00
A public Ubuntu 25.10 desktop road-map was published today to outline some of the plans that Canonical engineers are beginning to work on ahead of the next Ubuntu Linux release in October...

AMD Is Hiring Again To Help Enhance Ryzen On Linux

Phoronix - Fri, 05/16/2025 - 13:00
AMD is once again hiring more Linux engineer(s) to work on their Ryzen client efforts under Linux with next-gen hardware enablement, enhancing features/support for existing Ryzen systems, and related efforts...

Lenovo Thinkbook 16 X1 Plus Laptop Sees Linux Patches But Not Yet Ready For Daily Use

Phoronix - Fri, 05/16/2025 - 12:00
Device Tree patches have been posted for enabling Linux support on the Lenovo Thinkbook 16 G7 QOY powered by the Qualcomm Snapdragon X1 Plus SoC...

Google Posts New Version Of Live Update Orchestrator For Speedy Kernel Updates In Production Environments

Phoronix - Fri, 05/16/2025 - 12:00
Back in March Google unveiled the Live Update Orchestrator "LUO" as a new means of live kernel updates for running production systems with a particular emphasis on servers running cloud workloads. A second iteration of the Live Update Orchestrator patches were posted for review today...

Intel Core Ultra 7 256V "Lunar Lake" Linux Performance In Mid-2025 vs. Launch Day

Phoronix - Fri, 05/16/2025 - 02:30
Given the significant gains to the Intel Arrow Lake performance on Linux since launch that I showcased last month on Phoronix, I was also eager to see how the Intel Lunar Lake performance has evolved since its debut last year. In this article is a look at those relatively weak launch-day Linux performance numbers for the Core Ultra 7 256V compared to where they are performing now on Ubuntu 25.04 for showing how far the Intel Lunar Lake performance has evolved since last September.

Rust Language Celebrates Ten Years By Releasing Rust 1.87

Phoronix - Fri, 05/16/2025 - 01:40
Rust 1.87 is now available as the newest version of this popular programming language. With the Rust 1.87 release it also marks ten years already of this system programming language focused on memory safety and modern features...

Mutter SDK Merged For GNOME 49

Phoronix - Fri, 05/16/2025 - 01:29
Adding to the excitement for this September's GNOME 49 release is introducing the Mutter SDK...

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