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Framework Laptop 12: An Upgrade-Friendly, Convertible 2-in-1 Linux Laptop

Phoronix - Wed, 06/18/2025 - 23:00
Back in February the Framework Laptop 12 was announced as the company's first 2-in-1 convertible laptop while still being well-built and upgrade-friendly/modular as we have come to enjoy out of their various Linux-friendly laptops. Today the review embargo lifts on the Framework Laptop 12 and thus can share our initial impressions on this Intel-powered 12-inch laptop.

Servo Browser Engine Finally Supporting Animated GIFs

Phoronix - Wed, 06/18/2025 - 21:56
The Servo browser engine project born out of Mozilla as an early Rust project and now advanced by open-source developers from various firms continues moving forward. Servo has finally scratched animated GIF support off its TODO list among other features...

Updated AMD ISP4 Driver For Linux Benefits The HP ZBook Ultra G1a, Future Ryzen Laptops

Phoronix - Wed, 06/18/2025 - 20:29
AMD engineers today posted the second iteration of their AMD ISP4 Linux kernel driver, which is for supporting the web-camera with the high-end Strix Halo powered HP ZBook Ultra G1a laptop and presumably many AMD Ryzen laptops in the future...

Broadcom BNGE Linux Network Driver Published For BCM5770X

Phoronix - Wed, 06/18/2025 - 18:53
Broadcom has been working on a new Linux Ethernet networking driver dubbed "BNGE" for supporting their new high-end BCM5770X chipset family...

Arch Linux Moving To WoW64 Wine & Wine-Staging

Phoronix - Wed, 06/18/2025 - 18:41
The Arch Linux project announced this week they are working to transition their Wine and Wine-Staging packages over to pure WoW64 builds. This "Windows on Windows 64-bit" allows for 32-bit Windows applications on 64-bit Linux platforms without needing 32-bit software libraries/prefixes present and overall a big architectural win...

Alienware "G-Mode" Reverted For Linux: It Actually Hurt Performance

Phoronix - Wed, 06/18/2025 - 18:32
Alienware G-Mode / Game Shift is a feature designed to "enhance gaming performance" on select Dell/Alienware laptops with the press of a key. But at least under Linux with select laptop models it can actually regress performance compared to just running the laptop in the "performance" platform profile...

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