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Intel Begins Xe Kernel Graphics Driver Enablement For Xe3P With Nova Lake

Phoronix - Wed, 10/15/2025 - 00:35
Intel Linux engineers have begun posting patches for enabling the Xe3P architecture. While Xe3P is also expected to be found with next-generation Intel discrete GPUs, the initial focus is on enabling support for Nova Lake...

Yet Another Longtime Linux Driver Maintainer At Intel Has Left

Phoronix - Tue, 10/14/2025 - 23:57
Adding to the unfortunately long list of unfortunate Intel Linux/open-source setbacks over the past year, yet another Intel Linux software engineer that was an upstream Linux kernel driver maintainer has departed Intel...

Firefox 145 Beta Released With 32-bit Linux Support Dropped

Phoronix - Tue, 10/14/2025 - 22:55
Firefox 144.0 is now available but it's not a particularly exciting browser release. But with Firefox 144 stable now comes Firefox 145 beta and that is a bit more noteworthy as it ditches 32-bit Linux support...

Amazon AWS Working On Linux "PCSC" To Help With Dense SR-IOV Deployments

Phoronix - Tue, 10/14/2025 - 22:21
A low-level Linux kernel improvement being worked on by engineers at Amazon Web Services (AWS) is for introducing a PCI Configuration Space Cache "PCSC" to help with dense SR-IOV deployments that can end up hitting significant overhead with the current Linux kernel...

Linux Mint LMDE 7 Officially Released - Based On Debian 13

Phoronix - Tue, 10/14/2025 - 20:20
Linux Mint Debian Edition 7 is officially out today as the latest version of this Linux Mint distribution based on upstream Debian rather than Ubuntu...

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