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AMD ROCm 7.10 Released - Strix Point APUs Now Officially Supported

Phoronix - Fri, 12/12/2025 - 21:15
Sure enough, yesterday's inaugural TheRock 7.10 release tag ended up being a precursor to ROCm 7.10 as predicted in the earlier article. Overnight ROCm 7.10 was released as a new developer preview and with it comes expanded hardware support -- including for Ryzen AI 300 Strix Point APUs finally being officially mentioned...

Framework Raises DDR5 Memory Prices By 50% For DIY Laptops

Phoronix - Fri, 12/12/2025 - 19:41
Framework Computer had worked to keep their memory prices lower than other laptop vendors amid the ongoing memory shortages throughput the industry worldwide. But today they've finally had to cave in and increase their DDR5 memory modules for the Framework Laptop DIY Editions by 50%...

Linux Patches Fix eMMC Secure Erase Of 1GB Taking ~10 Minutes To Now Just 2 Seconds

Phoronix - Fri, 12/12/2025 - 19:33
A new patch series from an NXP engineer optimizes the secure erase performance for certain Kingston eMMC devices. Currently with the Linux kernel performing a secure erase on 1GB of data can take around ten minutes. With these new patches that 1GB secure erase can be done in around two seconds...

Vulkan 1.4.336 Released With NVIDIA Compute Occupancy Priority Extension

Phoronix - Fri, 12/12/2025 - 19:17
Vulkan 1.4.336 is out today as the first spec update in two weeks for this high performance graphics and compute API...

Ubuntu Studio 26.04 May Modernize Its Desktop Layout

Phoronix - Fri, 12/12/2025 - 19:08
Ubuntu Studio is the variant of Ubuntu Linux focused on content creation and audio recording needs, video editing, and other creative workloads. Ubuntu Studio's desktop hasn't seen too many changes since Ubuntu 12.04 LTS some 13+ years ago. But Ubuntu Studio developers are now considering desktop layout changes to help modernize its appearance...

ReBAR Code Cleaned Up For Linux 6.19 Along With A Few New PCIe Controller Drivers

Phoronix - Fri, 12/12/2025 - 18:57
All of the PCI subsystem updates were merged last week for the nearly-over Linux 6.19 merge window. Standing out this cycle are Resizable BAR improvements as well as introducing a few new PCIe controller drivers...

How to Use Fedora Toolbx for Isolated Development Environments

Tecmint - Fri, 12/12/2025 - 15:25
The post How to Use Fedora Toolbx for Isolated Development Environments first appeared on Tecmint: Linux Howtos, Tutorials & Guides .

Modern Linux development has moved beyond the traditional approach of installing everything directly on your system. You now have access

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Essential Docker Commands Guide with Examples (2025)

Tecmint - Fri, 12/12/2025 - 14:00
The post Essential Docker Commands Guide with Examples (2025) first appeared on Tecmint: Linux Howtos, Tutorials & Guides .

If you’re looking to get started with Docker, understanding how to work with its command-line interface is crucial for managing

The post Essential Docker Commands Guide with Examples (2025) first appeared on Tecmint: Linux Howtos, Tutorials & Guides.

Windows WSL 2.7.0 Released With Newer Linux 6.6 LTS Point Release, Many Fixes

Phoronix - Fri, 12/12/2025 - 09:48
Microsoft today released WSL 2.7.0, the newest version of their Windows Subsystem for Linux code that enables running Linux binaries atop Windows 11 hosts...

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