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Linux 6.18 Adding New Option For More Detailed Bug Reporting But Cost Of Greater Memory

Phoronix - Mon, 12/01/2025 - 22:24
Among the big flow of pull requests today for this first day of the Linux 6.19 merge window are some core kernel bug handling improvements...

Fwupd 2.0.18 Enables Linux Firmware Updating For More Hardware

Phoronix - Mon, 12/01/2025 - 22:07
Fresh off Framework Computer becoming a new corporate sponsor of the LVFS / Fwupd, there is a new Fwpd 2.0.18 update for this solution that enables convenient and easy system and device/peripheral firmware updating under Linux...

GNU Linux-libre 6.18 Neuters More Functionality Due To Blobs With Intel Xe, NVIDIA Nova

Phoronix - Mon, 12/01/2025 - 21:58
Following yesterday's Linux 6.18 kernel release, GNU Linux-libre 6.18-gnu is out today as the latest release of this free software purist kernel that will drop/block drivers from loading microcode/firmware considered non-free-software and other restrictions in the name of not pushing binary blobs even when needed for hardware support/functionality on otherwise open-source drivers...

New Rockchip RKCIF & RKVDEC HEVC Media Drivers For Linux 6.19

Phoronix - Mon, 12/01/2025 - 19:34
The media subsystem updates were sent out this morning for the now-open Linux 6.19 merge window. There are some new Rockchip drivers and other media drivers that are new for Linux 6.19...

Raspberry Pi Announces Price Hikes Due To RAM Demand, 1GB Raspberry Pi 5 Launched

Phoronix - Mon, 12/01/2025 - 19:16
Due to the ongoing RAM shortages in the industry amid ongoing massive demand for AI servers,Raspberry Pi announced today they are having to raise prices on the Raspberry Pi 4 and Raspberry Pi 5 single board computers. They have also launched a 1GB Raspberry Pi 5 version too for those not needing much memory and wanting to keep pricing to a minimum...

Apple HFS/HFS+ File-System Drivers Receive Corruption Fixes & More For Linux 6.19

Phoronix - Mon, 12/01/2025 - 19:05
It was just earlier this year that Linux developers considered dropping the Apple HFS and HFS+ file-system drivers from the mainline Linux kernel for being unmaintained. But then some new developers stepped up to maintain the drivers and there has been new HFS/HFS+ file-system patches each kernel cycle since. With the now in-development Linux 6.19 kernel there are some nice year-end clean-ups to these file-system drivers...

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