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Ubuntu Concept For Snapdragon X1 Laptops Moves To Linux 6.16, Enables More Devices  Phoronix

KaOS Linux gets a modern makeover and a big under-the-hood upgrade  BetaNews

I upgraded my router to a custom Linux server, and it's completely transformed my network  xda-developers.com

An exciting addition landing into the Mesa 25.3 codebase today is support for AMD's Vulkan anti-lag extension, VK_AMD_anti_lag...

Mesa 25.3 Merges Vulkan AMD Anti-Lag Support  Phoronix

Well known open-source AMD Mesa developer Marek Olšák has landed his latest set of 16 patches into Mesa 25.3-devel for enhancing the RadeonSI Gallium3D driver. Notable here is getting OpenGL sparse textures working on the latest Radeon RX 9000 series RDNA4/GFX12 graphics cards...

The Linux Kernel Seeing Rare Code Activity Around SPARC64  Phoronix

One of the CPU architectures continuing to be supported by the mainline Linux kernel but rarely ever seeing any code activity is the SPARC64 architecture port for the once-interesting processors from Sun Microsystems...

Securing Linux: Steady Momentum in AppArmor and SELinux Uptake  Linux Journal

FOSS Weekly #25.30: AUR Poisoned, Linux Rising, PPA Explained, New Open Source Grammar Checker and More  It's FOSS

Valve Linux Engineer Working On A Big Improvement For Old AMD Radeon GPUs  Phoronix

Timur Kristóf as a contractor on Valve's open-source Linux graphics driver team is known for his work on the RADV Vulkan driver and ACO shader compiler but recently he's been working on some improvements to the AMDGPU kernel driver. A big feat he's been tackling is enabling support for analog display connectors within the AMDGPU driver for the "DC" code. Besides a few supported older GPUs having DVI-I connections, this analog support is significant in that it's a milestone for unblocking the aging GCN 1.0 and GCN 1.1 GPUs from using the modern AMDGPU driver by default...

How to host a Linux-powered local dev site in Windows  theregister.com

How to host a Linux-powered local dev site in Windows  theregister.com

'Wayback' Keeps Old Linux Desktop Environments Alive on Wayland  How-To Geek

Born out of his work on developing the GNOME Builder integrated development environment (IDE) over the past decade, one of the recent initiatives by GNOME developer Christian Hergert has been on Foundry, a new "IDE in a box" of sorts and with CLI tooling complementary to the GNOME Builder IDE graphical environment...

AMD Strix Point Linux Performance Comparison One Year After Launch  Phoronix

How time flies... This week already marks one year since the debut of AMD's Zen 5 Strix Point laptop processors with the likes of the Ryzen AI 9 HX 370 and Ryzen AI 9 365 that also rolled out the RDNA 3.5 integrated graphics. In marking one year that Strix Point laptops have been available, here is a performance benchmarking redux of the AMD Ryzen AI 9 HX 370 with the ASUS Zenbook S16 for looking at how the Linux performance at launch-day compares to a very leading-edge Linux software stack now one year later.

Announced just once month ago was Wayback as an X11 compatibility layer build atop Wayland components. In the past month Wayback has been off to a quick start with a goal of being production-ready next year and has also already became a project under the FreeDesktop.org umbrella. Today marks the release of Wayback 0.1 as the first preview release for this X11 compatibility layer...

Systemd 257 debuted last December and now finally systemd 258 is preparing to roll out... Systemd 258-rc1 was issued today as the first test release toward this next major release. It's a big one with more than 260 changes noted in the announcement, including multiple new tools and other additions...