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Linux 6.15 Brings New Hardware Monitoring Additions For AMD BC-250 & Various Sensor ICs

Phoronix - Tue, 04/01/2025 - 18:33
Merged for the Linux 6.15 kernel last week was the big set of hardware monitoring "HWMON" subsystem updates with new hardware support as well as a few new sensor drivers...

Fixing PPA Error: Repository Does Not Have a Release File on Ubuntu

Tecmint - Tue, 04/01/2025 - 12:58
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When managing software packages on Debian/Ubuntu-based systems, it’s common to add external repositories or Personal Package Archives (PPAs) to install

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AMD's Latest Wares, NVIDIA RTX 50 & Kernel Changes Excited Linux Users So Far In 2025

Phoronix - Tue, 04/01/2025 - 08:50
As the last planned article of the quarter, here is a look back at the most popular Phoronix content from Q1'2025 with 822 original news articles and 40 featured articles / Linux hardware reviews written by your's truly. There were interesting hardware launches from Intel, AMD, and NVIDIA this quarter along with a never-ending pace of new open-source software innovations and the unfortunate ongoing drama within the free software community...

Wayland Is On Track For A Very Exciting 2025

Phoronix - Tue, 04/01/2025 - 04:50
While the first quarter is coming to an end, there has already been immense progress this year to the Wayland protocols and compositors along with associated Linux desktop software for embracing this alternative to legacy X11/X.Org. From HDR color management seeing much adoption this quarter to Wine Wayland becoming more viable and the large number of Wayland compositors maturing, it was a pretty incredible quarter...

Linux 6.15 Perf Tooling Introduces Ability For Latency Profiling

Phoronix - Tue, 04/01/2025 - 03:34
The perf tools changes were merged today for the Linux 6.15 kernel. Most notable this cycle for the wonderful perf tooling is introducing the notion of latency profiling by leveraging kernel scheduler information. This latency data will be further useful for Linux software engineers working to optimize system latency/performance...

wlroots Merges Wayland Color Management / HDR Support

Phoronix - Tue, 04/01/2025 - 01:23
The wlroots library used by the Sway compositor and other Wayland compositors has merged support for the color-management-v1 protocol that is notable for enabling High Dynamic Range (HDR) display use under Linux...

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