Open-source News

Back in May was the announcement by AMD of ROCm-DS as a new toolkit geared for real-world data science problems with various helpers to accelerate data processing on Instinct accelerators. AMD today is complementing ROCm-DS by announcing ROCm-LS and hipCIM...

Intel is out today with its monthly feature update to the Compute Runtime as their open-source GPU compute stack providing Level Zero and OpenCL API support on Windows and Linux systems. This month there is new hardware support, more performance optimizations, and some new features...

Intel Compute Runtime 25.27.34303.5 Brings Support For Wildcat Lake & BMG G31  Phoronix

This new Windows 11 clone is actually Linux and runs faster on your old PC -- get it now  BetaNews

Next-generation brick building sandbox Brickadia is out with Linux / Steam Deck support  GamingOnLinux

The open-source and upstream Imagination Direct Rendering Manager (DRM) kernel graphics driver for supporting their modern graphics IP and pairing with their PowerVR Vulkan driver within Mesa is now being extended to work on the TI AM62P, AM67A, and J722S SoCs...

Microsoft boosts Apple and Linux with Windows 11 upgrade tax  Computerworld

6 niche operating systems you can use that aren't based on Linux  XDA

Years Long Linux Cryptominer Spotted Using Legit Sites to Spread Malware  Hackread

I dual-booted Linux to try it out, and I forgot I had Windows installed  MSN

The Servo open-source web layout engine continues advancing with its demo Servoshell and continued work around making it suitable for embedding into other software. The Servo project this morning published their latest monthly status update to inform the community what they have been up to the past several weeks...

Intel engineers yesterday released QATlib 25.08 as the first new update in nearly one year for this QuickAssist Technology library. Intel QuickAssist allows hardware-accelerated offloading of various security authentication and compression operations from the CPU onto dedicated accelerator IP found in recent Xeon processors. Intel's QATlib is the open-source library for enabling that magic to happen from the user-space side...

Linux Phone  Hackaday

8-Core ARM Pocket Computer Runs NixOS  Hackaday

AMD Bringing SmartMux Support To Linux 6.17 For Better Hybrid GPU Laptop Support  Phoronix

For the upcoming Linux 6.17 kernel cycle AMD already queued fixes for GPU compute on some older AMD hardware, improved debugging support for AMDGPU, and other enhancements. Sent out today was a final batch of feature changes for AMDGPU/AMDKFD expected for the upcoming Linux 6.17 merge window. Most notable is AMD SmartMux support coming to Linux...

Linux Terminal Finally Hits Galaxy Z Flip 7, Fold 7 Doesn’t Make the Cut  SammyGuru

The first release candidate of LLVM 21.1 is now available for testing, which under their modern versioning scheme will represent the first stable version of the LLVM 21 compiler stack...

Android's Linux Terminal arrives on the Galaxy Z Flip 7, but Z Fold 7 users are left out  Android Authority

For those using an AMD Radeon RX 500 "Polaris" graphics card on Linux and routinely suspend/resume your system, going into the Linux 6.16 kernel and then to be back-ported to the stable series is a fix where the AMDGPU driver could end up producing a lot of spam in the kernel log...