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Linux 6.17 To Upstream Support For The Decade Old Marvell PXA1908 SoC

Phoronix - Thu, 07/17/2025 - 18:13
Launched back in 2014 was the Marvell PXA1908 SoC intended for 4G LTE smartphones and featured four Arm Cortex-A53 cores. Not too impressive for its time and far less so today. Though after a decade of not seeing mainline Linux kernel support and some vendor kernels stuck in the Linux 3.14 era, the upcoming Linux 6.17 cycle is expected to upstream support for this old smartphone SoC...

Linux 6.17 To Fix AMDGPU Hibernation So It Doesn't Take ~50 Minutes On Large GPU Servers

Phoronix - Thu, 07/17/2025 - 17:56
While late in the Linux 6.16 cycle and hitting the cut-off for when the period to queue new DRM driver feature material for Linux 6.17 ends, an additional drm-misc-next pull request was sent out today with some last minute kernel graphics driver changes for this next kernel cycle. Motivating this extra pull were the recent AMDGPU system hibernation patches...

How to Use sed and awk to Modify Config Files in Linux

Tecmint - Thu, 07/17/2025 - 13:51
The post How to Use sed and awk to Modify Config Files in Linux first appeared on Tecmint: Linux Howtos, Tutorials & Guides .

Linux configuration files are often plain text, which makes them easily editable using command-line tools. Among the most powerful of

The post How to Use sed and awk to Modify Config Files in Linux first appeared on Tecmint: Linux Howtos, Tutorials & Guides.

Mesa 25.1.6 Released With Intel Xe3 Panther Lake Graphics Enabled By Default

Phoronix - Thu, 07/17/2025 - 03:44
In addition to releasing Mesa 25.2-rc1 with its many new features to test, Mesa release manager Eric Engestrom today released Mesa 25.1.6 as the newest bi-weekly stable point release for last quarter's series...

8-Way Linux OS Comparison On The Framework 12: Squeezing More Performance Out Of Raptor Lake

Phoronix - Thu, 07/17/2025 - 00:20
Earlier this year when the Framework 13 was updated for the AMD Ryzen AI 300 series I ran benchmarks looking at the performance gains across different Linux distributions with Debian 13, Clear Linux, and CachyOS being the outstanding performers for that Strix Point hardware. With the recent launch of the Framework 12 2-in-1 laptop powered by Intel Raptor Lake you may be wondering what Linux distributions have the edge there. Here is an eight-way comparison of different Linux operating systems on the Framework 12 with Intel Core i5 1334U with the likes of Arch Linux, CachyOS, Clear Linux, Debian, Fedora, openSUSE, and Ubuntu.

Mesa 25.2-rc1 Released: Faster RADV Ray-Tracing, NVK Blackwell & More Optimizations

Phoronix - Wed, 07/16/2025 - 23:13
Mesa 25.2 is now branched and thus under a feature freeze and with Mesa 25.2-rc1 having just been released. This marks the start of weekly release candidates until the Mesa 25.2 stable release is ready to ship sometime in August...

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