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Linux 6.17 Staging Continues Cleaning The Realtek RTL8723BS Driver

Phoronix - Wed, 07/30/2025 - 04:19
The staging area of the Linux kernel, where preliminary code initially appears to mature until being promoted out, continues seeing a lot of code churn. With Linux 6.17 the staging updates were submitted and now merged with one driver in particular standing out...

Xtraceroute Ported To GTK4 + Vulkan For Demonstrating The Open-Source Potential For AI

Phoronix - Wed, 07/30/2025 - 03:05
Christian Schaller, a Fedora developer and Director of Software Engineering at Red Hat, recently began exploring the potential of AI usage more from the open-source/Linux perspective. He was left impressed from his ability to easily generate a Python application for internal Red Hat use to porting the venerable Xtraceroute program to GTK4 and Vulkan...

xf86-video-amdgpu 25.0.0 Released With Two Years Worth Of Fixes

Phoronix - Wed, 07/30/2025 - 02:04
It had been two years since the last update to the AMDGPU X.Org DDX driver but now xf86-video-amdgpu 25.0.0 is now available for those relying on this driver/hardware-specific driver for X.Org enabled Linux systems rather than the xf86-video-modesetting generic driver or a Wayland-based desktop...

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