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AMD Previews Mysterious Linux Runtime Stack For Ryzen AI NPUs

Phoronix - Fri, 05/23/2025 - 17:54
While there is the AMDXDNA accelerator driver that was upstreamed to the mainline kernel earlier this year with Linux 6.14 for supporting the AMD Ryzen AI NPUs and also their AIE Plugin for IREE user-space components, it seems something more is on the way...

Wayland 1.24 Release Candidate Brings Few Changes

Phoronix - Fri, 05/23/2025 - 17:38
Following the recent decision to no longer issue alpha or beta releases of Wayland, the Wayland 1.24 release candidate was issued on Thursday in working toward that next release...

FUTEX2 NUMA, MPOL & Task-Local Hash Maps Appear Ready For Linux 6.16

Phoronix - Fri, 05/23/2025 - 17:33
It looks like the upcoming Linux 6.16 kernel will feature several additions to the FUTEX2 support...

SteamOS 3.7 Stable Rolls Out With Updated Linux Kernel, Expanding AMD Handheld Support

Phoronix - Fri, 05/23/2025 - 05:01
Valve today released SteamOS 3.7.8 to their stable channel as the first stable version of their Arch Linux based SteamOS 3.7 operating system...

Ubuntu 25.10 Switching To Chrony By Default, Enabling Network Time Security

Phoronix - Fri, 05/23/2025 - 03:00
Ubuntu 25.10 is joining the likes of Red Hat Enterprise Linux and SUSE Linux Enterprise that are using Chrony as their Network Time Protocol (NTP) implementation. Ubuntu 25.10 is switching over to Chrony in enabling Network Time Security (NTS) support on Ubuntu Linux...

Mozilla Is Shutting Down Pocket

Phoronix - Fri, 05/23/2025 - 01:25
Mozilla announced today it's going to be shutting down its Pocket read-it-later bookmarking service this summer...

Canonical Planning For Linux 6.17 To Power Ubuntu 25.10

Phoronix - Thu, 05/22/2025 - 23:20
The Canonical Kernel Team confirmed their plans today that with the Ubuntu 25.10 release in October they are planning to employ the Linux 6.17 kernel...

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