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Linus Torvalds Continues Using A Radeon RX 580 Graphics Card, Back On An Intel Laptop

Phoronix - Thu, 07/31/2025 - 18:20
The AMD Radeon RX 480 / RX 580 "Polaris" graphics cards remain very popular on the Steam Survey and among enthusiasts/desktop users at large even though they are nearly a decade old. The nine year old Polaris graphics cards have aged well in the marketplace and are an affordable choice. For Linux users they continue enjoying strong open-source driver support. It turns out Linux creator Linus Torvalds himself is still relying on an AMD Radeon RX 580 with one of his main systems...

Fedora Considers Hardlinking Identical /usr Files By Default For Deduplicating RPM Assets

Phoronix - Thu, 07/31/2025 - 18:03
Another change proposal filed recently for the Fedora Linux 43 release is to hardlink identical files within /usr by default for RPM-provided files that are 100% identical and can be then deduplicated to help conserve disk space and increase system efficiency...

Linux's Lockdown LSM Back To Being Maintained For Restricted Computing

Phoronix - Thu, 07/31/2025 - 17:56
Upstreamed to the Linux kernel back in 2019 was the Lockdown security module for opt-in hardware/kernel security restrictions. It was a difficult and contentious process getting to the Linux kernel but then was left without any formal maintainer shortly after being mainlined. Now for helping to renew this Linux security module, two developers have stepped up to takeover maintainership of Lockdown...

libinput 1.29 Released With High Resolution Scroll Wheel Improvement

Phoronix - Thu, 07/31/2025 - 17:40
Libinput 1.29 was just released as the newest version of this open-source input handling library used on the modern Linux desktop both under X.Org and Wayland environments...

Linux Begins Preparing For The Lenovo Legion Go 2 Handheld

Phoronix - Thu, 07/31/2025 - 08:50
In recent days there have been an increasing flow of leaks surrounding the Legion Go 2 as the next-generation handheld from Lenovo. The Lenovo Legion Go 2 is reported to be launching later this year with an AMD Ryzen Z2 Extreme SoC, 144Hz OLED display, and a variety of other hardware upgrades over the original Lenovo Legion Go. Linux driver activity around the Legion Go 2 has begun...

Linux 6.17 Lands New Driver To Power On The T-HEAD TH1520 RISC-V SoC's GPU

Phoronix - Thu, 07/31/2025 - 08:34
The Linux 6.17 kernel has merged a new driver for powering up the Imagination PowerVR-based graphics processor found within the Alibaba T-HEAD TH1520 RISC-V SoC. This power sequencing driver is just for being able to power-up the GPU before the actual graphics driver can takeover...

Mesa 25.2-rc3 Released With RADV Vulkan Video Fixes, NVK Conformance Update

Phoronix - Thu, 07/31/2025 - 04:29
The third weekly release candidate of Mesa 25.2 is now available for testing ahead of its planned stable release in August...

Linux's Landlock Security Module Lands New Maintainers To Avoid Bit Rot

Phoronix - Thu, 07/31/2025 - 03:20
Upstreamed to the Linux kernel back in 2021 was Landlock as a new means of unprivileged application sandboxing. It aimed to be very powerful and since being upstreamed four years ago has seen some minor enhancements and fixes but has been without any formal code maintainer. Thankfully two developers have stepped up to oversee this Linux security module going foreward...

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