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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...

Linaro Demos Linux on Snapdragon X Elite with 4K Video and AI  WebProNews

Debian shifts to 64-bit time storage to head off Epochalypse  Network World

Immutable Linux Distro HeliumOS Just Released an Update  How-To Geek

Linux Kernel 6.17 VFS Patch Boosts Disk Failure Handling for Btrfs, Bcachefs  WebProNews

Canonical Boosts Ubuntu with Latest Interim Linux Kernels  WebProNews

Hackers exploit SAP NetWeaver bug to deploy Linux Auto-Color malware  BleepingComputer

New Leostream Platform 2025.1 Adds Enhancements and Support for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9  Sports Video Group

AMD Streaming SDK Updated With Linux Support - But Recommending X.Org Over Wayland  Phoronix

AMD's GPUOpen group today released the AMD Interactive Streaking SDK 1.1 release that now delivers Linux support alongside the existing Microsoft Windows support. The AMD Interactive Streaming SDK is designed to provide pieces for developers to build-out low-latency streaming solutions for cloud gaming, virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI), and embedded applications. This MIT-licensed streaming SDK was originally launched by AMD back in March as Windows-only while now is thankfully also native to Linux...

Linux kernel 6.16 lands with 38 million lines of code  theregister.com

Cisco Donates the AGNTCY Project to the Linux Foundation  StartupNews.fyi

Farewell Benchmarks Of Intel's Clear Linux On AMD EPYC Shows More Performance Left To Tap  Phoronix

Last week I ran the last planned benchmarks of Intel CPU performance on Clear Linux vs. Ubuntu with Intel having ceased development of Clear Linux following the restructuring at the company. In today's article is a final look at how the AMD EPYC performance compares on Clear Linux relative to Ubuntu Linux and AlmaLinux. An AMD EPYC 9965 "Turin" dual socket server was used for showing the strong out-of-the-box performance on Intel's Clear Linux even for this competing server processor.

This Linux app alerts you when an app tries to connect to the internet - and why that matters  ZDNET

Cisco Donates the AGNTCY Project to the Linux Foundation  The New Stack

Cisco gifts ‘Internet of Agents’ to Linux, anticipating ‘80 billion’ bandwidth blitz  SDxCentral

Cisco donates AI agent tech to Linux Foundation  Network World

Apple’s New Containerization Feature Seamlessly Integrates Kali Linux on macOS  Cyber Press

Big vendors back Linux Foundation agentic workflows project  TechTarget