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Linux 6.19 Will Continue With More Rust Graphics Driver Preparations

Phoronix - Tue, 10/14/2025 - 18:20
Even prior to the recent ending of the Linux 6.18 merge window and its many new features, the first "drm-misc-next" pull request of new material intended for Linux 6.19 was already submitted for inclusion to DRM-Next...

Ubuntu 26.04 Looks To Retire Its ISO Tracker: "Held Together With Duct Tape & Goodwill"

Phoronix - Tue, 10/14/2025 - 18:10
Canonical is looking to eliminate use of its Ubuntu ISO Tracker that has been relied on the past 15+ years and in turn 30+ releases. Their ISO Tracker has grown unreliable and difficult to maintain. But without any proper solution ready, for Ubuntu 26.04 LTS the ISO Tracker may be replaced by a temporary spreadsheet and Discourse thread...

Arm Posts Initial Open-Source Driver Patches For New Mali-G1 GPUs

Phoronix - Tue, 10/14/2025 - 17:59
Last month Arm announced the Lumex CSS platform with C1 CPUs and Mali G1 GPUs. One month later, Arm is already beginning to open-source graphics driver patches for enabling the new Mali-G1 graphics processor...

Haiku OS Improves Its FreeBSD/OpenBSD Network Driver Compatibility Layer

Phoronix - Tue, 10/14/2025 - 17:45
The BeOS-inspired Haiku operating system has published their September 2025 progress report to outline recent work on this open-source OS...

ytDownloader – Simple Linux GUI for YouTube Video Downloads

Tecmint - Tue, 10/14/2025 - 15:58
The post ytDownloader – Simple Linux GUI for YouTube Video Downloads first appeared on Tecmint: Linux Howtos, Tutorials & Guides .

Earlier, I wrote about yt-dlp, the powerful command-line tool for downloading videos from hundreds of websites, which is an incredible

The post ytDownloader – Simple Linux GUI for YouTube Video Downloads first appeared on Tecmint: Linux Howtos, Tutorials & Guides.

AMD & Intel Mark x86 Ecosystem Advisory Group's Anniversary: FRED, ACE, AVX10, ChkTag

Phoronix - Tue, 10/14/2025 - 08:20
It's been one year already since Intel and AMD formed the x86 Ecosystem Advisory Group in cooperation with other industry stakeholders. Today both companies are marking the first anniversary while reaffirming their commitment to the group...

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