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Fedora Weighs Dropping Release Criteria For DVD Optical Media

Phoronix - Wed, 07/23/2025 - 01:18
The Fedora project is seeking feedback from its user and developer community over potentially updating its release criteria to no longer block on optical media boot issues (DVD images) as well as whether to continue honoring dual boot issues for Intel-based Macs as release-blocking...

Apple Silicon SoC/DT Changes Submitted Ahead Of Linux 6.17

Phoronix - Wed, 07/23/2025 - 01:03
Sven Peter today sent out all of the Apple SoC driver and DeviceTree (DT) updates aiming for the soon-to-happen Linux 6.17 merge window...

A Number Of Problems Make Debian & Other Linux Distros A Pain On Snapdragon X Laptops

Phoronix - Tue, 07/22/2025 - 22:08
While downstream Ubuntu is the most popular Linux option for the Qualcomm Snapdragon X powered "Windows on Arm" laptops, that's because of their concept images containing a number of "hacked packages" to lead to a decent user experience. But for upstream Debian Linux the prospects of running it on Snapdragon X Elite/Plus laptops is less than ideal with a number of problems persisting -- similar to other Linux distributions focused on running the mainline Linux kernel and other upstream software...

Fedora 43 Cleared To Ship With Zstd Initrd, Updated Compiler Toolchains & More

Phoronix - Tue, 07/22/2025 - 20:47
The Fedora Engineering and Steering Committee (FESCo) this week voted to approve a number of new features/changes for the upcoming Fedora 43 release...

AMDGPU LLVM Backend Flips On "True16" Mode For All RDNA3 GPUs

Phoronix - Tue, 07/22/2025 - 18:52
A late change to the AMDGPU LLVM compiler back-end that may help efforts particularly for the ROCm compute support on RDNA3 hardware is finally merging support for using true 16-bit instructions and registers on all RDNA3 GPUs...

Arm Preparing Support For Latest Mali GPUs With Panthor Open-Source Driver

Phoronix - Tue, 07/22/2025 - 18:33
Arm engineer Karunika Choo has been leading the effort to enable support for the latest Mali GPUs within the open-source and upstream "Panthor" DRM kernel graphics driver for Linux. This work includes being able to enable the latest Mali 5th Gen GPUs on this open-source graphics driver...

Fwupd 2.0.13 Released With New Hardware Support, Numerous Fixes

Phoronix - Tue, 07/22/2025 - 18:12
LVFS/Fwupd lead developer Richard Hughes of Red Hat today announced the availability of Fwupd 2.0.13 for handling firmware updates on modern Linux systems...

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