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In addition to a Framework Laptop EC driver being prepared for Linux that extends the Chrome OS embedded controller (EC) used by recent Framework Laptops, a ChromeOS EC hardware monitoring (HWMON subsystem) driver has also been revived as a further support extension for Framework laptops on Linux...

ChromeOS EC Hardware Monitoring Driver Being Revived For Framework Laptops  Phoronix

“Ban on AI-Generated Code” — Linux Community Takes Action  Medium

Intel NPU Driver Preparing Hardware Scheduler & Profiling Support  Phoronix

The Intel iVPU accelerator driver changes for the upcoming Linux 6.10 merge window have been submitted for advancing the Neural Processing Unit (NPU) support found since the launch of Meteor Lake with Intel Core Ultra notebook CPUs. For this iVPU/NPU driver in Linux 6.10 are a few notable new features...

The AMDGPU Linux kernel graphics driver has seen a new patch series preparing enablement of a new hardware intellectual property (IP) block for the first time: the ISP...

For fans of SQLite and/or new database solutions, Limbo is an in-development, open-source OLTP database management system that is compatible with SQLite while written in the Rust programming language and leveraging Linux's IO_uring for async I/O...

Red Hat's Red Hat Enterprise Linux AI offers open-source generative AI innovation  TimesTech

Red Hat Delivers Accessible, Open Source Generative AI Innovation with Red Hat Enterprise Linux AI - CRN  CRN.in

Fedora Asahi Remix 40 is another big step forward for Linux on Apple Silicon Macs  Ars Technica

Embracing the Future: The Transition from SysVinit to Systemd in Linux  Linux Journal

FOSS Weekly #24.19: Local AI on Linux, systemd's sudo Replacement  It's FOSS

Things I Recommend Doing After Installing Ubuntu 24.04 LTS 'Noble Numbat'  It's FOSS

The first beta of Python 3.13 is now available for testing ahead of its official release later this year...

Pop!_OS' COSMIC Desktop Finishing Up Work On App Store  Phoronix

The developers at System76 working on their Rust-written COSMIC desktop environment catering to their in-house, Ubuntu-derived Pop!_OS Linux distribution have provided their latest monthly status update on the desktop effort...

Following the release of ROCm 6.1 just under one month ago, ROCm 6.1.1 was published today as the newest point release to deliver various bug fixes and other minor improvements to this open-source GPU compute stack...

Ongoing Mesa release manager Eric Engestrom continues carrying out a splendid job with the on-time releases of new bi-weekly Mesa point releases and the weekly release candidates heading toward the next feature release of these open-source predominantly OpenGL and Vulkan drivers...

Back in January the Zed editor was open-sourced for this new code editor from the creators of the Atom editor and Tree-sitter syntax parsing framework. This high performance code editor has been initially focused on macOS support while the Linux support has begun coming together...

Zed Code Editor Making Progress On Linux Support  Phoronix