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Linux 6.15 Continues Improving Laptop Support

Phoronix - Wed, 03/26/2025 - 22:47
The x86 platform drivers co-maintainer Ilpo Järvinen sent out the pull request today of all the feature additions set for the in-development Linux 6.15 kernel. As usual, most of the platform-drivers-x86 material is around improvements to benefit modern Intel Core and AMD Ryzen laptops...

Linux 6.15 Adds Raptor Lake-S Support To Intel EDAC Driver

Phoronix - Wed, 03/26/2025 - 20:53
The Linux Error Detection And Correction (EDAC) subsystem updates have been merged for the ongoing Linux 6.15 kernel...

AerynOS 2025.03 Released Following Rebrand From Serpent OS

Phoronix - Wed, 03/26/2025 - 19:01
AerynOS 2025.03 is now available for this Linux distribution that began life as Serpent OS as a new original distribution started by Ikey Doherty of Solus Linux fame...

KDE Developers Begin Working On A New Login Manager

Phoronix - Wed, 03/26/2025 - 18:48
KDE developer David Edmundson has published a lengthy blog post today outlining the long-standing challenges they have with the SDDM display manager, unimplemented features they want out of a log-in manager, and acknowledging GNOME's GDM as a "gold standard" for display managers. While not yet an official project, they have begun working on a new KDE Login Manager for improving the situation...

IBM Says Goodbye To Cell Blade Servers With Linux 6.15

Phoronix - Wed, 03/26/2025 - 18:34
The Linux 6.15 kernel is set to remove support for IBM Cell Blade servers for those server platforms from around two decades ago that used the Cell Broadband Engine Architecture processors. IBM Cell Blades at the time powered a few supercomputers but these IBM QS20 / QS21 / QS22 platforms are no longer relevant and the IBM Linux kernel maintainers no longer even have these platforms available/running. With no apparent users remaining, it's time to say goodbye to the IBM Cell Blades from the mainline kernel...

Intel Low Power Mode Daemon 0.0.9 Released For Linux Users

Phoronix - Wed, 03/26/2025 - 18:08
Intel engineers today released LPMD 0.0.9, the newest version of their open-source Low Power Mode Daemon for Linux systems to optimize active idle power consumption on Intel Core processors...

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