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Linux 6.15 Landing Backlight Driver For Various Apple iPhones & iPads

Phoronix - Fri, 03/28/2025 - 23:09
Back during the Linux 6.13 kernel cycle initial support for many (pre-M1) Apple devices were upstreamed including various iPad, iPhone, and iPod Touch devices. That though was the very preliminary support and continuing to work their way upstream are various drivers/patches to further enhance the support. Now for the Linux 6.15 kernel is a new Apple backlight driver for controlling the backlight on various mobile Apple devices...

Linux 6.15 Networking Delivers Many Nice Performance Optimizations & New Hardware

Phoronix - Fri, 03/28/2025 - 21:00
The networking subsystem updates for the in-development Linux 6.15 kernel bring multiple nice performance optimizations to enhance Linux networking speeds. The Linux 6.15 networking pull also has support for a number of new wireless and wired network chipsets...

Linux Flips Around Its Behavior For Spectre-BHB Handling On ARM64

Phoronix - Fri, 03/28/2025 - 19:00
All of the ARM64 changes were merged this week to the Linux 6.15 kernel for enhancing the 64-bit ARM processor support...

Ubuntu Provides More Insight Into Their Decision Not To "-O3" Optimize All Packages

Phoronix - Fri, 03/28/2025 - 18:37
Since last year Canonical had been investigating using -O3 compiler optimizations for their Ubuntu package builds in the name of delivering better performance for Ubuntu Linux. A few weeks back though they decided they would not use -O3 optimizations for all packages. They have now provided more engineering insight into their reasoning and the results of their investigation into -O3 compiler optimizations for more packages...

Two Years In The Making, Intel Linux Driver Enables CPS Compression For Alchemist GPUs

Phoronix - Fri, 03/28/2025 - 18:29
A two year old Intel Mesa merge request was finally merged for Mesa 25.1 today for enabling functionality on DG2/Alchemist GPUs and newer...

Linux 6.15 Better Handles PS5 Controllers, AMD Human Presence Detection Off By Default

Phoronix - Fri, 03/28/2025 - 18:16
All of the HID subsystem updates have been merged for the ongoing Linux 6.15 merge window...

Top 6 Telegram Bots to Boost Your Productivity in 2025

Tecmint - Fri, 03/28/2025 - 12:12
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Telegram has eventually become something more than a mere messaging app since its official release in 2013. Back then, nobody

The post Top 6 Telegram Bots to Boost Your Productivity in 2025 first appeared on Tecmint: Linux Howtos, Tutorials & Guides.

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