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Ubuntu Debcrafters Team Formed To Help Ensure The Health Of The Ubuntu Archive

([Ubuntu] 4 Minutes Ago Ubuntu Debcrafters)

Jon Seager as the VP of Engineering at Canonical today publicly announced the formation of their "Debcrafters" global team to help ensure the health of the Ubuntu Archive.



FFmpeg Integrates Video Encoder For Advanced Professional Video (APV)

([Multimedia] 5 Minutes Ago APV Encoder)

One week ago FFmpeg merged decode support for Samsung's Advanced Professional Video "APV" codec. APV is designed for professional-grade video recording purposes and is a royalty-free video codec geared for prosumers. Now arriving within FFmpeg Git is APV video encode support.



AWS Graviton4 96-Core Performance vs. AMD EPYC & Intel Xeon CPUs

([Processors] 1 Minute Ago)

Last week I published some initial benchmarks of the Amazon/AWS Graviton4 processors now available within the EC2 cloud using the new "R8g" instances. That initial comparison was a 64 vCPU comparison of Graviton4 against AMD EPYC and Intel Xeon 64 vCPU AWS instances. In today's article is a look at the 96-core Graviton4 bare metal performance using the "r8g.metal-24xl" AWS instance type. The Graviton4 r8g.metal-24xl performance was then compared in today's article against various bare metal AMD EPYC, Ampere Altra Max, and Intel Xeon processors in the lab at Phoronix.



Coreboot 25.06 Released With Xeon Emerald Rapids Support, Better Panther Lake

([Coreboot] 10 Hours Ago Coreboot 25.06)

Building off Coreboot 25.03 is now the availability of Coreboot 25.06 for further enhancing this open-source system firmware project that continues to see new hardware improvements -- predominantly for Google Chromebook devices but also more Intel platforms and other hardware -- as well as new capabilities to further rival proprietary BIOS solutions.



Vulkan 1.4.321 Released With A Handful Of New Extensions

([Vulkan] 4 July 07:15 PM EDT Vulkan 1.4.321)

The Vulkan working group is celebrating the US Independence Day with graphics API independence in today publishing Vulkan 1.4.321 that comes with several new extensions.



Bcachefs Fixes Merged For Linux 6.16-rc5

([Linux Storage] 4 July 02:07 PM EDT Bcachefs Fixes)

A handful of Bcachefs file-system fixes were submitted yesterday to Linus Torvalds for merging ahead of the Linux 6.16-rc5 release due out on Sunday. Today they were merged.



Rust-Written Redox OS Continues Making Progress With Wayland

([Operating Systems] 4 July 11:00 AM EDT Redox OS For June)

The Rust-written Redox OS open-source operating system project just published their June 2025 status report to outline recent progress on this innovative platform.



Acer Nitro Gaming Controller"NGR200" To Be Supported By Linux 6.16

([Linux Gaming] 4 July 09:18 AM EDT Acer Nitro Gaming Controller)

Sent in today for the ongoing Linux 6.16 kernel cycle as part of the input subsystem fixes is enabling support for the Acer Nitro Gaming Controller (NGR200).



Intel Enables Wildcat Lake Display & Experimental Flip Queue For Linux 6.17 Graphics

([Intel] 4 July 07:00 AM EDT Intel DRM Next)

Intel today sent out a batch of new kernel graphics/display driver code for queuing ahead of the Linux 6.17 merge window opening in a few weeks. There is now DRM Panic support for the Intel i915 and Xe kernel drivers, Wildcat Lake "WCL" display enablement, and experimental flip queue support for Lunar Lake and Panther Lake hardware, among other changes coming for the Intel drivers in Linux 6.17.



Debian Looks To Attract More Contributors, Eyes Budget For AI/LLM Usage By Debian Developers

([Debian] 4 July 06:30 AM EDT Debian Developers)

The Debian project is hoping to address challenges of mentoring newcomers to contribute to the Debian Linux distribution as well as making it more known that open-source contributors can do more than just work on Debian packaging but that help is needed for documentation writing, web page creation, sorting out licensing issues, finding project sponsors, and more. Debian is also looking to attain OpenAI sponsorship or open-source funds from other large language model (LLM) / AI providers to help Debian developers for those wanting to use AI to help accelerate their Debian workflows.



Redis 8.2 Preparing More Performance Optimizations, SVS-VAMANA

([Programming] 4 July 06:19 AM EDT Redis 8.2)

The first release candidate of Redis 8.2 is now available for testing of this popular in-memory key-value database. Redis 8.2 is building off the recent Redis 8.0 release that ended up going tri-licensing with the AGPLv3 stemming from developer/community feedback.



Bash 5.3 Released With Many Improvements

([GNU] 4 July 06:09 AM EDT Bash 5.3)

Three years since the Bash 5.2 release and one year since the first alpha release, GNU Bash 5.3 was released overnight as the newest step forward for this popular shell used on Linux and other operating systems.



Perl 5.42 Released With New Operators, Unicode 16 Support, Security Fixes

([Programming] 3 July 07:55 PM EDT Perl 5.42)

Perl 5.42 is out today as the newest feature release for this popular programming language that comes one year after the prior Perl 5.40 release.



Fedora Linux Looks To End Support For UEFI On MBR-Paritioned Disks

([Fedora] 3 July 04:06 PM EDT Now Requiring GPT Partitioned Disks)

A proposal raised for Fedora 43 would end support for allowing UEFI installations on MBR-partitioned disks for x86_64 systems in the Anaconda installer. This would enforce a requirement on using GPT partition tables for all UEFI-based Fedora installations in the x86 world.



Intel Lunar Lake Showing Some Performance Improvements With Linux 6.16

([Software] 3 July 10:50 AM EDT 4 Comments)

For those on an Intel Core Ultra Series 2 "Lunar Lake" system, the upcoming Linux 6.16 kernel is looking to be in better shape for those newest Intel SoCs. In testing carried out using a Lenovo ThinkPad X1 Carbon Gen 13 Aura edition laptop, there are performance gains in some areas with the Linux 6.16 development kernel.



X.Org Server Lands Big Improvement For Using Zink With GLAMOR

([X.Org] 3 July 08:39 AM EDT DMA-BUF On Zink With GLAMOR)

A nice improvement was merged today to the X.Org Server for benefiting the GLAMOR 2D acceleration code when using the Zink OpenGL-on-Vulkan driver.



Linux 6.17 To Finish Clearing Out Old Code For OpenMoko Devices

([Hardware] 3 July 06:52 AM EDT OpenMoko)

Linux 6.17 is expected to clear out some final remnants of the OpenMoko Neo 1973 and Neo FreeRunner smartphone support from that Linux smartphone effort from two decades ago.



Lenovo Legion Go S HID Driver Posted For Linux

([Hardware] 3 July 06:30 AM EDT Lenovo Legion Go S)

The Linux support for the Lenovo Legion Go S gaming handheld continues to be improved upon thanks to the option of having Steam OS on this alternative to the Steam Deck.



Improved TTM Memory Management Eviction Submitted Ahead Of Linux 6.17

([Intel] 3 July 06:12 AM EDT TTM Eviction)

Sent out today was the newest drm-misc-next pull request of changes built up over the past week for DRM-Next ahead of the Linux 6.17 kernel cycle. The drm-misc-next material is the usual random assortment of DRM display/graphics driver changes and core improvements, which this week includes some TTM eviction work.



Libreboot 25.06 Released With Support For Two More Outdated Systems

([Hardware] 3 July 05:55 AM EDT Libreboot 25.06)

Libreboot 25.06 released this week as the newest version of this Coreboot downstream focused on shipping only with free and open-source components. But due to the strict open-source nature of Libreboot, it continues to primarily see support for long outdated platforms.



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individually and in combination, isn't it a little <fill in the blank> to be
limited to a single, now quite trite, adjective?