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Framework Laptop 16 Upgrade Announced With Ryzen AI 300 Series, GeForce RTX 5070

([Hardware] 26 August 11:40 AM EDT Framework 16)

While the Framework 13 was upgraded earlier this year with a motherboard upgrade for the AMD Ryzen AI 300 series "Strix Point", the larger Framework 16 has been stuck in the Zen 4 era. But today Framework announced a new upgrade path for this 16-inch modular laptop for the Ryzen AI 300 series as well as NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5070 discrete graphics.


LLVM 21.1 Released With AMD GFX1250 Target, Improved RISC-V, New C/C++ Features

([LLVM] 26 August 10:28 AM EDT LLVM 21.1)

LLVM 21.1 is out today as the first stable version of the LLVM 21 compiler stack. This half-year stable release to the open-source LLVM compiler software brings new hardware support, new language features, and a lot of other enhancements throughout this massive and widely-used codebase.


Open-Source R300 Driver Adds New OpenGL Extensions For Two Decade Old Radeon GPUs

([Radeon] 26 August 09:08 AM EDT Radeon R300)

While the ATI Radeon 9000 / X300 / X500 / X600 series "R300" GPU support has long been unmaintained on the Microsoft Windows driver side, thanks to the open-source community the Linux driver support keeps going for the old ATI R300 GPUs with that driver also supporting the X700 / X800 "R400" and X1000 "R500" series graphics cards too. Two more OpenGL extensions are now wired up for the old R300 Gallium3D driver within Mesa.


Mir 2.22 Released With Tackling NVIDIA Support, Initial Rust Scaffolding

([Ubuntu] 26 August 06:42 AM EDT Mir 2.22)

Mir 2.22 is out today as the newest version of this Canonical project providing libraries for building Wayland-based shells/compositors. Mir 2.22 brings some notable improvements around NVIDIA GPU/driver support as well as initial preparations for Rust programming language support.


AMD & IBM Team Up For Quantum-Centric Supercomputing

([AMD] 26 August 06:28 AM EDT AMD + IBM For Quantum Computing)

AMD and IBM announced a joint collaboration today around quantum-centric supercomputing. IBM's quantum computing expertise is to be paired with AMD's AI and HPC technology like their Instinct accelerators to help accelerate quantum-centric supercomputing.


Initrd Support Could Finally Be On Its Way To Being Removed From The Linux Kernel

([Linux Kernel] 26 August 06:21 AM EDT Initrd Death Watch?)

Linux's classic initial RAM disk "initrd" support might finally be on its way out of the Linux kernel depending upon feedback from stakeholders. Long live initramfs.


Greenboot Rust Rewrite Approved For Fedora 43

([Fedora] 26 August 06:00 AM EDT Greenboot In Rust)

Red Hat engineers have been rewriting Greenboot in the Rust programming language to replace the Bash-written version of this generic health check framework for systemd, bootc, and RPM-OSTree based Linux environments. That Rust rewrite of Greenboot is now cleared for appearing in the Fedora Linux 43 release.


GhostBSD Ships "Gershwin" Desktop Environment For A macOS Like Experience

([BSD] 25 August 08:54 PM EDT GhostBSD + Gershwin)

GhostBSD 25.02-R14.3p2 was announced this evening as the newest incremental update to this FreeBSD 14 based operating system focused on providing a nice out-of-the-box desktop experience. Notable with this new GhostBSD release is now shipping a Gershwin community preview for this desktop environment focused on providing a Mac OS X like user experience, complete with GNUstep usage.


OpenZFS 2.3.4 Brings Linux 6.16 Kernel Compatibility, "zfs rewrite" Command

([Linux Storage] 25 August 08:30 PM EDT OpenZFS 2.3.4)

OpenZFS 2.4-rc1 was released a few days ago with faster encryption performance using AVX2 and other enhancements. For those just looking for bug fixes and expanded Linux kernel compatibility, OpenZFS 2.3.4 is out today as the newest stable point release.


Linux's Floppy Disk Driver Code Sees Some Cleanups In 2025

([Linux Kernel] 25 August 04:03 PM EDT Linux Floppy Driver)

On this 34th birthday since the Linux kernel was announced, coincidentally there's a new patch series out there for one of the oldest drivers: the floppy disk driver.


Linux 5.15 LTS To 6.17 Benchmarks: Four Years Of Kernel Improvement Net 37% Improvement On AMD EPYC

([Software] 25 August 10:06 AM EDT 26 Comments)

Stemming from a request by a Phoronix Premium reader wondering about some fresh historical kernel performance comparison numbers, today's benchmarking is looking at the performance of the LTS and latest stable Linux kernel versions going back to Linux 5.15 LTS in 2021. For testing an AMD EPYC Milan-X server was used for compatibility back through Linux 5.15 LTS with some rather impressive results for testing these major Linux kernel releases of the past four years.


Red Hat Releases TuneD 2.26 For Adaptively Tuning Linux Systems

([Hardware] 25 August 08:10 AM EDT Red Hat TuneD 2.26)

Red Hat's performance team is now shipping TuneD 2.26 as the latest feature release for this tuning profile delivery mechanism for Linux systems to monitor and adaptively adjust the power/performance characteristics of different system components and more.


Meson 1.9 Released With New Rust Features, Adds Swift/C++ Interoperability

([Programming] 25 August 06:39 AM EDT Meson 1.9)

Meson 1.9 released this weekend as the newest feature update to this build system / build automation tool that works well across different software platforms. With Meson 1.9 there is enhanced Rust support, introducing Swift and C++ code interoperability, and other enhancements to this increasingly used alternative to the likes of CMake and Autotools.


Open Platform For Enterprise AI's GenAI Code Adds Guardrails, AMD EPYC Support

([Free Software] 25 August 06:30 AM EDT OPEA 1.4)

The Open Platform for Enterprise AI "OPEA" that is a sub-project of the Linux Foundation and backed by a wide variety of different organizations to provide open solutions for Generative AI announced today their newest GenAI code examples.


Linux 6.18 Will Begin Preparing For ASPEED AST2700 BMC Support

([Hardware] 25 August 06:15 AM EDT ASPEED AST2700)

The upcoming Linux 6.18 kernel will begin upstreaming hardware enablement for the ASPEED AST2700 as the next-gen baseboard management controller "BMC" that will likely appear in the majority of future generation servers.


Linux Foundation Forms The Developer Relations Foundation, DocumentDB Joins The LF

([Linux Events] 25 August 05:52 AM EDT Linux Foundation)

The Linux Foundation used Open-Source Summit Europe 2025 happening in Amsterdam to announce the formation of the Developer Relations Foundation "DRF". Separately, they also announced from Amsterdam that DocumentDB has joined the Linux Foundation.


Linux 6.17-rc3 Released: "A Bit Larger Than Usual"

([Linux Kernel] 24 August 01:26 PM EDT Linux 6.17-rc3)

Linux 6.17 is one step closer to release with Linus Torvalds having issued Linux 6.17-rc3 already today to currently traveling in Europe.


CachyOS Introduces Packages Dashboard, GRUB+Btrfs Bootable Snapshots

([Arch Linux] 24 August 09:40 AM EDT CachyOS August 2025)

Popular Arch Linux based distribution CachyOS is out today with its August 2025 ISO refresh.


IO_uring Ready For uring_cmd Multishot Support With Provided Buffers

([Linux Storage] 24 August 05:45 AM EDT Linux 6.18 IO_uring)

Linux IO_uring and block subsystem maintainer Jens Axboe this week queued the patch series for multi-shot support with provided buffers. Thus the feature should go in for Linux 6.18 as another nice enhancement to the wonderful IO_uring kernel innovation.


Years Later, EDAC Linux Driver Coming For The ARM Cortex-A72

([Arm] 24 August 06:30 AM EDT Error Detection And Correction)

It's wild to think that the ARM Cortex-A72 was already announced ten years ago as the ARM core design that went on to appear in the Raspberry Pi 4, AWS Graviton server processor, and various other SoCs. ARM Cortex-A72 based hardware remains in widespread use and finally by the end of 2025 there will be a mainline Error Detection And Correction "EDAC" driver in the mainline Linux kernel for this core.


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