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Debian 13.0 "Trixie" Planning For Release On August 9

([Debian] 19 July 11:48 AM EDT Debian 13 Release Date)

The Debian release team today shared their final release plans for Debian 13 "Trixie" that aims to be out as stable in less than one month's time.



Rust-Written NOVA Open-Source NVIDIA Driver Being Further Built Out In Linux 6.17

([Nouveau] 19 July 09:49 AM EDT NOVA Changes For Linux 6.17)

For Linux 6.17 in addition to Intel enabling SR-IOV for Battlemage graphics cards and many other big Intel Xe kernel graphics cards and then more AMD graphics driver features too, the NOVA driver for modern open-source NVIDIA driver support is continuing to be further built out in this next kernel version.



Open-Source & Rust-Written Burn MATMUL Kernels Can Compete With NVIDIA's CUDA/cuBLAS

([Programming] 19 July 06:40 AM EDT Burn)

The open-source and Rust-based Burn deep learning framework developed by Tracel AI shared that their open-source matrix multiplication kernel performance can compete with and even outperform the NVIDIA CUDA cuBLAS performance. Plus Burn isn't limited to just NVIDIA GPUs but can work on most hardware/drivers, including a Vulkan back-end.



Wayland Color Management For HDR Under Review For Chrome/Chromium

([Google] 19 July 06:21 AM EDT Wayland Color Management)

The latest software with pending Wayland color management support for enabling HDR display support is the open-source Google Chromium code for the Chrome web browser.



KDE Plasma 6.5 Brings Rounded Bottom Corners For Windows By Default

([KDE] 19 July 05:57 AM EDT Plasma 6.5)

KDE Plasma 6.5 is introducing a change that has been "years in the wanting" and that is rounded bottom corners for windows.



Arch Linux AUR Packages For Firefox & Other Browsers Removed For Containing Malware

([Arch Linux] 19 July 12:00 AM EDT Malicious AUR Packages)

While the Arch Linux AUR repository can be popular for fetching some packages not found in Arch Linux proper, it's important to keep in mind that AUR stands for the Arch User Repository. These user packages aren't always the best and rarely can be done with malicious intent as shown this week with an advisory over several malicious browser packages being briefly pedaled through AUR.



Intel Announces It's Shutting Down Clear Linux

([Intel] 18 July 06:01 PM EDT Clear Linux)

The most depressing news of the week: Intel is ending their performance-optimized Clear Linux distribution. Over the past decade the Clear Linux operating system has shown what's possible with out-of-the-box performance on x86_64 hardware... Not just for Intel platforms but even showing extremely great performance results on AMD x86_64 too. But with the cost-cutting going on at Intel, Clear Linux is now being sunset.



Bcachefs Lands More Fixes Ahead Of Linux 6.16-rc7

([Linux Storage] 18 July 04:44 PM EDT Bcachefs Fixes For Linux 6.16-rc7)

As we await to see what Linus Torvalds will end up doing about the Bcachefs file-system come Linux 6.17, for the ongoing Linux 6.16 cycle he continues to honor the Bcachefs pull requests containing fixes.



Ubuntu 25.10 Raspberry Pi Images Will Be Much Leaner

([Raspberry Pi] 18 July 01:15 PM EDT Ubuntu 25.10 Raspberry Pi)

The Ubuntu 25.10 images geared for the Raspberry Pi will be much more lean than current Ubuntu Linux releases for the Raspberry Pi thanks to changes merged this week.



AMD Announces ROCm-LS, hipCIM As Port Of NVIDIA's cuCIM

([AMD] 18 July 12:00 PM EDT ROCm-LS)

Back in May was the announcement by AMD of ROCm-DS as a new toolkit geared for real-world data science problems with various helpers to accelerate data processing on Instinct accelerators. AMD today is complementing ROCm-DS by announcing ROCm-LS and hipCIM.



Intel Compute Runtime 25.27.34303.5 Brings Support For Wildcat Lake & BMG G31

([Intel] 18 July 10:43 AM EDT Intel Compute Runtime)

Intel is out today with its monthly feature update to the Compute Runtime as their open-source GPU compute stack providing Level Zero and OpenCL API support on Windows and Linux systems. This month there is new hardware support, more performance optimizations, and some new features.



Imagination Kernel Graphics Driver Being Extended To AM62P/AM67A/J722S SoCs

([Hardware] 18 July 08:30 AM EDT Imagination DRM)

The open-source and upstream Imagination Direct Rendering Manager (DRM) kernel graphics driver for supporting their modern graphics IP and pairing with their PowerVR Vulkan driver within Mesa is now being extended to work on the TI AM62P, AM67A, and J722S SoCs.



Servo Web Engine Further Tuning Performance, Screen Reader & Other New Features

([Free Software] 18 July 06:34 AM EDT Servo)

The Servo open-source web layout engine continues advancing with its demo Servoshell and continued work around making it suitable for embedding into other software. The Servo project this morning published their latest monthly status update to inform the community what they have been up to the past several weeks.



Intel QATlib 25.08 Brings Hugepages Support & Other Improvements

([Intel] 18 July 06:19 AM EDT Intel QATlib 25.08)

Intel engineers yesterday released QATlib 25.08 as the first new update in nearly one year for this QuickAssist Technology library. Intel QuickAssist allows hardware-accelerated offloading of various security authentication and compression operations from the CPU onto dedicated accelerator IP found in recent Xeon processors. Intel's QATlib is the open-source library for enabling that magic to happen from the user-space side.



AMD Bringing SmartMux Support To Linux 6.17 For Better Hybrid GPU Laptop Support

([Radeon] 17 July 08:00 PM EDT AMD SmartMux On Linux)

For the upcoming Linux 6.17 kernel cycle AMD already queued fixes for GPU compute on some older AMD hardware, improved debugging support for AMDGPU, and other enhancements. Sent out today was a final batch of feature changes for AMDGPU/AMDKFD expected for the upcoming Linux 6.17 merge window. Most notable is AMD SmartMux support coming to Linux.



LLVM 21.1-rc1 Released For Testing: Better RISC-V Support, AMD GFX1250 & NVIDIA GB10

([LLVM] 17 July 05:01 PM EDT LLVM 21.1-rc1)

The first release candidate of LLVM 21.1 is now available for testing, which under their modern versioning scheme will represent the first stable version of the LLVM 21 compiler stack.



Linux Receiving Fix For AMD Radeon Polaris GPUs Producing Lots Of Log Spam

([Radeon] 17 July 02:34 PM EDT Radeon RX 500 Series)

For those using an AMD Radeon RX 500 "Polaris" graphics card on Linux and routinely suspend/resume your system, going into the Linux 6.16 kernel and then to be back-ported to the stable series is a fix where the AMDGPU driver could end up producing a lot of spam in the kernel log.



New FFmpeg AVX-512 Optimizations Hit Up To 36x The Performance Of Plain C Code

([Multimedia] 17 July 01:06 PM EDT scene_sad + AVX-512)

Some commits merged today to FFmpeg Git provide additional hand-tuned Assembly code for AVX-512 with capable Intel and AMD processors.



Google Continues Working On "Magma" For Mesa Cross-Platform System Call Interface

([Mesa] 17 July 10:27 AM EDT Mesa + Magma)

Mesa 25.2 entered its feature freeze yesterday with many exciting driver improvements with new features and performance optimizations while one feature that wasn't ready for merging in this quarter's release is Magma, which is a recent effort by Google engineers working on a cross-platform system call interface for Mesa. And it's written in Rust.



Single RunQueue Proxy Execution Appears Ready For Linux 6.17

([Linux Kernel] 17 July 06:36 AM EDT Proxy Execution)

The long in development work around proxy execution for the Linux kernel appears to be ready for the upcoming Linux 6.17 merge window with the Single RunQueue Proxy Execution patches queued into a TIP branch after going through 19 rounds of patch review/revisions.



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