ARM Give a man a fire and he's warm for a day, but set fire to him and he's warm for the rest of his life (Terry Pratchett, Jingo)

Framework Laptop 16 Upgrade To AMD Ryzen AI 300 Series Benchmarks

([Computers] 12 November 11:00 AM EST 5 Comments)

Framework Computer announced back in August that the Framework Laptop 16 would be rolling out upgrades to the AMD Ryzen AI 300 series and a GeForce RTX 5070 graphics option. Today the review embargo lifts on these new Framework 16 laptop upgrades and some Linux benchmarking of the new hardware.


Valve's Open-Source Radeon Linux Driver "Love Song For Gamers With Old GPUs"

([Valve] 12 November 10:13 AM EST Open-Source Driver Love Song)

As covered recently on Phoronix there has been several exciting improvements for aging AMD Radeon GCN 1.0 and GCN 1.1 era graphics cards for the open-source AMD Linux graphics driver stack. This work has been led by Timur Kristóf of Valve's Linux Open-Source Graphics Driver Group with an ultimate goal of shifting the GCN 1.0/1.1 open-source Linux driver hardware support from the aging "Radeon" kernel graphics driver over to the "AMDGPU" kernel driver already used by default for all AMD GPUs/accelerators from GCN 1.2 and newer.


Red Hat's RHEL 10.1 Released With systemd Soft-Reboots, Easier AI Accelerator Drivers

([Red Hat] 12 November 09:25 AM EST Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10.1)

Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10.1 has reached general availability with a number of enhancements to this leading enterprise Linux distribution. As with so many things in 2025, AI is a big focus for RHEL 10.1.


RADV Driver Adds Valve Video Extension Used By Steam Link VR

([Radeon] 12 November 06:32 AM EST RADV + Valve Video Extension)

Back in August with the Vulkan 1.4.327 spec update was the introduction of VK_VALVE_video_encode_rgb_conversion as a Valve vendor extension. The open-source Radeon Vulkan "RADV" driver has now merged support for this extension that is being used now by Steam Link VR.


At Least Two New Open-Source NPU Accelerator Drivers Expected In 2026

([AI] 12 November 06:21 AM EST AI Acceleration)

Open-source developer Tomeu Vizoso who developed the open-source and reverse-engineered "Rocket" accel driver for the Rockchip NPU and also worked on the Etnaviv/Vivante NPU support and other related code like Mesa's Teflon is teasing new NPU drivers coming in the new year.


Webmin 2.600 Web-Based System Administration Tool Brings "Biggest UI Update"

([Free Software] 12 November 06:10 AM EST Webmin 2.600)

Webmin continues serving as one of the best open-source, web-based server management control panels for Linux and other Unix-like platforms. Webmin 2.600 is out today with yet more features and a refined theme.


Haiku OS Made Many Kernel & App Improvements In October

([Operating Systems] 12 November 06:01 AM EST October 2025 Improvements)

The Haiku open-source operating system project inspired by BeOS has published their October 2025 status report.


Google Posts Device Trees For Booting Pixel 10 Hardware With The Mainline Linux Kernel

([Google] 11 November 08:20 PM EST Google Pixel 10)

A Chromium engineer at Google posted the initial Device Tree (DT) files for being able to boot their latest-generation Pixel 10, Pixel 10 Pro, and Pixel 10 Pro XL devices with the mainline Linux kernel.


sudo-rs Affected By Multiple Security Vulnerabilities - Impacting Ubuntu 25.10

([Ubuntu] 11 November 05:32 PM EST sudo-rs security)

The Ubuntu 25.10 transition to using some Rust system utilities continues proving quite rocky. Beyond some early performance issues with Rust Coreutils, breakage for some executables, and broken unattended upgrades due to a Rust Coreutils bug, it's also sudo-rs now causing Ubuntu developers some headaches. There are two moderate security issues affecting sudo-rs, the Rust version of sudo being used by Ubuntu 25.10.


Kaspersky Brings Its Anti-Virus Software To Linux For Home Users

([Proprietary Software] 11 November 04:32 PM EST Kaspersky)

Russian cybersecurity firm Kaspersky Lab announced that it's bringing its flagship Kaspersky anti-virus software for home users over to Linux. Kaspersky software was previously available for Linux just for business/enterprise deployments.


Linux 6.18 Merges Fix For "Catastrophic Performance Issue" On 64-bit ARM

([Arm] 11 November 03:27 PM EST Catastrophic Performance Issue)

Sent out today and already merged for the in-development Linux 6.18 kernel is the latest batch of 64-bit ARM "ARM64" architecture fixes. Most notable is a fix for addressing a "catastrophic performance issue" that was uncovered.


Intel Releases New CPU Microcode, Publishes 30 New Security Advisories

([Intel] 11 November 01:23 PM EST Patch Tuesday)

It's "Patch Tuesday" and Intel is out with new CPU microcode for Linux users in addition to making public 30 new security advisories that affect a range of Intel products.


Linux Proposal Aims To Overcome Kernel Limitation Affecting Various Gaming Peripherals

([Hardware] 11 November 12:39 PM EST Multiple Battery HID Devices)

The Linux kernel's Human Interface Devices (HID) subsystem has an existing architectural limitation that there is just up to one battery per HID device. But with modern devices -- especially among various gaming peripherals -- there can be more than one battery when considering earbuds with a battery for each earbud, multi-device wireless receivers, etc. A proposal was raised today to address this limitation.


Intel Core Ultra 7 255H Linux CPU Performance

([Processors] 11 November 10:40 AM EST 15 Comments)

Lenovo recently sent over their new ThinkPad P1 Gen 8 laptop for review under Linux. My Linux review on that ThinkPad P1 Gen 8 laptop will be coming up in the near future along with some other benchmarks from that premium mobile workstation. But with this being the first time I've had an Intel Core Ultra 7 255H "Arrow Lake H" device at Phoronix, here are some standalone benchmarks looking at the CPU performance of that 16-core mobile processor compared to various other Intel and AMD SoCs in different laptops while running Ubuntu Linux.


15h.org Ships Updated Open-Source Firmware For Aging AMD Bulldozer/Piledriver Hardware

([AMD] 11 November 09:29 AM EST 15h.org)

While there is the AMD openSIL project for open-source CPU silicon initialization for platforms moving forward with plans to ultimately replace AGESA and be more friendly toward the likes of Coreboot, for those on aging AMD Bulldozer and Piledriver era platforms there is some updated open-source firmware available thanks to an independent free software project.


Intel LPMD 0.1 Released With Support For Panther Lake

([Intel] 11 November 08:21 AM EST Intel Low Power Mode Daemon)

Intel on Monday released version 0.1 of their Low Power Mode Daemon, the open-source daemon in development for several years now for optimizing active idle power on modern Intel Core (Ultra) CPUs under Linux.


How System76 & Red Hat Hope To Finally Improve The Linux Multi-GPU Experience

([Wayland] 11 November 06:39 AM EST Better Linux Multi-GPU)

System76 engineer Victoria Brekenfeld and Red Hat engineer Sebastian Wick presented at the recent XDC2025 developer conference with their hopes of finally fixing the multi-GPU experience on Linux. As part of this is getting the necessary Wayland protocols in order as well as a new gpu-daemon service for proper multi-GPU handling for the Linux desktop.


New Linux Patches To Expose AMD Ryzen AI NPU Power Metrics

([AMD] 11 November 06:22 AM EST Ryzen AI NPU Power Data)

New Linux kernel patches currently undergoing review will allow AMD Ryzen AI NPU power metrics to be exposed under Linux. In turn this is useful for helping to gauge the utilization of the neural processing unit and also helping to evaluate the actual power efficiency of leveraging the AMD Ryzen AI NPU.


Intel Xe Linux Driver Working Toward UALink & High Speed Fabrics Support

([Intel] 11 November 06:08 AM EST Intel Xe SVM)

The YouTube video recordings for the X.Org Developers' Conference 2025 that took place at the end of September in Austria are finally available. Among the many interesting XDC2025 presentations was Intel engineer Matthew Brost talking about the GPU Shared Virtual Memory (SVM) within Intel's modern Xe kernel graphics driver.


SDL3 Now Implements Render Batching For Direct3D, Metal & Vulkan

([Free Software] 11 November 05:45 AM EST Batch Rendering)

The SDL3 library that is popular with cross-platform games for abstracting various software/hardware features has implemented render batching for its built-in rendering API. This render batching is successfully wired up now for Direct3D 11/12, Apple Metal, and Vulkan APIs for more efficient graphics rendering.


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