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Backup tool Rescuezilla resurrects itself across six Ubuntus

  • The Register (Posted by bob on Jul 18, 2025 6:13 PM CST)
  • Groups: Ubuntu; Story Type: News Story
2.6.1 adds Plucky Puffin and Firefox actually works this time Rescuezilla 2.6.1 has introduced a new version based on the latest interim Ubuntu release, while also updating its existing builds on older versions.…

Unplugged and Unstoppable: How Linux Transforms Laptop Power Management

In an era when remote work, video conferencing, and travel-heavy lifestyles are the norm, users expect laptops to last longer unplugged. Meanwhile, growing awareness of sustainability adds pressure to maximize energy efficiency. Recognizing this mantra, Linux developers have overhauled power-handling strategies, from the kernel core to user-space tools, to meet these expectations in 2025.

Compact Maix4-HAT Delivers 18 TOPS INT8 On-Device Inference for Raspberry Pi SBC

Maix4-HAT is a compact AI inference module developed by Sipeed for edge-side deployment of large models. According to Sipeed, it is powered by AXera’s AX650 vision chip, integrating an NPU capable of up to 72 TOPS at INT4 or 18 TOPS at INT8 precision. The module is designed to handle vision, speech, and language tasks […]

How Rust's Debut in the Linux Kernel is Shoring Up System Stability

When Rust first made its way into the Linux kernel in late 2022 (mainline inclusion began with version 6.1), it didn’t merely introduce a new programming language, it marked a profound shift in how we ensure operating system resilience. This article dives into why that matters, how it’s being implemented, and what it could mean for Linux’s long-term robustness.

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

  • Phoronix (Posted by bob on Jul 18, 2025 4:33 AM CST)
  • Story Type: News Story
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...

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

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...

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

  • Phoronix (Posted by bob on Jul 17, 2025 10:27 PM CST)
  • Groups: Intel; Story Type: News Story
Some commits merged today to FFmpeg Git provide additional hand-tuned Assembly code for AVX-512 with capable Intel and AMD processors...

Boffins detail new algorithms to losslessly boost AI perf by up to 2.8x

  • The Register (Posted by bob on Jul 17, 2025 3:21 PM CST)
  • Groups: Intel; Story Type: News Story
New spin on speculative decoding works with any model - now built into Transformers We all know that AI is expensive, but a new set of algorithms developed by researchers at the Weizmann Institute of Science, Intel Labs, and d-Matrix could significantly reduce the cost of serving up your favorite large language model (LLM) with just a few lines of code.…

Linux 6.17 To Upstream Support For The Decade Old Marvell PXA1908 SoC

Launched back in 2014 was the Marvell PXA1908 SoC intended for 4G LTE smartphones and featured four Arm Cortex-A53 cores. Not too impressive for its time and far less so today. Though after a decade of not seeing mainline Linux kernel support and some vendor kernels stuck in the Linux 3.14 era, the upcoming Linux 6.17 cycle is expected to upstream support for this old smartphone SoC...

8-Way Linux OS Comparison On The Framework 12: Squeezing More Performance Out Of Raptor Lake

Earlier this year when the Framework 13 was updated for the AMD Ryzen AI 300 series I ran benchmarks looking at the performance gains across different Linux distributions with Debian 13, Clear Linux, and CachyOS being the outstanding performers for that Strix Point hardware. With the recent launch of the Framework 12 2-in-1 laptop powered by Intel Raptor Lake you may be wondering what Linux distributions have the edge there. Here is an eight-way comparison of different Linux operating systems on the Framework 12 with Intel Core i5 1334U with the likes of Arch Linux, CachyOS, Clear Linux, Debian, Fedora, openSUSE, and Ubuntu.

T-Display S3 Pro LR1121 Adds Dual-Band LoRa via Expansion Shield

  • LinuxGizmos.com (Posted by bob on Jul 17, 2025 4:40 AM CST)
  • Story Type: News Story
LILYGO has released the T-Display S3 Pro LR1121, a modular variant designed to expand the capabilities of the standard T-Display S3 Pro. Instead of integrating a camera module like another Pro variant, this version introduces dual-band LoRa connectivity, audio input/output, vibration feedback, and a larger battery, all packaged in a stackable shield form. The LR1121 […]

Intel Media Driver 2025Q2 Ships Panther Lake Video Encoding Support

The Intel Media Driver is out with its quarterly feature release for bringing all of the latest open-source video acceleration improvements for Intel graphics hardware on Linux. Enhancing support for upcoming Panther Lake SoCs continues to be a primary focus...

Google's Android boss suggests ChromeOS could be on borrowed time

Gentoo derivative is the most popular Linux distro, but its days are apparently numbered Google's Android president has confirmed the platform is set to replace ChromeOS – but not when.…

ESWIN Computing EBC77 RISC-V SBC To Support Ubuntu Linux

Canonical announced today that they teamed up with ESWIN Computing to ship Ubuntu Linux as the preferred operating system on their ESWIN Computing EBC77 Series single board computer...

Milk-V Titan Brings RISC-V Performance in Mini-ITX Form with UltraRISC UR-DP1000

Milk-V has revealed early details of the upcoming Milk-V Titan, a high-performance RISC-V platform built in a compact Mini-ITX form factor. It features the UltraRISC UR-DP1000 processor, which complies with the RV64GC(BHX) standard and supports hardware virtualization via the RV64 Hypervisor extension. This system-on-chip integrates eight UR-CP100 cores, each capable of running up to 2.0GHz. […]

Hyprland 0.50 Released With New Render Scheduling, Drops Legacy Renderer

  • Phoronix (Posted by bob on Jul 16, 2025 11:54 AM CST)
  • Groups: Linux; Story Type: News Story
Hyprland 0.50 is out today as the newest feature release for this Wayland compositor focused on delivering a lot of Linux desktop bling...

Blender 4.5 LTS Released With Vulkan & Wayland Improvements, Some Optimizations

  • Phoronix (Posted by bob on Jul 16, 2025 7:20 AM CST)
  • Story Type: News Story
Blender 4.5 is now officially available today as the newest feature release and one that is a Long Term Support (LTS) for this popular, cross-platform 3D modeling software...

ASRock Industrial Launches Jetson AGX Orin Platform for Edge & Autonomous Applications

ASRock Industrial has introduced a new developer kit based on the NVIDIA Jetson AGX Orin platform, designed to deliver high-performance AI computing at the edge. Targeting robotics, autonomous mobile robots, drones, smart retail, and industrial automation, the system is built to provide up to 275 TOPS of AI processing in a compact, rugged form factor. […]

Latest Intel Engineering Layoffs Lead To An Intel Linux Driver Being Orphaned

The latest round of cost-cutting at Intel seems to be having a larger impact on their software engineering efforts than some of their previous rounds of layoffs. In addition to a prominent Linux kernel developer veteran leaving Intel last week where he worked for the past 14 years and responsible for many great upstream improvements, other Intel software engineers working on their Linux/open-source affairs have also been departing. In just the latest instance, one of the upstream Intel Linux kernel drivers is now "orphaned" due to the developer departing and no one experienced left to maintain the code...

Curl creator mulls nixing bug bounty awards to stop AI slop

Maintainers struggle to handle growing flow of low-quality bug reports written by bots Daniel Stenberg, founder and lead developer of the open-source curl command line utility, just wants the AI slop to stop.…

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