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Analyzing Fedora's Slow Performance On The Framework Laptop 13 Pro With Intel Panther Lake
As part of my recent Linux testing of the Framework Laptop 13 Pro I had recently benchmarked six Linux distributions on the Framework Laptop 13 Pro. CachyOS was the fastest to not much surprise but arguably the most surprising aspect was finding Fedora Workstation 44 typically running slower than the five other modern Linux distributions benchmarked. Here's a follow-up to that with more Fedora Linux benchmarks and the cause/workaround for Fedora's slower performance on the Intel Panther Lake laptop.
Flatpak 1.19 Released With Nine Security Fixes
Flatpak 1.19 was released today as a new development release along with the Flatpak 1.18.1 stable point release. Both of these releases ship a number of newly-discovered security issues with this app sandboxing and distribution tech...
OpenSSH 10.5 Fixes Security Flaws as Project Responds to AI-Assisted Bug Discovery
OpenSSH 10.5 ships with several security fixes as developers say growing AI-assisted vulnerability research is prompting more frequent releases.
GNOME Designers Lay Out Some Of Their GNOME Shell Dreams
GNOME interaction designer Tobias Bernard has shared some of the plans and ideas for long-term GNOME Shell improvements they have been eyeing for future GNOME releases...
Up To 12.8x Improvement Observed For gup_test With New Linux MM Patches
Linux developer Rik van Riel has pulled off some nice Linux kernel optimizations over the years and the Meta engineer has been working on another one around batching of look-ups with Linux's follow_page_mask() that is used for translating virtual addresses to the corresponding struct page...
Raspberry Pi AXI PMU Driver Under Review For The Mainline Linux Kernel
One of the Raspberry Pi device drivers that has remained elusive from the mainline Linux kernel has been for the performance monitoring unit (PMU) for the Broadcom AXI on all Raspberry Pi 1 through Raspberry Pi 5 models. Thanks to the work of a Google engineer, there is a new effort working to get a mainline Linux driver for the Raspberry Pi AXI PMU...
Xfce’s Wayland Compositor Gets Second Preview with Better Window and Input Handling
Xfce’s experimental Wayland compositor xfwl4 gets its second preview release, adding new window management features and a large batch of fixes.
FastFlowLM 1.0 Released Now As Part Of The AMD ROCm Umbrella
FastFlowLM is the open-source software for getting vision, audio, embedding, and MoE large language models up and running on AMD Ryzen AI NPUs. FastFlowLM 1.0 released today and is also now part of the AMD ROCm software umbrella...
Rusticl Now Supports cl_ext_float_atomics
With the recent release of Mesa 26.2 the Rusticl OpenCL driver now supports OpenCL 3.1 on RadeonSI, LLVMpipe, Zink, Intel Iris, and Apple Asahi. But the work is not over and more improvements to this Rust-based, modern OpenCL driver continue to land...
Claude Opus Helped Debug & Fix Lack Of Audio On Linux For HP OmniBook X Flip 14
The HP OmniBook X Flip 14-kc0xxx is an AMD Ryzen AI 300 "Strix Point" powered laptop. While most AMD Strix Point laptops work fine on modern Linux distributions, with this particular HP OmniBook X there is no working audio with current mainline Linux kernel builds. With Claude Opus 5 acting as a debugging assistant and coding agent, patches are now pending to correct the audio support for this HP OmniBook X Flip 14 laptop to function on Linux...
SparkleShare Finds Funding—and an Unintended Lesson for Open Source
SparkleShare’s funding success shows that grants can revive struggling open source projects—but only if maintainers can find the organizations ready to support them. The post SparkleShare Finds Funding—and an Unintended Lesson for Open Source appeared first on FOSS Force.
BlueFerry Brings iMessage and SMS from iPhone to Linux Over Bluetooth
BlueFerry is a new open-source Linux app that lets users send and receive iMessage and SMS from an iPhone directly over Bluetooth.
Open-Source NVIDIA "Nova" Driver Sees More Functionality For Linux 7.3
Sent to DRM-Next this week was the DRM Rust core and driver changes targeting the upcoming Linux 7.3 merge window. There continues to be a lot of DRM core infrastructure work happening for Rust integration plus two leading Rust DRM drivers of Nova for open-source NVIDIA GPU support as the successor to Nouveau and then Tyr as the in-development Arm Mali driver...
Linux Mint Devs Change the Way Linux Kernels Are Tracked
The Linux Mint developers have re-implemented kernel management within the System Administration tool and are changing how kernels are being tracked.