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Ryzen AI Developer Platform: AMD's Own Linux Distribution Built Atop Debian

With the AMD Ryzen AI Halo developer platform there is the option of ordering this Ryzen AI Max+ mini PC with either Microsoft Windows 11 or "Linux OS". When receiving a AMD Ryzen AI Halo review sample last month, I fully expected it to just be an Ubuntu LTS install with ROCm preloaded. I was quite surprised when powering it up to find that it's an OS called the AMD Ryzen AI Developer Platform 1 "Rex" and is based on Debian Linux.

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Intel i915 Driver Nearly Ready To "Work Well" With RT Linux Kernel Sans Display Support

When it comes to the real-time "RT" patches carried outside of the Linux kernel, a number of them pertain to adjustments around the Intel i915 kernel DRM graphics driver. The mainline Linux kernel and its RT support depend upon not building "PREEMPT_RT" for the i915 driver support while patches have been worked on recently for making this Intel kernel graphics driver code play nicely with real-time Linux...

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Pioneer DJM-S11 Professional DJ Mixer To Be Supported By Linux 7.3

The Pioneer DJM-S11 is a professional scratch style 2-channel DJ mixer that retails for $2,269 USD. But if currently connecting this expensive piece of kit to Linux, it does nothing and is unusable. With 87 new lines of code, it will begin to work with the Linux 7.3 kernel later this year...

9to5Linux

9to5Linux Weekly Roundup: July 5th, 2026

9to5Linux Weekly Roundup for July 5th, 2026, brings news about Mageia 10, KDE Plasma 6.7.2, Kali Linux 2026.2, COSMIC 1.2, Juno Tab 4 Wi-Fi, Calibre 9.11, GNOME 51 Alpha, Ultramarine 44, Ubuntu Budgie 24.04.4 LTS for Raspberry Pi, fwupd 2.1.6, ParrotOS 7.3, KDE Gear 26.04.3, DXVK 3.0.1, BleachBit 6.0.2, and more.

LWN.net

Kernel prepatch 7.2-rc2

The 7.2-rc2 kernel prepatch is out for testing. Linus said: "It's Sunday afternoon, and rc2 is out. Things look very normal - it's not a small rc2, but it's in line with recent releases, and slightly smaller than rc2 was in 7.1. Let's see how that all continues, but so far so good."