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Qualcomm Posts Linux Patches For HP EliteBook X G2q X2 Elite Laptop
Last month Qualcomm engineers posted patches bringing up the Lenovo Yoga Slim 7x Gen11 Snapdragon X2 laptop on Linux. Sent out this weekend were a new set of patches from Qualcomm for bringing up the HP EliteBook X G2q laptop model powered by the Snapdragon X2 Elite SoC...
Someone Forked systemd Over Its New Birth Date Field
Liberated systemd is a fork that reverts systemd’s new optional birthDate support in user records, citing privacy concerns.
Mesa 26.2 Merges Vulkan Present Timing Support For X11/XWayland
Mesa's Vulkan windowing system integration (WSI) code now has support for present timing support "VK_EXT_present_timing" with X11 and XWayland...
System76 Refreshes the Serval WS Linux Laptop with Intel Core Ultra Series 2 CPUs
System76 refreshes its powerful Serval WS Linux-powered laptop with high-end Intel Core Ultra Series 2 processors, NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5070 Ti graphics, as well as up to 12TB storage and 96GB RAM.
Google's Gemini Partially Figures Out A Lengthy Linux Boot Time On Modern ASUS Laptop
Google Antigravity with the Gemini 3.5 Flash model helped a Linux user sort out a situation where his laptop was taking around 36 seconds to boot the kernel, which shouldn't be the case for the high-end laptop with AMD Ryzen 9 processor and 32GB of RAM. It ended up being yet another case of device firmware issues, but now a Linux kernel patch is pending for working around the issue on the ASUS ROG Strix G16 G614 laptop while discussions are ongoing in getting the vendor to provide a proper firmware fix...
Linux 7.2 Begins Making Preparations For NVIDIA "Blackwell-Next"
When going through the VFIO subsystem patches for the ongoing Linux 7.2 merge window, there isn't too much to get excited about for end users with these changes. But there is the first time mentioning "Blackwell-Next" enablement by NVIDIA for the Linux kernel...
Linux's KUnit Finally Supporting JUnit Output
KUnit as the unit testing framework for the Linux kernel and was inspired in part by Java's JUnit when originally conceived, is now finally able to output to the JUnit format for better interoperability with other CI systems and the like that standardize on that common format...
Epic Games Open-Sources Lore Version Control System
Epic Games has open-sourced Lore, a Rust-based version control system built for massive game and media projects with large binary assets.
Shelly 2.4 GUI Package Manager for Arch Linux Released with New Features
Shelly 2.4 open-source graphical package manager for Arch Linux-based distributions is now available for download with improved support for AppImage and Flatpak packages, CLI refactor, and other changes.
Broadcom Working On VMware Zero-Copy Buffer Sharing Between VMs And Hypervisor
Interesting feature work for VMware virtualization on Linux now being pursued by Broadcom is to support zero-copy buffer sharing between the VM(s) and host hypervisor, which would equate to an efficiency and performance win...
Slackware-Based PorteuX 2.7 Released with Linux 7.1, KDE Plasma 6.7, and More
PorteuX 2.7 Linux distribution is now available for download with Linux kernel 7.1, KDE Plasma 6.7, GNOME 50.2, support for the new NTFS-plus driver, a new native PorteuX cursor theme, and more.
Latest Update on Our FOSS Force 2026 Independence Fundraising Drive
We remain behind on our 2026 fundraising goals and are resetting our efforts to restore regular contributor support. The post Latest Update on Our FOSS Force 2026 Independence Fundraising Drive appeared first on FOSS Force.
FOSS Force’s Top Five Articles — For the Week Ending June 19, 2026
Did you miss this week’s top articles? Here are the five most read articles on FOSS Force for the week that just ended. The post FOSS Force’s Top Five Articles — For the Week Ending June 19, 2026 appeared first on FOSS Force.
ArmSoM Sige6 is The First Sige Board to Ditch Rockchip For Allwinner
Powered by the Allwinner A733, the SBC brings a 3 TOPS NPU, Wi-Fi 6, and up to 16 GB of LPDDR5 RAM.