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Improved TTM Memory Management Eviction Submitted Ahead Of Linux 6.17

news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 3 July

Sent out today was the newest drm-misc-next pull request of changes built up over the past week for DRM-Next ahead of the Linux 6.17 kernel cycle. The drm-misc-next material is the usual random assortment of DRM display/graphics driver changes and core improvements, which this week includes some TTM eviction work...

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Libreboot 25.06 Released With Support For Two More Outdated Systems

news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 3 July

Libreboot 25.06 released this week as the newest version of this Coreboot downstream focused on shipping only with free and open-source components. But due to the strict open-source nature of Libreboot, it continues to primarily see support for long outdated platforms...

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Steam On Linux Usage Dips Slightly For June, AMD Linux CPU Usage Hits 69%

news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 3 July

Steam Survey issues prevented the survey results from being posted on the evening of the 1st as is traditionally done, but the results were just uploaded now to the Steam website. Steam on Linux usage dipped slightly but overall remains healthy with much excitement still around the Steam Deck and SteamOS efforts...

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Debian 13 Installer RC2 Fixes An Annoying Issue, Improves Btrfs Rescue Handling

news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 3 July

Following last month's release of Debian Installer Trixie RC1 as the installer for the upcoming Debian 13.0 release, a second release candidate was issued today for testing...

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ZLUDA Making Progress In 2025 On Bringing CUDA To Non-NVIDIA GPUs

news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 2 July

The ZLUDA open-source effort that started off a half-decade ago as a drop-in CUDA implementation for Intel GPUs and then for several years was funded by AMD as a CUDA implementation for Radeon GPUs atop ROCm and then open-sourced but then reverted has been continuing to push along a new path since last year. The current take on ZLUDA is a multi-vendor CUDA implementation for non-NVIDIA GPUs for AI workloads and more. More progress was made during Q2 on this effort...

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AMD Posts Linux Patches For New AI Engine Driver "amd-ai-engine"

news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 2 July

Not to be confused with the AMDXDNA accelerator driver for the Ryzen AI NPUs, AMD software engineers today posted patches for review on the "amd-ai-engine" accelerator driver. This new AMD AI Engine driver is for supporting the IP found on their Versal adaptive SoCs...

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Firefox 120 To Firefox 141 Web Browser Benchmarks

news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 2 July

For those curious about the direction of Mozilla Firefox web browser performance over the past year and a half, here are web browser benchmarks for every Firefox release from Firefox 120 in November 2023 through the newest Firefox 140 stable and Firefox 140 beta releases from a few days ago. Every major Firefox release was benchmarked on the same Ubuntu Linux system with AMD Ryzen 9 9950X for evaluating the performance and memory usage of this open-source web browser.

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Wayback Hopes To Be Ready Next Year With Alpine Linux Planning To Use It By Default

news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 2 July

A few days ago Wayback was announced as an X11 compatibility layer for X11 desktops environments leveraging a rootful XWayland server. While currently experimental, the hope is that it will be production-ready next year and Alpine Linux is looking at using it by default for its X11 environment...

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Better Late Than Never: Linux 6.17 To Enable Intel DG1 Graphics By Default

news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 2 July

Prior to the DG2/Alchemist discrete GPUs from Intel there was the DG1 graphics processor that served primarily as the initial developer vehicle for facilitating Intel's modern discrete GPU push. DG1 ended up being in the Intel Xe MAX GPU for a small number of laptops and then there's also been a select number of DG1 graphics cards surfacing on eBay in the years since. Only now in 2025 is the upstream Linux kernel driver set to enable Intel DG1 graphics out-of-the-box for modern Linux distributions...

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