The Raspberry Pi Imager application that makes it easy to generate install media / OS image flashing for different Raspberry Pi devices is out with a big feature update.

The Raspberry Pi Imager 2.0 release brings a new wizard interface, support for pre-configuring Raspberry Pi Connect , improved accessibility, and other enhancements for this overhauled app.

Raspberry Pi Imager 2.0 comes with a "radical UI change" and overall a much more streamlined experience for imaging Raspberry Pi OS.

The upcoming Linux 6.19 kernel cycle is set to introduce initial support for Xe3P graphics to be found initially with Nova Lake processors. While that initial support is landing for Linux 6.19, other extra Xe3P features are still to be added to the open-source kernel driver over coming release cycles. One of those extra features being currently tackled is a new element with Xe3P_LPD: the ability to use the system cache for FBC.

Xe3P_LPD will

Canonical and AMI announced a partnership today so that there will be an Ubuntu Metbookt option added within AMI's UEFI firmware to allow booting to the Ubuntu installer without the need for even having any install media.

Canonical and AMI announced this partnership from Nuremberg where they describe it as:

"Canonical, the publisher of Ubuntu, announced a partnership with AMI, a provider of Unified Extensible Firmware Interface (UEFI) solutions. The partnership will enable users of AMI’s Aptio® V UEFI Firmware to netboot directly into Ubuntu by

The end of 2025 is quickly approaching and while there are the various end of year holidays, you can still expect to find new and original content on Phoronix each and every single day of the year just as it's been for more than a decade of the now 21-year-old Phoronix.com. The last day without any new content on Phoronix was all the way back in May of 2012. That's due to my passion for Linux hardware and open-

Since the 2022 release of memtest86+ 6.0 as a rewrite of this long-used RAM testing utility, this open-source software has continued advancing nicely after a decade hiatus. Released on Sunday night was memtest86+ 8.0 as the latest iteration of this popular RAM tester for enthusiasts.

The memtest86+ 8.0 release can now be built with the Clang compiler and LLVM LLD linker. Plus there are many internal updates as well as now being able to

Linux 6.18-rc7 just arrived in the Git tree as the newest weekly test build leading up to Linux 6.18 stable hopefully debuting next Sunday, 30 November.

Linux 6.18-rc7 has continued landing many bug/regression fixes for this last kernel release of 2025. With this also being the last major Linux kernel version of 2025, Linux 6.18 is also anticipated to become the annual Long Term Support (LTS) kernel

Wayland Protocols 1.46 released this evening with new experimental protocols for text improvements as well as refinements to the color management protocol for HDR.

Wayland Protocols 1.46 brigns a new appendix and clarifications for the color-management-v1 protocol. A missing protocol error for color-representation-v1 is also added.

The experimental additions are for expanding on the existing text-input and input-method protocols. This experimental text-input protocol is text-input-unstable-v3. Dorota

NVIDIA has a number of Linux kernel patches on the way to the Linux 6.19 kernel in preparing for 1.6 Tb/s networking on NVIDIA-Mellanox hardware.

Queued last week within the RDMA tree's "for-next" Git branch is this patch for the NVIDIA-Mellanox MLX5 driver to add a defintion for the 1600Gbps link mode. The 1600 Gbps link mode is making use of eight lanes at 200 Gbps per lane.

AWS engineers have been working on Linux kernel improvements to KVM's VMX code for enhancing the unamanged guest memory when dealing with nested virtual machines. The improved code addresses some correctness issues as well as delivering wild performance improvements within a synthetic benchmark.

On Friday Amazon/AWS engineer Fred Griffoul sent out the latest patches to the KVM nVMX code for improving the performance of unmanaged guest memory. Fred explained of the issue with the current code and the improvement being made:

"This patch series addresses both performance and correctness issues in