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Linux Gains Tool For Defragmenting exFAT Filesystems

Phoronix | Oct. 15, 2025, 5:36 a.m. | Original

A new release of exfatprogs is now available as the user-space programs on Linux for the exFAT file-system to complement the in-tree kernel driver for the Microsoft exFAT support.

New to the exfatprogs 1.3 release is introducing defrag.exfat as a tool for defragmenting an exFAT file-system or assessing its fragmentation status. Thus now defragging exFAT under Linux rather than no defrag support at all or having to do so under Microsoft Windows.

The exfatprogs 1.3 release also now minimizes zero-out initialization

Valve Developer Gets Initial DLSS Support Working On Open-Source NVIDIA "NVK" Driver

Phoronix | Oct. 14, 2025, 8:17 p.m. | Original

Autumn Ashton of Valve's Linux graphics driver team and responsible for many great Mesa and DXVK/VKD3D-Proton improvements over the years has managed an exciting new feat: getting NVIDIA DLSS upscaling working atop Mesa's NVK open-source NVIDIA Vulkan driver. The code isn't ready to be merged yet but is an exciting early milestone.

Ashton announced on Bluesky this evening that after a few days of hacking, DLSS is working atop the NVK open-source NVIDIA Vulkan driver.

The work focused on

FSF Announces The LibrePhone Project

Phoronix | Oct. 14, 2025, 6:55 p.m. | Original

The Free Software Foundation today announced the LibrePhone project with a goal of creating a fully free software OS for mobile devices and to reverse-engineer obstacles where necessary.

The FSF describes their new LibrePhone project as:

"Librephone is a new initiative by the FSF with the goal of bringing full freedom to the mobile computing environment. The vast majority of software users around the world use a mobile phone as their primary computing device. After forty years of advocacy for computing freedom, the FSF will now work to bring the right to

Path Cleared For Nix Package Manager On Fedora With /nix Approved

Phoronix | Oct. 14, 2025, 2:48 p.m. | Original

There's been work to get the Nix functional package manager available on Fedora Linux for those wanting to leverage its available packages or features like supporting side-by-side packages of different versions, atomic upgrades/rollbacks, non-root user for installing software, and other features. One of the hurdles though is that the Nix package manager relies by default on the /nix directory, which goes against Fedora's default directory requirements. Now though the Fedora Engineering and Steering Committee (FESCo) has granted permission for

Intel Announces "Crescent Island" Inference-Optimized Xe3P Graphics Card With 160GB vRAM

Phoronix | Oct. 14, 2025, 1 p.m. | Original

Back during the Intel Tech Tour in Arizona , Intel teased a new inference-optimized enterprise GPU would be announced soon. This new product would feature enhanced memory, bandwidth, and enterprise-level AI inference capabilities. Today the embargo expires on talking about this new GPU offering.

When Intel was teasing this new inference-optimized GPU a few weeks back in Arizona it sounded like Intel may have had an unexpected trick up its sleeves. What's being announced today is indeed a new enterprise GPU for AI that is interesting

Intel Begins Xe Kernel Graphics Driver Enablement For Xe3P With Nova Lake

Phoronix | Oct. 14, 2025, 12:35 p.m. | Original

Intel Linux engineers have begun posting patches for enabling the Xe3P architecture. While Xe3P is also expected to be found with next-generation Intel discrete GPUs, the initial focus is on enabling support for Nova Lake.

With Intel's open-source Linux graphics driver engineers having the Xe3 support for Panther Lake and Wildcat Lake about settled in the latest upstream kernel, they are beginning to shift focus to Xe3P with confirmation Xe3P is powering Nova Lake desktop processors.

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Yet Another Longtime Linux Driver Maintainer At Intel Has Left

Phoronix | Oct. 14, 2025, 11:57 a.m. | Original

Adding to the unfortunately long list of unfortunate Intel Linux/open-source setbacks over the past year , yet another Intel Linux software engineer that was an upstream Linux kernel driver maintainer has departed Intel.

Jarkko Nikula is the latest Intel Linux engineer leaving Intel. Appearing today in a patch message:

"Jarkko's address is going to bounce soon and I agreed to be the new maintainer."

This particular patch was for the Intel Quadrature Encoder Peripheral "QEP" driver. Intel QEP was found back on Elkhart Lake and

Firefox 145 Beta Released With 32-bit Linux Support Dropped

Phoronix | Oct. 14, 2025, 10:55 a.m. | Original

Firefox 144.0 is now available but it's not a particularly exciting browser release. But with Firefox 144 stable now comes Firefox 145 beta and that is a bit more noteworthy as it ditches 32-bit Linux support.

As covered last month, Firefox is ending 32-bit Linux support with the Firefox 144 series being the last to support Linux 32-bit or Firefox 140 for the ESR series.

With Firefox 145 Beta now available

Amazon AWS Working On Linux "PCSC" To Help With Dense SR-IOV Deployments

Phoronix | Oct. 14, 2025, 10:21 a.m. | Original

A low-level Linux kernel improvement being worked on by engineers at Amazon Web Services (AWS) is for introducing a PCI Configuration Space Cache "PCSC" to help with dense SR-IOV deployments that can end up hitting significant overhead with the current Linux kernel.

Earlier this month Amazon engineer Evangelos Petrongonas sent out the initial patches for proposing the PCI Configuration Space Cache for the Linux kernel. Evangelos explained of the problem statement and approach for PCSC:

"Modern virtualization environments, particularly those leveraging SR-IOV with hundreds or

Linux Mint LMDE 7 Officially Released - Based On Debian 13

Phoronix | Oct. 14, 2025, 8:20 a.m. | Original

Linux Mint Debian Edition 7 is officially out today as the latest version of this Linux Mint distribution based on upstream Debian rather than Ubuntu.

Linux Mint Debian Edition continues to be a hedge against anything happening to Ubuntu in the future or Linux Mint's ability to base off of it. Linux Mint Debian Edition is much like Linux Mint itself but based on upstream Debian rather than Ubuntu. With Linux Mint Debian Edition 7, it's based on the Debian 13 release to debut earlier this year.

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