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KDE Linux Enters Alpha As Reference Linux Distribution For The KDE Desktop

Phoronix | Sept. 6, 2025, 7:30 a.m. | Original

As an exciting announcement out of the KDE Akademy 2025 conference kicking off in Berlin, Germany... The KDE Linux distribution is now in alpha! This is their in-house reference Linux distribution for the KDE Plasma desktop.

KDE Linux is now available in alpha form as the "reference implementation" for the Plasma desktop and KDE applications. While the likes of Kubuntu and KDE Neon have served as sort of a reference/leading-edge platform for KDE in the past, there is now KDE Linux

Linus Torvalds Grows Frustrated Seeing "Garbage" With "Link: " Tags In Git Commits

Phoronix | Sept. 6, 2025, 6:29 a.m. | Original

Linus Torvalds has grown frustrated enough with seeing "Link: " tags within Git commits/patches that often times they are of no value and he's had enough of it. For Linux kernel activity moving forward he's going to be more strict over "useless" link tags in Git commit messages.

Somewhat recently it's become a common occurrence seeing "Link: " tags within Git commits for the Linux kernel that point to the latest Linux kernel mailing list patches of the same patch. Short of being

Linux 6.17 Merges Important Stability Fixes For Open-Source NVIDIA Driver

Phoronix | Sept. 6, 2025, 6:14 a.m. | Original

As a follow-up to the article last week around the open-source NVIDIA Linux driver "Nouveau" about to become much more reliable following fixes, that code was merged on Friday for Linux 6.17.

This week's batch of DRM fixes merged to Linux Git include those fixes talked about in the prior article. They take care of some hard to track down / reproduce stability issues with the Nouveau driver that would lead to app/game freezes and ultimately losing your desktop session.

KDE Plasma 6.5 KWin Adding Support For GPU Underlays

Phoronix | Sept. 6, 2025, 6:07 a.m. | Original

Ahead of Akademy kicking off in Berlin, the annual KDE developer conference, there is another weekly Plasma development update. KDE developer Nate Graham shared the latest exciting progress on Plasma 6.5 while more good news will be coming out later today.

This Week in Plasma has more good news in terms of exciting Plasma 6.5 changes. Some of the latest Plasma 6.5 activity includes:

systemd 258 Closing In On Its Stable Release

Phoronix | Sept. 6, 2025, 5:51 a.m. | Original

As what might be its last test release before declaring the stable release, systemd 258-rc4 was released this week as the latest stepping stone for this dominant Linux init system and service manager.

Systemd 258 has been baking all of this year and is shipping 260+ changes with a number of new tools like systemd-factory-reset, systemd-pty-forward, and numerous other feature additions across its massive arsenal of system tools. Systemd 258 has continued tacking on new

Pop!_OS 24.04 Beta Along With COSMIC Desktop Beta In Late September

Phoronix | Sept. 5, 2025, 8:30 p.m. | Original

The long-awaited beta release of the Pop!_OS 24.04 Linux distribution and the closely-aligned COSMIC desktop environment will be happening in late September.

Carl Richell, System76 Founder and CEO, announced this evening that the much anticipated Pop!_OS 24.04 beta and their in-house, Rust-based COSMIC desktop will be reaching beta in late September. They are hoping for this big beta milestone release on 25 September.

Carl posted on X that they

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New x86 Hardware Support & Device Quirks Merged Ahead Of Linux 6.17-rc5

Phoronix | Sept. 5, 2025, 6:18 p.m. | Original

Merged today to Linux Git ahead of the Linux 6.17-rc5 release on Sunday were a few notable x86 platform driver changes. This includes some new hardware support and device quirks.

Today's x86 platform drivers pull request for Linux 6.17 includes adding Intel Bartlett Lake support to the Intel PMC driver. Bartlett Lake is the upcoming platform for primarily industrial use-cases and feature up to 12 P cores. Bartlett Lake is expected to make use of Raptor Cove P

A First Look At Ubuntu 25.10 Performance On AMD Strix Halo / Framework Desktop

Phoronix | Sept. 5, 2025, 11 a.m. | Original

It has been a lot of fun over the past month looking at the performance of AMD's Ryzen AI Max+ Strix Halo powering the Framework Desktop . The newest area being explored is how the upcoming Ubuntu 25.10 is looking compared to the current Ubuntu 25.04 release.

Ubuntu 25.04 already features nice out-of-the-box support for the Ryzen AI Max "Strix Halo" SoCs at large. But with newer Linux kernel versions and the latest Mesa drivers

Wine 10.15 To Feature Initial Support For Using NTSYNC On Linux

Phoronix | Sept. 5, 2025, 10:20 a.m. | Original

With Wine 10.15 expected to be released next Friday there will be initial support for using the NTSYNC driver found within the Linux kernel.

Since the upstream Linux 6.14 kernel release the NTSYNC kernel driver has been ready for better emulating the Windows NT synchronization primitives within the kernel to help upstream Wine and downstreams like various flavors of Proton.

There had been this merge request open the past seven months for using the Linux NTSYNC driver for in-process synchronization.

While that merge request remains "open"

Raspberry Pi Launches A 1TB SSD For $70 USD

Phoronix | Sept. 5, 2025, 10:06 a.m. | Original

The newest hardware offering from Raspberry Pi announced today is... a 1TB SSD.

Raspberry Pi is now selling the Raspberry Pi SSD as a 1TB SSD for the Raspberry Pi 5 and other devices. This is a PCIe Gen 3 compliant SSD with there also being 256GB and 512GB versions for those not needing 1TB of storage capacity.

The 1TB NVMe SSD is rated for 90k IOPS with either 4K random reads or 4K random writes. It's

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