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      AMD GAIA 0.25 Brings Several Improvements For Local AI Agents On Ryzen AI

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 0:25

    AMD GAIA 0.25 is out this week as the latest feature release for this open-source project that began as "Generative AI Is Awesome" and is now going on a tag line of "AMD's open-source agent factory" in building/using local AI agents on AMD Ryzen AI hardware...
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      Linux 7.4 Sunsetting Old EDAC Drivers Due To "AI Generated Fixes Frenzy"

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 6 hours ago

    In addition to introducing the new Intel BFF driver, the Error Detection And Correction "EDAC" kernel subsystem is sunsetting a number of old hardware drivers due to increased noise to AI/LLM-generated bug fixes for these likely unused or minimally used drivers...
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      Btrfs Brings More Performance Improvements For Linux 7.4

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 10 hours ago

    With Linux 7.3 there are some nice Btrfs performance improvements to enjoy while the in-development Linux 7.4 kernel is set to bring some additional performance optimizations for this copy-on-write file-system...
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      Intel Working To Add XMX-Accelerated XeSS To Valve's Steam Play (Proton)

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 11 hours ago

    An Intel engineer opened the pull requests today for adding Intel XeSS support to Valve's Proton for Steam Play along with associated changes to VKD3D-Proton and DXVK...
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      Linus Torvalds' AI Code Improved: Huge Performance Wins With Reworked Code

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 11 hours ago

    Last week I wrote about Linus Torvalds leveraging AI to come up with a hefty Linux kernel improvement using Claude Code. The code is for reading from the page cache without folio references to help workloads of small reads from a single file across many CPU threads. Meta engineer Kiryl Shutsemau has taken that code and reworked it and showing extremely promising performance results...
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      Linux In 2026 Continues Improving Support For Benefiting Old Atari & Amiga Hardware

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 12 hours ago

    The Motorola 68000 "m68k" CPU support continues being maintained in the mainline Linux kernel and continuing to see new hardware support for these vintage systems from the likes of Commodore Amiga, Atari, and early Apple Macintosh models...
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      Canonical's Multipass 1.17 Adds Direct Support For Non-Ubuntu Linux Distros

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 15 hours ago

    Canonical's Multipass software is used for orchestrating Ubuntu virtual instances with a single command to launch Ubuntu VMs across Windows, macOS, and Linux. Multipass 1.17 was released today and they are now offering direct support for enabling non-Ubuntu Linux distributions as well...
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      GNU Linux-libre 7.3-gnu Removes More Firmware Blobs

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 15 hours ago

    GNU Linux-libre 7.3 is now available following yesterday's Linux 7.3 release. The GNU Linux-libre downstream continues stripping out driver/hardware support where dependent upon firmware blobs or other proprietary elements deemed out of line with free software ideals...
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      GNOME Mutter Lands Improvement For Reducing GPU Work While In Power Savings Mode

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 16 hours ago

    Stemming from a bug report one month ago with GNOME 51 over high GPU usage while the monitor is sleeping, a set of 17 patches were merged today for addressing this issue...