AMD To Provide Update On Long-Term Strategy For Open-Source Firmware Next month AMD will be providing an update on their long-term strategy for open-source firmware. Central to their open-source firmware plans is their OpenSIL effort that remains in development for eventually replacing AGESA on future generations of Ryzen and EPYC platforms... https://www.phoronix.com/news/AMD-Open-Source-FW-Strategy

Haiku OS R1 Beta 5 Approaching Soon, New Performance Improvements The BeOS-inspired Haiku open-source operating system is out with their latest status update that highlights various improvements made in recent weeks... https://www.phoronix.com/news/Haiku-OS-R1-Beta5-Approaches

Framework Laptop 13 With Intel Core Ultra Series, 2.8K 120Hz Display Back in May the folks at Framework Computer announced Framework Laptop 13 support for the Intel Core Ultra Series 1 (Meteor Lake) alongside announcing a new 2.8K 120Hz display option, a new web camera upgrade, and new colors for their expansion cards. Today marks the review embargo expiration with the hardware now shipping. Here's my initial look at the Intel Core Ultra … https://www.phoronix.com/review/framework-13-core-ultra

Linux Foundation Looks To Become More Involved With AI Models, Welcomes OMI With all the craze around "AI" and hoping to foster more open-source AI models, the Linux Foundation has welcomed the Open Model Initiative (OMI) into its umbrella of open-source initiatives to help foster high quality, openly-licensed AI models... https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-Foundation-OMI-AI-Models

Updated XZ Code For The Kernel Looks Like It's Ready For Linux 6.12 The past few months have seen patches for updating the XZ (de)compression code within the Linux kernel that's been a lengthy process in part due to the XZ backdoor situation earlier this year and the reputable XZ developers in turn being busy cleaning up that mess. In any event it appears that the updated XZ code for the Linux kernel is now on track for mainlining come L… https://www.phoronix.com/news/XZ-Update-Linux-6.12-Queue

Wine-Staging 9.15 Adds Fixes For Lotus Approach & Need For Speed: Underground Building off yesterday's release of Wine 9.15, Wine-Staging 9.15 is now available with 376 patches currently being applied atop the upstream codebase... https://www.phoronix.com/news/Wine-Staging-9.15

KDE Rolling Out SVG-Based Cursor Themes, Performance Improvements KDE developers remain very busy this summer working toward the Plasma 6.2 release with exciting new features... https://www.phoronix.com/news/KDE-SVG-Based-Cursors

Linux Will Be Able To Boot ~0.035 Seconds Faster With One Line Kernel Patch The Linux kernel itself can already boot quite fast but with a simple one-line patch another ~0.035 seconds will be able to be shaved off the boot time... https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-Faster-Boot-One-Line-ACPI

Red Hat's Tuned 2.24 Can Now Control AMD Core Performance Boost Red Hat's performance team has been working on the Tuned profile delivery software as an alternative to power-profiles-daemon on Linux systems. Fedora will be switching over to Tuned to replace power-profiles-daemon and the newest Tuned 2.24 release is now available... https://www.phoronix.com/news/Red-Hat-Tuned-2.24

Valve's SteamOS 3.6.9 Beta Brings Many Fixes & Supports More Controllers Valve has just released a SteamOS 3.6.9 beta as the newest update to their Arch Linux derived operating system powering the Steam Deck and other gaming devices... https://www.phoronix.com/news/Valve-SteamOS-3.6.9-Beta