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2026-09-11T00:55:29Z ( remote@feeds.twtxt.net )
**BeOS-Inspired Haiku Now Supports Changing Audio Outputs Live, Other Improvements**
In addition to August bringing the long-awaited Haiku R1 Beta 6 release, there was also a lot of development progress on this BeOS-inspired operating system too during the course of the past month... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Haiku-OS-August-2026)
2026-09-10T22:12:22Z ( remote@feeds.twtxt.net )
**GIMP 3.2.6 Released With Some Early Preparations Toward Eventual GTK4 Port**
The long-awaited GIMP 3.0 release for transitioning from GTK2 to GTK3 only saw its stable release last year. But with GTK4 already being out for years, GIMP developers have begun making some very early preparations toward an inevitable GTK4 port... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/GIMP-3.2.6-Released)
2026-09-10T21:19:11Z ( remote@feeds.twtxt.net )
**Mesa 26.3 RADV + RadeonSI Ready With DRM Format Modifiers For Older AMD GPUs**
Coming with Linux 7.3 is DRM format modifiers for GFX6 through GFX8 era GPUs covering the original Raddeon HD 7000 (GCN 1.0) graphics cards up through the Polaris and Fiji series. This work by Valve's Timur Kristóf is necessary for these older GPUs to support Vulkan-based Wayland compositors, better interoperability between OpenGL and Vulkan or other APis, compositors running on the Zink OpenGL-on-Vulkan driver implementation, and o ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Mesa-26.3-GFX6-GFX8-Modifiers)
2026-09-10T17:49:03Z ( remote@feeds.twtxt.net )
**Ubuntu 24.04.5 LTS Released With Linux 7.0 HWE Stack**
For those continuing to make use of the Ubuntu 24.04 Long Term Support "LTS" series, Ubuntu 24.04.5 LTS is out today as the newest point release... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Ubuntu-24.04.5-LTS)
2026-09-10T16:43:00Z ( remote@feeds.twtxt.net )
**Intel Xeon 600 Workstation Performance vs. AMD Threadripper 9000 In Nearly 400 Benchmarks**
Last month I had the chance to test the Xeon 678X workstation processor as my first hands-on opportunity with the Xeon 600 "Granite Rapids WS" series. The Intel Xeon 678X was within the HP Z4 G6i workstation and used it for a number of different benchmarks. In that HP workstation review were also some comparison points to the likes of AMD Ryzen Threadripper while in this article are some much more concentrated ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/review/intel-xeon-600-amd-threadripper-9000)
2026-09-10T16:39:24Z ( remote@feeds.twtxt.net )
**KDE Plasma 6.8 Beta Released With Many Great Improvements, Kup Backup Scheduler**
Ahead of the stable release of Plasma 6.8 due out on 14 October that also marks the 30th anniversary of the KDE project, out today is the much anticipated beta release... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/KDE-Plasma-6.8-Beta)
2026-09-10T12:54:35Z ( remote@feeds.twtxt.net )
**Intel BFF Driver Slated For Linux 7.4 Introduction**
Last month I covered Intel posting a new driver named "BFF" for the Linux kernel. This BFF driver is for a new hardware feature debuting with next-gen Diamond Rapids processors for better dealing with aging CPU silicon where some bits may become stuck over time... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Intel-BFF-Driver-For-Linux-7.4)
2026-09-10T11:17:47Z ( remote@feeds.twtxt.net )
**NVIDIA NVK Driver Lands Improvement To Help With Valve's Gamescope**
Merged today for next quarter's Mesa 26.3 release is an improvement for the open-source NVIDIA "NVK" Vulkan driver paired with the Nouveau kernel driver. This latest NVK improvement benefits usage of Valve's Gamescope micro-compositor and should help with performance during game recording and remote play... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/NVIDIA-NVK-BAR-Host-Cached)
2026-09-10T10:29:00Z ( remote@feeds.twtxt.net )
**X.Org Server 26.1 Moves Closer To Release As Half-Decade Update**
We're getting closer to the X.Org Server 26.1 stable release as the first new tagged feature release since X.Org Server 21.1 debuted back in October 2021. There have been some new features, many code reverts, and many bug fixes merged over the past five years that will culminate with the X.Org Server 26.1 stable release... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/X.Org-Server-26.1-Released)
2026-09-10T10:16:56Z ( remote@feeds.twtxt.net )
**GNOME 51 Adds Support For Custom Pointer Acceleration Profiles**
As a last minute change ahead of next week's GNOME 51 desktop release, changes to Mutter and gsettings-desktop-schemas have now landed for supporting custom pointer acceleration profiles... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/GNOME-51-Custom-Accel-Profiles)
2026-09-10T10:04:04Z ( remote@feeds.twtxt.net )
**COSMIC Epoch 1.8 Provides Latest Fixes & Minor Improvements For This Rust Desktop**
Released overnight was the newest version of the Rust-based COSMIC desktop environment developed by System76 as part of the effort on their Pop!\_OS Linux distribution... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/COSMIC-Epoch-1.8)
2026-09-10T09:50:14Z ( remote@feeds.twtxt.net )
**GNU Automake 1.19 Released With More Than One Year Worth Of Fixes**
For those continuing to use GNU Automake over the likes of Meson or CMake for your build system, Automake 1.19 is out today as the first new release in 15 months. Among the many fixes in this release is for a bug dating back 14 years... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/GNU-Automake-1.19)
2026-09-10T00:27:02Z ( remote@feeds.twtxt.net )
**Steam Client Beta Improves Big Picture Mode, Several Linux Enhancements**
Tonight Valve released a big Steam client beta update with a number of new features and fixes... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Steam-Beta-9-September-2026)
2026-09-09T20:15:11Z ( remote@feeds.twtxt.net )
**ReactOS Dev Gets FEX Running For x86\_64 Games On This "Open-Source Windows" OS Under ARM**
A ReactOS developer for this open-source operating system project striving for binary compatibility with Windows drivers and applications has achieved an intriguing software stack. With the experimental ReactOS ARM64 build for running on 64-bit ARM hardware like Raspberry Pi SBCs, he's paired that "open-source Windows" OS with the open-source FEX emulator for in turn being able to run Windows x64 games/apps on ReactOS atop ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/ReactOS-FEX-ARM64-Stacking)
2026-09-09T16:10:00Z ( remote@feeds.twtxt.net )
**Running AMD openSIL + Coreboot On The First Available Ryzen AM5 Motherboard**
Earlier this year the 3mdeb firmware consulting firm ported AMD openSIL CPU open-source silicon initialization library and Coreboot to an EPYC motherboard, the Gigabyte MZ33-AR1. Their next feat now achieved is bringing AMD openSIL and Coreboot to a desktop AMD Ryzen motherboard with their downstream Dasharo firmware solution. I have been running this alternative firmware on the MSI PRO B850P WiFi motherboard and it's been working out ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/review/msi-b850p-coreboot-opensil)
2026-09-09T15:52:32Z ( remote@feeds.twtxt.net )
**XWayland 26.1 RC2 Released For Testing With More Fixes**
Following last month's initial release candidate of XWayland 26.1 with its many new features, a second release candidate is now available with a number of fixes... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/XWayland-26.1-RC2)
2026-09-09T14:57:09Z ( remote@feeds.twtxt.net )
**System76 Launches The Thelio Mira AI With AMD Ryzen + NVIDIA Or AMD Graphics**
System76 today unveiled their newest desktop computer as the Thelio Mira AI. The System76 Thelio Mira AI is designed for multi-GPU AI training, model fine-tuning, AI inferencing, computer vision and image generation tasks on tthe AI side. Or with its AMD Ryzen 9000 series CPU and NVIDIA/AMD GPU options is also a good candidate for simulations and other HPC-type workloads... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/System76-Thelio-Mira-AI)
2026-09-09T14:46:00Z ( remote@feeds.twtxt.net )
**OpenSSL 4.1 Alpha 1 Released With DTLS 1.3, GREASE & More AVX-512 Optimizations**
The first alpha release of the upcoming OpenSSL 4.1 release is now available for testing with some GREASE and DTLS 1.3 support along with more AVX-512 performance optimizations... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/OpenSSL-4.1-Alpha-1)
2026-09-09T14:02:37Z ( remote@feeds.twtxt.net )
**NVIDIA 615.71.09 Linux Driver Released With Vulkan Improvements**
NVIDIA today debuted the 615.71.09 Linux driver that comes with a number of improvements, especially from the Vulkan API perspective... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/NVIDIA-615.71.09-Linux-Driver)
2026-09-09T12:52:22Z ( remote@feeds.twtxt.net )
**A Nice Improvement Coming For Faster Btrfs Zstd Decompression**
In addition to the still-pending kernel work for improving the in-kernel Zstd code, sepaarately the Btrfs file-system driver has an improvement on the way in its decompression code path for the Zstd transparent file-system compression... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Btrfs-Zstd-Faster-Decompress)
2026-09-09T10:26:16Z ( remote@feeds.twtxt.net )
**AMD Posts New GCC Compiler Patch For Extended Load Optimization**
It's nice seeing a new GNU Compiler Collection (GCC) patch out of AMD today that is a general optimization for the x86\_64 compiler code and not exclusively tied to their Zen processors. It's an Extended Load Optimization to benefit code where there is a narrower type and then an arithmetic type with a wider type... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/AMD-GCC-Extended-Load-Opt)
2026-09-09T10:03:31Z ( remote@feeds.twtxt.net )
**YSERVER 1.5 Released With Reverse PRIME Support & Other New Features**
Announced a few months back was YSERVER as a modern X11 server written in the Rust programming language. In getting the project off the ground quickly and given the size of X11, it was largely vibe coded with Claude Code. The project continues and is attracting contributions from more users with today marking the YSERVER 1.5 release... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/YSERVER-1.5)
2026-09-09T00:49:03Z ( remote@feeds.twtxt.net )
**AI Made A Lot Of "Hideous" Code But Found Major Bottlenecks For Faster Linux Compilation**
An ARM Linux engineer leveraged AI/LLMs to help uncover some improvements to "significant speed up" the Linux kernel build times. In the process the LLM used generated "a lot of code, much of it hideous" but in the end was used to find some very significant time savings for faster kernel builds via more task parallelization in different areas of the kernel build process... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/AI-To-Faster-Linux-Kernel-Comp)
2026-09-08T22:30:34Z ( remote@feeds.twtxt.net )
**systemd 262-rc2 Adds An AI Canary For Detecting Unreviewed AI/LLM Code Contributions**
One week after releasing systemd 262-rc1, systemd 262-rc2 is now available with further fixes and refinements for this init system and service manager. Systemd is also the latest open-source project introducing an AI canary for aiming to detect AI/LLM-based code contributors that weren't reviewed by an actual person in advance of the pull request... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/systemd-262-rc2)
2026-09-08T19:31:22Z ( remote@feeds.twtxt.net )
**DLSS5VKLayer Wires Up NVIDIA DLSS 5 For Native Linux Games & Steam Play**
An interesting new open-source project for those looking to make use of NVIDIA DLSS 5 on Linux is DLSS5VKLayer. The DLSS5VKLayer is a Linux Vulkan layer that works for both native Linux games as well as Steam Play (Proton) Windows games for experimental DLSS 5 support... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/DLSS5VKLayer)
2026-09-08T16:55:36Z ( remote@feeds.twtxt.net )
**KDE's KWin Merges Wayland Commit-Timing Protocol Support**
Merged today to the latest KDE KWin compositor development code is support for Wayland's important commit-timing protocol that is useful for video playback as well as for gamers relying on Adaptive-Sync/FreeSync support... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/KDE-KWin-Wayland-Commit-Timing)
2026-09-08T16:06:16Z ( remote@feeds.twtxt.net )
**The Linux Kernel Planning To Remove Around ~55k Lines Of Old ARM Platform Code**
For the current Linux 7.3 kernel many older 32-bit ARM platforms are deprecated and in turn orphaning hundreds of drivers only relevant to those out-of-date ARM platforms. The removal of that now deprecated code is planned for the next kernel cycle or two... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-Dropping-Old-ARM-Ahead)
2026-09-08T13:52:41Z ( remote@feeds.twtxt.net )
**CHUWI UniBook With Intel Wildcat Lake For A $449 Linux-Friendly Laptop**
CHUWI recently launched the UniBook laptop powered by the Intel Core 3 304 "Wildcat Lake" SOC and priced at just $449 USD. Especially with today's high component pricing, a brand new sub-$500 laptop is extremely rare. Rather than using some dated SoC, it uses Wildcat Lake as Intel's new value option alternative to the Core 3 Series Ultra "Panther Lake" SoCs. This was our first time testing out Intel Wildcat Lake and that SoC plus the overa ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/review/chuwi-unibook-wildcat-lake)
2026-09-08T13:11:10Z ( remote@feeds.twtxt.net )
**New Patches Provide HDMI 1.4 3D Mode Support For AMD Radeon Graphics On Linux**
It turns out one of the feature limitations of the AMDGPU Linux graphics driver is HDMI 1.4 3D output support with frame packing, top-and-bottom, and side-by-side options for transmitting simultaneous video streams. I wasn't aware of this limitation for the lack of any 3D displays and many Linux enthusiasts/gamers as well, but if you happen to have a compatible HDMI 1.4 3D display, there are pending patches to finally make this a reality ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/AMDGPU-HDMI-1.4-3D-Mode)
2026-09-08T10:41:09Z ( remote@feeds.twtxt.net )
**Linux 7.4 To Support Realtek RTL8127atf & RTL8116af Networking**
Queued this past week into the net-next development tree of the latest networking additions for the Linux kernel is enabling support for Realtek's newer RTL8127atf and RTL8116af wired networking ASICs... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-7.4-RTL8127atf-RTL8116af)
2026-09-08T10:21:51Z ( remote@feeds.twtxt.net )
**DirectX Support Promoted To Official Target Within LLVM**
Over the past four years there has been a lot of work on a DirectX back-end within the LLVM compiler stack. Microsoft has backed the initiative for being able to lower LLVM IR into the DirectX Intermediate Language (DXIL) for execution by Windows DirectX 12 graphics drivers. This back-end is now officially supported... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/LLVM-DirectX-Backend-Official)
2026-09-08T10:09:20Z ( remote@feeds.twtxt.net )
**FEX 2609 Released With Speedier JIT Performance, JIT Disk Cache Option**
FEX 2609 was released overnight as the newest monthly feature release for this open-source emulator that allows running Linux x86\_64 binaries on AArch64, including the likes of Steam and Steam Play (Proton) for enabling Windows games to run rather well on ARM64 Linux systems... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/FEX-2609-Released)
2026-09-08T09:58:27Z ( remote@feeds.twtxt.net )
**LLVM Merges Support For AMD's RMPCHKD, RMPREAD & RMPOPT Instructions**
With the Linux kernel still working toward landing support for AMD's RMPOPT optimization for helping to reduce overhead on SEV-SNP enabled servers, the LLVM/Clang compiler has in turn prepped for the milestone by landing support for the RMPOPT, RMPREAD, and RMPCHKD instructions for Zen 5 and newer... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/LLVM-Zen5-Zen6-RMPOPT)
2026-09-08T00:35:33Z ( remote@feeds.twtxt.net )
**FreeBSD 14.5 Released With Hardware Support Improvements, Many Bug & Security Fixes**
For those that haven't yet made the move to FreeBSD 15 with still relying on FreeBSD 14 in production, out today is FreeBSD 14.5-RELEASE... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/FreeBSD-14.5-RELEASE)
2026-09-07T19:54:23Z ( remote@feeds.twtxt.net )
**Mysterious x86 CPU Already Has APX, x86S Where Intel Left Off For Legacy-Free x86**
The mystery deepens around an x86 implementation from a corporate entity other than AMD and Intel and has been making some very intriguing changes for coming from a seeming start-up. Beyond 16 tile and 32 tile AMX implementations that already surpass Intel's current Advanced Matrix Extensions (AMX) capabilities in shipping Xeon CPUs, new disclosures were made today concerning Advanced Performance Extensions (APX), Flexible Return and E ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/x86-CPU-With-APX-x86S)
2026-09-07T13:36:20Z ( remote@feeds.twtxt.net )
**Ubuntu 26.10 amd64v3 Daily ISOs Now Being Published**
As an interesting development for Ubuntu 26.10, the daily ISOs of the "Stonking Stingray" now include amd64v3 images... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Ubuntu-26.10-amd64v3-Daily)
2026-09-07T11:43:33Z ( remote@feeds.twtxt.net )
**Linux Preps For New AMD Zen 6 BTB CTX Isolation Security Feature**
A recently posted Linux kernel patch has revealed a new security improvement with Zen 6 processors... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-Preps-AMD-BTB-CTX)
2026-09-07T10:48:48Z ( remote@feeds.twtxt.net )
**Nouveau Preparations For HDMI 2.1 DSC, AMD HDMI FreeSync Fixes For Linux 7.4**
Last week's set of DRM-Misc-Next changes submitted to DRM-Next with targeting the upcoming Linux 7.4 kernel cycle features HDMI 2.1 related work for both the AMDGPU kernel driver as well as the Nouveau open-source NVIDIA driver... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-7.4-DRM-Misc-Next-1)
2026-09-07T10:21:12Z ( remote@feeds.twtxt.net )
**Intel's Dynamic PAMT Appears Ready For Linux 7.4 To Help With TDX Memory Overhead**
Intel's Dynamic PAMT feature looks like it's finally going to be ready for mainline with Linux 7.4. The Intel Dynamic PAMT is used for helping to reduce memory overhead when making use of Trusted Domain Extensions (TDX) for confidential VMs... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Intel-Dynamic-PAMT-For-7.4)
2026-09-07T09:59:42Z ( remote@feeds.twtxt.net )
**Rustls 0.23.44 Released With ML-DSA Certificates Enabled By Default**
Rustls as the modern TLS library implementation written in the Rust programming language is out with a new feature release. This morning's Rustls 0.23.44 release enables post-quantum secure ML-DSA certificates by default... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Rustls-0.23.44-Released)
2026-09-06T22:22:25Z ( remote@feeds.twtxt.net )
**Linux 7.3-rc2 Released Following Another Busy Week**
After the Linux 7.3 merge window concluded last weekend, today we are up to the Linux 7.3-rc2 test kernel release in working toward the stable v7.3 kernel during the second half of October... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-7.3-rc2-Released)
2026-09-06T19:58:05Z ( remote@feeds.twtxt.net )
**Shotcut 26.9 Video Editor Beta Brings UI Improvements, Better Audio Quality**
Following the recent Shotcut stable release with a stock asset library and other improvements, Shotcut 26.9 Beta is out today with yet more improvements for this open-source video editing application for Linux, macOS, and Windows systems... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Shotcut-26.9-Beta)
2026-09-06T17:52:15Z ( remote@feeds.twtxt.net )
**NetBSD 9.5 Released To Cap Off The Series**
NetBSD 9.5 released today as the final release of the NetBSD 9 stable branch... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/NetBSD-9.5-Released)
2026-09-06T13:32:43Z ( remote@feeds.twtxt.net )
**Linux 7.3-rc2 Scheduler Fix For Cache Aware Load Scheduling Misfits On Hybrid CPUs**
Ahead of the Linux 7.3-rc2 kernel being released later today, a set of scheduler fixes have been sent out for this week's kernel test release. Most notable with the scheduler fixes are dealing with possible misfits for Cache-Aware Load Scheduling on hybrid CPUs like Intel Core (Ultra) processors... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-7.3-rc2-Scheduler-Fixes)
2026-09-06T10:53:22Z ( remote@feeds.twtxt.net )
**Asahi Linux Now Officially Supports Apple M3 Macs - With Caveats**
Asahi Linux developers announced today that they are now officially supporting the Linux distribution on Apple M3 powered Macs. With the exception of the Mac Studio M3 Ultra, other M3 / M3 Pro / M3 Max devices should now work with the latest Asahi Linux builds but with some feature caveats... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Asahi-Linux-Official-M3)
2026-09-06T10:43:10Z ( remote@feeds.twtxt.net )
**LLVM Developers Discuss Enabling ClangIR Build By Default**
ClangIR has been in development for a number of years now as a new intermediate representation for the Clang compiler. ClangIR makes use of MLIR and is higher-level than LLVM IR. With ClangIR able to preserve more C/C++ source semantics, its usage can lead to better diagnostics, code/static analysis, and more performance optimizations compared to everything lowered straight away from AST to LLVM IR. While not enabling its usage by default, LLVM stakehol ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/ClangIR-Build-Default-Maybe)
2026-09-06T10:28:25Z ( remote@feeds.twtxt.net )
**Linux 7.3-rc2 Transitions More kmalloc Calls To The Superior kmalloc\_obj**
Ahead of the Linux 7.3-rc2 kernel release due out later today, a merge causing a lot of code churn was pulled in by Linus Torvalds. This tree-wide effort converts more of the kmalloc() function calls over to the newer and superior kmalloc\_obj() family of functions... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-7.3-rc2-kmalloc-obj)
2026-09-06T10:16:15Z ( remote@feeds.twtxt.net )
**Slackware 16 Alpha 1 Available Following GCC 16.2, Glibc 2.44 & Binutils 2.47 Upgrade**
The timing on Saturday's Slackware-based Zenwalk ISO "current milestone" update is now more clear with upstream Slackware having prepared what is its first alpha release of the upcoming Slackware 16... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Slackware-16-Alpha)
2026-09-05T22:27:47Z ( remote@feeds.twtxt.net )
**Slackware-Based Zenwalk ISOs Updated With Linux 7.1, Flatpak Integrated + Xfce 4.20**
It's been over four years since the original release of Zenwalk 15.0 while released today is a new Zenwalk Current Milestone snapshot. This Slackware-based Linux distribution with a long history has an exciting update out for testing this weekend... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Zenwalk-2026-Current)
2026-09-05T18:35:41Z ( remote@feeds.twtxt.net )
**Ikey Doherty Plans To Show How To "Properly" Build A Modern Linux Distro**
Ikey Doherty is back in the Linux distribution space. Sort of. Ikey Doherty who was the founder of the Solus Linux distribution as well as Serpent OS (now AerynOS) as well as having been employed by Intel on their Clear Linux team is back at it again in the Linux space... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Ikey-Doherty-Plans-Linux-Build)
2026-09-05T15:02:15Z ( remote@feeds.twtxt.net )
**NVIDIA Posts vGPU Manager & VFIO Variant Driver For Open-Source Nova**
NVIDIA continues building out more functionality around the open-source, upstream Nova kernel graphics driver within the Linux kernel. Making it out to the mailing list this Saturday is a set of 13 patches for introducing a NVIDIA vGPU manager and VFIO variant driver... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/NVIDIA-Nova-vGPU-Manager)
2026-09-05T11:20:00Z ( remote@feeds.twtxt.net )
**Nouveau Lands Display Fixes For NVIDIA Blackwell GPUs As It Works Toward HDMI 2.1**
This week's Direct Rendering Manager (DRM) fixes that were merged ahead of Sunday's Linux 7.3-rc2 release contain a number of fixes to the open-source Nouveau driver's display support for current-generation NVIDIA Blackwell GPUs... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Nouveau-Blackwell-Display-Fixes)
2026-09-05T11:11:11Z ( remote@feeds.twtxt.net )
**Linux Patches Posted For Initial Enablement Of The Apple A18 Pro + MacBook Neo**
In addition to Linux developers focused on Apple Silicon being busy enabling functionality for the M3 and newer SoCs under the Linux kernel, there are also developers working on enabling the A18 Pro SoC used by the new, budget-friendly MacBook Neo laptop. Patches were posted this week for initial enablement of the A18 Pro and the MacBook Neo Device Tree... But even with these patches, the Linux support is still severely limited ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Apple-A18-Pro-MacBook-Neo-Patch)
2026-09-05T10:48:48Z ( remote@feeds.twtxt.net )
**AMD Working To "Push Rust Deep Into The GPU Stack"**
AMD is building out what they are describing as an "elite" team of developers for driving Rust code "deep into the GPU stack" from firmware to drivers, shader compilers, and other GPU software in Rust... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/AMD-Rust-Deep-Into-GPU-Stack)
2026-09-05T10:31:45Z ( remote@feeds.twtxt.net )
**GNOME Stakeholders Discussing RFC Process For Solving Major Technical Changes**
GNOME has been working to establish a formal request for comments (RFC) process for solving major technical questions and changes moving forward. A drafted RFC is now under discussion by GNOME stakeholders for moving this process forward... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/GNOME-RFC-Process-Discussion)
2026-09-04T21:00:04Z ( remote@feeds.twtxt.net )
**KDE Plasma 6.8 Lands Windows-Like Auto-Scrolling, Lower vRAM Usage For Breeze Theme**
It's been an exciting start to the month of September for KDE Plasma developers with continuing to land last minute improvements for Plasma 6.8 ahead of its official release in mid-October... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/KDE-Plasma-6.8-Autoscroll)
2026-09-04T20:11:12Z ( remote@feeds.twtxt.net )
**Wine 11.17 Released With Initial Support For Display Mode Emulation**
Wine 11.17 is out today as the newest bi-weekly feature development release for this software enabling Windows games and apps to run on Linux... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Wine-11.17-Released)
2026-09-04T15:33:21Z ( remote@feeds.twtxt.net )
**Amazon Linux 2027 Shows Off Nice Performance Gains On AMD EPYC In The AWS Cloud**
Yesterday AWS announced the public preview of Amazon Linux 2027 as their successor to the current Amazon Linux 2023 in-house distribution. With all the software upgrades and improvements like building packages now with link-time optimizations (LTO), enforcing x86-64-v3 builds, and other changes, I was eager to run some performance benchmarks of Amazon Linux 2023 vs. Amazon Linux 2027 in the EC2 cloud. ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/review/amazon-linux-2027-benchmarks)
2026-09-04T14:52:01Z ( remote@feeds.twtxt.net )
**NetworkManager Works To Enforce AI Policy By Tricking AI Agents To Add A Canary**
Last month the NetworkManager project adopted an AI coding policy where authors are responsible for 100% of the code they submit and must be able to explain it all. In an attempt to catch AI coding agents that may be trying to bypass their policy, they have added an interesting canary to the project to try to catch such AI-generated patches so they can then be automatically dealt with... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/NetworkManager-AI-Canary)
2026-09-04T14:33:57Z ( remote@feeds.twtxt.net )
**PoCL 7.2 Released With Official OpenCL 3.0 Conformance On RISC-V & x86\_64 CPUs**
The Portable Computing Language project is out today with PoCL 7.2 as this portable, MIT-licensed OpenCL implementation that runs across various CPU architectures as well as targeting other GPUs/hardware with LLVM back-ends. Notable with PoCL 7.2 is bringing official OpenCL 3.0 conformance on x86\_64 and RISC-V processors... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/PoCL-7.2-Released)
2026-09-04T13:05:43Z ( remote@feeds.twtxt.net )
**XDC 2026 Will Feature Many Interesting Talks: Vulkan Gallium, OpenCL On CUDA & More**
The annual X.Org Developer's Conference "XDC 2026" is happening later this month in Toronto. A great number of interesting talks are planned this year from new Wayland features to OpenCL over CUDA, the possibility of Vulkan Gallium, and a lot of exciting driver developments... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/XDC-2026-Talks)
2026-09-04T12:13:01Z ( remote@feeds.twtxt.net )
**Linux 7.4 To Improve Apple Silicon Audio Support & Its "Impossible" Power Management**
The Apple Silicon audio driver code within the Linux kernel is preparing to make use of the recent shared GPIO infrastructure for allowing multiple drivers / kernel components to nicely share the same GPIO lines. This should help clean things up in the mainline kernel for the Apple Silicon audio support and with a cleaner architecture than the current downstream Asahi Linux code... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-Apple-Audio-Shared-GPIO)
2026-09-04T10:32:00Z ( remote@feeds.twtxt.net )
**Fedora 47 Considering Use Of Thin LTO Compiler Optimizations**
A change proposal filed for what would be part of Fedora Linux 47 is on making use of Thin LTO rather than Fat LTO for link-time optimizations. With Thin LTO being more memory efficient and faster build speeds, the hope is that more Fedora packages could also use Thin LTO for packages where no link-time optimizations are currently leveraged... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Fedora-47-Considers-Thin-LTO)
2026-09-04T10:20:57Z ( remote@feeds.twtxt.net )
**Mesa 26.3 Preps For Intel Nova Lake P's New 64-bit GPU Mode**
Merged overnight for Mesa 26.3 are changes to Intel's graphics compiler code for supporting a new 64-bit shader addressing mode. It turns out with upcoming Nova Lake P graphics will be a big fundamental change... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Intel-Nova-Lake-P-64-bit-Mode)
2026-09-04T09:56:48Z ( remote@feeds.twtxt.net )
**Vulkan 1.4.362 Released With New Extension Developed By Valve**
Vulkan 1.4.362 is out this morning as the newest routine spec update. Making Vulkan 1.4.362 more notable beyond a couple bug fixes are two new Vulkan API extensions, both of which were worked on by Valve's Linux graphics team and one of them being a Valve vendor extension... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Vulkan-1.4.362)
2026-09-04T00:15:30Z ( remote@feeds.twtxt.net )
**Ubuntu 26.10 Snapshot 3 Monthly ISOs Released For Testing**
Released tonight is Ubuntu 26.10 "Stonking Stingray" Snapshot 3 as the newest monthly ISO candidates for Ubuntu Linux... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Ubuntu-26.10-Snapshot-3)
2026-09-03T21:13:55Z ( remote@feeds.twtxt.net )
**Amazon Linux 2027 Now in Preview: Powered By Linux 7.1, x86-64-v3 & Built With LTO**
AWS announced today the public preview of Amazon Linux 2027. Given the time since Amazon Linux 2023, Amazon Linux 2027 comes with a heavy arsenal of software updates as well as many performance optimizations and other tuning for better running workloads geared for the AWS cloud... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Amazon-Linux-2027-Preview)
2026-09-03T17:57:03Z ( remote@feeds.twtxt.net )
**Intel Improving Its Content Match Refresh Rate "CMRR" Feature With Linux 7.4**
Introduced with the Xe2 Lunar Lake graphics hardware was support for Content Match Refresh Rate (CMRR) as an improvement over typical Variable Refresh Rate (VRR) / Adaptive-Sync to more precisely match the video or content frame rates. Particularly for video playback it aims for no stuttering or frame drops. With the upcoming Linux 7.4 kernel will be better support for CMRR with the Intel graphics driver... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Intel-Graphics-CMRR-Linux-7.4)
2026-09-03T17:18:12Z ( remote@feeds.twtxt.net )
**Mir 2.29 Released With Additional Wayland Protocols**
For those using Canonical's Mir compositor for building Wayland-based shells, Mir 2.29 is now available with various improvements and new Wayland protocol coverage... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Mir-2.29-Released)
2026-09-03T15:45:12Z ( remote@feeds.twtxt.net )
**LLVM Developers Begin Debate Over AGENTS.md For Helping AI Agents**
LLVM developers have begun a discussion on whether the project should host an AGENTS.md file (and CLAUDE.md) in their Git repository for helping to guide AI agents... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/LLVM-Debates-AGENTS-MD)
2026-09-03T13:03:51Z ( remote@feeds.twtxt.net )
**21st Revision Of Patches For Getting Linux To Shutdown Devices Asynchronously**
Being worked on for over two years has been the latest attempt for async device shutdown support for Linux for getting Linux systems -- especially servers with lots of hardware like many NVMe drives -- to shutdown faster. That work is now up to its 21st version as it works toward hopefully making it to the mainline kernel in the not too distant future... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-Shutdown-Async-21)
2026-09-03T12:40:04Z ( remote@feeds.twtxt.net )
**NVIDIA Acquiring Hugging Face For $12.93 Billion**
Following rumors in recent days of NVIDIA courting Hugging Face, it's now been officially announced that NVIDIA is acquiring Hugging Face... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/NVIDIA-Hugging-Face)
2026-09-03T12:22:27Z ( remote@feeds.twtxt.net )
**Linux 7.3 Now Disabling RandStruct Security Feature By Default If Rust Support Present**
While Rust programming language use may help with memory safety and other security advantages, the default Linux kernel configuration is now losing randomization of sensitive kernel structures if Rust support is present... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-7.3-RandStruct-Rust)
2026-09-03T10:30:52Z ( remote@feeds.twtxt.net )
**Audacity 4.0 Audio Editor Released With Qt6 Based UI**
The longtime Audacity open-source audio editor had been using wxWidgets for years but with today's Audacity 4.0 release they have transitioned to using the Qt6 toolkit... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Audacity-4.0-Released)
2026-09-03T10:20:07Z ( remote@feeds.twtxt.net )
**GCC 17 Now Supports Using -mtune=native -mcpu=native On RISC-V**
As a follow up to last month's article about patches being posted for enabling "-mcpu=native -mtune=native" support for RISC-V with the GCC compiler, that code is now merged for what will become the GCC 17.1 release in the early months of 2027... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/GCC-17-RISC-V-mtune-mcpu-native)
2026-09-03T10:06:00Z ( remote@feeds.twtxt.net )
**InputPlumber 0.79 Adds Support For More Handhelds**
InputPlumber is the open-source router and remapping daemon for Linux that is particularly popular among Linux gaming handhelds for combining multiple input devices and translating actions into various virtual device formats. InputPlumber supports emulating mouse, keyboard, ad gamepad inputs. With the new InputPlumber 0.79 release there is expanded hardware support and bug fixes... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/InputPlumber-0.79)
2026-09-03T00:32:40Z ( remote@feeds.twtxt.net )
**Lemonade 11.9 Local AI Server Released With Super Exciting AMD ROCm HRX Backend**
Lemonade 11.9 is out today as the newest feature release to this AMD-backed, open-source local AI server solution across Linux, Windows, and macOS. Lemonade has long been focused on offering "100% free and private" AI use with local hardware whether it be GPUs, CPUs, or NPUs. With Lemonade 11.9's release today it's very interesting for having experimental ROCm HRX back-end support with Llama.cpp. HRX is the new exciting thing to watch o ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Lemonade-11.9-ROCm-HRX)
2026-09-02T20:32:09Z ( remote@feeds.twtxt.net )
**Fedora 46 Proposal Wants To Provide Official Support For Crystal Programming Language**
A new change proposal that's been filed for evaluation with next year's Fedora 46 release is to provide official, native support for the Crystal programming language... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Fedora-46-Proposal-Crystal)
2026-09-02T18:42:04Z ( remote@feeds.twtxt.net )
**NVIDIA-Started Open Secure AI Alliance Moves To The Linux Foundation**
Earlier this year NVIDIA led an effort with more than two dozen other companies to launch the Open Secure AI Alliance with a focus on keeping open-source AI models secure. The Open Secure AI Alliance today is transitioning from being stewarded by NVIDIA to becoming a Linux Foundation project... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Open-Secure-AI-Alliance-LF)
2026-09-02T17:51:36Z ( remote@feeds.twtxt.net )
**KDE Plasma 6.8 Lands Dwell Clicker Support To Improve Accessibility On Wayland**
In preparations for Plasma 6.8 going Wayland-exclusive in abandoning the X11 session, another feature gap compared to X11 has been addressed... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/KDE-Plasma-6.8-Dwell-Clicker)
2026-09-02T17:05:41Z ( remote@feeds.twtxt.net )
**Mesa 26.2.2 Enables Intel Nova Lake Graphics By Default**
Mesa 26.2.2 is out today as the newest bi-weekly stable point release for these open-source OpenGL and Vulkan drivers... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Mesa-26.2.2-Released)
2026-09-02T15:53:17Z ( remote@feeds.twtxt.net )
**Early Benchmarks Of AMD EPYC On Linux 7.3 Show Some Performance Gains On The Horizon**
With Linux 7.3-rc1 out this week and marking the end of the merge window, it's onto a lot of Linux 7.3 performance testing at Phoronix and looking at all the new features of Linux 7.3. In today's article is a first look at the AMD EPYC Turin server performance on Linux 7.3-rc1 compared to Linux 7.2 stable with a few nice performance improvements to show. ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/review/linux-73-amd-epyc)
2026-09-02T15:17:21Z ( remote@feeds.twtxt.net )
**CERN Transitioning To Debian After Being A Longtime RHEL Institution**
CERN, the European Organization for Nuclear Research, besides being well known for its Large Hadron Collider (LHC) is known among longtime Linux users as a RHEL/CentOS shop. CERN formally even co-maintained the Scientific Linux RHEL derivative with other educational/research institutions in the past. So to much surprise now, CERN is transitioning to Debian Linux... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/CERN-Goes-Debian-Leaving-RHEL)
2026-09-02T13:20:11Z ( remote@feeds.twtxt.net )
**AVX-512 xor\_gen For Linux Updated & Looking Real Good For RAID Arrays**
Being worked on the past few months for the Linux kernel has been an AVX-512 optimized version of xor\_gen() that is used for generating and validating parity blocks such as with Linux's software RAID 5 and RAID 6 arrays. The latest iteration of AVX-512 xor\_gen() was posted today and shows some impressive results on AMD Zen 5 hardware... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/AVX-512-xor-gen-v5)
2026-09-02T13:02:13Z ( remote@feeds.twtxt.net )
**GNOME Mutter 51.rc Adds Cross-GPU Buffer Scan-Out Support, Other Last Minute Work**
The release candidates are out today for the GNOME Shell and Mutter in preparing for the formal "GNOME 51.rc" release in the coming days... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/GNOME-Shell-Mutter-51-RC)
2026-09-02T10:39:10Z ( remote@feeds.twtxt.net )
**Greg KH Forewarns Of "Rough" Linux 7.3 Kernel Cycle Due To Continued AI Churn**
While Linux 7.3-rc1 only released this week and there are another roughly seven weeks to go until the official kernel release, Linux's second-in-command Greg Kroah-Hartman is already warning that it's likely to be another "rough" kernel cycle given the ongoing noise caused by AI/LLM with the increase in bug reports and kernel patches... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-7.3-Rough-Cycle)
2026-09-02T10:22:21Z ( remote@feeds.twtxt.net )
**GCC 17 Compiler Merges Initial Support For Intel/AMD AI Compute Extensions "ACE"**
Landing today in the GNU Compiler Collection (GCC) codebase is initial support for the AI Compute Extensions (ACEv1) as the initial work out of the x86 Ecosystem Advisory Group between Intel and AMD for a common matrix acceleration architecture for helping AI/ML workloads with future CPUs... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/GCC-17-Merges-ACE-v1)
2026-09-02T10:08:30Z ( remote@feeds.twtxt.net )
**FreeDesktop SDK 26.08 Released With Snap Support Dropped, Bootstrap Changes**
The newest FreeDesktop SDK is now available for this collection of components used for Flatpak runtimes as well as for building out of containers and other software stacks... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/FreeDesktop-SDK-26.08)
2026-09-02T09:50:00Z ( remote@feeds.twtxt.net )
**Intel Updates LLM-Scaler-vLLM Build For vLLM 0.26 & Other Improvements**
For those looking for the smoothest experience to get vLLM up and running on Intel Arc (Pro) graphics hardware, out today is the newest beta of Intel's LLM-Scaler-vLLM project for a Docker-based setup of vLLM ready to go on Intel GPUs... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Intel-LLM-Scaler-vLLM-0.26.0-b1)
2026-09-02T00:19:13Z ( remote@feeds.twtxt.net )
**Steam On Linux Dips Below 4% For August**
Valve just published the Steam Survey results for August 2026. After jumping above 4% in July, in August it fell back below that threshold. Meanwhile CachyOS continues gaining ground among Linux gamers... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Steam-Survey-August-2026)
2026-09-01T21:57:42Z ( remote@feeds.twtxt.net )
**WinBtrfs 1.10 Released With Two Years Worth Of Improvements For Btrfs On Windows**
WinBtrfs is a driver for Microsoft Windows to support reading and writing to Btrfs file-systems. WinBtrfs works with Windows XP and newer. It hadn't seen a new release in over two years but a big feature release is now available with a combination of new features and bug fixes... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/WinBtrfs-1.10)
2026-09-01T20:41:59Z ( remote@feeds.twtxt.net )
**AMDGPU Linux Driver's Latest Patches For HDMI Passive VRR Support**
As part of AMD's ongoing effort for getting HDMI 2.1 support squared away in their upstream AMDGPU kernel graphics driver, sent out today were the latest patches around passive variable refresh rate "Passive VRR" for HDMI connections... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/AMDGPU-HDMI-Passive-VRR)
2026-09-01T16:28:38Z ( remote@feeds.twtxt.net )
**Linux Gets A Reverse-Engineered Driver For ASUS ROG NVMe Enclosure RGB Lighting**
If you are into RGB lighting, you can even find NVMe external enclosures these days with RGB LEDs like the ASUS ROG Strix Arion. Now thanks to reverse engineering there is a Linux driver for allowing the RGB lighting controls for the ASUS ROG Strix Arion NVMe enclosure... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/ASUS-ROG-Strix-Arion-RGB-Linux)
2026-09-01T13:55:50Z ( remote@feeds.twtxt.net )
**Lekuo SouthBridge Max Puts An AMD B650 Chipset Onto A PCIe Card For More I/O**
For those looking at expanding the SATA, NVMe, and/or the USB/USB-C capabilities of your system, the Lekuo SouthBridge Max PB65MX3 is an interesting creation that I have been trying out. The Lekuo SouthBridge Max puts an AMD B650 chipset onto a low-profile PCIe add-in card to provide all of the above without any bifurcation required. Given that it's an AMD B650 chipset, it also "just works" nicely under Linux. ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/review/lekuo-southbridge-max)
2026-09-01T12:07:54Z ( remote@feeds.twtxt.net )
**systemd 262-rc1 Released With Live Update Orchestrator Integration & More**
Debuting today is systemd 262-rc1 as the first test release of this next major update to this Linux init system and service manager... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/systemd-262-rc1)
2026-09-01T10:36:00Z ( remote@feeds.twtxt.net )
**Linux Changes For CPPC On Zen 6 Clients - Hard-Coded Default Puts Low-Power Core At 0.47x**
Following yesterday's Linux kernel patches for tuning ACPI EPP for Ryzen Zen 6 client processors, another patch series made it out on the mailing list with adjustments for ACPI Collaborative Processor Performance Control (CPPC) with upcoming Zen 6 client processors... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/AMD-Zen-6-Client-CPPC-Changes)
2026-09-01T10:15:20Z ( remote@feeds.twtxt.net )
**Intel Graphics Driver Introducing Cold Reset Recovery For Linux 7.4, Panther Lake IBC v3**
While the Linux 7.3 merge window just wrapped up this weekend, on Monday Intel already sent out their first feature pull request of new Xe kernel graphics driver material that is destined for Linux 7.4... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Intel-Xe-Linux-7.4-First-PR)
2026-09-01T10:01:31Z ( remote@feeds.twtxt.net )
**The Linux Kernel AI Flood, Linux 7.2 Release & Other August Highlights**
It was a very busy month of August with the Linux kernel developers continue to be flooded with AI/LLM-generated patches and bug reports. Plus there was the general resolution on AI usage within the Debian project and other open-source projects now evolving in the AI era. With the Linux 7.2 stable release and Linux 7.3 merge window, the past month was all the more eventful... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/August-2026-Highlights)
2026-09-01T09:52:03Z ( remote@feeds.twtxt.net )
**EDAC Changes Merged For Linux 7.3 After Being Forgotten About During The Merge Window**
While the Linux 7.3 merge window officially closed on Sunday with the Linux 7.3-rc1 release, the Error Detection And Correction "EDAC" subsystem changes were mistakenly forgotten about during the two week window. The pull request ended up being sent out on Monday evening and the late feature changes were already merged to Git... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-7.3-EDAC)
2026-09-01T00:49:02Z ( remote@feeds.twtxt.net )
**KDE Linux Now Providing Automatic Btrfs Snapshots For All User Files**
With the end of the month comes a new monthly status report from the KDE Linux project as their in-house distribution project... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/KDE-Linux-August-2026)
2026-09-01T00:26:40Z ( remote@feeds.twtxt.net )
**NVIDIA Posts Linux Scheduler Patches To Further Boost SMT Performance On NVIDIA Vera**
Hitting the Linux kernel mailing list today is a new kernel scheduler patch series to enable preferred SMT siblings for NVIDIA Vera with its Olympus cores... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/NVIDIA-Linux-Sched-Vera-SMT)
2026-08-31T21:03:00Z ( remote@feeds.twtxt.net )
**Rust Coreutils 0.11 Released With Some Nifty Debug Helper Messages**
Rust Coreutils 0.11 was just released as this alternative to the GNU Coreutils. Besides the long-running task of catching up the GNU Coreutils compatibility with the GNU test suite and never-ending work on optimizing the performance, Rust Coreutils 0.11 is quite a nice release for its improved error messages... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Rust-Coreutils-0.11)
2026-08-31T20:48:00Z ( remote@feeds.twtxt.net )
**Firefox 155 Available With Faster Page Loads Via Happy Eyeballs v3, QUIC v2 For HTTP/3**
The Mozilla Firefox 155 release binaries are now available ahead of the formal announcement on Tuesday for this latest web browser release. With Firefox 155 it's heavier on new features than we have seen in some time... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Firefox-155-Released)
2026-08-31T19:39:10Z ( remote@feeds.twtxt.net )
**AMD Updates UALink Patches To Get The Linux Kernel Ready For UALoE On Helios**
Earlier this month AMD posted a massive set of patches for bringing up UALink support for the mainline Linux kernel and wiring it up into the AMDGPU kernel driver. In closing out the month of August, they have updated this big set of Ultra Accelerator Link patches... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/AMD-UALink-Linux-Patches-v2)
2026-08-31T18:30:09Z ( remote@feeds.twtxt.net )
**Former Intel Engineer Who Was One Of The Clear Linux Architects Is Starting A New Distro**
One of the former Intel engineers who was a Linux OS architect on their legendary Clear Linux distribution and before that also driving their Moblin and MeeGo Linux efforts is starting a new distribution project. This new initiative, named The Ur Project, is highly leveraging Rust and will rely on AI/LLMs in part and aims to incorporate some deisng improvements Clear Linux... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/The-Ur-Project)
2026-08-31T16:08:21Z ( remote@feeds.twtxt.net )
**3mdeb Enhancing The UEFI Update Capsules Experience For Open-Source Firmware**
Open-source firmware consulting firm 3mdeb is out with a new blog post highlighting their recent work on enhancing the UEFI update capsules experience for open-source firmware with Coreboot and their downstream Dasharo offerings... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/OSS-Firmware-UEFI-Updates-Cap)
2026-08-31T13:33:00Z ( remote@feeds.twtxt.net )
**Linux 7.3 Features Many Exciting Improvements, New Hardware Support & Faster Btrfs**
With Linux 7.3-rc1 released to cap off the two week merge window, here is a look at the many exciting changes merged for the Linux 7.3 kernel that is working its way toward release in the second half of October. ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/review/linux-73-features)
2026-08-31T12:55:11Z ( remote@feeds.twtxt.net )
**Linux Kernel Patches Out For Review To Enable USB4/Thunderbolt For Apple M1 / M2 / M3**
There is a set of 19 patches out for review on the Linux kernel mailing list that would finally allow the mainline kernel running on Apple Silicon M1 / M2 / M3 SoCs to enjoy USB4/Thunderbolt support... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-USB4-Apple-Silicon)
2026-08-31T10:36:28Z ( remote@feeds.twtxt.net )
**Servo 0.5 Released: DuckDuckGo Properly Rendering, Up To 10x Faster Text Rendering**
Servo 0.5 is out today as the newest monthly update to this open-source, Rust-based browser engine. Servo 0.5 ships many notable enhancements for benefiting those running the Servoshell example browser or looking at Servo as an opportunity for embedded use... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Servo-0.5-Released)
2026-08-31T10:23:32Z ( remote@feeds.twtxt.net )
**New Linux Patches Tune AMD Ryzen Zen 6 To Optimize Performance & Power Consumption**
Ahead of the next-generation AMD Ryzen Zen 6 client processors debuting, an important patch series was posted overnight to the Linux kernel mailing list. These patches provide new Zen 6 client Energy Performance Preference "EPP" tunings that are important for optimizing performance and power consumption for these upcoming AMD Zen 6 desktop and laptop processors... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/AMD-Zen-6-Client-EPP-Tunings)
2026-08-31T10:07:13Z ( remote@feeds.twtxt.net )
**A Faster Merge Sort For Mesa 26.3 Vulkan Drivers To Benefit Ray-Tracing**
One of the latest optimizations to the Mesa Vulkan drivers by Natalie Vock of Valve's Linux graphics team is faster and more vRAM efficient sorting for Morton code keys that are important for fast BVH construction and greater GPU parallelism... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Mesa-Vulkan-Faster-Sorting)
2026-08-31T09:48:13Z ( remote@feeds.twtxt.net )
**NVIDIA VA-API Driver 0.0.18 Ships More Fixes, Chrome/Chromium Decode On Direct Backend**
Firefox has finally begun supporting Vulkan Video decoding to complement their long-used VA-API support on Linux. This is good news for the official NVIDIA Linux graphics driver stack as it's been the notable vendor not supporting the Video Acceleration API. But prior to Firefox rolling out its experimental Vulkan Video support, an independent implementation of VA-API built atop NVIDIA's NVDEC interface has been available fo ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/NVIDIA-VA-API-Driver-0.0.18)
2026-08-31T00:23:22Z ( remote@feeds.twtxt.net )
**Linux 7.3-rc1 Close To 41 Million Lines, AMD Kernel Graphics Driver At 6.5 Million Lines**
With Linus Torvalds remarking in the Linux 7.3-rc1 release announcement of the AMD kernel graphics driver changes for amounting around a third of the -rc1 changes due to the big AMD GPU register files for DCN 6.0 and other new IP additions, here are some fresh code stats at large... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-7.3-rc1-Code-Stats)
2026-08-30T21:51:00Z ( remote@feeds.twtxt.net )
**Linux 7.3-rc1 With AMD Zen 6 Additions, Better Btrfs Performance & 2026 Steam Controller**
Like clockwork, the Linux 7.3 merge window has concluded after two weeks and the Linux 7.3-rc1 kernel now available for testing... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-7.3-rc1-Released)
2026-08-30T19:55:27Z ( remote@feeds.twtxt.net )
**OpenShot 4.0 Released In Adapting Video Editor UI To Qt6**
OpenShot 4.0 was tagged this afternoon on GitHub as the newest major feature release to this open-source non-linear video editing application... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/OpenShot-4.0)
2026-08-30T15:06:42Z ( remote@feeds.twtxt.net )
**Linux 7.3 Lands More Audio Workarounds For Laptops & Other Devices**
Following last week's main set of sound subsystem updates for Linux 7.3 that brought a lot of new audio hardware support, a second round of sound updates were merged this weekend ahead of today's Linux 7.3-rc1 release... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-7.3-More-Sound)
2026-08-30T14:38:56Z ( remote@feeds.twtxt.net )
**The Challenges In Bringing AMD ROCm To FreeBSD**
This summer an intern with the FreeBSD Foundation worked on porting AMD ROCm to FreeBSD. The internship is concluding while the FreeBSD ROCm code is almost to the stage of being able to perform simple vector addition workloads... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/AMD-ROCm-FreeBSD-Intern-Report)
2026-08-30T13:39:52Z ( remote@feeds.twtxt.net )
**AMD Zen 6 Preparations, Ryzen AI Halo LED Driver & Many Laptop Changes For Linux 7.3**
The x86 platform driver changes are now in place for the Linux 7.3 kernel with additions for upcoming AMD Zen 6 hardware, the RGB LED driver controls for the Ryzen AI Halo PC, and a lot of laptop support additions and improvements for a variety of devices from different hardware vendors. Plus some handheld gaming device updates too... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-7.3-x86-Platform-Drivers)
2026-08-30T11:00:28Z ( remote@feeds.twtxt.net )
**NVIDIA Vulkan Frame Rate Up-Conversion "FRUC" Merged To FFmpeg**
Upstreamed to the FFmpeg multimedia driver code this weekend is support for Frame Rate Up-Conversion "FRUC" making use of the NVIDIA Vulkan Optical Flow extension... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/FFmpeg-NVIDIA-RTX-FRUC)
2026-08-30T10:41:00Z ( remote@feeds.twtxt.net )
**The "KVM Chainsaw" Clean-Up Merged For Linux 7.3 Along With Other Fixes**
The Kernel-based Virtual Machine "KVM" changes have landed for the Linux 7.3 merge window that is wrapping up later today... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-7.3-KVM)
2026-08-30T10:28:05Z ( remote@feeds.twtxt.net )
**Linux 7.3 Introduces 8250\_mxpcie Driver For Moxa PCIe Multi-Port Serial Boards**
The TTY/Serial code changes for Linux 7.3 were merged this week and include dropping the dated IPWireless driver while introducing the new 8250\_mxpcie driver... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-7.3-Serial)
2026-08-30T00:33:50Z ( remote@feeds.twtxt.net )
**RTL8723BS Driver Continues Dominating The Staging Area Activity For Linux 7.3**
Upstreamed back in 2017 for Linux 4.12 was the RTL8723BS driver in the kernel's staging area. Nine years later it remains in staging and remains a frequent target for clean-ups and code improvements as it tries to work its way out... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-7.3-Staging)
2026-08-29T19:16:11Z ( remote@feeds.twtxt.net )
**FreeBSD 14.5-RC1 Released With Several Security Fixes**
Ahead of FreeBSD 14.5-RELEASE hopefully debuting on 8 September, FreeBSD 14.5-RC1 is out today as the final scheduled development release... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/FreeBSD-14.5-RC1)
2026-08-29T16:24:01Z ( remote@feeds.twtxt.net )
**Another x86 Advisory From Some Entity Other Than Intel Or AMD**
Last October I highlighted an interesting post on the Linux kernel mailing list around an x86 corporate entity other than Intel or AMD that left mysterious intrigue. The developer that detailed those x86 opcode/CPUID/MSR allocations back in July then detailed 16-tile and 32-tile AMX implementations again for something outside the current scope of Intel/AMD processors. Today another message is being relayed from that "corporate entity other than Intel/AMD.". ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/x86-WBINVD-Advisory)
2026-08-29T14:48:28Z ( remote@feeds.twtxt.net )
**KDE Plasma 6.8 Improving Performance & Efficiency For Some Full Screen Content**
In addition to the Union QtWidgets initial release happening this week, a number of other improvements also landed in the past few days in making Plasma 6.8 all the more exciting... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Plasma-6.8-Full-Screen-Perf)
2026-08-29T12:56:32Z ( remote@feeds.twtxt.net )
**ReactOS 0.4.16 Released With New Graphical Installer, Better Hardware Support**
ReactOS 0.4.16 released today as the newest major update to this "open-source Windows" project providing an open-source OS with Windows driver and application compatibility... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/ReactOS-0.4.16-Released)
2026-08-29T11:17:00Z ( remote@feeds.twtxt.net )
**F2FS With Now Handle Multi-Device Flushes In Parallel With Linux 7.3**
Coming in as a late pull request ahead of the Linux 7.3 merge window closing this weekend were the Flash Friendly File-System (F2FS) updates that have now made it into Linux Git... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-7.3-F2FS)
2026-08-29T11:02:34Z ( remote@feeds.twtxt.net )
**GNOME's Very Exciting Week From Flatpak Funding To Reset Recovery Plus Apps**
This week was extremely eventful in the GNOME space with GPU reset recovery for GNOME Mutter now largely wrapped up and the merge request opened to facilitate the code review. There was also the announcement of the half million Euro Sovereign Tech Agency investment into Flatpak. Plus on the application side were a few more interesting advancements this week.'.. ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/GNOME-Very-Exciting-Week)
2026-08-29T10:48:11Z ( remote@feeds.twtxt.net )
**California Passes AB-1856 For Open-Source Relief Over Age Verification**
As an update to the May story about California's age verification law may end up exempting most Linux distributions, that AB-1856 bill has finally passed!.. ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/California-AB-1856-Passes)
2026-08-29T10:21:57Z ( remote@feeds.twtxt.net )
**Linux 7.3 UBI Adds Support For Per-Device Wear-Leveling Thresholds**
The Unsorted Block Images "UBI" layer in the Linux kernel for NAND flash memory tracking and wear leveling finally has the notion of per-device wear-leveling thresholds... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-7.3-UBI)
2026-08-29T00:43:52Z ( remote@feeds.twtxt.net )
**Debian Votes To Allow "Responsible Use Of Generative AI"**
The voting is over and there is a winner now known in the much-debated Debian General Resolution voting over an AI policy for the Linux distribution... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Debian-Votes-Responsible-AI-Use)
2026-08-28T21:05:24Z ( remote@feeds.twtxt.net )
**Union QtWidgets Sees Initial Release For Advancing KDE Plasma's Union**
Premiering in KDE Plasma 6.7 was Union as the new CSS-based style/theming engine for Plasma. Union ultimately aims to address KDE's fragmented ways of styling apps. As a step closer to that goal, there is now the initial release of Union for QtWidgets support... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/KDE-Union-QtWidgets)
2026-08-28T19:05:56Z ( remote@feeds.twtxt.net )
**Linux 7.3 TPM Makes Cleanup Preparations For TrenchBoot**
The Trusted Platform Module (TPM) subsystem changes for the Linux 7.3 kernel are centered around code clean-ups and improvements being made as a precursor toward TrenchBoot support... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-7.3-TPM)
2026-08-28T16:33:22Z ( remote@feeds.twtxt.net )
**DXVK 3.1 Released With DXGI Incremental Presentation, D3D11 Buffer Render Targets**
DXVK 3.1 is out today as the newest feature release for this Direct3D 8 / 9 / 10 / 11 implementation built atop the Vulkan API as a key component to Valve's Steam Play (Proton)... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/DXVK-3.1-Released)
2026-08-28T14:25:27Z ( remote@feeds.twtxt.net )
**HP Z4 G6i: A Linux-Friendly Workstation Powered By The Intel Xeon 600 Series**
The past month I have been testing out the HP Z4 G6i workstation across many different workloads and grueling tasks. This HP workstation powered by the Intel Xeon 600 series "Granite Rapids WS" and NVIDIA RTX graphics offers a lot of compute power, but with the top-end configuration retailing for over $41k USD is quite pricey in today's environment. Windows 11 Pro is the default operating system of the HP Z4 Gi but Ubuntu LTS releases are supported a ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/review/hp-z4-g6i)
2026-08-28T13:02:16Z ( remote@feeds.twtxt.net )
**The Linux Kernel Is Approaching 2,000 CVEs Per Release**
With the proliferation of AI/LLM models analyzing the Linux kernel's vast codebase, there has been a surge in the number of CVEs per kernel release. After typically being around 500 CVEs fixed per release, we are now approaching 2,000 CVEs fixed per release and perhaps will break that threshold for Linux 7.3... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-Kernel-CVEs-Nearly-2000)
2026-08-28T12:17:17Z ( remote@feeds.twtxt.net )
**GPU Reset Recovery Merge Request For GNOME Mutter Submitted**
Google Summer of Code 2026 featured a project working on GPU reset recovery for GNOME's Mutter compositor. GSoC has now wrapped up and the project overall was largely successful although some outstanding work remains. In this last week the merge request has been opened to conduct code review on this GPU reset recovery implementation for GNOME... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/GNOME-GPU-Reset-Recovery-PR)
2026-08-28T11:52:00Z ( remote@feeds.twtxt.net )
**Vulkan 1.4.361 Released With New NVIDIA Vendor Extension**
The Khronos Group is closing out the month of August with the Vulkan 1.4.361 specification update... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Vulkan-1.4.361)
2026-08-28T11:17:55Z ( remote@feeds.twtxt.net )
**Chris Mason Steps Down As Btrfs Co-Maintainer, Departing Meta**
Longtime Linux kernel developer Chris Mason is departing Meta. In the process of doing so, he is also stepping down from his co-maintainership role of the Btrfs file-system... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Chris-Mason-Leaving-Meta)
2026-08-28T10:15:13Z ( remote@feeds.twtxt.net )
**Linux 7.3 Will Begin Checking USB-C Cables For Alt-Mode Support**
The USB and Thunderbolt changes have been merged for Linux 7.3. Two changes stand out for me in the USB subsystem code with Linux 7.3. First, the kernel arguably being long overdue for checking USB-C cables capabilities whether they support alt-modes. Second, a new low-latency USB4STREAM option for lower latency data transfers between USB4-connected systems... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-7.3-USB)
2026-08-28T09:58:09Z ( remote@feeds.twtxt.net )
**Old IBM Driver Joins Insecure SGI Drivers In Being Removed For Linux 7.3**
The char/misc changes were merged this week for the Linux 7.3 cycle. While there is a lot of IIO driver churn as usual and updates to the likes of the Google Binder drivers, there continues to be the 2026 trend of removing old hardware drivers that are rarely updated these days and likely have no active users left on the mainline Linux kernel. This trend is further pushed along by the surplus of AI/LLM-generated bug reports and patches ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Old-IBM-SGI-Drivers-Linux-7.3)
2026-08-28T00:38:03Z ( remote@feeds.twtxt.net )
**Sovereign Tech Agency Providing Massive Investment Into Flatpak**
The latest beneficiary of Germany's Sovereign Tech Agency is Flatpak where more than half a million Euros will be invested over the next two years to help with app sandboxing and other functionality... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Sovereign-Tech-Agency-Flatpak)
2026-08-28T00:13:09Z ( remote@feeds.twtxt.net )
**Ubuntu 26.04.1 LTS Released With Initial Collection Of Fixes**
Canonical today published Ubuntu 26.04.1 LTS as their first point release in the long-term support series for the "Resolute Raccoon"... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Ubuntu-26.04.1-LTS-Released)
2026-08-27T21:13:01Z ( remote@feeds.twtxt.net )
**Intel Linux Driver Orphaned For Limiting RF Exposure To Humans**
Over the past year and a half a number of open-source drivers in the Linux kernel have been orphaned as a result of departures from the company. The impact has ranged from the Intel CPU "coretemp" temperature driver being orphaned without a maintainer to other lesser known Intel drivers. Another lesser known Intel driver is now being orphaned with no longer having a maintainer at the company: the Intel Specific Absorption Rate Driver... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Intel-Linux-SAR-Driver-Orphaned)
2026-08-27T19:45:06Z ( remote@feeds.twtxt.net )
**AMD Preparing To Enable HDMI 2.1 FRL Support By Default For Linux**
It was back in May that the surprising event happened of AMD posting HDMI 2.1 FRL patches for their open-source AMDGPU Linux driver as part of their broader HDMI 2.1 bring-up. For years the open-source HDMI 2.1 support in AMDGPU was blocked by the HDMI Forum but whether it was due to Valve or some other event, the code was finally unblocked. While it's been part of the kernel since Linux 7.2, it's been disabled by default -- except that is now c ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/AMDGPU-HDMI-2.1-FRL-Default)
2026-08-27T18:20:28Z ( remote@feeds.twtxt.net )
**Linux 7.3 MGLRU Change Helps Executable Code Stays In Memory, Improving Performance**
Following last week's main set of memory management "MM" related updates for Linux 7.3, another batch of MM code updates were submitted and merged today as we prepare to close out the Linux 7.3 merge window. There are a few optimization patches that stand out along with other mostly small fixes/changes... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-7.3-MGLRU-Executable-Mem)
2026-08-27T15:26:53Z ( remote@feeds.twtxt.net )
**AMD Jumps From ROCm 7.14 To ROCm 10.0 With ROCm.AI**
Back in July ROCm 7.14 was announced as their new production release built atop TheRock build system and introducing Ryzen AI 400 series support. The versioning choice was a bit odd since ROCm 7.2 was the stable release at the time while ROCm 7.9+ turned into "tech preview" releases. With ROCm 7.14, it was declared stable. In clearing up that versioning mess, they have done a major version bump... to ROCm 10.0... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/AMD-ROCm-10.0)
2026-08-27T15:13:00Z ( remote@feeds.twtxt.net )
**Btrfs, EXT4, F2FS & XFS On Linux 7.2 vs. Linux 7.3 Performance**
Earlier this week I showed off some of the very nice Btrfs performance gains on Linux 7.3. For those wondering what kernel optimizations may have carried over to other file-systems or other file-system specific enhancements, here are Linux 7.2 vs. 7.3 Git performance benchmarks across Btrfs, EXT4, F2FS, and XFS on the same system. ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/review/linux-73-filesystems)
2026-08-27T14:15:30Z ( remote@feeds.twtxt.net )
**Linux 7.3 Adds RWF\_DONTCACHE Support For Block Devices**
With the never-ending quest for greater I/O performance in the HPC space and the demands all the more relentless in the AI era, the Linux kernel block subsystem activity continues to be as vibrant as ever along with the ongoing innovations in the IO\_uring space... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-7.3-Block)
2026-08-27T13:19:36Z ( remote@feeds.twtxt.net )
**Lemonade 11.8 Makes It Easy To Run DeepSeek V4 Flash On AMD Strix Halo**
For those interested in making use of the recently released DeepSeek V4 Flash model, AMD developers have released Lemonade 11.8 that now makes it rather trivial to get DeepSeek V4 Flash up and running on AMD Ryzen AI+ Max "Strix Halo" systems... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/AMD-Lemonade-11.8)
2026-08-27T12:21:33Z ( remote@feeds.twtxt.net )
**Libgcrypt 1.12.3 Brings Intel SM3 / SM4 / SHA512 Optimizations**
Werner Koch announced today the release of Libgcrypt 1.12.3 with various bug fixes and more exciting are the performance improvements... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/libgcrypt-1.12.3)
2026-08-27T10:32:11Z ( remote@feeds.twtxt.net )
**Intel ANV Driver Improves Vulkan Video H.265 Decoding**
Merged back in 2023 was Intel ANV Vulkan Video support for H.265 decoding. But it's been slightly out of compliant with the Vulkan spec, which is now fixed with the newest code for Mesa 26.3 by engaging the HuC firmware... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Intel-ANV-HuC-H265-Vulkan-Video)
2026-08-27T10:18:39Z ( remote@feeds.twtxt.net )
**AppArmor In Linux 7.3 Adds Support For User-Space Compressed Policies**
The AppArmor improvements have been merged for Linux 7.3 for this kernel security module providing per-program Linux application security controls around system resources. Most notable this cycle is being able to load user-space compressed policies... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-7.3-AppArmor)
2026-08-27T10:05:07Z ( remote@feeds.twtxt.net )
**LLVM Improves Zen 1 / Zen 2 Support To Deal With "Notoriously Bad" PDEP/PEXT**
The LLVM/Clang compiler toolchain merged overnight better support for the nearly decade-old AMD Zen 1 processors and also helps with Zen+ and Zen 2 processors too. This latest work thanks to the open-source community is for providing more informed instruction scheduling around PDEP and PEXT that end up being quite costly for these original Zen processors... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/LLVM-Improve-AMD-PDEP-PEXT)
2026-08-27T09:49:31Z ( remote@feeds.twtxt.net )
**NFS Improvements Arrive For Linux 7.3**
The Network File-System (NFS) improvements for both the client and server code have been merged for the nearly-over Linux 7.3 merge window... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-7.3-NFS)
2026-08-27T00:25:51Z ( remote@feeds.twtxt.net )
**Asahi Linux Hopes To Ship A Release Soon With Apple M3 Device Support**
The Asahi Linux crew working to bring Linux support to Apple Silicon hardware is out today with a new status update on their initiatives, largely around Apple M3 bring-up as well as some M4/M5 achievements... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Asahi-Linux-M3-Release-Soon)
2026-08-26T19:55:10Z ( remote@feeds.twtxt.net )
**Patches Provide For Much Faster In-Kernel Zstd Due To Embarrassingly Bad Inefficiency**
Patches sent out to the Linux kernel mailing list today can provide much more efficient Zstd compression and decompression by addressing a very unfortunate oversight in the existing code... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/In-Kernel-Zstd-BMI2-Probing)
2026-08-26T19:09:15Z ( remote@feeds.twtxt.net )
**Linux 7.3 KSMBD Adds Interoperability For Apple Time Machine Backups**
KSMBD as the in-kernel SMB3/CIFS server for higher performance and lower resource usage than user-space SMB/CIFS protocol implementations is becoming even more useful with the in-development Linux 7.3 kernel... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-7.3-KSMBD)
2026-08-26T16:20:00Z ( remote@feeds.twtxt.net )
**Intel Granite Rapids WS Core Scaling Performance With The Xeon 678X**
Last week I provided a look at the Intel Xeon 600 series Hyper Threading performance with the Xeon 678X "Granite Rapids WS" processor for HT/SMT on and off. That was interesting while another reader request was to look at the CPU core scaling performance for this high-end workstation processor. Here are those benchmarks for showing the performance, power, and frequency/thermal impact of the Xeon 678X when limited to 6 cores, 12 cores, 24 cores, ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/review/intel-xeon-678x-scaling)
2026-08-26T15:40:10Z ( remote@feeds.twtxt.net )
**Haiku R1 Beta 6 Released After Two Years, BeOS-Inspired Project Turns 25 Next Week**
Haiku R1 Beta 5 came out in September 2026 while out today is the long-awaited sixth beta for this open-source operating system inspired by BeOS. This beta release also comes one week ahead of the project's 25th anniversary... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Haiku-R1-Beta-6)
2026-08-26T14:49:36Z ( remote@feeds.twtxt.net )
**AMD Proposes New LLVM iTHP Option For Squeezing More Performance**
AMD's compiler team is proposing a new LLVM Clang compiler option, -fenable-readonly-thp for implementing instruction Transparent Huge Pages "iTHP" at compile and link-time. With -fenable-readonly-thp, they are finding more performance out of SPEC CPU, Geekbench, and other workloads from the arranging of 2MB segment alignment at link time and allowing the executable text range can be promoted to huge pages... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/LLVM-fenable-readonly-thp)
2026-08-26T14:13:00Z ( remote@feeds.twtxt.net )
**Fedora + Tuned-PPD Performance Regression Should Be Fixed With New Linux Kernel**
Earlier this month when benchmarking six Linux distributions on the new Framework Laptop 13 Pro powered by Intel Core Ultra Series 3 "Panther Lake", the performance was strangely slow on Fedora Workstation 44. When digging further into it, the performance loss was with Fedora 44 using Tuned-PPD by default where as other Linux distributions default to Power Profiles Daemon. Ultimately, after Red Hat engineers got involved, was found t ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Fedora-Tuned-PPD-Perf-Fix)
2026-08-26T12:56:10Z ( remote@feeds.twtxt.net )
**Intel Introduces New "BFF" Linux Driver To Deal With Aging Silicon & Stuck Bits**
Intel is preparing to introduce a new Linux driver named "BFF" for dealing with aging processor silicon where bits may become stuck over time... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Intel-BFF-Driver-Stuck-Bits)
2026-08-26T12:31:00Z ( remote@feeds.twtxt.net )
**Linux 7.3 FUSE Delivering Nice Performance Improvements**
The Linux kernel's FUSE code for enabling file-systems in user-space is enjoying some nice speed boosts with the in-development Linux 7.3 kernel... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-7.3-FUSE)
2026-08-26T11:30:28Z ( remote@feeds.twtxt.net )
**LibreOffice 26.8 Released With Many Nice Improvements**
LibreOffice 26.8 is now available as the latest half-year feature update to this leading open-source alternative to Microsoft Office... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/LibreOffice-26.8)
2026-08-26T10:22:43Z ( remote@feeds.twtxt.net )
**AMD Introduces New "GFX1250-STRICT" GPU Target In LLVM**
The AMD GFX1250 IP is what's used by the new Instinct MI450 series accelerators. That's been around within the Linux kernel, AMDGPU LLVM compiler back-end, and related codebases the past year. Interestingly merged yesterday is a new "gfx1250-strict" target... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/AMD-gfx1250-strict)
2026-08-26T10:08:15Z ( remote@feeds.twtxt.net )
**GCC Patches Added -mcpu=native -mtune=native Support For RISC-V**
A SiFive engineer posted patches today for the GNU Compiler Collection (GCC) for adding -mtune=native -mcpu=native support for the compiler on RISC-V... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/GCC-RISC-V-mcpu-mtune-native)
2026-08-26T09:53:14Z ( remote@feeds.twtxt.net )
**Linux 7.3 PCI Code Adds Advisory Non-Fatal Errors, Intel Dunlow Support**
All of the PCI/PCIe subsystem updates for the in-development Linux 7.3 kernel were merged this week... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-7.3-PCI)
2026-08-26T00:22:59Z ( remote@feeds.twtxt.net )
**Chrome/Chromium Experimenting With Flatpak Packaging**
Google engineers responsible for the Chrome/Chromium web browser are experimenting with Flatpak packaging on Linux. They aren't yet committed to officially supporting Flatpak packages but for now are at least exploring the option... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Chrome-Chromium-Flatpak)
2026-08-25T21:30:00Z ( remote@feeds.twtxt.net )
**Linux 7.0-mk2 Released For Multi-Kernel Linux With Promising Performance Results**
Last year a multi-kernel architecture was proposed for the Linux kernel to allow multiple independent kernel instances to co-exist on a single physical machine. Each kernel with "multikernel" Linux can run on dedicated CPU cores whole sharing the underlying hardware resources. Linux 7.0-mk2 released today with the kernel patched for this multi-kernel behavior... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-7.0-mk2-Multikernel)
2026-08-25T20:46:55Z ( remote@feeds.twtxt.net )
**COSMIC Epoch 1.7 Released: No Longer Slow Browsing Network Filesystems**
COSMIC Epoch 1.7 is out today as the newest update to this Rust-based open-source desktop environment with development led by System76... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/COSMIC-Epoch-1.7)
2026-08-25T19:40:00Z ( remote@feeds.twtxt.net )
**LLVM/Clang 23.1 Released With AMD Zen 6 & NVIDIA Rigel Support, Partial C++26 Support**
LLVM 23.1 was released today on-schedule as the first stable release of the LLVM 23 series as the H2'2026 update to this open-source compiler stack... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/LLVM-23.1-Released)
2026-08-25T17:37:28Z ( remote@feeds.twtxt.net )
**Wayland Found To Be "Intrinsically Faster Than X11, But Not Necessarily More Efficient"**
The PorteuX Linux distribution focused on being a high performance, modular, and minimalist distro took to forking Xfce's xfwm4 window manager into "xfwm4-gl" for OpenGL compositing support. As part of that they developed a window manager / compositor benchmark for evaluating the performance and efficiency of typical operations. Their results are fascinating... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Wayland-X11-Performance-PorteuX)
2026-08-25T17:24:28Z ( remote@feeds.twtxt.net )
**Wayland Found To Be "Intrinsically Faster Than X11, But Not Necessarily More Efficient"**
The PorteuX Linux distribution focused on being a high performance, modular, and minimalist distro took to forking Xfce's xfwm4 window manager into "xfwm4-gl" for OpenGL compositing support. As part of that they developed a window manager / compositor benchmark for evaluating the performance and efficiency of typical operations. Their results are fascinating... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Wayland-X11-Performance-PorteuX)
2026-08-25T16:20:00Z ( remote@feeds.twtxt.net )
**AI/LLM Usage Becoming A "Denial of Service Attack" On Open-Source Project Maintainers**
The latest criticism of the increased burden placed on open-source software project maintainers caused by AI / LLM agents is around too many bug reports effectively causing a "denial of service" attack on project maintainers... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/AI-DoS-Attack-Maintainers)
2026-08-25T14:18:32Z ( remote@feeds.twtxt.net )
**Benchmarking Some Incredible Performance Gains With Btrfs On Linux 7.3**
With the Btrfs pull request for Linux 7.3 having delivered more performance optimizations with some ~3x and ~5x gains mentioned in specific areas, I was eager to test out the new Btrfs performance on the in-development kernel. In today's article are some benchmarks of Btrfs on Linux 7.2 stable compared to Linux 7.3 Git with some very enticing performance gains confirmed in various workloads. ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/review/linux-73-btrfs)
2026-08-25T13:30:00Z ( remote@feeds.twtxt.net )
**Apple Launches The M6 2nm 12-core CPU, Quad-Die M5 Ultra**
Apple today unveiled the M6 as their first 2nm SoC design while also introducing the M5 Ultra as their first quad-die product... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Apple-M6-M5-Ultra)
2026-08-25T13:19:07Z ( remote@feeds.twtxt.net )
**The Modern NTFS Linux Driver Adds Read Support For Windows System Compression (WOF)**
The pull requests for the existing Paragon NTFS3 kernel driver as well as the new modern "NTFS" drivers have been submitted for the ongoing Linux 7.3 kernel cycle. Besides bug fixes, most notable among these NTFS file-system drivers are Windows System Compression "WOF" read support for the modern NTFS driver... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-7.3-NTFS-Driver-WOF)
2026-08-25T12:22:16Z ( remote@feeds.twtxt.net )
**Linux 7.3 Device Mapper Sees Many Fixes, Including Code Cleanups By Claude Opus**
The Linux Device Mapper "DKM" framework for mapping block devices to higher-level virtual block devices doesn't see any major new features for Linux 7.3 but there are many bug fixes, including code clean-ups carried out by AI... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-7.3-Device-Mapper)
2026-08-25T10:25:15Z ( remote@feeds.twtxt.net )
**DisplayPort 2.1 ALPM Still Being Worked On For Intel Xe3P / Nova Lake**
The in-development Linux 7.3 kernel is marking Nova Lake Xe3P graphics as stable in being enabled by default and no longer hidden behind the "force probe" flag. While on-by-default, there still are some features that have yet to land like the DisplayPort 2.1 ALPM functionality... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Intel-DP-2.1-ALPM-v5)
2026-08-25T10:00:02Z ( remote@feeds.twtxt.net )
**KDE Remote Desktop Experience Improving For Closing The X11 vs. Wayland Gap**
KDE developer David Edmundson is out today with a blog post around improvements that have been ongoing for the Plasma 6.8 release in improving the KDE remote desktop experience. As part of ensuring a good Wayland experience and hitting all the needs fulfilled by X11, Plasma 6.8 is seeing improvements for its remote desktop functionality... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Plasma-68-Better-Remote-Desktop)
2026-08-25T09:51:22Z ( remote@feeds.twtxt.net )
**Lots Of New Audio Hardware Support In Linux 7.3**
Linux sound subsystem maintainer Takashi Iwai of SUSE submitted all of the sound feature updates last week for the Linux 7.3 kernel. Besides the continued AI/LLM-generated patch churn, the sound code for Linux 7.3 sees a lot of new hardware support... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-7.3-Sound)
2026-08-25T00:33:34Z ( remote@feeds.twtxt.net )
**Linux 7.3 Merges Initial Kernel Driver Support For The 2026 Steam Controller**
The HID subsystem updates were recently merged for the ongoing Linux 7.3 kernel merge window. Among other hardware additions, the 2026 Valve Steam Controller is seeing initial kernel driver support... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-7.3-HID)
2026-08-24T19:29:27Z ( remote@feeds.twtxt.net )
**Linux ath11k Driver Improvements For Qualcomm WiFi 6 Hardware Yields 7x Lower Latency**
A patch series being worked on for the ath11k mainline wireless networking driver for Qualcomm WiFi 6 / 802.11ax chipsets is yielding 7x lower latency or 2.2x throughput at identical latency... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/ath11k-7x-Lower-Latency)
2026-08-24T18:17:25Z ( remote@feeds.twtxt.net )
**New AF\_ALG Restrictions With Linux 7.3 Due To The Security & Maintenance Nightmare**
The past few Linux kernel cycles have chipped away at AF\_ALG functionality for that interface for user-space programs to access the kernel's internal cryptography API. Linux has been dropping AF\_ALG features like zero-copy support and offloading. AF\_ALG was quickly deprecated in Linux 7.2 while now for Linux 7.3 it's being further restricted... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-7.3-AF-ALG-Restrictions)
2026-08-24T16:43:51Z ( remote@feeds.twtxt.net )
**Mozilla Presents Their Plan For Shipping JPEG-XL In Firefox 157**
While Firefox 152+ already offers experimental JPEG-XL support, Mozilla formally announced today their plans for officially shipping JPEG-XL image format support in the Firefox web browser... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Firefox-JPEG-XL-2026-Plans)
2026-08-24T13:38:00Z ( remote@feeds.twtxt.net )
**Early Linux 7.3 Kernel Benchmarks Show Some Performance Improvements, Some Regressions**
Being halfway through the Linux 7.3 kernel merge window and prior to wrapping up and sending back the HP Z4 G6i workstation powered by the Xeon 678X Granite Rapids WS processor, I decided to run some benchmarks to see how Linux 7.3 Git is performing relative to the prior stable kernel series. Here are the first benchmarks of this early state of Linux 7.3 with some performance improvements as well as some regressions. ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/review/linux-73-early-benchmarks)
2026-08-24T11:55:01Z ( remote@feeds.twtxt.net )
**GNU Emacs 31.1 Released With Mouse Control Enabled By Default, Theme For New Users**
GNU Emacs 31.1 is out today as the newest feature release to this popular text editor... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/GNU-Emacs-31.1-Released)
2026-08-24T10:26:22Z ( remote@feeds.twtxt.net )
**Intel Engineers Propose DRM Fabric For Linux**
Coincidentally just days after AMD posted their big UALink patch series for Linux, Intel engineers today announced a proposal called DRM Fabric... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/DRM-Fabric-Proposal)
2026-08-24T10:12:56Z ( remote@feeds.twtxt.net )
**Linux 7.3 Adds Support For Several Newer RISC-V Extensions**
With the in-development Linux 7.3 is support for discovering and enumerating support for several newer RISC-V ISA extensions. Plus there are improvements to its control flow integrity Shadow Stack handling, CPU context switch support for QoS tagging, using UEFI runtime services for restart and powering off, and other improvements... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-7.3-RISC-V)
2026-08-24T09:56:08Z ( remote@feeds.twtxt.net )
**AMD k10temp Driver Adds EPYC Zen 5 Per-CCD Temperature Monitoring With Linux 7.3**
Merged last week for the Linux 7.3 kernel were all the hardware monitoring (HWMON) driver updates for Linux 7.3, which included supporting several more ASUS desktop motherboards, a few AIO liquid cooling products, more Lenovo system support, and per-CCD temperature monitoring on AMD EPYC 9005 server processors... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-7.3-HWMON)
2026-08-24T00:38:25Z ( remote@feeds.twtxt.net )
**Linux 7.3 Improving RAID 5/6 Benchmark-Based Algorithm Selection**
Following the main set of memory management "MM" changes submitted for Linux 7.3, Andrew Morton sent in his "non-MM" pull request of the other patches he's been collecting from various developers for this next Linux kernel release. Standing out there were some improvements to the RAID 5/6 benchmark-based algorithm selection... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-7.3-XOR-RAID6-Benchmark)
2026-08-23T19:05:02Z ( remote@feeds.twtxt.net )
**Linux 7.3 Better Protects Against Buggy EFI Firmware Taking Down The Rest Of User-Space**
The EFI updates were merged today for the in-development Linux 7.3 kernel. Most notable with the EFI updates is now enforcing a timeout foe EFI runtime service completions rather than potentially hanging indefinitely... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-7.3-EFI)
2026-08-23T18:10:13Z ( remote@feeds.twtxt.net )
**Linux 7.3 Delivers Graphics Driver Improvements From Old GPUs To Next-Gen Hardware**
The Direct Rendering Manager (DRM) subsystem updates have been merged for the ongoing Linux 7.3 merge window. There is a lot of exciting GPU kernel driver improvements this cycle ranging from some notable enhancements to old AMD Radeon graphics hardware up through enabling support for some next-generation AMD graphics IP blocks to over on the Intel side where Nova Lake S graphics are being enabled by default... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-7.3-DRM)
2026-08-23T11:41:04Z ( remote@feeds.twtxt.net )
**ReactOS Merges Support For Job Objects As Step To Running Modern Windows Apps**
Merged yesterday to the ReactOS code-base is initial support for Job Objects, which is an important milestone in the road to being able to run more modern Windows software under this open-source operating system striving for Windows driver/application compatibility... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/ReactOS-Job-Objects)
2026-08-23T11:20:00Z ( remote@feeds.twtxt.net )
**Linux 7.3 Makes Preparations Toward Upstreaming FAMFS File-System**
The NVDIMM and direct access (DAX) patches have been merged for the Linux 7.3 cycle. Most of the DAX/NVDIMM activity this cycle is on making preparations for the upcoming submission of Micron's FAMFS file-system... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-7.3-Preps-Toward-FAMFS)
2026-08-23T10:56:12Z ( remote@feeds.twtxt.net )
**GCC Patch Adjusting AMD Zen 5 Misprediction Cost Nets 12% Win In Benchmark**
An AMD compiler engineer posted a patch on Saturday for the GNU Compiler Collection (GCC). The two-line patch adjusts the misprediction cost for Zen 4 and Zen 5 processors, which ends up yielding a 12% improvement in one SPEC CPU benchmark on Zen 5 and a 9% improvement on Zen 4... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/AMD-Zen-5-Mispredict-Cost)
2026-08-23T10:42:14Z ( remote@feeds.twtxt.net )
**Linux 7.3 Introduces New AES Encryption APIs - Will Open Up More Performance**
Eric Biggers of Google continues carrying out great work on the Linux kernel crypto code. For Linux 7.3 he's landed work on new library APIs for most of the AES encryption modes used within the kernel. Moving forward this will open the door to more performance optimizations, reducing code duplication, and other enhancements... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-7.3-New-Crypto-AES-APIs)
2026-08-23T10:30:27Z ( remote@feeds.twtxt.net )
**Linux 7.3 Input Subsystem Updates Merged With Security Fixes, Other Improvements**
The big set of input subsystem updates were merged earlier this week for the Linux 7.3 cycle. It's a random assortment of different improvements as well as bug/security fixes driven in part by the flow of AI/LLM generated discoveries... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-7.3-Input)
2026-08-23T00:31:41Z ( remote@feeds.twtxt.net )
**Longtime Linux CIFS/SMB3 Maintainer Passes Away**
There is a changing of the guard with Linux 7.3 as the maintainer of the Common Internet File System (CIFS) / SMB3 code within the Linux kernel. Longtime maintainer, principal Linux CIFS author, and current Microsoft employee Steve French has stepped down due to health reasons... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/SMB3-CIFS-Maintainer-Change)
2026-08-23T00:24:17Z ( remote@feeds.twtxt.net )
**eCryptfs Sees Fixes For Potential Malicious Intent, Some Dating Back To Its 2006 Debut**
The eCryptfs stacked cryptographic filesystem implementation for the Linux kernel to transparently encrypt files saw a number of bug fixes for the Linux 7.3 kernel. A number of these bug fixes deal with potential maliciously-crafted data and vulnerable going back to the 2006 introduction of eCryptfs as this option known for its use on Ubuntu home directory encryption and Chrome OS... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-7.3-eCryptfs)
2026-08-22T19:42:00Z ( remote@feeds.twtxt.net )
**Redox OS Switches To EEVDF-Based Scheduler For 2.6x Throughput**
The Rust-written, from-scratch Redox OS operating system has switched to using an EEVDF based scheduler design. In doing so they are promoting a 2.6x increase in throughput and a 782x improvement in fairness... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Redox-OS-Goes-EEVDF)
2026-08-22T19:01:47Z ( remote@feeds.twtxt.net )
**Apple HFS / HFS+ File-System Support Continues Seeing Fixes With Linux 7.3**
In early 2025 it was being discussed to potentially drop the HFS and HFS+ file-system support with the code having been orphaned over a decade and becoming a maintenance burden. But that dismal outlook quickly turned around with some developers stepping up to maintain the old Apple file-system support. Over a year later, fortunately, it's turned out to be a success story with more HFS/HFS+ file-system fixes continuing to work their way into the ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Apple-HFS-Linux-7.3)
2026-08-22T15:14:41Z ( remote@feeds.twtxt.net )
**Longtime Linux CIFS/SMB3 Maintainer Steps Down**
There is a changing of the guard with Linux 7.3 as the maintainer of the Common Internet File System (CIFS) / SMB3 code within the Linux kernel. Longtime maintainer, principal Linux CIFS author, and current Microsoft employee Steve French has stepped down due to health reasons... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/SMB3-CIFS-Maintainer-Change)
2026-08-22T12:42:26Z ( remote@feeds.twtxt.net )
**Specially Crafted NTFS File-System Image Allows Root Access On Linux With NTFS3 Driver**
A reported security vulnerability for the NTFS3 driver has gone unaddressed since being reported earlier this summer. The vulnerability allows a pre-crafted NTFS image on a USB flash drive or similar to allow the user to gain root access to the running Linux system... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/NTFS3-Vulnerability-For-Root)
2026-08-22T11:08:14Z ( remote@feeds.twtxt.net )
**AMD RDNA 4m Firmware Published For Linux Ahead Of Launch**
In addition to AMD's Friday afternoon big code drop of all the UALink enablement patches for the Linux kernel and the AMDGPU driver, there was another big drop from AMD to end out the week... Upstreamed to the linux-firmware.git repository is all the firmware binaries needed by the open-source driver stack for initializing their forthcoming RDNA 4m "GFX 11.7" graphics... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/AMD-RDNA-4m-Firmware-Published)
2026-08-22T10:43:51Z ( remote@feeds.twtxt.net )
**Sched\_ext's Sub-Scheduler Support Now "Feature Complete" With Linux 7.3**
The extensible scheduler framework "sched\_ext" that allows for custom schedulers as BPF programs has been working on sub-scheduler support in recent kernel cycles. With Linux 7.3, sub-scheduler support is now deemed feature complete... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-7.3-sched-ext)
2026-08-22T10:18:39Z ( remote@feeds.twtxt.net )
**Red Hat's Tuned 2.28 To Improve Out-Of-The-Box WiFi Power Savings On Fedora**
Tuned 2.28 released this Saturday as the newest version of Red Hat's tuning profile delivery mechanism for Linux. Tuned is used notably out-of-the-box on Fedora Linux for monitoring and adaptively tuning systems... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Red-Hat-Tuned-2.28)
2026-08-22T10:06:04Z ( remote@feeds.twtxt.net )
**Open-Source Etnaviv Driver Now Able To Run YOLOX**
The open-source, reverse-engineered Etnaviv driver stack that began for providing accelerated graphics support on Vivante GPU IP and since expanded to handle Vivante NPUs as well is now able to handle YOLOX object detection... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Etnaviv-YOLOX)
2026-08-22T09:57:36Z ( remote@feeds.twtxt.net )
**Linux 7.3 x86/mm Lands Patches To Greatly Improve Latency-Sensitive Workloads**
The highlight of this week's x86/mm pull request of changes for the Linux 7.3 kernel are fixes that reduce the time that the TLB flushing code has interrupts disabled. This helps significantly with latency-sensitive workloads but Intel engineer Dave Hansen noted in the pull request that "it's certainly something to keep an eye on" in looking out for any regressions... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-7.3-x86-mm-Latency)
2026-08-22T01:01:36Z ( remote@feeds.twtxt.net )
**KDE Plasma 6.8 Lands Some Enticing Performance Optimizations This Week**
This Week in Plasma is out with its latest issue to highlight interesting developments in the trek towards Plasma 6.8... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/KDE-Plasma-6.8-More-Performance)
2026-08-22T00:40:33Z ( remote@feeds.twtxt.net )
**OpenZFS 2.4.4 Released With Linux 7.2 Support, Dozens Of Fixes**
OpenZFS 2.4.4 is out today as the newest stable point release for this ZFS file-system implementation for Linux and FreeBSD systems... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/OpenZFS-2.4.4-Released)
2026-08-21T22:12:01Z ( remote@feeds.twtxt.net )
**Wine 11.16 Released With VA-API Hardware Decoding, Better ARM64 Support**
Wine 11.16 is out today as the newest bi-weekly development release for this software enabling Windows games and applications to run on Linux and other platforms... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Wine-11.16-Released)
2026-08-21T21:14:07Z ( remote@feeds.twtxt.net )
**Proton 11.0-2 Enables More Titles With Steam Play / Linux Gaming**
Just in time for those that enjoy their Linux / Steam Play gaming on weekends, Valve and CodeWeavers today released Proton 11.0-2 as the newest stable release of this Wine 11.0 downstream that powers Steam Play for running Windows games gracefully on Linux... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Proton-11.0-2)
2026-08-21T20:07:08Z ( remote@feeds.twtxt.net )
**AMD Posts Massive Patch Series For Enabling UALink In The Linux Kernel**
Whether coincidental or intentional, AMD engineers tend to drop interesting, feature patches for the open-source/Linux space on Friday afternoons. Hitting the kernel mailing list minutes ago were two patch series sent out by AMDGPU maintainer Alex Deucher for introducing UALink infrastructure... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/UALink-Series-2-Linux)
2026-08-21T17:53:28Z ( remote@feeds.twtxt.net )
**Linux 7.3 Lands Improvements For Voodoo 3 / 4 / 5 & Vintage Atari Computers In 2026**
At a time when Linux continues dropping older hardware drivers due to the influx of AI/LLM-generated bug reports and patches for hardware extremely unlikely to be used with modern versions of the mainline Linux kernel, Voodoo graphics cards and vintage Atari computers are seeing some reprieve with the upcoming Linux 7.3 kernel release... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-7.3-FBDEV)
2026-08-21T15:54:05Z ( remote@feeds.twtxt.net )
**Framework Laptop 16 With GeForce RTX 5070 12GB, One-Piece Keyboard & Haptic Touchpad**
While the past few weeks have been quite busy with the new Framework Laptop 13 Pro testing with that all-new laptop model and paired with Intel's Core Ultra Series 3 "Panther Lake", at the same time Framework Computer has begun shipping some updated components for the Framework Laptop 16 laptop. If looking for a bit more GPU compute power hor larger form factor than the 13-inch model, the Framework Laptop 16 can now be equipped ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/review/framework-laptop-16-2026)
2026-08-21T15:25:41Z ( remote@feeds.twtxt.net )
**Nginx Dark Mode Support For Error Pages Remains Elusive**
In early 2025 I wrote about the upstream Nginx web server rejecting dark mode support for its error pages on the basis of wanting to keep the default error pages simple and developers arguing the extra HTML tag for the dark mode styling as superfluous. Following a lot of public backlash for being against offering native dark mode handling by default, Nginx stakeholders were polled and largely came out in favor of supporting the functionality but more than one ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Nginx-Dark-Mode-Mystery)
2026-08-21T13:13:26Z ( remote@feeds.twtxt.net )
**Intel Computer Vision Sensing Driver Now Ready For Nova Lake**
The main set of media subsystem updates have been merged for the ongoing Linux 7.3 merge window. Notable this round is the Intel Computer Vision Sensing "CVS" driver merged the previous cycle now supporting next-gen Nova Lake platforms... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-7.3-Media)
2026-08-21T12:29:09Z ( remote@feeds.twtxt.net )
**Linux 7.3 Cleans Up Stack Randomization, Ensures It Happen As Early As Possible**
Merged this week for the Linux 7.3 kernel was a big clean-up to the stack randomization code for better security on Linux systems and helping unify some of the architecture-specific code... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-7.3-Stack-Randomization)
2026-08-21T12:03:07Z ( remote@feeds.twtxt.net )
**Intel Compute Runtime 26.31.39395.13 Continues Prepping For Crescent Island, OpenCL LEO**
Intel today released the Compute Runtime 26.31.39395.13 open-source GPU compute stack update for Windows and Linux systems. Big ongoing trends for the Intel Compute Runtime continue to be preparing for upcoming Crescent Island and Nova Lake Xe3P graphics hardware as well as building out their new OpenCL LEO driver... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Intel-CR-26.31.39395.13)
2026-08-21T10:33:07Z ( remote@feeds.twtxt.net )
**Linux 7.3 Ready With CXL Type-2 Driver Support For AMD Solarflare NICs**
With the mainline Linux 7.2 kernel there is now the basic support in place for CXL Type-2 accelerator drivers within the CXL core subsystem code. The first in-tree Type-2 driver with the Linux kernel is for the new AMD Solarflare NIC hardware... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/AMD-Solarflare-NIC-CXL-Type-2)
2026-08-21T10:19:44Z ( remote@feeds.twtxt.net )
**Linus Torvalds Endures A Debug Session From Hell, "Enormously Helped" By AI**
It's pretty rare to see Linus Torvalds author patches himself pertaining to the open-source Linux graphics drivers, but waking up this morning I was surprised to see he authored and committed an Intel Xe kernel graphics driver change himself. It ended up being after he encountered a "debug session from hell" but was ultimately helped by AI in fixing a bug that had been irking him... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linus-Torvalds-Debug-AI)
2026-08-21T00:44:45Z ( remote@feeds.twtxt.net )
**Intel Mesa Linux Drivers Now Treating Nova Lake S / U / H / HX As Stable**
Intel's open-source Mesa drivers for Iris Gallium3D (OpenGL) and ANV (Vulkan) on Linux are no longer treating next-gen Nova Lake processors with integrated graphics as experimental and off-by-default. With today's Mesa 26.3-devel code, the Intel driver code across Nova Lake's S, U, H, and HX product families are considered stable and enabled by default... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Intel-Mesa-Nova-Lake-Stable)
2026-08-20T20:05:28Z ( remote@feeds.twtxt.net )
**Linux 7.3 Network Changes Merged But Developers "Completely Overwhelmed" Due To AI/LLMs**
All of the networking subsystem feature updates were merged today for the Linux 7.3 kernel's merge window. There are a lot of wired and wireless networking improvements this cycle but also a ton of bug fixes -- including many not so important fixes spun up by AI/LLM agents. The networking subsystem maintainers admit now they are "completely overwhelmed" due to this code churn from the output of AI large language models... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-7.3-Networking)
2026-08-20T17:29:25Z ( remote@feeds.twtxt.net )
**Rust 1.98 Adds Algebraic Floating-Point Methods Akin To "-ffast-math"**
Rust 1.98 released today and is headlined the debut of new algebraic floating-point methods... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Rust-1.98-Released)
2026-08-20T17:19:37Z ( remote@feeds.twtxt.net )
**KMSCON 10.0.2 Brings asciicast Playback Support, Bug Fixes**
KMSCON 10.0.2 debuted today as the latest update to this leading user-space terminal emulator for Linux systems. KMSCON is built around Linux's KMS/DRM interfaces and the most viable alternative to date for in-kernel VTs... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/KMSCON-10.0.2-Released)
2026-08-20T16:21:31Z ( remote@feeds.twtxt.net )
**KDE Software Now Has Stable Btrfs Snapshot Integration With KIO-Snapshot 1.0**
With today's release of KIO-Snapshot, KDE software now has stable integration of Btrfs file-system snapshots... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/KDE-Btrfs-Snapshots)
2026-08-20T14:21:00Z ( remote@feeds.twtxt.net )
**Intel Hyper Threading Performance On The Xeon 678X "Granite Rapids-WS"**
With the Intel Xeon 678X "Granite Rapids WS" processor that I have been recently testing within the HP Z4 G6i workstation, there are 48 cores plus with Hyper Threading is a total of 96 threads for this high-end workstation processor with a 300 Watt TDP. For those curious about the performance impact of HT/SMT on this Intel Xeon 600 series workstation processor, here are some comparison benchmarks. ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/review/intel-xeon-678x-ht)
2026-08-20T13:18:28Z ( remote@feeds.twtxt.net )
**FSCRYPT Sees Cleanup With Linux 7.3 To Open Door For More Features Like Btrfs Encryption**
FSCRYPT is the Linux file-system encryption framework for supporting per-directory, transparent encryption. FSCRYPT so far is used by the likes of EXT4, F2FS, and CephFS. For Linux 7.3 there is an important clean-up to the FSCRYPT code to simplify it while also opening the door for new features moving forward into future kernel versions... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-7.3-FSCRYPT)
2026-08-20T12:28:39Z ( remote@feeds.twtxt.net )
**Linux Driver Posted For The PreSonus Quantum 2626: A ~$700 Thunderbolt Audio Interface**
The PreSonus Quantum 2626 is a high-end, Thunderbolt 3 based audio interface. PreSonus just maintains Windows and macOS drivers for this high-end audio interface while now an open-source Linux driver has been posted after being independently developed via reverse engineering... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/PreSonus-Quantum-2626-Linux)
2026-08-20T11:35:11Z ( remote@feeds.twtxt.net )
**RPM 6.1 Released With Clang Build Fixes, New Release Model**
RPM 6.1 is out today as the newest feature release for this package management system. With RPM 6.1 comes a number of features and improvements as well as a new release model... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/RPM-6.1-Released)
2026-08-20T10:21:48Z ( remote@feeds.twtxt.net )
**Linux 7.3 Cleans Up The Code For Disabling Of Legacy 32-bit Time Support**
The Linux kernel has supported the CONFIG\_COMPAT\_32BIT\_TIME Kconfig build time option for optionally disabling of legacy 32-bit time system call support. This is intended to disable the code that uses a 32-bit integer for time that is thus not Year 2038 safe, but at the cost of breaking compatibility for legacy 32-bit applications. Even if building without Linux 32-bit time support, it turns out some 32-bit time code persisted but that ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-7.3-vDSO-32-bit-Time)
2026-08-20T09:58:23Z ( remote@feeds.twtxt.net )
**KDE Gear 26.08 Delivers The Latest KDE App Experience**
KDE Gear 26.08 was released today to deliver the latest collection of KDE application updates... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/KDE-Gear-26.08)
2026-08-20T02:18:15Z ( remote@feeds.twtxt.net )
**X.Org Server 26.1 RC1 Prepares For First Feature Release In Five Years**
Following today's release of XWayland 26.1 RC1, X.Org Server 26.1 RC1 was tagged. This xorg-server 26.1 release is aiming to become the first major feature release in five years, succeeding the xorg-server 21.1 series... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/X.Org-Server-26.1-RC1)
2026-08-20T00:55:19Z ( remote@feeds.twtxt.net )
**EXT4 Preps More Performance Improvements For Linux 7.3**
In addition to the IOmap improvements helping EXT4 performance in Linux 7.3, the main EXT4 feature pull request has now been submitted for this next kernel version. That pull is set to land yet more performance optimizations for EXT4... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/EXT4-Linux-7.3)
2026-08-19T20:31:26Z ( remote@feeds.twtxt.net )
**Two Very Exciting Memory Management Optimizations Going Into Linux 7.3**
Andrew Morton on Tuesday sent out all of the memory management "MM" updates for the Linux 7.3 merge window. The MM pull was particularly heavy as he noted 1,250 "added-to-MM" emails were sent out this cycle compared to 920 the prior cycle. With a lot of patch churn, he also turned to Google's Gemini AI for writing his patch summaries. In going through the very verbose AI-generated summary, there are two patch series that get me excited on the performance ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-7.3-MM)
2026-08-19T18:23:05Z ( remote@feeds.twtxt.net )
**Go Language 1.27 Adds Generic Methods, Struct Improvement & More SIMD**
Go 1.27 was released today as the newest version of this programming language from Google's Go team... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Go-1.27)
2026-08-19T17:50:46Z ( remote@feeds.twtxt.net )
**Btrfs Ready With More Performance Improvements For Linux 7.3: Some ~3x To ~5x Wins**
David Sterba of SUSE sent in the Btrfs file-system feature updates today that target the Linux 7.3 merge window. Among other changes are more performance improvements for this next version of the Linux kernel... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-7.3-Btrfs)
2026-08-19T14:11:07Z ( remote@feeds.twtxt.net )
**XWayland 26.1 RC1 Released With Many New Features**
Olivier Fourdan of Red Hat announced today the first release candidate of XWayland 26.1. This is the first new tagged feature release since XWayland 24.1 back in 2024! As such there are many new features in tow... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/XWayland-26.1-RC1)
2026-08-19T12:17:13Z ( remote@feeds.twtxt.net )
**Linux 7.3 Deprecates Many Older 32-bit ARM Platforms, Orphans Hundreds Of Drivers**
All of the SoC updates have been merged for the Linux 7.3 kernel that include adding some new SoCs as well as deprecating several older 32-bit ARM platforms. In turn with those platforms deprecated, "hundreds" of drivers are now orphaned in the process... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-7.3-SoC)
2026-08-19T10:35:33Z ( remote@feeds.twtxt.net )
**PHP 7.4 To PHP 8.6 Benchmarks, PHP 8.6 JIT Performance**
A Phoronix Premium supporter recently relayed a request to see some fresh PHP performance benchmarks. So here are some fresh numbers of PHP 7.4 through the latest PHP 8.5 code plus the current Git state of PHP 8.6 ahead of the official PHP 8.6.0 release later in the year. With PHP 8.6 is also a fresh look at the JIT performance enabled too... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/PHP-8.6-Early-Benchmarks)
2026-08-19T10:20:00Z ( remote@feeds.twtxt.net )
**Linux 7.3 Scheduler Improvements: Help For Gaming, Hybrid CPUs, Lower Scheduler Latency**
The exciting set of scheduler updates have been merged for the Linux 7.3 merge window... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-7.3-Scheduler)
2026-08-19T10:04:10Z ( remote@feeds.twtxt.net )
**New AMD Low-Power Core & Unified Intel/AMD CPU Core Type Handling In Linux 7.3**
Covered first on Phoronix back in June was an AMD Linux patch for introducing a new "low power" CPU core type to complement their typical "performance" cores and their "efficiency" cores like with Zen 4C/5C. That low power core is presumed for some Zen 6 clients and that integration is now merged for Linux 7.3 as well as unifying the Intel/AMD CPU core type handling... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/x86-Core-Types-Linux-7.3)
2026-08-19T09:36:22Z ( remote@feeds.twtxt.net )
**Raspberry Pi Compute Module 5 Programming Jig Launches**
The newest Raspberry Pi product to launch is the Raspberry Pi Compute Module 5 Programming Jig... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Raspberry-Pi-CM5-Jig)
2026-08-19T00:33:22Z ( remote@feeds.twtxt.net )
**Modular's Mojo Language Now Open-Source Following Qualcomm Acquisition**
Modular, the AI startup founded by Chris Lattner of LLVM and Swift fame, has open-sourced their Mojo systems programming language! This comes following the recent acquisition of Modular by Qualcomm... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Modular-Mojo-Open-Source)
2026-08-19T00:20:01Z ( remote@feeds.twtxt.net )
**COSMIC Epoch 1.6 Released With Per-App Volume Control, Remote Desktop Preparations**
COSMIC Epoch 1.6 was released this evening as the latest milestone for this open-source, Rust-based desktop environment led by System76 as part of the work on their Pop!\_OS Linux distribution... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/COSMIC-Epoch-1.6)
2026-08-18T19:38:32Z ( remote@feeds.twtxt.net )
**Linux 7.3 Adds New "bpf\_sock\_read\_xattr" Feature For systemd, BPF Programs**
Merged earlier this year for Linux 7.1 was extended attributes on sockets support as a feature sought after by the likes of GNOME and systemd for helping with Varlink IPC usage and other purposes. A limitation though of the functionality has been no efficient means for a BPF program to read those user extended attribute labels back. But with Linux 7.3 that's being addressed with the new bpf\_sock\_read\_xattr() kernel function... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-7.3-bpf_sock_read_xattr)
2026-08-18T17:25:00Z ( remote@feeds.twtxt.net )
**IOmap Improvement For Linux 7.3 Takes EXT4 & XFS Performance Further**
As part of the VFS pull requests now merged to the Linux 7.3 development kernel was an improvement to the IOmap framework used by various file-systems for mapping logical file byte offsets in memory to their physical locations on storage. With the now-merged code, this modern block mapping framework is allowing better performance at least for the EXT4 file-system... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/IOmap-Linux-7.3-Faster)
2026-08-18T16:14:17Z ( remote@feeds.twtxt.net )
**Framework Laptop 12 Updated For Intel Wildcat Lake, Shipping Starts In October**
Last year Framework Computer launched the Framework Laptop 12 as an upgrade-friendly and Linux-compatible 2-in-1 laptop. The Framework Laptop 12 was originally powered by Intel Core 13th Gen "Raptor Lake" low-end processor while now Framework is adding Core Series 3 "Wildcat Lake" as an upgrade or for new Laptop 12 orders... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Framework-Laptop-12-WCL)
2026-08-18T14:18:06Z ( remote@feeds.twtxt.net )
**The CachyOS Performance vs. Other Linux Operating Systems On A $46k USD Workstation**
Recently I looked at the performance of Ubuntu 26.04 LTS vs. Windows 11 on the Intel Xeon 678X running within the HP Z4 G6i workstation. Linux performed admirably as one would expect. With this Intel Xeon Granite Rapids WS workstation from HP though commanding a retail price more than $46,000 USD, you likely want nothing but the utmost performance out of it. So for those looking to maximize the OS performance, here are some numbers from ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/review/cachyos-hp-z4g6i)
2026-08-18T13:21:00Z ( remote@feeds.twtxt.net )
**Rust For Linux 7.3 Begins Seeing Fixes To Prepare For Rust's GCC Backend**
In addition to the POWER/PowerPC code adding Rust kernel support, the main set of Rust programming language updates for the Linux 7.3 kernel have now been submitted. Most notable are early fixes toward eventually allowing the experimental Rust GCC back-end to be used as an alternative to the official rustc compiler with LLVM code generation... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Rust-For-Linux-7.3)
2026-08-18T12:53:57Z ( remote@feeds.twtxt.net )
**Linux 7.3 Corrects Faulty Behavior Of FAT File-System Driver For Filenames Too Fat**
It's not too often that the Linux FAT driver for FAT12/FAT16/FAT32 format support receives updates worth mentioning. For Linux 7.3 there is one patch though and it's due to the driver until now lacking an upper-bounds check on the length of the filename, which could lead to some unexpected situations with extremely long filenames... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-7.3-FAT)
2026-08-18T10:21:29Z ( remote@feeds.twtxt.net )
**Fedora x86-64-v3 Optimized Packages Pushed Back To At Least Fedora 46**
There was a proposal under discussion the past few months on building x86-64-v3 packages for Fedora 45 while retaining x86-64-v1 packages. The hope was building the Fedora packages with x86-64-v3 where AVX/AVX2, FMA, BMI2, and other newer ISA features can be assumed in the name of better performance. Unfortunately, the x86-64-v3 plans are now delayed but may be reconsidered next year with Fedora 46... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Fedora-x86-64-v3-Delayed-F46)
2026-08-18T10:07:05Z ( remote@feeds.twtxt.net )
**Lenovo Lands New Watchdog Driver In Linux 7.3 For Their SE30G2 + SE60 Edge AI Computers**
When it comes to the watchdog driver changes for Linux 7.3, standing out is the new Lenovo driver for their upcoming ThinkEdge AI edge computing systems... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-7.3-Watchdog)
2026-08-18T09:50:03Z ( remote@feeds.twtxt.net )
**Intel Enables Buffer Compression For Better Gaming Performance With DXVK**
Merged today to Mesa 26.3-devel is a nice performance boost for Intel graphics with Valve's Steam Play when using DXVK for Direct3D 8 / 9 / 10 / 11 over the Vulkan API. The open-source Intel ANV driver is seeing up to 5% better performance with DXVK... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Intel-Buffer-Compression-DXVK)
2026-08-18T09:35:33Z ( remote@feeds.twtxt.net )
**XFS Lands FALLOC\_FL\_WRITE\_ZEROES For Efficiency Improvement In Linux 7.3**
The XFS file-system improvements have been merged for Linux 7.3. For end-users the only notable change for this file-system on the new kernel is adding support for FALLOC\_FL\_WRITE\_ZEROES... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/XFS-FALLOC-FL-WRITE-ZEROES)
2026-08-18T00:29:44Z ( remote@feeds.twtxt.net )
**EFS & FreeVxFS File-Systems Get Booted While FailFS Merged For Linux 7.3**
Among the early pull requests merged today by Linus Torvalds for the Linux 7.3 kernel cycle were removal of some ancient file-systems while adding in a new pseudo file-system... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-File-System-Changes-7.3)
2026-08-17T21:15:57Z ( remote@feeds.twtxt.net )
**Linux 7.3 To Land Initial Code Improving vRAM Management, More Improvements Coming**
Earlier this year Natalie Vock of Valve's Linux graphics team laid out some patches for improving the Linux gaming experience for systems with limited vRAM. The kernel work for improving that video memory management is set to be introduced in the Linux 7.3 kernel. While that's a celebration on its own, Vock is pursuing more improvements still for bettering the Linux GPU driver video memory management behavior... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-7.3-Improving-vRAM-Mgmt)
2026-08-17T20:14:03Z ( remote@feeds.twtxt.net )
**FFmpeg Lands H.265 Vulkan Encode Performance Optimizations**
The FFmpeg multimedia library can now enjoy faster H.265/HEVC video encoding with the Vulkan-powered encode path. With the optimizations merged today, the H.265 encode performance should be roughly at parity to the H.264 encode speed... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/FFmpeg-Faster-HEVC-Encode)
2026-08-17T19:30:16Z ( remote@feeds.twtxt.net )
**Offloading Rust To GPUs Proves Capable Of High Performance With Memory Safety**
A new research paper published on LLVM offloading to GPU accelerators using the Rust programming language is talking up the prospects of making use of safe Rust code for GPU kernels while retaining Rust's memory safety and other advantages over C++ / CUDA / HIP... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/LLVM-Offload-Rust-Performance)
2026-08-17T16:50:00Z ( remote@feeds.twtxt.net )
**ARCTIC Fan Controller: The Best Fan Controller For Linux Desktops, Less Than $10 USD**
Back in March were patches posted by ARCTIC Cooling for an ARCTIC fan controller driver for Linux. Typically we aren't used to seeing desktop/enthusiast focused vendors providing such Linux drivers for peripherals directly but the sad fact is most often it's left up to the open-source community to reverse engineer and create such drivers for Linux. Making it all the more surprising besides it coming from ARCTIC Cooling directly wa ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/review/arctic-fan-controller)
2026-08-17T15:05:00Z ( remote@feeds.twtxt.net )
**AMD Working On A New Backend For Improving ROCm Compute In QEMU/VMs**
AMD engineers are working on enhancing the open-source ROCm compute stack for better handling GPU virtualized compute under QEMU... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/AMD-ROCm-Better-QEMU-VM)
2026-08-17T14:09:01Z ( remote@feeds.twtxt.net )
**Linux 7.3 SMP Improvement To Help Reduce Latency, Improve Real-Time Performance**
Among the pull requests sent out today now that the Linux 7.3 merge window is open are the SMP improvements for this next kernel version. Standing out among the SMP code are some enhancements for helping reduce latency and ultimately enhancing real-time Linux performance... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-7.3-SMP)
2026-08-17T13:01:22Z ( remote@feeds.twtxt.net )
**Firefox 154 Now Available With "Manage AI" Quick Action**
Firefox 154 is now available as the newest monthly update bringing a few new features, enhancements, and other alterations to this open-source web browser... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Firefox-154-Released)
2026-08-17T12:11:32Z ( remote@feeds.twtxt.net )
**Intel & AMD Power Management Driver Improvements Ready For Linux 7.3**
In advance of the Linux 7.3 merge window opening, Linux power management subsystem maintainer Rafael Wysocki of Intel submitted all the power management, ACPI, and thermal control code. As not too much of a surprise, Intel and AMD driver updates dominate the power management changes for Linux 7.3... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-7.3-Power-Management)
2026-08-17T11:28:12Z ( remote@feeds.twtxt.net )
**KTransformers 0.7 Expands AVX-512 Support To Benefit AMD EPYC Servers**
KTransformers as the framework for heterogeneous LLM inference and fine-tune optimizations is out today with its v0.7 feature release... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/KTransformers-0.7)
2026-08-17T10:26:08Z ( remote@feeds.twtxt.net )
**Con Kolivas Revives "-ck" Patches & MuQSS To Improve Linux Desktop Responsiveness**
Huge surprise this morning! Longtime Linux users may recall the out-of-tree work done years ago by open-source developer Con Kolivas... And as part of that his work on the Brain F\*\*\* Scheduler that evolved into the MuQSS scheduler, all in the name of working to improve Linux desktop and mobile responsiveness. While a number of years ago he decided to retire from this out-of-tree Linux kernel work, out of the blue he announc ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Con-Kolivas-Linux-Patches-2026)
2026-08-17T10:13:42Z ( remote@feeds.twtxt.net )
**Linux 7.3 On PowerPC Now Supports In-Kernel Rust, Initial Power12 Enablement Begins**
The PowerPC pull request has already been sent in for the now open Linux 7.3 merge window. The headline feature this cycle on the POWER side is Rust kernel support for PowerPC 32-bit PPC32BE big endian and PowerPC 64-bit PPC64LE little endian architectures... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-7.3-PowerPC-Rust)
2026-08-17T10:00:50Z ( remote@feeds.twtxt.net )
**ARM64 BBML3 Feature Ready With Linux 7.3, NVIDIA Olympus Workarounds**
AI/LLM patch craziness hurt ARM64 development for the Linux 7.2 cycle that no real features landed for that kernel version on AArch64. Fortunately, the ARM Linux developers are more prepared now and for Linux 7.3 are introducing some new ARM64 features... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/ARM64-Linux-7.3)
2026-08-17T09:27:57Z ( remote@feeds.twtxt.net )
**GNU Linux-libre 7.2-gnu Released Following More Driver Cleaning**
Following yesterday's release of the Linux 7.2 kernel, GNU Linux-libre 7.2-gnu is now available for this kernel downstream that strips out support for drivers depending upon non-free-software microcode/firmware, the ability to load closed-source kernel modules, and other restrictions in the name of software freedom... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/GNU-Linux-Libre-7.2)
2026-08-16T23:12:47Z ( remote@feeds.twtxt.net )
**Linux 7.2 Released With Faster I/O, New AMD & Intel Driver Improvements**
Linus Torvalds just released Linux 7.2 as stable! After a very busy kernel cycle due to the increased patch and reporting churn due to AI/LLM ages, Linux 7.2 managed to make it out today on-schedule for this feature-packed kernel. Linux 7.2 is going on to power Ubuntu 26.10 and other upcoming Linux distribution releases... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-7.2-Released)
2026-08-16T20:15:33Z ( remote@feeds.twtxt.net )
**GIMP Making Progress On New Project File Format After Nearly 30 Years With XCF**
The GIMP project has published their latest development update to highlight the interesting work that's ongoing toward GIMP 3.4 and future releases... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/GIMP-New-File-Format-2026)
2026-08-16T17:01:03Z ( remote@feeds.twtxt.net )
**tlbi= Boot Option Submitted Ahead Of Linux 7.2 Kernel Release**
Ahead of the Linux 7.2 kernel stable release expected to occur in the coming hours, a last minute "x86/urgent" pull request was submitted with one patch for adding the new tlbi= boot option... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-7.2-x86-urgent-tlbi)
2026-08-16T14:13:46Z ( remote@feeds.twtxt.net )
**Debian Marks 33rd Birthday As One Of The Oldest Maintained Linux Distros**
Today marks thirty three years since the Debian Linux distribution was started by the late Ian Murdock... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Debian-33-Birthday)
2026-08-16T10:54:19Z ( remote@feeds.twtxt.net )
**AVX-512 xor\_gen Continues To Look Exciting For Helping Linux RAID With Modern CPUs**
Google engineer Eric Biggers back in June posted an AVX-512 optimization for Linux RAID yielding up to a 41% improvement on a modern AMD Ryzen 9 9950X (Zen 5) processor. A revised patch then put it as much as a 43% improvement for this AVX-512 optimized xor\_gen() function. The code hasn't yet been merged to mainline but an updated version of it is now available... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/AVX-512-xor-gen-v4)
2026-08-16T10:37:13Z ( remote@feeds.twtxt.net )
**Linux 7.3 binfmt\_misc To Allow BPF Programs To Dynamically Choose Execution Environments**
The Linux kernel's binfmt\_misc functionality allows non-native/custom files to ne run directly such as for Windows EXE files to be handled by Wine or JAR files to be handled by the Java runtime. For the upcoming Linux 7.3 merge window, the miscellaneous binary formats support is being extended so a binary type can be matched programmatically and the interpreter determined on a per-exec basis. BPF programs can also then be atta ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-7.3-binfmt-misc)
2026-08-16T10:19:06Z ( remote@feeds.twtxt.net )
**New Linux Driver Enables 12VHPWR Monitoring For ASUS ROG Astral Graphics Cards**
For those concerned about current imbalance or voltage changes with the 12VHPWR power connectors and having an ASUS ROG Astral graphics card, there is now an open-source driver for Linux available that integrates with the hardware monitoring (HWMON) subsystem for 12VHPWR reporting on these ASUS graphics cards... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/ASUS-ROG-Astral-12VHPWR)
2026-08-16T00:17:05Z ( remote@feeds.twtxt.net )
**Marek Olšák's 19 Latest Patches Further Optimizing RADV & ACO**
Legendary Mesa Radeon Gallium3D driver developer Marek Olšák who was a longtime AMD employee and then joined Valve's Linux graphics driver team earlier this year has continued his focus now on perfecting his art around the RADV Vulkan driver and ACO shader compiler... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/RADV-ACO-19-More-Patches-Valve)
2026-08-15T17:12:27Z ( remote@feeds.twtxt.net )
**GNOME 51 Beta Released With Many Minor Improvements**
The beta release of GNOME 51 is now available for testing. This cycle for the beta milestone is mostly a wide collection of minor improvements throughout the vast package set... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/GNOME-51-Beta)
2026-08-15T14:23:19Z ( remote@feeds.twtxt.net )
**Intel's Jay Graphics Shader Compiler Now Passing Vulkan CTS With Xe2/Xe3 Hardware**
Last year Alyssa Rosenzweig joined Intel to work on their Linux graphics drivers after previously serving as a contractor for Valve on their graphics stack and also previously leading the Mesa driver work for the Asahi Linux Apple Silicon graphics support. Since joining Intel, she has been leading the development of Jay as a new SSA-based shader compiler for Intel graphics hardware to be used by the Mesa Iris Gallium3D and ANV ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Intel-Jay-Compiler-Xe2-Xe3-CTS)
2026-08-15T11:55:04Z ( remote@feeds.twtxt.net )
**RustConn 0.20 Continues Further Polishing This GTK4/libadwaita-Based Connection Manager**
RustConn has been in development for a while now as a modern GTK4 connection manager supporting a variety of protocols like SSH, RDP, VNC, Telnet, and more. RustConn 0.20 was released this week as the latest major step forward to this Rust-based connection manager leveraging the GTK4 toolkit and libadwaita... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/RustConn-0.20-Released)
2026-08-15T10:51:30Z ( remote@feeds.twtxt.net )
**KDE Plasma 6.8 To Allow Fine-Tuning Mouse/Touchpad Speeds**
KDE developers continue to be quite busy this summer baking improvements for the upcoming Plasma 6.8 desktop release. This Week in Plasna is out with its newest issue to outline all of these interesting enhancements... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Plasma-6.8-Tune-Mouse-Speeds)
2026-08-15T10:40:04Z ( remote@feeds.twtxt.net )
**Debian Developers Begin Voting Over LLM Usage Within The Project**
Debian developers have been considering a general resolution over LLM usage within the project. After collecting a variety of proposals, voting has now commenced for Debian developers to decide how comfortable they are with AI / Large Language Model contributions in the project or not... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Debian-Votes-On-LLM-Usage)
2026-08-15T01:01:22Z ( remote@feeds.twtxt.net )
**AMD Posts Massive 109 Patch Series For GFX 12.1 RAS Support On Friday Evening**
AMD has a tendency to send out large feature patch series for their open-source Linux drivers on Friday afternoons/evenings. Today we were greeted by a set of 109 patches working on RAS support for the upcoming AMD GFX12.1 target... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/AMD-GFX12.1-RAS-Patch-Series)
2026-08-14T20:26:46Z ( remote@feeds.twtxt.net )
**D7VK 2.1 Brings Faster Load Times, More Performance Tweaks**
D7VK as the open-source implementation of the Direct3D 7 / 6 / 5/ 3 APIs atop the Vulkan API for Linux/Wine usage is out with another feature update. D7VK continues to mature quite well for further enhancing these older Direct3D API versions that cover the span prior to DXVK's focus of Direct3D 8 to Direct3D 11 or VKD3D-Proton's Direct3D 12... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/D7VK-2.1)
2026-08-14T20:00:22Z ( remote@feeds.twtxt.net )
**Lemonade 11.6 Integrates Muse-Glimmer 30B, Experimental TheNoise ROCm Image Generation**
For those dabbling with generative AI on the weekends, the AMD-led Lemonade SDK 11.6 is out today with its newest feature release of this open-source software for running local AI apps with optimized LLMs across CPUs, GPUs, and NPUs... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Lemonade-SDK-11.6)
2026-08-14T18:10:15Z ( remote@feeds.twtxt.net )
**Omarchy 4.0 Linux Distro Released With Desktop Shell Now Implemented Via Quickshell**
Omarchy as the Arch Linux distribution developed by David Heinemeier Hansson "DHH" / Basecamp is out today with Omarchy 4.0 as the distro's biggest release to date... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Omarchy-4.0-Released)
2026-08-14T15:18:11Z ( remote@feeds.twtxt.net )
**Linux 7.1, Linux 7.2 Performance On The Intel Xeon 600 Series**
With Linux 7.2 expected for its stable release this weekend, today's testing has some additional testing of the Linux 7.2 Git kernel as well as Linux 7.1 stable compared to Linux 7.0 as used by default on Ubuntu 26.04 LTS. Phoronix testing previously conducted of Linux 7.2 have shown benefits for Intel Arc B390 Xe3 in some configurations, faster poll performance on AMD Ryzen Threadripper and other hardware, and some nice I/O performance gains on AMD EPY ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/review/intel-xeon-6-linux-72)
2026-08-14T11:00:45Z ( remote@feeds.twtxt.net )
**Features Coming For Linux 7.3 From Optimizing Intel Hybrid CPUs To Old AMD Athlon XPs**
With Linux 7.2 expected to see its stable debut Sunday, here is a look at what I have been monitoring as changes expected to be submitted during the Linux 7.3 merge window that will open on Monday... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-7.3-Features-Preview)
2026-08-14T10:04:16Z ( remote@feeds.twtxt.net )
**Patches Posted For Fixing The Linux DRM Scheduler's Fair Policy**
Ahead of the Linux 7.2 kernel release expected out on Sunday, the Direct Rendering Manager (DRM) subsystem was forced to revert their "fair" scheduler policy default new for this kernel. Due to a last minute user-reported regression, FIFO returns as the default DRM scheduler policy for Linux 7.2. But patches are now available for addressing that regression and thus hopefully for Linux 7.3 there will be the fair scheduler becoming the default... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-Patches-Fix-DRM-Fair)
2026-08-14T09:44:14Z ( remote@feeds.twtxt.net )
**Open-Source exFAT Programs 1.4.3 Improves Fsck & Mkfs**
Ahead of the Linux 7.2 kernel release expected on Sunday, a new release of the exFAT file-system user-space programs was released overnight... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/exfatprogs-1.4.3)
2026-08-14T09:30:21Z ( remote@feeds.twtxt.net )
**Slackware-Based Zenwalk Linux Aims For "True Low Latency Desktop Experience"**
It's been a long time since hearing much out of the Zenwalk project, the Linux distribution built off Slackware. It's still around though and with their latest kernel work are hoping for a "true low latency desktop experience" by employing the BORE scheduler... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Zenwalk-BORE-Kernel)
2026-08-14T00:33:01Z ( remote@feeds.twtxt.net )
**AMD GAIA 0.23 Delivers Ability To Install/Run AI Agents From The Terminal**
AMD's GAIA open-source AI software built atop Lemonade for serving as an AI companion for emails, a Bash coding agent, and other AI agent skills is out with a new version today with more features while also improving security and making other improvements... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/AMD-GAIA-0.23)
2026-08-13T20:08:00Z ( remote@feeds.twtxt.net )
**KDE, Techpaladin & Kubuntu Focus Announce The Bullet-Proof KDE Software Initiative**
KDE e.V. along with Linux PC vendor Kubuntu Focus and KDE-aligned consulting firm Techpaladin Software have announced a collaboration of the "bullet-proof KDE Software initiative" for providing at least three years of bug fixes and security updates to KDE Plasma 6.6 LTS and related software... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/KDE-Bullet-Proof-Software)
2026-08-13T19:57:51Z ( remote@feeds.twtxt.net )
**The Best Linux 7.2 Features: Cache Aware Scheduling, AMD Zen 6, AMDGPU HDMI 2.1 FRL**
With the Linux 7.2 kernel expected to be released on Sunday, 16 August, here is a look at some of the most interesting new features and changes to find with this next kernel version to be used by Ubuntu 26.10 and other upcoming Linux distribution releases... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-7.2-Best-Features)
2026-08-13T19:08:39Z ( remote@feeds.twtxt.net )
**Updated Coreboot/Dasharo For MSI PRO Z690-A / Z790-P Motherboards, Adds Overclocking**
In addition to 3mdeb providing their Coreboot-based Dasharo built atop AMD openSIL on a Gigabyte EPYC server motherboard and recently making their first Dasharo release for an AMD Ryzen AM5 platform with the MSI PRO B850-P WIFI, the firmware consulting firm today released updated versions of their MSI PRO Z690-A and MSI PRO Z790-P Dasharo ports to those Intel Core motherboards... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/New-Dasharo-2026-MSI-Intel-Z)
2026-08-13T14:00:00Z ( remote@feeds.twtxt.net )
**The Beneficial Performance Gains Running The Framework Laptop Pro 13 / Core Ultra X9 388H With Linux 7.1+**
The recently launched Framework Laptop 13 Pro powered by Intel Core Ultra Series 3 "Panther Lake" runs well on Ubuntu 26.04 LTS and other modern Linux distributions. In the case of Ubuntu 26.04 with Linux 7.0, while everything works, if upgrading to Linux 7.1 or the upcoming Linux 7.2 kernel is even better performance. Here are benchmarks of the Framework Laptop 13 Pro with Core Ultra X9 388H across the ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/review/framework-13-pro-linux-71-72)
2026-08-13T13:21:08Z ( remote@feeds.twtxt.net )
**GeForce NOW On Linux Native App Exits Beta**
At the beginning of the year NVIDIA released a native build of GeForce NOW for Linux using Flatpaks. Today their native Linux build has exited beta to reach official production status for this cloud gaming solution from NVIDIA... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/GeForce-NOW-Linux-Exits-Beta)
2026-08-13T13:11:15Z ( remote@feeds.twtxt.net )
**MSI Claw Gamepad Driver Set To Be Merged For Linux 7.3**
The MSI Claw Gamepad driver is set to be merged for the upcoming Linux 7.3 kernel for enabling RGB lighting and controller configuration support with the mainline kernel... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/MSI-Claw-Gamepad-Linux-7.3)
2026-08-13T11:30:36Z ( remote@feeds.twtxt.net )
**Linux Patches Enable Apple M4 NVMe Support**
While the Apple M4 SoCs aren't yet supported by the mainline Linux kernel and the Apple M3 series hardware isn't yet ready for end-users, there are some early elements of the Apple M4 support beginning to come together by open-source developers working on the Apple Silicon support. Sent out to the Linux kernel mailing list were patches for enabling NVMe solid state drive support with the M4... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-Apple-M4-NVMe-Patches)
2026-08-13T10:38:00Z ( remote@feeds.twtxt.net )
**Microsoft's Azure Linux 3.0.20260809 Ships With 233+ CVE Fixes**
While Microsoft continues working on Azure Linux 4.0 as its overhauled Linux distribution built atop Fedora, Azure Linux 3.0 remains the current stable production series. Released overnight was Azure Linux 3.0.20260809 and it comes with more than 233 security patches for recent CVEs in the AI era... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Azure-Linux-3.0.20260809)
2026-08-13T10:24:38Z ( remote@feeds.twtxt.net )
**Intel XPU Manager 2.1 Released For Monitoring Arc Pro Graphics On Windows/Linux**
Intel XPU Manager 2.1 is now available as the latest version of this open-source tool for Linux and Windows systems for the monitoring and management of Arc Pro graphics cards. The Intel XPU Manager helps in keeping an eye on device utilization and other metrics via the xpu-smi command and other components... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Intel-XPU-Manager-2.1)
2026-08-13T01:26:03Z ( remote@feeds.twtxt.net )
**Rsync 3.5 Released As "Extraordinary" Update To Fix 33 Security Issues**
Rsync as the widely-used, open-source remote sync software for synchronizing files and directories across networks is out today with a very important update... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Rsync-3.5)
2026-08-13T00:35:57Z ( remote@feeds.twtxt.net )
**Comma.ai Launches A PCIe Gen4 x4 To USB4 Dock With Open-Source Firmware**
George Hotz of Comma.ai and Tinygrad today announced the Tiny Chestnut eGPU Dock and the "Chestnut" Dock complete with an AMD Radeon RX 9060 8GB GPU too. Making this Chestnut / Tiny Chestnut Dock interesting is that it runs on open-source firmware... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Comma.ai-PCIe-Gen4-USB4-Dock)
2026-08-12T20:14:37Z ( remote@feeds.twtxt.net )
**Tenstrorrent Posts GCC Compiler Patches For Ascalon XG Core**
While the Tenstorrent Ascalon X is known as their high performance out-of-order RISC-V RVA23 CPU core for extreme performance over the H and S models, a new GNU Compiler Collection (GCC) patch today from Tenstorrent makes known a new Ascalon XG core... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Tenstorrent-Ascalon-XG-GCC)
2026-08-12T18:40:00Z ( remote@feeds.twtxt.net )
**GCC 17 Compiler Adding "-m128bit-atomic" For 128-bit Atomic Memory Operations**
Merged today to the GNU Compiler Collection Git code is the new -m128bit-atomic option for next year's GCC 17 feature release... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/GCC-Git-m128bit-atomic)
2026-08-12T18:28:03Z ( remote@feeds.twtxt.net )
**Manjaro Linux 26.1 Released With GNOME 50 & KDE Plasma 6.7 Desktops**
Manjaro 26.1 Bian-May is now available as the newest feature release to this desktop Linux distribution built atop an Arch Linux base... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Manjaro-Linux-26.1)
2026-08-12T17:07:34Z ( remote@feeds.twtxt.net )
**Intel AMX Performance With The Xeon 678X Workstation CPU**
One of the most compelling features for Intel Xeon 6 Granite Rapids alongside MRDIMMs is Advanced Matrix Extensions (AMX) for helping accelerate AI workloads and more. AMX is also found with the new Granite Rapids WS processors and in currently having my hands on an Intel Xeon 678X in the HP Z4 G6i workstation, I ran some benchmarks looking at the AMX performance and power impact for this high-end workstation. ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/review/intel-amx-xeon-678x)
2026-08-12T14:15:36Z ( remote@feeds.twtxt.net )
**Linux Finally Seeing Patches For Better Hybrid Graphics On 2018~2019 Era MacBook Pros**
Patches posted today to the Linux kernel mailing list provide support for Apple GMUX hybrid graphics support on 2018~2019 Apple MacBook Pros. This allows for better power savings on these nearly decade old MacBook Pro laptops by allowing the discrete GPU to power down and be properly restored as needed... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-2026-Patches-For-2018-MBP)
2026-08-12T13:57:00Z ( remote@feeds.twtxt.net )
**Intel ANV Driver Enables Vulkan Video AV1 Encoding For DG2/Alchemist GPUs**
Hyunjun Ko of Igalia continues working on Vulkan Video support for Intel graphics hardware on Linux with the ANV driver. Merged now for Mesa 26.3-devel is enabling AV1 video encoding via Vulkan Video on DG2/Alchemist hardware... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Intel-DG2-Vulkan-Video-AV1)
2026-08-12T10:31:25Z ( remote@feeds.twtxt.net )
**Linux 7.2 To Revert Back To The FIFO DRM Scheduler Policy Due To "Fair" Regressions**
One of the Direct Rendering Manager changes made for Linux 7.2 was switching to "fair" as the DRM scheduler default in place of the existing FIFO policy. The intent was on making the DRM scheduler policy more fair with this being used by AMDGPU and various other DRM kernel graphics drivers. But due to a last minute regression report, the fair policy is being reverted for Linux 7.2... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-7.2-Reverting-DRM-Fair)
2026-08-12T10:21:09Z ( remote@feeds.twtxt.net )
**Mold 2.42 Delivering Greater Performance For This High Speed Linker**
It's been quiet since the Mold 2.41 release back in April while today it's now been succeeded by Mold 2.42 for deliver even greater performance out of this high speed linker... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Mold-2.42-Released)
2026-08-12T10:12:00Z ( remote@feeds.twtxt.net )
**Intel LLM-Scaler Ready With Muse Glimmer Support, Other LLMs & Features**
Intel's LLM-Scaler project that was born out of their Project Battlematrix initiative aims to make it easier to run generative AI on Arc (Pro) B-Series graphics cards with the likes of vLLM, ComfyUI, SGLang, and other popular AI software in this Docker-based pre-configured AI stack. This week new LLM-Scaler releases brought same-day support for new models and other enhancements... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Intel-LLM-Scaler-Muse-Glimmer)
2026-08-12T09:52:03Z ( remote@feeds.twtxt.net )
**LACT 0.10 Released With New NVIDIA Overclocking Controls, Blackwell Hotspot Sensor**
LACT is one of the popular third-party Linux GPU configuration and monitoring utilities that works across NVIDIA, AMD, and Intel graphics. This GUI provides GPU overclocking controls plus a wealth of information reporting, which is especially great considering the lack of any official GUI control panel for AMD Radeon and Intel Arc graphics on Linux. With today's LACT 0.10 release, there are yet more features in tow... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/LACT-0.10-Released)
2026-08-12T01:42:47Z ( remote@feeds.twtxt.net )
**QEMU 11.1 Released With Numerous Improvements**
For those using QEMU as part of the open-source virtualization stack, QEMU 11.1 is now available with a number of new feature enhancements and fixes... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/QEMU-11.1-Released)
2026-08-12T00:47:55Z ( remote@feeds.twtxt.net )
**Redox OS Enjoys installer Improvements, Performance Enhancements**
A new blog post out today from the Redox OS crew highlights all of the interesting improvements made to this Rust-based, open-source operating system over the course of July... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Redox-OS-July-2026)
2026-08-11T19:26:09Z ( remote@feeds.twtxt.net )
**Intel CPU Microcode 20260811 Release Fixes Eight Security Issues**
Intel today published their 20260811 CPU microcode updates to fix a variety of issues for exciting processors, including shipping the first new microcode images for Bartlett Lake and Wildcat Lake. The new microcode updates stretch back to Intel Core Gen10 processors... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Intel-CPU-Microcode-20260811)
2026-08-11T18:37:16Z ( remote@feeds.twtxt.net )
**OpenAI Brings ChatGPT Desktop App To Linux**
OpenAI announced today they have brought their ChatGPT Desktop application to Linux and is currently in preview form... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/ChatGPT-Desktop-Linux-Preview)
2026-08-11T14:39:01Z ( remote@feeds.twtxt.net )
**Analyzing Fedora's Slow Performance On The Framework Laptop 13 Pro With Intel Panther Lake**
As part of my recent Linux testing of the Framework Laptop 13 Pro I had recently benchmarked six Linux distributions on the Framework Laptop 13 Pro. CachyOS was the fastest to not much surprise but arguably the most surprising aspect was finding Fedora Workstation 44 typically running slower than the five other modern Linux distributions benchmarked. Here's a follow-up to that with more Fedora Linux benchmarks an ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/review/fedora-pantherlake-thermald-tuned)
2026-08-11T13:41:20Z ( remote@feeds.twtxt.net )
**Flatpak 1.19 Released With Nine Security Fixes**
Flatpak 1.19 was released today as a new development release along with the Flatpak 1.18.1 stable point release. Both of these releases ship a number of newly-discovered security issues with this app sandboxing and distribution tech... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Flatpak-1.19-Released)
2026-08-11T12:35:30Z ( remote@feeds.twtxt.net )
**GNOME Designers Lay Out Some Of Their GNOME Shell Dreams**
GNOME interaction designer Tobias Bernard has shared some of the plans and ideas for long-term GNOME Shell improvements they have been eyeing for future GNOME releases... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/GNOME-Shell-Plans-2026)
2026-08-11T12:16:00Z ( remote@feeds.twtxt.net )
**Up To 12.8x Improvement Observed For gup\_test With New Linux MM Patches**
Linux developer Rik van Riel has pulled off some nice Linux kernel optimizations over the years and the Meta engineer has been working on another one around batching of look-ups with Linux's follow\_page\_mask() that is used for translating virtual addresses to the corresponding struct page... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-Batch-Follow-Page-Mask)
2026-08-11T12:00:33Z ( remote@feeds.twtxt.net )
**Raspberry Pi AXI PMU Driver Under Review For The Mainline Linux Kernel**
One of the Raspberry Pi device drivers that has remained elusive from the mainline Linux kernel has been for the performance monitoring unit (PMU) for the Broadcom AXI on all Raspberry Pi 1 through Raspberry Pi 5 models. Thanks to the work of a Google engineer, there is a new effort working to get a mainline Linux driver for the Raspberry Pi AXI PMU... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Raspberry-Pi-AXI-PMU-Linux)
2026-08-11T10:24:00Z ( remote@feeds.twtxt.net )
**FastFlowLM 1.0 Released Now As Part Of The AMD ROCm Umbrella**
FastFlowLM is the open-source software for getting vision, audio, embedding, and MoE large language models up and running on AMD Ryzen AI NPUs. FastFlowLM 1.0 released today and is also now part of the AMD ROCm software umbrella... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/FastFlowLM-1.0)
2026-08-11T10:13:00Z ( remote@feeds.twtxt.net )
**Rusticl Now Supports cl\_ext\_float\_atomics**
With the recent release of Mesa 26.2 the Rusticl OpenCL driver now supports OpenCL 3.1 on RadeonSI, LLVMpipe, Zink, Intel Iris, and Apple Asahi. But the work is not over and more improvements to this Rust-based, modern OpenCL driver continue to land... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Rusticl-cl_ext_float_atomics)
2026-08-11T09:59:26Z ( remote@feeds.twtxt.net )
**Claude Opus Helped Debug & Fix Lack Of Audio On Linux For HP OmniBook X Flip 14**
The HP OmniBook X Flip 14-kc0xxx is an AMD Ryzen AI 300 "Strix Point" powered laptop. While most AMD Strix Point laptops work fine on modern Linux distributions, with this particular HP OmniBook X there is no working audio with current mainline Linux kernel builds. With Claude Opus 5 acting as a debugging assistant and coding agent, patches are now pending to correct the audio support for this HP OmniBook X Flip 14 laptop to function ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/HP-X-Flip-14-Linux-Audio)
2026-08-11T01:08:38Z ( remote@feeds.twtxt.net )
**Open-Source NVIDIA "Nova" Driver Sees More Functionality For Linux 7.3**
Sent to DRM-Next this week was the DRM Rust core and driver changes targeting the upcoming Linux 7.3 merge window. There continues to be a lot of DRM core infrastructure work happening for Rust integration plus two leading Rust DRM drivers of Nova for open-source NVIDIA GPU support as the successor to Nouveau and then Tyr as the in-development Arm Mali driver... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/NVIDIA-Nova-Rust-Linux-7.3)
2026-08-10T19:35:44Z ( remote@feeds.twtxt.net )
**Fedora CoreOS To Enable systemd-oomd & zRAM Swap By Default**
Fedora's CoreOS as their container-optimized operating system will be moving to enable systemd-oomd by default with Fedora CoreOS 45. Additionally, swap on zRAM will be enabled by default too... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Fedora-CoreOS-OOMD-zRAM-Swap)
2026-08-10T18:40:00Z ( remote@feeds.twtxt.net )
**Five More Lenovo Laptops To Report Fan Sensors With Linux 7.3**
In addition to more ASUS motherboards having working sensors with Linux 7.3, this next kernel version will also get several more Lenovo laptop models to be reporting their fan sensor information under Linux... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-7.3-Yogafan-Driver)
2026-08-10T17:26:55Z ( remote@feeds.twtxt.net )
**Linux 7.3 Bringing A KCFI Optimization To Benefit Older Intel CPUs**
Expected to be merged during the upcoming Linux 7.3 merge window is a Kernel Control Flow Integrity (KCFI) improvement intended to benefit older Intel processors... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-7.3-KCFI-Optimization)
2026-08-10T15:22:21Z ( remote@feeds.twtxt.net )
**Qt Toolkit To Introduce Edge AI Submodule, Initially For Vision AI With Qt**
The Qt Group has been working on various AI integrations for the Qt toolkit in recent times like a QML profiler skill for agentic development to help with performance profiling. They have also worked on Qt AI coding assistants and AI agents in the Qt Creator integrated development environment. Their latest AI use is now preparing to introduce a new module in the Qt toolkit itself for edge AI inferencing... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Qt-Edge-AI-Module-Coming)
2026-08-10T14:35:23Z ( remote@feeds.twtxt.net )
**Intel Xeon 678X Windows 11 vs. Ubuntu 26.04 Performance With The HP Z4 G6i**
HP recently launched their Z4 G6i workstation that I have been testing out the past few weeks. The HP Z4 G6i is powered by Granite Rapids WS with the review unit specifically being powered by the Intel Xeon 678X. As the unit shipped with Microsoft Windows 11 Pro and this being the first time I've had my hands on Granite Rapids WS, I took the opportunity to run some Windows 11 vs. Ubuntu 26.04 LTS performance benchmarks to see how th ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/review/intel-xeon-678x-windows-linux)
2026-08-10T12:53:49Z ( remote@feeds.twtxt.net )
**Linux Mint Improves Kernel Management & Setting System-Wide Environment Variables**
Linux Mint is out today with their July 2026 status update that highlights all the improvements made to their distribution over the past month... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-Mint-July-2026)
2026-08-10T11:10:49Z ( remote@feeds.twtxt.net )
**Meta Publishes Muse Glimmer As 30B Open Agentic Model**
The Meta Superintelligence Labs announced this morning they have released Muse Glimmer as their next large language model featuring 30 billion parameters for always-on local agent workflows. Muse Glimmer features open-source model weights under an Apache 2.0 license... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Meta-Muse-Glimmer)
2026-08-10T10:28:14Z ( remote@feeds.twtxt.net )
**Minor Optimization Coming For AMD Athlon XP Era Systems Running Linux**
A minor performance optimization is on the way to the Linux kernel for roughly two decade old CPUs that have SSE but lack SSE2. Among those CPUs to benefit are the AMD Athlon XP series, some early Sempron models, and some Intel Celeron and Pentium III models... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-WMB-SSE-Optimization)
2026-08-10T10:15:44Z ( remote@feeds.twtxt.net )
**Apple M1 Series SoCs To See ~1 Watt Power Savings With Linux 7.3**
In addition to Linux 7.3 slated to receive initial Apple M3 Pro / Max / Ultra SoC support, this next version of the Linux kernel is also set to bring some minor power savings for the Apple M1 series that remains the best supported Apple Silicon on Linux... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Apple-M1-Power-Savings-Linux-73)
2026-08-10T09:59:20Z ( remote@feeds.twtxt.net )
**Old SGI Drivers Being Removed In Linux 7.3 Over Security Concerns**
On top of various other Linux drivers for old hardware being removed due to noise generated by AI/LLM coding agents, there are more examples coming with Linux 7.3 as some old Silicon Graphics (SGI) drivers are being removed from the mainline Linux kernel over security concerns... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/SGI-GRU-Being-Removed)
2026-08-09T22:14:34Z ( remote@feeds.twtxt.net )
**Linux 7.2-rc7 Released Following Another Exhausting AI-Driven Week**
Linux 7.2-rc7 is now available for testing as we close in on the official Linux 7.2 release hopefully next weekend... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-7.2-rc7-Released)
2026-08-09T18:18:19Z ( remote@feeds.twtxt.net )
**CachyOS August 2026 Release Preps For Upcoming Server Edition**
CachyOS is out with its latest media refresh of the year. Beyond the usual desktop improvements for the performance-optimized CachyOS, they continue working toward the upcoming CachyOS Server Edition... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/CachyOS-August-2026)
2026-08-09T15:35:45Z ( remote@feeds.twtxt.net )
**Qualcomm Posts Linux Patches For Kuno SoC Support: Cortex-A7 Platform In 2026**
Qualcomm engineers posted a set of 15 patches today for the Linux kernel to enable the Qualcomm Kuno SoC support and their reference development platform... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Qualcomm-Kuno-SoC-Linux)
2026-08-09T12:24:53Z ( remote@feeds.twtxt.net )
**Mesa 26.3 Intel Driver Code Enables Large GRF Mode For Newer GPUs**
The Intel graphics compiler code in Mesa 26.3-devel has now enabled the Large GRF mode for Alchemist/DG2 and Battlemage/Xe2 graphics and VRT for Xe3 graphics... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Intel-Large-GRF-Mode-Mesa-26.3)
2026-08-09T10:37:00Z ( remote@feeds.twtxt.net )
**Dell Latitude 7320 2-in-1 Seeing Web Camera Support On Linux After Five Years**
Launched back in 2021 was the Dell Latitude 7320 2-in-1 business laptop/tablet powered by the at-the-time impressive Intel 11th Gen Core "Tiger Lake" processors. Remaining elusive until now has been the web cameras actually working on Linux, but patches posted this weekend finally are cracking that mystery at least for the user-facing web cam... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Dell-Latitude-7320-Linux-Webcam)
2026-08-09T10:10:44Z ( remote@feeds.twtxt.net )
**FreeBSD 14.5 Beta 1 Released With Various Backports, Security Fixes**
For those still on the FreeBSD 14 N-1 stable series rather than the latest FreeBSD 15 series, FreeBSD 14.5 is working toward release to deliver various security fixes and backports... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/FreeBSD-14.5-Beta-1)
2026-08-09T00:47:46Z ( remote@feeds.twtxt.net )
**New Linux Patches Enable ASUS ROG Ryujin III Monitoring Support**
For those with an ASUS ROG Ryujin III all-in-one CPU liquid cooling setup catering to gamers, there are now patches pending to enable this AIO liquid cooling setup to work under Linux for monitoring... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/ASUS-ROG-Ryujin-3-Linux)
2026-08-08T17:27:05Z ( remote@feeds.twtxt.net )
**Linux 7.3 To Better Handle Cluster Load Balancing On Intel Hybrid CPUs**
A set of patches from Intel are set to be merged for the upcoming Linux 7.3 merge window to enhance the cluster-aware scheduling code so it better handles load balancing on modern Intel Core (Ultra) hybrid CPUs with a mix of P and E/LPE cores... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-7.3-Better-Intel-Hybrid)
2026-08-08T16:33:43Z ( remote@feeds.twtxt.net )
**Polychromatic 0.9.8 Released With Razer Blade 16 2023 Support**
For those looking to manage the RGB lighting and other features of their Razer devices on Linux, Polychromatic 0.9.8 is now available for that UI front-end that interacts with the OpenRazer kernel drivers for providing a decent albeit unofficial Linux configuration experience... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Polychromatic-0.9.8-Released)
2026-08-08T13:42:07Z ( remote@feeds.twtxt.net )
**Wine 11.15 Released With Wayland Fixes, Fix For A 20 Year Old MSXML3 Bug**
Making its debut this Saturday rather than the usual bi-weekly Friday release regiment, Wine 11.15 is out today as the newest development release for this open-source software enabling Windows games and applications to run on Linux... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Wine-11.15-Released)
2026-08-08T11:20:00Z ( remote@feeds.twtxt.net )
**GNOME Receiving Additional Design Help Thanks To Sovereign Tech Agency Fellowship**
Germany's Sovereign Tech Agency announced earlier this year a new fellowship program and now as part of that, for the next two years GNOME has a fellow dedicated to working on design and community management... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/GNOME-Design-Fellowship)
2026-08-08T10:55:33Z ( remote@feeds.twtxt.net )
**HWMON Fixes For Linux 7.2-rc7: "Most Of Them Fixing Critical Or High Severity Bugs"**
It's been another busy week in the Linux kernel camp with increased patch activity continuing due to AI/LLM coding agents / bots continuing to uncover different defects in the open-source codebase. The hardware monitoring (HWMON) subsystem saw many fixes this week for issues mostly raised by the Sashiko AI bot with the issues being described as mostly critical or high severity bugs... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-7.2-rc7-HWMON)
2026-08-08T10:40:14Z ( remote@feeds.twtxt.net )
**AI Helped Create A DirectX 11 Driver For QEMU VMs**
Thanks in part to the power of Claude Opus 5 and Claude Fable 5, a new Windows DirectX 11 driver for QEMU has been created to help improve graphics acceleration for Microsoft Windows guests running under QEMU virtual machines... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Triton-DirectX-11-QEMU-Driver)
2026-08-08T10:25:56Z ( remote@feeds.twtxt.net )
**Linux 7.2-rc7 Adding Support For The Most Unique Or Very Funky Gaming Controller**
The input subsystem fixes for the week include a number of AI-driven patches to address various information leaks, out-of-bounds accesses, validation fixes, and other coding issues that have turned up recently. Plus some device quirks and also adding support for a rather funky gaming controller to the common XPad Linux driver used by many different gaming controllers... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-7.2-rc7-Input-Changes)
2026-08-08T01:01:10Z ( remote@feeds.twtxt.net )
**KDE Plasma 6.8 Improvements For UI, Built-In Remote Desktop Server**
It's been another busy summertime week of KDE developers working toward a great Plasma 6.8 desktop release in October... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/KDE-Plasma-6.8-Remote-Desktop)
2026-08-07T19:28:18Z ( remote@feeds.twtxt.net )
**Linux 7.3 To Support Logitech HID++ 2.0 Reprogrammable Button Support**
For those with newer, high-end Logitech input devices, coming with Linux 7.3 is support for the re-programmable button support of the HID++ 2.0 protocol... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-7.3-HIDPP-Reprogrammable)
2026-08-07T17:31:21Z ( remote@feeds.twtxt.net )
**Initial Apple M3 Pro / Max / Ultra Support Being Upstreamed For Linux 7.3**
Upstreamed for the Linux 7.2 kernel was the Device Tree (DT) support for booting the mainline Linux kernel on the base Apple M3 SoC. Though it's not yet useful for end-users with many features remaining to be supported and upstreamed. Now for the upcoming Linux 7.3 kernel, the M3 Pro, Max, and Ultra variants will also have initial support for booting on the mainline kernel... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/M3-Pro-Max-Ultra-Linux-7.3)
2026-08-07T16:57:18Z ( remote@feeds.twtxt.net )
**Intel QATlib 26.08 Released With Gen6 Device Support, 2MB Hugepages**
Intel today released an updated version of their QuickAssist Technology library (QATlib) as the user-space component for making use of QuickAssist accelerators under Linux... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Intel-QATlib-26.08-Released)
2026-08-07T15:57:22Z ( remote@feeds.twtxt.net )
**TTM Memory Management For Graphics To Be More Aggresive With Linux 7.3**
This week a final batch of DRM-Misc-Next feature material was submitted for DRM-Next to queue ahead of the Linux 7.3 merge window opening later in the month. Most notable is the TTM memory management code is now being more agressive when allocating below protection limits. This is an improvement coming thanks to Valve's open-source Linux graphics team... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/More-Aggressive-TTM-Linux-7.3)
2026-08-07T14:00:41Z ( remote@feeds.twtxt.net )
**Intel Makes Progress On HDMI 2.1 FRL With Their Linux Driver For Meteor Lake & Newer**
Following AMD making progress with HDMI Fixed Rate Link (FRL) and other HDMI 2.1 functionality for their open-source Linux kernel graphics driver, Intel is out today with a big set of 44 patches working on HDMI 2.1 FRL support for their kernel graphics driver with Meteor Lake hardware and newer... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Intel-HDMI-2.1-FRL-Linux-2026)
2026-08-07T13:39:22Z ( remote@feeds.twtxt.net )
**PoCL 7.2-RC1 Brings Official OpenCL 3.0 Conformance On RISC-V & x86\_64 CPUs**
The release candidate of PoCL 7.2 is now available for testing of this Portable Computing Language implementation of OpenCL that allows for CPU-based execution or via alternative LLVM back-ends allows for OpenCL on Level Zero, NVIDIA GPUs, and even remote devices/hardware... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/PoCL-7.2-RC1)
2026-08-07T12:23:21Z ( remote@feeds.twtxt.net )
**HyperX Driver Coming For Linux 7.3 Just To Report A Microphone's Mute Status**
A new driver coming for the Linux 7.3 kernel is HID-HyperX. It's not some new driver to support fancy hardware and some nifty features but rather mundane in nature due to the poor behavior of a high-end HyperX USB gaming microphone... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/HID-HyperX-QuadCast-2-Linux-7.3)
2026-08-07T10:42:34Z ( remote@feeds.twtxt.net )
**NetworkManager Adopts Policy For AI Coding Assistants**
The latest high profile open-source project to commit to an AI coding policy is NetworkManager, the widely-used software for Linux network configuration... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/NetworkManager-AI-Coding-Policy)
2026-08-07T10:25:20Z ( remote@feeds.twtxt.net )
**Linux 7.2-rc7 Addresses A "Nasty" Race Condition Leading To Use-After-Free After 8 Years**
The Linux kernel Git activity continues being quite heavy this week on fixes. It's looking like the Linux 7.2-rc7 kernel release on Sunday will be another big one with the changes continuing to flow in from both developers and AI bots... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-7.2-rc7-UAF-PTDUMP)
2026-08-07T10:08:04Z ( remote@feeds.twtxt.net )
**AMD Updates HDMI 2.1 VRR & ALLM Patches But Will Miss Out On Linux 7.3**
Complementing the HDMI 2.1 Fixed Rate Link (FRL) support that AMD already upstreamed to the Linux kernel, AMD engineers have been further ironing out their HDMI 2.1 implementation for the open-source AMDGPU Linux kernel driver. The latest quest has been getting HDMI 2.1 variable rate refresh (VRR) support upstreamed along with HDMI Auto Low-Latency Mode (ALLM)... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/AMD-HDMI-VRR-ALLM-v2)
2026-08-07T09:43:53Z ( remote@feeds.twtxt.net )
**GCC 16.2 Released With More Than 100 Fixes**
Following the GCC 16.1 compiler release from the end of April as the first stable version of GCC 16, GCC 16.2 is now available with dozens of bug fixes collected since then for further stabilizing this year's GNU compiler feature release... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/GCC-16.2-Released)
2026-08-07T00:44:47Z ( remote@feeds.twtxt.net )
**AMD Squeezes In A Few More Graphics Driver Updates For Linux 7.3**
AMD today submitted their last planned feature updates ahead of the Linux 7.3 merge window opening later this month... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/AMDGPU-Linux-7.3-Last-Round)
2026-08-07T00:29:00Z ( remote@feeds.twtxt.net )
**Zapscape Is The Latest Linux Vulnerability For KVM Guest-To-Host Escape, LPE**
Made public earlier today is Zapscape as a guest-to-host escape vulnerability affecting the Linux KVM x86 code for the past six years. This 2020 kernel change to KVM x86 can also be used as a local privilege escalation (LPE) exploit too where /dev/kvm is world-writable on some Linux distributions like RHEL... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-Zapscape-Vulnerability)
2026-08-06T21:09:10Z ( remote@feeds.twtxt.net )
**Linux 7.2-rc7 Restoring Btrfs Fixup Worker Infrastructure To Address Silent Data Loss**
Back during the Linux 7.2 merge window the Btrfs file-system dropped its COW fixup mechanism, which was used to detect dirty pages without an ordered extent. This code was removed as it was believed the kernel's memory management layer had solved the underlying conditions but in reality it ended up leading to silent data loss. That Btrfs fixup worker infrastructure is now restored in time for Linux 7.2-rc7 this weekend and th ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Btrfs-Restores-Fixup-Worker)
2026-08-06T19:07:23Z ( remote@feeds.twtxt.net )
**Linux Networking Continues Being Bombarded With AI Patches**
While the Linux WiFi/wireless maintainer just announced taking a stand against AI/LLM generated slop patches with a new "three second review" rule, the broader Linux networking subsystem continues to be bombarded with AI-generated patches... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-Net-Bombarded-AI-Patches)
2026-08-06T18:54:01Z ( remote@feeds.twtxt.net )
**IceWM 4.1 Window Manager Brings Bug Fixes**
As the first new release since IceWM 4.0 released back on New Year's Day for this X11 window manager, IceWM 4.1 is now available... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/IceWM-4.1-Released)
2026-08-06T16:14:00Z ( remote@feeds.twtxt.net )
**Linux Patched For Safe RET Interrupt Vulnerability**
Made public minutes ago is the Safe RET Interrupt Vulnerability which is now patched in the newest Linux kernel Git code. The Safe RET Interrupt Vulnerability stems from improper handling within Linux's Speculative Return Stack Overflow (SRSO) mitigation affecting AMD Zen 1 through Zen 4 processors... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-Safe-RET-Interrupt-Vuln)
2026-08-06T16:00:22Z ( remote@feeds.twtxt.net )
**Apple NVMe Linux Driver Sees Fixes After Being Bitten By New Firmware**
A set of patches providing fixes for the Apple Silicon NVMe driver for the Linux kernel were sent out today due to new issues cropping up when running newer Apple firmware. Firmware shipped by macOS 15+ is causing issues with the current Apple NVMe open-source Linux driver developed by the Asahi Linux crew... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Apple-NVMe-Linux-Fixes-Firmware)
2026-08-06T14:44:04Z ( remote@feeds.twtxt.net )
**The Performance Benefits To Upgrading Mesa With Intel Arc B390 On Ubuntu Linux**
If you are an early customer of the Framework Laptop 13 Pro or other Intel Core Ultra Series 3 Panther Lake laptop and using Ubuntu 26.04 LTS, there can be real benefit from upgrading your Mesa stack for the newer Iris Gallium3D and ANV Vulkan drivers. In this article are some benchmarks of the Framework Laptop 13 Pro with Core Ultra X9 388H with Arc B390 Xe3 integrated graphics for looking at the performance impact of using Mesa Git on Ubuntu L ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/review/mesa-263-xe3)
2026-08-06T13:50:00Z ( remote@feeds.twtxt.net )
**Linux Accidentally Left Legacy I/O & Memory Handlers Open In Kernel Lockdown Mode**
For nearly the past decade has been the kernel lockdown mode for tightening up kernel access from user-space such as when UEFI Secure Boot is enabled. The kernel lockdown mode restricts PCI BAR access, no writing to /dev/mem, and other restrictions so user-space can't can't modify the running kernel or access sensitive kernel memory. An oversight has allowed legacy I/O and memory interfaces via sysfs to remain open in lockdown m ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-Lockdown-Legacy-IO-Mem)
2026-08-06T12:22:18Z ( remote@feeds.twtxt.net )
**Linux Wireless Maintainer Takes Firm Stance Against AI/LLM Generated Slop Patches**
In addition to the Linux kernel staging area now rejecting AI/LLM-generated patches except for real security fixes, the Linux wireless networking code is also seeing some shifts around how it will deal with AI/LLM generated patches... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-WiFi-Strict-AI-Slop-Patch)
2026-08-06T10:28:46Z ( remote@feeds.twtxt.net )
**Page Alloc Hogger Lets You Better Stress Memory Behavior On Linux For Testing/Debugging**
A new kernel feature proposed by a Google engineer is Page Alloc Hogger to allow for fine control over where memory pages are allocated in order to more easily reproduce low-memory conditions, make it simpler to exert memory pressure, and enable other stressful memory conditions for testing/debugging how Linux copes... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Page-Alloc-Hogger)
2026-08-06T10:19:27Z ( remote@feeds.twtxt.net )
**AMD GFX1171 Support Merged For Mesa 26.3**
Earlier this year we began seeing patches for AMD GFX1170 graphics IP labeled as "RDNA 4m" and that was then completed with also adding GFX1171 and GFX1172 as additional targets for the AMDGPU LLVM compiler back-end and AMDGPU kernel driver. Merged today for Mesa 26.3 is now adding the GFX1171 target to Mesa 26.3 for the RADV and RadeonSI drivers... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/AMD-GFX1171-Mesa-26.3)
2026-08-06T10:05:27Z ( remote@feeds.twtxt.net )
**Qualcomm Proposes Synx For The Linux Kernel With "Significant" Power + Performance Benefits**
Qualcomm engineers have initiated a discussion over upstreaming Synx to the Linux kernel, which is a global synchronization framework across different parts of SoCs. Qualcomm is already using Synx internally and is reported to provide "significant" power and performance benefits... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Synx)
2026-08-06T09:55:47Z ( remote@feeds.twtxt.net )
**SteelSeries' Latest Arctis Nova 5X & Nova 7 Headsets To Be Supported By Linux 7.3**
If you happen to have a gaming headset from the latest SteelSeries Nova 5X or Nova 7 series, the upcoming Linux 7.3 kernel will begin properly supporting those headsets... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/SteelSeries-Nova-7-5X-2026)
2026-08-06T00:44:00Z ( remote@feeds.twtxt.net )
**Linux 7.3 To Fix Longstanding Gap In The Native Driver For Original Steam Controller**
For those with one of the original Valve Steam Controllers from a decade ago and looking to make use of it with the native HID Linux driver outside of the Steam client or SDL, an important addition is coming with the Linux 7.3 kernel release later in the year... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-7.3-Steam-Controller)
2026-08-05T22:59:00Z ( remote@feeds.twtxt.net )
**Rust Coreutils 0.10 Released With More Security Hardening, Increased GNU Compatibility**
Rust Coreutils 0.10 is out today from the uutils project for this alternative to GNU Coreutils. Rust Coreutils 0.10 development focused on additional security hardening plus also increasing the GNU test suite compatibility and robustness... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Rust-Coreutils-0.10)
2026-08-05T22:13:57Z ( remote@feeds.twtxt.net )
**Mesa 26.2 Released With NVK Mesh Shader Support, Many Other Vulkan Improvements**
Mesa 26.2 stable is now available as the newest quarterly feature release for this set of open-source OpenGL and Vulkan drivers typically used on Linux systems... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Mesa-26.2-Released)
2026-08-05T21:27:47Z ( remote@feeds.twtxt.net )
**USB4STREAM Adding Busy Poll Option For Lower Latency At The Cost Of Increased CPU Cycles**
One of the nifty new features of Linux 7.2 is USB4STREAM as an Intel-developed solution for quickly sending data between USB4 connected systems. Now for the upcoming Linux 7.3 cycle, a busy poll mode is being added to provide lower-latency data transfers at the expense of increased CPU activity... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/USB4STREAM-Lower-Latency)
2026-08-05T16:10:08Z ( remote@feeds.twtxt.net )
**Denial WM: New Wayland Compositor With Flutter Directly Embedded**
The newest Wayland compositor to talk about and discuss is Denial, a Wayland compositor focused on optimal Arch Linux integration and that embeds the Flutter engine directly into the codebase. Denial makes use of the Rust programming language and leverages Smithay to help in the compositor responsibilities... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Denial-WM-Compositor)
2026-08-05T13:16:43Z ( remote@feeds.twtxt.net )
**Cloudflare Announces Open-Source Cloudflare OS As AI "Operating System"**
Cloudflare today announced the open-sourcing of Cloudflare OS as an "open platform for agents, apps, and work." Cloudflare OS is an AI "operating system" but not in the traditional OS sense... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Cloudflare-OS)
2026-08-05T12:39:22Z ( remote@feeds.twtxt.net )
**Linux To Avoid Confusing Processor Firmware With Newer Intel CPUs Sporting DEC**
A patch for the Intel P-State CPU frequency scaling Linux driver is pending to avoid confusing the processor firmware on newer platforms like Intel Core Ultra Series 3 "Panther Lake" where Dynamic Efficiency Control (DEC) is supported... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-No-Confuse-Intel-DEC)
2026-08-05T10:38:57Z ( remote@feeds.twtxt.net )
**Additional Old Linux Drivers Face Removal Due To Noise From AI/LLM Coding Agents**
There continues to be a lout of cleaning up of the kernel source tree to deal with noise generated by AI / LLM coding agents sending in reports and patches for old drivers that are likely not actively used by anyone on modern upstream kernel builds. Rather than continuing to carry these old drivers around with the uptick in AI/LLM-generated noise, kernel maintainers are finding it better to just retire the old drivers... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-Retiring-Moxa-Driver)
2026-08-05T10:20:55Z ( remote@feeds.twtxt.net )
**AMD Preps HDMI FRL Fixes, New Knob For Disabling Older AMD GPU DCE Display Support**
Overnight AMD engineers sent out their latest round of AMDGPU DC display code updates for their Linux driver. This week's round of display code updates include some additional fixes for their recently introduced HDMI FRL (Fixed Rate Link) support as part of the work toward their HDMI 2.1 implementation finally coming together for their open-source, upstream Linux driver... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/AMDGPU-DC-DCE-Gating)
2026-08-05T10:08:00Z ( remote@feeds.twtxt.net )
**FEX 2608 Released With More Fixes For Running x86\_64 Binaries On ARM64**
FEX 2608 is now available as the newest monthly feature update to this open-source emulator sponsored by Valve for running x86\_64 binaries on ARM64, including Steam and Windows games with Steam Play (Proton)... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/FEX-2608-Released)
2026-08-05T00:33:08Z ( remote@feeds.twtxt.net )
**AMD Posts Proposal & Linux Patches For eSPI Subsystem**
AMD has posted patches proposing a new Linux subsystem for the Enhanced Serial Peripheral Interface (eSPI) standard that was in turn originally developed by Intel. With AMD now making use of eSPI, they are proposing a new subsystem for it within the Linux kernel, which includes a new driver for their hardware... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/AMD-eSPI-Linux-Patches)
2026-08-04T14:07:29Z ( remote@feeds.twtxt.net )
**AMD openSIL & Coreboot Pull Requests For Phoenix AM5 Support**
Last week the 3mdeb firmware consulting firm released the first open-source firmware for a modern AMD Ryzen AM5 platform with their work to port AMD openSIL and Coreboot in their downstream Dasharo flavor to an MSI desktop ATX motherboard. Now that it's working out well, 3mdeb is working to upstream their AM5 platform support and Phoenix SoC support into upstream AMD openSIL as well as Coreboot... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/AMD-openSIL-Phoenix-AM5-PR)
2026-08-04T13:43:44Z ( remote@feeds.twtxt.net )
**NVIDIA Becomes A Premier Sponsor Of LVFS / Fwupd**
Now this is a pleasant and very unexpected surprise... NVIDIA has become the latest premier sponsor of the Linux Vendor Firmware Service (LVFS)... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/NVIDIA-Premier-Sponsor-LVFS)
2026-08-04T12:14:14Z ( remote@feeds.twtxt.net )
**Linux Foundation Announces Tokenomics Foundation For "Economics & ROI Of AI Value"**
Last month the Linux Foundation launched the x402 Foundation to standardize Internet-native payments for AI agents as their latest AI play. That followed other "AI" initiatives from dealing with AI exploits to AI asset and data exchange. Today they have another AI foray being announced with the creation of the Tokenomics Foundation... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-Foundation-Tokenomics)
2026-08-04T10:29:29Z ( remote@feeds.twtxt.net )
**Linux's Staging Area To Now Reject LLM-Generated Patches, Except For Real Security Fixes**
While Linux's second-in-command Greg Kroah-Hartman does use AI / LLMs himself to success in the Linux kernel, given the "onslaught" of kernel patches produced by large language models and the intent on the Linux kernel's staging area being an area for newcomers to get involved, moving forward he's now rejecting AI/LLM-generated staging patches. But there is one exception and that is for genuinely valid security fixes... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-Staging-Reject-LLMs)
2026-08-04T10:14:21Z ( remote@feeds.twtxt.net )
**Wild Linker 0.10 Released With GDB Index Support, Mitigation For Btrfs Performance**
Wild 0.10 released overnight as this very fast linker for Linux that is written in the Rust programming language and focused on iterative development... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Wild-Linker-0.10)
2026-08-04T09:57:59Z ( remote@feeds.twtxt.net )
**Linux 7.3 To Fix MSI Claw M-Center Keys For Ryzen Z2 Extreme Powered Handheld**
For those with a MSI Claw A8 BZ2EM handheld gaming system, the model powered by the latest AMD Ryzen Z2 Extreme SoC, an important addition is coming to the Linux 7.3 kernel so that the M-Center keys will be properly supported... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-7.3-MSI-Claw-M-Center-Key)
2026-08-04T00:49:30Z ( remote@feeds.twtxt.net )
**FFmpeg 9.0 Released With More Vulkan Acceleration, Animated WebP & More AMD AMF**
FFmpeg 9.0 is now available as the latest feature release for this widely used, open-source multimedia library... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/FFmpeg-9.0-Released)
2026-08-04T00:36:30Z ( remote@feeds.twtxt.net )
**Improved GPU Reset Recovery For AMD Kaveri, Hawaii & Other GFX7 GPUs With Linux 7.3**
In addition to the AMDGPU feature pull request to DRM-Next last week that landed DRM format modifiers for old AMD GPUs and a variety of other improvements, a secondary set of AMDGPU feature work followed that last week in preparation for the upcoming Linux 7.3 merge window... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/AMD-GFX7-Soft-Reset-Linux-7.3)
2026-08-03T18:46:16Z ( remote@feeds.twtxt.net )
**Linux 7.3 Looks Like It Will Upstream FailFS**
Merged back in Linux 7.3 was NULLFS as a "completely catatonic minimal pseudo filesystem". Now expected for Linux 7.3 is its sibling: FailFS... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-7.3-Expects-FailFS)
2026-08-03T14:42:55Z ( remote@feeds.twtxt.net )
**Benchmarking Six Linux Distributions On The Framework Laptop 13 Pro**
With the new Framework Laptop 13 Pro now shipping powered by Intel Core Ultra Series 3 (Panther Lake) and a brand new hardware design, I have spent the past week testing out various Linux distributions on this very nice high-end laptop. All of the modern Linux distributions tested have been playing nicely with this new Panther Lake laptop. Of course, beyond testing for compatibility I also took the opportunity to run some Linux distributio ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/review/framework-laptop-13-pro-linux)
2026-08-03T13:19:33Z ( remote@feeds.twtxt.net )
**zlib-rs 0.6.7 Released With LoongArch LSX Optimizations, Use-After-Free Fix**
zlib-rs 0.6.7 is out today as the newest version of this "safer zlib" implementation making use of the Rust programming language and aiming to deliver performance on-par with zlib-ng... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/zlib-rs-0.6.7)
2026-08-03T12:58:03Z ( remote@feeds.twtxt.net )
**NVIDIA 610.57.04 Linux Driver Delivers Many Fixes**
NVIDIA is kicking off the new month by releasing an updated R610 Linux driver build with quite a number of bug fixes... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/NVIDIA-610.57.04-Linux-Driver)
2026-08-03T12:35:52Z ( remote@feeds.twtxt.net )
**Linux 7.3 Expected To Drop The FreeVxFS File-System Driver**
It looks like Linux 7.3 will end up dropping FreeVxFS as the read-only Linux kernel driver for the Veritas VxFS file-ssytem used formerly by HP-UX and SCO UnixWare... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-Retiring-FreeVxFS)
2026-08-03T10:58:00Z ( remote@feeds.twtxt.net )
**KGamma2 Makes For Easy Gamma Adjustments On KDE Plasma With Wayland**
KDE developer David Edmundson announced today his KGamma2 tool in aiming to address a pain point for KDE Plasma desktop users on Wayland... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/KDE-KGamma2-Gamma-Wayland)
2026-08-03T10:23:00Z ( remote@feeds.twtxt.net )
**GNOME Mutter 51 Beta Released With Wayland Background Blur, Improved Frame Scheduling**
Released overnight on Sunday were the beta versions of Mutter 51 and GNOME Shell 51. This follows GNOME 51 embarking on itsAPI/ABI freeze, feature freeze, and UI freeze a day earlier... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/GNOME-Shell-Mutter-51-Beta)
2026-08-03T09:47:40Z ( remote@feeds.twtxt.net )
**Linux 7.3 Adding Support For MCTP-Over-USB v1.1**
Within the Linux networking subsystem's "net-next" Git branch there is now queued up support for MCTP-over-USB v1.1. This is the newest version of the standard for sending Management Component Transport Protocol (MCTP) packets over USB for tasks loike crash dumps, logging, and firmware updates... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-7.3-MCTP-Over-USB-1.1)
2026-08-03T00:23:32Z ( remote@feeds.twtxt.net )
**AerynOS Issues First Development Update & New ISOs In Three Months**
It's been just over three months since the last AerynOS development update and new ISO spin but fortunately that's been succeeded today by a new development update and ISO images. AerynOS development remains strong and ongoing with many changes to be found in this latest from-scratch Linux distribution release... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/AerynOS-Big-Update-2026)
2026-08-02T23:38:50Z ( remote@feeds.twtxt.net )
**Linux 7.2-rc6 Released: "This RC Is Huge"**
Like clockwork, the Linux 7.2-rc6 kernel is now available for testing in working toward the stable Linux 7.2 kernel in hopefully two week's time... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-7.2-rc6-Released)
2026-08-02T14:32:25Z ( remote@feeds.twtxt.net )
**Linux 7.3 To Begin Laying The Groundwork For Intel Starfire**
Intel recently announced Starfire as their new Panther Lake derived, space-grade SoC designed for extreme environments... like survivability in space. With the Linux 7.3, we are going to begin seeing the first Intel Starfire specific patches land in the kernel... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Intel-Starfire-Starts-Linux-7.3)
2026-08-02T10:47:00Z ( remote@feeds.twtxt.net )
**Linux 7.3 To Support The Qualcomm Adreno 704 & Adreno 722 GPUs**
Sent out on Saturday were the Qualcomm MSM DRM kernel graphics/display driver updates to land for the upcoming Linux 7.3 merge window... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-7.3-MSM-DRM-Driver)
2026-08-02T10:37:06Z ( remote@feeds.twtxt.net )
**Ubuntu Touch Making Progress Toward Ubuntu 26.04, Vulkan & App Updates**
Following last week's release of Ubuntu Touch 24.04-2.0 for this community-maintained, mobile flavor of Ubuntu Linux, more details are now available on their upcoming development efforts and eventual transition to an Ubuntu 26.04 base... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Ubuntu-Touch-Toward-26.04)
2026-08-02T10:25:00Z ( remote@feeds.twtxt.net )
**Linux 7.2-rc6 Fixes Some AMD Zen 5 CPUs Being Mistakenly Identified As Zen 6**
Today's batch of x86 fixes for the kernel ahead of the Linux 7.2-rc6 release later in the day addresses some AMD Zen 5 processors mistakenly being classified as Zen 6... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-7.2-rc6-Fixing-Zen-5-IDs)
2026-08-02T10:06:15Z ( remote@feeds.twtxt.net )
**Box64 v0.4.4 Released With New Box64-Configurator App**
Box64 0.4.4 released today as the newest version of this open-source user-space Linux x86\_64 emulator for running binaries on 64-bit ARM, RISC-V, and LoongArch systems... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Box64-0.4.4)
2026-08-02T00:25:24Z ( remote@feeds.twtxt.net )
**Steam On Linux Use Back Above 4% In July**
Valve just published the Steam Survey results for July 2026 and point to a small uptick in Linux gaming use... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Steam-On-Linux-July-2026)
2026-08-01T16:49:21Z ( remote@feeds.twtxt.net )
**NetBSD 11.0 Released With RISC-V Support, Enhanced Linux System Call Compatibility**
NetBSD 11.0 officially shipped today as the nineteenth major release of this popular BSD operating system... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/NetBSD-11.0)
2026-08-01T13:30:00Z ( remote@feeds.twtxt.net )
**MPEG-4 Patent Expiration, RADV On Windows, Open-Source AI & Other July Highlights**
Last month on Phoronix there were 257 original Linux/open-source related news articles and another 20 featured Linux hardware reviews / multi-page benchmark articles. Following the recent 22nd birthday of Phoronix.com, this puts the overall tally at nearly 51k original news articles and more than 5,600 Linux hardware reviews. Here is a look back at what readers found most exciting during the course of July... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/July-2026-Highlights)
2026-08-01T11:47:02Z ( remote@feeds.twtxt.net )
**Prominent Arch Linux Developer Resigns After 10 Year Run**
Arch Linux developer, security team member, AUR maintainer, and package maintainer Morten Linderud "Foxboron" announced today he is resigning from the project... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Arch-Linux-Foxboron)
2026-08-01T10:49:22Z ( remote@feeds.twtxt.net )
**Linux 7.2-rc6 Working Around Several Buggy Western Digital SATA Drives**
Merged ahead of tomorrow's Linux 7.2-rc6 kernel test release are several ATA fixes that include a number of device-specific workarounds for some Western Digital SATA drives that have been failing to work on recent versions of the Linux kernel... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-7.2-rc6-ATA)
2026-08-01T10:34:00Z ( remote@feeds.twtxt.net )
**GNOME Working To Establish An RFC Process, Battling Sloppy AI-Generated Extensions**
GNOME developers were quite busy in closing out the month of July from continued work on establishing a formal Request For Comments (RFC) process for the project to battling the continued flood of AI-generated GNOME Shell extensions... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/GNOME-RFC-Process-AI-Extensions)
2026-08-01T10:18:48Z ( remote@feeds.twtxt.net )
**KDE Plasma 6.8 To Enjoy Huge Performance Gains For Multi-GPU/eGPU Performance**
It's been a very exciting week in the KDE Plasma 6.8 development space particularly thanks to performance work on bettering KWin's multi-GPU / external GPU handling... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/KDE-Plasma-6.8-Faster-eGPU)
2026-08-01T10:00:52Z ( remote@feeds.twtxt.net )
**Picolibc 1.8.12 Brings Latest Improvements To This Embedded-Focused C Library**
If the recent release of the GNU C Library glibc 2.44 is too big for your embedded use-cases, Keith Packard continues hacking on Picolibc as his embedded-focused C library. Released overnight was Picolibc 1.8.12 with a variety of improvements for this embedded libc... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Picolibc-1.8.12-Released)
2026-08-01T00:29:25Z ( remote@feeds.twtxt.net )
**AMD Begins Posting Display Core Next 6 "DCN6" Linux Patches For RDNA5 GPUs**
AMD closed out the month of July by posting some new AMDGPU Display Core "DC" patches. Most notable with this weekly patch ritual is several patches beginning to establish the foundation for Display Core Next 6 "DCN6" as their next-generation display IP. The patches tie DCN6 to the AMD GFX13 graphics engine, which is anticipated to be for the next-generation RDNA5 graphics processors... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/AMD-DCN6-Linux-Start)
2026-07-31T20:29:05Z ( remote@feeds.twtxt.net )
**AMD Publishes CDNA5 ISA Documentation For Instinct MI455X**
Following last week's launch of the AMD Instinct MI455X, AMD has now kept with tradition and provided ISA documentation concerning this latest CDNA5 architecture... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/AMD-CDNA5-ISA-Documentation)
2026-07-31T18:04:00Z ( remote@feeds.twtxt.net )
**The First Open-Source Firmware Released For Modern AMD Ryzen AM5 Platform**
Last month 3mdeb released their open-source firmware for a modern AMD EPYC motherboard from Gigabyte that was built off the new AMD openSIL project and Coreboot. Today 3mdeb has delivered the first open-source firmware release for a modern AMD Ryzen desktop motherboard with having independently brought their openSIL+Coreboot powered Dasharo stack to the readily available MSI PRO B850-P WIFI... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/OSS-Firmware-MSI-B850-P-WIFI)
2026-07-31T17:50:05Z ( remote@feeds.twtxt.net )
**Shotcut 26.7 Video Editor Released With Stock Asset Library**
Shotcut 26.7 is out today as the newest feature release to this open-source, cross-platform video editing solution... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Shotcut-26.7-Released)
2026-07-31T15:22:00Z ( remote@feeds.twtxt.net )
**Nouveau Preparing To Finally Enable Atomic Mode-Setting By Default**
In addition to the Nouveau kernel driver unblocking Vulkan Video H.264 support for the Mesa NVK driver, another feature change on the way is this open-source NVIDIA Linux driver finally preparing to enable atomic mode-setting by default... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Nouveau-Atomic-Mode-Setting-26)
2026-07-31T13:59:23Z ( remote@feeds.twtxt.net )
**Arch Linux AUR Under Another Wave Of Malicious Packages, Package Adoptions Halted**
Last month the Arch Linux User Repository "AUR" saw more than 1,500 malicious packages amid a sophisticated malware attack and then also seeing an influx of spam and profanities amid this community/user-maintained repository for the popular Arch Linux distribution. Unfortunately, there is another round of AUR troubles... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Arch-Linux-AUR-Adoptions-Halted)
2026-07-31T13:18:59Z ( remote@feeds.twtxt.net )
**Linux 7.3 To Allow Tuning AMD P-State Dynamic EPP With Per CPU Core Granularity**
Sent out last night was the last batch of planned AMD P-State driver feature improvements targeting the upcoming Linux 7.3 merge window... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-7.3-AMD-Per-Core-Dynamic)
2026-07-31T11:01:10Z ( remote@feeds.twtxt.net )
**Servo 0.4 Browser Engine Gets More Websites Rendering Correctly**
Servo 0.4 was just released for closing out the month of July. This month the Servo browser engine with its servoshell demo browser began rendering more real-world websites correctly... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Servo-0.4-Released)
2026-07-31T10:20:00Z ( remote@feeds.twtxt.net )
**Nouveau Patch For Linux 7.3 Opens The Door For NVK Vulkan Video Atop NVIDIA NVDEC**
This week's round of drm-misc-next patches for staging ahead of the Linux 7.3 kernel merge window bring an exciting change for the open-source NVIDIA "Nouveau" driver... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-7.3-Nouveau-NVDEC)
2026-07-31T10:04:00Z ( remote@feeds.twtxt.net )
**x86\_64 Shadow Stack By Default Retargeted For Fedora 46**
In recent weeks there was a proposal to enable x86\_64 Shadow Stack support by default with the upcoming Fedora Linux 45 release. That change has been approved now by the Fedora Engineering and Steering Committee (FESCo) but with the feature being punted off to Fedora 46 next year... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Fedora-46-Shadow-Stack-Plans)
2026-07-31T09:53:13Z ( remote@feeds.twtxt.net )
**Vulkan 1.4.358 Released With New Image Tiling Control Extension**
After two weeks without any Vulkan spec update, Vulkan 1.4.358 was released overnight. Besides the usual assortment of minor clarifications/fixes, Vulkan 1.4.358 introduces one new extension: VK\_EXT\_image\_tiling\_control... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Vulkan-1.4.358)
2026-07-31T09:26:56Z ( remote@feeds.twtxt.net )
**Sound Fixes For Linux 7.2-rc6: "Far Larger Than Wished"**
Linux sound subsystem maintainer Takashi Iwai of SUSE previously warned of many sound driver fixes due to AI/LLMs and a "new normal" of patch activity as a result. While we are approaching the end of the Linux 7.2 merge window with the stable release coming up in August, the sound patches continue trending higher and this week were "far larger than wished" ahead of Linux 7.2-rc6 due out on Sunday... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-7.2-rc6-Sound-Fixes)
2026-07-30T21:10:00Z ( remote@feeds.twtxt.net )
**Linux 7.3 Will Treat Intel Nova Lake S Graphics As Stable**
Ahead of the next-generation Intel Nova Lake processors expected to begin rolling out around the start of 2027, the upcoming Linux 7.3 kernel cycle is going to begin treating Nova Lake S processors with their integrated graphics as stable... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-7.3-Intel-NVL-S-Stable)
2026-07-30T18:36:07Z ( remote@feeds.twtxt.net )
**AMD Posts Linux Patches For HDMI 2.1 Auto Low-Latency Mode "ALLM" & VRR**
Following AMD posting AMDGPU patches for HDMI 2.1 FRL support after the HDMI 2.1 open-source support was long blocked by the HDMI Forum, as part of working toward a complete HDMI 2.1 implementation in this AMD Linux driver it was followed by HDMI 2.1 Display Stream Compression (DSC) support. Now the latest on the AMDGPU HDMI 2.1 enabling path is enabling Auto Low-Latency Mode (ALLM) as well as HDMI Variable Rate Refresh!.. ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/AMDGPU-HDMI-2.1-ALLM)
2026-07-30T17:30:00Z ( remote@feeds.twtxt.net )
**There's Finally A New Game Powered By The Unigine 2 Engine**
It's been about a decade since seeing any new games released on the visually-impressive, Linux-friendly Unigine Engine. Unigine Corp has mostly been focusing on Unigine Engine usage for simulations and other professional applications, but coming as a surprise today is a new game being developed on their latest Unigine 2 engine technology... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Unigine-Engine-3-Rideshare)
2026-07-30T17:05:56Z ( remote@feeds.twtxt.net )
**OPI Abstraction v0.1 Published With Aiming To Standardize DPU/IPU Ecosystems**
The Linux Foundation hosted Open Programmable Infrastructure "OPI" announced its first coordinated release with OPI Abstraction v0.1. The work of the Open Programmable Infrastructure is hoping to standardize the data processing unit (DPU) and infrastructure processing unit (IPU) ecosystems... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Open-Programmable-OPI-DPU-IPU)
2026-07-30T15:00:00Z ( remote@feeds.twtxt.net )
**Nouveau vs. NVIDIA R610 On CachyOS With The GeForce RTX 5090 Laptop GPU**
With the Razer Blade 18 as the first laptop Razer's certifying for (Ubuntu) Linux use while testing it out I was predominantly using the NVIDIA R610 official driver stack. Some users were interested though in how well this laptop is working with the open-source, upstream Nouveau+NVK driver stack given Razer is marketing this high-end laptop for Linux use too. Before sending the review unit back I had run some graphics benchmarks to see ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/review/nvidia-rtx-5090-laptop-linux)
2026-07-30T14:03:35Z ( remote@feeds.twtxt.net )
**AMD Zen 6 Client HSMP Patches Points To "Ryzen Master" Functionality On Linux**
In an interesting twist, patches this week posted to the Linux kernel mailing list are enabling AMD Zen 6 client desktop and laptop SoCs for the HSMP driver. Up to now the AMD HSMP Linux driver was just used for modern EPYC server processors while now we are seeing this HSMP driver supporting the upcoming Medusa and Olympic Ridge client platforms... Including mentions of overclocking and even noting "Ryzen Master" as the Windows-only ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/AMD-Zen-6-Client-HSMP-Linux)
2026-07-30T13:45:22Z ( remote@feeds.twtxt.net )
**Xen 4.22 Released With AMD Zen 5 BLT Support, Improved RISC-V Virtualization**
The Xen Project today released Xen 4.22 as the newest feature release of this open-source hypervisor popular for open-source virtualization in automotive systems and other embedded use-cases as well as the cloud... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Zen-4.22-Released)
2026-07-30T10:18:22Z ( remote@feeds.twtxt.net )
**Huawei Considers Open-Sourcing A Half-Hearted Mesa Vulkan Driver**
A Huawei engineer posted to the Mesa mailing list today over potentially upstreaming a Vulkan driver they have developed for an in-house GPU. However, at least in current form, this new in-house GPU Vulkan driver is likely dead in the water from being upstreamed into Mesa... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Huawei-Half-Open-Mesa-Vulkan)
2026-07-30T10:05:35Z ( remote@feeds.twtxt.net )
**Patches Posted To Improve Linux Media Acceleration On Intel Alchemist GPUs**
The Intel Arc A-Series graphics (DG2) remains in a bit of an awkward state on Linux due to the transition period moving from the i915 kernel driver to more modern and feature capable Xe kernel driver. It's only post-Alchemist where the Intel Xe driver is officially supported and used by default while those opting for the Xe driver with the A-Series can often enjoy better performance and functionality. Except one of the caveats in using t ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Intel-HuC-DG2-Alchemist-Xe)
2026-07-30T09:38:20Z ( remote@feeds.twtxt.net )
**Intel Media Driver & VPL GPU Runtime 2026Q2 Updates Continue Prepping For Nova Lake**
Over the past few Intel VA-API Media Driver releases we have seen preparations made for Nova Lake video acceleration. That has continued today with the Intel Media Driver and Intel oneVPL GPU Runtime releases today with their new quarterly feature releases... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Intel-Media-Driver-2026Q2)
2026-07-30T00:21:55Z ( remote@feeds.twtxt.net )
**COSMIC Epoch 1.5 Brings More Fixes & Improvements To System76's Desktop**
The System76 and Pop!\_OS developers continue quickly iterating on their Rust-based COSMIC desktop environment... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/COSMIC-Epoch-1.5-Released)
2026-07-29T20:47:11Z ( remote@feeds.twtxt.net )
**DRM Format Modifiers For Old AMD GPUs Coming With Linux 7.3: Thanks Valve**
Sent out today was another week's worth of features and other code changes to the AMDGPU kernel graphics driver and AMDKFD kernel compute driver. We are nearing the cut-off of new feature material for next month's Linux 7.3 kernel but there is some nice feature work in store for this week... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-7.3-AMDGPU-GFX6-Modifiers)
2026-07-29T19:07:07Z ( remote@feeds.twtxt.net )
**Steam Client Adds HDR Streaming On Steam Deck OLED, AV1 Video Streaming**
Today's Steam client beta update brings some new game streaming enhancements for Linux gamers... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Steam-Beta-Video-Streaming)
2026-07-29T13:12:09Z ( remote@feeds.twtxt.net )
**Intel Graphics Driver Support For Xe3 "Peak Bandwidth Threshold" Feature In Linux 7.3**
Intel today sent out their latest batch of kernel graphics driver updates that are ready for staging ahead of next month's Linux 7.3 merge window... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Intel-Linux-7.3-Peak-Bandwidth)
2026-07-29T10:35:22Z ( remote@feeds.twtxt.net )
**Valve Sponsors Work Bringing Open-Source RADV Driver To Windows**
Valve has been sponsoring Collabora engineers with early phase, exploratory work for trying to bring the open-source Radeon Vulkan "RADV" driver to Microsoft Windows... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Valve-Sponsors-RADV-Windows)
2026-07-29T10:19:44Z ( remote@feeds.twtxt.net )
**Vibe Coded X11 YSERVER Gets Steam Working, Full-Screen Games With Cinnamon**
A new software creation that debuted this summer was YSERVER as a modern X11 server written in Rust largely by AI via Claude Code. This YSERVER implementation has continued implementing more X11 protocol and other functionality to get more desktop environments and apps working surprisingly okay on this vibe coded X11 server. YSERVER 1.4 is now available as the latest in this quest... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/YSERVER-1.4)
2026-07-29T09:43:31Z ( remote@feeds.twtxt.net )
**GCC To Decline Any Significant Contributions Made Via AI/LLMs - Except For Test Cases**
The GCC Steering Committee announced today that they have accepted the recommended policy of the GCC AI Policy Working Group, which means no "legally significant" code contributions made via AI/LLM agents will be accepted into this open-source compiler... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/GCC-Declining-AI-Contributions)
2026-07-29T00:35:00Z ( remote@feeds.twtxt.net )
**ARCTIC Launches Its New Fan Controller That Already Has Mainline Linux Support**
In over 22 years of Linux hardware reviews and testing at Phoronix, I have never been more excited for a fan controller... ARCTIC today launched their new Fan Controller and in making the product very unique for Linux users, it already has mainline Linux kernel support via a open-source driver contributed directly by ARCTIC... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/ARCTIC-Fan-Controller-Launches)
2026-07-28T15:50:00Z ( remote@feeds.twtxt.net )
**Starling: A New Linux Desktop Written In Swift, Own Wayland Compositor & Written With AI**
There's yet another new open-source desktop option for Linux users in the era of new open-source projects largely written via AI/LLMs. Starling is this new project largely written via Claude and using the Swift programming language for the desktop while having its own Wayland compositor implemented in C. It also includes a built-in X11 server for handling X11 clients... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Starling-Swift-Desktop)
2026-07-28T14:04:04Z ( remote@feeds.twtxt.net )
**CachyOS Outperforming Windows 11, Slight Advantage Over Ubuntu & Fedora On AMD Ryzen AI 9 HX 470**
A recent mini PC being benchmarked at Phoronix is the BOSGAME VTA-439 that employs the new AMD Ryzen AI 9 HX 470 Gorgon Point SoC. With the BOSGAME mini PC having shipped with Microsoft Windows 11, here are some comparison benchmarks of the out-of-the-box Windows 11 performance up against Ubuntu 26.04 LTS and Fedora Workstation 44 while also tossing the rolling-release, highly-optimized Arch Linux based CachyOS into ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/review/amd-hx470-windows-linux)
2026-07-28T13:33:04Z ( remote@feeds.twtxt.net )
**CachyOS Outperforming Windows 11, Ubuntu & Fedora On AMD Ryzen AI 9 HX 470**
A recent mini PC being benchmarked at Phoronix is the BOSGAME VTA-439 that employs the new AMD Ryzen AI 9 HX 470 Gorgon Point SoC. With the BOSGAME mini PC having shipped with Microsoft Windows 11, here are some comparison benchmarks of the out-of-the-box Windows 11 performance up against Ubuntu 26.04 LTS and Fedora Workstation 44 while also tossing the rolling-release, highly-optimized Arch Linux based CachyOS into the benchmarking mix. ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/review/amd-hx470-windows-linux)
2026-07-28T10:03:00Z ( remote@feeds.twtxt.net )
**AMD P-State Linux Driver Patches Can Boost 1%-Low FPS Gaming Performance By 31%**
A set of patches posted today to the Linux kernel mailing list implement per-core Energy Performance Preference (EPP) boosting for recently-busy CPUs. This feature is designed to have a dramatic impact for Linux gaming and helping especially with the 1% low frame-rates improving by 31.8% on the Valve Steam Deck... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/AMD-P-State-Better-1p-Lows)
2026-07-28T09:50:02Z ( remote@feeds.twtxt.net )
**KDE Developer Fixing Long-Standing Bug Over Very Long Small-File Copy Times**
Since 2014 there has been a KDE bug report titled Ridiculously slow file copy (multiple small files). With the Dolphin file manager or other KIO-based KDE programs, copying many small files can be much slower than using the cp command directly or other copying programs like rsync, Finally that issue is in the process of being resolved for addressing very slow copy times when dealing with many small files on the KDE Plasma desktop... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/KDE-Ridiculous-File-Copy-Times)
2026-07-28T09:41:49Z ( remote@feeds.twtxt.net )
**Linux's crypto\_rng Abstraction Layer Next On The Chopping Block**
In addition to the deprecation and stripping down of AF\_ALG, another piece of the Linux kernel crypto code steaming ahead toward removal is the crypto\_rng abstraction layer... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-crypto-rng-Removal-Patch)
2026-07-28T09:39:02Z ( remote@feeds.twtxt.net )
**KDE Developer Fixing Long-Standing Bug Over Very Long Small-File Copy Times**
Since 2014 there has been a KDE bug report titled Ridiculously slow file copy (multiple small files). With the Dolphin file manager or other KIO-based KDE programs, copying many small files can be much slower than using the cp command directly or other copying programs like rsync, Finally that issue is in the process of being resolved for addressing very slow copy times when dealing with many small files on the KDE Plasma desktop... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/KDE-Ridiculous-File-Copy-Times)
2026-07-28T09:25:26Z ( remote@feeds.twtxt.net )
**ASUS Laptop Whisper Mode Support Being Worked On For Linux**
ASUS laptops support a feature called "Whisper Mode" that intentionally slows down the fan speed and lowers the CPU clock speed in order to keep the device running cool and quiet. The open-source ASUS Armoury Linux kernel driver is now seeing patches to properly support this Whisper Mode on Linux... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/ASUS-Laptop-Whisper-Mode-Linux)
2026-07-27T21:28:20Z ( remote@feeds.twtxt.net )
**AMD PMF Testing Tool Slated For Linux 7.3**
Looking to be added to the Linux kernel source tree for the upcoming Linux 7.3 cycle is test\_amd\_pmf, a small testing application for exercising the AMD Platform Management Framework (PMF) interfaces and dumping various system data points... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/AMD-PMF-Testing-Tool-Linux-7.3)
2026-07-27T16:41:37Z ( remote@feeds.twtxt.net )
**Mysterious 16-Tile & 32-Tile AMX Implementations Talked Up For More Performance**
Last October on Phoronix we were first to point out there being some mysterious intrigue around a new x86 implementation from a "corporate entity other than Intel/AMD" with the developer involved not elaborating on the matter. Now that same developer has posted another semi-cryptic message to the Linux kernel mailing list to talk about 16-tile and 32-tile Advanced Matrix Extensions (AMX) implementations. To date Intel only has ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/16-Tile-32-Tile-AMX-Performance)
2026-07-27T16:17:48Z ( remote@feeds.twtxt.net )
**Fwupd 2.1.7 Released With Many Bug Fixes**
Fwupd 2.1.7 is out today as the newest update to this open-source firmware updating utility that pairs with the Linux Vendor Firmware Service (LVFS) for offering a nice firmware upgrade story on Linux systems... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Fwupd-2.1.7-Released)
2026-07-27T15:00:00Z ( remote@feeds.twtxt.net )
**Framework Laptop 13 Pro: Aiming To Be One Of The Best Upgradeable Linux Laptops**
Back in April, Framework Computer announced the Framework Laptop 13 Pro as a ground-up re-design of their modular/upgradeable laptop. This new Framework Laptop 13 Pro features a much larger battery (74Wh), LPCAMM2 memory support, a full CNC aluminum chassis, haptic touchpad, and a new power-optimized touch display. Paired with the very efficient Intel Core Ultra Series 3 "Panther Lake" SoCs, the Framework Laptop 13 Pro ends up being ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/review/framework-laptop-13-pro)
2026-07-27T11:32:53Z ( remote@feeds.twtxt.net )
**Ubuntu To Provide Virtualization HWE Stack For Ubuntu 26.04 LTS**
Ubuntu has long provided hardware enablement "HWE" stacks for Ubuntu LTS releases to provide a newer kernel and Mesa drivers and more for better supporting new/modern hardware on the long-term support Ubuntu Linux releases. With Ubuntu 26.04 LTS, Canonical will also now be providing a virtualization HWE stack for shipping newer virtualization / confidential computing features... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Ubuntu-Virtualization-HWE-Stack)
2026-07-27T10:35:31Z ( remote@feeds.twtxt.net )
**AMD "Low Power" CPU Core Type Patches Queued Ahead Of Linux 7.3**
Last month I wrote bout new AMD Linux patches introducing a new "low power" CPU core type as an alternative to their standard performance cores and dense efficiency cores. That work now is poised to land with the upcoming Linux 7.3 kernel... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/AMD-Low-Power-Core-Linux-7.3)
2026-07-27T10:03:26Z ( remote@feeds.twtxt.net )
**FreeBSD Developing New NTSYNC Driver For Accelerating Windows NT Sync Primitives**
The FreeBSD project published today their Q2-2026 status report that highlights all of their interesting open-source development initiatives for the past quarter. A lot is happening including FreeBSD seeing an AMD ROCm port and also their own NTSYNC driver being created... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/FreeBSD-Q2-2026)
2026-07-27T09:45:43Z ( remote@feeds.twtxt.net )
**NVIDIA & Others Form The Open Secure AI Alliance**
NVIDIA and more than two dozen other companies have started the Open Secure AI Alliance for helping to keep open-source AI models secure. The other founding members range from Microsoft to Adobe, IBM, Red Hat, SpaceX, OpenClaw, Palantir, and others... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Open-Secure-AI-Alliance)
2026-07-26T22:05:14Z ( remote@feeds.twtxt.net )
**Linux 7.2-rc5 Released: "Once More We Have Quite A Massive -rc5"**
In working toward releasing the stable Linux 7.2 kernel in less than one month's time, out today is Linux 7.2-rc5 to ship this week's latest bug/regression fixes and help facilitate more testing of this in-development kernel version... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-7.2-rc5-Released)
2026-07-26T19:36:15Z ( remote@feeds.twtxt.net )
**GNU Binutils 2.47 Released With More RISC-V Extensions, New Options**
Along with this weekend's release of GNU C Library 2.44, the GNU Binutils 2.47 release is also now available for this important set of binary utilities common to Linux systems and other platforms with the GNU toolchain... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/GNU-Binutils-2.47)
2026-07-26T15:32:26Z ( remote@feeds.twtxt.net )
**"KVM Chainsaw" Expected To Hit Linux 7.3 For Dealing With God Data Structure**
A patch series that appears destined for the upcoming Linux 7.3 merge window is what's dubbed the "KVM Chainsaw" as a major code clean-up in dealing with the kvm\_mmu "god data structure"... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/KVM-Chainsaw-Linux-7.3)
2026-07-26T13:24:46Z ( remote@feeds.twtxt.net )
**User Frustrations Over The "Tragic State of FreeBSD Audio/Sound" Support**
Besides the FreeBSD graphics and WiFi drivers lagging behind Linux and other operating systems, the FreeBSD audio driver support and handling of audio streams with FreeBSD on the desktop can be problematic depending upon the hardware/system. One of the most active mailing list threads this week in the FreeBSD camp was over the "tragic state" of FreeBSD audio/sound support... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Tragic-FreeBSD-Audio-Support)
2026-07-26T11:00:00Z ( remote@feeds.twtxt.net )
**Auto-CPUFreq 3.1 Adds Monitoring Mode To GUI, New Configuration Options & Fixes**
Auto-CPUFreq is one of the open-source projects striving to be a CPU speed and power optimizer for Linux systems to improve battery life without making any real compromises to the user experience. Out today is v3.1 as the newest feature release of Auto-CPUFreq... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Auto-CPUFreq-3.1)
2026-07-26T10:49:00Z ( remote@feeds.twtxt.net )
**Realtek RTL8723B/RTL8723BS Trying To Be Tacked On To The RTW88 Linux Driver**
Since 2017 in Linux 4.12 has been the Realtek rtl8723bs WiFi driver where it was introduced into the staging area and remains there nearly a decade later. The rtl8723bs driver for this Realtek 802.11n WiFi SDIO driver has seen a lot of code cleaning over the years and all these years later still is needing lots of code clean-ups from unnecessary code abstractions to dealing with malicious WiFi APs for what Greg Kroah-Hartman has cal ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Realtek-RTL8723B-RTW88-Patches)
2026-07-26T10:38:22Z ( remote@feeds.twtxt.net )
**Linux 7.2-rc5 Fixing Longstanding Bug In IPv4 Networking Over Firewire**
Firewire still isn't dead yet on Linux. Current plans call for maintaining IEEE-1394 Firewire on Linux at least through 2029 and with today's Linux 7.2-rc5 kernel release is a fix for those wanting to leverage IPv4 networking over Firewire... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-7.2-Fix-IPv4-Firewire)
2026-07-26T00:15:55Z ( remote@feeds.twtxt.net )
**Ubuntu Touch 24.04-2.0 Released With Support For Notches & Rounded Corners**
Following last month's beta release, Ubuntu Touch 24.04-2.0 is now available as the latest feature release for this Ubuntu 24.04 LTS derived mobile operating system for select smartphones and tablets... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Ubuntu-Touch-24.04-2.0-Release)
2026-07-25T16:37:04Z ( remote@feeds.twtxt.net )
**Fedora Working To Establish Conflict of Interest Policy**
Posted this week is a draft copy of the Fedora Conflict of Interest policy being worked on for dealing with identifying, disclosing, and managing any actual, actual, or perceived conflicts of interest within the Fedora Project... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Fedora-Conflict-Interest-Draft)
2026-07-25T11:00:00Z ( remote@feeds.twtxt.net )
**Kiwi Menu Continues Bringing macOS Vibes To GNOME**
Kiwi Menu as the macOS-inspired quick menu option for the GNOME Shell desktop is continuing to enhance its macOS-esque experience on GNOME... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Kiwi-Menu-macOS-Vibes)
2026-07-25T10:39:52Z ( remote@feeds.twtxt.net )
**GNU C Library 2.44 Released With /etc/tunables.conf, More Optimizations**
GNU developers today released GNU C Library "glibc" 2.44 as the newest feature release for this critical library to modern Linux systems and other platforms... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/GNU-C-Library-glibc-2.44)
2026-07-25T10:29:52Z ( remote@feeds.twtxt.net )
**KDE Plasma 6.8 Introducing New kscreenctl Tool**
KDE developers have been working on kscreenctl as a utility replacement to kscreen-doctor. Plasma and related code has also seen a number of bug/crash fixes coming about this week too... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/KDE-Plasma-6.8-kscreenctl)
2026-07-25T00:11:38Z ( remote@feeds.twtxt.net )
**Wine 11.14 Brings WoW64 Mode To FreeBSD, Icon Support In Start Menu**
Wine 11.14 was tagged today as the newest bi-weekly development release of this open-source software for running Windows games and applications on Linux, macOS, and other platforms... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Wine-11.14-Released)
2026-07-24T21:07:10Z ( remote@feeds.twtxt.net )
**Debian Considering General Resolution Over LLM Usage In The Project**
Debian developers are discussing a general resolution whether to permit AI large language model (LLM) usage within the Debian software project... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Debian-GR-LLM-Usage)
2026-07-24T21:00:40Z ( remote@feeds.twtxt.net )
**AMD ROCm Committed To Six Week Release Cycle Moving Forward**
One of many interesting takeaways from this week's AMD Advancing AI event in San Francisco was word that ROCm will be on a rigid six week release cycle moving forward... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/AMD-ROCm-Six-Weeks)
2026-07-24T18:45:22Z ( remote@feeds.twtxt.net )
**Qualcomm QCE Driver On The Chopping Block With ~48x Slower Than Armv8 Crypto Extensions**
A few days back I wrote about upstream Linux kernel developers marking the Qualcomm crypto accelerator driver as "broken" and "harmful" due to its slow performance, history of bugs, and other limitations. Now this Qualcomm Crypto Engine "QCE" driver might be removed outright from the Linux kernel source tree after discovering it's even worse than anticipated... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Qualcomm-QCE-48x-Slower)
2026-07-24T17:04:00Z ( remote@feeds.twtxt.net )
**Imagination PowerVR Driver Marking BXM-4-64 MC1 GPU As Supported In Linux 7.3**
Sent out today was the weekly round of drm-misc-next patches of new Direct Rendering Manager feature material ready to be queued in DRM-Next ahead of the Linux 7.3 merge window... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Imagination-BXM-4-64-Linux-7.3)
2026-07-24T14:20:58Z ( remote@feeds.twtxt.net )
**Ubuntu Linux Looking To Get Rid Of /etc/debian\_version Historical Artifact**
Ubuntu Linux has shipped /etc/debian\_version that is carried over from upstream Debian and in turn just indicating the Debian Sid development version from which the packages are arrived. Besides it being inaccurate, /etc/os-release has been the long preferred standard for reading the OS release information. Thus finally Ubuntu developers are looking at dropping the /etc/debian\_version file... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Ubuntu-Drop-Debian-Version)
2026-07-24T13:58:06Z ( remote@feeds.twtxt.net )
**Fedora 45 Looks To Begin Phasing Out In-Kernel Crypto Userspace API**
Going along with the upstream Linux 7.2 kernel deprecation of AF\_ALG and Linux 7.3 to further restrict this interface for letting user-space programs interact directly with the Linux kernel crypto API, Fedora 45 is looking to follow and help support this transition... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Fedora-45-Disable-Kernel-Crypt)
2026-07-24T12:14:33Z ( remote@feeds.twtxt.net )
**AMD Advancing AI 2026: Open, Open-Source & More Open-Source**
At this week's AMD Advancing AI 2026 event, "AI" was mentioned thousands of times in talks and in demos. As expected. Beyond that, the other term likely most heard during the event was "open"... Not particularly new for AMD with their long history of open-source efforts but I'd wager at this year's AMD Advancing AI 2026 event they were more acutely bringing up open-source, open ecosystems, and open standards. Certainly seemed like an uptick in "open" men ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/AMD-AAI-2026-Open-Source)
2026-07-24T11:00:00Z ( remote@feeds.twtxt.net )
**Snapdragon X Elite Laptop Experience Still Lackluster On Ubuntu 26.04 LTS**
At the end of last year when checking out the latest Linux experience on the Snapdragon X Elite it was a disappointing affair. The performance had regressed and overall a more headache-inducing experience than just running a modern AMD Ryzen AI or Intel Core Ultra laptop on Linux. Given the recent release of Ubuntu 26.04 LTS, I've been re-testing the Acer Swift 14 AI laptop with Snapdragon X Elite SoC to see how its performing under ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/review/ubuntu-2604-snapdragon-x-elite)
2026-07-23T19:16:29Z ( remote@feeds.twtxt.net )
**AMD EPYC Zen 7 "Florence" Confirmed With ACE, Next-Gen Memory**
After announcing the AMD EPYC 9006 "Venice" processors today at AMD Advancing AI 2026, Lisa Su ended her keynote by confirming EPYC Zen 7 "Florence" details as well as EPYC Zen 8 "Ravenna" being in development... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/AMD-EPYC-Zen-7-Florence-Zen-8)
2026-07-23T17:45:00Z ( remote@feeds.twtxt.net )
**AMD Announces ROCm.AI As AI-Driven Platform For Developers**
In addition to Instinct MI455X and Helios launching along with the new AMD EPYC 9006 "Venice" processors, AMD used their annual Advancing AI day to announce ROCm.AI as an AI-driven platform for developers... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/AMD-ROCm-AI)
2026-07-23T17:20:00Z ( remote@feeds.twtxt.net )
**AMD EPYC 9006 Venice Announced & Looks Poised To Be A Grand Slam**
While AMD EPYC 9005 "Turin" launched just under two years ago, it has aged remarkably well. It is one of the few CPU generations in my past 22 years of Linux hardware reviews/benchmarking that has still captivated me two years on in finding still typically industry-leading performance across varying workloads, exceptional reliability, and all around a very robust platform. Today though at AMD Advancing AI 2026, Lisa Su formally announced EPYC 9006 "Ve ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/review/amd-epyc-9006-venice)
2026-07-23T16:59:00Z ( remote@feeds.twtxt.net )
**AMD Launches Instinct MI455X, Helios AI Rack**
Lisa Su at AMD Advancing AI 2026 just launched the new Instinct MI455X GPUs and the Helios rack... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/AMD-Instinct-MI455X-Helios)
2026-07-23T16:25:59Z ( remote@feeds.twtxt.net )
**FreeBSD Ports Currently Frozen Due To A Very Large Commit**
The FreeBSD project issued a statement today over the FreeBSD Ports repository having been frozen for the past two days. The freeze is not due to a malicious compromise but rather a very large commit breaking things... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/FreeBSD-Ports-Frozen-2026)
2026-07-23T13:52:00Z ( remote@feeds.twtxt.net )
**Fedora 45 Atomic Desktops Look To Allow For Web-Based Remote Installations**
One of the latest change proposals filed for Fedora Linux 45 is for supporting web-based remote installations of Fedora Atomic Desktop images... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Fedora-45-Atomic-Remote-Install)
2026-07-23T11:58:00Z ( remote@feeds.twtxt.net )
**Ryzen AI Software 1.8 Released With New Model Support, More Optimizations**
Ahead of Lisa Su's keynote this morning at the AMD Advancing AI event, tagged on GitHub just now was the Ryzen AI Software 1.8 release for helping to deploy AI models on Ryzen AI PCs... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Ryzen-AI-Software-1.8)
2026-07-23T11:50:00Z ( remote@feeds.twtxt.net )
**LLVM 23.1-rc1 Released With AMD Zen 6 & AVX-512 BMM Support, Other Compiler Enhancements**
Following the recent code branching for the LLVM 23 series, LLVM 23.1-rc1 was released today in working toward the next stable release of this open-source compiler stack... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/LLVM-23.1-rc1)
2026-07-23T11:39:03Z ( remote@feeds.twtxt.net )
**dav1d 1.5.4 Brings AV1 Decoding To OS/2**
While the VideoLAN developers are busy these days working on dav2d for AV2 video decoding, they haven't let up work on dav1d and recently released dav1d 1.5.4 for continuing to enhance this leading open-source, CPU-based AV1 decoder... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/dav1d-1.5.4)
2026-07-22T22:35:35Z ( remote@feeds.twtxt.net )
**Lemonade 11.5 Local AI Server Released With Completed Lemonade Router**
Just one week after releasing Lemonade 11.0, the Lemonade 11.5 local AI server was released today for this open-source AMD backed project during their AMD Advancing AI event... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/AMD-Lemonade-11.5)
2026-07-22T19:13:21Z ( remote@feeds.twtxt.net )
**SDL Lands HDR10 Rendering Support**
Sam Lantinga of Valve and SDL fame has landed HDR10 rendering support into the Simple DirectMedia Library... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/SDL-HDR10-Rendering-Support)
2026-07-22T18:48:39Z ( remote@feeds.twtxt.net )
**COSMIC Epoch 1.4 Released With More Fixes, Force Quit For COSMIC Monitor**
System76 developers today released COSMIC Epoch 1.4 as the newest stable release to their Rust-based desktop environment... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/COSMIC-Epoch-1.4)
2026-07-22T16:00:00Z ( remote@feeds.twtxt.net )
**AMD EPYC Turin With PCIe 5.0 Storage Shows Off Nice Gains On Linux 7.2**
Earlier this week was an exciting look at Intel Xe3 graphics performance gains on Linux 7.2 with Intel Core Ultra Series 3 "Panther Lake" hardware. On the other side of the table, with AMD hardware on this forthcoming kernel an area to be excited about are some I/O improvements at least for 5th Gen EPYC with speedy PCIe Gen5 NVMe SSD storage. ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/review/linux-72-epyc-9455p)
2026-07-22T12:28:11Z ( remote@feeds.twtxt.net )
**libx11-compat Is Working To Implement Xlib Atop SDL For Wayland, macOS, Android**
For helping to keep X11 clients running in a modern Linux desktop world with Wayland or even for running on macOS or Android, there is now yet-another option being developed with libx11-compat. The libx11-compat project is working to re-implement the Xlib client library atop SDL2/SDL3 interfaces for allow broad underlying platform coverage... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/libx11-compat)
2026-07-22T12:16:02Z ( remote@feeds.twtxt.net )
**Intel Directed Package-Level Thermal Interrupts Slated For Linux 7.3**
Back in March Intel software engineers began sending out Linux patches for Directed Package-Level Thermal Interrupts as a new capability with recent Intel processors. This notable efficiency improvement is now queued for introduction in the Linux 7.3 cycle once its merge window opens in a month... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Intel-Direct-Pkg-Therm-Linux-73)
2026-07-22T11:56:00Z ( remote@feeds.twtxt.net )
**The "New Normal" Of Audio Quirks Submitted For Linux 7.2-rc5**
Linux sound subsystem maintainer Takashi Iwai of SUSE sent out this week's batch of sound fixes that he describes as "A collection of fixes that have been accumulated recently. The amount is still "new normal", but all small fixes. Mostly hardware-specific quirks, but including a few core fixes, too." The "new normal" has been a common phrase recently to reflect the increased tempo of patches as well as security/bug disclosures all due to the increased ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-7.2-rc5-Audio-Fixes)
2026-07-22T11:38:03Z ( remote@feeds.twtxt.net )
**Raspberry Pi Touch Display 2 10-Inch Model Launches**
Following the launch of the 7-inch Raspberry Pi Touch Display 2 and the 5-inch display variant, Raspberry Pi announced today the addition of a 10-inch model... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/10-inch-Raspberry-Pi-Touch-2)
2026-07-21T22:00:00Z ( remote@feeds.twtxt.net )
**Cryptsetup 2.8.7 Released To Deal With Fallout Of Linux's Rushed AF\_ALG Deprecation**
Linux's cryptsetup for configuring and managing encrypted storage devices is ready with a new version as the developers work to deal with the recent deprecation of the Linux AF\_ALG interface... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Cryptsetup-2.8.7-Released)
2026-07-21T18:02:22Z ( remote@feeds.twtxt.net )
**Three New Ubuntu Snap Vulnerabilities Made Public - One Dates Back To Ubuntu 16.04 LTS**
Canonical today disclosed three new Snap security vulnerabilities affecting snapd. Two are rated high impact vulnerabilities while the third is considered medium but covers all Ubuntu releases of the past decade going back to Ubuntu 16.04 LTS... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Ubuntu-Snap-Three-More-Vulns)
2026-07-21T17:49:44Z ( remote@feeds.twtxt.net )
**Qualcomm Posts Linux Patches For X2 Elite Extreme Powered ASUS Zenbook A16**
Following recent Linux kernel patches enabling the Snapdragon X2 Elite powered Lenovo Yoga Slim 7x Gen11 and HP EliteBook X G2q X2 Elite laptops to boot outside of Windows 11 on ARM, Qualcomm engineers have now posted a new patch series for getting the X2 Elite Extreme powered ASUS Zenbook A16 working on Linux... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Qualcomm-Zenbook-A16-X2EE)
2026-07-21T16:00:00Z ( remote@feeds.twtxt.net )
**KDE Plasma 6.7 vs. GNOME Shell 50.3 vs. Xfce 4.20 On CachyOS With NVIDIA Graphics**
Earlier this month I provided a look at the KDE Plasma 6.7 Wayland vs. X11 session performance for graphics/gaming on CachyOS using NVIDIA GeForce RTX 50 graphics. Since then Phoronix readers -- including some premium supporters -- requested seeing some additional desktops tested with the latest CachyOS packages. So here we are now with seeing how KDE Plasma 6.7 compared to the Wayland-only GNOME Shell 50.3 desktop as well as th ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/review/cachyos-desktops-july-2026)
2026-07-21T15:38:06Z ( remote@feeds.twtxt.net )
**Canonical Makes The "Enterprise Store" Official For Offline/Air-Gapped Ubuntu Usage**
For months the Enterprise Store "enterprise-store" has been mentioned in some Ubuntu documentation and other elements while today it was formally announced by Canonical. The Enterprise Store is for helping to manage Ubuntu Linux deployments particularly within enterprise organizations that may have their computers air-gapped or otherwise strict Internet controls... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Ubuntu-Enterprise-Store)
2026-07-21T13:23:00Z ( remote@feeds.twtxt.net )
**Stratis Storage Anaconda Integration Approved For Fedora 45**
The Fedora Engineering and Steering Committee (FESCo) has approved the latest batch of features for the upcoming Fedora 45 release... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Fedora-45-Approves-Stratis)
2026-07-05T10:42:40Z ( remote@feeds.twtxt.net )
**ReactOS "Open-Source Windows" Project Now Capable Of Running Half-Life 2**
One month ago it was exciting to see the open-source ReactOS operating system running Valve's Half-Life game. Little to realize less than 30 days later it would also be running Half-Life 2... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Half-Life-2-ReactOS)
2026-07-05T10:32:18Z ( remote@feeds.twtxt.net )
**AMD Begins Staging Graphics Driver Changes For Linux 7.3**
In addition to Intel beginning to volley graphics driver patches for Linux 7.3, this week AMD also began sending out their pull requests of "new stuff" to DRM-Next for the Linux 7.3 kernel cycle... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/AMDGPU-AMDKFD-Start-Linux-7.3)
2026-07-05T10:14:00Z ( remote@feeds.twtxt.net )
**Intel Preparing Linux For IPU8 Web Camera Support With Nova Lake Laptops**
More Linux kernel patches have been surfacing that confirm next-gen, high-end Nova Lake laptops will feature IPU8 image processing capabilities... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Intel-IPU8-With-Nova-Lake)
2026-07-05T00:33:48Z ( remote@feeds.twtxt.net )
**OpenRazer 3.12.4 Fixes Compatibility With Linux 7.2**
OpenRazer 3.12.4 is now available as the newest update to these out-of-tree, unofficial Linux drivers for Razer devices. OpenRazer when paired with the likes of Polychromatic or other GUI options is what makes for a nice experience running Razer gaming peripherals under Linux... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/OpenRazer-3.12.4)
2026-07-04T19:40:03Z ( remote@feeds.twtxt.net )
**FEX 2607 Optimizing For Yet-To-Be-Released ARM 256-bit SVE2 Hardware**
The FEX Emulator that allows running Linux x86/x86\_64 software on ARM64 (AArch64) systems, including the likes of Wine / Valve's Steam Play (Proton) for Windows gaming on ARM, is out with its newest monthly feature release. The Valve-backed project for running x86\_64 games and other software on ARM for the upcoming Steam Frame and other more typical ARM Linux systems has been baking more optimizations and improvements... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/FEX-2607-Emulator)
2026-07-04T16:21:35Z ( remote@feeds.twtxt.net )
**Linux DRM Scheduler Patches Yield Massive Improvement For Job Submission Latency**
A set of patches to the Linux kernel's Direct Rendering Manager (DRM) scheduler that is shared among different kernel graphics drivers is showing the potential of delivering much lower job submission latency when the system is loaded with many runnable CPU processes... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/DRM-Scheduler-Lower-Job-Submit)
2026-07-04T13:39:06Z ( remote@feeds.twtxt.net )
**4K @ 60 FPS USB Video Capture Finally Becomes Less Problematic On Linux**
One area of Linux hardware testing I haven't explored much in many years has been modern USB video capture for the lack of said hardware. The last time I did much video capturing on Linux was during the Hauppauge PCI card days. It turns out though that USB video capture of 4K 60 FPS content has been a pain point under Linux but is finally smoothing out with newer versions of the Linux kernel... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/4K-60-FPS-USB-Video-Capture)
2026-07-04T13:26:06Z ( remote@feeds.twtxt.net )
**Phoronix Premium Summer Sale To Help Support Linux Hardware Testing**
For those that missed Phoronix turning 22 years old last month when running a special to help support the site, a few readers mentioned recently they missed out on seeing the deal in time. Paired with the US Independence Day holiday and summer sales elsewhere, now through 10 July is a Phoronix Premium summer sale if wishing to view the site ad-free while supporting the daily open-source/Linux news coverage and relentless Linux hardware testing... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/2026-Summer-Sale)
2026-07-04T12:14:03Z ( remote@feeds.twtxt.net )
**GNOME Lands ext-background-effect-v1 Support For Background Blur Effect**
Added to the Wayland Protocols repository back in May of 2025 was the ext-background-effect-v1 protocol for background blur that had been under discussion since early 2024. The initial focus is on being able to apply a blur effect on a window's background or otherwise a specified screen region. GNOME 51 has now merged support for ext-background-effect-v1 with the latest Mutter code... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/GNOME-Mutter-Background-Blur)
2026-07-04T10:26:48Z ( remote@feeds.twtxt.net )
**Linux 7.3 Adding More Graphics PCI IDs For Intel Nova Lake S**
In addition to this week's drm-intel-next pull request beginning to lay out the Intel kernel graphics driver changes for Linux 7.3, the first drm-xe-next pull request was sent out on Friday. Intel Nova Lake enablement remains the hot area for the Intel GPU driver code... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-7.3-More-Nova-Lake-S-IDs)
2026-07-04T10:09:33Z ( remote@feeds.twtxt.net )
**Linux 7.2-rc2 Raising The Default RISC-V 64-bit CPU Limit To 256 Cores**
A post merge-window change that landed in Linux Git overnight ahead of tomorrow's Linux 7.2-rc2 release is bumping the default limit on the number of supported CPU cores for RISC-V 64-bit. Now by default Linux will support up to 256 cores with RISC-V 64-bit kernel builds... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-7.2-RISC-V-256-Cores)
2026-07-04T09:52:47Z ( remote@feeds.twtxt.net )
**KWin Compositor In KDE Plasma 6.8 Drops Support For Desktop OpenGL**
Along with releasing Plasma 6.7.2 this week, KDE developers continue to be quite busy working on new features and improvements for the Plasma 6.8 release while also furthering along fixes for future Plasma 6.7 point releases... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Plasma-6.8-KWin-No-Desktop-GL)
2026-07-04T00:48:00Z ( remote@feeds.twtxt.net )
**GNOME Mutter GPU Reset Recovery Becoming A Reality**
While typically quite rare encountering a GPU reset under Linux in most conditions, currently if encountering one under GNOME your session gets wiped out. But thanks to a Google Summer of Code "GSoC" project this year, GNOME's Mutter compositor is finally seeing real GPU reset recovery handling... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/GNOME-GPU-Reset-Recovery-2026)
2026-07-03T22:43:31Z ( remote@feeds.twtxt.net )
**GNOME 51 Alpha Released With Numerous Enhancements**
In working toward the stable GNOME 51 desktop release due out in September, today marks the alpha release of GNOME 51... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/GNOME-51-Alpha)
2026-07-03T18:57:11Z ( remote@feeds.twtxt.net )
**UPower 1.91.3 Fixes Behavior To Avoid Degrading Your Laptop Battery Faster**
The UPower abstraction layer used for power management on Linux systems, especially laptops and desktops, is out with an important fix today to avoid inadvertently falling back to the laptop battery "fast" charging mode on some laptops that in turn could degrade your laptop battery faster... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/UPower-1.91.3)
2026-07-03T15:42:42Z ( remote@feeds.twtxt.net )
**Vulkan Adds Extension For OCP's Microscaling MX Formats To Help Machine Learning**
Vulkan 1.4.356 is out today and it's interesting for the lone new extension debuting: VK\_EXT\_shader\_ocp\_microscaling\_types. The VK\_EXT\_shader\_ocp\_microscaling\_types is for enabling the Open Compute Project's Microscaling MX data types to help with machine learning workloads with Vulkan... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Vulkan-1.4.356-Released)
2026-07-03T15:10:43Z ( remote@feeds.twtxt.net )
**Coreboot + AMD openSIL On MSI Ryzen Motherboard Now Works With Windows 11**
With 3mdeb's Dasharo port of AMD openSIL and Coreboot running on the Gigabyte EPYC motherboard, 3mdeb engineers have been devoting more time to their bring-up of Coreboot+openSIL on the MSI PRO B850-P consumer motherboard for desktop AMD Ryzen. They now even have Microsoft Windows 11 working atop this open-source firmware alternative along with other features implemented... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Coreboot-openSIL-MSI-Windows)
2026-07-03T12:35:30Z ( remote@feeds.twtxt.net )
**Rust Coreutils cp Ended Up Breaking Ubuntu Image Builds With Latest Incompatibility**
While the Rust Coreutils offers better memory safety than GNU Coreutils due to being written in the Rust programming language, subtle incompatibilities continue to be spotted in the Rust Coreutils implementations of the different commands. The latest coming to light this week was the Rust Coreutils cp command breaking Ubuntu image builds due to differences in argument handling... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Rust-Coreutils-cp-Ubuntu-Images)
2026-07-03T11:30:33Z ( remote@feeds.twtxt.net )
**Intel Prepares More Nova Lake Graphics/Display Enablement For Linux 7.3**
On Thursday Intel sent out their first batch of Intel kernel graphics driver changes of new feature material targeting the Linux 7.3 kernel. This first batch of drm-intel-next for v7.3 continues to focus heavily on lining up Nova Lake's Xe3P integrated graphics/display support... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Intel-DRM-First-For-Linux-7.3)
2026-07-03T11:02:38Z ( remote@feeds.twtxt.net )
**NVIDIA VR-NVL BMC Device Tree Being Upstreamed For OpenBMC Support**
NVIDIA's latest Linux kernel mailing list patches are for providing the Device Tree for the baseboard management controller (BMC) of their Vera Rubin VR-NVL server platform. With the Linux kernel patches and also for U-Boot, it's part of the upstreaming effort for supporting the open-source OpenBMC software on their latest hardware... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/NVIDIA-VR-NVL-BMC-DT)
2026-07-03T10:49:59Z ( remote@feeds.twtxt.net )
**Linux 7.2-rc2 BPF Code Being Hardened Against JIT Spraying Attacks**
Some post-merge-window code changes merged overnight ahead of Linux 7.2-rc2 this weekend is hardening the kernel's BPF code against JIT spraying attacks... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-7.2-rc3-BPF-Hardening)
2026-07-03T10:32:05Z ( remote@feeds.twtxt.net )
**Linux Preparing To Retire Its 32-bit MSR Interfaces**
Currently measuring in at 32 patches, SUSE engineer Juergen Gross has been leading the effort to end the Linux kernel's usage of their 32-bit model specific register (MSR) interfaces so the more modern 64-bit interfaces can be exclusively used. This allows for better code unification and cleaning up the MSR code... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-Ending-32-bit-MSR-Work)
2026-07-03T00:22:38Z ( remote@feeds.twtxt.net )
**ReactOS Implements First Windows NT6 System Call In Step Toward Vista Compatibility**
The ReactOS project that is striving to be the "open-source Windows" with Windows driver and software binary compatibility hit another milestone today. ReactOS to date has primarily targeted Windows NT 5.2 as the architecture from Windows XP and Windows Server 2003 but with an eye toward Windows NT 6.0 for Windows Vista and later compatibility with software. ReactOS has now landed their first NT6 system call... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/ReactOS-First-NT6-Syscall)
2026-07-02T21:17:35Z ( remote@feeds.twtxt.net )
**Fedora 45 Considering x86_64 Shadow Stack Usage By Default**
A change proposal under consideration for Fedora Linux 45 would enable x86\_64 Shadow Stack usage by default in the name of better security on modern Intel and AMD systems... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Fedora-45-Consider-Shadow-Stack)
2026-07-02T17:39:06Z ( remote@feeds.twtxt.net )
**EFS File-System Slated For Removal With Linux 7.3 After 20+ Years Unmaintained**
The EFS file-system was used for non-ISO9660 CD-ROMs and disk partitions on SGI IRIX before IRIX 6.0 switched over to XFS. Inside the Linux kernel has been a read-only EFS file-system driver without a maintainer for 20+ years while for Linux 7.3 it's expected to be removed... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/EFS-File-System-Removal-Coming)
2026-07-02T15:11:00Z ( remote@feeds.twtxt.net )
**Linux Kernel Developers Again Discussing AI Agent Attribution - Potentially Dropping It**
When AI/LLM agents are used in the creation of Linux kernel patches, the policy for a while now has been that it should be specified using an "Assisted-by" tag as part of the patches/commits. But Linux kernel developers this week have been discussing whether to revise that policy or to potentially eliminate it... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-AI-Attribution-Again)
2026-07-02T14:10:00Z ( remote@feeds.twtxt.net )
**RISC-V RVV Vector Performance Benchmarks With The SpacemiT K3 SoC**
Since May we have been benchmarking the SpacemiT K3 RISC-V SoC as one of the first to market RISC-V chips supporting the RVA23 profile. The SpacemiT K3 has shown how far RISC-V performance has come in the past half decade and one of the promising elements of this modern RISC-V SoC with its X100/A100 cores is supporting the RISC-V Vector Extension "RVV" 1.0. In this article are some initial benchmarks looking specifically at the RISC-V RVV 1.0 ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/review/risc-v-rvv-vector-benchmarks)
2026-07-02T13:08:38Z ( remote@feeds.twtxt.net )
**Intel Posts Initial GCC Compiler Patches For AI Compute Extensions "ACE"**
The x86 Ecosystem Advisory Group led by Intel and AMD recently firmed up the AI Compute Extensions (ACE) specification for optimizing x86 for AI computation tasks around matrix multiplication and the like for machine learning workloads. The cross-vendor ACE extension is ultimately a successor to Intel's Advanced Matrix Extensions (AMX). Posted to the GCC mailing list today by Intel engineers are the initial patches in preparing the compiler ... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Intel-GCC-ACE-AI-Patches)
2026-07-02T12:15:00Z ( remote@feeds.twtxt.net )
**Vibe Coded X11 Server Written In Rust Adds Xinerama, FreeBSD Support & Other Features**
One month ago we reported on YSERVER as a modern X11 server written in Rust with the help of Claude Code. Since then YSERVER has continued to advance in supporting more X11 functionality thanks to the help of Claude Code (AI) and out today is version 1.3 o this display server... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/YSERVER-1.3-Released)
2026-07-02T11:51:00Z ( remote@feeds.twtxt.net )
**KDE Plasma Affected By Arbitrary Code Execution To Break Sandboxes With "Open New Window"**
A security disclosure has been made public today for a yet-to-be-patched arbitrary code execution vulnerability with the KDE Plasma desktop... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/KDE-Plasma-ACE-New-Window)
2026-07-02T10:18:00Z ( remote@feeds.twtxt.net )
**Linux Looking To Retire A Number Of Old ARM Platforms In Early 2027**
It's not only old x86 i486 CPU support being removed from the Linux kernel but a number of older ARM platforms and features are on the chopping block too. A proposal has been laid out for deprecating and then removing a number of outdated ARM platforms and features from the Linux kernel in early 2027... ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-Drop-Old-ARM-2027)
2026-06-30T16:20:00Z ( remote@feeds.twtxt.net )
**Linux 7.2 Features: Cache Aware Scheduling, USB4STREAM, AMD ISP4, AMDGPU HDMI 2.1 FRL**
Linux 7.2 is working toward release in August with its more than 43 million lines in the codebase. With Linux 7.2 there are many new changes in tow as summed up in today's feature overview. ⌘ [Read more](https://www.phoronix.com/review/linux-72-features)