Tilde Club Twtxt Timeline

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)