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KDE Plasma 6.9 Lands Some New Performance Optimizations I love a ...

2026-10-31T10:54:04Z

KDE Plasma 6.9 Lands Some New Performance Optimizations

I love a good performance optimization and there are several this week in the KDE space with Plasma 6.9 development heating up...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/KDE-Plasma-6.9-More-Performance

Ceph In Linux 7.4 Adds Global Mount Option For Lazy I/O The Ceph ...

2026-10-31T10:39:06Z

Ceph In Linux 7.4 Adds Global Mount Option For Lazy I/O

The Ceph kernel client changes have been submitted for Linux 7.4 ahead of its merge window expected to wrap up on Sunday...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-7.4-Ceph

GNOME Now Has An Established RFC Process, GNOME OS Continues ...

2026-10-31T10:24:06Z

GNOME Now Has An Established RFC Process, GNOME OS Continues Improving

In recent weeks GNOME developers have been discussing a formal Request For Comments "RFC" process for solving major technical questions and changes to GNOME. This formalized process for succeeding their ad-hoc processes up to now has reached consensus...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/GNOME-Establishes-RFC

DXVK-NVAPI 0.9.3 Brings Nice Improvements For Linux Gamers On ...

2026-10-31T10:09:07Z

DXVK-NVAPI 0.9.3 Brings Nice Improvements For Linux Gamers On Latest NVIDIA Drivers

DXVK-NVAPI 0.9.3 is out this weekend as a new feature update to this NVIDIA NVAPI implementation used by Valve as part of Steam Play with Proton for nicely integrating NVIDIA technologies into various Windows games running on Linux...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/DXVK-NVAPI-0.9.3

CUDA Oxide 0.3 Vastly Improves Rust Support For NVIDIA CUDA ...

2026-10-31T09:54:09Z

CUDA Oxide 0.3 Vastly Improves Rust Support For NVIDIA CUDA Programming

NVIDIA software engineers released CUDA Oxide 0.3 for closing out October. CUDA Oxide as a reminder is their experimental Rust to CUDA compiler that has been seeing a lot of activity in recent months...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/CUDA-Oxide-0.3

Sculpt OS 26.10 Released - Now Powered By Genode's Custom ...

2026-10-31T09:54:08Z

Sculpt OS 26.10 Released - Now Powered By Genode's Custom Microkernel

Sculpt OS as the general purpose operating system project born out of the Genode initiative is now using the project's own microkernel rather than a third-party microkernel...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Sculpt-OS-26.10

Wine 11.21 Released With Better WoW64 OpenGL Performance Wine ...

2026-10-31T00:39:05Z

Wine 11.21 Released With Better WoW64 OpenGL Performance

Wine 11.21 is out as the newest bi-weekly development release of Wine and as we near Wine 12.0 stable release happenings getting underway in about one month with the official v12.0 release expected early in the new year...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Wine-11.21-Released

PostgreSQL 19 Running Behind Schedule Due To AI/LLM Burden The ...

2026-10-30T18:24:06Z

PostgreSQL 19 Running Behind Schedule Due To AI/LLM Burden

The PostgreSQL database server typically sees its annual feature release every September~October, but it's not coming until at least November if not longer this year. Due to the increased developer burden due to increased bug reporting and patches via AI/LLM activity, the PostgreSQL developers have been overwhelmed...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/PostgreSQL-19-Late

Ubuntu 27.04 "Tenacious T-Rex" Opens For Development ...

2026-10-30T17:54:11Z

Ubuntu 27.04 "Tenacious T-Rex" Opens For Development

Following this month's release of Ubuntu 26.10, Ubuntu 27.04 development formally got underway today...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Ubuntu-27.04-Opens-For-Dev

AMD Ryzen Zen 6 Looks Like It Will Be In Good Shape With Linux ...

2026-10-30T15:39:06Z

AMD Ryzen Zen 6 Looks Like It Will Be In Good Shape With Linux 7.4, Laptop Improvements

The x86 platform driver changes were merged this week to the Linux 7.4 kernel ahead of the merge window closing this weekend...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-7.4-x86-Platform-Driver

Another Week, Another Vibe Coded OS; Closed-Source In The Name Of ...

2026-10-30T12:39:07Z

Another Week, Another Vibe Coded OS; Closed-Source In The Name Of Security

With today's AI/LLM capabilities, there is almost a new operating system heard about each week "coded from scratch" predominantly via AI agents. This week was no exception with another project hitting our email inbox. Though most of them are open-source, this one is closed-source in the name of security...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/NULLos

AMD PerfOpt Makes it Into Linux 7.4 As A Nice Performance Boost ...

2026-10-30T10:39:12Z

AMD PerfOpt Makes it Into Linux 7.4 As A Nice Performance Boost For AMD iGPUs

As anticipated, the AMD PerfOpt feature was picked up for the Linux 7.4 kernel. As shown already in multiple Phoronix benchmarks, AMD PerfOpt makes for a nice performance boost for AMD integrated graphics, especially for AI workloads...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-7.4-IOMMU

Apple Silicon Linux Driver Adapted To Help Older Intel-Powered ...

2026-10-30T10:24:06Z

Apple Silicon Linux Driver Adapted To Help Older Intel-Powered Macs

The Linux kernel's "macsmc" driver was developed for supporting the system management controller (SMC) on Apple Silicon Macs for supporting the light sensor, fan control, and other sensors. That macsmc driver now is seeing work to extend it for better supporting older Intel-powered Macs...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-Patches-Intel-macsmc

Vulkan 1.4.367 Released With VK_KHR_maintenance12 Vulkan 1.4.367 ...

2026-10-30T10:09:07Z

Vulkan 1.4.367 Released With VK_KHR_maintenance12

Vulkan 1.4.367 is out this morning as the newest spec revision for this high performance graphics and compute API...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Vulkan-1.4.367

I3C Hub & HDR-DDR Support Merged For Linux 7.4 The I3C ...

2026-10-30T10:09:05Z

I3C Hub & HDR-DDR Support Merged For Linux 7.4

The I3C changes for Linux 7.4 were submitted this week by Bootlin's Alexandre Belloni and subsequently merged...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-7.4-I3C

RISC-V Has A Nice Portable Performance Optimization With Linux ...

2026-10-30T00:39:04Z

RISC-V Has A Nice Portable Performance Optimization With Linux 7.4

The RISC-V architecture changes were merged today for the Linux 7.4 kernel with one nice optimization standing out...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-7.4-RISC-V

Fedora Linux 45 Shipping Next Week On 3 November Fedora 45 is ...

2026-10-29T22:09:05Z

Fedora Linux 45 Shipping Next Week On 3 November

Fedora 45 is ready to ship! It will be formally released on Tuesday, 3 November...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Fedora-45-Ships-Next-Week

F2FS Adds Opt-In Multi-Grain Timestamps With Linux 7.4, Other ...

2026-10-29T17:09:04Z

F2FS Adds Opt-In Multi-Grain Timestamps With Linux 7.4, Other Improvements

The F2FS (Flash Friendly File-System) improvements have been merged for Linux 7.4 to further enhance this flash-optimized solution...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/F2FS-Linux-7.4

NVIDIA Vera Single vs. Dual Socket CPU Performance For those ...

2026-10-29T13:54:02Z

NVIDIA Vera Single vs. Dual Socket CPU Performance

For those curious how NVIDIA Vera is scaling between single and dual socket deployments, here are some benchmarks I carried out a while back exploring the power and performance from one to two Vera CPUs.
https://www.phoronix.com/review/nvidia-vera-1p-2p

Linux 7.4 Networking Brings Hardware Pacing Offload, New Drivers ...

2026-10-29T13:09:05Z

Linux 7.4 Networking Brings Hardware Pacing Offload, New Drivers & More Performance

The many Linux wired and wireless networking driver improvements were merged this week for the ongoing Linux 7.4 merge window....
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-7.4-Networking

AMD's ROCm HRX Loom v0.1 Released For Targeting AMD CPUs, ...

2026-10-29T10:24:04Z

AMD's ROCm HRX Loom v0.1 Released For Targeting AMD CPUs, GPUs & NPUs

At this year's AMD Advancing AI event Hyperloom was announced among the ROCm improvements to expect. Hyperloom aims for agentic workload optimizations and more with quote powerful abilities if everything works out right. As part of the latest round of ROCm advancements, the Loom SDK v0.1 release was released today...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/AMD-ROCm-HRX-Loom-0.1

FAT32 File-System Seeing As Much As 265x Improvement With Linux ...

2026-10-29T10:09:05Z

FAT32 File-System Seeing As Much As 265x Improvement With Linux 7.4

A change merged for Linux 7.4 is showing some mighty big speed-ups for the FAT32 file-system...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-7.4-Faster-FAT32

Graphics/NPU Driver Changes Already Begin Queuing Up For What ...

2026-10-29T09:54:10Z

Graphics/NPU Driver Changes Already Begin Queuing Up For What Will Be Linux 7.5

Since last week drm-misc-next pull requests have already been sent out to DRM-Next to begin staging new feature code for what's intended for the Linux 7.5 kernel cycle kicking off at the end of the year...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-7.5-drm-misc-next

KSMBD Adds New Options With Linux 7.4 A number of improvements to ...

2026-10-29T09:54:08Z

KSMBD Adds New Options With Linux 7.4

A number of improvements to KSMBD, the in-kernel SMB3 file server, were merged for the Linux 7.4 kernel...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-7.4-KSMBD

GXVK: 3Dfx Glide API Implemented Atop Vulkan For Modern Usage The ...

2026-10-29T00:54:05Z

GXVK: 3Dfx Glide API Implemented Atop Vulkan For Modern Usage

The open-source D7VK project that implements the Direct3D 7 / 6 / 5 / 3 APIs atop the Vulkan API for faster, modern performance is out with a new release. This new D7VK 2.4 release came as a bit of a surprise since it was just last month D7VK announced its maturity status and more or less in maintenance mode. But brought up in today's D7VK 2.4 announcement is an even bigger surprise: there's now an implementa…
https://www.phoronix.com/news/GXVK-3Dfx-Glide-Vulkan

Linux Kernel Developers Considering Removal Of KGDB Debugging ...

2026-10-28T19:24:06Z

Linux Kernel Developers Considering Removal Of KGDB Debugging Functionality

Merged to the kernel all the way back in Linux 2.6.26 in 2008 was KGDB for improving the kernel debugging experience. KGDB works in conjunction with the GNU Debugger (GDB) to debug the kernel in a similar fashion to user-space debugging. KGDB requires the use of a second computer connected via serial or network cable. KGDB isn't widely used in recent years and a patch was floated today to remov…
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-Considers-Dropping--KGDB

System76 Introducing AMD-Powered Linux Small PC System76 began ...

2026-10-28T17:39:05Z

System76 Introducing AMD-Powered Linux Small PC

System76 began teasing today the new Thelio Prime Desktop as an AMD-powered Linux mini PC that will begin shipping in November...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/System76-Thelio-Prime-Mini-PC

Canonical Reviving Their Immutable Ubuntu Core Desktop Canonical ...

2026-10-28T15:24:04Z

Canonical Reviving Their Immutable Ubuntu Core Desktop

Canonical engineers back in 2023 outlined plans for Ubuntu Core Desktop as their immutable Linux desktop. They made some good initial progress but since 2024 it went rather silent. Now they are reviving Ubuntu Core Desktop as their immutable desktop OS offering and with grand plans for the future...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Ubuntu-Core-Desktop-2026

CachyOS vs. Fedora 45 vs. Ubuntu 26.10 Performance On AMD Ryzen 9 ...

2026-10-28T15:09:02Z

CachyOS vs. Fedora 45 vs. Ubuntu 26.10 Performance On AMD Ryzen 9

With the recently released Ubuntu 26.10 and the nearly-released Fedora Workstation 45, Phoronix readers have begun inquiring about fresh benchmarks looking at how they stack up against the performance-optimized, Arch Linux based CachyOS. Up today are our first CachyOS vs. Fedora 45 vs. Ubuntu 26.10 benchmarks on an AMD Ryzen 9 9900X3D2 desktop system.
https://www.phoronix.com/review/cachyos-ubuntu2610-fedora45

NetBSD Adds Alternative Text Editor To vi & xedit For Easing ...

2026-10-28T13:54:05Z

NetBSD Adds Alternative Text Editor To vi & xedit For Easing New Users

NetBSD-current has added a new command line text editor to its base set of packages for helping out new users as an alternative to their vi and xedit editors currently included...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/NetBSD-New-Text-Editor

X.Org XCB Co-Creator Praises Wayland's Protocol Design ...

2026-10-28T13:09:04Z

X.Org XCB Co-Creator Praises Wayland's Protocol Design

Open-source developer Jamey Sharp who is a longtime X.Org developer and co-creator of the X protocol C-language Binding (XCB) finally had the need to write a Wayland client and ended up praising its design...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Jamey-Sharp-Praises-Wayland

Provenance Time Proposed As A New Timestamp For Linux While the ...

2026-10-28T12:39:04Z

Provenance Time Proposed As A New Timestamp For Linux

While the Linux kernel and various file-system drivers already support the notion of the birth time for tracking a file/directory's birth/creation time, a slightly different provenance time "ptime" is now being proposed for the Linux kernel...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-Provenance-Time-PTIME

Hyprland 0.57 Released With Compiz Inspired Wobbly Windows For ...

2026-10-28T11:54:04Z

Hyprland 0.57 Released With Compiz Inspired Wobbly Windows

For those that want to reminisce over the days long ago of Compiz and Beryl on the Linux desktop, the Hyprland 0.57 Wayland compositor released today and has added Compiz-inspired wobbly windows support...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Hyprland-0.57

VKD3D-Proton 3.1 Released With New Features Ahead Of Big v3.2 ...

2026-10-28T10:39:05Z

VKD3D-Proton 3.1 Released With New Features Ahead Of Big v3.2 Release

Hans-Kristian Arntzen of Valve's Linux team just tagged the VKD3D-Proton 3.1 release. This version comes with a number of new features and performance optimizations while being the stable point ahead of VKD3D-Proton beginning to see a lot of new feature code for what will then become VKD3D-Proton 3.2...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/VKD3D-Proton-3.1

GhostBSD 26.2 Released As FreeBSD 15.1 Powered OS With New ...

2026-10-28T10:24:08Z

GhostBSD 26.2 Released As FreeBSD 15.1 Powered OS With New Installer

GhostBSD 26.2 is out as the latest feature release of this FreeBSD-powered desktop operating system...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/GhostBSD-26.2

NTFS3 Hardened In Linux 7.4 Against Corrupted Or ...

2026-10-28T10:24:07Z

NTFS3 Hardened In Linux 7.4 Against Corrupted Or Maliciously-Crafted NTFS Volumes

Paragon Software's Konstantin Komarov sent out the latest NTFS3 driver updates for this in-kernel NTFS read/write driver. With Linux 7.4, the NTFS3 driver is focused on being hardened against corrupted or maliciously-crafted NTFS volumes...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-7.4-NTFS3

Retiring BSD-Compress Proposed For Linux PPP Network Code A patch ...

2026-10-28T10:09:04Z

Retiring BSD-Compress Proposed For Linux PPP Network Code

A patch has been proposed to remove the BSD-Compress support from the Linux kernel for the Linux networking point-to-point protocol (PPP) due to being unmaintained and having fundamental issues with the code that can lead to a fatal error...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-May-Retire-PPP-BSD-Comp

Wine Merges Support For MESA_map_buffer_client_pointer To Improve ...

2026-10-28T00:39:05Z

Wine Merges Support For MESA_map_buffer_client_pointer To Improve WoW64 32-bit OpenGL

An initiative led by CodeWeavers this year has come to fruition for improving OpenGL support with WoW64 for bettering Windows 32-bit application/game support while using 64-bit system libraries...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Wine-Mesa-Map-Buffer-Client-Ptr

Linux 7.4 Introduces DMA-BUF Support To I/O Path With IO_uring ...

2026-10-27T21:24:06Z

Linux 7.4 Introduces DMA-BUF Support To I/O Path With IO_uring

Merged today for the ongoing Linux 7.4 merge window is the infrastructure for enabling DMA-BUF support in the kernel's I/O path with the wonderful IO_uring framework...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/DMA-BUF-IO-uring-Linux-7.4

Raspberry Pi Zero 3 W & Raspberry Pi 4 Model A Surface In ...

2026-10-27T20:09:04Z

Raspberry Pi Zero 3 W & Raspberry Pi 4 Model A Surface In Linux Kernel Patches

It looks like a next-generation Raspberry Pi Zero is about to surface, the long-awaited Raspberry Pi Zero 3 W. And in an interesting twist in these times amid high PC component costs and supply chain constraints, a Raspberry Pi 4 Model A...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Raspberry-Pi-Zero-3-W-Pi-4-A

KDE Fixes 15 Year Old Bug Over Inaccurate Notifications When ...

2026-10-27T17:09:04Z

KDE Fixes 15 Year Old Bug Over Inaccurate Notifications When Copying Files To USB Drives

A long-standing KDE bug is set to be resolved with next month's KDE Frameworks 6.32 release...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/KDE-Fixes-15-Year-Old-Bugs

Pavee OS: Ikey Doherty's New Daily-Driver Desktop Distro ...

2026-10-27T13:24:04Z

Pavee OS: Ikey Doherty's New Daily-Driver Desktop Distro Being Built Atop Barney

Back in September Ikey Doherty of Solus Linux and Serpent OS notoriety as well as being a former Intel Clear Linux developer announced Barney as his planned showcase for how to "properly" build a modern Linux distribution in 2026+. Today he's provided an update on this Barney distro tooling effort as well as announcing Pavee OS as his planned daily-driver desktop distribution built atop it…
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Pavee-OS

KDE Plasma 6.8.2 Released With Dozens Of Additional Bug Fixes ...

2026-10-27T13:09:04Z

KDE Plasma 6.8.2 Released With Dozens Of Additional Bug Fixes

Debuting two weeks ago on the 30th anniversary of the KDE project was the Plasma 6.8 desktop with many exciting improvements. Last week it was succeeded by Plasma 6.8.1 with dozens of bug fixes and this week now brings Plasma 6.8.2 with yet more bug fixing...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/KDE-Plasma-6.8.2

AMD EPYC Zen 6 PML Support, ARM64 On s390 Merged For Linux 7.4 ...

2026-10-27T12:09:04Z

AMD EPYC Zen 6 PML Support, ARM64 On s390 Merged For Linux 7.4 KVM

The many Kernel-based Virtual Machine (KVM) improvements have been merged for Linux 7.4 to deliver a number of new features for different server processors...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-7.4-KVM

Accelerating HTTP Web Servers With In-Kernel eBPF Deliver Up To ...

2026-10-27T10:39:05Z

Accelerating HTTP Web Servers With In-Kernel eBPF Deliver Up To 4.5x Throughput

An interesting new open-source project born out of university research is Beeper to provide application-layer parsing within the in-kernel eBPF. With an HTTP parser implemented by Beeper in eBPF and providing an in-kernel HTTP cache, the throughput for web servers could be improved by 3x at high rates...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Beeper-In-Kernel-Parsing-eBPF

Linux's Modern NTFS Driver Now Supports Alternate Data ...

2026-10-27T10:24:05Z

Linux's Modern NTFS Driver Now Supports Alternate Data Streams (ADS)

Merged back in Linux 7.1 was the new NTFS kernel driver implementation for better supporting Microsoft's NTFS file-system on Linux. Since then new features and improvements have continued to land for this NTFS driver with some more notable additions also coming in Linux 7.4...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/NTFS-Linux-7.4-Improvements

Linux 7.4 Expands Sensor Monitoring For More ASUS & MSI ...

2026-10-27T10:09:06Z

Linux 7.4 Expands Sensor Monitoring For More ASUS & MSI Motherboards, New Minisforum Driver

With the Linux 7.4 kernel there are more MSI and ASUS motherboards with sensor monitoring support along with a variety of other additions to help broaden the selection of supported systems for hardware sensor monitoring under Linux. It's another busy cycle for the HWMON subsystem...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-7.4-HWMON

Firefox 159 Released With AMD Linux Graphics Fix For Excessive ...

2026-10-27T09:54:07Z

Firefox 159 Released With AMD Linux Graphics Fix For Excessive Memory Use

Firefox 159 is out today as the latest bi-weekly feature release for Mozilla's web browser...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Firefox-159-Released

Initial Support For The Apple M4 & Apple A18 Pro Make It Into ...

2026-10-27T01:09:04Z

Initial Support For The Apple M4 & Apple A18 Pro Make It Into Linux 7.4

The many SoC patches have landed within the Linux 7.4 kernel providing support for dozens of new boards as well as a number of new SoCs like the Apple M4 and the A18 Pro as found in the MacBook Neo. The Google Tensor 5 was also finally mainlined along with Pixel 10 devices. Plus some unreleased Qualcomm SoC support rounds out the bunch...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-7.4-SoCs

Steam Frame VR Headset Sees Mainline Support With Linux 7.4 The ...

2026-10-27T00:54:06Z

Steam Frame VR Headset Sees Mainline Support With Linux 7.4

The mainline Linux 7.4 kernel will be capable of running on the Steam Frame VR headset...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Steam-Frame-FR-Linux-7.4

Linux 7.4 Preps CXL For Very Neat Dynamic Capacity Devices ...

2026-10-26T21:24:06Z

Linux 7.4 Preps CXL For Very Neat Dynamic Capacity Devices "DCD"

The Compute Express Link (CXL) subsystem changes were merged today for the Linux 7.4 kernel. The fun work this cycle is preparing to support Dynamic Capacity Devices...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-7.4-CXL

KMSCON 10.1 Released With Support For Per-Monitor Configurations ...

2026-10-26T19:24:05Z

KMSCON 10.1 Released With Support For Per-Monitor Configurations

KMSCON as the user-space terminal emulator targeting Linux DRM/KMS interfaces as an alternative to the in-kernel VT now is able to individually configure monitors in multi-monitor setups. Plus a variety of other improvements with today's KMSCON 10.1 release...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/KMSCON-10.1-Released

Intel IPU8 Support Upstreamed In Linux 7.4 For Nova Lake Laptops ...

2026-10-26T18:09:05Z

Intel IPU8 Support Upstreamed In Linux 7.4 For Nova Lake Laptops

The media subsystem changes have been merged for the Linux 7.4 kernel. Most notable is Intel IPU8 support being introduced for the next-gen image processing unit in high-end Nova Lake laptops..
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-7.4-Media

KWin-Type Introduced To Address KDE Wayland Usability Gap For ...

2026-10-26T17:24:05Z

KWin-Type Introduced To Address KDE Wayland Usability Gap For Auto-Typing Text

Open-source developer Jason Donenfeld known for his work on WireGuard announced today the release of kwin-type. KWin-type is a new Wayland-compatible program for auto-typing text from the standard input under the KWin Wayland compositor...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/KDE-KWin-Type

Mesa 27.0 Switching To Kraid Compiler By Default For Arm Mali ...

2026-10-26T14:39:04Z

Mesa 27.0 Switching To Kraid Compiler By Default For Arm Mali GPUs

In development for a number of months now has been Kraid as a modern graphics compiler for recent Arm Mali GPUs. Kraid was merged for Mesa 26.2 back in June while in Mesa 27.0 due out in Q1 it will be switching to this new shader compiler by default...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Mesa-27.0-Goes-Kraid

Snapdragon X1 Elite / Acer Swift 14 AI Performance On The Ubuntu ...

2026-10-26T14:09:02Z

Snapdragon X1 Elite / Acer Swift 14 AI Performance On The Ubuntu 26.10 X1E Concept

For those curious about the Snapdragon X1 Elite performance on the recently released Ubuntu 26.10 Concept X1E ISO, here are some benchmarks showing the performance relative to Ubuntu 26.04 LTS X1E state on the same hardware.
https://www.phoronix.com/review/ubuntu-2610-snapdragon-x1e

Linux 7.4 EFI Brings Improvement For Helping Systemd When Kernel ...

2026-10-26T13:09:06Z

Linux 7.4 EFI Brings Improvement For Helping Systemd When Kernel Booted Directly

The EFI updates have been merged for the Linux 7.4 kernel and include an improvement for when the system was booted directly into the kernel on EFI-based systems without using a bootloader like GRUB or systemd-boot...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-7.4-EFI

Nouveau-DKMS Aims For Better NVIDIA Open-Source Experience On Old ...

2026-10-26T12:39:05Z

Nouveau-DKMS Aims For Better NVIDIA Open-Source Experience On Old GPUs

Nouveau-DKMS is in development as an out-of-tree spin-off of the open-source NVIDIA "Nouveau" driver focused on providing better support for NVIDIA GeForce 400/500 "Fermi" series graphics processors and potentially other generations too pre-Turing where the modern Nova driver is in development by NVIDIA...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Nouveau-DKMS

Linux 7.4 Begins Employing New "Core MM" Tree Core memory ...

2026-10-26T11:54:06Z

Linux 7.4 Begins Employing New "Core MM" Tree

Core memory management patches to the Linux kernel have typically been routed to mainline via Andrew Morton's "MM" branch, which is where also a variety of broader memory management related patches are also queued like all the ongoing work to DAMON/DAMOS. Kernel maintainers have now agreed to a new "Core MM" tree as the home for all of the core memory management changes moving forward...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-Core-MM-Tree

Linux Fixes AMD Ryzen AI 9 HX 370 Regression Due To Cache Aware ...

2026-10-26T10:39:06Z

Linux Fixes AMD Ryzen AI 9 HX 370 Regression Due To Cache Aware Scheduling

Merged for Linux 7.4 Git and marked for back-porting to Linux 7.2/7.3 stable is a regression fix affecting at least the AMD Ryzen AI 9 HX 370 "Strix Point" laptop SoC when making use of Cache Aware Scheduling...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-CAS-Regression-AMD-HX-370

Moxnox: NT-Like, POSIX-Compatible Hobby OS Running Atop Btrfs ...

2026-10-26T10:24:05Z

Moxnox: NT-Like, POSIX-Compatible Hobby OS Running Atop Btrfs

Open-source developer Mark Harmstone who is known for his work on developing a Btrfs file-system driver for Windows has spent the past few years working on a new hobby operating system. Moxnox is an HT-like, POSIX-compatible operating system...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Moxnox-OS

EXT4 Lands Optional Buffered IOmap For Significant Performance ...

2026-10-26T10:09:04Z

EXT4 Lands Optional Buffered IOmap For Significant Performance Win With Large Writes

The EXT4 file-system changes were merged Sunday night for the ongoing Linux 7.4 merge window. The headline feature of EXT4 in this new kernel version is opt-in support for buffered IOmap usage that can lead to "significant" performance improvements for large writes...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-7.4-EXT4

Redox OS Landed Nice Performance Improvements In September The ...

2026-10-26T00:39:07Z

Redox OS Landed Nice Performance Improvements In September

The Rust-based open-source operating system Redox OS had a very eventful September as they outlined in a status update published this weekend...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Redox-OS-September-2026

New Wayland Protocol Proposed For VNC/Remote Software Prominent ...

2026-10-25T15:24:06Z

New Wayland Protocol Proposed For VNC/Remote Software

Prominent Wayland developer Simon Ser sent out a merge request today for introducing the new ext-transient-output protocol. With ext-transient-output, it's intent is for helping remoting software like VNC servers in a Wayland world...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Wayland-ext-transient-output

Linux 7.4 Sound Changes Merged: "The AI Flood Continues" ...

2026-10-25T14:09:05Z

Linux 7.4 Sound Changes Merged: "The AI Flood Continues"

Linux sound subsystem maintainer Takashi Iwai of SUSE began the Linux 7.4 sound pull request by noting that "the AI flood continues" with there continuing to be a lot of new patches coming as a result of AI/LLM agents devising patches as well as uncovering new kernel bugs...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-7.4-Sound

Cheap GameSir Nova Lite Gaming Controller Supported By Linux 7.4 ...

2026-10-25T11:09:04Z

Cheap GameSir Nova Lite Gaming Controller Supported By Linux 7.4

Following all the HID driver updates/additions in Linux 7.4, the input subsystem changes were merged this weekend for this new kernel version...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-7.4-Input

AV2 Video Codec Adoption Talked Up, SVT-AV2 Being Developed Back ...

2026-10-25T10:54:04Z

AV2 Video Codec Adoption Talked Up, SVT-AV2 Being Developed

Back in May the AV2 v1.0 specification was released for this next-generaton, royalty-free video codec. This week the Alliance For Open Media issued a press release talking up the early adoption of AV2...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/AV2-Adoption-Plus-SVT-AV2

Realtek rtl8723bs Driver Graduates Out Of Staging Area In Linux ...

2026-10-25T10:39:04Z

Realtek rtl8723bs Driver Graduates Out Of Staging Area In Linux 7.4

After nearly a decade in the Linux kernel's staging area and being worked on by many different kernel developer newcomers, the Realtek rtl8723bs graduated out of the staging area and is now a full-fledged member of the Linux networking subsystem...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-7.4-Staging

AMD 600 Series Chipsets Now Have Temperature Monitoring Support ...

2026-10-25T10:24:08Z

AMD 600 Series Chipsets Now Have Temperature Monitoring Support On Linux

With the Linux 7.4 kernel and also marked for back-porting to the v7.2 and v7.3 series is finally the ability to monitor temperature sensors on AMD 600 Series chipsets that launched alongside the Ryzen 7000 series processors...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/AMD-600-Series-Linux-Temp

Google's C Binder Driver Removed With Rust Binder Ready For ...

2026-10-25T10:24:05Z

Google's C Binder Driver Removed With Rust Binder Ready For "Few Billion Devices"

Linus Torvalds merged the "char/misc" changes for the Linux 7.4 kernel driver on Saturday. Most notable this cycle for char/misc is what's being removed: Google's C-written Binder driver has left the kernel with the Rust-based modern Binder driver ready to take for the role of being used by all future Android devices...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-7.4-Char-Misc

Linux 7.4 Block Updates Range From Floppy Disk Driver Fixes To ...

2026-10-25T00:54:05Z

Linux 7.4 Block Updates Range From Floppy Disk Driver Fixes To Apple M4 NVMe Support

The Linux 7.4 block/storage and IO_uring updates were merged today for the ongoing merge window. With the breadth of Linux hardware support, the pull request varies from fixes to Linux's floppy driver to enabling support for NVMe storage on Apple M4 devices...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-7.4-Block

SteamOS 3.9.5 Released With Linux 7.2 Kernel, KDE Plasma 6.7 ...

2026-10-24T19:09:14Z

SteamOS 3.9.5 Released With Linux 7.2 Kernel, KDE Plasma 6.7 Desktop & Other Updates

On Friday Valve released SteamOS 3.9.5 as their first stable release in the SteamOS 3.9 series. This brings all the great improvements previously available in preview form with many package updates and other enhancements...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/SteamOS-3.9.5

Linux's Early Boot-Time Physical Memory Allocator Sees Big ...

2026-10-24T13:09:05Z

Linux's Early Boot-Time Physical Memory Allocator Sees Big Speed-Up: ~268s To ~50ms

Sent out today for the Linux 7.4 kernel were a set of memblock improvements. Most notable is a performance optimization within mm/memblock.c that implements the kernel's early boot-time physical memory allocator that is used prior to the bring-up of the full page allocator...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-7.4-memblock

systemd Merges Support For Rust Programs As of today in systemd ...

2026-10-24T10:39:04Z

systemd Merges Support For Rust Programs

As of today in systemd Git it's now possible for the systemd programs to be written in the Rust programming language as an alternative to C...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/systemd-Merges-Rust-Programs

Wild 0.11 Linker Released - Now Able To Link Linux Kernel ...

2026-10-24T10:24:07Z

Wild 0.11 Linker Released - Now Able To Link Linux Kernel Modules, WASM By Default

Wild 0.11 is out as the latest feature release of this very fast linker currently targeting Linux systems and focused on iterative development...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Wild-0.11-Released

Linux 7.4 Graphics Driver Changes Headlined By AMDGPU HDMI 2.1 ...

2026-10-24T10:24:05Z

Linux 7.4 Graphics Driver Changes Headlined By AMDGPU HDMI 2.1 Features

Merged overnight were all the Direct Rendering Manager (DRM) driver updates consisting of many kernel graphics/display driver improvements. Arguably most exciting with these updates for Linux 7.4 is the AMD Radeon (AMDGPU) driver seeing HDMI 2.1 FRL enabled by default along with other HDMI 2.1 features...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-7.4-Graphics-Drivers

KDE Plasma 6.9 Stabilizes KWin's Wayland Picture-In-Picture ...

2026-10-24T01:09:07Z

KDE Plasma 6.9 Stabilizes KWin's Wayland Picture-In-Picture Support

With the wonderful KDE Plasma 6.8 having shipped just more than one week ago, KDE developers are beginning to go heavy on new features for Plasma 6.9...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/KDE-Plasma-6.9-Wayland-PiP

OBS Studio 33.0 Released With Massive Update To CEF, Improved ...

2026-10-23T23:24:05Z

OBS Studio 33.0 Released With Massive Update To CEF, Improved Plugin Loading

OBS Studio 33.0 is out tonight as the latest major update to this popular open-source and cross-platform video recording and live streaming application...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/OBS-Studio-33.0

Linux 7.4 Merges Slab Updates With A Nice Performance Improvement ...

2026-10-23T20:39:04Z

Linux 7.4 Merges Slab Updates With A Nice Performance Improvement

The slab pull request was just merged for Linux 7.4. For end users nothing too incredibly exciting but there is one change that does yield a 24% throughput improvement in a benchmark exercising the kernel's memory management subsystem...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-7.4-Slab-Updates

HPFS Is The Latest File-System Slated For Removal On Linux HPFS ...

2026-10-23T16:39:06Z

HPFS Is The Latest File-System Slated For Removal On Linux

HPFS is the latest file-system driver for the Linux kernel facing removal. The High Performance File-System (HPFS) was developed by IBM and Microsoft for OS/2...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/HPFS-For-Linux-Removal

Borealis: Asahi Linux's Apple Silicon Mesa Vulkan Driver ...

2026-10-23T16:09:06Z

Borealis: Asahi Linux's Apple Silicon Mesa Vulkan Driver Forked For Vibe Coding

Seeing a Vulkan API driver pull request this morning for introducing a new "Borealis" driver ID caught me by surprise as it was the first time I was hearing of such a driver. It turns out to be a fork of the Asahi Linux project's HoneyKrisp driver in Mesa for Apple Silicon hardware...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Borealis-Vulkan-Driver

oneDNN 3.14 Released With ACE Support, Initial AMD Zen ...

2026-10-23T14:24:03Z

oneDNN 3.14 Released With ACE Support, Initial AMD Zen Optimizations

The UXL Foundation announced today the release of oneDNN 3.14 as the latest feature update to this library providing optimized deep learning operations for software like PyTorch, TensorFlow, OpenVINO, and others. While oneDNN began as an Intel software project, making this version notable is beginning to see AMD Zen CPU optimizations land in oneDNN proper...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/oneDNN-3.14-Released

Linux 7.4 Power Management Preps For AMD Ryzen Zen 6 & Intel ...

2026-10-23T14:09:05Z

Linux 7.4 Power Management Preps For AMD Ryzen Zen 6 & Intel Rugged Panther Lake

The power management subsystem updates were merged this week for Linux 7.4 along with the related ACPI and thermal control updates too...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-7.4-Power-Management

OpenSSL 4.1 Released With More AVX-512 Optimizations OpenSSL 4.1 ...

2026-10-23T13:24:04Z

OpenSSL 4.1 Released With More AVX-512 Optimizations

OpenSSL 4.1 stable is out today with new AVX-512 optimizations, other performance improvements, and finally retiring Windows on Itanium and Windows CE support...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/OpenSSL-4.1-Released

Linux 7.4 Brings Hibernation Improvement For Helping Meet Energy ...

2026-10-23T13:09:06Z

Linux 7.4 Brings Hibernation Improvement For Helping Meet Energy Certifications

The PCI/PCIe subsystem improvements have been merged for the ongoing Linux 7.4 merge window...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-7.4-PCI

Vulkan 1.4.366 Released With SMPTE ST 2094-50 HDR Support Vulkan ...

2026-10-23T12:09:04Z

Vulkan 1.4.366 Released With SMPTE ST 2094-50 HDR Support

Vulkan 1.4.366 is out and representing the past two weeks of specification fixes, clarifications, and one new Vulkan API extension...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Vulkan-1.4.366

FFmpeg 9.1 Preps For Release With APV Vulkan Encoder, NVIDIA ...

2026-10-23T10:39:05Z

FFmpeg 9.1 Preps For Release With APV Vulkan Encoder, NVIDIA Optical Flow FRUC

The release dance is underway for FFmpeg 9.1 as the newest feature release for this widely-used open-source multimedia library...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/FFmpeg-9.1-Releasing

Linux 7.4 Introduces New Driver For The Nintendo Switch 2 - ...

2026-10-23T10:24:05Z

Linux 7.4 Introduces New Driver For The Nintendo Switch 2 - Thanks To Valve

The HID subsystem updates have been merged for the Linux 7.4 kernel that included a few new drivers...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-7.4-HID

LibreSSL 4.4 Released With Faster SHA3, Bug Fixes LibreSSL 4.4 ...

2026-10-23T10:09:05Z

LibreSSL 4.4 Released With Faster SHA3, Bug Fixes

LibreSSL 4.4 released on Thursday as the newest release of this decade-old OpenSSL fork maintained by OpenBSD developers...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/LibreSSL-4.4-Released

Linux 7.4 Fixes AMD CPU TLB Size Reporting For Zen 5 & Newer ...

2026-10-23T09:54:05Z

Linux 7.4 Fixes AMD CPU TLB Size Reporting For Zen 5 & Newer

As a follow-up to the article in September about a Linux patch for fixing under-reported AMD Zen 5 TLB sizes, that work is now merged for the Linux 7.4 kernel...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-7.4-Fix-Zen-5-TLB-Size

Linux 7.4 Workqueue Changes Bring A "10 To 100 Times ...

2026-10-23T00:54:08Z

Linux 7.4 Workqueue Changes Bring A "10 To 100 Times Faster" Optimization

Adding to all the exciting performance optimizations and other improvements for Linux 7.4 is an exciting workqueue improvement. It's not too often getting to talk about "10 to 100 times faster" software improvements...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-7.4-Workqueue

Fedora 45 Hits A Second NO-GO: Not Releasing Until November ...

2026-10-22T21:39:05Z

Fedora 45 Hits A Second NO-GO: Not Releasing Until November

Fedora 45 wasn't released this week as its ideal early release target due to not having a release candidate build in time for last week's Go/No-Go meeting. At today's Go/No-Go meeting, Fedora 45 was delayed by at least one more week due to open blocker bugs...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Fedora-45-Second-NO-GO

AI Helping To Improve Linux's AMD Zen CPU Microarchitecture ...

2026-10-22T19:39:05Z

AI Helping To Improve Linux's AMD Zen CPU Microarchitecture Detection

A request for comments (RFC) was sent out last night on the Linux kernel mailing list in seeking to clean-up the AMD Zen microarchitecture detection within the kernel. This is for enhancing the kernel where there are code paths specific to a certain generation of AMD Zen processors or select generations such as Zen 3 through Zen 5 CPUs. AI was leveraged in helping to clean-up this AMD Zen code in the …
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-AMD-Zen-AI-Detection

Modular's MAX Source Code Now Fully Opened, Under New MAX ...

2026-10-22T18:54:05Z

Modular's MAX Source Code Now Fully Opened, Under New MAX License

Back in August Modular's Mojo language was open-sourced following the acquisition of Chris Lattner's company by Qualcomm. The latest achievement now out of the company is their MAX software being fully opened up with the entire source tree available...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Modular-MAX-Complete-Open

Linux 7.4 Improves Scheduling Latency For Short-Slice Tasks, ...

2026-10-22T16:09:04Z

Linux 7.4 Improves Scheduling Latency For Short-Slice Tasks, NVIDIA Vera SMT Preference

The scheduler updates have been merged for the in-development Linux 7.4 kernel to deliver several nice scheduling enhancements...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-7.4

x86 Kernel Shadow Stacks Being Worked On For Linux As Powerful ...

2026-10-22T13:39:04Z

x86 Kernel Shadow Stacks Being Worked On For Linux As Powerful Control Flow Protection

Linux user-space for several years had shadow stack support for hardware-enforced control-flow enforcement in defending against return oriented programming (ROP) attacks. Intel Tigerlake and newer CPUs or AMD Zen 3 and newer have the necessary hardware shadow stacks support. Shadow stacks have been effective for helping user-space software fend ROP attacks while now there is new work …
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-Kernel-Shadow-Stacks

Mesa Loosens Rules Around AI Agents For Code Comments / Commit ...

2026-10-22T12:24:04Z

Mesa Loosens Rules Around AI Agents For Code Comments / Commit Messages

The Mesa 3D graphics driver project has loosened its rules laid out in their AGENTS.md for AI agents to permit AI/LLM assistance in generating code comments and commit/patch messages, as long as a human is ultimately reviewing/editing it in the end...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Mesa-Loosens-AGENTS-MD

Myrlyn 1.1 Released For SUSE/openSUSE GUI Package Manager Myrlyn, ...

2026-10-22T12:09:05Z

Myrlyn 1.1 Released For SUSE/openSUSE GUI Package Manager

Myrlyn, the package manager GUI that began as YQPkg during a SUSE Hack Week and has evolved quite well, is out with version 1.1 as the first new feature update since the beginning of the year...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Myrlyn-1.1-Released

Mesa RADV Change Satisfies More Steam Play Games On Aging AMD ...

2026-10-22T10:54:05Z

Mesa RADV Change Satisfies More Steam Play Games On Aging AMD GFX8 GPUs

Valve landed a patch in Mesa 27.0 and to be back-ported to current Mesa stable series to satisfy more games running under Steam Play with VKD3D-Proton for working on AMD GFX8 GPUs like Polaris...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Mesa-RADV-GFX8-FP16-Gaming

Several Linux Kernel Vulnerabilities Accidentally Posted To ...

2026-10-22T10:24:06Z

Several Linux Kernel Vulnerabilities Accidentally Posted To Public Kernel Mailing List

Seemingly as an accident, overnight several new Linux kernel vulnerability reports were posted to the public Linux kernel mailing list rather than the private security mailing list. The vulnerabilities have yet to be patched on mainline but at least in some cases there are patches undergoing testing or queued in "-next" branches. The CVSS scores are as high as 9.0...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/LKML-New-Trend-Vulnerabilities