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Linux DRM Scheduler Patches Yield Massive Improvement For Job Submission Latency
4 Jul 2026
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
4K @ 60 FPS USB Video Capture Finally Becomes Less Problematic On Linux
4 Jul 2026
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
Phoronix Premium Summer Sale To Help Support Linux Hardware Testing
4 Jul 2026
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
GNOME Lands ext-background-effect-v1 Support For Background Blur Effect
4 Jul 2026
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
Linux 7.3 Adding More Graphics PCI IDs For Intel Nova Lake S
4 Jul 2026
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
Linux 7.2-rc2 Raising The Default RISC-V 64-bit CPU Limit To 256 Cores
4 Jul 2026
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
KWin Compositor In KDE Plasma 6.8 Drops Support For Desktop OpenGL
4 Jul 2026
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
GNOME Mutter GPU Reset Recovery Becoming A Reality
4 Jul 2026
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"
GNOME 51 Alpha Released With Numerous Enhancements
3 Jul 2026
In working toward the stable GNOME 51 desktop release due out in September, today marks the alpha release of GNOME 51...
UPower 1.91.3 Fixes Behavior To Avoid Degrading Your Laptop Battery Faster
3 Jul 2026
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
Vulkan Adds Extension For OCP's Microscaling MX Formats To Help Machine Learning
3 Jul 2026
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
Coreboot + AMD openSIL On MSI Ryzen Motherboard Now Works With Windows 11
3 Jul 2026
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
Rust Coreutils cp Ended Up Breaking Ubuntu Image Builds With Latest Incompatibility
3 Jul 2026
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
Intel Prepares More Nova Lake Graphics/Display Enablement For Linux 7.3
3 Jul 2026
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
NVIDIA VR-NVL BMC Device Tree Being Upstreamed For OpenBMC Support
3 Jul 2026
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
Linux 7.2-rc2 BPF Code Being Hardened Against JIT Spraying Attacks
3 Jul 2026
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...
Linux Preparing To Retire Its 32-bit MSR Interfaces
3 Jul 2026
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
ReactOS Implements First Windows NT6 System Call In Step Toward Vista Compatibility
3 Jul 2026
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
Fedora 45 Considering x86_64 Shadow Stack Usage By Default
2 Jul 2026
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...
EFS File-System Slated For Removal With Linux 7.3 After 20+ Years Unmaintained
2 Jul 2026
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
Linux Kernel Developers Again Discussing AI Agent Attribution - Potentially Dropping It
2 Jul 2026
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
RISC-V RVV Vector Performance Benchmarks With The SpacemiT K3 SoC
2 Jul 2026
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
Intel Posts Initial GCC Compiler Patches For AI Compute Extensions "ACE"
2 Jul 2026
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
Vibe Coded X11 Server Written In Rust Adds Xinerama, FreeBSD Support & Other Features
2 Jul 2026
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
KDE Plasma Affected By Arbitrary Code Execution To Break Sandboxes With "Open New Window"
2 Jul 2026
A security disclosure has been made public today for a yet-to-be-patched arbitrary code execution vulnerability with the KDE Plasma desktop...
Linux Looking To Retire A Number Of Old ARM Platforms In Early 2027
2 Jul 2026
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
FFmpeg Introduces Vulkan APV Encoder
2 Jul 2026
Back in May the FFmpeg project introduced Vulkan-accelerated decoding for the APV video format. The Advanced Professional Video (APV) codec was being handled using Vulkan shaders in a similar way to
Rusticl OpenCL Driver Improving Hardware Utilization In Mesa 26.2
2 Jul 2026
Red Hat engineer Karol Herbst has landed his latest optimization work to Rusticl in Mesa 26.2. The latest effort for this Rust-based OpenCL driver that works across Gallium3D drivers is around better
JPEG-XL libjxl 0.12 Brings More Performance Optimizations
2 Jul 2026
A new release of libjxl is now available for this reference implementation of the JPEG-XL image format, including both image encode and decode support...
Box3D Debuts As New Open-Source 3D Physics Engine
2 Jul 2026
Erin Catto who has been developing the Box2D 2D physics engine for games announced the release of Box3D. Box3D is now providing a new open-source 3D physics engine that is forked off from the Box2D
Fedora Council Seeks To Shutdown Current Discussions Over AI Developer Desktop
2 Jul 2026
Stemming from the widely varying views over the recent Fedora proposal for an "AI Developer Desktop" catering to running local AI and machine learning workloads in pre-configured environments with a
Steam On Linux Usage Receded A Bit In June
2 Jul 2026
Back in March Steam on Linux use shot up to 5.33% as a big 3.1% improvement over February. In April it dropped to 4.52% and then fell to 3.99% in May. Valve just published the Steam Survey numbers
KDE Linux Introduces "Developer Mode" Option, Easier Log Collection
1 Jul 2026
With the start of the new month comes a new progress report on the KDE Linux distribution for the prior month. Even with KDE developers being busy to ship Plasma 6.7 in June, they still accomplished
System76 Launches New Lemur Pro Laptop Powered By Intel Panther Lake
1 Jul 2026
System76 today announced their new Lemur Pro high-end Linux laptop that is now powered by the Core Ultra Series 3 "Panther Lake" SoCs...
Linux 7.3 To Overcome "Significant Bottleneck" For Small I/O With PCIe Gen5 NVMe SSDs
1 Jul 2026
While the Linux 7.2 feature merge window ended just days ago and the better part of two months now before v7.2 will be released as stable, there are already features beginning to accumulate that will
AMD Sends Out Latest Linux Patches For RMPOPT Optimization
1 Jul 2026
Earlier this year AMD disclosed the RMPOPT instruction that given the timing will seemingly be introduced with upcoming Zen 6 EPYC "Venice" processors. The RMPOPT feature amounts to a performance
Glibc Introduces /etc/tunables.conf For System-Wide Tunables
1 Jul 2026
Red Hat has contributed new system-wide tunables infrastructure to the GNU C Library "glibc" that allows specifying system-wide tunables via the new /etc/tunables.conf configuration file...
RADV & RadeonSI Drivers See New Fixes For AMD GCN 1.0/1.1 GPUs
1 Jul 2026
Timur Kristóf of Valve's Linux graphics driver team continues taking special focus on AMD Radeon GCN 1.0 and GCN 1.1 era GPUs for enhancing the open-source graphics driver support for these aging
GCC 16.2 Being Planned For Early August Release
1 Jul 2026
For those that prefer waiting until the first bug-fix/point release before upgrading to a major new feature series, GCC 16.2 is being planned for an early August release for delivering back-ported
Asahi Linux Fixes Booting With macOS 27, Progress On M3 & Apple Video Decode
1 Jul 2026
The Asahi Linux project published a new blog post outlining recent development efforts in getting Apple Silicon hardware working with their downstream Linux distribution. There is ongoing work on
Arch Linux AUR Malware, Linux 7.2 Developments & Other June Highlights
1 Jul 2026
Last month on Phoronix there were 294 original news articles and 18 Linux hardware reviews / multi-page benchmark articles. Beyond Phoronix.com turning 22 years old in June, there were also a lot of
ASUS ROG Strix Laptop Sees Driver Fix For Linux Performance Too Low Compared To Windows
1 Jul 2026
With modern laptops, proper platform/WMI drivers are becoming more depended upon not only for supporting all typical functionality from keyboards to backlights and other handling, but also for
NVIDIA Working On New "TLV" Firmware Binary Format For Nova Driver
1 Jul 2026
NVIDIA engineers have been developing a new binary format for their GPU firmware images for use with the in-development, open-source Nova kernel driver. With this new TLV binary firmware format it
Performance Optimizations, NVIDIA Vera, Arc Pro B70 & Other Linux Highlights From Q2
1 Jul 2026
As the last planned article on Phoronix of Q2, here is a look back at what excited readers the most in the second quarter. There were 872 original news articles this quarter as well as 54 Linux
COSMIC Epoch 1.2 Desktop Fixes Flickering Issues For Intel Graphics
30 Jun 2026
Just a week after the COSMIC Epoch 1.1 release with its slick new system monitor, COSMIC Epoch 1.2 is now available for this Rust-based desktop developed by System76...
GraalVM CE 25.1.3 Gets Native Image "Hello World" Program Down To <em>Just</em> 6.5MB
30 Jun 2026
GraalVM, the advanced JDK focused on ahead-of-time (AOT) Native Image compilation and since last year began shifting focus to more non-Java languages like Python and JavaScript, is out with its
Fedora 45 Looks To Finally Offer Install Support For Stratis Storage
30 Jun 2026
Ever since RHEL deprecated their short-lived Btrfs plans, Red Hat engineers over the past decade have been developing Stratis Storage as their storage management solution leveraging XFS, LUKS, DM,
Linux 7.2 Features: Cache Aware Scheduling, USB4STREAM, AMD ISP4, AMDGPU HDMI 2.1 FRL
30 Jun 2026
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.
New Linux Driver Posted To Enable Keyboard Support On M3 MacBooks
30 Jun 2026
While Linux 7.2 introduces the ability to boot on Apple M3 Macs, it's not yet remotely useful for end-users wanting to use an Apple Mac/MacBook as their daily system. As it stands now, the M3 Macs
KDE Plasma 6.7.2 Brings Fix For Most Common KWin Crash, Better Chromium Video Playback
30 Jun 2026
KDE Plasma 6.7.2 is out today as the latest point release to deliver bug fixes for the Plasma 6.7 desktop that debuted earlier this month...