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Two Very Exciting Memory Management Optimizations Going Into Linux 7.3
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19 Aug 2026
Andrew Morton on Tuesday sent out all of the memory management "MM" updates for the Linux 7.3 merge window. The MM pull was particularly heavy as he noted 1,250 "added-to-MM" emails were sent out
Go Language 1.27 Adds Generic Methods, Struct Improvement & More SIMD
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19 Aug 2026
Go 1.27 was released today as the newest version of this programming language from Google's Go team...
Btrfs Ready With More Performance Improvements For Linux 7.3: Some ~3x To ~5x Wins
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19 Aug 2026
David Sterba of SUSE sent in the Btrfs file-system feature updates today that target the Linux 7.3 merge window. Among other changes are more performance improvements for this next version of the
AMD EPYC 9005 Series Memory Scaling Performance From 4 To 24 DDR5 RDIMMs
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19 Aug 2026
With today's memory prices, a frequent question at Phoronix and throughout many organizations is about reducing cost by not necessarily populating all memory channels. Especially with modern servers
XWayland 26.1 RC1 Released With Many New Features
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19 Aug 2026
Olivier Fourdan of Red Hat announced today the first release candidate of XWayland 26.1. This is the first new tagged feature release since XWayland 24.1 back in 2024! As such there are many new
Linux 7.3 Deprecates Many Older 32-bit ARM Platforms, Orphans Hundreds Of Drivers
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19 Aug 2026
All of the SoC updates have been merged for the Linux 7.3 kernel that include adding some new SoCs as well as deprecating several older 32-bit ARM platforms. In turn with those platforms deprecated,
PHP 7.4 To PHP 8.6 Benchmarks, PHP 8.6 JIT Performance
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19 Aug 2026
A Phoronix Premium supporter recently relayed a request to see some fresh PHP performance benchmarks. So here are some fresh numbers of PHP 7.4 through the latest PHP 8.5 code plus the current Git
Linux 7.3 Scheduler Improvements: Help For Gaming, Hybrid CPUs, Lower Scheduler Latency
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19 Aug 2026
The exciting set of scheduler updates have been merged for the Linux 7.3 merge window...
New AMD Low-Power Core & Unified Intel/AMD CPU Core Type Handling In Linux 7.3
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19 Aug 2026
Covered first on Phoronix back in June was an AMD Linux patch for introducing a new "low power" CPU core type to complement their typical "performance" cores and their "efficiency" cores like with
Raspberry Pi Compute Module 5 Programming Jig Launches
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19 Aug 2026
The newest Raspberry Pi product to launch is the Raspberry Pi Compute Module 5 Programming Jig...
Modular's Mojo Language Now Open-Source Following Qualcomm Acquisition
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19 Aug 2026
Modular, the AI startup founded by Chris Lattner of LLVM and Swift fame, has open-sourced their Mojo systems programming language! This comes following the recent acquisition of Modular by Qualcomm...
COSMIC Epoch 1.6 Released With Per-App Volume Control, Remote Desktop Preparations
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19 Aug 2026
COSMIC Epoch 1.6 was released this evening as the latest milestone for this open-source, Rust-based desktop environment led by System76 as part of the work on their Pop!\_OS Linux distribution...
Linux 7.3 Adds New "bpf_sock_read_xattr" Feature For systemd, BPF Programs
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18 Aug 2026
Merged earlier this year for Linux 7.1 was extended attributes on sockets support as a feature sought after by the likes of GNOME and systemd for helping with Varlink IPC usage and other purposes. A
IOmap Improvement For Linux 7.3 Takes EXT4 & XFS Performance Further
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18 Aug 2026
As part of the VFS pull requests now merged to the Linux 7.3 development kernel was an improvement to the IOmap framework used by various file-systems for mapping logical file byte offsets in memory
Framework Laptop 12 Updated For Intel Wildcat Lake, Shipping Starts In October
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18 Aug 2026
Last year Framework Computer launched the Framework Laptop 12 as an upgrade-friendly and Linux-compatible 2-in-1 laptop. The Framework Laptop 12 was originally powered by Intel Core 13th Gen "Raptor
The CachyOS Performance vs. Other Linux Operating Systems On A $46k USD Workstation
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18 Aug 2026
Recently I looked at the performance of Ubuntu 26.04 LTS vs. Windows 11 on the Intel Xeon 678X running within the HP Z4 G6i workstation. Linux performed admirably as one would expect. With this Intel
Rust For Linux 7.3 Begins Seeing Fixes To Prepare For Rust's GCC Backend
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18 Aug 2026
In addition to the POWER/PowerPC code adding Rust kernel support, the main set of Rust programming language updates for the Linux 7.3 kernel have now been submitted. Most notable are early fixes
Linux 7.3 Corrects Faulty Behavior Of FAT File-System Driver For Filenames Too Fat
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18 Aug 2026
It's not too often that the Linux FAT driver for FAT12/FAT16/FAT32 format support receives updates worth mentioning. For Linux 7.3 there is one patch though and it's due to the driver until now
Fedora x86-64-v3 Optimized Packages Pushed Back To At Least Fedora 46
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18 Aug 2026
There was a proposal under discussion the past few months on building x86-64-v3 packages for Fedora 45 while retaining x86-64-v1 packages. The hope was building the Fedora packages with x86-64-v3
Lenovo Lands New Watchdog Driver In Linux 7.3 For Their SE30G2 + SE60 Edge AI Computers
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18 Aug 2026
When it comes to the watchdog driver changes for Linux 7.3, standing out is the new Lenovo driver for their upcoming ThinkEdge AI edge computing systems...
Intel Enables Buffer Compression For Better Gaming Performance With DXVK
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18 Aug 2026
Merged today to Mesa 26.3-devel is a nice performance boost for Intel graphics with Valve's Steam Play when using DXVK for Direct3D 8 / 9 / 10 / 11 over the Vulkan API. The open-source Intel ANV
XFS Lands FALLOC_FL_WRITE_ZEROES For Efficiency Improvement In Linux 7.3
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18 Aug 2026
The XFS file-system improvements have been merged for Linux 7.3. For end-users the only notable change for this file-system on the new kernel is adding support for FALLOC\_FL\_WRITE\_ZEROES...
EFS & FreeVxFS File-Systems Get Booted While FailFS Merged For Linux 7.3
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18 Aug 2026
Among the early pull requests merged today by Linus Torvalds for the Linux 7.3 kernel cycle were removal of some ancient file-systems while adding in a new pseudo file-system...
Linux 7.3 To Land Initial Code Improving vRAM Management, More Improvements Coming
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17 Aug 2026
Earlier this year Natalie Vock of Valve's Linux graphics team laid out some patches for improving the Linux gaming experience for systems with limited vRAM. The kernel work for improving that video
FFmpeg Lands H.265 Vulkan Encode Performance Optimizations
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17 Aug 2026
The FFmpeg multimedia library can now enjoy faster H.265/HEVC video encoding with the Vulkan-powered encode path. With the optimizations merged today, the H.265 encode performance should be roughly
Offloading Rust To GPUs Proves Capable Of High Performance With Memory Safety
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17 Aug 2026
A new research paper published on LLVM offloading to GPU accelerators using the Rust programming language is talking up the prospects of making use of safe Rust code for GPU kernels while retaining
ARCTIC Fan Controller: The Best Fan Controller For Linux Desktops, Less Than $10 USD
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17 Aug 2026
Back in March were patches posted by ARCTIC Cooling for an ARCTIC fan controller driver for Linux. Typically we aren't used to seeing desktop/enthusiast focused vendors providing such Linux drivers
AMD Working On A New Backend For Improving ROCm Compute In QEMU/VMs
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17 Aug 2026
AMD engineers are working on enhancing the open-source ROCm compute stack for better handling GPU virtualized compute under QEMU...
Linux 7.3 SMP Improvement To Help Reduce Latency, Improve Real-Time Performance
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17 Aug 2026
Among the pull requests sent out today now that the Linux 7.3 merge window is open are the SMP improvements for this next kernel version. Standing out among the SMP code are some enhancements for
Firefox 154 Now Available With "Manage AI" Quick Action
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17 Aug 2026
Firefox 154 is now available as the newest monthly update bringing a few new features, enhancements, and other alterations to this open-source web browser...
Intel & AMD Power Management Driver Improvements Ready For Linux 7.3
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17 Aug 2026
In advance of the Linux 7.3 merge window opening, Linux power management subsystem maintainer Rafael Wysocki of Intel submitted all the power management, ACPI, and thermal control code. As not too
KTransformers 0.7 Expands AVX-512 Support To Benefit AMD EPYC Servers
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17 Aug 2026
KTransformers as the framework for heterogeneous LLM inference and fine-tune optimizations is out today with its v0.7 feature release...
Con Kolivas Revives "-ck" Patches & MuQSS To Improve Linux Desktop Responsiveness
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17 Aug 2026
Huge surprise this morning! Longtime Linux users may recall the out-of-tree work done years ago by open-source developer Con Kolivas... And as part of that his work on the Brain F\*\** Scheduler that
Linux 7.3 On PowerPC Now Supports In-Kernel Rust, Initial Power12 Enablement Begins
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17 Aug 2026
The PowerPC pull request has already been sent in for the now open Linux 7.3 merge window. The headline feature this cycle on the POWER side is Rust kernel support for PowerPC 32-bit PPC32BE big
ARM64 BBML3 Feature Ready With Linux 7.3, NVIDIA Olympus Workarounds
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17 Aug 2026
AI/LLM patch craziness hurt ARM64 development for the Linux 7.2 cycle that no real features landed for that kernel version on AArch64. Fortunately, the ARM Linux developers are more prepared now and
GNU Linux-libre 7.2-gnu Released Following More Driver Cleaning
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17 Aug 2026
Following yesterday's release of the Linux 7.2 kernel, GNU Linux-libre 7.2-gnu is now available for this kernel downstream that strips out support for drivers depending upon non-free-software
Linux 7.2 Released With Faster I/O, New AMD & Intel Driver Improvements
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16 Aug 2026
Linus Torvalds just released Linux 7.2 as stable! After a very busy kernel cycle due to the increased patch and reporting churn due to AI/LLM ages, Linux 7.2 managed to make it out today on-schedule
GIMP Making Progress On New Project File Format After Nearly 30 Years With XCF
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16 Aug 2026
The GIMP project has published their latest development update to highlight the interesting work that's ongoing toward GIMP 3.4 and future releases...
tlbi= Boot Option Submitted Ahead Of Linux 7.2 Kernel Release
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16 Aug 2026
Ahead of the Linux 7.2 kernel stable release expected to occur in the coming hours, a last minute "x86/urgent" pull request was submitted with one patch for adding the new tlbi= boot option...
Debian Marks 33rd Birthday As One Of The Oldest Maintained Linux Distros
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16 Aug 2026
Today marks thirty three years since the Debian Linux distribution was started by the late Ian Murdock...
AVX-512 xor_gen Continues To Look Exciting For Helping Linux RAID With Modern CPUs
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16 Aug 2026
Google engineer Eric Biggers back in June posted an AVX-512 optimization for Linux RAID yielding up to a 41% improvement on a modern AMD Ryzen 9 9950X (Zen 5) processor. A revised patch then put it
Linux 7.3 binfmt_misc To Allow BPF Programs To Dynamically Choose Execution Environments
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16 Aug 2026
The Linux kernel's binfmt\_misc functionality allows non-native/custom files to ne run directly such as for Windows EXE files to be handled by Wine or JAR files to be handled by the Java runtime. For
New Linux Driver Enables 12VHPWR Monitoring For ASUS ROG Astral Graphics Cards
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16 Aug 2026
For those concerned about current imbalance or voltage changes with the 12VHPWR power connectors and having an ASUS ROG Astral graphics card, there is now an open-source driver for Linux available
Marek Olšák's 19 Latest Patches Further Optimizing RADV & ACO
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16 Aug 2026
Legendary Mesa Radeon Gallium3D driver developer Marek Olšák who was a longtime AMD employee and then joined Valve's Linux graphics driver team earlier this year has continued his focus now on
GNOME 51 Beta Released With Many Minor Improvements
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15 Aug 2026
The beta release of GNOME 51 is now available for testing. This cycle for the beta milestone is mostly a wide collection of minor improvements throughout the vast package set...
Intel's Jay Graphics Shader Compiler Now Passing Vulkan CTS With Xe2/Xe3 Hardware
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15 Aug 2026
Last year Alyssa Rosenzweig joined Intel to work on their Linux graphics drivers after previously serving as a contractor for Valve on their graphics stack and also previously leading the Mesa driver
RustConn 0.20 Continues Further Polishing This GTK4/libadwaita-Based Connection Manager
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15 Aug 2026
RustConn has been in development for a while now as a modern GTK4 connection manager supporting a variety of protocols like SSH, RDP, VNC, Telnet, and more. RustConn 0.20 was released this week as
Late Sound Fixes For Linux 7.2 Bring More Device Quirks, Intel Nova Lake HDMI-In Capture
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15 Aug 2026
Ahead of the presumed Linux 7.2 stable kernel release tomorrow, some last minute sound fixes/quirks have been merged for this next kernel version...