https://www.phoronix.com/ Linux Hardware Reviews, Performance Benchmarks & Open-Source / Free Software News en-us https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-7.4-Better-RPI-GPU-Reset https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-7.4-Better-RPI-GPU-Reset In addition to this week's DRM-Misc-Next pull request introducing some new HDMI 2.0 helpers for the DRM drivers, the pull request also introduced improved GPU reset support for the Broadcom V3D GPU with the VC4 kernel driver... Sat, 26 Sep 2026 20:45:33 -0400 Michael Larabel https://www.phoronix.com/news/Toolpak https://www.phoronix.com/news/Toolpak GNOME developer Jordan Petridis published a blog post today to introduce the world to the Toolpak plans for GNOME OS... Sat, 26 Sep 2026 12:50:00 -0400 Michael Larabel https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-7.4-Refill-Sheaves-Barn https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-7.4-Refill-Sheaves-Barn Queued this week into the slab/for-next Git branch ahead of next month's Linux 7.4 merge window is a memory management change for refilling pre-filled sheaves from the barn. In some cases this yields wild improvements to specific synthetic benchmarks... Sat, 26 Sep 2026 11:07:42 -0400 Michael Larabel https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-7.3-rc5-DRM https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-7.3-rc5-DRM The Direct Rendering Manager (DRM) subsystem fixes for the week are heavier on the side with many fixes to these kernel graphics/display drivers ahead of Sunday's Linux 7.3-rc5 release... Sat, 26 Sep 2026 07:13:16 -0400 Michael Larabel https://www.phoronix.com/news/GNOME-Wisp-Btrfs-Snapshots https://www.phoronix.com/news/GNOME-Wisp-Btrfs-Snapshots Wisp is a new GNOME Shell extension making it easier to graphically manage Btrfs file-system snapshots... Sat, 26 Sep 2026 06:45:13 -0400 Michael Larabel https://www.phoronix.com/news/AMDXDNA-NPU3-Enhancements https://www.phoronix.com/news/AMDXDNA-NPU3-Enhancements The AMDXDNA open-source Linux kernel accelerator driver is seeing a fair amount of work for better supporting current-generation NPU3 neural processing units. The AMD NPU3 is what's found in current AMD Ryzen AI 300 / Ryzen AI 300 PRO series SoCs... Sat, 26 Sep 2026 06:33:18 -0400 Michael Larabel https://www.phoronix.com/news/Plasma-6.8-Last-Minute-UI-Fixes https://www.phoronix.com/news/Plasma-6.8-Last-Minute-UI-Fixes Even with this week's KDE Akademy conference and releasing KDE Plasma 6.8 Beta 2, KDE developers still found time to land last minute changes for Plasma 6.8 plus ongoing early work toward Plasma 6.9... Sat, 26 Sep 2026 05:56:52 -0400 Michael Larabel https://www.phoronix.com/news/Autumn-2026-Special-Final-Call https://www.phoronix.com/news/Autumn-2026-Special-Final-Call Last call for the Phoronix autumn "Oktoberfest" Premium sale: it runs through end of day Sunday, 27 September (any timezone - I'm not particularly strict). If you have been meaning to support the site, this is the window... Fri, 25 Sep 2026 21:00:26 -0400 Michael Larabel https://www.phoronix.com/news/FUTEX-Robust-List2-Syscalls https://www.phoronix.com/news/FUTEX-Robust-List2-Syscalls Going back to last year the Igalia open-source consulting firm has been working on enhancing the Linux kernel to help Steam Play gaming on ARM64 and ensuring the FEX emulator is operating efficiently for x86/x86_64 games running on the likes of the Steam Frame. After other kernel work in recent months, there's finally an updated round of the FUTEX get_robust_list2 and set_robust_list2 system call patches... Fri, 25 Sep 2026 18:42:16 -0400 Michael Larabel https://www.phoronix.com/news/GNU-Debugger-GDB-18.1 https://www.phoronix.com/news/GNU-Debugger-GDB-18.1 GDB 18.1 is out today as the newest version of the GNU Debugger that works across C/C++, Fortran, Rust, and other languages like Go, Ada, and more... Fri, 25 Sep 2026 12:47:52 -0400 Michael Larabel https://www.phoronix.com/news/Redox-OS-August-2026 https://www.phoronix.com/news/Redox-OS-August-2026 The Redox OS open-source, Rust-based operating system has seen a lot of activity in recent weeks with many notable improvements landing... Fri, 25 Sep 2026 11:51:38 -0400 Michael Larabel https://www.phoronix.com/review/near-10-sec-kernel-build https://www.phoronix.com/review/near-10-sec-kernel-build The coffee window is closing. Going back many years with the time it's taken to compile the Linux kernel has been a well known opportunity for a coffee break or even eating a meal during the lengthy Linux kernel build process. Even when the Linux kernel was much smaller than it is today, with the hardware at the time it would often be a very time consuming process... Thus incredible to think that we are now on the horizon of a ten second clean, default kernel build on Linux x86_64. Fri, 25 Sep 2026 10:46:26 -0400 Michael Larabel https://www.phoronix.com/news/NVMe-Apple-M3-Linux-Patches https://www.phoronix.com/news/NVMe-Apple-M3-Linux-Patches While Linux 7.2 brought initial Apple M3 support and Linux 7.3 brought M3 Pro / Max / Ultra support, the mainline Linux kernel support for the M3 series hardware remains very basic and not yet ready for daily driving. But more work continues to be upstreamed and today the patches were posted for getting NVMe storage up and running across all Apple M3 hardware... Fri, 25 Sep 2026 06:27:51 -0400 Michael Larabel https://www.phoronix.com/news/AMDGPU-HDMI-2.1-Reliability https://www.phoronix.com/news/AMDGPU-HDMI-2.1-Reliability Linux 7.4 is going to be the big kernel release where the AMD graphics driver will finally expose HDMI 2.1 by default and comes with features including HDMI FreeSync, VRR, and ALLM. Ahead of that milestone there have been various other last minute tweaks and improvements to its HDMI 2.1 support. Sent out on Thursday was the latest round of AMDGPU DC patches that includes a few more patches for improving the HDMI 2.1 reliability... Fri, 25 Sep 2026 06:12:09 -0400 Michael Larabel https://www.phoronix.com/news/Go-SIMD-2026 https://www.phoronix.com/news/Go-SIMD-2026 A new blog post published on Thursday covers the experimental support for SIMD with the Go programming language. This expanding Go SIMD support also includes a platform-independent API for making use of SIMD with modern processors... Fri, 25 Sep 2026 05:50:22 -0400 Michael Larabel https://www.phoronix.com/news/Samba-4.25-Released https://www.phoronix.com/news/Samba-4.25-Released Samba 4.25 is out as the newest stable release for this open-source software enabling file and print services sharing between Linux servers and Windows systems... Fri, 25 Sep 2026 05:38:43 -0400 Michael Larabel https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-Considers-AGENTS-MD https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-Considers-AGENTS-MD While the Linux kernel continues to be bombarded with patches from AI/LLM agents, to date the kernel hasn't carried an AGENTS.md Markdown file with instructions catering to AI/LLM agents. But a patch set out today would finally introduce one... Thu, 24 Sep 2026 20:53:14 -0400 Michael Larabel https://www.phoronix.com/news/Qualcomm-Mahua-GPU-Support https://www.phoronix.com/news/Qualcomm-Mahua-GPU-Support Yesterday Qualcomm posted open-source GPU driver patches for their Adreno 850 GPU one day after being announced with the Snapdragon 8 Elite Extreme Gen 6. Yesterday Qualcomm also announced their Snapdragon X2 Linux support plans. Today they have posted the GPU enablement patches for what's found in the Mahua SoC for lower-tier Snapdragon X2 SoCs... Thu, 24 Sep 2026 20:25:01 -0400 Michael Larabel https://www.phoronix.com/news/ReactOS-Updated-Wine-DirectX https://www.phoronix.com/news/ReactOS-Updated-Wine-DirectX The open-source ReactOS project striving to provide binary compatibility with Microsoft Windows applications/games as well as drivers took a huge step forward today with landing a significant update to its DirectX stack from code leveraged from the Wine project... Thu, 24 Sep 2026 17:43:49 -0400 Michael Larabel https://www.phoronix.com/review/ubuntu-2610-panther-lake https://www.phoronix.com/review/ubuntu-2610-panther-lake For those with a Framework Laptop 13 Pro or another Intel Core Ultra Series 3 "Panther Lake" laptop, the upcoming Ubuntu 26.10 release is delivering some nice out-of-the-box improvements over Ubuntu 26.04 LTS. Thu, 24 Sep 2026 14:46:13 -0400 Michael Larabel https://www.phoronix.com/news/COSMIC-Epoch-1.9-Released https://www.phoronix.com/news/COSMIC-Epoch-1.9-Released COSMIC Epoch 1.9 was released last night as the newest version of the System76-sponsored, Rust-based desktop environment. COSMIC Epoch 1.9 release notes only became available today and it's a big one with new apps and improvements to existing offerings... Thu, 24 Sep 2026 13:11:51 -0400 Michael Larabel https://www.phoronix.com/news/GCC-Patches-AVX10V1AUX https://www.phoronix.com/news/GCC-Patches-AVX10V1AUX Following their recent AVX10_V2_AUX support for GCC as part of the bring-up for the AI Compute Extensions "ACE" in GCC 17, AMD compiler engineers this week posted the initial patches for enabling the AVX10V1AUX ISA support... Thu, 24 Sep 2026 12:12:57 -0400 Michael Larabel https://www.phoronix.com/news/Fedora-Discuss-Collabora-Office https://www.phoronix.com/news/Fedora-Discuss-Collabora-Office One of the livelist Fedora Discourse community discussions in recent days -- or even in quite a period of time for that matter -- comes down to a user having suggested that Fedora replace LibreOffice by default with the downstream Collabora Office... Thu, 24 Sep 2026 09:39:00 -0400 Michael Larabel https://www.phoronix.com/news/KDE-Plasma-6.8-Beta-2 https://www.phoronix.com/news/KDE-Plasma-6.8-Beta-2 Following the KDE Plasma 6.8 Beta from earlier this month, the second and last beta of the upcoming Plasma 6.8 desktop is now available for testing... Thu, 24 Sep 2026 09:27:33 -0400 Michael Larabel https://www.phoronix.com/news/AlmaLinux-New-Certification https://www.phoronix.com/news/AlmaLinux-New-Certification Two years ago RHEL-derived AlmaLinux announced a hardware certification program as part of their Certification Special Interest Group (SIG). They have now expanded their hardware certification program to include third-party software certification on AlmaLinux too plus a new app that users can install for self-certifying their system... Thu, 24 Sep 2026 09:02:47 -0400 Michael Larabel https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-Taint-Forced-Bind https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-Taint-Forced-Bind The Linux kernel is having to introduce a new taint flag "TAINT_FORCED_BIND" to deal with fuzzing bots like Syzbot abusing Linux's bind/unbind sysfs functionality and generating bug reports for impractical and not at all relevant hardware/driver combinations... Thu, 24 Sep 2026 08:08:36 -0400 Michael Larabel https://www.phoronix.com/news/Mir-2.30-Released https://www.phoronix.com/news/Mir-2.30-Released Canonical today released Mir 2.30 as the newest release of this Wayland compositor library for building out different shells and other functionality from smart mirrors to other consumer devices... Thu, 24 Sep 2026 07:51:11 -0400 Michael Larabel https://www.phoronix.com/news/Fwupd-2.1.8-Released https://www.phoronix.com/news/Fwupd-2.1.8-Released Lead LVFS/Fwupd developer Richard Hughes of Red Hat announced Fwupd 2.1.8 today as the newest feature release for this open-source firmware updating solution for Linux systems. With Fwupd 2.1.8 comes support for a number of newer devices plus plenty of bug fixes... Thu, 24 Sep 2026 06:23:18 -0400 Michael Larabel https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-Slab-Tiny-Boot-Option https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-Slab-Tiny-Boot-Option In 2022 the SLOB allocator was deprecated and removed with Linux 6.4 a year later. SLOB was popular with embedded systems with minimal amounts of RAM, so as a result the CONFIG_SLUB_TINY Kconfig option was then added for configuring the slab allocator for a minimal memory footprint for systems with 16MB of RAM or less. The CONFIG_SLUB_TINY is now on the chopping block with a proposed rework to the allocator code for making the "tiny" memory handling a boot time option... Thu, 24 Sep 2026 06:10:30 -0400 Michael Larabel https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-7.4-DRM-Helpers-HDMI-2.0 https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-7.4-DRM-Helpers-HDMI-2.0 Sent out today was the latest weekly pull of drm-misc-next changes of feature material to queue in DRM-Next for Linux 7.4. Most notable in this week's pull request are a number of patches for enhancing the HDMI 2.0 handling in the DRM core infrastructure and display helpers... Thu, 24 Sep 2026 05:49:36 -0400 Michael Larabel https://www.phoronix.com/news/Debian-Inference-Portal https://www.phoronix.com/news/Debian-Inference-Portal With Debian voting to allow the responsible use of generative AI, there is now a new initiative funded by Scaleway to make it easier for Debian contributors to leverage AI: the Debian Inference Portal... Wed, 23 Sep 2026 17:08:01 -0400 Michael Larabel https://www.phoronix.com/news/Qualcomm-Talks-Up-X2-Linux https://www.phoronix.com/news/Qualcomm-Talks-Up-X2-Linux Qualcomm at their Snapdragon Summit taking place in Hawaii are talking up the forthcoming Linux support for Snapdragon X2 series laptops... Wed, 23 Sep 2026 16:49:30 -0400 Michael Larabel