AlmaLinux 10.1 Will Support The Btrfs File-System
It’s been nearly a decade since Red Hat notably deprecated Btrfs back in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.8 after it being a tech preview in earlier versions of RHEL. While upstream Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10 remains on XFS and supporting the likes of Stratis Storage with LVM, AlmaLinux today announced that their AlmaLinux 10.1 release will support Btrfs… ⌘ Read more

Valkey 9.0 Released With Ability To Achieve One Billion Requests / Second
Valkey as the popular, Linux Foundation backed fork of the Redis key-value database is out today with its big v9.0 release… ⌘ Read more

Intel Nova Lake To Feature 6th Gen NPU
Following the recent Xe3P graphics enablement for Nova Lake as well as Nova Lake compiler target enablement and other early hardware enablement for Intel’s Nova Lake processors, today has brought initial enablement for Nova Lake’s NPU… ⌘ Read more

Revisiting The SNC3 vs. HEX Mode Performance With Intel Xeon 6 Granite Rapids
Last year following the launch of the Intel Xeon 6900P Granite Rapids processors I ran some benchmarks looking at the SNC3 vs. HEX clustering mode performance. With having an Intel Xeon 6980P server back up and running on a Giga Computing R284-A92-AAL server after my AvenueCity reference server failed nearly one year ago, I revisited the SNC3 vs. HEX clustering performance for those curious how it’s looking on a modern software … ⌘ Read more

TARmageddon Strikes: High Profile Security Vulnerability In Popular Rust Library
Going public today is CVE-2025-62518, or better known by the name given by the security researchers involved: TARmageddon. The TARmageddon vulnerability affects the popular async-tar Rust library and its various forks like tokio-tar. In turn TARmageddon impacts the uv Python package manager and other users of this library… ⌘ Read more

More Kernel Graphics Driver & Accelerator/NPU Driver Updates Ready For Linux 6.19
Following the initial set of drm-misc-next updates for Linux 6.19, another round of drm-misc-next updates were sent out today in queuing ahead of that next kernel cycle. There are a number of updates to the smaller DRM graphics/display drivers as well as growing activity around the accelerator “accel” open-source drivers for different NPUs / AI accelerators… ⌘ Read more

AMD PMF Linux Driver Working On AMD SystemDeck Support
The AMD Platform Management Framework “PMF” Linux driver is being extended to enable better integration with user-space tooling. AMD SystemDeck is the initial beneficiary of the integration improvements to this AMD platform Linux driver… ⌘ Read more

Linux 6.19 Will Add Support For The Logitech G13 Keypad - 17 Years After Hardware Debut
The Linux 6.19 kernel coming out in early 2026 will add full support for the Logitech G13 gaming keypad, a device first launched back in 2009. Some functionality has worked in Linux over the past 17 years while full support is only coming to this next version of the Linux kernel… ⌘ Read more

Blender 5.1 Aiming For Vulkan By Default, More Improvements Coming
While the Blender 5.0 3D modeling software is being released next month, there is already exciting changes to look forward to with Blender 5.1 in the new year. Beyond AMD HIP-RT ray-tracing by default in Blender 5.1, this follow-on Blender release is also planning on enabling Vulkan API support by default… ⌘ Read more

KDE Plasma 6.5 Released With Rounded Bottom Window Corners, Better HDR & Much More
KDE Plasma 6.5 is out today as the newest major feature release for the Plasma 6 desktop. Plasma 6.5 brings many great improvements and continues further evolving this modern, Wayland-focused open-source desktop… ⌘ Read more

AMD ROCm 7.9 Running In Early Tests On Ryzen AI Max “Strix Halo”
The most unexpected surprise today was AMD releasing ROCm 7.9 as a new technology preview / development branch for the open-source ROCm GPU compute stack just one month after formally releasing ROCm 7.0. While not a fan of how they handled the version discontinuity, ROCm 7.9 has been working out well in my very initial tests on AMD Ryzen AI Max “Strix Halo”… ⌘ Read more

Tellusim Core SDK Opens Up For Use By OSI-Approved Open-Source Projects
Over the weekend we wrote about the visually-impressive Tellusim Core SDK being posted to GitHub as a C++ SDK for high-end graphics and compute. The downside was that the Tellusim Core SKD was rather restrictive in only being free for education, free for companies with less than $200k USD in annual revenue, and evaluation purposes. Or you needed to obtain a negotiated license for the software. As a pleasant surprise, OSI-approved open-sourc … ⌘ Read more

Patches Posted To Allow Hibernation Cancellation On Linux
Currently on Linux if you are putting the system into hibernation, there isn’t a way to interrupt it and cancel it if you change your mind, even with most systems taking a number of seconds to successfully hibernate. But a new patch series sent out this weekend would introduce that capability… ⌘ Read more

KosmicKrisp Vulkan To Apple Metal Driver Merged For Mesa 26.0
LunarG in August announced KosmicKrisp as a Vulkan-to-Metal driver for a better Vulkan API experience on Apple macOS devices compared to the likes of using MoltenVK as another Vulkan-on-Metal adaptation. As of today the KosmicKrisp driver for Vulkan 1.3 on Apple devices is now in the Mesa 26.0 codebase… ⌘ Read more

AMD Announces “ROCm 7.9” As Technology Preview Paired With TheRock Build System
AMD is hosting an AI Day out in San Francisco today and as part of those festivities today they announced the ROCm Core SDK 7.9 SDK paired with TheRock build and release infrastructure system they have been crafting… ⌘ Read more

AMD Ryzen 9 9950X vs. 9950X3D On Windows 11 & Ubuntu Linux
For those wondering how the AMD 3D V-Cache performance with the Ryzen 9 9950X3D is looking on Linux relative to Microsoft Windows, a few weeks back I carried out some comparison benchmarks of Windows 11 25H2 against Ubuntu Linux both the Ubuntu 24.04.3 LTS release and an Ubuntu 25.10 development build using both the AMD Ryzen 9 9950X and Ryzen 9 9950X3D processors. ⌘ Read more

Initial Tenstorrent Blackhole Support Aiming For Linux 6.19
It looks like the upcoming Linux 6.19 kernel could land initial Tenstorrent vendor support and provide initial support for the Blackhole SoC with the initial Blackhole P100/P150 PCIe accelerator cards… ⌘ Read more

NTFSPLUS Announced: A New Linux Driver For NTFS With Better Performance, More Features
Well this wasn’t on my bingo card for 2025… There is now yet another NTFS file-system driver for Linux. There’s long been the read-only NTFS driver in the Linux kernel, the more capable NTFS FUSE driver in user-space, and then in recent years the NTFS3 driver that was upstreamed to the Linux kernel by Paragon Software. NTFS3 offers read/write support and other improvements over the prior kernel driver. Now there is “NTFSPLU … ⌘ Read more

Initial Intel Xe3P Graphics Support To Be Submitted For Linux 6.19
Earlier this month Intel Linux graphics driver engineers began posting the initial Intel Xe3P graphics enablement code with a focus on the integrated graphics to be found with Nova Lake. Xe3P will also later be found in Intel discrete graphics cards like Crescent Island and more. That very early Intel Xe3P code is now expected to be merged as part of the Linux 6.19 kernel as what will be the first Linux kernel release of 2026… ⌘ Read more

Servo 0.0.1 Browser Engine Released
It was to much surprise waking up this morning and seeing the Servo 0.0.1 release for this Rust-based web layout engine that began as a Mozilla project and is now being developed independently via Linux Foundation Europe and other parties… ⌘ Read more

Linux 6.18-rc2 Released: “rc2 is on the bigger side”
Linux 6.18-rc2 is now available with another week’s worth of fixes for Linux 6.18, which is anticipated to be this year’s Long Term Support (LTS) kernel version… ⌘ Read more

Linux 6.18-rc2 Will Make Sure To Wipe Stale Information About AMD System Reboots
Linux 6.16 introduced the ability to report the cause of AMD system resets/reboots thanks to specialized information available on AMD Zen platforms for indicating the detected cause of previous resets. This is a handy addition and the information is automatically reported to the kernel log on the next system boot, but in some instances that information could be stale/inaccurate. Today’s Linux 6.18-rc2 will fix that… ⌘ Read more

AYANEO 3 Modular Handheld Console Prepares For Better Linux Support With New Driver
There has already been hardware monitoring support and other functionality in place under Linux for various AYANEO devices while a new platform driver is being worked on for the new AYANEO 3 device… ⌘ Read more

GCC Front-End Patches Updated For Algol 68 Programming Language
At the start of the calendar year there was a proposal for a new GCC front-end for the Algol 68 programming language. GCC developers deferred merging Algol 68 support into GCC for this rarely talked about vintage programming language. But as talked about back at the GNU Tools Cauldron 2025, the developer is still working on the support. Sure enough, this week brought a new version of this GCC front-end… ⌘ Read more

Multi-Kernel Architecture Patches Updated For The Linux Kernel
Posted to the Linux kernel mailing list one month ago were patches for a multi-kernel architecture design to allow multiple independent kernel instances to co-exist on the same single physical machine. This could let some CPU cores be running real-time “RT” kernels or other non-traditional uses between CPU cores. It wasn’t clear how far the multi-kernel patches would get especially with some initial negative views toward it and Bytedance separately propo … ⌘ Read more

FreeBSD 15.0 Beta 2 Released With Release Building Improvements, New “Blocklist”
FreeBSD 15.0 Beta 2 is out as the newest weekly test release of FreeBSD working its way toward a stable release in early December… ⌘ Read more

New Code Merged For Linux 6.18 To Address Linus Torvalds’ Rust Formatting Critique
Back during the Linux 6.18 merge window Linus Torvalds commented on “mindless and completely crazy Rust format checking” and that the RUst format checking “is all bass-ackwards garbage” with condensing multi-line import statements into single lines. Merged minutes ago to Linux Git ahead of tomorrow’s Linux 6.18-rc2 are fixes to the Rust format checking and updated guidelines to address Torvalds’ criticism… ⌘ Read more

Linux Display Driver Patches Posted For The Qualcomm Snapdragon X2 Elite
Since Qualcomm announced the Snapdragon X2 Elite last month, Linux patches for the X2 Elite “Glymur” platform have begun flowing. Among the recent Linux patches for the Snapdragon X2 is this past week seeing initial display support… ⌘ Read more

Tellusim Core SDK Posted On GitHub As C++ SDK For Graphics / Compute
For those evaluating new options for high performance, cross-platform graphics and/or compute for simulations and other purposes, Tellusim Technologies has made their Tellusim Core SDK publicly available via GitHub… ⌘ Read more

Updated Linux Patch Would Disable RDSEED For All AMD Zen 5 CPUs
A few days back we reported on a Meta engineer uncovering an architectural issue with RDSEED usage on AMD EPYC 9005 “Turin” CPUs. It ended up being found to affect more CPU models than originally anticipated and a new patch posted to the Linux kernel mailing list would disable RDSEED usage across all AMD Zen 5 processors… ⌘ Read more

Wine-Staging 10.17 Lands Fix For 11 Year Old Bug Report Affecting Various Games
Building off yesterday’s release of Wine 10.17 is now wine-Staging 10.17 that is carrying 295 extra patches atop the upstream Wine codebase for testing at the leading edge of this open-source software for enjoying Windows games and applications on Linux… ⌘ Read more

LACT 0.8.2 Released For Multi-Vendor Linux GPU Control GUI
LACT 0.8.2 is out this weekend as the newest feature release to this Linux GPU control application. This Rust-based software provides a GUI for controlling AMD, NVIDIA, and Intel GPUs under Linux with various monitoring metrics, information reporting, power configuration, thermals configuration, and overclocking with supported hardware… ⌘ Read more

KDE Plasma 6.5 Is Said To Be “A Pretty Darn Good Release”
With plans to release next Tuesday (21 October), KDE developers this week have been putting the finishing touches on this next open-source desktop update. Prominent KDE developer Nate Graham says he thinks it’s going to be “a pretty darn good release” when it officially debuts… ⌘ Read more

Wine 10.17 Now Defaults To EGL Renderer For OpenGL On X11
Following the release of Wine 10.16 with initial NTSYNC support from two weeks ago, Wine 10.17 is now available as the latest development release in working toward Wine 11.0 stable in early 2026… ⌘ Read more

GNOME Has A New Security Threat Scanner Powered By VirusTotal
For those interested in scanning files for malware and other threat detection under Linux and using the GNOME desktop, Lenspect is a new GNOME-aligned application that is a GUI powered by VirusTotal for being a Linux-native security threat scanner… ⌘ Read more

openSFI Is A Very Interesting Collaboration Between AMD & Intel For Better Firmware Unification
An interesting technical collaboration between AMD and Intel as well as other industry players like Google, Bytedance, Microsoft, MiTAC, HPE, and others is openSFI. The new openSFI “Open Silicon Firmware Interface” project is aiming to work toward vendor-neutral low-level firmware interfaces for more interoperable firmware solutions across vendors… ⌘ Read more

Intel Introducing Microcode Staging Feature For Linux 6.19 To Cope With Bigger Blobs
Due to Intel CPU microcode sizes continuing to get larger and late-loading new CPU microcode onto a running system can lead to (brief) disruptions/downtime while the update is applied, future Intel CPUs are introducing a microcode “staging” feature to reduce that microcode updating downtime. The Linux 6.19 kernel in the new year is set to support the Intel microcode staging feature with capable processors… ⌘ Read more

Ubuntu 25.10 Performance On System76 Thelio Astra / Ampere Altra
With the recent release of Ubuntu 25.10 we have seen some nice performance improvements on the likes of AMD Zen 5 and Intel Lunar Lake compared to prior Ubuntu releases. But what about ARM? In this article is a look at the Ampere Altra performance between Ubuntu 25.04 and Ubuntu 25.10 using the popular System76 Thelio Astra workstation. ⌘ Read more

AES-GCM Crypto Performance Up To ~74% Faster For AMD Zen 3 With Linux 6.19
Improvements to the Linux kernel’s AES-GCM Galois/Counter Mode crypto block cipher code will yield up to 74% faster performance for AMD Zen 3 processors with the Linux 6.19 kernel in the new year… ⌘ Read more

New Linux Kernel Patches From Intel Delivering +18% Database Performance
In addition to the recent Linux kernel patches out of Intel for Cache Aware Scheduling for better performance, separately, another interesting new patch series was sent out this week for the Linux kernel. The patches rework some low-level Linux kernel memory management code and at least for database workloads the early benchmarks are showing possible 14~18% faster database performance with PostgreSQL… ⌘ Read more

Fedora Cloud Looks To Switch /boot To Btrfs Subvolume
With Fedora 43 releasing in the coming weeks, Fedora stakeholders are beginning to plot their feature ideas for next year’s Fedora 44 release. One of the early F44 feature submissions pending approval is switching /boot on Fedora Cloud images to being a Btrfs file-system subvolume… ⌘ Read more

Intel Vulkan Driver Adds Support For Xe Driver’s Low Latency Hint
One of the early changes merged for the in-development Mesa 26.0 is adding support to Intel’s “ANV” open-source Vulkan driver for supporting the low-latency hint supported by the modern Intel Xe kernel graphics driver… ⌘ Read more

Linux Graphics Driver Fixes Readied For Linux 6.18-rc2
Ahead of the Linux 6.18-rc2 release on Sunday, the Direct Rendering Manager (DRM) fixes for the week were sent out today. There is the usual assortment of different kernel graphics driver fixes, mostly with the Intel and AMD drivers as usual. In particular a few Intel driver fixes make this week’s pull worth mentioning… ⌘ Read more

Valve Developer Contributes Major Improvement To RADV Vulkan For Llama.cpp AI
Valve’s Linux graphics driver team contributions aren’t limited to just enhancing the rasterization and ray-tracing graphics performance of the open-source Linux GPU drivers for gaming. Beyond other interesting contributions from that talented group of open-source Linux graphics developers over the years and for other areas like enhancing old GPU hardware support, merged this week for the Radeon Vulkan “RADV” driver is a massive impro … ⌘ Read more

Fedora 43 Is Not Ready For Release Next Week
Fedora 43 had been planning for an early final target release date of 21 October. Unfortunately, that’s not going to happen as a “No-Go” was declared at the Fedora Linux 43 release meeting… ⌘ Read more

Meta Uncovers RDSEED Architectural Issue In AMD EPYC Zen 5 CPUs
Over the years we have seen various workarounds like disabling RDSEED for select AMD CPUs due to hardware bugs and early on in the Zen days were also some RdRand issues due to different problems. It turns out the newest AMD EPYC 5th Gen “Turin” processors have a new RDSEED issue… ⌘ Read more

Linux Affected By Decade Old Bug In Software RAID Around O_DIRECT Usage
A Phoronix reader pointed out a bug report from 2015 now getting renewed interest… Linux software RAID via MD RAID, DRBD, LVM RAID, and similar software-based solutions can be broken from user-space around O_DIRECT usage. The issue is that these RAID arrays can be put silently into an inconsistent state across disks… ⌘ Read more

Mysterious Intrigue Around An x86 “Corporate Entity Other Than Intel/AMD”
Posted to the Linux kernel mailing list and GNU Binutils mailing list today is an intriguing message from a longtime x86/x86_64 expert around a “a corporate entity other than Intel/AMD” using some x86 opcodes not used by AMD or Intel processors… ⌘ Read more

An Early Look At Linux 6.18 Performance With Intel Xeon 6 Granite Rapids
With Linux 6.18 now past the merge window and many new features and changes introduced (https://www.phoronix.com/review/linux-618-features), I have begun testing out this kernel on various servers, desktops, and laptops at Phoronix. Linux 6.18 is quite important with expected to become this year’s LTS kernel version upon its stable debut in December. Up today is a first look at Linux 6.17 vs. 6.18-rc1 performance using Intel Xeon 6 Granite Rapi … ⌘ Read more

AOMP 22.0-1 Brings Many Improvements For AMD’s Fortran Compiler GPU Offloading
AOMP 22.0-1 was released on Wednesday as the newest routine update to this downstream of LLVM/Clang/Flang maintained by AMD that continues to carry their latest modifications for enhancing the C/C++/Fortran compiler offloading support to AMD Radeon/Instinct hardware using the likes of OpenMP and OpenACC… ⌘ Read more