AMD BC-250 Continues Being Improved Under Linux With Patches Now Enabling The PSP
The AMD BC-250 as the product designed at the time for cryptocurrency mining and based on a cut-down Sony PlayStation 5 APU continues having an interesting second-life being re-tasked for Linux use from general purpose workloads to AI. Sent out this weekend were the latest Linux kernel patches for continuing to enable more of the BC-250… ⌘ Read more

Igalia Celebrates 25 Years Of Advancing Linux & Open-Source
The Igalia Linux/open-source consulting firm based out of A Coruña, Spain is celebrating twenty five years of contributions to upstream open-soure projects… ⌘ Read more

Linux’s Perf Script Command Much Faster With Overhaul As Python Module
A big patch series sent out this weekend for the Linux kernel’s perf subsystem removes the embedded Python and Perl scripting in favor of standalone Python scripts with a new Python perf module. This perf module for Python written in C is much faster than the status quo… ⌘ Read more

Linux 7.3-rc4 Released: More Fixes Caught By LLMs, But Nothing Too Scary
Linus Torvalds announced the release today of Linux 7.3-rc4. As usual for recent months, the fixes continue to be quite heavy and scattered all over the place driven in large part by AI/LLMs spotting various code defects. Overall though Linus Torvalds isn’t too worried about Linux 7.3-rc4… ⌘ Read more

Important x86 Fixes Merged Ahead Of Linux 7.3-rc4
Ahead of the Linux 7.3-rc4 kernel release due out in the coming hours, an important batch of x86/x86_64 fixes have been merged to address a few outstanding issues… ⌘ Read more

Gzip 1.15 Released With Many Bug Fixes For Issues Present Since Its Inception
Gzip 1.15 is out today for succeeding the Gzip 1.14 release from April 2025. With this release comes a number of fixes for bugs present since the beginning of Gzip… ⌘ Read more

KDE To Focus On Next-Gen Styling, Better Documentation & KDE For Enterprise
At the KDE Akademy 2026 conference going on right now in Graze, Austria the three KDE goals for the next two years were unveiled… ⌘ Read more

AI-Assisted Starling Desktop Introduces 3D View With “Walkable 3D Waterfront City”
From a few months ago you may recall Starling as the new Linux desktop written with its own Wayland compositor, using the Swift programming language, and written in large part via AI with Claude Code. Out today is Starling 0.5 with this desktop now gaining an optional 3D desktop mode… ⌘ Read more

Vulkan 1.4.363 Released With New VK_INTEL_device_info Extension
Vulkan 1.4.363 is out as the latest routine update to the Vulkan API specification and also introduces a new Intel vendor extension… ⌘ Read more

Linux 7.3 Adds Support For Victrix Pro BFG & Azeron Controllers
Sent out this morning were a big batch of input subsystem fixes ahead of the Linux 7.3-rc4 kernel releasing later today. Alongside many bug fixes to different drivers is also expanding the range of supported gaming controllers by the XPad driver… ⌘ Read more

Linux 7.3-rc4 To Address Two Unfortunate Bugs With Btrfs
Merged today were this week’s set of Btrfs file-system fixes for the Linux 7.3-rc4 kernel, which include two notable bug fixes… ⌘ Read more

Simple Optimization For Linux 7.4 Can Open Files For Reading ~39% Faster
More than two years in the making, Linux 7.4 is poised to introduce a patch that amounts to a rather simple optimization to avoid unnecessary/duplicative work that can net some nice gains when opening files for reading… ⌘ Read more

Wine-Staging 11.18 Adds New Patches To Further Improve WoW64
Building off yesterday’s Wine 11.18 bi-weekly development release is now Wine-Staging 11.18. This experimental flavor of Wine is presently carrying 273 extra patches over that upstream Git state, including some new patches for helping enhance the WoW64 support… ⌘ Read more

GNOME OS Turns To Zswap To Deal With OOM Issues, Progress On Geary Email Client Fork
In addition to this week’s GNOME 51 release were several other exciting developments in the GNOME desktop space… ⌘ Read more

Intel Xe Driver For Linux 7.4 Adds vRAM Health Check, Degraded Memory Handling
Sent out this week were more Intel Xe kernel graphics driver changes targeting the upcoming Linux 7.4 kernel cycle. The theme this week was around dealing with video memory health and also being able to better deal with hardware degraded video RAM… ⌘ Read more

KDE Plasma 6.8 Seeing More Polishing & Fixes, Plasma 6.9 Begins Seeing More Activity
Following last week’s Plasma 6.8 beta release, KDE desktop developers have spent this week mostly working on bug fixes as well as some early changes toward Plasma 6.9… ⌘ Read more

Ubuntu 26.10 Switches To The Linux 7.3 Kernel
As a very pleasant surprise, the upcoming Ubuntu 26.10 release will now be powered by the Linux 7.3 kernel rather than their original plans and switch over to the Linux 7.2 kernel… ⌘ Read more

Wine 11.18 Continues Building Out Its NTOSKRNL Implementation
Wine 11.18 is out today as the newest bi-weekly development release of this open-source software for running Windows games and apps on Linux, macOS, and other platforms… ⌘ Read more

Steam Frame Making Use Of Zink For OpenGL On Vulkan
Valve’s Steam Frame VR headset that makes use of a Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 SoC with Adreno graphics is using the open-source “Turnip” Vulkan driver from Mesa as reported last year. For OpenGL it turns out that the Mesa Zink driver is being used on the Steam Frame for OpenGL atop the Vulkan API… ⌘ Read more

Google’s “Painful To Maintain” Binder C Linux Driver Being Removed In Favor Of Rust
Google’s Binder driver written in the C programming language has long been part of the mainline kernel as the inter-process communication (IPC) mechanism used on Android. The past few years the Binder driver was rewritten in Rust as one of the first “real” drivers in the Rust programming language. The Rust Binder driver was upstreamed in Linux 6.18 and now for the upcoming Linux 7.4 kernel cycle, the old Binder C-based driver is se … ⌘ Read more

Apple Video Decode Driver Posted For Upstream Linux Kernel Review
The latest Apple Silicon enablement code working its way from the Asahi Linux project toward the upstream Linux kernel is the AVD driver used for accelerated video playback across Apple M1 / M2 / M3 SoCs… ⌘ Read more

AMD Strix Halo Enjoys Some Performance Gains On Ubuntu 26.10, Especially With amd64v3
Ahead of next week’s Ubuntu 26.10 beta release I have been testing the “Stonking Stingray” on a variety of systems. Ubuntu 26.10 is performing well overall with some nice upgrades over Ubuntu 26.04 LTS, especially if opting to use the new snapshot/daily ISOs of Ubuntu 26.10 in amd64v3 form for x86_64-v3 packages. In today’s tests are a look at the performance benefits of Ubuntu 26.10 on an AMD Ryzen AI Max+ “Strix Halo”. ⌘ Read more

Linux Ready With Fix For Intel’s FRED Crashing Some Games Under Wine / Steam Play
Recently there have been some bug reports to Mesa around Intel Panther Lake graphics crashing with some games like Red Dead Redemption 2 and Elden Ring crashing or freezing quite quickly. This turns out not to be an Intel Xe3 Arc Graphics B390 driver bug with Panther Lake but rather due to a kernel issue with the new Flexible and Return Event Delivery “FRED” that debuted with the Core Ultra Series 3 processors… ⌘ Read more

Ubuntu 26.10 Desktop Adjusting Its Behavior Under Memory Pressure
The Ubuntu 26.10 desktop is adjusting its default out-of-memory (OOM) daemon behavior when dealing with memory pressure on the system… ⌘ Read more

Linux Kernel Build Times Ready To Be Significantly Reduced With Latest Patches
The past few weeks we have eagerly been following a Linux kernel patch series after AI found some major bottlenecks in the Linux kernel build code. With AI helping to address these bottlenecks, Linux kernel build times are substantially reduced. These optimizations might be ready in time for Linux 7.4 for reducing incremental kernel build times as much as around 70%. This week the latest iteration of these patches were posted by Arm engi … ⌘ Read more

AMD Sends In More HDMI FRL Updates For Linux 7.4, Fixes For Upcoming Hardware
Linux 7.4 is set to be a very exciting holiday gift for AMD Radeon graphics customers. As covered last week on Phoronix, with this next kernel AMD Is enabling HDMI 2.1 support by default now that FreeSync, VRR, and ALLM support is included too. This week another round of AMDGPU kernel graphics driver updates were sent out ahead of the Linux 7.4 merge window in October… ⌘ Read more

Intel Appears To End Its Bug Bounty Program
Amid a boom of bug reporting in general due to AI/LLMs across the entire software ecosystem, Intel this week appears to have ended its paid bug bounty program. They have (re)launched a new bug reporting program but with the bounties removed… ⌘ Read more

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If you missed out on the Phoronix Premium special back during the 22nd birthday of Phoronix.com in June, there is another promotion now active for helping to support the site and allow for continued daily original content and relentless Linux performance benchmarking and other open-sourced focused hardware testing… ⌘ Read more

OpenCL 3.1.2 Released With cl_khr_command_buffer Promoted
The Khronos Group today released the newest revision of the OpenCL specification with a handful of changes… ⌘ Read more

Jemalloc 5.4 Released With Portability Improvements, Code Cleanups
Earlier this year Meta announced a renewed investment into the jemalloc memory allocator that’s been popular for server and HPC use among various desktop use-cases too. After stagnating a bit in recent years, Jemalloc has been off to seeing new developments since Meta’s announcement and out today is Jemalloc 5.4 as the latest step forward… ⌘ Read more

Intel Granite Rapids WS vs. AMD Threadripper Zen 5 SMT Performance
As a follow-up to the article earlier this month of the Intel Xeon 600 workstation performance against AMD Ryzen Threadripper 9000 series in over 400 benchmarks – including when carried out at the same core count and memory configuration – today’s article is exploring the Hyper Threading / SMT impact on both the Intel Redwood Cove and AMD Zen 5 cores for workstations. ⌘ Read more

Rust Issues Warning Over Key Developers Being Targeted For Compromise
The Rust security response working group and Crates.io team have issued a warning that a targeted attack is underway against key Rust programming language developers… ⌘ Read more

Mojo 1.1 Released, Now Accepting Community Contributions To The Compiler
Last month Modular’s Mojo language was open-sourced following the acquisition of Modular by Qualcomm. Modular was the AI startup founded by Chris Lattner of LLVM and Swift fame. Released today was Mojo 1.1 and also marks the project recently now beginning code contributions from the community to its compiler… ⌘ Read more

Ubuntu 26.10 Snapshot 4 ISOs Published
The fourth monthly-ish snapshot of Ubuntu 26.10 “Stonking Stingray” is now available for testing and comes ahead of next week’s Ubuntu 26.10 beta milestone… ⌘ Read more

Proposal Raised To Finally Standardize Video Memory Stats Reporting Under Linux
The idea has been talked about before but in 2026 still hasn’t made it to the mainline Linux kernel…. Standardized reporting of video memory statistics that would work across different vendors / kernel graphics drivers. A new proposal was raised today in an effort to get a standardized interface established… ⌘ Read more

Fujitsu Formally Announces Their MONAKA 144 Core CPU
For two years now we have been curious about the Fujitsu MONAKA CPU since some slides about this Arm-based server processor first appeared and they upstreamed compiler support in GCC 15. This week Fujitsu formally announced the MONAKA CPU and with availability beginning in November… ⌘ Read more

Intel Compute Stack Enables LEO For Nova Lake, Introduces Intel Portable ISA “PISA”
Released today was the Intel Compute Runtime 26.35.39758.10 update for Windows and Linux systems. With this updated OpenCL and Level Zero GPU compute driver stack comes some exciting updates for this monthly feature update… ⌘ Read more

New Linux Driver Coming To Improve ASUS Zenbook Snapdragon X2 Support
For those hopeful of running Linux well on the ASUS Zenbook A14 or A16 laptops powered by the latest Qualcomm Snapdragon X2 SoC, a new ASUS EC driver has been developed for enhancing the support… ⌘ Read more

Rust Coreutils 0.12 Released With Fixes Sought By Ubuntu
Days after the recent release of GNU Coreutils 9.12, Rust Coreutils 0.12 was released overnight for advancing this alternative Rust-based implementation of these core utilities… ⌘ Read more

Dragonfly 2.0 Delivers More Performance For This Modern Replacement To Redis & Memcached
Released on Wednesday was a new version of the Dragonfly database that continues to promote itself as “the world’s most efficient in-memory data store” and a modern replacement to the likes of Redis and Memcached while being fully compatible with their APIs… ⌘ Read more

libinput 1.32 Released With Circular Scrolling Support For Circular Touchpads
Leading Linux input expert Peter Hutterer announced the release today of libinput 1.32 for improving input handling on Wayland and X.Org based environments… ⌘ Read more

Mir/Wayland-Powered Miracle-WM 0.11 Released With New Overview Mode, Window Urgency
Canonical engineer Matthew Kosarek rolled out Miracle-WM 0.11 today as an end-of-summer update to this Wayland compositor built atop the Mir library… ⌘ Read more

Mesa 26.2.3 Released With AMD GFX1171 Support, Other Fixes
Mesa 26.2.3 is out today as the newest stable point release in this quarter’s Mesa 26.2 series… ⌘ Read more

Ubuntu 26.10 amd64v3 Can Provide A Nice Boost For Low-End/Budget Hardware
Canonical recently began producing Ubuntu 26.10 amd64v3 daily ISOs to complement their experimental amd64v3 package archive that they have been trialing the past few release cycles. While we still don’t know what any official plans are for amd64v3 with Ubuntu 26.10, the performance gains can be very worthwhile over the generic amd64 binaries even for low-end/budget hardware. ⌘ Read more

GNOME 51 Released With Improved Frame Scheduling, Many App Improvements
Right on schedule and in time for appearing in the likes of Ubuntu 26.10 and Fedora Workstation 45, the GNOME 51 desktop is officially released… ⌘ Read more

Crash-Safe & Copy-On-Write GEFS As The “Good Enough File-System” For OpenBSD
Ori Bernstein announced an early preview of his Good Enough File-System “GEFS” for OpenBSD. GEFS is a crash-safe, snapshotting, copy-on-write file-system that he wrote initially for 9front and now porting to OpenBSD… ⌘ Read more

Linux Randomly Picking Idle CPU Cores Shows Modest Win On High Core Count Systems
Arm engineer Christian Loehle sent out a patch series today proposing that the Linux scheduler code randomize its picking of equally shallow idle CPU cores. This randomization is showing to deliver a win at least for high CPU core counts for better distributing workloads… ⌘ Read more

AMD Sends Out Linux Patches For Enabling SEV-TIO TDISP With PCIe 6.0+
The newest Linux kernel patches out of AMD for enhancing the upstream support with the new AMD EPYC 9006 “Venice” processors is for enabling SEV-TIO TDISP that is supported with PCI Express 6.0 and beyond… ⌘ Read more

Ubuntu 26.10 Moves cp, mv & rm Over To Rust Coreutils For 100% Transition
While Ubuntu Linux has been making use of the Rust Coreutils project over the past year since Ubuntu 25.10 as an alternative to GNU Coreutils and part of their effort to get more system components implemented in the memory-safety-focused Rust programming language, Ubuntu 26.10 finally completes the transition with the cp, mv, and rm commands now coming from Rust Coreutils… ⌘ Read more

Linux’s Yogafan Driver Prepares Support For Newer Lenovo Laptops
Introduced back in Linux 7.1 was the Yogafan HWMON driver for supporting fan speed monitoring across various Lenovo Yoga, Legion, Flex, Slim, and IdeaPad laptops. An initial set of Lenovo laptops was initially supported by this driver while succeeding kernel versions have continued building out the support… ⌘ Read more