Rust Coreutils cp Ended Up Breaking Ubuntu Image Builds With Latest Incompatibility
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 implementations of the different commands. The latest coming to light this week was the Rust Coreutils cp command breaking Ubuntu image builds due to differences in argument handling… ⌘ Read more

Intel Prepares More Nova Lake Graphics/Display Enablement For Linux 7.3
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 focus heavily on lining up Nova Lake’s Xe3P integrated graphics/display support… ⌘ Read more

NVIDIA VR-NVL BMC Device Tree Being Upstreamed For OpenBMC Support
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 patches and also for U-Boot, it’s part of the upstreaming effort for supporting the open-source OpenBMC software on their latest hardware… ⌘ Read more

Linux 7.2-rc2 BPF Code Being Hardened Against JIT Spraying Attacks
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… ⌘ Read more

Linux Preparing To Retire Its 32-bit MSR Interfaces
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 modern 64-bit interfaces can be exclusively used. This allows for better code unification and cleaning up the MSR code… ⌘ Read more

ReactOS Implements First Windows NT6 System Call In Step Toward Vista Compatibility
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 NT 5.2 as the architecture from Windows XP and Windows Server 2003 but with an eye toward Windows NT 6.0 for Windows Vista and later compatibility with software. ReactOS has now landed their first NT6 system call… ⌘ Read more

Fedora 45 Considering x86_64 Shadow Stack Usage By Default
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… ⌘ Read more

EFS File-System Slated For Removal With Linux 7.3 After 20+ Years Unmaintained
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 a maintainer for 20+ years while for Linux 7.3 it’s expected to be removed… ⌘ Read more

Linux Kernel Developers Again Discussing AI Agent Attribution - Potentially Dropping It
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 Linux kernel developers this week have been discussing whether to revise that policy or to potentially eliminate it… ⌘ Read more

RISC-V RVV Vector Performance Benchmarks With The SpacemiT K3 SoC
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 in the past half decade and one of the promising elements of this modern RISC-V SoC with its X100/A100 cores is supporting the RISC-V Vector Extension “RVV” 1.0. In this article are some initial benchmarks looking specifically at the RISC-V RVV 1.0 … ⌘ Read more

Intel Posts Initial GCC Compiler Patches For AI Compute Extensions “ACE”
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 like for machine learning workloads. The cross-vendor ACE extension is ultimately a successor to Intel’s Advanced Matrix Extensions (AMX). Posted to the GCC mailing list today by Intel engineers are the initial patches in preparing the compiler … ⌘ Read more

Vibe Coded X11 Server Written In Rust Adds Xinerama, FreeBSD Support & Other Features
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 the help of Claude Code (AI) and out today is version 1.3 o this display server… ⌘ Read more

KDE Plasma Affected By Arbitrary Code Execution To Break Sandboxes With “Open New Window”
A security disclosure has been made public today for a yet-to-be-patched arbitrary code execution vulnerability with the KDE Plasma desktop… ⌘ Read more

Linux Looking To Retire A Number Of Old ARM Platforms In Early 2027
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 and then removing a number of outdated ARM platforms and features from the Linux kernel in early 2027… ⌘ Read more

COSMIC Epoch 1.2 Desktop Fixes Flickering Issues For Intel Graphics
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… ⌘ Read more

GraalVM CE 25.1.3 Gets Native Image “Hello World” Program Down To Just 6.5MB
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 newest community feature release. GraalVM Community Edition 25.1.3 is now available with some interesting changes in tow… ⌘ Read more

Fedora 45 Looks To Finally Offer Install Support For Stratis Storage
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, and their Rust-based daemon. While Stratis Storage has been available in Fedora Linux going all the way back to Fedora 28, until now there hasn’t been the option of using it for the root file-system on new Fedora installations. Finally with Fedora 45 … ⌘ Read more

Linux 7.2 Features: Cache Aware Scheduling, USB4STREAM, AMD ISP4, AMDGPU HDMI 2.1 FRL
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. ⌘ Read more

New Linux Driver Posted To Enable Keyboard Support On M3 MacBooks
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 boot to a simple console and that’s about it with the lack of proper GPU acceleration and functionality like the keyboard on MacBooks not working either. Posted to the kernel mailing list today was the new driver patches for enabling the internal key … ⌘ Read more

KDE Plasma 6.7.2 Brings Fix For Most Common KWin Crash, Better Chromium Video Playback
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… ⌘ Read more

AMDGPU HDMI 2.1 FRL, Improvements For Old GPUs & Other AMD Linux Highlights In Q2
With Q2’2026 drawing to a close, as part of the different quarterly recaps of popular areas on Phoronix, here is a look back at the most popular AMD Linux/open-source news of the quarter… ⌘ Read more

Canonical First Gold Sponsor Of Trifecta Tech For Building More Infrastructure In Rust
Ubuntu Linux maker Canonical continues making more inroads in the Rust infrastructure space. Canonical announced today they have become the first gold sponsor of the Trifecta Tech Foundation that works on projects like sudo-rs for building more open infrastructure in the Rust programming language… ⌘ Read more

Intel Kills Off AMX-TF32 Support Before It Even Shipped In Diamond Rapids
Intel has dropped AMX-TF32 before its debut in Xeon Diamond Rapids. The latest Intel programming reference manual has dropped AMX-TF32 and Intel engineers are already moving ahead to strip out the AMX-TF32 support that existed in the GNU Compiler Collection… ⌘ Read more

Servo Browser Engine Continues Making Much Progress On Less Than $8k Monthly
Released last week was the Servo 0.3 browser engine release along with their latest Servoshell demo browser. Today the project has published their monthly development recap to highlight all of the interesting changes made. Here’s a look at what they accomplished over the past month while doing so on less than $8k in monthly donations… ⌘ Read more

GCC 17 Compiler Lands SpacemiT X100 Core Targeting
The newest GCC 17 compiler code has landed support for -mcpu=spacemit-x100 and -mtune=spacemit-x100 targeting for the SpacemiT X100 RISC-V core… ⌘ Read more

Wine 11.12 Released With Wayland Fractional Scaling & Other Wayland Enhancements
Wine 11.12 fell off the bi-weekly release rhythm with not making it out last Friday, but it managed to ship today. Wine 11.12 brings fractional scaling support to its Wayland driver and various other enhancements… ⌘ Read more

Next Bcachefs Release Aims To Include Rust Code In The Kernel Module
The Bcachefs file-system already makes use of the Rust programming language in the user-space tools for this CoW file-system and they have been planning to make use of Rust within the kernel module too. Beginning in the next Bcachefs release, v1.38.7, they are looking at beginning to include Rust code now in their kernel driver… ⌘ Read more

Git 2.55 Released With Rust Support Enabled By Default, git history fixup
Git 2.55 is out today as the latest stable update to this distributed version control system… ⌘ Read more

Linux 7.2 On Threadripper Shows Some Nice I/O Improvements & Faster Poll, Some Regressions
I have begun testing out Linux 7.2 on more hardware following the winding down of the merge window and culminating with yesterday’s Linux 7.2-rc1 release. Today’s tests are looking at how Linux 7.2 in its early development state is comparing to Linux 7.1 stable on AMD Ryzen Threadripper. ⌘ Read more

Microsoft Announces Public Preview For Linux Containers On WSL
Microsoft today shipped the first public preview of WSL Containers “WSLC” as their latest extension of the Windows Subsystem for Linux on Windows 11… ⌘ Read more

Red Hat ARM Engineer Abandons ARM64 Linux Personal Desktop, Goes Back To AMD Ryzen System
Red Hat senior software engineer Marcin Juszkiewicz of Red Hat’s ARM Team had been dogfeeding with an AArch64 Linux desktop being used as his primary, personal system for nearly the past year. But now he shared he has gone back to using his AMD Ryzen desktop instead over AArch64 Linux issues encountered with his Ampere Altra desktop… ⌘ Read more

Red Hat ARM Engineer Abandons ARM64 Linux Personal Desktop, Goes Back To AMD Ryzen System
Red Hat senior software engineer Marcin Juszkiewicz of Red Hat’s ARM Team had been dogfeeding with an AArch64 Linux desktop being used as his primary, personal system for nearly the past year. But now he shared he has gone back to using his AMD Ryzen desktop instead over AArch64 Linux issues encountered with his Ampere Altra desktop… ⌘ Read more

Infinity Scheduler Aims To Be A Better Linux Scheduler
The Infinity Scheduler is another attempt at improving the CPU scheduling behavior under Linux and created by the developer behind the existing “scx_flow” sched_ext scheduler. But Infinity Scheduler isn’t taking the approach of using sched_ext and is rather patched into the Linux kernel in modifying CFS and RT behavior… ⌘ Read more

ZLUDA v6 Gets PhysX Running Well On AMD GPUs But Loses Commercial Funding
ZLUDA as a reminder is the open-source project that began as drop-in CUDA support for Intel graphics hardware and then was quietly funded by AMD for years as a drop-in CUDA replacement on AMD GPUs that went open-source after losing funding. That was then taken down and since late 2024 ZLUDA then began focusing on multi-GPU CUDA focused on AI after beginning to receive funding from an unspecified party. Now, unfortunately, funding has once again bee … ⌘ Read more

TLAC Aims To Be An Open-Source Alternative To Kernel-Level Anti-Cheat Systems
It’s not clear that any games have yet to deploy this open-source anti-cheat system but TLAC is a new open-source project that aims to provide a privacy-respecting alternative to kernel-level anti-cheat systems like Denuvo, Easy Anti-Cheat, and BattlEye… ⌘ Read more

RADV Enables Vulkan Descriptor Heap Support By Default
In time for the Mesa 26.2 stable release expected out in August, the Radeon RADV Vulkan driver is now exposing the VK_EXT_descriptor_heap descriptor heap support by default… ⌘ Read more

Mageia 10 Released For This Linux Distribution Carrying On The Mandrake Legacy
Mageia 10 ISOs are now available for this Linux distribution long ago derived from Mandriva Linux and in turn the legendary Mandrake Linux… ⌘ Read more

Arch Linux’s Archinstall 4.4 Adds Dank Material Shell + Niri Desktop Option
Ahead of the July 2026 ISO refresh for Arch Linux, a new Archinstall 4.4 release has been tagged for this text-based and very convenient installer for Arch Linux… ⌘ Read more

Linux 7.2-rc1 Released: “Things Look Reasonably Normal” While Landing AMDGPU HDMI 2.1 FRL, AMD ISP4 & CAS
As expected, Linux 7.2-rc1 was released a brief time ago to cap off the Linux 7.2 merge window. Now it’s off for eight weeks or so of testing before Linux 7.2 stable is released that will in turn go on to power the likes of Fedora 45 and Ubuntu 26.10… ⌘ Read more

USB4STREAM, Optimizations, Jay & Other Popular Intel Linux News From This Quarter
With Q2’2026 working toward a close, here is a look back at the most popular Intel Linux and open-source news for the quarter… ⌘ Read more

CachyOS June 2026 OS Released With More Performance Optimizations
CachyOS is out today with a new feature release for this Arch Linux powered distribution that delivers stellar out-of-the-box performance… ⌘ Read more

Linux 7.3 To Introduce DRM “Color Format” Property With AMD GPU Driver Support
While the Linux 7.2 kernel merge window is only ending later today to cap off the feature work on this next version of the Linux kernel, already for the Linux 7.3 kernel cycle later in the year there is one notable feature on the way: the DRM color format property is being introduced and being first supported by the AMDGPU kernel graphics driver… ⌘ Read more

Linux Dropping Old Drivers, AI Detected Vulnerabilities & Other Kernel Highlights Of Q2
With Q2’2026 quickly coming to an end, here’s a recap of the most popular Linux kernel news over the past three months on Phoronix… ⌘ Read more

Linux 7.2 Surpasses More Than 43 Million Lines In The Kernel Tree
Today marks the last day of the Linux 7.2 merge window with Linux 7.2-rc1 due out later today. With the many new features and improvements merged over the past week since the Linux 7.1 stable debut, the Linux kernel source tree now exceeds 43 million lines… ⌘ Read more

Vim Patches Yielding Faster GTK3 Wayland Performance: “Major Milestone”
For those using Vim with its GTK3 toolkit interface on Wayland, it soon should be delivering much better performance with pending patches… ⌘ Read more

Nourish: A New Wayland Compositor Powered By Vulkan With Infinite Scrolling/Panning
The newest Wayland compositor on the block is Nourish, it’s a Vulkan-powered and its unique selling point is offering “infinite” zooming and panning to in effect provide an infinite workspace… ⌘ Read more

Reserved THP Feature Proposed For Linux To Combine The Best Of HugeTLB & THP
Linux kernel developer and Bytedance engineer Qi Zheng sent out a request for comments (RFC) patch series on a new feature called Reserved THP to combine the best of HugeTLB and THP kernel functionality… ⌘ Read more

Linux MD RAID5 Seeing Scalability Improvements Up To 17%
Posted to the Linux kernel mailing list this week was a new patch series working on scalability enhancements to the MD RAID5 software RAID code. Up to a 10~17% improvement was observed in some configurations with these RAID5 scalability patches… ⌘ Read more

KDE Plasma 6.7.2 To Fix KWin’s Most Common Crash, Plasma 6.8 To Not Crash When Ejecting CDs
While Plasma 6.7.1 was just released this week following the recent stable debut of Plasma 6.7, there are already a number of fixes piling up for Plasma 6.7.2 due out in July. Plus more feature work and fixes for Plasma 6.8 as the next desktop version going Wayland-only… ⌘ Read more

COSMIC’s New System Monitor Is Looking Very Slick
Not only is GNOME 51 working to replace GNOME System Monitor with its new replacement, but over in System76’s COSMIC space they have been baking their own new system monitor too… ⌘ Read more