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Phoronix@phoronix@masto.ai (2026-07-22 21:39:38)
libx11-compat Is Working To Implement Xlib Atop SDL For Wayland, macOS, Android
For helping to keep X11 clients running in a modern Linux desktop world with Wayland or even for running on macOS or Android, there is now yet-another option being developed with libx11-compat. The libx11-compat project is working to re-implement the Xlib client library atop SDL2/SDL3 interfaces for allow broad underlying platform coverage...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/libx11-compat
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Phoronix@phoronix@masto.ai (2026-07-22 21:24:05)
Intel Directed Package-Level Thermal Interrupts Slated For Linux 7.3
Back in March Intel software engineers began sending out Linux patches for Directed Package-Level Thermal Interrupts as a new capability with recent Intel processors. This notable efficiency improvement is now queued for introduction in the Linux 7.3 cycle once its merge window opens in a month...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Intel-Direct-Pkg-Therm-Linux-73
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Phoronix@phoronix@masto.ai (2026-07-22 21:09:04)
The "New Normal" Of Audio Quirks Submitted For Linux 7.2-rc5
Linux sound subsystem maintainer Takashi Iwai of SUSE sent out this week's batch of sound fixes that he describes as "A collection of fixes that have been accumulated recently. The amount is still "new normal", but all small fixes. Mostly hardware-specific quirks, but including a few core fixes, too." The "new normal" has been a common phrase recently to reflect the increased tempo of patches as well as securi…
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-7.2-rc5-Audio-Fixes
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Phoronix@phoronix@masto.ai (2026-07-22 20:54:05)
Raspberry Pi Touch Display 2 10-Inch Model Launches
Following the launch of the 7-inch Raspberry Pi Touch Display 2 and the 5-inch display variant, Raspberry Pi announced today the addition of a 10-inch model...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/10-inch-Raspberry-Pi-Touch-2
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Phoronix@phoronix@masto.ai (2026-07-22 07:09:26)
Cryptsetup 2.8.7 Released To Deal With Fallout Of Linux's Rushed AF_ALG Deprecation
Linux's cryptsetup for configuring and managing encrypted storage devices is ready with a new version as the developers work to deal with the recent deprecation of the Linux AF_ALG interface...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Cryptsetup-2.8.7-Released
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Phoronix@phoronix@masto.ai (2026-07-22 03:09:09)
Three New Ubuntu Snap Vulnerabilities Made Public - One Dates Back To Ubuntu 16.04 LTS
Canonical today disclosed three new Snap security vulnerabilities affecting snapd. Two are rated high impact vulnerabilities while the third is considered medium but covers all Ubuntu releases of the past decade going back to Ubuntu 16.04 LTS...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Ubuntu-Snap-Three-More-Vulns
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Phoronix@phoronix@masto.ai (2026-07-22 03:09:06)
Qualcomm Posts Linux Patches For X2 Elite Extreme Powered ASUS Zenbook A16
Following recent Linux kernel patches enabling the Snapdragon X2 Elite powered Lenovo Yoga Slim 7x Gen11 and HP EliteBook X G2q X2 Elite laptops to boot outside of Windows 11 on ARM, Qualcomm engineers have now posted a new patch series for getting the X2 Elite Extreme powered ASUS Zenbook A16 working on Linux...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Qualcomm-Zenbook-A16-X2EE
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Phoronix@phoronix@masto.ai (2026-07-22 01:09:08)
KDE Plasma 6.7 vs. GNOME Shell 50.3 vs. Xfce 4.20 On CachyOS With NVIDIA Graphics
Earlier this month I provided a look at the KDE Plasma 6.7 Wayland vs. X11 session performance for graphics/gaming on CachyOS using NVIDIA GeForce RTX 50 graphics. Since then Phoronix readers -- including some premium supporters -- requested seeing some additional desktops tested with the latest CachyOS packages. So here we are now with seeing how KDE Plasma 6.7 compared to the Wayland-onl…
https://www.phoronix.com/review/cachyos-desktops-july-2026
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Phoronix@phoronix@masto.ai (2026-07-22 00:54:09)
Canonical Makes The "Enterprise Store" Official For Offline/Air-Gapped Ubuntu Usage
For months the Enterprise Store "enterprise-store" has been mentioned in some Ubuntu documentation and other elements while today it was formally announced by Canonical. The Enterprise Store is for helping to manage Ubuntu Linux deployments particularly within enterprise organizations that may have their computers air-gapped or otherwise strict Internet controls...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Ubuntu-Enterprise-Store
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Phoronix@phoronix@masto.ai (2026-07-21 22:40:45)
Stratis Storage Anaconda Integration Approved For Fedora 45
The Fedora Engineering and Steering Committee (FESCo) has approved the latest batch of features for the upcoming Fedora 45 release...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Fedora-45-Approves-Stratis
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Phoronix@phoronix@masto.ai (2026-07-21 21:09:07)
AMD Ryzen AI Halo LED Driver Queued For Introduction In Linux 7.3
For those that have picked up one of the neat AMD Ryzen AI Halo mini PCs, the LED driver allowing for customization of the LED lighting bar is set to be mainlined for the Linux 7.3 kernel cycle...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Ryzen-AI-Halo-LED-Linux-7.3
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Phoronix@phoronix@masto.ai (2026-07-21 19:40:46)
Intel Compute Runtime Continues Building Out Exciting "LEO"
Going in-step with last week's release of the Intel Graphics Compiler 2.38.2, out today is the Intel Compute Runtime 26.27.39122.11. Most intriguing with the new release is Intel continuing to build out the still-experimental LEO feature...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Intel-CR-26.27.39122.11
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Phoronix@phoronix@masto.ai (2026-07-21 19:09:14)
AMD Getting The Linux Kernel Ready For Zen 6 Profiling/Perf With More EILVT Registers
Among the recent patch series in preparing Linux for upcoming AMD Zen 6 processors is making the kernel aware of additional EILVT registers to be found with at least EPYC Venice platforms...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/AMD-Zen-6-More-EILVT-Registers
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Phoronix@phoronix@masto.ai (2026-07-21 19:09:12)
InputPlumber 0.78 Released With Expanded Hardware Support
InputPlumber is out with its newest feature release. As a reminder, InputPlumber is the open-source input router and remapper daemon for combining various input devices from gamepads to mice and keyboards as well as the ability to emulate them...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/InputPlumber-0.78-Released
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Phoronix@phoronix@masto.ai (2026-07-21 09:39:15)
Cold Reset Recovery Coming Together To Better Help Intel GPUs On Linux
One of the patch series going through nearly a dozen revisions now is for introducing a cold reset recovery method for the Direct Rendering Manager (DRM) drivers with an initial focus on the Intel Xe kernel graphics driver...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Intel-Cold-Reset-Recovery-Linux
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Phoronix@phoronix@masto.ai (2026-07-21 05:24:05)
NetworkManager 1.58 Released With 464XLAT CLAT Support & GENEVE Interface
NetworkManager 1.58 is out today with the latest feature enhancements for bettering wired and wireless network management on Linux...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/NetworkManager-1.58
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Phoronix@phoronix@masto.ai (2026-07-21 04:09:05)
Intel Expanding Memory Options For Current Xeon 6 / Xeon 6+ Servers
With Intel's next-generation Xeon Diamond Rapids processors not slated to launch until next year and with AMD EPYC Venice being right around the corner, Intel announced today that with upcoming BIOS updates they will be expanding the range of RDIMM and MRDIMM memory support for current-generation Xeon 6 and Xeon 6+ processors...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Intel-More-Xeon-6-MRDIMMs
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Phoronix@phoronix@masto.ai (2026-07-21 01:24:05)
AMD Talks Up The Great Opportunities Of SPIR-V IR With ROCm
While AMD ROCm 7.14 released last week as the first production release built off TheRock, there is already more to look forward to moving into the future with the AMD ROCm stack... In particular, SPIR-V with ROCm becoming a reality for unified binaries that can work across graphics architectures/targets, better portability across GPU hardware, and other improvements to the experience in targeting a unified IR...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/AMD-ROCm-SPIR-V-Reality-2026
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Phoronix@phoronix@masto.ai (2026-07-21 01:09:04)
GNOME Changes Security Disclosure Policies Due To AI-Generated Reports
The GNOME project is changing its handling of security reports due to the influx of AI/LLM-generated security findings...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/GNOME-Security-Changes-2026
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Phoronix@phoronix@masto.ai (2026-07-20 23:09:07)
Linux 7.2 Improves Intel Panther Lake Xe3 Arc B390 Graphics Performance
My testing of the in-development Linux 7.2 kernel continues in the lab. One of the latest promising findings from this kernel that will be released as stable in August is faster Intel Xe3 graphics performance on Core Ultra Series 3 "Panther Lake" hardware.
https://www.phoronix.com/review/linux-72-panther-lake
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Phoronix@phoronix@masto.ai (2026-07-20 22:54:06)
Linux Patches Introduce "KNOD" For In-Kernel Network Offloading Directly To AMD GPUs
Some extremely cool patches were posted to the Linux kernel mailing list on Sunday. The patches for "KNOD" allow for in-kernel network offloading to GPUs with an initial focus on AMD GPU support. What makes this all the more nifty is that it doesn't depend upon any user-space libraries like AMD ROCm but is all handled in-kernel with driving the GPU directly...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/KNOD-Network-Offload-AMD-GPUs
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Phoronix@phoronix@masto.ai (2026-07-20 20:39:21)
Firefox 153 Available With Support For Vulkan Video Decoding, Experimental JPEG-XL
Mozilla has uploaded the Firefox 153.0 release binaries today for the newest monthly update to this cross-platform web browser. Making Firefox 153 exciting is that it's the newest Extended Support Release "ESR" as well as introducing Vulkan Video decode support...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Firefox-153-Downloads
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Phoronix@phoronix@masto.ai (2026-07-20 20:39:19)
openSUSE Seeking Additional Corporate Sponsors
While openSUSE is closely aligned with SUSE as a company, they aren't the exclusive sponsor of this free and open-source Linux distribution with its rolling-release Tumbleweed and Leap stable releases. AMD has been a longtime major supporter of openSUSE and the Fastly content delivery company has been another platinum sponsor too besides SUSE. There are also various other lower-tier sponsors while today the openSUSE Projec…
https://www.phoronix.com/news/openSUSE-Needs-More-Sponsors
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Phoronix@phoronix@masto.ai (2026-07-20 19:39:29)
AMD Posts AVX10_V2_AUX ISA Support Patches For GCC Compiler
Earlier this month Intel compiler engineers posted initial GCC compiler patches for the AI Compute Extensions "ACE" that was born out of the x86 Ecosystem Advisory Group to augment AVX and scalar code with new capabilities for AI/ML workloads. Now as part of that an AMD compiler engineer posted patches over the weekend for AVX10_V2_AUX ISA support...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/GCC-AVX10-V2-AUX-Patches
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Phoronix@phoronix@masto.ai (2026-07-20 19:24:09)
Linux's Qualcomm Crypto Accelerator Driver "Harmful" And Being Disabled: Slower Than CPU, History Of Bugs
The Qualcomm Crypto Engine Accelerator "QCE" driver is being disabled within the Linux 7.3 kernel over a number of issues, including being slower than having the CPU cores handling cryptographic work and a history of different driver bugs. Plus race conditions causing security issues and other challenges...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-QCE-Disabling
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Phoronix@phoronix@masto.ai (2026-07-20 19:24:08)
Hyprland 0.56 Released With Many Enhancements To This Wayland Compositor
Out today is Hyprland 0.56 as the newest feature update to this unique Wayland compositor and incorporating just under three months worth of improvements...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Hyprland-0.56
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Phoronix@phoronix@masto.ai (2026-07-20 06:24:14)
Linux 7.2-rc4 Released: Looking Like The "New Normal"
The fourth weekly release candidate of the Linux 7.2 kernel is now available for testing...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-7.2-rc4-Released
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Phoronix@phoronix@masto.ai (2026-07-19 23:39:11)
The Last MPEG-4 Visual Patent Has Expired
If you are looking for a reason to celebrate today, the last of the MPEG-4 Part 2 patents expired today...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Last-MPEG-4-Patent-Expired
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Phoronix@phoronix@masto.ai (2026-07-19 20:24:05)
FFmpeg Lands Latest AVX-512 Optimization: 1.372x Faster In Pixel Format Conversion
The latest hand-tuned code in the FFmpeg multimedia library for allowing better performance on today's modern Intel/AMD AVX-512-capable processors is showing 1.372x faster performance for RGB24 to RGBA pixel format conversions...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/FFmpeg-AVX-512-1.372x
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Phoronix@phoronix@masto.ai (2026-07-19 19:39:03)
Legion Y700 Gen4 Tablet Powered By Snapdragon 8 Elite Seeing Linux Patches
The Legion Y700 Gen4 is an Android tablet that debuted last year and powered by the Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Elite chipset. This 8.8-inch tablet is now seeing patches for enabling Linux support outside the confines of Android and will hopefully end up in the mainline kernel...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Lenovo-Y700-Gen4-Linux-Patches
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