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Phoronix@phoronix@masto.ai (2026-10-16 23:39:02)
Intel Xeon 6980P Granite Rapids Performance On Linux Over The Past Year
It's been nearly one year since receiving the Gigabyte R284-A92-AAL1 2U Granite Rapids server platform for continuing my testing of the flagship Xeon 6980P processors. Curious how the Xeon 6980P 2P performance has evolved on Linux since then, I ran some benchmarks on the newly-released Ubuntu Server 26.10 against the tests carried out last year on Ubuntu 25.10 with the same hardware.
https://www.phoronix.com/review/intel-xeon-granite-rapids-ubuntu-2610
Phoronix@phoronix@masto.ai (2026-10-16 22:39:05)
AI-Generated Starling Desktop Environment Rolls Out Its Own Office Suite
Starling, the open-source desktop environment written in Swift and with its own Wayland compositor too and written largely via Claude Code, has now rolled out its own AI-generated office suite...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/AI-Starling-Desktop-Office
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Phoronix@phoronix@masto.ai (2026-10-16 22:09:05)
Fedora 46 Looking At Moving To RPM v6 Package Format
The RPM v4 packaging format has been used by Red Hat Enterprise Linux and Fedora and its derivatives for more than two decades. With next year's Fedora 46 release, Fedora Linux may finally transition to the modern RPM v6 packaging format...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Fedora-46-RPM-v6
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Phoronix@phoronix@masto.ai (2026-10-16 19:39:06)
AI Resurrects AVX-512 Support For Mesa's LLVMpipe Software Driver
With pending code for Mesa, the LLVMpipe software-based Gallium3D/OpenGL driver could soon become faster on modern systems that support AVX-512. That's assuming the AI/LLVM-generated code is all in order...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/LLVMpipe-AVX-512-MR
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Phoronix@phoronix@masto.ai (2026-10-16 19:24:06)
Linux 7.4 To Enable Intel Instruction Timeout For Fending Off TDX VM DoS Attacks
Linux 7.4 is enabling support for a new Intel CPU feature for providing safety against possible denial of service attacks using Trust Domain Extensions "TDX" VMs. The new feature is Intel Instruction Timeout and previously in-development known as Notify VM Exit...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Intel-Instruction-Timeout-Linux
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Phoronix@phoronix@masto.ai (2026-10-16 18:39:05)
Linux 7.3 Squeezes Even More Performance Out Of The AMD Threadripper PRO 9995WX
With the Linux 7.3 kernel due out for release on Sunday, I've continued running more benchmarks recently of this forthcoming kernel version and it looks great. In my Linux 7.3 testing of the Git state it's been looking great in testing on a variety of hardware shown across multiple systems. Recently I decided to try out this new kernel code on the 96-core AMD Ryzen Threadripper PRO 9995WX wo…
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-7.3-Threadripper-9995WX
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Phoronix@phoronix@masto.ai (2026-10-16 18:24:05)
Intel LLM-Scaler-vLLM PV 1.5 Brings Big Improvements
Intel software engineers today released the latest version of LLM-Scaler-vLLM PV 1.5, their containerized Docker stack providing a convenient AI/LLM experience atop Intel Arc Graphics hardware and born out of their Project Battlematrix initiative...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Intel-LLM-Scaler-vLLM-PV-1.5
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Phoronix@phoronix@masto.ai (2026-10-16 18:09:05)
Mesa's Zink Now Offers VA-API Video Acceleration Atop Vulkan Video
Merged today to Mesa 26.3 is initial video acceleration support for the generic Zink Gallium3D driver built atop the Vulkan APIs. What this implementation allows is exposing Video Acceleration API (VA-API) implemented atop the Vulkan Video interfaces...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Mesa-Zink-VA-API-On-Vulkan
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Phoronix@phoronix@masto.ai (2026-10-16 10:54:05)
Fedora 45 Will Not Be Released Next Week
For those eager to run the pristine Fedora 45 media, you will need to wait at least one more week...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Fedora-45-First-No-Go
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Phoronix@phoronix@masto.ai (2026-10-16 07:24:04)
Today's Steam Beta Makes The Linux Client A 64-bit App
Valve just dropped a new Steam client beta and it's a big one for Linux gamers...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Steam-Linux-Beta-64-bit
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Phoronix@phoronix@masto.ai (2026-10-16 06:24:05)
Intel Nova Lake S & Nova Lake P To Support SR-IOV With Xe Graphics
A patch has been posted to the Linux kernel mailing list by an Intel engineer confirming that Nova Lake S and Nova Lake P processors with integrated graphics will support SR-IOV in conjunction with the Xe kernel graphics driver...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Intel-Nova-Lake-SR-IOV-Xe
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Phoronix@phoronix@masto.ai (2026-10-16 04:09:01)
LPDDR5 5467 vs. 6400 vs. 7467 MT/s Memory Performance Benchmarks For Laptops
With the recently reviewed Star Labs StarFighter Ultra Linux laptop its BIOS allows for configurable memory speeds unlike many other laptop vendor BIOS implementations these days. Star Labs also made the default design decision to run the LPDDR5-7467 rated memory at LPDDR5-6400 speeds in the name of a balanced user experience for power/performance. So I was curious to run some benchmarks quanti…
https://www.phoronix.com/review/lpddr5-5467-6400-7467
Phoronix@phoronix@masto.ai (2026-10-16 03:24:04)
Memtest86+ v9.00 Released With Support For ARM64 Memory Testing
The open-source Memtest86+ program that is popular for RAM testing has expanded beyond the x86/x86_64 (and LoongArch64) world to now support memory testing on ARM64/AArch64 hardware...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/memtest86-Plus-9.0
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Phoronix@phoronix@masto.ai (2026-10-16 00:09:07)
3mdeb Releases Updated Dasharo/Coreboot Firmware For ASRock Rack SPC741D8-2L2T
3mdeb firmware engineers have been quite busy this year working on porting Coreboot and openSIL to an AMD Ryzen AM5 MSI motherboard and similarly getting openSIL and Coreboot up and running on a Gigabyte server motherboard for AMD EPYC 9005 CPUs. They haven't forgotten about their past projects though and today released an updated version of their Dasharo downstream firmware for the ASRock Ra…
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Dasharo-0.9-ASRock-SPC741D8
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Phoronix@phoronix@masto.ai (2026-10-15 23:39:08)
Claude Code / AI Shows Potential For Reverse-Engineering Hardware For Linux Support
AI/LLMs like Claude Code are beginning to prove capable of helping to reverse engineer hardware for Linux support, especially when it comes to the tedious reverse engineering tasks...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/AI-Reverse-Engineer-Linux-HW
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Phoronix@phoronix@masto.ai (2026-10-15 20:39:07)
Ubuntu 26.10 Released With Linux 7.3 + GNOME 51, Rust Coreutils Migration Complete
Ubuntu 26.10 "Stonking Stingray" is now officially available as the newest six-month non-LTS update to Ubuntu Linux...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Ubuntu-26.10-Released
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Phoronix@phoronix@masto.ai (2026-10-15 19:39:08)
Huawei Proposes Enabling CPU Boost By Default For ACPI CPPC Linux Driver
For those using the generic ACPI Collaborative Processor Performance Control (CPPC) CPUFreq driver such as on a number of ARM64 Linux server platforms, if the CPUs support a "boost" mode it's disabled by default. But a patch from Huawei is now looking to enable CPU boost mode by default on Linux...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Huawei-Proposes-Boost-Default
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Phoronix@phoronix@masto.ai (2026-10-15 19:39:06)
GNOME Mutter Improves Damage Tracking For Secondary GPU Copy Buffers
As an early improvement to Mutter to look forward to with GNOME 52, the compositor is now tracking damage for secondary GPU copy buffers. This should improve the experience for those with multi-GPU setups such as some hybrid laptops...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Mutter-2nd-GPU-Damage-Track
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Phoronix@phoronix@masto.ai (2026-10-15 19:09:05)
Microsoft Releases Microsoft Defender For The Linux Desktop
Microsoft's newest software release for Linux is... Microsoft Defender for the Linux desktop. Microsoft Defender has been ported to Linux to "secure Linux desktops" with Microsoft acknowledging that "more developers begin to use Linux desktops" and thus bringing their security application and threat-protection product to Linux desktops to complement their prior ill-used Linux server support...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Microsoft-Defender-For-Linux-D
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Phoronix@phoronix@masto.ai (2026-10-15 04:39:02)
Framework Computers Triples Their Financial Support To CachyOS
In addition to providing Framework systems to the CachyOS Linux distribution for optimizing the support, Framework Computers has also been providing monthly donations to the project. CachyOS confirmed today that Framework Computers has now tripled their monthly donations to this independent Linux distribution built atop Arch Linux...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Framework-More-CachyOS
Phoronix@phoronix@masto.ai (2026-10-15 03:54:02)
Apple Contributes SSAF Driver To LLVM Clang For Source Code Transformations
Apple compiler engineers have contributed to upstream LLVM/Clang today a Scalable Static Analysis Framework (SSAF) driver for whole-program based analysis and source-to-source code transformations...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Apple-Clang-SSAF-Driver
Phoronix@phoronix@masto.ai (2026-10-15 01:09:02)
Epic Games To Improve Easy Anti-Cheat On Linux With Anti-Cheat Systemd Service & eBPF
In addition to Epic Games announced a preview of their new Epic Games Launcher, including Linux support, they also announced plans to improve their Easy Anti-Cheat (EAC) software on Linux. Along with this improved EAC they are also working on official Linux support for the popular Fortnite game...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Easy-Anti-Cheat-Better-Linux
Phoronix@phoronix@masto.ai (2026-10-14 23:24:02)
Ubuntu 26.10 amd64v3 Packages Provide Some Additional Uplift On AMD EPYC
In addition to Ubuntu 26.10 itself delivering some nice performance gains on Ubuntu 26.10 for AMD EPYC servers and other hardware, the optional and currently-unofficial amd64v3 package archive also provides additional performance uplift. Here is a look quantifying the performance impact of amd64v3 packages on AMD EPYC 9005 series servers.
https://www.phoronix.com/review/ubuntu-2610-amd64v3-epyc
Phoronix@phoronix@masto.ai (2026-10-14 22:24:02)
HP EliteBook 6 G1q Powered By Snapdragon X1 Plus Sees Linux Patches
Canonical engineer Juerg Haefliger posted a set of Device Tree patches in working to support the mainline Linux kernel on the HP EliteBook 6 G1q laptop that is powered by the Qualcomm Snapdragon X1 Plus SoC...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/HP-EliteBook-6-Q1q-Linux-Patch
Phoronix@phoronix@masto.ai (2026-10-14 21:09:02)
Linux Finally Making It Easier To Answer The Question: "Is This RISC-V System RVA23?"
The RISC-V RVA23 profile is a big deal for reducing fragmentation in the RISC-V ecosystem and standardizing more of the ISA to make it easier to distribute modern RISC-V binaries and the like. Modern versions of Ubuntu mandate RVA23 even though compliant hardware is still quite limited. Somewhat surprisingly, only coming about now is an easy ability for Linux users to find the answer t…
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-Answering-RVA23-Question
Phoronix@phoronix@masto.ai (2026-10-14 20:54:02)
BeOS-Inspired Haiku Landed More Hardware Improvements & Other Changes In September
Released at the end of August was Haiku R1 Beta 6 and over the course of September, further improvements continued to land for this BeOS-inspired project now in its 25th year of development...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Haiku-September-2026
Phoronix@phoronix@masto.ai (2026-10-14 19:24:02)
Cloud Hypervisor 54 Released With Live Migration Improvements
Cloud Hypervisor, the Rust-based Virtual Machine Monitor that began as an Intel open-source project and evolved into a multi-vendor Linux Foundation project, is out today with a sizable feature update...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Cloud-Hypervisor-54
Phoronix@phoronix@masto.ai (2026-10-14 19:24:01)
Rustls 0.23.46 Released With Four Security Fixes
Rustls as the modern TLS library written in the Rust programming language with an emphasis on memory safety is out today with its v0.23.46 release in order to ship four new security fixes...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Rustls-0.23.46-Released
Phoronix@phoronix@masto.ai (2026-10-14 18:39:02)
KDE Plasma 6.8 Released, Marks 30 Years Of The KDE Project
The feature-packed and polished Plasma 6.8 KDE desktop is now available. Making this release all the more special is that it coincides with the 30th anniversary of the KDE project...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/KDE-Plasma-6.8-Released
Phoronix@phoronix@masto.ai (2026-10-14 10:09:01)
Mesa Expands NPU Capabilities With Support For YOLOX With PyTorch
While Mesa is predominantly used for GPU drivers, open-source developer Tomeu Vizoso continues advancing the capabilities of NPUs within the Mesa driver stack...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Mesa-Torx-YOLOX-PyTorch
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