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Phoronix@phoronix@masto.ai (2026-08-12 23:39:04)
Linux Finally Seeing Patches For Better Hybrid Graphics On 2018~2019 Era MacBook Pros
Patches posted today to the Linux kernel mailing list provide support for Apple GMUX hybrid graphics support on 2018~2019 Apple MacBook Pros. This allows for better power savings on these nearly decade old MacBook Pro laptops by allowing the discrete GPU to power down and be properly restored as needed...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-2026-Patches-For-2018-MBP
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Phoronix@phoronix@masto.ai (2026-08-12 23:09:07)
Intel ANV Driver Enables Vulkan Video AV1 Encoding For DG2/Alchemist GPUs
Hyunjun Ko of Igalia continues working on Vulkan Video support for Intel graphics hardware on Linux with the ANV driver. Merged now for Mesa 26.3-devel is enabling AV1 video encoding via Vulkan Video on DG2/Alchemist hardware...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Intel-DG2-Vulkan-Video-AV1
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Phoronix@phoronix@masto.ai (2026-08-12 19:39:06)
Linux 7.2 To Revert Back To The FIFO DRM Scheduler Policy Due To "Fair" Regressions
One of the Direct Rendering Manager changes made for Linux 7.2 was switching to "fair" as the DRM scheduler default in place of the existing FIFO policy. The intent was on making the DRM scheduler policy more fair with this being used by AMDGPU and various other DRM kernel graphics drivers. But due to a last minute regression report, the fair policy is being reverted for Linux 7.2...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-7.2-Reverting-DRM-Fair
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Phoronix@phoronix@masto.ai (2026-08-12 19:24:11)
Mold 2.42 Delivering Greater Performance For This High Speed Linker
It's been quiet since the Mold 2.41 release back in April while today it's now been succeeded by Mold 2.42 for deliver even greater performance out of this high speed linker...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Mold-2.42-Released
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Phoronix@phoronix@masto.ai (2026-08-12 19:24:09)
Intel LLM-Scaler Ready With Muse Glimmer Support, Other LLMs & Features
Intel's LLM-Scaler project that was born out of their Project Battlematrix initiative aims to make it easier to run generative AI on Arc (Pro) B-Series graphics cards with the likes of vLLM, ComfyUI, SGLang, and other popular AI software in this Docker-based pre-configured AI stack. This week new LLM-Scaler releases brought same-day support for new models and other enhancements...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Intel-LLM-Scaler-Muse-Glimmer
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Phoronix@phoronix@masto.ai (2026-08-12 19:09:05)
LACT 0.10 Released With New NVIDIA Overclocking Controls, Blackwell Hotspot Sensor
LACT is one of the popular third-party Linux GPU configuration and monitoring utilities that works across NVIDIA, AMD, and Intel graphics. This GUI provides GPU overclocking controls plus a wealth of information reporting, which is especially great considering the lack of any official GUI control panel for AMD Radeon and Intel Arc graphics on Linux. With today's LACT 0.10 release, there a…
https://www.phoronix.com/news/LACT-0.10-Released
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Phoronix@phoronix@masto.ai (2026-08-12 10:54:04)
QEMU 11.1 Released With Numerous Improvements
For those using QEMU as part of the open-source virtualization stack, QEMU 11.1 is now available with a number of new feature enhancements and fixes...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/QEMU-11.1-Released
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Phoronix@phoronix@masto.ai (2026-08-12 10:09:05)
Redox OS Enjoys installer Improvements, Performance Enhancements
A new blog post out today from the Redox OS crew highlights all of the interesting improvements made to this Rust-based, open-source operating system over the course of July...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Redox-OS-July-2026
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Phoronix@phoronix@masto.ai (2026-08-12 04:39:04)
Intel CPU Microcode 20260811 Release Fixes Eight Security Issues
Intel today published their 20260811 CPU microcode updates to fix a variety of issues for exciting processors, including shipping the first new microcode images for Bartlett Lake and Wildcat Lake. The new microcode updates stretch back to Intel Core Gen10 processors...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Intel-CPU-Microcode-20260811
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Phoronix@phoronix@masto.ai (2026-08-12 03:54:05)
OpenAI Brings ChatGPT Desktop App To Linux
OpenAI announced today they have brought their ChatGPT Desktop application to Linux and is currently in preview form...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/ChatGPT-Desktop-Linux-Preview
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Phoronix@phoronix@masto.ai (2026-08-11 23:54:02)
Analyzing Fedora's Slow Performance On The Framework Laptop 13 Pro With Intel Panther Lake
As part of my recent Linux testing of the Framework Laptop 13 Pro I had recently benchmarked six Linux distributions on the Framework Laptop 13 Pro. CachyOS was the fastest to not much surprise but arguably the most surprising aspect was finding Fedora Workstation 44 typically running slower than the five other modern Linux distributions benchmarked. Here's a follow-up to that wit…
https://www.phoronix.com/review/fedora-pantherlake-thermald-tuned
Phoronix@phoronix@masto.ai (2026-08-11 22:54:06)
Flatpak 1.19 Released With Nine Security Fixes
Flatpak 1.19 was released today as a new development release along with the Flatpak 1.18.1 stable point release. Both of these releases ship a number of newly-discovered security issues with this app sandboxing and distribution tech...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Flatpak-1.19-Released
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Phoronix@phoronix@masto.ai (2026-08-11 21:54:05)
GNOME Designers Lay Out Some Of Their GNOME Shell Dreams
GNOME interaction designer Tobias Bernard has shared some of the plans and ideas for long-term GNOME Shell improvements they have been eyeing for future GNOME releases...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/GNOME-Shell-Plans-2026
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Phoronix@phoronix@masto.ai (2026-08-11 21:24:23)
Up To 12.8x Improvement Observed For gup_test With New Linux MM Patches
Linux developer Rik van Riel has pulled off some nice Linux kernel optimizations over the years and the Meta engineer has been working on another one around batching of look-ups with Linux's follow_page_mask() that is used for translating virtual addresses to the corresponding struct page...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-Batch-Follow-Page-Mask
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Phoronix@phoronix@masto.ai (2026-08-11 21:09:05)
Raspberry Pi AXI PMU Driver Under Review For The Mainline Linux Kernel
One of the Raspberry Pi device drivers that has remained elusive from the mainline Linux kernel has been for the performance monitoring unit (PMU) for the Broadcom AXI on all Raspberry Pi 1 through Raspberry Pi 5 models. Thanks to the work of a Google engineer, there is a new effort working to get a mainline Linux driver for the Raspberry Pi AXI PMU...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Raspberry-Pi-AXI-PMU-Linux
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Phoronix@phoronix@masto.ai (2026-08-11 19:39:05)
FastFlowLM 1.0 Released Now As Part Of The AMD ROCm Umbrella
FastFlowLM is the open-source software for getting vision, audio, embedding, and MoE large language models up and running on AMD Ryzen AI NPUs. FastFlowLM 1.0 released today and is also now part of the AMD ROCm software umbrella...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/FastFlowLM-1.0
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Phoronix@phoronix@masto.ai (2026-08-11 19:24:07)
Rusticl Now Supports cl_ext_float_atomics
With the recent release of Mesa 26.2 the Rusticl OpenCL driver now supports OpenCL 3.1 on RadeonSI, LLVMpipe, Zink, Intel Iris, and Apple Asahi. But the work is not over and more improvements to this Rust-based, modern OpenCL driver continue to land...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Rusticl-cl_ext_float_atomics
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Phoronix@phoronix@masto.ai (2026-08-11 19:24:05)
Claude Opus Helped Debug & Fix Lack Of Audio On Linux For HP OmniBook X Flip 14
The HP OmniBook X Flip 14-kc0xxx is an AMD Ryzen AI 300 "Strix Point" powered laptop. While most AMD Strix Point laptops work fine on modern Linux distributions, with this particular HP OmniBook X there is no working audio with current mainline Linux kernel builds. With Claude Opus 5 acting as a debugging assistant and coding agent, patches are now pending to correct the audio support for th…
https://www.phoronix.com/news/HP-X-Flip-14-Linux-Audio
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Phoronix@phoronix@masto.ai (2026-08-11 10:24:06)
Open-Source NVIDIA "Nova" Driver Sees More Functionality For Linux 7.3
Sent to DRM-Next this week was the DRM Rust core and driver changes targeting the upcoming Linux 7.3 merge window. There continues to be a lot of DRM core infrastructure work happening for Rust integration plus two leading Rust DRM drivers of Nova for open-source NVIDIA GPU support as the successor to Nouveau and then Tyr as the in-development Arm Mali driver...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/NVIDIA-Nova-Rust-Linux-7.3
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Phoronix@phoronix@masto.ai (2026-08-11 04:54:04)
Fedora CoreOS To Enable systemd-oomd & zRAM Swap By Default
Fedora's CoreOS as their container-optimized operating system will be moving to enable systemd-oomd by default with Fedora CoreOS 45. Additionally, swap on zRAM will be enabled by default too...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Fedora-CoreOS-OOMD-zRAM-Swap
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Phoronix@phoronix@masto.ai (2026-08-11 03:54:06)
Five More Lenovo Laptops To Report Fan Sensors With Linux 7.3
In addition to more ASUS motherboards having working sensors with Linux 7.3, this next kernel version will also get several more Lenovo laptop models to be reporting their fan sensor information under Linux...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-7.3-Yogafan-Driver
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Phoronix@phoronix@masto.ai (2026-08-11 02:39:11)
Linux 7.3 Bringing A KCFI Optimization To Benefit Older Intel CPUs
Expected to be merged during the upcoming Linux 7.3 merge window is a Kernel Control Flow Integrity (KCFI) improvement intended to benefit older Intel processors...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-7.3-KCFI-Optimization
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Phoronix@phoronix@masto.ai (2026-08-11 00:40:23)
Qt Toolkit To Introduce Edge AI Submodule, Initially For Vision AI With Qt
The Qt Group has been working on various AI integrations for the Qt toolkit in recent times like a QML profiler skill for agentic development to help with performance profiling. They have also worked on Qt AI coding assistants and AI agents in the Qt Creator integrated development environment. Their latest AI use is now preparing to introduce a new module in the Qt toolkit itself for edge AI infe…
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Qt-Edge-AI-Module-Coming
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Phoronix@phoronix@masto.ai (2026-08-10 23:54:02)
Intel Xeon 678X Windows 11 vs. Ubuntu 26.04 Performance With The HP Z4 G6i
HP recently launched their Z4 G6i workstation that I have been testing out the past few weeks. The HP Z4 G6i is powered by Granite Rapids WS with the review unit specifically being powered by the Intel Xeon 678X. As the unit shipped with Microsoft Windows 11 Pro and this being the first time I've had my hands on Granite Rapids WS, I took the opportunity to run some Windows 11 vs. Ubuntu 26.04 LTS…
https://www.phoronix.com/review/intel-xeon-678x-windows-linux
Phoronix@phoronix@masto.ai (2026-08-10 22:09:05)
Linux Mint Improves Kernel Management & Setting System-Wide Environment Variables
Linux Mint is out today with their July 2026 status update that highlights all the improvements made to their distribution over the past month...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-Mint-July-2026
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Phoronix@phoronix@masto.ai (2026-08-10 20:24:05)
Meta Publishes Muse Glimmer As 30B Open Agentic Model
The Meta Superintelligence Labs announced this morning they have released Muse Glimmer as their next large language model featuring 30 billion parameters for always-on local agent workflows. Muse Glimmer features open-source model weights under an Apache 2.0 license...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Meta-Muse-Glimmer
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Phoronix@phoronix@masto.ai (2026-08-10 19:39:37)
Minor Optimization Coming For AMD Athlon XP Era Systems Running Linux
A minor performance optimization is on the way to the Linux kernel for roughly two decade old CPUs that have SSE but lack SSE2. Among those CPUs to benefit are the AMD Athlon XP series, some early Sempron models, and some Intel Celeron and Pentium III models...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-WMB-SSE-Optimization
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Phoronix@phoronix@masto.ai (2026-08-10 19:24:04)
Apple M1 Series SoCs To See ~1 Watt Power Savings With Linux 7.3
In addition to Linux 7.3 slated to receive initial Apple M3 Pro / Max / Ultra SoC support, this next version of the Linux kernel is also set to bring some minor power savings for the Apple M1 series that remains the best supported Apple Silicon on Linux...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Apple-M1-Power-Savings-Linux-73
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Phoronix@phoronix@masto.ai (2026-08-10 19:09:07)
Old SGI Drivers Being Removed In Linux 7.3 Over Security Concerns
On top of various other Linux drivers for old hardware being removed due to noise generated by AI/LLM coding agents, there are more examples coming with Linux 7.3 as some old Silicon Graphics (SGI) drivers are being removed from the mainline Linux kernel over security concerns...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/SGI-GRU-Being-Removed
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Phoronix@phoronix@masto.ai (2026-08-10 07:24:07)
Linux 7.2-rc7 Released Following Another Exhausting AI-Driven Week
Linux 7.2-rc7 is now available for testing as we close in on the official Linux 7.2 release hopefully next weekend...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-7.2-rc7-Released
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