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Phoronix@phoronix@masto.ai (2026-08-15 23:39:13)
Intel's Jay Graphics Shader Compiler Now Passing Vulkan CTS With Xe2/Xe3 Hardware

Last year Alyssa Rosenzweig joined Intel to work on their Linux graphics drivers after previously serving as a contractor for Valve on their graphics stack and also previously leading the Mesa driver work for the Asahi Linux Apple Silicon graphics support. Since joining Intel, she has been leading the development of Jay as a new SSA-based shader compiler for Intel graphics hardware to be u…
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Intel-Jay-Compiler-Xe2-Xe3-CTS
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Phoronix@phoronix@masto.ai (2026-08-15 21:09:20)
RustConn 0.20 Continues Further Polishing This GTK4/libadwaita-Based Connection Manager

RustConn has been in development for a while now as a modern GTK4 connection manager supporting a variety of protocols like SSH, RDP, VNC, Telnet, and more. RustConn 0.20 was released this week as the latest major step forward to this Rust-based connection manager leveraging the GTK4 toolkit and libadwaita...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/RustConn-0.20-Released
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Phoronix@phoronix@masto.ai (2026-08-15 20:09:08)
Late Sound Fixes For Linux 7.2 Bring More Device Quirks, Intel Nova Lake HDMI-In Capture

Ahead of the presumed Linux 7.2 stable kernel release tomorrow, some last minute sound fixes/quirks have been merged for this next kernel version...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Last-Sound-Fixes-Linux-7.2
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Phoronix@phoronix@masto.ai (2026-08-15 20:09:06)
KDE Plasma 6.8 To Allow Fine-Tuning Mouse/Touchpad Speeds

KDE developers continue to be quite busy this summer baking improvements for the upcoming Plasma 6.8 desktop release. This Week in Plasna is out with its newest issue to outline all of these interesting enhancements...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Plasma-6.8-Tune-Mouse-Speeds
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Phoronix@phoronix@masto.ai (2026-08-15 19:55:13)
Debian Developers Begin Voting Over LLM Usage Within The Project

Debian developers have been considering a general resolution over LLM usage within the project. After collecting a variety of proposals, voting has now commenced for Debian developers to decide how comfortable they are with AI / Large Language Model contributions in the project or not...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Debian-Votes-On-LLM-Usage
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Phoronix@phoronix@masto.ai (2026-08-15 10:09:05)
AMD Posts Massive 109 Patch Series For GFX 12.1 RAS Support On Friday Evening

AMD has a tendency to send out large feature patch series for their open-source Linux drivers on Friday afternoons/evenings. Today we were greeted by a set of 109 patches working on RAS support for the upcoming AMD GFX12.1 target...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/AMD-GFX12.1-RAS-Patch-Series
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Phoronix@phoronix@masto.ai (2026-08-15 05:39:05)
D7VK 2.1 Brings Faster Load Times, More Performance Tweaks

D7VK as the open-source implementation of the Direct3D 7 / 6 / 5/ 3 APIs atop the Vulkan API for Linux/Wine usage is out with another feature update. D7VK continues to mature quite well for further enhancing these older Direct3D API versions that cover the span prior to DXVK's focus of Direct3D 8 to Direct3D 11 or VKD3D-Proton's Direct3D 12...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/D7VK-2.1
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Phoronix@phoronix@masto.ai (2026-08-15 05:09:05)
Lemonade 11.6 Integrates Muse-Glimmer 30B, Experimental TheNoise ROCm Image Generation

For those dabbling with generative AI on the weekends, the AMD-led Lemonade SDK 11.6 is out today with its newest feature release of this open-source software for running local AI apps with optimized LLMs across CPUs, GPUs, and NPUs...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Lemonade-SDK-11.6
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Phoronix@phoronix@masto.ai (2026-08-15 03:24:08)
Omarchy 4.0 Linux Distro Released With Desktop Shell Now Implemented Via Quickshell

Omarchy as the Arch Linux distribution developed by David Heinemeier Hansson "DHH" / Basecamp is out today with Omarchy 4.0 as the distro's biggest release to date...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Omarchy-4.0-Released
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Phoronix@phoronix@masto.ai (2026-08-15 00:24:02)
Linux 7.1, Linux 7.2 Performance On The Intel Xeon 600 Series

With Linux 7.2 expected for its stable release this weekend, today's testing has some additional testing of the Linux 7.2 Git kernel as well as Linux 7.1 stable compared to Linux 7.0 as used by default on Ubuntu 26.04 LTS. Phoronix testing previously conducted of Linux 7.2 have shown benefits for Intel Arc B390 Xe3 in some configurations, faster poll performance on AMD Ryzen Threadripper and other hardware, a…
https://www.phoronix.com/review/intel-xeon-6-linux-72


Phoronix@phoronix@masto.ai (2026-08-14 20:09:04)
Features Coming For Linux 7.3 From Optimizing Intel Hybrid CPUs To Old AMD Athlon XPs

With Linux 7.2 expected to see its stable debut Sunday, here is a look at what I have been monitoring as changes expected to be submitted during the Linux 7.3 merge window that will open on Monday...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-7.3-Features-Preview
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Phoronix@phoronix@masto.ai (2026-08-14 19:24:08)
Patches Posted For Fixing The Linux DRM Scheduler's Fair Policy

Ahead of the Linux 7.2 kernel release expected out on Sunday, the Direct Rendering Manager (DRM) subsystem was forced to revert their "fair" scheduler policy default new for this kernel. Due to a last minute user-reported regression, FIFO returns as the default DRM scheduler policy for Linux 7.2. But patches are now available for addressing that regression and thus hopefully for Linux 7.3 there will be the …
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-Patches-Fix-DRM-Fair
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Phoronix@phoronix@masto.ai (2026-08-14 18:54:06)
Open-Source exFAT Programs 1.4.3 Improves Fsck & Mkfs

Ahead of the Linux 7.2 kernel release expected on Sunday, a new release of the exFAT file-system user-space programs was released overnight...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/exfatprogs-1.4.3
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Phoronix@phoronix@masto.ai (2026-08-14 18:40:24)
Slackware-Based Zenwalk Linux Aims For "True Low Latency Desktop Experience"

It's been a long time since hearing much out of the Zenwalk project, the Linux distribution built off Slackware.  It's still around though and with their latest kernel work are hoping for a "true low latency desktop experience" by employing the BORE scheduler...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Zenwalk-BORE-Kernel
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Phoronix@phoronix@masto.ai (2026-08-14 09:39:15)
AMD GAIA 0.23 Delivers Ability To Install/Run AI Agents From The Terminal

AMD's GAIA open-source AI software built atop Lemonade for serving as an AI companion for emails, a Bash coding agent, and other AI agent skills is out with a new version today with more features while also improving security and making other improvements...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/AMD-GAIA-0.23
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Phoronix@phoronix@masto.ai (2026-08-14 05:24:06)
KDE, Techpaladin & Kubuntu Focus Announce The Bullet-Proof KDE Software Initiative

KDE e.V. along with Linux PC vendor Kubuntu Focus and KDE-aligned consulting firm Techpaladin Software have announced a collaboration of the "bullet-proof KDE Software initiative" for providing at least three years of bug fixes and security updates to KDE Plasma 6.6 LTS and related software...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/KDE-Bullet-Proof-Software
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Phoronix@phoronix@masto.ai (2026-08-14 05:09:04)
The Best Linux 7.2 Features: Cache Aware Scheduling, AMD Zen 6, AMDGPU HDMI 2.1 FRL

With the Linux 7.2 kernel expected to be released on Sunday, 16 August, here is a look at some of the most interesting new features and changes to find with this next kernel version to be used by Ubuntu 26.10 and other upcoming Linux distribution releases...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-7.2-Best-Features
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Phoronix@phoronix@masto.ai (2026-08-14 04:24:06)
Updated Coreboot/Dasharo For MSI PRO Z690-A / Z790-P Motherboards, Adds Overclocking

In addition to 3mdeb providing their Coreboot-based Dasharo built atop AMD openSIL on a Gigabyte EPYC server motherboard and recently making their first Dasharo release for an AMD Ryzen AM5 platform with the MSI PRO B850-P WIFI, the firmware consulting firm today released updated versions of their MSI PRO Z690-A and MSI PRO Z790-P Dasharo ports to those Intel Core motherboards...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/New-Dasharo-2026-MSI-Intel-Z
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Phoronix@phoronix@masto.ai (2026-08-13 23:09:02)
The Beneficial Performance Gains Running The Framework Laptop Pro 13 / Core Ultra X9 388H With Linux 7.1+

The recently launched Framework Laptop 13 Pro powered by Intel Core Ultra Series 3 "Panther Lake" runs well on Ubuntu 26.04 LTS and other modern Linux distributions. In the case of Ubuntu 26.04 with Linux 7.0, while everything works, if upgrading to Linux 7.1 or the upcoming Linux 7.2 kernel is even better performance. Here are benchmarks of the Framework Laptop 13 …
https://www.phoronix.com/review/framework-13-pro-linux-71-72


Phoronix@phoronix@masto.ai (2026-08-13 22:39:05)
GeForce NOW On Linux Native App Exits Beta

At the beginning of the year NVIDIA released a native build of GeForce NOW for Linux using Flatpaks. Today their native Linux build has exited beta to reach official production status for this cloud gaming solution from NVIDIA...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/GeForce-NOW-Linux-Exits-Beta
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Phoronix@phoronix@masto.ai (2026-08-13 22:24:05)
MSI Claw Gamepad Driver Set To Be Merged For Linux 7.3

The MSI Claw Gamepad driver is set to be merged for the upcoming Linux 7.3 kernel for enabling RGB lighting and controller configuration support with the mainline kernel...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/MSI-Claw-Gamepad-Linux-7.3
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Phoronix@phoronix@masto.ai (2026-08-13 20:54:04)
Linux Patches Enable Apple M4 NVMe Support

While the Apple M4 SoCs aren't yet supported by the mainline Linux kernel and the Apple M3 series hardware isn't yet ready for end-users, there are some early elements of the Apple M4 support beginning to come together by open-source developers working on the Apple Silicon support. Sent out to the Linux kernel mailing list were patches for enabling NVMe solid state drive support with the M4...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-Apple-M4-NVMe-Patches
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Phoronix@phoronix@masto.ai (2026-08-13 19:54:04)
Microsoft's Azure Linux 3.0.20260809 Ships With 233+ CVE Fixes

While Microsoft continues working on Azure Linux 4.0 as its overhauled Linux distribution built atop Fedora, Azure Linux 3.0 remains the current stable production series. Released overnight was Azure Linux 3.0.20260809 and it comes with more than 233 security patches for recent CVEs in the AI era...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Azure-Linux-3.0.20260809
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Phoronix@phoronix@masto.ai (2026-08-13 19:40:23)
Intel XPU Manager 2.1 Released For Monitoring Arc Pro Graphics On Windows/Linux

Intel XPU Manager 2.1 is now available as the latest version of this open-source tool for Linux and Windows systems for the monitoring and management of Arc Pro graphics cards. The Intel XPU Manager helps in keeping an eye on device utilization and other metrics  via the xpu-smi command and other components...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Intel-XPU-Manager-2.1
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Phoronix@phoronix@masto.ai (2026-08-13 10:39:05)
Rsync 3.5 Released As "Extraordinary" Update To Fix 33 Security Issues

Rsync as the widely-used, open-source remote sync software for synchronizing files and directories across networks is out today with a very important update...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Rsync-3.5
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Phoronix@phoronix@masto.ai (2026-08-13 09:54:07)
Comma.ai Launches A PCIe Gen4 x4 To USB4 Dock With Open-Source Firmware

George Hotz of Comma.ai and Tinygrad today announced the Tiny Chestnut eGPU Dock and the "Chestnut" Dock complete with an AMD Radeon RX 9060 8GB GPU too. Making this Chestnut / Tiny Chestnut Dock interesting is that it runs on open-source firmware...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Comma.ai-PCIe-Gen4-USB4-Dock
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Phoronix@phoronix@masto.ai (2026-08-13 05:24:05)
Tenstrorrent Posts GCC Compiler Patches For Ascalon XG Core

While the Tenstorrent Ascalon X is known as their high performance out-of-order RISC-V RVA23 CPU core for extreme performance over the H and S models, a new GNU Compiler Collection (GCC) patch today from Tenstorrent makes known a new Ascalon XG core...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Tenstorrent-Ascalon-XG-GCC
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Phoronix@phoronix@masto.ai (2026-08-13 03:54:04)
GCC 17 Compiler Adding "-m128bit-atomic" For 128-bit Atomic Memory Operations

Merged today to the GNU Compiler Collection Git code is the new -m128bit-atomic option for next year's GCC 17 feature release...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/GCC-Git-m128bit-atomic
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Phoronix@phoronix@masto.ai (2026-08-13 03:39:06)
Manjaro Linux 26.1 Released With GNOME 50 & KDE Plasma 6.7 Desktops

Manjaro 26.1 Bian-May is now available as the newest feature release to this desktop Linux distribution built atop an Arch Linux base...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Manjaro-Linux-26.1
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Phoronix@phoronix@masto.ai (2026-08-13 02:24:02)
Intel AMX Performance With The Xeon 678X Workstation CPU

One of the most compelling features for Intel Xeon 6 Granite Rapids alongside MRDIMMs is Advanced Matrix Extensions (AMX) for helping accelerate AI workloads and more. AMX is also found with the new Granite Rapids WS processors and in currently having my hands on an Intel Xeon 678X in the HP Z4 G6i workstation, I ran some benchmarks looking at the AMX performance and power impact for this high-end workstation.
https://www.phoronix.com/review/intel-amx-xeon-678x

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