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Phoronix@phoronix@masto.ai (2026-08-18 23:39:01)
The CachyOS Performance vs. Other Linux Operating Systems On A $46k USD Workstation
Recently I looked at the performance of Ubuntu 26.04 LTS vs. Windows 11 on the Intel Xeon 678X running within the HP Z4 G6i workstation. Linux performed admirably as one would expect. With this Intel Xeon Granite Rapids WS workstation from HP though commanding a retail price more than $46,000 USD, you likely want nothing but the utmost performance out of it. So for those looking to maxim…
https://www.phoronix.com/review/cachyos-hp-z4g6i
Phoronix@phoronix@masto.ai (2026-08-18 22:39:14)
Rust For Linux 7.3 Begins Seeing Fixes To Prepare For Rust's GCC Backend
In addition to the POWER/PowerPC code adding Rust kernel support, the main set of Rust programming language updates for the Linux 7.3 kernel have now been submitted. Most notable are early fixes toward eventually allowing the experimental Rust GCC back-end to be used as an alternative to the official rustc compiler with LLVM code generation...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Rust-For-Linux-7.3
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Phoronix@phoronix@masto.ai (2026-08-18 22:09:05)
Linux 7.3 Corrects Faulty Behavior Of FAT File-System Driver For Filenames Too Fat
It's not too often that the Linux FAT driver for FAT12/FAT16/FAT32 format support receives updates worth mentioning. For Linux 7.3 there is one patch though and it's due to the driver until now lacking an upper-bounds check on the length of the filename, which could lead to some unexpected situations with extremely long filenames...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-7.3-FAT
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Phoronix@phoronix@masto.ai (2026-08-18 19:40:54)
Fedora x86-64-v3 Optimized Packages Pushed Back To At Least Fedora 46
There was a proposal under discussion the past few months on building x86-64-v3 packages for Fedora 45 while retaining x86-64-v1 packages. The hope was building the Fedora packages with x86-64-v3 where AVX/AVX2, FMA, BMI2, and other newer ISA features can be assumed in the name of better performance. Unfortunately, the x86-64-v3 plans are now delayed but may be reconsidered next year with Fedora 46...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Fedora-x86-64-v3-Delayed-F46
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Phoronix@phoronix@masto.ai (2026-08-18 19:24:11)
Lenovo Lands New Watchdog Driver In Linux 7.3 For Their SE30G2 + SE60 Edge AI Computers
When it comes to the watchdog driver changes for Linux 7.3, standing out is the new Lenovo driver for their upcoming ThinkEdge AI edge computing systems...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-7.3-Watchdog
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Phoronix@phoronix@masto.ai (2026-08-18 19:09:24)
Intel Enables Buffer Compression For Better Gaming Performance With DXVK
Merged today to Mesa 26.3-devel is a nice performance boost for Intel graphics with Valve's Steam Play when using DXVK for Direct3D 8 / 9 / 10 / 11 over the Vulkan API. The open-source Intel ANV driver is seeing up to 5% better performance with DXVK...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Intel-Buffer-Compression-DXVK
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Phoronix@phoronix@masto.ai (2026-08-18 18:54:14)
XFS Lands FALLOC_FL_WRITE_ZEROES For Efficiency Improvement In Linux 7.3
The XFS file-system improvements have been merged for Linux 7.3. For end-users the only notable change for this file-system on the new kernel is adding support for FALLOC_FL_WRITE_ZEROES...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/XFS-FALLOC-FL-WRITE-ZEROES
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Phoronix@phoronix@masto.ai (2026-08-18 09:54:07)
EFS & FreeVxFS File-Systems Get Booted While FailFS Merged For Linux 7.3
Among the early pull requests merged today by Linus Torvalds for the Linux 7.3 kernel cycle were removal of some ancient file-systems while adding in a new pseudo file-system...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-File-System-Changes-7.3
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Phoronix@phoronix@masto.ai (2026-08-18 06:24:05)
Linux 7.3 To Land Initial Code Improving vRAM Management, More Improvements Coming
Earlier this year Natalie Vock of Valve's Linux graphics team laid out some patches for improving the Linux gaming experience for systems with limited vRAM. The kernel work for improving that video memory management is set to be introduced in the Linux 7.3 kernel. While that's a celebration on its own, Vock is pursuing more improvements still for bettering the Linux GPU driver video memor…
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-7.3-Improving-vRAM-Mgmt
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Phoronix@phoronix@masto.ai (2026-08-18 05:24:06)
FFmpeg Lands H.265 Vulkan Encode Performance Optimizations
The FFmpeg multimedia library can now enjoy faster H.265/HEVC video encoding with the Vulkan-powered encode path. With the optimizations merged today, the H.265 encode performance should be roughly at parity to the H.264 encode speed...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/FFmpeg-Faster-HEVC-Encode
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Phoronix@phoronix@masto.ai (2026-08-18 04:54:05)
Offloading Rust To GPUs Proves Capable Of High Performance With Memory Safety
A new research paper published on LLVM offloading to GPU accelerators using the Rust programming language is talking up the prospects of making use of safe Rust code for GPU kernels while retaining Rust's memory safety and other advantages over C++ / CUDA / HIP...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/LLVM-Offload-Rust-Performance
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Phoronix@phoronix@masto.ai (2026-08-18 02:09:01)
ARCTIC Fan Controller: The Best Fan Controller For Linux Desktops, Less Than $10 USD
Back in March were patches posted by ARCTIC Cooling for an ARCTIC fan controller driver for Linux. Typically we aren't used to seeing desktop/enthusiast focused vendors providing such Linux drivers for peripherals directly but the sad fact is most often it's left up to the open-source community to reverse engineer and create such drivers for Linux. Making it all the more surprising besi…
https://www.phoronix.com/review/arctic-fan-controller
Phoronix@phoronix@masto.ai (2026-08-18 00:09:17)
AMD Working On A New Backend For Improving ROCm Compute In QEMU/VMs
AMD engineers are working on enhancing the open-source ROCm compute stack for better handling GPU virtualized compute under QEMU...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/AMD-ROCm-Better-QEMU-VM
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Phoronix@phoronix@masto.ai (2026-08-17 23:24:18)
Linux 7.3 SMP Improvement To Help Reduce Latency, Improve Real-Time Performance
Among the pull requests sent out today now that the Linux 7.3 merge window is open are the SMP improvements for this next kernel version. Standing out among the SMP code are some enhancements for helping reduce latency and ultimately enhancing real-time Linux performance...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-7.3-SMP
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Phoronix@phoronix@masto.ai (2026-08-17 22:09:04)
Firefox 154 Now Available With "Manage AI" Quick Action
Firefox 154 is now available as the newest monthly update bringing a few new features, enhancements, and other alterations to this open-source web browser...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Firefox-154-Released
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Phoronix@phoronix@masto.ai (2026-08-17 21:24:06)
Intel & AMD Power Management Driver Improvements Ready For Linux 7.3
In advance of the Linux 7.3 merge window opening, Linux power management subsystem maintainer Rafael Wysocki of Intel submitted all the power management, ACPI, and thermal control code. As not too much of a surprise, Intel and AMD driver updates dominate the power management changes for Linux 7.3...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-7.3-Power-Management
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Phoronix@phoronix@masto.ai (2026-08-17 20:40:57)
KTransformers 0.7 Expands AVX-512 Support To Benefit AMD EPYC Servers
KTransformers as the framework for heterogeneous LLM inference and fine-tune optimizations is out today with its v0.7 feature release...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/KTransformers-0.7
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Phoronix@phoronix@masto.ai (2026-08-17 19:40:05)
Con Kolivas Revives "-ck" Patches & MuQSS To Improve Linux Desktop Responsiveness
Huge surprise this morning! Longtime Linux users may recall the out-of-tree work done years ago by open-source developer Con Kolivas... And as part of that his work on the Brain F*** Scheduler that evolved into the MuQSS scheduler, all in the name of working to improve Linux desktop and mobile responsiveness. While a number of years ago he decided to retire from this out-of-tree Linux kern…
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Con-Kolivas-Linux-Patches-2026
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Phoronix@phoronix@masto.ai (2026-08-17 19:24:11)
Linux 7.3 On PowerPC Now Supports In-Kernel Rust, Initial Power12 Enablement Begins
The PowerPC pull request has already been sent in for the now open Linux 7.3 merge window. The headline feature this cycle on the POWER side is Rust kernel support for PowerPC 32-bit PPC32BE big endian and PowerPC 64-bit PPC64LE little endian architectures...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-7.3-PowerPC-Rust
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Phoronix@phoronix@masto.ai (2026-08-17 19:09:15)
ARM64 BBML3 Feature Ready With Linux 7.3, NVIDIA Olympus Workarounds
AI/LLM patch craziness hurt ARM64 development for the Linux 7.2 cycle that no real features landed for that kernel version on AArch64. Fortunately, the ARM Linux developers are more prepared now and for Linux 7.3 are introducing some new ARM64 features...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/ARM64-Linux-7.3
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Phoronix@phoronix@masto.ai (2026-08-17 18:54:28)
GNU Linux-libre 7.2-gnu Released Following More Driver Cleaning
Following yesterday's release of the Linux 7.2 kernel, GNU Linux-libre 7.2-gnu is now available for this kernel downstream that strips out support for drivers depending upon non-free-software microcode/firmware, the ability to load closed-source kernel modules, and other restrictions in the name of software freedom...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/GNU-Linux-Libre-7.2
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Phoronix@phoronix@masto.ai (2026-08-17 08:24:04)
Linux 7.2 Released With Faster I/O, New AMD & Intel Driver Improvements
Linus Torvalds just released Linux 7.2 as stable! After a very busy kernel cycle due to the increased patch and reporting churn due to AI/LLM ages, Linux 7.2 managed to make it out today on-schedule for this feature-packed kernel. Linux 7.2 is going on to power Ubuntu 26.10 and other upcoming Linux distribution releases...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-7.2-Released
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Phoronix@phoronix@masto.ai (2026-08-17 05:24:06)
GIMP Making Progress On New Project File Format After Nearly 30 Years With XCF
The GIMP project has published their latest development update to highlight the interesting work that's ongoing toward GIMP 3.4 and future releases...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/GIMP-New-File-Format-2026
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Phoronix@phoronix@masto.ai (2026-08-17 02:09:05)
tlbi= Boot Option Submitted Ahead Of Linux 7.2 Kernel Release
Ahead of the Linux 7.2 kernel stable release expected to occur in the coming hours, a last minute "x86/urgent" pull request was submitted with one patch for adding the new tlbi= boot option...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-7.2-x86-urgent-tlbi
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Phoronix@phoronix@masto.ai (2026-08-16 23:24:05)
Debian Marks 33rd Birthday As One Of The Oldest Maintained Linux Distros
Today marks thirty three years since the Debian Linux distribution was started by the late Ian Murdock...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Debian-33-Birthday
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Phoronix@phoronix@masto.ai (2026-08-16 20:09:25)
AVX-512 xor_gen Continues To Look Exciting For Helping Linux RAID With Modern CPUs
Google engineer Eric Biggers back in June posted an AVX-512 optimization for Linux RAID yielding up to a 41% improvement on a modern AMD Ryzen 9 9950X (Zen 5) processor. A revised patch then put it as much as a 43% improvement for this AVX-512 optimized xor_gen() function. The code hasn't yet been merged to mainline but an updated version of it is now available...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/AVX-512-xor-gen-v4
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Phoronix@phoronix@masto.ai (2026-08-16 19:54:06)
Linux 7.3 binfmt_misc To Allow BPF Programs To Dynamically Choose Execution Environments
The Linux kernel's binfmt_misc functionality allows non-native/custom files to ne run directly such as for Windows EXE files to be handled by Wine or JAR files to be handled by the Java runtime. For the upcoming Linux 7.3 merge window, the miscellaneous binary formats support is being extended so a binary type can be matched programmatically and the interpreter determined on a per-e…
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-7.3-binfmt-misc
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Phoronix@phoronix@masto.ai (2026-08-16 19:24:08)
New Linux Driver Enables 12VHPWR Monitoring For ASUS ROG Astral Graphics Cards
For those concerned about current imbalance or voltage changes with the 12VHPWR power connectors and having an ASUS ROG Astral graphics card, there is now an open-source driver for Linux available that integrates with the hardware monitoring (HWMON) subsystem for 12VHPWR reporting on these ASUS graphics cards...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/ASUS-ROG-Astral-12VHPWR
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Phoronix@phoronix@masto.ai (2026-08-16 09:24:05)
Marek Olšák's 19 Latest Patches Further Optimizing RADV & ACO
Legendary Mesa Radeon Gallium3D driver developer Marek Olšák who was a longtime AMD employee and then joined Valve's Linux graphics driver team earlier this year has continued his focus now on perfecting his art around the RADV Vulkan driver and ACO shader compiler...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/RADV-ACO-19-More-Patches-Valve
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Phoronix@phoronix@masto.ai (2026-08-16 02:24:05)
GNOME 51 Beta Released With Many Minor Improvements
The beta release of GNOME 51 is now available for testing. This cycle for the beta milestone is mostly a wide collection of minor improvements throughout the vast package set...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/GNOME-51-Beta
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