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Phoronix@phoronix@masto.ai (2026-08-21 19:39:06)
Linus Torvalds Endures A Debug Session From Hell, "Enormously Helped" By AI
It's pretty rare to see Linus Torvalds author patches himself pertaining to the open-source Linux graphics drivers, but waking up this morning I was surprised to see he authored and committed an Intel Xe kernel graphics driver change himself. It ended up being after he encountered a "debug session from hell" but was ultimately helped by AI in fixing a bug that had been irking him...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linus-Torvalds-Debug-AI
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Phoronix@phoronix@masto.ai (2026-08-21 09:54:13)
Intel Mesa Linux Drivers Now Treating Nova Lake S / U / H / HX As Stable
Intel's open-source Mesa drivers for Iris Gallium3D (OpenGL) and ANV (Vulkan) on Linux are no longer treating next-gen Nova Lake processors with integrated graphics as experimental and off-by-default. With today's Mesa 26.3-devel code, the Intel driver code across Nova Lake's S, U, H, and HX product families are considered stable and enabled by default...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Intel-Mesa-Nova-Lake-Stable
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Phoronix@phoronix@masto.ai (2026-08-21 05:24:05)
Linux 7.3 Network Changes Merged But Developers "Completely Overwhelmed" Due To AI/LLMs
All of the networking subsystem feature updates were merged today for the Linux 7.3 kernel's merge window. There are a lot of wired and wireless networking improvements this cycle but also a ton of bug fixes -- including many not so important fixes spun up by AI/LLM agents. The networking subsystem maintainers admit now they are "completely overwhelmed" due to this code churn from th…
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-7.3-Networking
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Phoronix@phoronix@masto.ai (2026-08-21 02:40:17)
Rust 1.98 Adds Algebraic Floating-Point Methods Akin To "-ffast-math"
Rust 1.98 released today and is headlined the debut of new algebraic floating-point methods...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Rust-1.98-Released
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Phoronix@phoronix@masto.ai (2026-08-21 02:24:04)
KMSCON 10.0.2 Brings asciicast Playback Support, Bug Fixes
KMSCON 10.0.2 debuted today as the latest update to this leading user-space terminal emulator for Linux systems. KMSCON is built around Linux's KMS/DRM interfaces and the most viable alternative to date for in-kernel VTs...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/KMSCON-10.0.2-Released
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Phoronix@phoronix@masto.ai (2026-08-21 01:39:29)
KDE Software Now Has Stable Btrfs Snapshot Integration With KIO-Snapshot 1.0
With today's release of KIO-Snapshot, KDE software now has stable integration of Btrfs file-system snapshots...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/KDE-Btrfs-Snapshots
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Phoronix@phoronix@masto.ai (2026-08-20 23:39:02)
Intel Hyper Threading Performance On The Xeon 678X "Granite Rapids-WS"
With the Intel Xeon 678X "Granite Rapids WS" processor that I have been recently testing within the HP Z4 G6i workstation, there are 48 cores plus with Hyper Threading is a total of 96 threads for this high-end workstation processor with a 300 Watt TDP. For those curious about the performance impact of HT/SMT on this Intel Xeon 600 series workstation processor, here are some comparison benchmarks.
https://www.phoronix.com/review/intel-xeon-678x-ht
Phoronix@phoronix@masto.ai (2026-08-20 22:24:05)
FSCRYPT Sees Cleanup With Linux 7.3 To Open Door For More Features Like Btrfs Encryption
FSCRYPT is the Linux file-system encryption framework for supporting per-directory, transparent encryption. FSCRYPT so far is used by the likes of EXT4, F2FS, and CephFS. For Linux 7.3 there is an important clean-up to the FSCRYPT code to simplify it while also opening the door for new features moving forward into future kernel versions...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-7.3-FSCRYPT
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Phoronix@phoronix@masto.ai (2026-08-20 21:41:01)
Linux Driver Posted For The PreSonus Quantum 2626: A ~$700 Thunderbolt Audio Interface
The PreSonus Quantum 2626 is a high-end, Thunderbolt 3 based audio interface. PreSonus just maintains Windows and macOS drivers for this high-end audio interface while now an open-source Linux driver has been posted after being independently developed via reverse engineering...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/PreSonus-Quantum-2626-Linux
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Phoronix@phoronix@masto.ai (2026-08-20 20:55:39)
RPM 6.1 Released With Clang Build Fixes, New Release Model
RPM 6.1 is out today as the newest feature release for this package management system. With RPM 6.1 comes a number of features and improvements as well as a new release model...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/RPM-6.1-Released
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Phoronix@phoronix@masto.ai (2026-08-20 19:54:29)
Mesa 26.2.1 Released With Dozens Of Fixes
For those preferring the tradition of waiting for the first point release of a new Mesa feature release before upgrading, Mesa 26.2.1 is available today with a healthy round of bug fixing...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Mesa-26.2.1-Released
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Phoronix@phoronix@masto.ai (2026-08-20 19:39:05)
Linux 7.3 Cleans Up The Code For Disabling Of Legacy 32-bit Time Support
The Linux kernel has supported the CONFIG_COMPAT_32BIT_TIME Kconfig build time option for optionally disabling of legacy 32-bit time system call support. This is intended to disable the code that uses a 32-bit integer for time that is thus not Year 2038 safe, but at the cost of breaking compatibility for legacy 32-bit applications. Even if building without Linux 32-bit time support, it turns out so…
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-7.3-vDSO-32-bit-Time
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Phoronix@phoronix@masto.ai (2026-08-20 19:09:11)
KDE Gear 26.08 Delivers The Latest KDE App Experience
KDE Gear 26.08 was released today to deliver the latest collection of KDE application updates...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/KDE-Gear-26.08
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Phoronix@phoronix@masto.ai (2026-08-20 11:39:05)
X.Org Server 26.1 RC1 Prepares For First Feature Release In Five Years
Following today's release of XWayland 26.1 RC1, X.Org Server 26.1 RC1 was tagged. This xorg-server 26.1 release is aiming to become the first major feature release in five years, succeeding the xorg-server 21.1 series...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/X.Org-Server-26.1-RC1
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Phoronix@phoronix@masto.ai (2026-08-20 10:09:06)
EXT4 Preps More Performance Improvements For Linux 7.3
In addition to the IOmap improvements helping EXT4 performance in Linux 7.3, the main EXT4 feature pull request has now been submitted for this next kernel version. That pull is set to land yet more performance optimizations for EXT4...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/EXT4-Linux-7.3
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Phoronix@phoronix@masto.ai (2026-08-20 05:39:33)
Two Very Exciting Memory Management Optimizations Going Into Linux 7.3
Andrew Morton on Tuesday sent out all of the memory management "MM" updates for the Linux 7.3 merge window. The MM pull was particularly heavy as he noted 1,250 "added-to-MM" emails were sent out this cycle compared to 920 the prior cycle. With a lot of patch churn, he also turned to Google's Gemini AI for writing his patch summaries. In going through the very verbose AI-generated summary, there are …
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-7.3-MM
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Phoronix@phoronix@masto.ai (2026-08-20 03:39:27)
Go Language 1.27 Adds Generic Methods, Struct Improvement & More SIMD
Go 1.27 was released today as the newest version of this programming language from Google's Go team...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Go-1.27
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Phoronix@phoronix@masto.ai (2026-08-20 02:54:48)
Btrfs Ready With More Performance Improvements For Linux 7.3: Some ~3x To ~5x Wins
David Sterba of SUSE sent in the Btrfs file-system feature updates today that target the Linux 7.3 merge window. Among other changes are more performance improvements for this next version of the Linux kernel...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-7.3-Btrfs
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Phoronix@phoronix@masto.ai (2026-08-19 23:39:02)
AMD EPYC 9005 Series Memory Scaling Performance From 4 To 24 DDR5 RDIMMs
With today's memory prices, a frequent question at Phoronix and throughout many organizations is about reducing cost by not necessarily populating all memory channels. Especially with modern servers going up to 12 memory channels per socket or even 16 memory channels with upcoming EPYC Venice, you may be curious about the performance impact of populating less memory channels to see if the trade-off…
https://www.phoronix.com/review/dell-epyc-9005-memory-scaling
Phoronix@phoronix@masto.ai (2026-08-19 23:24:05)
XWayland 26.1 RC1 Released With Many New Features
Olivier Fourdan of Red Hat announced today the first release candidate of XWayland 26.1. This is the first new tagged feature release since XWayland 24.1 back in 2024! As such there are many new features in tow...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/XWayland-26.1-RC1
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Phoronix@phoronix@masto.ai (2026-08-19 21:24:05)
Linux 7.3 Deprecates Many Older 32-bit ARM Platforms, Orphans Hundreds Of Drivers
All of the SoC updates have been merged for the Linux 7.3 kernel that include adding some new SoCs as well as deprecating several older 32-bit ARM platforms. In turn with those platforms deprecated, "hundreds" of drivers are now orphaned in the process...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-7.3-SoC
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Phoronix@phoronix@masto.ai (2026-08-19 19:54:08)
PHP 7.4 To PHP 8.6 Benchmarks, PHP 8.6 JIT Performance
A Phoronix Premium supporter recently relayed a request to see some fresh PHP performance benchmarks. So here are some fresh numbers of PHP 7.4 through the latest PHP 8.5 code plus the current Git state of PHP 8.6 ahead of the official PHP 8.6.0 release later in the year. With PHP 8.6 is also a fresh look at the JIT performance enabled too...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/PHP-8.6-Early-Benchmarks
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Phoronix@phoronix@masto.ai (2026-08-19 19:39:05)
Linux 7.3 Scheduler Improvements: Help For Gaming, Hybrid CPUs, Lower Scheduler Latency
The exciting set of scheduler updates have been merged for the Linux 7.3 merge window...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-7.3-Scheduler
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Phoronix@phoronix@masto.ai (2026-08-19 19:09:15)
New AMD Low-Power Core & Unified Intel/AMD CPU Core Type Handling In Linux 7.3
Covered first on Phoronix back in June was an AMD Linux patch for introducing a new "low power" CPU core type to complement their typical "performance" cores and their "efficiency" cores like with Zen 4C/5C. That low power core is presumed for some Zen 6 clients and that integration is now merged for Linux 7.3 as well as unifying the Intel/AMD CPU core type handling...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/x86-Core-Types-Linux-7.3
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Phoronix@phoronix@masto.ai (2026-08-19 18:54:05)
Raspberry Pi Compute Module 5 Programming Jig Launches
The newest Raspberry Pi product to launch is the Raspberry Pi Compute Module 5 Programming Jig...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Raspberry-Pi-CM5-Jig
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Phoronix@phoronix@masto.ai (2026-08-19 09:39:07)
Modular's Mojo Language Now Open-Source Following Qualcomm Acquisition
Modular, the AI startup founded by Chris Lattner of LLVM and Swift fame, has open-sourced their Mojo systems programming language! This comes following the recent acquisition of Modular by Qualcomm...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Modular-Mojo-Open-Source
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Phoronix@phoronix@masto.ai (2026-08-19 09:39:06)
COSMIC Epoch 1.6 Released With Per-App Volume Control, Remote Desktop Preparations
COSMIC Epoch 1.6 was released this evening as the latest milestone for this open-source, Rust-based desktop environment led by System76 as part of the work on their Pop!_OS Linux distribution...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/COSMIC-Epoch-1.6
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Phoronix@phoronix@masto.ai (2026-08-19 04:54:12)
Linux 7.3 Adds New "bpf_sock_read_xattr" Feature For systemd, BPF Programs
Merged earlier this year for Linux 7.1 was extended attributes on sockets support as a feature sought after by the likes of GNOME and systemd for helping with Varlink IPC usage and other purposes. A limitation though of the functionality has been no efficient means for a BPF program to read those user extended attribute labels back. But with Linux 7.3 that's being addressed with the new bpf_sock_…
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-7.3-bpf_sock_read_xattr
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Phoronix@phoronix@masto.ai (2026-08-19 02:39:05)
IOmap Improvement For Linux 7.3 Takes EXT4 & XFS Performance Further
As part of the VFS pull requests now merged to the Linux 7.3 development kernel was an improvement to the IOmap framework used by various file-systems for mapping logical file byte offsets in memory to their physical locations on storage. With the now-merged code, this modern block mapping framework is allowing better performance at least for the EXT4 file-system...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/IOmap-Linux-7.3-Faster
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Phoronix@phoronix@masto.ai (2026-08-19 01:39:04)
Framework Laptop 12 Updated For Intel Wildcat Lake, Shipping Starts In October
Last year Framework Computer launched the Framework Laptop 12 as an upgrade-friendly and Linux-compatible 2-in-1 laptop. The Framework Laptop 12 was originally powered by Intel Core 13th Gen "Raptor Lake" low-end processor while now Framework is adding Core Series 3 "Wildcat Lake" as an upgrade or for new Laptop 12 orders...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Framework-Laptop-12-WCL
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