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Phoronix@phoronix@masto.ai (2026-08-27 00:54:04)
Haiku R1 Beta 6 Released After Two Years, BeOS-Inspired Project Turns 25 Next Week
Haiku R1 Beta 5 came out in September 2026 while out today is the long-awaited sixth beta for this open-source operating system inspired by BeOS. This beta release also comes one week ahead of the project's 25th anniversary...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Haiku-R1-Beta-6
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Phoronix@phoronix@masto.ai (2026-08-27 00:09:05)
AMD Proposes New LLVM iTHP Option For Squeezing More Performance
AMD's compiler team is proposing a new LLVM Clang compiler option, -fenable-readonly-thp for implementing instruction Transparent Huge Pages "iTHP" at compile and link-time. With -fenable-readonly-thp, they are finding more performance out of SPEC CPU, Geekbench, and other workloads from the arranging of 2MB segment alignment at link time and allowing the executable text range can be promoted to huge pages…
https://www.phoronix.com/news/LLVM-fenable-readonly-thp
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Phoronix@phoronix@masto.ai (2026-08-26 23:24:06)
Fedora + Tuned-PPD Performance Regression Should Be Fixed With New Linux Kernel
Earlier this month when benchmarking six Linux distributions on the new Framework Laptop 13 Pro powered by Intel Core Ultra Series 3 "Panther Lake", the performance was strangely slow on Fedora Workstation 44. When digging further into it, the performance loss was with Fedora 44 using Tuned-PPD by default where as other Linux distributions default to Power Profiles Daemon. Ultimately, after …
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Fedora-Tuned-PPD-Perf-Fix
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Phoronix@phoronix@masto.ai (2026-08-26 22:09:04)
Intel Introduces New "BFF" Linux Driver To Deal With Aging Silicon & Stuck Bits
Intel is preparing to introduce a new Linux driver named "BFF" for dealing with aging processor silicon where bits may become stuck over time...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Intel-BFF-Driver-Stuck-Bits
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Phoronix@phoronix@masto.ai (2026-08-26 21:54:08)
Armbian 26.8 Released With Installer Rewrite, UEFI ISO Images
Armbian as the Debian/Ubuntu-derived distribution that provides an optimized platform for ARM and RISC-V single board computers is out today with a major update...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Armbian-26.8-Released
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Phoronix@phoronix@masto.ai (2026-08-26 21:54:06)
Linux 7.3 FUSE Delivering Nice Performance Improvements
The Linux kernel's FUSE code for enabling file-systems in user-space is enjoying some nice speed boosts with the in-development Linux 7.3 kernel...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-7.3-FUSE
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Phoronix@phoronix@masto.ai (2026-08-26 20:39:05)
LibreOffice 26.8 Released With Many Nice Improvements
LibreOffice 26.8 is now available as the latest half-year feature update to this leading open-source alternative to Microsoft Office...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/LibreOffice-26.8
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Phoronix@phoronix@masto.ai (2026-08-26 19:39:04)
AMD Introduces New "GFX1250-STRICT" GPU Target In LLVM
The AMD GFX1250 IP is what's used by the new Instinct MI450 series accelerators. That's been around within the Linux kernel, AMDGPU LLVM compiler back-end, and related codebases the past year. Interestingly merged yesterday is a new "gfx1250-strict" target...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/AMD-gfx1250-strict
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Phoronix@phoronix@masto.ai (2026-08-26 19:24:06)
GCC Patches Added -mcpu=native -mtune=native Support For RISC-V
A SiFive engineer posted patches today for the GNU Compiler Collection (GCC) for adding -mtune=native -mcpu=native support for the compiler on RISC-V...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/GCC-RISC-V-mcpu-mtune-native
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Phoronix@phoronix@masto.ai (2026-08-26 19:09:05)
Linux 7.3 PCI Code Adds Advisory Non-Fatal Errors, Intel Dunlow Support
All of the PCI/PCIe subsystem updates for the in-development Linux 7.3 kernel were merged this week...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-7.3-PCI
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Phoronix@phoronix@masto.ai (2026-08-26 09:39:10)
Chrome/Chromium Experimenting With Flatpak Packaging
Google engineers responsible for the Chrome/Chromium web browser are experimenting with Flatpak packaging on Linux. They aren't yet committed to officially supporting Flatpak packages but for now are at least exploring the option...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Chrome-Chromium-Flatpak
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Phoronix@phoronix@masto.ai (2026-08-26 06:39:05)
Linux 7.0-mk2 Released For Multi-Kernel Linux With Promising Performance Results
Last year a multi-kernel architecture was proposed for the Linux kernel to allow multiple independent kernel instances to co-exist on a single physical machine. Each kernel with "multikernel" Linux can run on dedicated CPU cores whole sharing the underlying hardware resources. Linux 7.0-mk2 released today with the kernel patched for this multi-kernel behavior...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-7.0-mk2-Multikernel
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Phoronix@phoronix@masto.ai (2026-08-26 06:09:04)
COSMIC Epoch 1.7 Released: No Longer Slow Browsing Network Filesystems
COSMIC Epoch 1.7 is out today as the newest update to this Rust-based open-source desktop environment with development led by System76...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/COSMIC-Epoch-1.7
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Phoronix@phoronix@masto.ai (2026-08-26 04:54:06)
LLVM/Clang 23.1 Released With AMD Zen 6 & NVIDIA Rigel Support, Partial C++26 Support
LLVM 23.1 was released today on-schedule as the first stable release of the LLVM 23 series as the H2'2026 update to this open-source compiler stack...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/LLVM-23.1-Released
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Phoronix@phoronix@masto.ai (2026-08-26 02:39:04)
Wayland Found To Be "Intrinsically Faster Than X11, But Not Necessarily More Efficient"
The PorteuX Linux distribution focused on being a high performance, modular, and minimalist distro took to forking Xfce's xfwm4 window manager into "xfwm4-gl" for OpenGL compositing support. As part of that they developed a window manager / compositor benchmark for evaluating the performance and efficiency of typical operations. Their results are fascinating...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Wayland-X11-Performance-PorteuX
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Phoronix@phoronix@masto.ai (2026-08-26 01:39:04)
AI/LLM Usage Becoming A "Denial of Service Attack" On Open-Source Project Maintainers
The latest criticism of the increased burden placed on open-source software project maintainers caused by AI / LLM agents is around too many bug reports effectively causing a "denial of service" attack on project maintainers...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/AI-DoS-Attack-Maintainers
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Phoronix@phoronix@masto.ai (2026-08-25 23:24:02)
Benchmarking Some Incredible Performance Gains With Btrfs On Linux 7.3
With the Btrfs pull request for Linux 7.3 having delivered more performance optimizations with some ~3x and ~5x gains mentioned in specific areas, I was eager to test out the new Btrfs performance on the in-development kernel. In today's article are some benchmarks of Btrfs on Linux 7.2 stable compared to Linux 7.3 Git with some very enticing performance gains confirmed in various workloads.
https://www.phoronix.com/review/linux-73-btrfs
Phoronix@phoronix@masto.ai (2026-08-25 22:39:07)
Apple Launches The M6 2nm 12-core CPU, Quad-Die M5 Ultra
Apple today unveiled the M6 as their first 2nm SoC design while also introducing the M5 Ultra as their first quad-die product...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Apple-M6-M5-Ultra
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Phoronix@phoronix@masto.ai (2026-08-25 22:39:05)
The Modern NTFS Linux Driver Adds Read Support For Windows System Compression (WOF)
The pull requests for the existing Paragon NTFS3 kernel driver as well as the new modern "NTFS" drivers have been submitted for the ongoing Linux 7.3 kernel cycle. Besides bug fixes, most notable among these NTFS file-system drivers are Windows System Compression "WOF" read support for the modern NTFS driver...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-7.3-NTFS-Driver-WOF
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Phoronix@phoronix@masto.ai (2026-08-25 21:39:09)
Linux 7.3 Device Mapper Sees Many Fixes, Including Code Cleanups By Claude Opus
The Linux Device Mapper "DKM" framework for mapping block devices to higher-level virtual block devices doesn't see any major new features for Linux 7.3 but there are many bug fixes, including code clean-ups carried out by AI...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-7.3-Device-Mapper
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Phoronix@phoronix@masto.ai (2026-08-25 19:39:05)
DisplayPort 2.1 ALPM Still Being Worked On For Intel Xe3P / Nova Lake
The in-development Linux 7.3 kernel is marking Nova Lake Xe3P graphics as stable in being enabled by default and no longer hidden behind the "force probe" flag. While on-by-default, there still are some features that have yet to land like the DisplayPort 2.1 ALPM functionality...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Intel-DP-2.1-ALPM-v5
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Phoronix@phoronix@masto.ai (2026-08-25 19:09:05)
KDE Remote Desktop Experience Improving For Closing The X11 vs. Wayland Gap
KDE developer David Edmundson is out today with a blog post around improvements that have been ongoing for the Plasma 6.8 release in improving the KDE remote desktop experience. As part of ensuring a good Wayland experience and hitting all the needs fulfilled by X11, Plasma 6.8 is seeing improvements for its remote desktop functionality...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Plasma-68-Better-Remote-Desktop
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Phoronix@phoronix@masto.ai (2026-08-25 18:54:05)
Lots Of New Audio Hardware Support In Linux 7.3
Linux sound subsystem maintainer Takashi Iwai of SUSE submitted all of the sound feature updates last week for the Linux 7.3 kernel. Besides the continued AI/LLM-generated patch churn, the sound code for Linux 7.3 sees a lot of new hardware support...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-7.3-Sound
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Phoronix@phoronix@masto.ai (2026-08-25 09:40:57)
Linux 7.3 Merges Initial Kernel Driver Support For The 2026 Steam Controller
The HID subsystem updates were recently merged for the ongoing Linux 7.3 kernel merge window. Among other hardware additions, the 2026 Valve Steam Controller is seeing initial kernel driver support...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-7.3-HID
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Phoronix@phoronix@masto.ai (2026-08-25 05:05:17)
Linux ath11k Driver Improvements For Qualcomm WiFi 6 Hardware Yields 7x Lower Latency
A patch series being worked on for the ath11k mainline wireless networking driver for Qualcomm WiFi 6 / 802.11ax chipsets is yielding 7x lower latency or 2.2x throughput at identical latency...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/ath11k-7x-Lower-Latency
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Phoronix@phoronix@masto.ai (2026-08-24 22:54:02)
Early Linux 7.3 Kernel Benchmarks Show Some Performance Improvements, Some Regressions
Being halfway through the Linux 7.3 kernel merge window and prior to wrapping up and sending back the HP Z4 G6i workstation powered by the Xeon 678X Granite Rapids WS processor, I decided to run some benchmarks to see how Linux 7.3 Git is performing relative to the prior stable kernel series. Here are the first benchmarks of this early state of Linux 7.3 with some performance improvem…
https://www.phoronix.com/review/linux-73-early-benchmarks
Phoronix@phoronix@masto.ai (2026-08-24 21:36:02)
GNU Emacs 31.1 Released With Mouse Control Enabled By Default, Theme For New Users
GNU Emacs 31.1 is out today as the newest feature release to this popular text editor...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/GNU-Emacs-31.1-Released
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Phoronix@phoronix@masto.ai (2026-08-24 20:04:45)
Intel Engineers Propose DRM Fabric For Linux
Coincidentally just days after AMD posted their big UALink patch series for Linux, Intel engineers today announced a proposal called DRM Fabric...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/DRM-Fabric-Proposal
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Phoronix@phoronix@masto.ai (2026-08-24 19:49:24)
Linux 7.3 Adds Support For Several Newer RISC-V Extensions
With the in-development Linux 7.3 is support for discovering and enumerating support for several newer RISC-V ISA extensions. Plus there are improvements to its control flow integrity Shadow Stack handling, CPU context switch support for QoS tagging, using UEFI runtime services for restart and powering off, and other improvements...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-7.3-RISC-V
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Phoronix@phoronix@masto.ai (2026-08-24 19:43:23)
VKD3D 2.1 Released With New Features For Direct3D 12 In Upstream Wine
VKD3D 2.1 was released today by CodeWeavers' Henri Verbeet as the upstream Wine project for getting Direct3D 12 implemented over the Vulkan API...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/VKD3D-2.1-Released
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