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Phoronix@phoronix@masto.ai (2026-09-01 09:40:07)
NVIDIA Posts Linux Scheduler Patches To Further Boost SMT Performance On NVIDIA Vera
Hitting the Linux kernel mailing list today is a new kernel scheduler patch series to enable preferred SMT siblings for NVIDIA Vera with its Olympus cores...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/NVIDIA-Linux-Sched-Vera-SMT
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Phoronix@phoronix@masto.ai (2026-09-01 06:24:05)
Rust Coreutils 0.11 Released With Some Nifty Debug Helper Messages
Rust Coreutils 0.11 was just released as this alternative to the GNU Coreutils. Besides the long-running task of catching up the GNU Coreutils compatibility with the GNU test suite and never-ending work on optimizing the performance, Rust Coreutils 0.11 is quite a nice release for its improved error messages...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Rust-Coreutils-0.11
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Phoronix@phoronix@masto.ai (2026-09-01 06:09:05)
Firefox 155 Available With Faster Page Loads Via Happy Eyeballs v3, QUIC v2 For HTTP/3
The Mozilla Firefox 155 release binaries are now available ahead of the formal announcement on Tuesday for this latest web browser release. With Firefox 155 it's heavier on new features than we have seen in some time...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Firefox-155-Released
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Phoronix@phoronix@masto.ai (2026-09-01 04:54:04)
AMD Updates UALink Patches To Get The Linux Kernel Ready For UALoE On Helios
Earlier this month AMD posted a massive set of patches for bringing up UALink support for the mainline Linux kernel and wiring it up into the AMDGPU kernel driver. In closing out the month of August, they have updated this big set of Ultra Accelerator Link patches...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/AMD-UALink-Linux-Patches-v2
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Phoronix@phoronix@masto.ai (2026-09-01 03:40:05)
Former Intel Engineer Who Was One Of The Clear Linux Architects Is Starting A New Distro
One of the former Intel engineers who was a Linux OS architect on their legendary Clear Linux distribution and before that also driving their Moblin and MeeGo Linux efforts is starting a new distribution project. This new initiative, named The Ur Project, is highly leveraging Rust and will rely on AI/LLMs in part and aims to incorporate some deisng improvements Clear Linux...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/The-Ur-Project
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Phoronix@phoronix@masto.ai (2026-09-01 01:24:05)
3mdeb Enhancing The UEFI Update Capsules Experience For Open-Source Firmware
Open-source firmware consulting firm 3mdeb is out with a new blog post highlighting their recent work on enhancing the UEFI update capsules experience for open-source firmware with Coreboot and their downstream Dasharo offerings...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/OSS-Firmware-UEFI-Updates-Cap
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Phoronix@phoronix@masto.ai (2026-08-31 22:54:01)
Linux 7.3 Features Many Exciting Improvements, New Hardware Support & Faster Btrfs
With Linux 7.3-rc1 released to cap off the two week merge window, here is a look at the many exciting changes merged for the Linux 7.3 kernel that is working its way toward release in the second half of October.
https://www.phoronix.com/review/linux-73-features
Phoronix@phoronix@masto.ai (2026-08-31 22:09:05)
Linux Kernel Patches Out For Review To Enable USB4/Thunderbolt For Apple M1 / M2 / M3
There is a set of 19 patches out for review on the Linux kernel mailing list that would finally allow the mainline kernel running on Apple Silicon M1 / M2 / M3 SoCs to enjoy USB4/Thunderbolt support...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-USB4-Apple-Silicon
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Phoronix@phoronix@masto.ai (2026-08-31 19:54:04)
Servo 0.5 Released: DuckDuckGo Properly Rendering, Up To 10x Faster Text Rendering
Servo 0.5 is out today as the newest monthly update to this open-source, Rust-based browser engine. Servo 0.5 ships many notable enhancements for benefiting those running the Servoshell example browser or looking at Servo as an opportunity for embedded use...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Servo-0.5-Released
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Phoronix@phoronix@masto.ai (2026-08-31 19:40:04)
New Linux Patches Tune AMD Ryzen Zen 6 To Optimize Performance & Power Consumption
Ahead of the next-generation AMD Ryzen Zen 6 client processors debuting, an important patch series was posted overnight to the Linux kernel mailing list. These patches provide new Zen 6 client Energy Performance Preference "EPP" tunings that are important for optimizing performance and power consumption for these upcoming AMD Zen 6 desktop and laptop processors...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/AMD-Zen-6-Client-EPP-Tunings
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Phoronix@phoronix@masto.ai (2026-08-31 19:24:05)
A Faster Merge Sort For Mesa 26.3 Vulkan Drivers To Benefit Ray-Tracing
One of the latest optimizations to the Mesa Vulkan drivers by Natalie Vock of Valve's Linux graphics team is faster and more vRAM efficient sorting for Morton code keys that are important for fast BVH construction and greater GPU parallelism...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Mesa-Vulkan-Faster-Sorting
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Phoronix@phoronix@masto.ai (2026-08-31 19:09:05)
NVIDIA VA-API Driver 0.0.18 Ships More Fixes, Chrome/Chromium Decode On Direct Backend
Firefox has finally begun supporting Vulkan Video decoding to complement their long-used VA-API support on Linux. This is good news for the official NVIDIA Linux graphics driver stack as it's been the notable vendor not supporting the Video Acceleration API. But prior to Firefox rolling out its experimental Vulkan Video support, an independent implementation of VA-API built atop NVIDI…
https://www.phoronix.com/news/NVIDIA-VA-API-Driver-0.0.18
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Phoronix@phoronix@masto.ai (2026-08-31 09:39:05)
Linux 7.3-rc1 Close To 41 Million Lines, AMD Kernel Graphics Driver At 6.5 Million Lines
With Linus Torvalds remarking in the Linux 7.3-rc1 release announcement of the AMD kernel graphics driver changes for amounting around a third of the -rc1 changes due to the big AMD GPU register files for DCN 6.0 and other new IP additions, here are some fresh code stats at large...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-7.3-rc1-Code-Stats
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Phoronix@phoronix@masto.ai (2026-08-31 06:54:05)
Linux 7.3-rc1 With AMD Zen 6 Additions, Better Btrfs Performance & 2026 Steam Controller
Like clockwork, the Linux 7.3 merge window has concluded after two weeks and the Linux 7.3-rc1 kernel now available for testing...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-7.3-rc1-Released
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Phoronix@phoronix@masto.ai (2026-08-31 05:09:05)
OpenShot 4.0 Released In Adapting Video Editor UI To Qt6
OpenShot 4.0 was tagged this afternoon on GitHub as the newest major feature release to this open-source non-linear video editing application...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/OpenShot-4.0
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Phoronix@phoronix@masto.ai (2026-08-31 00:09:04)
Linux 7.3 Lands More Audio Workarounds For Laptops & Other Devices
Following last week's main set of sound subsystem updates for Linux 7.3 that brought a lot of new audio hardware support, a second round of sound updates were merged this weekend ahead of today's Linux 7.3-rc1 release...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-7.3-More-Sound
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Phoronix@phoronix@masto.ai (2026-08-30 23:54:04)
The Challenges In Bringing AMD ROCm To FreeBSD
This summer an intern with the FreeBSD Foundation worked on porting AMD ROCm to FreeBSD. The internship is concluding while the FreeBSD ROCm code is almost to the stage of being able to perform simple vector addition workloads...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/AMD-ROCm-FreeBSD-Intern-Report
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Phoronix@phoronix@masto.ai (2026-08-30 22:54:06)
AMD Zen 6 Preparations, Ryzen AI Halo LED Driver & Many Laptop Changes For Linux 7.3
The x86 platform driver changes are now in place for the Linux 7.3 kernel with additions for upcoming AMD Zen 6 hardware, the RGB LED driver controls for the Ryzen AI Halo PC, and a lot of laptop support additions and improvements for a variety of devices from different hardware vendors. Plus some handheld gaming device updates too...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-7.3-x86-Platform-Drivers
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Phoronix@phoronix@masto.ai (2026-08-30 20:09:05)
NVIDIA Vulkan Frame Rate Up-Conversion "FRUC" Merged To FFmpeg
Upstreamed to the FFmpeg multimedia driver code this weekend is support for Frame Rate Up-Conversion "FRUC" making use of the NVIDIA Vulkan Optical Flow extension...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/FFmpeg-NVIDIA-RTX-FRUC
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Phoronix@phoronix@masto.ai (2026-08-30 19:54:08)
The "KVM Chainsaw" Clean-Up Merged For Linux 7.3 Along With Other Fixes
The Kernel-based Virtual Machine "KVM" changes have landed for the Linux 7.3 merge window that is wrapping up later today...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-7.3-KVM
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Phoronix@phoronix@masto.ai (2026-08-30 19:40:05)
Linux 7.3 Introduces 8250_mxpcie Driver For Moxa PCIe Multi-Port Serial Boards
The TTY/Serial code changes for Linux 7.3 were merged this week and include dropping the dated IPWireless driver while introducing the new 8250_mxpcie driver...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-7.3-Serial
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Phoronix@phoronix@masto.ai (2026-08-30 09:39:11)
RTL8723BS Driver Continues Dominating The Staging Area Activity For Linux 7.3
Upstreamed back in 2017 for Linux 4.12 was the RTL8723BS driver in the kernel's staging area. Nine years later it remains in staging and remains a frequent target for clean-ups and code improvements as it tries to work its way out...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-7.3-Staging
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Phoronix@phoronix@masto.ai (2026-08-30 04:40:09)
FreeBSD 14.5-RC1 Released With Several Security Fixes
Ahead of FreeBSD 14.5-RELEASE hopefully debuting on 8 September, FreeBSD 14.5-RC1 is out today as the final scheduled development release...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/FreeBSD-14.5-RC1
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Phoronix@phoronix@masto.ai (2026-08-30 01:39:06)
Another x86 Advisory From Some Entity Other Than Intel Or AMD
Last October I highlighted an interesting post on the Linux kernel mailing list around an x86 corporate entity other than Intel or AMD that left mysterious intrigue. The developer that detailed those x86 opcode/CPUID/MSR allocations back in July then detailed 16-tile and 32-tile AMX implementations again for something outside the current scope of Intel/AMD processors. Today another message is being relayed fr…
https://www.phoronix.com/news/x86-WBINVD-Advisory
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Phoronix@phoronix@masto.ai (2026-08-30 00:09:07)
KDE Plasma 6.8 Improving Performance & Efficiency For Some Full Screen Content
In addition to the Union QtWidgets initial release happening this week, a number of other improvements also landed in the past few days in making Plasma 6.8 all the more exciting...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Plasma-6.8-Full-Screen-Perf
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Phoronix@phoronix@masto.ai (2026-08-29 22:09:05)
ReactOS 0.4.16 Released With New Graphical Installer, Better Hardware Support
ReactOS 0.4.16 released today as the newest major update to this "open-source Windows" project providing an open-source OS with Windows driver and application compatibility...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/ReactOS-0.4.16-Released
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Phoronix@phoronix@masto.ai (2026-08-29 20:24:12)
F2FS With Now Handle Multi-Device Flushes In Parallel With Linux 7.3
Coming in as a late pull request ahead of the Linux 7.3 merge window closing this weekend were the Flash Friendly File-System (F2FS) updates that have now made it into Linux Git...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-7.3-F2FS
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Phoronix@phoronix@masto.ai (2026-08-29 20:09:07)
GNOME's Very Exciting Week From Flatpak Funding To Reset Recovery Plus Apps
This week was extremely eventful in the GNOME space with GPU reset recovery for GNOME Mutter now largely wrapped up and the merge request opened to facilitate the code review. There was also the announcement of the half million Euro Sovereign Tech Agency investment into Flatpak. Plus on the application side were a few more interesting advancements this week.'..
https://www.phoronix.com/news/GNOME-Very-Exciting-Week
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Phoronix@phoronix@masto.ai (2026-08-29 20:09:05)
California Passes AB-1856 For Open-Source Relief Over Age Verification
As an update to the May story about California's age verification law may end up exempting most Linux distributions, that AB-1856 bill has finally passed!..
https://www.phoronix.com/news/California-AB-1856-Passes
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Phoronix@phoronix@masto.ai (2026-08-29 19:54:05)
SteamOS 3.9 Preview Moves To Linux 7.2, KDE Plasma 6.7 Desktop
In time for the weekend Linux gamers, Valve last night released the first preview of SteamOS 3.9 for the Steam Deck, Steam Machine, and other devices. This early preview comes with some exciting software updates...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/SteamOS-3.9-Preview
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