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Phoronix@phoronix@masto.ai (2026-09-03 22:24:05)
21st Revision Of Patches For Getting Linux To Shutdown Devices Asynchronously

Being worked on for over two years has been the latest attempt for async device shutdown support for Linux for getting Linux systems -- especially servers with lots of hardware like many NVMe drives -- to shutdown faster. That work is now up to its 21st version as it works toward hopefully making it to the mainline kernel in the not too distant future...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-Shutdown-Async-21
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Phoronix@phoronix@masto.ai (2026-09-03 21:54:04)
NVIDIA Acquiring Hugging Face For $12.93 Billion

Following rumors in recent days of NVIDIA courting Hugging Face, it's now been officially announced that NVIDIA is acquiring Hugging Face...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/NVIDIA-Hugging-Face
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Phoronix@phoronix@masto.ai (2026-09-03 21:40:04)
Linux 7.3 Now Disabling RandStruct Security Feature By Default If Rust Support Present

While Rust programming language use may help with memory safety and other security advantages, the default Linux kernel configuration is now losing randomization of sensitive kernel structures if Rust support is present...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-7.3-RandStruct-Rust
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Phoronix@phoronix@masto.ai (2026-09-03 19:54:18)
Audacity 4.0 Audio Editor Released With Qt6 Based UI

The longtime Audacity open-source audio editor had been using wxWidgets for years but with today's Audacity 4.0 release they have transitioned to using the Qt6 toolkit...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Audacity-4.0-Released
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Phoronix@phoronix@masto.ai (2026-09-03 19:39:06)
GCC 17 Now Supports Using -mtune=native -mcpu=native On RISC-V

As a follow up to last month's article about patches being posted for enabling "-mcpu=native -mtune=native" support for RISC-V with the GCC compiler, that code is now merged for what will become the GCC 17.1 release in the early months of 2027...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/GCC-17-RISC-V-mtune-mcpu-native
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Phoronix@phoronix@masto.ai (2026-09-03 19:24:05)
InputPlumber 0.79 Adds Support For More Handhelds

InputPlumber is the open-source router and remapping daemon for Linux that is particularly popular among Linux gaming handhelds for combining multiple input devices and translating actions into various virtual device formats. InputPlumber supports emulating mouse, keyboard, ad gamepad inputs. With the new InputPlumber 0.79 release there is expanded hardware support and bug fixes...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/InputPlumber-0.79
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Phoronix@phoronix@masto.ai (2026-09-03 09:40:04)
Lemonade 11.9 Local AI Server Released With Super Exciting AMD ROCm HRX Backend

Lemonade 11.9 is out today as the newest feature release to this AMD-backed, open-source local AI server solution across Linux, Windows, and macOS. Lemonade has long been focused on offering "100% free and private" AI use with local hardware whether it be GPUs, CPUs, or NPUs.  With Lemonade 11.9's release today it's very interesting for having experimental ROCm HRX back-end support with Llam…
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Lemonade-11.9-ROCm-HRX
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Phoronix@phoronix@masto.ai (2026-09-03 05:40:05)
Fedora 46 Proposal Wants To Provide Official Support For Crystal Programming Language

A new change proposal that's been filed for evaluation with next year's Fedora 46 release is to provide official, native support for the Crystal programming language...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Fedora-46-Proposal-Crystal
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Phoronix@phoronix@masto.ai (2026-09-03 04:09:04)
NVIDIA-Started Open Secure AI Alliance Moves To The Linux Foundation

Earlier this year NVIDIA led an effort with more than two dozen other companies to launch the Open Secure AI Alliance with a focus on keeping open-source AI models secure. The Open Secure AI Alliance today is transitioning from being stewarded by NVIDIA to becoming a Linux Foundation project...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Open-Secure-AI-Alliance-LF
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Phoronix@phoronix@masto.ai (2026-09-03 03:09:04)
KDE Plasma 6.8 Lands Dwell Clicker Support To Improve Accessibility On Wayland

In preparations for Plasma 6.8 going Wayland-exclusive in abandoning the X11 session, another feature gap compared to X11 has been addressed...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/KDE-Plasma-6.8-Dwell-Clicker
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Phoronix@phoronix@masto.ai (2026-09-03 02:24:05)
Mesa 26.2.2 Enables Intel Nova Lake Graphics By Default

Mesa 26.2.2 is out today as the newest bi-weekly stable point release for these open-source OpenGL and Vulkan drivers...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Mesa-26.2.2-Released
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Phoronix@phoronix@masto.ai (2026-09-03 01:09:01)
Early Benchmarks Of AMD EPYC On Linux 7.3 Show Some Performance Gains On The Horizon

With Linux 7.3-rc1 out this week and marking the end of the merge window, it's onto a lot of Linux 7.3 performance testing at Phoronix and looking at all the new features of Linux 7.3. In today's article is a first look at the AMD EPYC Turin server performance on Linux 7.3-rc1 compared to Linux 7.2 stable with a few nice performance improvements to show.
https://www.phoronix.com/review/linux-73-amd-epyc

Phoronix@phoronix@masto.ai (2026-09-03 00:24:05)
CERN Transitioning To Debian After Being A Longtime RHEL Institution

CERN, the European Organization for Nuclear Research, besides being well known for its Large Hadron Collider (LHC) is known among longtime Linux users as a RHEL/CentOS shop. CERN formally even co-maintained the Scientific Linux RHEL derivative with other educational/research institutions in the past. So to much surprise now, CERN is transitioning to Debian Linux...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/CERN-Goes-Debian-Leaving-RHEL
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Phoronix@phoronix@masto.ai (2026-09-02 22:24:05)
AVX-512 xor_gen For Linux Updated & Looking Real Good For RAID Arrays

Being worked on the past few months for the Linux kernel has been an AVX-512 optimized version of xor_gen() that is used for generating and validating parity blocks such as with Linux's software RAID 5 and RAID 6 arrays. The latest iteration of AVX-512 xor_gen() was posted today and shows some impressive results on AMD Zen 5 hardware...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/AVX-512-xor-gen-v5
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Phoronix@phoronix@masto.ai (2026-09-02 22:09:04)
GNOME Mutter 51.rc Adds Cross-GPU Buffer Scan-Out Support, Other Last Minute Work

The release candidates are out today for the GNOME Shell and Mutter in preparing for the formal "GNOME 51.rc" release in the coming days...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/GNOME-Shell-Mutter-51-RC
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Phoronix@phoronix@masto.ai (2026-09-02 19:54:05)
Greg KH Forewarns Of "Rough" Linux 7.3 Kernel Cycle Due To Continued AI Churn

While Linux 7.3-rc1 only released this week and there are another roughly seven weeks to go until the official kernel release, Linux's second-in-command Greg Kroah-Hartman is already warning that it's likely to be another "rough" kernel cycle given the ongoing noise caused by AI/LLM with the increase in bug reports and kernel patches...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-7.3-Rough-Cycle
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Phoronix@phoronix@masto.ai (2026-09-02 19:39:04)
GCC 17 Compiler Merges Initial Support For Intel/AMD AI Compute Extensions "ACE"

Landing today in the GNU Compiler Collection (GCC) codebase is initial support for the AI Compute Extensions (ACEv1) as the initial work out of the x86 Ecosystem Advisory Group between Intel and AMD for a common matrix acceleration architecture for helping AI/ML workloads with future CPUs...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/GCC-17-Merges-ACE-v1
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Phoronix@phoronix@masto.ai (2026-09-02 19:24:05)
FreeDesktop SDK 26.08 Released With Snap Support Dropped, Bootstrap Changes

The newest FreeDesktop SDK is now available for this collection of components used for Flatpak runtimes as well as for building out of containers and other software stacks...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/FreeDesktop-SDK-26.08
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Phoronix@phoronix@masto.ai (2026-09-02 19:09:06)
Intel Updates LLM-Scaler-vLLM Build For vLLM 0.26 & Other Improvements

For those looking for the smoothest experience to get vLLM up and running on Intel Arc (Pro) graphics hardware, out today is the newest beta of Intel's LLM-Scaler-vLLM project for a Docker-based setup of vLLM ready to go on Intel GPUs...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Intel-LLM-Scaler-vLLM-0.26.0-b1
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Phoronix@phoronix@masto.ai (2026-09-02 09:40:04)
Steam On Linux Dips Below 4% For August

Valve just published the Steam Survey results for August 2026. After jumping above 4% in July, in August it fell back below that threshold. Meanwhile CachyOS continues gaining ground among Linux gamers...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Steam-Survey-August-2026
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Phoronix@phoronix@masto.ai (2026-09-02 07:09:04)
WinBtrfs 1.10 Released With Two Years Worth Of Improvements For Btrfs On Windows

WinBtrfs is a driver for Microsoft Windows to support reading and writing to Btrfs file-systems. WinBtrfs works with Windows XP and newer. It hadn't seen a new release in over two years but a big feature release is now available with a combination of new features and bug fixes...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/WinBtrfs-1.10
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Phoronix@phoronix@masto.ai (2026-09-02 05:54:05)
AMDGPU Linux Driver's Latest Patches For HDMI Passive VRR Support

As part of AMD's ongoing effort for getting HDMI 2.1 support squared away in their upstream AMDGPU kernel graphics driver, sent out today were the latest patches around passive variable refresh rate "Passive VRR" for HDMI connections...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/AMDGPU-HDMI-Passive-VRR
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Phoronix@phoronix@masto.ai (2026-09-02 01:39:04)
Linux Gets A Reverse-Engineered Driver For ASUS ROG NVMe Enclosure RGB Lighting

If you are into RGB lighting, you can even find NVMe external enclosures these days with RGB LEDs like the ASUS ROG Strix Arion. Now thanks to reverse engineering there is a Linux driver for allowing the RGB lighting controls for the ASUS ROG Strix Arion NVMe enclosure...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/ASUS-ROG-Strix-Arion-RGB-Linux
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Phoronix@phoronix@masto.ai (2026-09-01 23:09:02)
Lekuo SouthBridge Max Puts An AMD B650 Chipset Onto A PCIe Card For More I/O

For those looking at expanding the SATA, NVMe, and/or the USB/USB-C capabilities of your system, the Lekuo SouthBridge Max PB65MX3 is an interesting creation that I have been trying out. The Lekuo SouthBridge Max puts an AMD B650 chipset onto a low-profile PCIe add-in card to provide all of the above without any bifurcation required. Given that it's an AMD B650 chipset, it also "just works" nic…
https://www.phoronix.com/review/lekuo-southbridge-max

Phoronix@phoronix@masto.ai (2026-09-01 21:24:04)
systemd 262-rc1 Released With Live Update Orchestrator Integration & More

Debuting today is systemd 262-rc1 as the first test release of this next major update to this Linux init system and service manager...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/systemd-262-rc1
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Phoronix@phoronix@masto.ai (2026-09-01 19:54:04)
Linux Changes For CPPC On Zen 6 Clients - Hard-Coded Default Puts Low-Power Core At 0.47x

Following yesterday's Linux kernel patches for tuning ACPI EPP for Ryzen Zen 6 client processors, another patch series made it out on the mailing list with adjustments for ACPI Collaborative Processor Performance Control (CPPC) with upcoming Zen 6 client processors...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/AMD-Zen-6-Client-CPPC-Changes
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Phoronix@phoronix@masto.ai (2026-09-01 19:24:04)
Intel Graphics Driver Introducing Cold Reset Recovery For Linux 7.4, Panther Lake IBC v3

While the Linux 7.3 merge window just wrapped up this weekend, on Monday Intel already sent out their first feature pull request of new Xe kernel graphics driver material that is destined for Linux 7.4...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Intel-Xe-Linux-7.4-First-PR
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Phoronix@phoronix@masto.ai (2026-09-01 19:09:08)
The Linux Kernel AI Flood, Linux 7.2 Release & Other August Highlights

It was a very busy month of August with the Linux kernel developers continue to be flooded with AI/LLM-generated patches and bug reports. Plus there was the general resolution on AI usage within the Debian project and other open-source projects now evolving in the AI era. With the Linux 7.2 stable release and Linux 7.3 merge window, the past month was all the more eventful...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/August-2026-Highlights
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Phoronix@phoronix@masto.ai (2026-09-01 19:09:05)
EDAC Changes Merged For Linux 7.3 After Being Forgotten About During The Merge Window

While the Linux 7.3 merge window officially closed on Sunday with the Linux 7.3-rc1 release, the Error Detection And Correction "EDAC" subsystem changes were mistakenly forgotten about during the two week window. The pull request ended up being sent out on Monday evening and the late feature changes were already merged to Git...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-7.3-EDAC
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Phoronix@phoronix@masto.ai (2026-09-01 10:09:05)
KDE Linux Now Providing Automatic Btrfs Snapshots For All User Files

With the end of the month comes a new monthly status report from the KDE Linux project as their in-house distribution project...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/KDE-Linux-August-2026
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