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Phoronix@phoronix@masto.ai (2026-09-10 19:09:04)
GNU Automake 1.19 Released With More Than One Year Worth Of Fixes
For those continuing to use GNU Automake over the likes of Meson or CMake for your build system, Automake 1.19 is out today as the first new release in 15 months. Among the many fixes in this release is for a bug dating back 14 years...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/GNU-Automake-1.19
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Phoronix@phoronix@masto.ai (2026-09-10 09:39:05)
Steam Client Beta Improves Big Picture Mode, Several Linux Enhancements
Tonight Valve released a big Steam client beta update with a number of new features and fixes...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Steam-Beta-9-September-2026
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Phoronix@phoronix@masto.ai (2026-09-10 05:24:05)
ReactOS Dev Gets FEX Running For x86_64 Games On This "Open-Source Windows" OS Under ARM
A ReactOS developer for this open-source operating system project striving for binary compatibility with Windows drivers and applications has achieved an intriguing software stack. With the experimental ReactOS ARM64 build for running on 64-bit ARM hardware like Raspberry Pi SBCs, he's paired that "open-source Windows" OS with the open-source FEX emulator for in turn being able to r…
https://www.phoronix.com/news/ReactOS-FEX-ARM64-Stacking
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Phoronix@phoronix@masto.ai (2026-09-10 01:24:05)
Running AMD openSIL + Coreboot On The First Available Ryzen AM5 Motherboard
Earlier this year the 3mdeb firmware consulting firm ported AMD openSIL CPU open-source silicon initialization library and Coreboot to an EPYC motherboard, the Gigabyte MZ33-AR1. Their next feat now achieved is bringing AMD openSIL and Coreboot to a desktop AMD Ryzen motherboard with their downstream Dasharo firmware solution. I have been running this alternative firmware on the MSI PRO B850P Wi…
https://www.phoronix.com/review/msi-b850p-coreboot-opensil
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Phoronix@phoronix@masto.ai (2026-09-10 01:09:05)
XWayland 26.1 RC2 Released For Testing With More Fixes
Following last month's initial release candidate of XWayland 26.1 with its many new features, a second release candidate is now available with a number of fixes...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/XWayland-26.1-RC2
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Phoronix@phoronix@masto.ai (2026-09-10 00:09:04)
System76 Launches The Thelio Mira AI With AMD Ryzen + NVIDIA Or AMD Graphics
System76 today unveiled their newest desktop computer as the Thelio Mira AI. The System76 Thelio Mira AI is designed for multi-GPU AI training, model fine-tuning, AI inferencing, computer vision and image generation tasks on tthe AI side. Or with its AMD Ryzen 9000 series CPU and NVIDIA/AMD GPU options is also a good candidate for simulations and other HPC-type workloads...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/System76-Thelio-Mira-AI
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Phoronix@phoronix@masto.ai (2026-09-09 23:54:04)
OpenSSL 4.1 Alpha 1 Released With DTLS 1.3, GREASE & More AVX-512 Optimizations
The first alpha release of the upcoming OpenSSL 4.1 release is now available for testing with some GREASE and DTLS 1.3 support along with more AVX-512 performance optimizations...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/OpenSSL-4.1-Alpha-1
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Phoronix@phoronix@masto.ai (2026-09-09 23:24:06)
NVIDIA 615.71.09 Linux Driver Released With Vulkan Improvements
NVIDIA today debuted the 615.71.09 Linux driver that comes with a number of improvements, especially from the Vulkan API perspective...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/NVIDIA-615.71.09-Linux-Driver
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Phoronix@phoronix@masto.ai (2026-09-09 22:09:05)
A Nice Improvement Coming For Faster Btrfs Zstd Decompression
In addition to the still-pending kernel work for improving the in-kernel Zstd code, sepaarately the Btrfs file-system driver has an improvement on the way in its decompression code path for the Zstd transparent file-system compression...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Btrfs-Zstd-Faster-Decompress
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Phoronix@phoronix@masto.ai (2026-09-09 19:39:05)
AMD Posts New GCC Compiler Patch For Extended Load Optimization
It's nice seeing a new GNU Compiler Collection (GCC) patch out of AMD today that is a general optimization for the x86_64 compiler code and not exclusively tied to their Zen processors. It's an Extended Load Optimization to benefit code where there is a narrower type and then an arithmetic type with a wider type...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/AMD-GCC-Extended-Load-Opt
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Phoronix@phoronix@masto.ai (2026-09-09 19:24:07)
Experimental Patches Get Nouveau+NVK Working On NVIDIA DGX Spark GB10
Red Hat's David Airlie has managed another open-source graphics engineering feat... Getting the Nouveau reverse-engineered kernel graphics driver and Mesa NVK Vulkan driver running on the GB10 Grace Blackwell Superchip with the DGX Spark system...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Experiment-Nouveau-NVIDIA-GB10
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Phoronix@phoronix@masto.ai (2026-09-09 19:24:05)
YSERVER 1.5 Released With Reverse PRIME Support & Other New Features
Announced a few months back was YSERVER as a modern X11 server written in the Rust programming language. In getting the project off the ground quickly and given the size of X11, it was largely vibe coded with Claude Code. The project continues and is attracting contributions from more users with today marking the YSERVER 1.5 release...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/YSERVER-1.5
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Phoronix@phoronix@masto.ai (2026-09-09 09:54:14)
AI Made A Lot Of "Hideous" Code But Found Major Bottlenecks For Faster Linux Compilation
An ARM Linux engineer leveraged AI/LLMs to help uncover some improvements to "significant speed up" the Linux kernel build times. In the process the LLM used generated "a lot of code, much of it hideous" but in the end was used to find some very significant time savings for faster kernel builds via more task parallelization in different areas of the kernel build process...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/AI-To-Faster-Linux-Kernel-Comp
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Phoronix@phoronix@masto.ai (2026-09-09 07:39:04)
systemd 262-rc2 Adds An AI Canary For Detecting Unreviewed AI/LLM Code Contributions
One week after releasing systemd 262-rc1, systemd 262-rc2 is now available with further fixes and refinements for this init system and service manager. Systemd is also the latest open-source project introducing an AI canary for aiming to detect AI/LLM-based code contributors that weren't reviewed by an actual person in advance of the pull request...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/systemd-262-rc2
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Phoronix@phoronix@masto.ai (2026-09-09 04:39:05)
DLSS5VKLayer Wires Up NVIDIA DLSS 5 For Native Linux Games & Steam Play
An interesting new open-source project for those looking to make use of NVIDIA DLSS 5 on Linux is DLSS5VKLayer. The DLSS5VKLayer is a Linux Vulkan layer that works for both native Linux games as well as Steam Play (Proton) Windows games for experimental DLSS 5 support...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/DLSS5VKLayer
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Phoronix@phoronix@masto.ai (2026-09-09 02:09:05)
KDE's KWin Merges Wayland Commit-Timing Protocol Support
Merged today to the latest KDE KWin compositor development code is support for Wayland's important commit-timing protocol that is useful for video playback as well as for gamers relying on Adaptive-Sync/FreeSync support...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/KDE-KWin-Wayland-Commit-Timing
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Phoronix@phoronix@masto.ai (2026-09-09 01:24:05)
The Linux Kernel Planning To Remove Around ~55k Lines Of Old ARM Platform Code
For the current Linux 7.3 kernel many older 32-bit ARM platforms are deprecated and in turn orphaning hundreds of drivers only relevant to those out-of-date ARM platforms. The removal of that now deprecated code is planned for the next kernel cycle or two...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-Dropping-Old-ARM-Ahead
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Phoronix@phoronix@masto.ai (2026-09-08 23:09:02)
CHUWI UniBook With Intel Wildcat Lake For A $449 Linux-Friendly Laptop
CHUWI recently launched the UniBook laptop powered by the Intel Core 3 304 "Wildcat Lake" SOC and priced at just $449 USD. Especially with today's high component pricing, a brand new sub-$500 laptop is extremely rare. Rather than using some dated SoC, it uses Wildcat Lake as Intel's new value option alternative to the Core 3 Series Ultra "Panther Lake" SoCs. This was our first time testing out Intel …
https://www.phoronix.com/review/chuwi-unibook-wildcat-lake
Phoronix@phoronix@masto.ai (2026-09-08 22:24:04)
New Patches Provide HDMI 1.4 3D Mode Support For AMD Radeon Graphics On Linux
It turns out one of the feature limitations of the AMDGPU Linux graphics driver is HDMI 1.4 3D output support with frame packing, top-and-bottom, and side-by-side options for transmitting simultaneous video streams. I wasn't aware of this limitation for the lack of any 3D displays and many Linux enthusiasts/gamers as well, but if you happen to have a compatible HDMI 1.4 3D display, there are p…
https://www.phoronix.com/news/AMDGPU-HDMI-1.4-3D-Mode
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Phoronix@phoronix@masto.ai (2026-09-08 19:54:05)
Linux 7.4 To Support Realtek RTL8127atf & RTL8116af Networking
Queued this past week into the net-next development tree of the latest networking additions for the Linux kernel is enabling support for Realtek's newer RTL8127atf and RTL8116af wired networking ASICs...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-7.4-RTL8127atf-RTL8116af
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Phoronix@phoronix@masto.ai (2026-09-08 19:39:05)
DirectX Support Promoted To Official Target Within LLVM
Over the past four years there has been a lot of work on a DirectX back-end within the LLVM compiler stack. Microsoft has backed the initiative for being able to lower LLVM IR into the DirectX Intermediate Language (DXIL) for execution by Windows DirectX 12 graphics drivers. This back-end is now officially supported...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/LLVM-DirectX-Backend-Official
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Phoronix@phoronix@masto.ai (2026-09-08 19:24:04)
FEX 2609 Released With Speedier JIT Performance, JIT Disk Cache Option
FEX 2609 was released overnight as the newest monthly feature release for this open-source emulator that allows running Linux x86_64 binaries on AArch64, including the likes of Steam and Steam Play (Proton) for enabling Windows games to run rather well on ARM64 Linux systems...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/FEX-2609-Released
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Phoronix@phoronix@masto.ai (2026-09-08 19:09:05)
LLVM Merges Support For AMD's RMPCHKD, RMPREAD & RMPOPT Instructions
With the Linux kernel still working toward landing support for AMD's RMPOPT optimization for helping to reduce overhead on SEV-SNP enabled servers, the LLVM/Clang compiler has in turn prepped for the milestone by landing support for the RMPOPT, RMPREAD, and RMPCHKD instructions for Zen 5 and newer...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/LLVM-Zen5-Zen6-RMPOPT
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Phoronix@phoronix@masto.ai (2026-09-08 09:40:06)
FreeBSD 14.5 Released With Hardware Support Improvements, Many Bug & Security Fixes
For those that haven't yet made the move to FreeBSD 15 with still relying on FreeBSD 14 in production, out today is FreeBSD 14.5-RELEASE...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/FreeBSD-14.5-RELEASE
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Phoronix@phoronix@masto.ai (2026-09-08 05:09:05)
Mysterious x86 CPU Already Has APX, x86S Where Intel Left Off For Legacy-Free x86
The mystery deepens around an x86 implementation from a corporate entity other than AMD and Intel and has been making some very intriguing changes for coming from a seeming start-up. Beyond 16 tile and 32 tile AMX implementations that already surpass Intel's current Advanced Matrix Extensions (AMX) capabilities in shipping Xeon CPUs, new disclosures were made today concerning Advanced Perf…
https://www.phoronix.com/news/x86-CPU-With-APX-x86S
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Phoronix@phoronix@masto.ai (2026-09-07 22:54:05)
Ubuntu 26.10 amd64v3 Daily ISOs Now Being Published
As an interesting development for Ubuntu 26.10, the daily ISOs of the "Stonking Stingray" now include amd64v3 images...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Ubuntu-26.10-amd64v3-Daily
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Phoronix@phoronix@masto.ai (2026-09-07 20:54:15)
Linux Preps For New AMD Zen 6 BTB CTX Isolation Security Feature
A recently posted Linux kernel patch has revealed a new security improvement with Zen 6 processors...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-Preps-AMD-BTB-CTX
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Phoronix@phoronix@masto.ai (2026-09-07 19:54:07)
Nouveau Preparations For HDMI 2.1 DSC, AMD HDMI FreeSync Fixes For Linux 7.4
Last week's set of DRM-Misc-Next changes submitted to DRM-Next with targeting the upcoming Linux 7.4 kernel cycle features HDMI 2.1 related work for both the AMDGPU kernel driver as well as the Nouveau open-source NVIDIA driver...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-7.4-DRM-Misc-Next-1
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Phoronix@phoronix@masto.ai (2026-09-07 19:39:05)
Intel's Dynamic PAMT Appears Ready For Linux 7.4 To Help With TDX Memory Overhead
Intel's Dynamic PAMT feature looks like it's finally going to be ready for mainline with Linux 7.4. The Intel Dynamic PAMT is used for helping to reduce memory overhead when making use of Trusted Domain Extensions (TDX) for confidential VMs...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Intel-Dynamic-PAMT-For-7.4
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Phoronix@phoronix@masto.ai (2026-09-07 19:24:04)
Rustls 0.23.44 Released With ML-DSA Certificates Enabled By Default
Rustls as the modern TLS library implementation written in the Rust programming language is out with a new feature release. This morning's Rustls 0.23.44 release enables post-quantum secure ML-DSA certificates by default...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Rustls-0.23.44-Released
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