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Phoronix@phoronix@masto.ai (2026-09-13 09:54:05)
EROFS Disables LZ4 Rolling Decompression Due To Data Corruption Possibility
The EROFS read-only file-system popular for embedded systems, containers, and other use-cases has resorted to temporarily disabling its LZ4 rolling decompression support due to data corruption concerns...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/EROFS-Disabled-LZ4-Rolling
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Phoronix@phoronix@masto.ai (2026-09-13 02:24:04)
Debian 13.7 Released With Many Bug Fixes
For those wanting the freshest Debian 13 "Trixie" install media, Debian 13.7 is out today in bundling up all the latest bug and security fixes...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Debian-13.7-Released
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Phoronix@phoronix@masto.ai (2026-09-13 00:24:05)
Void Linux Maintainer Orphans 100+ Packages Over AI Policy Dispute
A Void Linux maintainer has orphaned more than 100 packages he maintained over a dispute of the project's AI policy for LLM-generated text...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Void-Linux-AI-Policy-Orphan
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Phoronix@phoronix@masto.ai (2026-09-12 22:54:05)
Intel Reverses Decision To Cancel Their Open-Source Font Project
Amid Intel cutting back on open-source projects over the past two years as cost cutting measures at the company, their latest open-source project on the chopping block was the peculiar font they developed a few years back. The project was archived this week only to change course two days later...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Intel-One-Mono-Saved
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Phoronix@phoronix@masto.ai (2026-09-12 20:09:04)
GTK 4.24 Released With Better Fractional Scaling, More Precise GDK Frame-Clock
GTK 4.24 released on Friday as the newest stable feature release to the GTK4 toolkit. It's quite a nice update to GTK4 for pairing with next week's GNOME 51 desktop release...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/GTK-4.24-Released
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Phoronix@phoronix@masto.ai (2026-09-12 19:54:05)
Intel Linux NPU Driver Only Now Officially Supports Ubuntu 26.04 LTS
Releasing on Friday was the Intel Linux NPU Driver 1.38 as the user-space open-source driver components for leveraging the Core Ultra Neural Processing Unit (NPU) under Linux in conjunction with the upstream IVPU kernel accelerator driver...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Intel-Linux-NPU-Driver-1.38
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Phoronix@phoronix@masto.ai (2026-09-12 19:39:05)
Ubuntu Developers Contemplate Linux Firmware HWE Package
A possible future enhancement being considered for Ubuntu Long Term Support "LTS" releases is the introduction of a linux-firmware-hwe package as part of their hardware enablement (HWE) stack...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Ubuntu-Considers-Linux-Firm-HWE
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Phoronix@phoronix@masto.ai (2026-09-12 19:24:05)
KDE Plasma 6.8 Remote Desktop To Enjoy Lower Latency Performance
Along with KDE Plasma 6.8 beta releasing this week, there were some other interesting Plasma changes this week worthy of a shout-out...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/KDE-Plasma-6.8-KRDP-Lower-Lat
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Phoronix@phoronix@masto.ai (2026-09-12 09:54:16)
Gitte As Git Client For GNOME Continues Maturing Quite Nicely
For those in pursuit of a graphical Git client for GNOME or the Linux desktop at large, the GTK4-powered Gitte continues advancing rather well and out this week is its v0.10 release...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Gitte-0.10-Released
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Phoronix@phoronix@masto.ai (2026-09-12 03:09:06)
New Cache Aware Scheduling Fixes Out For Testing
Since being merged back during the Linux 7.2 cycle, the Cache Aware Scheduling code continues seeing more fixes as users test out this scheduling enhancement on different processors and system configurations...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Cache-Aware-Scheduling-4-Patch
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Phoronix@phoronix@masto.ai (2026-09-12 01:39:04)
Linux's IO_uring Sees Some "Crazy" Patches That Deliver Very Nice Improvements
Linux block subsystem maintainer and IO_uring lead developer Jens Axboe continues to uncover new opportunities for making the wonderful IO_uring framework even more performant within the Linux kernel. For ending out the week he's posted some "crazy" patches delivering some significant gains...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-IO-uring-Crazy-Friday
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Phoronix@phoronix@masto.ai (2026-09-12 00:24:05)
CachyOS vs. Windows 11 vs. Ubuntu 26.04 LTS On Intel Wildcat Lake + 8GB RAM
Often times when testing different Linux distributions or comparing Windows vs. Linux it's on leading flagship desktop or server hardware, but today we are looking at the Ubuntu vs. CachyOS vs. Windows performance at the opposite end of the spectrum. With the new CHUWI UniBook $449 laptop powered by Intel Core 3 Wildcat Lake and with 8GB of system memory, here is a look at how those three operat…
https://www.phoronix.com/review/wildcat-lake-windows-linux
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Phoronix@phoronix@masto.ai (2026-09-11 22:40:06)
Mold High Speed Linker Being Rewritten In Rust, Hopes To Be The Default Linker On Linux
The Mold high performance linker that typically outperforms the likes of LLVM lld, GNU LD, Wild, and others is being rewritten in the Rust programming language and also has an ambitious goal of being adopted as the default linker on Linux systems...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Mold-Linker-In-Rust-Coming
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Phoronix@phoronix@masto.ai (2026-09-11 22:09:04)
Prominent Mesa Developer Now Working For Arm On PanVK & Panfrost Code
Erik Faye-Lund who has contributed to the Mesa 3D graphics driver stack working on areas like Zink and most notably the PanVK Vulkan and Panfrost Gallium3D drivers forr Arm Mali hardware is now working directly for Arm...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Erik-Faye-Lund-Mesa-Arm
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Phoronix@phoronix@masto.ai (2026-09-11 21:24:05)
Linux Mint Debuts Xepub As New EPUB Reader, Clockenstein Calendar App
The Linux Mint project today published their August 2026 development report, including some new applications added to their XApp collection...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-Mint-Xepub-Clockenstein
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Phoronix@phoronix@masto.ai (2026-09-11 19:54:24)
Patches Ready For AMDGPU HDMI 2.1 Enabled By Default With Linux 7.4 With FreeSync, VRR & ALLM
Linux 7.4 is now set to reach the elusive milestone of HDMI 2.1 support for the AMDGPU kernel graphics driver. After the HDMI Forum previously rejected HDMI 2.1 for the AMDGPU open-source driver implementation going back years, earlier this year something changed -- widely speculated to be with Valve's involvement -- that HDMI 2.1 patches began appearing for the AMDGPU driver. …
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-7.4-AMDGPU-HDMI-2.1-Go
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Phoronix@phoronix@masto.ai (2026-09-11 19:40:04)
Git 2.56-rc0 Released With Updated Contribution Guidelines, Improvements For Swift
While still ultimately working toward Git 3.0 with SHA-256 hashes by default and the "main" branch name by default, among other breaking changes (and potentially coming around the end of 2026), Git 2.56-rc0 is now available for testing...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Git-2.56-rc0
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Phoronix@phoronix@masto.ai (2026-09-11 19:09:22)
Intel Thermald 2.5.13 Restores Accidentally Deleted Wildcat Lake Support
Intel's Thermald released on Thursday as the newest update to this daemon for thermal monitoring on Intel hardware that was also recently extended for beginning to support Qualcomm/ARM hardware too. The main change with Thermald 2.5.13 is adding back Intel Wildcat Lake platform support after it was accidentally removed in the prior release...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Intel-Thermald-2.5.13
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Phoronix@phoronix@masto.ai (2026-09-11 19:09:20)
GCC 13.5 Released With 265+ Bug Fixes
For those continuing to rely on the GCC 13 compiler in production that debuted more than three years ago, GCC 13.5 released today with more than 265 bug fixes. GCC 13.5 also caps off the GCC 13 series as the last planned point release...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/GCC-13.5-Released
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Phoronix@phoronix@masto.ai (2026-09-11 10:09:05)
BeOS-Inspired Haiku Now Supports Changing Audio Outputs Live, Other Improvements
In addition to August bringing the long-awaited Haiku R1 Beta 6 release, there was also a lot of development progress on this BeOS-inspired operating system too during the course of the past month...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Haiku-OS-August-2026
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Phoronix@phoronix@masto.ai (2026-09-11 07:24:05)
GIMP 3.2.6 Released With Some Early Preparations Toward Eventual GTK4 Port
The long-awaited GIMP 3.0 release for transitioning from GTK2 to GTK3 only saw its stable release last year. But with GTK4 already being out for years, GIMP developers have begun making some very early preparations toward an inevitable GTK4 port...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/GIMP-3.2.6-Released
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Phoronix@phoronix@masto.ai (2026-09-11 06:39:05)
Mesa 26.3 RADV + RadeonSI Ready With DRM Format Modifiers For Older AMD GPUs
Coming with Linux 7.3 is DRM format modifiers for GFX6 through GFX8 era GPUs covering the original Raddeon HD 7000 (GCN 1.0) graphics cards up through the Polaris and Fiji series. This work by Valve's Timur Kristóf is necessary for these older GPUs to support Vulkan-based Wayland compositors, better interoperability between OpenGL and Vulkan or other APis, compositors running on the Zink OpenGL…
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Mesa-26.3-GFX6-GFX8-Modifiers
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Phoronix@phoronix@masto.ai (2026-09-11 02:54:05)
Ubuntu 24.04.5 LTS Released With Linux 7.0 HWE Stack
For those continuing to make use of the Ubuntu 24.04 Long Term Support "LTS" series, Ubuntu 24.04.5 LTS is out today as the newest point release...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Ubuntu-24.04.5-LTS
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Phoronix@phoronix@masto.ai (2026-09-11 01:54:06)
Intel Xeon 600 Workstation Performance vs. AMD Threadripper 9000 In Nearly 400 Benchmarks
Last month I had the chance to test the Xeon 678X workstation processor as my first hands-on opportunity with the Xeon 600 "Granite Rapids WS" series. The Intel Xeon 678X was within the HP Z4 G6i workstation and used it for a number of different benchmarks. In that HP workstation review were also some comparison points to the likes of AMD Ryzen Threadripper while in this article ar…
https://www.phoronix.com/review/intel-xeon-600-amd-threadripper-9000
Phoronix@phoronix@masto.ai (2026-09-11 01:54:05)
KDE Plasma 6.8 Beta Released With Many Great Improvements, Kup Backup Scheduler
Ahead of the stable release of Plasma 6.8 due out on 14 October that also marks the 30th anniversary of the KDE project, out today is the much anticipated beta release...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/KDE-Plasma-6.8-Beta
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Phoronix@phoronix@masto.ai (2026-09-10 22:09:04)
Intel BFF Driver Slated For Linux 7.4 Introduction
Last month I covered Intel posting a new driver named "BFF" for the Linux kernel. This BFF driver is for a new hardware feature debuting with next-gen Diamond Rapids processors for better dealing with aging CPU silicon where some bits may become stuck over time...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Intel-BFF-Driver-For-Linux-7.4
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Phoronix@phoronix@masto.ai (2026-09-10 20:24:05)
NVIDIA NVK Driver Lands Improvement To Help With Valve's Gamescope
Merged today for next quarter's Mesa 26.3 release is an improvement for the open-source NVIDIA "NVK" Vulkan driver paired with the Nouveau kernel driver. This latest NVK improvement benefits usage of Valve's Gamescope micro-compositor and should help with performance during game recording and remote play...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/NVIDIA-NVK-BAR-Host-Cached
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Phoronix@phoronix@masto.ai (2026-09-10 19:54:04)
X.Org Server 26.1 Moves Closer To Release As Half-Decade Update
We're getting closer to the X.Org Server 26.1 stable release as the first new tagged feature release since X.Org Server 21.1 debuted back in October 2021. There have been some new features, many code reverts, and many bug fixes merged over the past five years that will culminate with the X.Org Server 26.1 stable release...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/X.Org-Server-26.1-Released
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Phoronix@phoronix@masto.ai (2026-09-10 19:24:05)
GNOME 51 Adds Support For Custom Pointer Acceleration Profiles
As a last minute change ahead of next week's GNOME 51 desktop release, changes to Mutter and gsettings-desktop-schemas have now landed for supporting custom pointer acceleration profiles...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/GNOME-51-Custom-Accel-Profiles
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Phoronix@phoronix@masto.ai (2026-09-10 19:09:07)
COSMIC Epoch 1.8 Provides Latest Fixes & Minor Improvements For This Rust Desktop
Released overnight was the newest version of the Rust-based COSMIC desktop environment developed by System76 as part of the effort on their Pop!_OS Linux distribution...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/COSMIC-Epoch-1.8
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