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Phoronix@phoronix@masto.ai (2026-09-23 20:54:10)
Qualcomm Posts Open-Source GPU Driver Patches For Adreno 850 One Day After Announcement
Yesterday Qualcomm announced the Snapdragon 8 Elite Extreme Gen 6 as quite an interesting mobile SoC. The Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Elite Extreme Gen 6 features Adreno 850 graphics and already one-day later their engineers are out with initial Linux kernel patches for bringing up the A850 with the MSM kernel driver...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Qualcomm-Adreno-850-Open-Source
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Phoronix@phoronix@masto.ai (2026-09-23 19:39:16)
AMD Upstreams AVX10_V2_AUX Support Into LLVM Clang 24
In addition to AMD working on AVX10_V2_AUX support for the GCC compiler, this summer they also posted AVX10_V2_AUX support for the LLVM/Clang compiler. As of yesterday that enablement was merged for LLVM 24 for that important step toward AI Compute Extensions (ACE)...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/LLVM-Clang-AVX10_V2_AUX
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Phoronix@phoronix@masto.ai (2026-09-23 19:24:04)
Linux 7.3 Reverting Logitech Bolt Receiver HID++ After Too Many Bugs Encountered
Merged at the start of the Linux 7.3 kernel cycle was adding Logitech Bolt USB receiver support for Logitech HID++ devices to the hid-logitech-dj driver code. That has resulted in too many bug reports of early Linux 7.3 users encountering varying issues with their Logitech mice that the functionality is now being reverted until it can be better developed...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-Reverting-Logitech-Bolt
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Phoronix@phoronix@masto.ai (2026-09-23 10:09:07)
Open-Source NVIDIA "Nouveau" Driver Sees Patches For HDMI Deep Color Support
The Nouveau Linux kernel graphics driver for open-source NVIDIA driver support has new patches posted for enabling HDMI Deep Color support...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Nouveau-Deep-Color-Patches
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Phoronix@phoronix@masto.ai (2026-09-23 04:40:15)
Linux 7.2 vs. Linux 7.3 Shows A Few Improvements With AMD Strix Halo
Last week I ran some benchmarks showing performance gains for AMD Ryzen AI Max+ "Strix Halo" on Ubuntu 26.10. Then shortly after that testing on its daily state, which used the Linux 7.2 kernel, Canonical switched to Linux 7.3 as the Ubuntu 26.10 kernel. Here are some Linux 7.2 vs. Linux 7.3 benchmarks for the AMD Ryzen AI Max+ 395 "Strix Halo" with the Framework Desktop...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-7.3-Strix-Halo
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Phoronix@phoronix@masto.ai (2026-09-23 03:39:21)
Ubuntu Linux Maker Canonical Achieved $345M USD In Revenue For 2025
In 2024 Canonical generated nearly $300M USD in revenue for this company behind Ubuntu Linux and other services and software solutions. For 2025, they not only broke $300M but well exceeded it with $345M in revenue...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Ubuntu-Canonical-Did-345M-2025
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Phoronix@phoronix@masto.ai (2026-09-23 00:39:17)
Variable Refresh Rate "VRR" Target Limiter Proposed For Linux Graphics Drivers
A new proposal being discussed is introducing a Linux user-space API to be able to specify frame rate targets for Variable Refresh Rate (VRR) handling on the Linux desktop...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/VRR-Target-Rate-Limiter-uAPI
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Phoronix@phoronix@masto.ai (2026-09-22 23:54:10)
SPEC Releases SPECviewperf 15.0.1 For Linux
SPEC back in May 2025 introduced SPECViewPerf 15 as the newest major release of this industry-standard workstation graphics benchmark. Sadly, the Linux support once again fell behind with SPECViewPerf 15 only debuting on Microsoft Windows. Today though Linux has caught up with SPEC releasing a Linux-native build of SPECViewPerf 15.0.1...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/SPECviewperf-15.0.1-Linux
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Phoronix@phoronix@masto.ai (2026-09-22 22:54:06)
systemd 262 Released With AI/LLM Canary For Unreviewed Code, LUO Integration
Systemd 262 made it out today as the newest feature update to this Linux init system and service manager. As with most systemd releases, it's heavy on new features and functionality...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/systemd-262
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Phoronix@phoronix@masto.ai (2026-09-22 22:39:21)
Vibe Coded YSERVER Adds XDMCP Support For Multi-User Shared Desktops
The open-source YSERVER project as a modern X11 sever written in the Rust programming language with the help of Claude Code is out today with a new feature release. Most notable for this AI Rust X11 server is X Display Manager Control Protocol (XDMCP) support for multi-user shared desktops...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/YSERVER-1.6-Released
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Phoronix@phoronix@masto.ai (2026-09-22 21:39:40)
Alibaba Contributing $3M USD To Omarchy To Work On Making "Ideal" Agentic OS
The Omarchy project announced today that Alibaba Cloud will be contributing a total of three million USD to their foundation for helping development of this Linux distribution and working to make it an "ideal agentic operating system"...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Omarchy-Alibaba-3M
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Phoronix@phoronix@masto.ai (2026-09-22 21:24:06)
Linux 7.3 Adding Logitech G502 X Lightspeed USB Support, ELECOM M-XT4DRBK
Sent out today was a new HID subsystem pull request of fixes for the week to the Linux 7.3 kernel. Besides some conventional bug fixes are also supporting some additional devices via quirks and new IDs...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-7.3-HID-G502X-USB
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Phoronix@phoronix@masto.ai (2026-09-22 21:09:05)
Promotion Reminder For Ad-Free Viewing, Multi-Page Articles On A Single Page
As a friendly reminder in case you missed it from over the weekend, the Phoronix autumn "Oktoberfest" premium sale is taking place through the rest of this week for those wishing to help support the site while enjoying ad-free viewing, multi-page articles rendered on a single page, and other benefits while helping for the site to survive and continue producing daily original content...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/September-2026-Phoronix-Ad-Free
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Phoronix@phoronix@masto.ai (2026-09-22 19:39:16)
Cache Aware Scheduling Fixes Queued For Submission To Linux 7.3, Backporting To 7.2
Later this week it looks like the latest round of Cache Aware Scheduling fixes will be merged for enhancing this kernel scheduler functionality for grouping related tasks together on CPU cores that share the same last level cache (LLC). Cache Aware Scheduling can lead to better cache locality and lower latency by avoiding the costs of potential cache bouncing -- that is when bugs don't …
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-7.3-CAS-Fixes-Coming
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Phoronix@phoronix@masto.ai (2026-09-22 19:39:14)
Linux Adding New Interface For Reporting AMD SEV Status
A convenient addition that surprisingly hasn't been added to the Linux kernel until now is /sys/devices/system/cpu/sev/sev_status as a new sysfs interface for reporting the AMD Secure Encrypted Virtualization (SEV) status...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-sysfs-AMD-SEV-Status
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Phoronix@phoronix@masto.ai (2026-09-22 19:24:04)
ZLUDA Now Implements Some NVIDIA cuFFT APIs With hipFFT
ZLUDA as the open-source project working on CUDA for non-NVIDIA GPUs like AMD Radeon graphics cards now has implemented support for some of NVIDIA's core cuFFT APIs...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/ZLUDA-cuFFT-APIs-hipFFT
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Phoronix@phoronix@masto.ai (2026-09-22 10:09:07)
Valve Introduces Pyrowave Video Codec In Beta For Low Latency Streaming
Valve's Steam client beta today introduced Pyrowave as an experimental video codec for high bandwidth, low-latency video streaming...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Valve-Steam-Beta-Pyrowave
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Phoronix@phoronix@masto.ai (2026-09-22 06:09:07)
AMD Begins Preparing Open-Source Linux Driver For Graphics Cards With GDDR7
AMD sent out their latest Linux kernel graphics driver patches today for enabling some new hardware IP blocks. And as part of that, preparing for GDDR7 video memory with the AMDGPU driver...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/AMDGPU-Linux-Prep-GDDR7
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Phoronix@phoronix@masto.ai (2026-09-22 05:24:04)
Gravity Linux Aims To Provide A Nice Experience For Apple M4 & Newer
There's a new Linux distribution focused on supporting Linux on Apple Silicon Macs. Gravity Linux is this new distribution that is a spin of Fedora Remix and is catering to the still-experimentally-supported Apple M4 Macs and newer. In addition to leveraging Asahi Linux code and reverse engineering, Gravity Linux also leverages OpenAI Codex and Claude Code...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Gravity-Linux-M4-Mac-Mini-Alpha
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Phoronix@phoronix@masto.ai (2026-09-22 03:09:04)
Patches Posted For Enabling Apple Silicon Mac Speaker & Headset Jack Support On Linux
While the downstream Asahi Linux kernel has offered working speaker support and headset jack capabilities on Apple Silicon Macs, the mainline Linux kernel hasn't supported this functionality. But a set of 28 patches sent out today on the Linux kernel mailing list are working toward mainlining this important functionality for using Apple Macs on the upstream Linux desktop...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Apple-Mac-Speaker-Headset-Linux
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Phoronix@phoronix@masto.ai (2026-09-22 02:39:23)
Nebula Matrix Network Driver Queued Ahead Of Linux 7.4
NBL is a new Ethernet networking driver destined to premiere in the upcoming Linux 6.4 kernel for supporting Nebula Matrix NICs...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Nebula-Matrix-NIC-Linux-7.4
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Phoronix@phoronix@masto.ai (2026-09-22 00:09:01)
AMD EPYC Server Performance Up ~8% Geo Mean For 2026 With Linux Kernel Improvements
With the in-development Linux 7.3 kernel showing some nice performance improvements over Linux 7.2 in different areas, Linux 7.2 also having brought some nice gains especially for I/O, and the preceding kernels also having seen some nice performance optimizations this year, I wanted to measure how far the Linux kernel performance has evolved so far in 2026. Today's article is looking at …
https://www.phoronix.com/review/linux-618-73-amd-epyc
Phoronix@phoronix@masto.ai (2026-09-21 22:24:04)
Patches Posted With Aim To Mainline Linux Kernel Support For The Amazon Kindle 4
Amazon released the Kindle 4 back in 2011 with a 6-inch E-ink display, 2GB internal storage, and running a modified version of Linux. In the years since the Amazon Kindle 4 has been jail-broken and there are some customized Linux distributions with a patched kernel to run on the Kindle 4. Now in 2026 there are patches on the Linux kernel mailing list looking to mainline support for that fif…
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Amazon-Kindle-4-Linux-Patches
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Phoronix@phoronix@masto.ai (2026-09-21 20:54:14)
Orphaned VMs: Running VMs Uninterrupted While Host Kernel Is Offline For Reboots/Updates
Here's some very intriguing work taking place by a Google engineer... With the hyperscalers and other cloud providers pushing for zero-downtime, a set of experimental patches for "Orphaned VMs" allow for the virtual machines to continue to run while the host kernel is offline for security updates or rebooting with the Live Update Orchestrator. The experimental patches and request fo…
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Orphaned-VMs-Linux-Patches
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Phoronix@phoronix@masto.ai (2026-09-21 20:39:25)
GNU Wget 2.3 Released With --progress=dot, OS/2 Improvements
GNU Wget2 is up to version 2.3 today with the first new release of 2026 for this popular command-line tool for non-interactive file downloading and being able to easily fetch website contents...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/GNU-Wget-2.3-Released
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Phoronix@phoronix@masto.ai (2026-09-21 19:40:21)
AMD BC-250 Continues Being Improved Under Linux With Patches Now Enabling The PSP
The AMD BC-250 as the product designed at the time for cryptocurrency mining and based on a cut-down Sony PlayStation 5 APU continues having an interesting second-life being re-tasked for Linux use from general purpose workloads to AI. Sent out this weekend were the latest Linux kernel patches for continuing to enable more of the BC-250...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/AMD-BC-250-Linux-PSP-Support
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Phoronix@phoronix@masto.ai (2026-09-21 19:24:03)
Igalia Celebrates 25 Years Of Advancing Linux & Open-Source
The Igalia Linux/open-source consulting firm based out of A Coruña, Spain is celebrating twenty five years of contributions to upstream open-soure projects...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Igalia-Turns-25
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Phoronix@phoronix@masto.ai (2026-09-21 19:09:05)
Linux's Perf Script Command Much Faster With Overhaul As Python Module
A big patch series sent out this weekend for the Linux kernel's perf subsystem removes the embedded Python and Perl scripting in favor of standalone Python scripts with a new Python perf module. This perf module for Python written in C is much faster than the status quo...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-Perf-Python-Module
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Phoronix@phoronix@masto.ai (2026-09-21 06:39:16)
Linux 7.3-rc4 Released: More Fixes Caught By LLMs, But Nothing Too Scary
Linus Torvalds announced the release today of Linux 7.3-rc4. As usual for recent months, the fixes continue to be quite heavy and scattered all over the place driven in large part by AI/LLMs spotting various code defects. Overall though Linus Torvalds isn't too worried about Linux 7.3-rc4...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-7.3-rc4
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Phoronix@phoronix@masto.ai (2026-09-21 03:39:36)
Important x86 Fixes Merged Ahead Of Linux 7.3-rc4
Ahead of the Linux 7.3-rc4 kernel release due out in the coming hours, an important batch of x86/x86_64 fixes have been merged to address a few outstanding issues...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-7.3-rc4-x86-Fixes
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