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Phoronix@phoronix@masto.ai (2026-09-26 19:09:02)
KDE Plasma 6.8 Continues With Last Minute Tweaks & Fixes
Even with this week's KDE Akademy conference and releasing KDE Plasma 6.8 Beta 2, KDE developers still found time to land last minute changes for Plasma 6.8 plus ongoing early work toward Plasma 6.9...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Plasma-6.8-Last-Minute-UI-Fixes
Phoronix@phoronix@masto.ai (2026-09-26 07:54:04)
New FUTEX Syscalls Back To Being Worked On For Helping Valve's ARM64 Gaming Ambitions
Going back to last year the Igalia open-source consulting firm has been working on enhancing the Linux kernel to help Steam Play gaming on ARM64 and ensuring the FEX emulator is operating efficiently for x86/x86_64 games running on the likes of the Steam Frame. After other kernel work in recent months, there's finally an updated round of the FUTEX get_robust_list2 and set_robust_list2 …
https://www.phoronix.com/news/FUTEX-Robust-List2-Syscalls
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Phoronix@phoronix@masto.ai (2026-09-26 02:09:05)
GDB 18.1 Debugger Brings Better Windows Support
GDB 18.1 is out today as the newest version of the GNU Debugger that works across C/C++, Fortran, Rust, and other languages like Go, Ada, and more...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/GNU-Debugger-GDB-18.1
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Phoronix@phoronix@masto.ai (2026-09-26 01:09:04)
Redox OS Adds IO_uring-Like API, NUMA & Gets QEMU Working
The Redox OS open-source, Rust-based operating system has seen a lot of activity in recent weeks with many notable improvements landing...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Redox-OS-August-2026
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Phoronix@phoronix@masto.ai (2026-09-25 23:54:02)
Approaching A 10 Second Linux Kernel Build
The coffee window is closing. Going back many years with the time it's taken to compile the Linux kernel has been a well known opportunity for a coffee break or even eating a meal during the lengthy Linux kernel build process. Even when the Linux kernel was much smaller than it is today, with the hardware at the time it would often be a very time consuming process... Thus incredible to think that we are now on the horizon of a …
https://www.phoronix.com/review/near-10-sec-kernel-build
Phoronix@phoronix@masto.ai (2026-09-25 19:39:06)
Patches Posted For Enabling NVMe On All Apple M3 Based SoCs With Linux
While Linux 7.2 brought initial Apple M3 support and Linux 7.3 brought M3 Pro / Max / Ultra support, the mainline Linux kernel support for the M3 series hardware remains very basic and not yet ready for daily driving. But more work continues to be upstreamed and today the patches were posted for getting NVMe storage up and running across all Apple M3 hardware...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/NVMe-Apple-M3-Linux-Patches
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Phoronix@phoronix@masto.ai (2026-09-25 19:24:04)
AMD Sends Out New Linux Patches Further Enhancing HDMI 2.1 Reliability
Linux 7.4 is going to be the big kernel release where the AMD graphics driver will finally expose HDMI 2.1 by default and comes with features including HDMI FreeSync, VRR, and ALLM. Ahead of that milestone there have been various other last minute tweaks and improvements to its HDMI 2.1 support. Sent out on Thursday was the latest round of AMDGPU DC patches that includes a few more patches for improv…
https://www.phoronix.com/news/AMDGPU-HDMI-2.1-Reliability
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Phoronix@phoronix@masto.ai (2026-09-25 19:09:04)
Last Call For The Autumn Special For Ad-Free Viewing & Supporting Linux Hardware Testing
Last call for the Phoronix autumn "Oktoberfest" Premium sale: it runs through end of day Sunday, 27 September (any timezone - I'm not particularly strict). If you have been meaning to support the site, this is the window...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Autumn-2026-Special-Final-Call
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Phoronix@phoronix@masto.ai (2026-09-25 18:54:21)
Go's Improving SIMD Support, Platform-Independent SIMD Interface
A new blog post published on Thursday covers the experimental support for SIMD with the Go programming language. This expanding Go SIMD support also includes a platform-independent API for making use of SIMD with modern processors...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Go-SIMD-2026
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Phoronix@phoronix@masto.ai (2026-09-25 18:54:18)
Samba 4.25 Released With Experimental SMB3 Persistent Handles
Samba 4.25 is out as the newest stable release for this open-source software enabling file and print services sharing between Linux servers and Windows systems...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Samba-4.25-Released
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Phoronix@phoronix@masto.ai (2026-09-25 10:09:04)
Linux Kernel Developers Consider Adding AGENTS.md To Help Guide AI/LLM Agents
While the Linux kernel continues to be bombarded with patches from AI/LLM agents, to date the kernel hasn't carried an AGENTS.md Markdown file with instructions catering to AI/LLM agents. But a patch set out today would finally introduce one...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-Considers-AGENTS-MD
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Phoronix@phoronix@masto.ai (2026-09-25 09:39:06)
Qualcomm Posts Patches For Enabling GPU Support In Their Snapdragon X2 Mahua SoC
Yesterday Qualcomm posted open-source GPU driver patches for their Adreno 850 GPU one day after being announced with the Snapdragon 8 Elite Extreme Gen 6. Yesterday Qualcomm also announced their Snapdragon X2 Linux support plans. Today they have posted the GPU enablement patches for what's found in the Mahua SoC for lower-tier Snapdragon X2 SoCs...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Qualcomm-Mahua-GPU-Support
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Phoronix@phoronix@masto.ai (2026-09-25 06:54:05)
ReactOS Lands Significant DirectX Stack Update From Wine For Enabling More Games
The open-source ReactOS project striving to provide binary compatibility with Microsoft Windows applications/games as well as drivers took a huge step forward today with landing a significant update to its DirectX stack from code leveraged from the Wine project...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/ReactOS-Updated-Wine-DirectX
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Phoronix@phoronix@masto.ai (2026-09-25 03:54:01)
Ubuntu 26.10 Delivers Some Nice Gains For Intel Panther Lake / Framework Laptop 13 Pro
For those with a Framework Laptop 13 Pro or another Intel Core Ultra Series 3 "Panther Lake" laptop, the upcoming Ubuntu 26.10 release is delivering some nice out-of-the-box improvements over Ubuntu 26.04 LTS.
https://www.phoronix.com/review/ubuntu-2610-panther-lake
Phoronix@phoronix@masto.ai (2026-09-25 02:24:05)
COSMIC Epoch 1.9 Brings New Image Viewer & On-Screen Keyboard
COSMIC Epoch 1.9 was released last night as the newest version of the System76-sponsored, Rust-based desktop environment. COSMIC Epoch 1.9 release notes only became available today and it's a big one with new apps and improvements to existing offerings...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/COSMIC-Epoch-1.9-Released
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Phoronix@phoronix@masto.ai (2026-09-25 01:24:04)
AMD Posts GCC Compiler Patches For AVX10V1AUX ISA Support
Following their recent AVX10_V2_AUX support for GCC as part of the bring-up for the AI Compute Extensions "ACE" in GCC 17, AMD compiler engineers this week posted the initial patches for enabling the AVX10V1AUX ISA support...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/GCC-Patches-AVX10V1AUX
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Phoronix@phoronix@masto.ai (2026-09-24 22:54:05)
Fedora Discussion Raises The Idea Of Replacing LibreOffice With Collabora Office
One of the livelist Fedora Discourse community discussions in recent days -- or even in quite a period of time for that matter -- comes down to a user having suggested that Fedora replace LibreOffice by default with the downstream Collabora Office...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Fedora-Discuss-Collabora-Office
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Phoronix@phoronix@masto.ai (2026-09-24 22:39:06)
KDE Plasma 6.8 Beta 2 Released With Union Theming Engine Maturing
Following the KDE Plasma 6.8 Beta from earlier this month, the second and last beta of the upcoming Plasma 6.8 desktop is now available for testing...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/KDE-Plasma-6.8-Beta-2
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Phoronix@phoronix@masto.ai (2026-09-24 22:24:05)
AlmaLinux Rolls Out New Software/Hardware Certification Portal, Self-Certify App
Two years ago RHEL-derived AlmaLinux announced a hardware certification program as part of their Certification Special Interest Group (SIG). They have now expanded their hardware certification program to include third-party software certification on AlmaLinux too plus a new app that users can install for self-certifying their system...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/AlmaLinux-New-Certification
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Phoronix@phoronix@masto.ai (2026-09-24 21:24:06)
Linux Kernel Introducing New Taint Due To Fuzzing Bots Yielding Impractical Bug Reports
The Linux kernel is having to introduce a new taint flag "TAINT_FORCED_BIND" to deal with fuzzing bots like Syzbot abusing Linux's bind/unbind sysfs functionality and generating bug reports for impractical and not at all relevant hardware/driver combinations...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-Taint-Forced-Bind
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Phoronix@phoronix@masto.ai (2026-09-24 21:09:04)
Mir 2.30 Released Now With Rust Required, Mir Roadmap Published
Canonical today released Mir 2.30 as the newest release of this Wayland compositor library for building out different shells and other functionality from smart mirrors to other consumer devices...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Mir-2.30-Released
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Phoronix@phoronix@masto.ai (2026-09-24 19:40:19)
Fwupd 2.1.8 Released With New Hardware Support From ASUS, Lenovo & Others
Lead LVFS/Fwupd developer Richard Hughes of Red Hat announced Fwupd 2.1.8 today as the newest feature release for this open-source firmware updating solution for Linux systems. With Fwupd 2.1.8 comes support for a number of newer devices plus plenty of bug fixes...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Fwupd-2.1.8-Released
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Phoronix@phoronix@masto.ai (2026-09-24 19:24:05)
"slab_tiny" Boot Option Proposed For Tiny Linux Systems With Very Limited RAM
In 2022 the SLOB allocator was deprecated and removed with Linux 6.4 a year later. SLOB was popular with embedded systems with minimal amounts of RAM, so as a result the CONFIG_SLUB_TINY Kconfig option was then added for configuring the slab allocator for a minimal memory footprint for systems with 16MB of RAM or less. The CONFIG_SLUB_TINY is now on the chopping block with a proposed rework to…
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-Slab-Tiny-Boot-Option
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Phoronix@phoronix@masto.ai (2026-09-24 19:09:09)
Linux 7.4 DRM Infrastructure Better Supporting HDMI 2.0 With New Helpers
Sent out today was the latest weekly pull of drm-misc-next changes of feature material to queue in DRM-Next for Linux 7.4. Most notable in this week's pull request are a number of patches for enhancing the HDMI 2.0 handling in the DRM core infrastructure and display helpers...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-7.4-DRM-Helpers-HDMI-2.0
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Phoronix@phoronix@masto.ai (2026-09-24 06:24:04)
Debian Inference Portal Launches To Provide Free AI/LLM Inferencing To Debian Developers
With Debian voting to allow the responsible use of generative AI, there is now a new initiative funded by Scaleway to make it easier for Debian contributors to leverage AI: the Debian Inference Portal...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Debian-Inference-Portal
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Phoronix@phoronix@masto.ai (2026-09-24 05:54:39)
Qualcomm Talks Up Linux On Snapdragon X2 Laptops
Qualcomm at their Snapdragon Summit taking place in Hawaii are talking up the forthcoming Linux support for Snapdragon X2 series laptops...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Qualcomm-Talks-Up-X2-Linux
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Phoronix@phoronix@masto.ai (2026-09-24 04:54:04)
Lemonade Fixes AMD APU Model Streaming, Drops OpenMOSS ROCm As ~40x Slower Than Vulkan
The AMD-aligned Lemonade open-source project for serving as a local AI server released 2026.39.1 today as well as issuing a release candidate of 2026.40 as their next release. Besides adapting to a new versioning scheme, the Lemonade SDK updates today bring a few notable changes...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Lemonade-2026.40-RC
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Phoronix@phoronix@masto.ai (2026-09-24 00:09:05)
Intel Developing Their DXVK-IGDEXT For Improved Linux Gaming On Arc Graphics
Intel engineers have been quietly developing dxvk-igdext as their own component for DXVK Direct3D 8 / 9 / 10 / 11 atop the Vulkan API for leveraging Intel Direct3D 11 Graphics Extensions...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/DXVK-IGDEXT
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Phoronix@phoronix@masto.ai (2026-09-23 23:39:02)
Benchmarking Java Performance Of JDK 8 Through OpenJDK 27
With the recent release of Java/OpenJDK 27 I began some fresh benchmarks in not having looked at the OpenJDK Java performance in a few years. Carried away, I ended up re-testing all the major OpenJDK versions going back to the venerable JDK 8.
https://www.phoronix.com/review/java-8-openjdk-27-benchmarks
Phoronix@phoronix@masto.ai (2026-09-23 21:39:26)
NTFS-3G Update Brings Many Security Fixes
NTFS-3G 2026.9.18 was released this morning as the newest update to this FUSE-based open-source driver for NTFS file-system support...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/NTFS-3G-2026.9.18
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