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Phoronix@phoronix@masto.ai (2026-09-29 23:09:02)
NOCL Making Progress As Mesa Gallium/OpenCL Atop NVIDIA CUDA
In development the past year has been the Mesa Gallium3D API implemented atop NVIDIA's CUDA driver API. Initially named "CLUDA" and now going by "NOCL", this Mesa code paired with Rusticl is working well for OpenCL atop the NVIDIA proprietary driver as a new compute option...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/NOCL-OpenCL-CUDA
Phoronix@phoronix@masto.ai (2026-09-29 21:54:01)
Mesa 26.3 Enables Intel's New Jay Shader Compiler By Default, Compile Times 55% Faster Or 66% Faster Than Windows
Over the past year Jay has been in development as a new open-source shader compiler for Intel GPUs. Alyssa Rosenzweig has been leading its development since joining Intel in 2025. For Mesa 26.3 the Jay shader compiler is being enabled by default for modern Intel graphics hardware and is around ~10% faster than the existing BRW compiler code...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Mesa-26.3-Intel-Jay-Compiler
Phoronix@phoronix@masto.ai (2026-09-29 21:24:02)
BPF-Based Display Panel Drivers Being Explored For Linux
BPF-based HID drivers have helped to deliver quirks/fixes for different HID devices more quickly than being bound by the conventional kernel cycle. Loading these eBPF programs from user-space have shown a lot of potential for innovating and iterating more quickly with BPF drivers for different subsystems. The latest area now seeing the BPF treatment are display panel drivers...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-BPF-Panel-Drivers
Phoronix@phoronix@masto.ai (2026-09-29 21:09:01)
D7VK Reaches Maturity For Older Direct3D APIs Atop Vulkan
D7VK as a Vulkan-based implementation of the Microsoft Direct3D 7 / 6 / 5 / 3 APIs for Linux/Wine (Steam Play) usage is out with version 2.3 and the developer now believing its marking the point that the project is rather mature...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/D7VK-2.3-Released
Phoronix@phoronix@masto.ai (2026-09-29 19:39:02)
Large Folios Able To Deliver Big Performance Gains For FUSE With Linux 7.4
Following the FUSE improvements in Linux 7.3 for file-systems in user-space, it looks like the upcoming Linux 7.4 kernel will be ready to enable the large folios feature...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/FUSE-Large-Folios
Phoronix@phoronix@masto.ai (2026-09-29 19:39:02)
Igalia Improving The Firefox Experience For Valve's Steam Deck
The Igalia consulting firm working with Valve is aiming to improve the Firefox web browsing experience when running on the Steam Deck handheld Linux-powered device...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Steam-Deck-Better-Firefox
Phoronix@phoronix@masto.ai (2026-09-29 19:24:02)
AMD Ryzen Zen 6 CPU Power Values Being Further Tuned For Linux
AMD engineers continue to prepare for upcoming Zen 6 powered Ryzen client processors on Linux...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/AMD-Zen-6-More-Client-Tuning
Phoronix@phoronix@masto.ai (2026-09-29 09:39:02)
"Shiva" Being Developed For Mesa Vulkan Drivers, Akin To Gallium3D
Shiva is entering development for Mesa Vulkan drivers as a new framework akin to Gallium3D but for Vulkan drivers rather than OpenGL. It's going to be some time before the work will come to fruition but should hopefully lead to more code sharing and a better Mesa Vulkan driver development experience in the future...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Mesa-Shiva-For-Vulkan
Phoronix@phoronix@masto.ai (2026-09-29 04:39:02)
NVIDIA Developing "Display Config Server" To Improve Linux/Wayland On Display Walls
As an initiative from NVIDIA for improving the Linux ecosystem outside the world of AI, they have been developing Display-Config-Server as a new solution to help enhance the Linux capabilities for complex display walls...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/NVIDIA-Display-Config-Server
Phoronix@phoronix@masto.ai (2026-09-29 04:09:01)
SIMDjson 5.0 Released: Still Making JSON Parsing Even Faster
SIMDjson is the open-source, high performance JSON parser that surprisingly began making use of AVX-512 to deliver big performance gains years ago. SIMDjson has continued further refining itself to deliver even greater speeds and out today is SIMDjson 5.0...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/SIMDjson-5.0
Phoronix@phoronix@masto.ai (2026-09-29 01:24:02)
Fedora 45 To Feature Smoother Experience For Snapdragon X1 Laptops
Qualcomm hiring one of Red Hat's top x86_64 Linux laptop experts last year, Hans de Goede, is indeed having a positive benefit on enhancing the Fedora Linux support for Qualcomm Snapdragon X powered hardware...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Fedora-45-Snapdragon-X1
Phoronix@phoronix@masto.ai (2026-09-28 23:54:01)
Firefox 157 Now Available With Visual Refresh, WebRTC Hardware AV1 Decode
As part of the Mozilla Firefox bi-weekly release regiment, the Firefox 157 binaries are now available for this open-source web browser...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Firefox-157-Released
Phoronix@phoronix@masto.ai (2026-09-28 22:39:02)
Flatpak 1.18.4 Released With Important Security Fixes
Flatpak 1.18.4 is out today with a number of high profile security fixes for this app sandboxing and distribution tech...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Flatpak-1.18.4-Released
Phoronix@phoronix@masto.ai (2026-09-28 22:09:02)
NVIDIA Vera SMT Performance Benchmarks
Recently I was provided remote access to a NVIDIA Vera server with the dual socket Vera CPU Superchip providing 176 Olympus cores plus with NVIDIA's Spatial Multithreading "SMT" implementation providing 352 total threads. With this benchmarking was free rein for testing, including CPU power and frequency monitoring. Over the next few weeks will be a number of articles looking at different areas of NVIDIA Vera performance. One of th…
https://www.phoronix.com/review/nvidia-vera-smt
Phoronix@phoronix@masto.ai (2026-09-28 20:39:02)
AMD PerfOpt To Deliver New Performance Optimization For AMD iGPUs With Linux 7.4
Those using AMD integrated graphics on Linux such as the beefy Ryzen AI Max+ Strix Halo and Gorgon Halo hardware will be able to enjoy even better performance with the upcoming Linux 7.4 kernel...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/AMD-PerfOpt-Linux-7.4
Phoronix@phoronix@masto.ai (2026-09-28 19:39:01)
openSUSE Leap 16.1 RC Released With New Immutable Mode
The release candidate phase has begun for the upcoming openSUSE Leap 16.1 in-step with SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 16.1. Most notable with the openSUSE Leap 16.1 is the introduction of its new immutable mode...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/openSUSE-Leap-16.1-RC
Phoronix@phoronix@masto.ai (2026-09-28 19:24:02)
Linux 7.4 To Introduce The Steal Governor For Helping Virtualized Workloads
Now queued up for introduction in the Linux 7.4 merge window later in October is the steal governor driver for preferred CPUs and steal-driven vCPU backoff for today's virtualized world...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-7.4-Land-Steal-Governor
Phoronix@phoronix@masto.ai (2026-09-28 19:09:01)
Shotcut 26.9 Video Editor Brings UI Improvements, Automatic Audio Ducking
Following the earlier Shotcut 26.9 beta at the beginning of September, the open-source developers behind the open-source non-linear video editor are out with the Shotcut 26.9 stable release...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Shotcut-26.9
Phoronix@phoronix@masto.ai (2026-09-28 06:39:01)
Linux 7.3-rc5 Released: "Another Week, Another Large RC"
In working toward the stable Linux 7.3 kernel release hopefully on 18 October, out today is Linux 7.3-rc5 as the newest weekly test candidate...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-7.3-rc5-Released
Phoronix@phoronix@masto.ai (2026-09-28 03:09:02)
Budgie 10.10.3 Released With Favorites In Budgie Menu, Labwc Bridge Improvements
Budgie 10.10.3 is out today as the newest point release to this open-source desktop...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Budgie-10.10.3-Released
Phoronix@phoronix@masto.ai (2026-09-27 22:39:02)
Linux Kernel's LZ4 Compression Code Being Resynced For Better Performance & Cleanliness
In addition to the Linux kernel's Zstd compression code being improved, the LZ4 compression code within the kernel tree is also seeing a separate set of enhancements...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-LZ4-Clean-Resync
Phoronix@phoronix@masto.ai (2026-09-27 20:09:01)
Intel Delivers A Significant Memory Hotplugging Performance Optimization For Linux
Adding to the features expected to land for Linux 7.4 is a significant performance optimization for the memory hotplugging speed for adding additional RAM. In particular, the memory hotplugging being most applicable for cases like expanding the amount of memory for VMs or in today's CXL world for adding additional system memory...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-7.4-Faster-RAM-Hotplug
Phoronix@phoronix@masto.ai (2026-09-27 19:39:02)
New Linux Patches For Supporting Lenovo ThinkPad X1 Carbon G14's Second Webcam
For those considering Lenovo's recently launched and beautifully crafted ThinkPad X1 Carbon Gen 14 laptop powered by Intel Core Ultra Series 3 "Panther Lake", one of the lingering missing features under Linux will hopefully soon be addressed: its second web camera...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-X1-Carbon-G14-MIPI-Cam
Phoronix@phoronix@masto.ai (2026-09-27 19:39:01)
New Patch Series Working Toward DRBD 9 Support In The Linux Kernel
Earlier this year developers at LINBIT began working toward a goal of upstreaming ~15 years worth of their Distributed Replicated Block Device changes into the mainline Linux kernel. That major update has yet to land but sent out this week was a new patch series in preparing the trek toward introducing DRBD 9 support in the mainline kernel...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-Patches-Toward-DRBD-9
Phoronix@phoronix@masto.ai (2026-09-27 09:54:02)
Improved GPU Reset Coming For Raspberry Pi Boards With Linux 7.4
In addition to this week's DRM-Misc-Next pull request introducing some new HDMI 2.0 helpers for the DRM drivers, the pull request also introduced improved GPU reset support for the Broadcom V3D GPU with the VC4 kernel driver...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-7.4-Better-RPI-GPU-Reset
Phoronix@phoronix@masto.ai (2026-09-27 02:09:02)
"Toolpak" Being Devised By GNOME OS Developers, Akin To Flatpak For Tools
GNOME developer Jordan Petridis published a blog post today to introduce the world to the Toolpak plans for GNOME OS...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Toolpak
Phoronix@phoronix@masto.ai (2026-09-27 00:24:02)
MM Change Slated For Linux 7.4 Yields +22904539.81% In One Metric, More Modest Wins In Others
Queued this week into the slab/for-next Git branch ahead of next month's Linux 7.4 merge window is a memory management change for refilling pre-filled sheaves from the barn. In some cases this yields wild improvements to specific synthetic benchmarks...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-7.4-Refill-Sheaves-Barn
Phoronix@phoronix@masto.ai (2026-09-26 20:24:01)
AI Bug Fixes, Crescent Island Power Brake & Nouveau Fixes For Linux 7.3-rc5 DRM
The Direct Rendering Manager (DRM) subsystem fixes for the week are heavier on the side with many fixes to these kernel graphics/display drivers ahead of Sunday's Linux 7.3-rc5 release...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-7.3-rc5-DRM
Phoronix@phoronix@masto.ai (2026-09-26 19:54:01)
Wisp Makes It Easier To Manage Btrfs Snapshots From The GNOME Desktop
Wisp is a new GNOME Shell extension making it easier to graphically manage Btrfs file-system snapshots...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/GNOME-Wisp-Btrfs-Snapshots
Phoronix@phoronix@masto.ai (2026-09-26 19:39:01)
AMDXDNA Linux Driver Being Enhanced For Current NPU3 Hardware
The AMDXDNA open-source Linux kernel accelerator driver is seeing a fair amount of work for better supporting current-generation NPU3 neural processing units. The AMD NPU3 is what's found in current AMD Ryzen AI 300 / Ryzen AI 300 PRO series SoCs...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/AMDXDNA-NPU3-Enhancements
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