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Phoronix@phoronix@masto.ai (2026-10-02 04:39:02)
Ubuntu 26.10 Beta Released With Linux 7.3 Kernel, GNOME 51 Desktop
Ubuntu 26.10 beta is now available for the official Ubuntu editions as well as the various community flavors...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Ubuntu-26.10-Beta-Released
Phoronix@phoronix@masto.ai (2026-10-02 02:24:02)
Nearing A 10 Second Kernel Build, Xeon 600 & Other September Excitement On Phoronix
During the past month on Phoronix were 284 original news articles and another 19 featured Linux hardware reviews/multi-page benchmark articles. A lot of exciting happenings both on the hardware and software fronts while October is sure to be another interesting month with the releases of Ubuntu 26.10, Fedora 45, and some more hardware fun...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/September-2026-Highlights
Phoronix@phoronix@masto.ai (2026-10-02 01:39:02)
Some Networking Fixes Being Diverted To Linux 7.4, AI/LLM Activity Still Increasing
With the vast array of wired and wireless networking drivers within the Linux kernel and range of protocols and other networking features, it's a big expanse of code for AI/LLM agents to analyze and critique. The Linux networking developers have acknowledged being "complete overwhelmed" by the AI/LLM-driven patch activity and bug reports as well as battling against AI slop patches. Even …
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-Networking-Linux-7.3-rc6
Phoronix@phoronix@masto.ai (2026-10-01 23:24:02)
Qt Creator 21 IDE Beta Enables More AI Functionality By Default
Following yesterday's release of the Qt 6.12 LTS toolkit, The Qt Group today released Qt Creator 21 in beta form as the latest version of their integrated development environment focused on C/C++ as well as Python, JavaScript, and other programming languages...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Qt-Creator-21-Beta
Phoronix@phoronix@masto.ai (2026-10-01 22:09:02)
AMD RMPOPT Optimization Queued Ahead Of Linux 7.4
In addition to the very nice AMDGPU IOMMU optimization for iGPUs set to debut in the Linux 7.4 kernel, over on the AMD EPYC server side for servers running SEV-SNP virtual machines is a separate, nice optimization also expected for this next kernel version...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/AMD-RMPOPT-For-Linux-7.4
Phoronix@phoronix@masto.ai (2026-10-01 21:24:02)
Clearing Out Linux's Old 32-bit ARM Platform Code Is Itself A Challenge
Longtime ARM Linux maintainer Arnd Bergmann over the past year has been working to clear out a number of old ARM platforms from the mainline kernel tree. With Linux 7.3 many older 32-bit ARM platforms were deprecated and in turn hundreds of kernel drivers orphaned. Now it's on to removing that actual code, which given the amount of entangled code, is itself a challenge...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Clearing-Old-ARM-Code-Challenge
Phoronix@phoronix@masto.ai (2026-10-01 20:24:01)
Intel Optimization Zone 1.2 Released With New Guides & Recommendations
Earlier this year Intel announced the "Optimization Zone" as their new initiative to provide a centralized place to collect all their resources for maximizing performance and software tuning on Intel hardware platforms. They've continued building out more resources for the Intel Optimization Zone and yesterday released v1.2 with more tuning guides and best practices for optimal performance on Intel h…
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Intel-Optimization-Zone-1.2
Phoronix@phoronix@masto.ai (2026-10-01 19:39:02)
NVIDIA Olympus SMT Optimizations For Vera CPU Showing 3~6% Performance Gains
Back in August I wrote about NVIDIA working on Linux scheduler improvements for helping the SMT performance on their new Vera CPU with Olympus cores. That work remains ongoing but is looking fairly beneficial for performance especially for knocking it out in less than one hundred lines of code...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/NVIDIA-Olympus-SMT-Better
Phoronix@phoronix@masto.ai (2026-10-01 19:24:01)
Qualcomm Continues Doing More For Their Open-Source Linux Graphics Drivers
Rob Clark, who originally started working on the reverse-engineering Freedreno and MSM DRM graphics driver projects prior to even being employed by Qualcomm, presented this week at XDC 2026 Toronto around all the recent efforts they have been pursuing at Qualcomm for this upstream open-source graphics driver stack...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Qualcomm-More-OSS-GPU-2026
Phoronix@phoronix@masto.ai (2026-10-01 19:09:02)
New Linux Patches Trying To Mainline Renesas SH7305 CPU Support
The Renesas SH7305 isn't a new processor and is well known for powering various Casio graphing calculators over the past decde and a half. But finally the mainline Linux kernel may end up seeing support for this 32-bit SH-4a RISC core...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Renesas-SH7305-Linux-Patches
Phoronix@phoronix@masto.ai (2026-10-01 18:54:02)
Raspberry Pi 5 2GB Price Increases To $77.50 USD
During the last round of price hikes on Raspberry Pi devices due to RAM pricing, they were able to keep the 1GB and 2GB single board computer versions steady. But Eben Upton announced today that the RAM pricing has become "unsustainable" and even the 2GB versions now are facing steep price hikes...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Raspberry-Pi-5-2GB-Price-77.50
Phoronix@phoronix@masto.ai (2026-10-01 10:54:01)
OpenMandriva ROME 26.09 Released With More AI Apps, Snaps & PGO + LTO Optimizations
For ending out the month of September the OpenMandriva Linux distribution crew released OpenMandriva ROME 26.0 as their long overdue release held up by various technical issues and a reported sabotage attempt to their platform. With OpenMandriva ROME 24.12 having been their last release, this is quite a big update...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/OpenMandriva-ROME-26.09
Phoronix@phoronix@masto.ai (2026-10-01 09:39:02)
Valve's Work On Foveated Rendering For The Open-Source Turnip Driver On The Steam Frame
As part of Valve's work on developing the Steam Frame VR headset, they worked on foveated rendering support for the Mesa Turnip driver that supports the Qualcomm Adreno graphics with open-source Vulkan API support. Foveated rendering is the technique to more closely mimic human vision by rendering high detail at your direct gaze point and lower quality in the peripheral vision. For c…
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Steam-Frame-Turnip-Foveated
Phoronix@phoronix@masto.ai (2026-10-01 04:24:02)
More AI In Open-Source, CachyOS, Ryzen AI Halo, Framework Laptop 13 Pro & Other Q3 Hits
With the third quarter wrapping up, here is a look back at the most interesting content on Phoronix over the past three months...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Q3-2026-Highlights
Phoronix@phoronix@masto.ai (2026-10-01 03:09:02)
EDG C/C++ Front-End Open-Sourced
Edison Design Group has open-sourced their EDG C/C++ front-end that has been known in the commercial world for its extensive dialect support and other features. The EDG C++ front-end has been used by the likes of Intel C++ Compiler classic, NVIDIA CUDA NVCC, and even Microsoft Visual Studio for IntelliSense...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/EDG-CPP-Open-Sourced
Phoronix@phoronix@masto.ai (2026-10-01 00:24:02)
Framework Desktop With AMD Ryzen AI Max+ PRO 495 Starts Out At $6799 USD
Framework Computer today opened the pre-order process for their updated Framework Desktop featuring the new AMD Ryzen AI Max+ 496 "Gorgon Halo" SoC with 192GB of LPDDR5x-8533 memory...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Framework-Desktop-Gorgon-Halo
Phoronix@phoronix@masto.ai (2026-09-30 23:54:02)
OpenJDK vs. GraalVM vs. Eclipse Temurin vs. Semeru Java Performance
Immediately following the OpenJDK 8 through OpenJDK 27 benchmarks I expanded the scope of testing to look at how recent OpenJDK releases have been comparing to alternative JVMs like GraalVM, Temurin, and Semeru. Here are those benchmarks if curious about the Java performance in those different environments.
https://www.phoronix.com/review/openjdk-graalvm-temurin-semeru
Phoronix@phoronix@masto.ai (2026-09-30 22:39:01)
Qt 6.12 LTS Released With QML Hot Reloading, StyleKit In Experimental Form
Qt 6.12 is now available as the newest version of the Qt6 toolkit and also serving as a Long Term Support (LTS) release...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Qt-6.12-LTS-Released
Phoronix@phoronix@masto.ai (2026-09-30 22:24:01)
Rusticl Had A Great Year For Rust OpenCL In Mesa With 3.1 Support, More Drivers
Rusticl lead developer Karol herbst provided a status update on this Mesa Rust-based OpenCL driver during the XDC 2026 conference happening in Toronto...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Rusticl-2026
Phoronix@phoronix@masto.ai (2026-09-30 21:39:02)
Linux 7.4 To Support The NPU On AMD Ryzen AI Max 400 Series "Gorgon Halo"
While the AMD Ryzen AI 400 series "Gorgon Halo" systems are nearing the marketplace, the NPU support for Linux was seemingly overlooked until now. But at least the simple enablement patch looks like it will arrive for the upcoming Linux 7.4 kernel...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/AMD-Gorgon-Halo-NPU-LInux
Phoronix@phoronix@masto.ai (2026-09-30 19:39:02)
Proposal To Set ARM64 Kernel Stack Size At Boot Time To Reduce Memory Consumption
A proposal was posted this week to the Linux kernel mailing list by a Google engineer to make it easier for ARM64 Linux to adjust the kernel stack size. The motivation for doing so to configure the kernel stack size during boot time is on reducing system memory consumption...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/ARM64-Linux-Stack-Size-Boot
Phoronix@phoronix@masto.ai (2026-09-30 19:24:02)
Intel Media Driver 2026Q3 Introduces Crescent Island Support
Released overnight was the Intel Media Driver 2026Q3 stack for providing the latest open-source video encode/decode capabilities on Intel integrated/discrete graphics hardware. Most notable with the new release is rolling out Crescent Island support...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Intel-Media-Crescent-Island
Phoronix@phoronix@masto.ai (2026-09-30 19:24:01)
Mesa Developers To Work Toward Eliminating TGSI IR
TGSI was the intermediate representation (IR) developed for Mesa's Gallium3D drivers by Tungsten Graphics at the time. It worked fine more than a decade ago but since then the Mesa front-ends and hardware drivers have largely transitioned over to the superior NIR format. Work is underway toward eliminating TGSI in the Mesa codebase...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Mesa-Toward-Eliminating-TGSI
Phoronix@phoronix@masto.ai (2026-09-30 09:39:02)
Archinstall 4.5 For Arch Linux Brings AArch64 Improvements, RT Kernel Options
Ahead of the October ISO refresh of the Arch Linux media, Archinstall 4.5 released today as the newest update to this convenient, text-based Arch Linux installer...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Arch-Linux-Archinstall-4.5
Phoronix@phoronix@masto.ai (2026-09-30 04:09:02)
AMD Boosting AI/LLM Performance For Radeon iGPUs As Much As 18~23% With Linux 7.4
If you have an AMD Ryzen laptop/desktop and looking to leverage AI/LLM capabilities with the integrated graphics, Linux 7.4 is going to be a real treat especially for lower-end hardware. AMD's new PerfOpt feature being introduced in Linux 7.4 is set to provide some solid gains as shown in these benchmarks today across different AMD Ryzen/Radeon hardware.
https://www.phoronix.com/review/amd-perfopt
Phoronix@phoronix@masto.ai (2026-09-30 02:24:01)
Microsoft Announces General Availability Of WSLC: Linux Containers On Windows
Following the public preview of Linux containers on WSL, Microsoft today announced the general availability of WSLC for supporting Linux containers on Windows...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Microsoft-WSLC-Linux-Containers
Phoronix@phoronix@masto.ai (2026-09-30 02:09:01)
Branch Target Reuse, BTR: New Spectre V2 Attack Targeting JIT Compilers
It's been a while since any new Spectre vulnerabilities have come to light but that's changing today. The embargo has now lifted on BTR, Branch Target Reuse as a new Spectre-V2 attack affecting just-in-time (JIT) compilers...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Branch-Target-Reuse-BTR
Phoronix@phoronix@masto.ai (2026-09-30 01:24:02)
Meta Releases OpenZL 0.3 With Decompression Speed 144% Faster Than Zstd
Just shy of one year ago Meta announced OpenZL as a format-ware compression framework focused on delivering both high compression ratios and high speed compression/decompression. OpenZL has continued making more optimizations and out today is OpenZL v0.3 and advertising some huge gains over Zstandard (Zstd) that is also worked on by Meta engineers...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/OpenZL-0.3-Released
Phoronix@phoronix@masto.ai (2026-09-30 01:24:02)
New Ubuntu Concept ISO For Snapdragon Laptops Brings First X2 Laptop Support
It's been a while since Canonical announced any new ISOs of their Ubuntu builds targeting Qualcomm Snapdragon X series laptops. But ahead of this week's Ubuntu 26.10 beta release, they shipped new Ubuntu 26.10 Snapdragon Concept images today with improved Snapdragon X1 laptop support as well as the initial Snapdragon X2 laptop support...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Ubuntu-26.10-Snapdragon-Concept
Phoronix@phoronix@masto.ai (2026-09-29 23:39:01)
hw-monitor 0.6 Released With Per-Process GPU Usage & Memory Reporting
For those after in-depth hardware and system monitoring support from the Linux desktop, hw-monitor continues to advance as one of the modern options. Released on Monday was hw-monitor 0.6 with per-process GPU reporting metrics when using capable DRM drivers like the AMDGPU, Intel i915 and Xe, and Nouveau drivers...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/hw-monitor-0.6
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