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Phoronix@phoronix@masto.ai (2026-10-07 20:39:02)
Qualcomm Posts QPaCE Linux Driver Code For Faster ZRAM On Newest SoCs
Qualcomm's Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 6 "Hawi" SoC features the Qualcomm Page Compression Engine "QPaCE" hardware accelerator. Linux patches posted recently provide a QPaCE driver for accelerating page compression and decompression for the ZRAM block device...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Qialcomm-QPaCE-Linux-ZRAM
Phoronix@phoronix@masto.ai (2026-10-07 19:39:01)
XMFS: Experimental File-System Being Worked On By Huawei For Modern Linux Servers
Huawei engineers are experimenting with a new file-system called XMFS. XMFS was presented this week at LPC 2026 in Czechia as a file-system for modern Linux servers with CXL 3.0 or Huawei United Bus connectivity...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/XMFS-Linux-File-System
Phoronix@phoronix@masto.ai (2026-10-07 19:24:02)
Microsoft Updates Its WSL2 Linux Kernel With DXGKRNL Improvement, More Features Enabled
Following the Windows Subsystem for Linux 3.0.2 release with support for running WSL2 now on very large servers and also experimental sparse VHD storage support, Microsoft has now released a new version of the WSL2 Linux kernel as their downstream kernel configuration tailored for WSL2 usage...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/WSL2-Linux-Kernel-Fence-Sharing
Phoronix@phoronix@masto.ai (2026-10-07 18:54:01)
AMD Engineer Talks Up New IBS Memory Profiler Feature Found On Zen 6
One of the AMD Zen 6 CPU features that hasn't been talked about too widely beyond appearing in a public AMD tech doc is the IBS Memory Profiler. This week in Prague at LPC 2026 an AMD engineer talked up Zen 6's IBS Memory Profiler and its benefits for hot page detection and promotion on Linux systems...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/AMD-Zen-6-IBS-Memory-Profiler
Phoronix@phoronix@masto.ai (2026-10-07 10:39:01)
Another Dozen Vulnerabilities Found In The X.Org Server & XWayland
With the assistance of AI, another dozen security vulnerabilities affecting both the conventional X.Org Server as well as XWayland were made public this evening...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/X.Org-12-New-Issues-2026
Phoronix@phoronix@masto.ai (2026-10-07 10:09:02)
New Patches For Linux's Zswap Show Major Improvements
Amid multiple ongoing innovations being pursued in the Linux memory management space amid sky high RAM prices, a new patch series posted on Monday aim to enhance the Zswap performance for this compressed RAM cache for swap pages...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-Better-Zswap-Performance
Phoronix@phoronix@masto.ai (2026-10-07 06:24:05)
Canonical Reaffirms Plans For Ubuntu 27.04 To Use ntpd-rs By Default
Back in March Canonical announced switching to ntpd-rs was its next target as part of transitioning more Ubuntu Linux system components to Rust-based implementations. This time synchronization package is available for testing in the upcoming Ubuntu 26.10 release while it aims to be the default for Ubuntu 27.04...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Ubuntu-27.04-ntpd-rs-Plans
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Phoronix@phoronix@masto.ai (2026-10-07 03:39:06)
Meta Engineer's Linux Patches For Boosting AMD P-State / Steam Deck Gaming Performance
Back in July I wrote about AMD P-State driver patches boosting 1%-low frame rates for gaming by as much as 31%. That work was done by David Vernet who is a Linux kernel engineer/hacker at Mesa. This week Vernet presented on the topic at the Linux Plumbers Conference happening in Prague...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Boost-Recently-Busy-CPUs
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Phoronix@phoronix@masto.ai (2026-10-07 01:09:02)
NVIDIA Vera HPC Performance Benchmarks Take On AMD EPYC, Intel Xeon
While most everyone understandably likes to talk about AI these days, one of the areas of NVIDIA's Vera CPU I have been most eager to test has been for conventional high performance computing (HPC) workloads. HPC was talked up as one of Vera's strengths thanks to its 1.2TB/s LPDDR5x memory bandwidth and custom Olympus cores. Vera is seeing deployments at HPC labs like Los Alamos. With recently having un…
https://www.phoronix.com/review/nvidia-vera-hpc
Phoronix@phoronix@masto.ai (2026-10-06 23:39:06)
Vulkan API Improvements Coming For The AMD Polaris GPUs With Mesa RADV
Timur Kristóf of Valve's Linux graphics team has done an incredible job improving older AMD GPU support under Linux with migrating GCN 1.0/1.1 era hardware to the modern AMDGPU kernel driver and an assortment of other improvements for various older Radeon GPUs. The newest work is on enhancing the RADV Vulkan driver support for old Radeon RX 400/500 "Polaris" graphics cards...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/More-Reliable-Vulkan-Polaris
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Phoronix@phoronix@masto.ai (2026-10-06 22:39:05)
IBM & Red Hat Find More Than 400 New Vulnerabilities In Popular Java Code
IBM and Red Hat announced today they have identified and remediated more than 400 previously unknown vulnerabilities across popular Java libraries...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/IBM-Red-Hat-Java-400-Vulns
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Phoronix@phoronix@masto.ai (2026-10-06 22:24:06)
The Importance Of Intel's LPMD For Linux Gaming Performance & Power Efficiency
Intel's LPMD project as the Low Power Mode Daemon for modern Intel Core Ultra desktops and laptops is quite important for achieving peak performance and optimal power efficiency. Here are some of Intel's own findings on the importance of LPMD for Linux gaming..
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Intel-LPMD-Linux-Gaming
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Phoronix@phoronix@masto.ai (2026-10-06 21:24:06)
Blender 6.0 May End Up Removing OpenGL Support
With Blender 5.0 having nice Vulkan API support that's now grown mature, Blender developers are contemplating on potentially removing OpenGL support in Blender 6.0...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Blender-6.0-May-Remove-OpenGL
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Phoronix@phoronix@masto.ai (2026-10-06 19:39:05)
Meta Developing Compressed RAM "CRAM" For Linux: Better Than ZRAM & Zswap
With today's memory shortages, high prices, and ever increasing memory capacity needs, Meta engineers have been working on Compressed RAM "CRAM" for Linux. This hardware-offloaded compression still allows cacheline/byte access to compressed memory and in turn a better implementation than the likes of ZRAM and Zswap. Very promising is that there is near-native performance to raw DRAM speeds with CR…
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-CRAM-Compressed-RAM
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Phoronix@phoronix@masto.ai (2026-10-06 19:24:05)
Windows Subsystem For Linux Can Now Run On Very Large Servers, Experimental Sparse VHD
Microsoft yesterday released WSL 3.0.2 as their latest WSL update since last week's WSL3 release with "WSLC" for promoting Linux containers on Windows to general availability. Some notable changes in WSL 3.0.2 include automatic virtual NUMA support and experimental support for sparse VHD storage...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Microsoft-WSL-3.0.2
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Phoronix@phoronix@masto.ai (2026-10-06 19:09:04)
Intel Compiler Engineer Shares Latest Project Gains For APX
Last week at the GNU Tools Cauldron 2026 conference in Prague there was an x86 BOF with presentations both by AMD and Intel compiler engineers. There are a few interesting nuggets out of that with both Advanced Performance Extensions (APX) and AI Compute Extensions (ACE) talked about as part of their ongoing enablement in the GCC compiler...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Intel-APX-Projected-Gains
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Phoronix@phoronix@masto.ai (2026-10-06 18:54:06)
YSERVER 1.7 Rust X11 Server Narrows Memory Usage Difference With X.Org Server
YSERVER continues seeing a lot of activity for this vibe coded X11 server written in the Rust programming language. YSERVER has been seeing many apps and desktops working fine on this creation crafted in large part by Claude Code and continues chipping away at more X11 features. YSERVER 1.7 is out today with the latest fixes and improvements...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/YSERVER-1.7
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Phoronix@phoronix@masto.ai (2026-10-06 09:39:04)
TrueNAS 27 RC.1 Released: Linux 6.18 LTS + OpenZFS 2.4
TrueNAS 27 RC.1 released today in working toward the next major release of this Linux-based storage/NAS operating system from iXsystems...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/TrueNAS-27-RC.1-Release
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Phoronix@phoronix@masto.ai (2026-10-06 07:24:05)
AMD ROCm 10.1 Released With Many Improvements
Following the ROCm 10.0 release from late August, ROCm 10.1 is now available in continuing with the ROCm six week release cycle...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/AMD-ROCm-10.1
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Phoronix@phoronix@masto.ai (2026-10-06 04:09:04)
Linux 7.4 To Land New BTB CTX Isolation Feature Of AMD Zen 6
The Linux 7.4 kernel is set to introduce support for a new AMD Zen 6 security feature...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/AMD-Zen-6-BTB-CTX-Linux-7.4
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Phoronix@phoronix@masto.ai (2026-10-06 00:54:04)
Auto-CPUFreq 3.2 Adds Configurable HWP Dynamic Boost, Platform Profile Reporting
The open-source Auto-CPUFreq tool for active system monitoring and power optimizations is out with a new release for continuing to enhance battery life on Linux laptops...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Auto-CPUFreq-3.2
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Phoronix@phoronix@masto.ai (2026-10-05 23:09:02)
AMD ROCm vs. Vulkan Performance For Lemonade Local AI Server With Llama.cpp
A Phoronix Premium reader recently inquired about seeing some new benchmarks of AI performance between Vulkan and AMD ROCm back-ends to see how the situation plays out today. Here are some fresh benchmarks on two separate systems with AMD Radeon graphics and using the Lemonade local AI server while exploring the difference between the ROCm and Vulkan Llama.cpp back-ends.
https://www.phoronix.com/review/lemonade-vulkan-rocm
Phoronix@phoronix@masto.ai (2026-10-05 22:09:04)
Mesa Developers Looking At A Formal Governance Model
The Mesa 3D driver stack has functioned well over the years without a formal governance model and just relying on an informal consensus approach for big changes. But on some occasions this informal handling has been less than ideal so upstream Mesa developers are now looking at establishing a formal governance model...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Mesa-Governance-Model
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Phoronix@phoronix@masto.ai (2026-10-05 21:54:06)
Linux's ZRAM Reworked For Greater Memory Savings, Better Performance
With today's very high memory prices, the Linux ZRAM code for compressed block devices in RAM has seen a rework to provide greater memory savings...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-ZRAM-Rework-Savings
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Phoronix@phoronix@masto.ai (2026-10-05 20:39:04)
Linux 7.4 To Mainline Support For The Google Tensor G5, Pixel 10 Devices
Going back to last year have been patches for booting the mainline Linux kernel on Pixel 10 devices while finally those Google Pixel 10 Device Trees and Tensor G5 SoC support is set to be mainlined for Linux 7.4...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-7.4-Google-Tensor-G5
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Phoronix@phoronix@masto.ai (2026-10-05 19:39:06)
Mold 3.0 High Speed Linker Released Following Rust Rewrite
The Mold high speed linker alternative to the likes of GNU Gold/LD and LLVM LLD recently has been going through a rewrite from C++ to Rust as well as having high ambitions of eventually becoming the default linker on Linux systems. Today marks the release of Mold 3.0 for this Rust-based high performance linker...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Mold-3.0-Released
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Phoronix@phoronix@masto.ai (2026-10-05 19:39:04)
Linux 7.4 Continues Preparing For Intel's Rugged Panther Lake
Back in May we spotted a Linux patch adding "Panther Lake R" as a rugged version of Panther Lake intended for "use in harsh environments". Since Linux 7.2 we have seen some bits of Panther Lake R driver support added while for the upcoming Linux 7.4 cycle there is additional enablement happening for this Panther Lake derivative...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-7.4-Rugged-Panther-Lake
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Phoronix@phoronix@masto.ai (2026-10-05 19:09:04)
Qualcomm Patching Linux For Hardware Thermal Binning To Benefit Snapdragon X Laptops
A new patch series sent out from Qualcomm that aims to help at least the Snapdragon X series laptops is hardware-binned trip point support. Some Qualcomm SoCs are available in different multiple thermal/package bins with different junction temperature limits but otherwise being the same silicon. The new Linux patches are working to properly convey that information around the thermal lim…
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Qualcomm-HW-BIn-Trip-Point
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Phoronix@phoronix@masto.ai (2026-10-05 18:54:05)
Linux 7.4 AMD P-State Driver Will Be Ready For Ryzen Zen 6 CPUs
With the upcoming Linux 7.4 kernel the necessary changes to the AMD P-State driver are set to land for properly supporting the upcoming AMD Ryzen client processors based on the Zen 6 cores...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-7.4-AMD-PState-Zen-6
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Phoronix@phoronix@masto.ai (2026-10-05 06:09:04)
Linux 7.3-rc6 Released: Normal For The New "AI Normal"
Linus Torvalds just released Linux 7.3-rc7 as we work toward the stable Linux 7.3 kernel release in two weeks...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-7.3-rc6-Released
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