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Phoronix@phoronix@masto.ai (2026-06-20 05:24:06)
AMD-Powered Barco MXRT Graphics Cards Finally Seeing Linux Driver Support
Barco, the Europeean technology company that manufactures the AMD GPU based MXRT graphics cards for for multi-display medical imaging systems (and also MXRV for their NVIDIA based graphics cards), have to date only seen Windows drivers published for their professional-grade graphics cards even with using Radeon Pro derived GPUs. But a patch published today to the AMD graphics mailing list is openi…
https://www.phoronix.com/news/AMD-Barco-MXRT-Linux-Patch
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Phoronix@phoronix@masto.ai (2026-06-20 03:39:07)
systemd 261 Released With New systemd-sysinstall OS Installer, IMDSD & Storagectl
Systemd 261 is out as stable today with a number of new features and ready to coincide with H2'2026 Linux distributions...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/systemd-261
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Phoronix@phoronix@masto.ai (2026-06-20 00:54:05)
AMD ACP7.D/7.E/7.F Driver Added In Linux 7.2: "Substantial Design Changes" For AMD Audio
It looks like AMD's next-gen SoCs not only will be exciting on the CPU side with the much anticipated Zen 6 cores but the AMD Audio Co-Processor "ACP" IP looks to be going through some significant updates...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/AMD-ACP-7.x-Linux-7.2
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Phoronix@phoronix@masto.ai (2026-06-19 23:24:05)
Linux 7.2 Brings More Work Around WiFi Aware, WiFi 8 / UHR & More Networking Hardware
The networking subsystem changes have been merged for Linux 7.2 with a lot happening around the core networking code as well as the many wired and wireless networking device drivers...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-7.2-Networking
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Phoronix@phoronix@masto.ai (2026-06-19 22:24:05)
Raspberry Pi OS Moves To Linux 6.18 LTS Kernel, Updated LabWC Compositor
Raspberry Pi engineers have released their first update to Raspberry Pi OS since April. With this new version comes the upgrade to the latest Linux 6.18 LTS kernel...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Raspberry-Pi-OS-2026-06-18
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Phoronix@phoronix@masto.ai (2026-06-19 20:24:04)
Apple M3 Booting On Linux After Three Years Plus Other SoC Updates In Linux 7.2
Just shy of 1,000 new patches were merged on the SoC side for the Linux 7.2 kernel. Among all those patches are enabling five more SoCs to work with the mainline Linux kernel -- including the long-awaited Apple M3 support...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-7.2-SoC-Updates
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Phoronix@phoronix@masto.ai (2026-06-19 19:39:14)
AMD Introduces An AI-Powered Bash Coding Agent
Just days after AMD engineers released a new Lemonade AI server with MCP server integration to make it much more useful, they have now released a new release of their GAIA "Generative AI Is Awesome" open-source software. With AMD GAIA 0.21.2, they have introduced a bash coding agent is their latest big ticket item in the AI space...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/AMD-GAIA-Bash-Coding-Agent
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Phoronix@phoronix@masto.ai (2026-06-19 19:24:07)
Intel TDX Now Much More Practical With Ability To Apply Important Updates Without Reboot
For those interested in Trust Domain Extensions (TDX) with modern Intel Xeon processors for confidential computing but also view system uptime as critical, beginning in Linux 7.2 the TDX support is now much more practical with allowing live updates without the need to reboot the running system in the event of security updates and similar...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Intel-TDX-Linux-7.2-No-Reboot
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Phoronix@phoronix@masto.ai (2026-06-19 19:24:06)
ARCTIC Fan Controller, More ASUS & ASRock Boards Have Sensor Monitoring With Linux 7.2
For those that enjoy keeping an eye on all their system vitals from temperatures to voltages, the hardware monitoring "HWMON" updates have seen many device additions for Linux 7.2...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-7.2-HWMON
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Phoronix@phoronix@masto.ai (2026-06-19 10:09:07)
AMD ISP4 Driver Merged To Linux 7.2 Kernel
The media subsystem changes were merged tonight for the Linux 7.2 merge window and it includes the long-awaited AMD ISP4 driver now in the mainline kernel.. This ISP4 driver is what completes the loop for enabling the web camera on the HP ZBook Ultra G1a and other future high-end AMD Ryzen laptops...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-7.2-Media
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Phoronix@phoronix@masto.ai (2026-06-19 09:54:04)
Linux 7.2 Gets Rid Of The Last Optimized MD5 Implementation
The Linux kernel has dropped the last of its architecture-specific optimized MD5 hashing algorithm implementations...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-7.2-MD5-Generic-Only
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Phoronix@phoronix@masto.ai (2026-06-19 04:54:05)
Godot 4.7 Released With HDR Output Support
Godot 4.7 is out today as the newest feature release for this leading open-source, cross-platform game engine...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Godot-4.7-Released
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Phoronix@phoronix@masto.ai (2026-06-19 03:54:02)
How NVIDIA Vera CPU Performance Compares To The Ampere Altra Max
Last month on Phoronix was an exclusive first look at the NVIDIA Vera CPU performance compared to prior-generation NVIDIA Grace as well as the current AMD EPYC and Intel Xeon competition. Following that was looking at how the ARM Linux server performance has evolved over the past eight years of AArch64 Linux servers. A Phoronix Premium supporter recently requested wanting to see how Vera compares to Ampere…
https://www.phoronix.com/review/ampere-altra-nvidia-vera
Phoronix@phoronix@masto.ai (2026-06-19 03:09:06)
EXT4 Reworks Fast Commit Handling & Faster Directory Hash Computation
The EXT4 file-system improvements were merged today for Linux 7.2 with some enticing optimizations...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-7.2-EXT4
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Phoronix@phoronix@masto.ai (2026-06-19 02:09:05)
Rust PNG Image Decoder Now Even Faster: Benefiting Chrome, GNOME, Etc
The Rust PNG crate, image-png, for PNG image encoding and decoding was already claimed to be the fastest PNG decoder in the world for the past year. Now with the latest optimizations, it's even faster...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Rust-PNG-Image-Faster
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Phoronix@phoronix@masto.ai (2026-06-18 23:09:05)
Claude AI Assists In Fixing Years Old AMD Radeon Linux Display Bug Affecting Numerous Laptops
A bug in the AMDGPU Linux kernel graphics driver leading to some laptop displays freezing after periods of use may finally be close to being resolved. Given the length and quantity of bug reports and one of the problematic commits being tracked back to 2017, it's a heavy hitting issue for some Linux users. With the help of Claude Code, it looks like a fix is on the way to the L…
https://www.phoronix.com/news/AMDGPU-Fixing-Display-Freeze
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Phoronix@phoronix@masto.ai (2026-06-18 22:54:04)
AF_ALG Deprecation Approved For Linux 7.2, Useless & Insecure Crypto Driver Code Removed
The cryptographic subsystem updates have been merged for the ongoing Linux 7.2 kernel merge window...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-7.2-Crypto
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Phoronix@phoronix@masto.ai (2026-06-18 21:54:05)
Ubuntu Flavors Now Mandated To Participate In Beta Releases For Official Status
Canonical and the Ubuntu Release Team have implemented an important policy change for Ubuntu flavors moving forward. If they are to have an official release, they must now successfully submit a beta release...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Ubuntu-Flavors-Beta-Mandate
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Phoronix@phoronix@masto.ai (2026-06-18 19:39:09)
Latest LLVM Patch Further Points To AMD GFX1250/GFX1251 Being Instinct Hardware
With the ongoing work around the AMD GFX1250 (and GFX1251) in the open-source AMD Linux driver stack, it's led to a lot of speculation about these parts in the GFX12 series associated with RDNA4. RDNA4 refresh? Or a lot of signals have pointed to GFX125x being possible AI/HPC accelerators such as for the upcoming Instinct MI400 series. Adding to the intrigue is GFX1251 being an APU. The late…
https://www.phoronix.com/news/AMD-GFX1250-SRAM-ECC-LLVM
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Phoronix@phoronix@masto.ai (2026-06-18 19:39:06)
Linux 7.2 EDAC Drivers Prep For Diamond Rapids, Nova Lake H
The Error Detection And Correction (EDAC) drivers, such as for dealing with ECC memory error reporting, are heavy on the Intel side with Linux 7.2 in preparing for upcoming hardware...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-7.2-EDAC
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Phoronix@phoronix@masto.ai (2026-06-18 19:09:11)
SteamOS 3.8.10 Stable Released With Updated Arch, Steam Machine Support & Wayland Desktop Default
Overnight Valve released SteamOS 3.8.10 into the stable channel. for succeeding SteamOS 3.7. There's a lot happening across the board to their in-house Linux platform for the likes of the Steam Deck and upcoming Steam Machine hardware...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/SteamOS-3.8.10-Stable
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Phoronix@phoronix@masto.ai (2026-06-18 19:09:09)
Linux 7.2 Protects Against "Stupid Or Malicious" DoS Attempts By Arming Timers In The Past
There are a number of time(r) core subsystem changes for the Linux 7.2 kernel to better harden the kernel...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-7.2-Timers
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Phoronix@phoronix@masto.ai (2026-06-18 09:39:15)
AI/LLM Patch Craziness Having An Impact On ARM64 Linux Kernel Development
The ongoing rise in AI/LLM-generated patches hitting the mailing lists and affecting development workflows continues to impact Linux kernel development. For the ARM64 architecture updates in Linux 7.2 is an interesting anecdote over over feeling like this activity has "slowed us down a little on the feature side" and having to deal with this AI/LLM patch activity resulted in some features now bein…
https://www.phoronix.com/news/ARM64-Linux-7.2-Changes
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Phoronix@phoronix@masto.ai (2026-06-18 05:09:08)
Bcachefs Tools 1.38.6 Brings Many Performance Improvements
Kent Overstreet announced the release today of Bcachefs-Tools 1.38.6 as the user-space tools built around the Bcachefs copy-on-write file-system. There are a few new features and a lot of performance work in v1.38.6 without bringing any on-disk format breakage...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Bcachefs-Tools-1.38.6
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Phoronix@phoronix@masto.ai (2026-06-18 05:09:06)
Linux 7.2 Slab Changes Include More Performance Optimizations
The slab memory allocation changes for Linux 7.2 have been merged and continue to see more work around shaves and performance optimizations...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-7.2-Slab
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Phoronix@phoronix@masto.ai (2026-06-18 04:54:11)
AMD's Lemonade AI Server Now Much More Useful With MCP Server Integration
The open-source Lemonade AI server for "100% free and private" AI usage across Windows and Linux in leveraging AMD Ryzen AI NPUs, Radeon GPUs, and x86_64 CPUs, is now much more powerful with today's v10.8 release...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/AMD-Lemonade-10.8-Released
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Phoronix@phoronix@masto.ai (2026-06-18 01:40:12)
Experimental, Reverse-Engineered & AI Assisted Rust Driver Targets Modern DisplayLink Hardware
The original DisplayLink USB display adapters were great for working with an upstream, open-source driver while sadly the newer DisplayLink tech has been limited to an out-of-tree driver and proprietary user-space daemon. But posted today is an experimental "Vino" driver that is a clean-room, reverse-engineered driver for newer DisplayLink hardware...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Experimental-Vino-DRM-Driver
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Phoronix@phoronix@masto.ai (2026-06-17 19:24:04)
GCC 17 Lands Initial Infrastructure For C++29
Merged yesterday to the GCC Git development codebase for next year's GCC 17 release is the initial infrastructure laying out support for -std=c++29 and the like for targeting the C++29 standard not anticipated for release until around 2029...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/GCC-17-std-CPP29-Experimental
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