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Founded by Michael Larabel in 2004, Phoronix is the largest #opensource news, #Linux hardware reviews & performance #benchmark site.

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Phoronix@phoronix@masto.ai (2026-06-22 19:09:07)
Linux 7.2 sched_ext Continues Working Toward Sub-Scheduler Support

Merged last week for the Linux 7.2 kernel were all of the sched_ext changes for this extensible scheduler support that allows loading BPF programs from user-space for handling scheduling tasks. Linux 7.2 continues building out sched_ext's sub-scheduler support...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-7.2-sched-ext
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Phoronix@phoronix@masto.ai (2026-06-22 09:54:07)
Early AMD GCN GPUs Seeing Improved GPU Recovery - Another Valve-Led Linux Improvement

Early AMD Radeon Graphics Core Next "GCN" GPUs are seeing work to improve the GPU recovery process in the event of hangs. This work is yet another improvement for older AMD GPUs being led by Valve's open-source Linux graphics driver team...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/AMD-Early-GCN-Better-Recovery
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Phoronix@phoronix@masto.ai (2026-06-22 04:39:12)
zlib-rs 0.6.4 Released With Fix For Intel Raptor Lake Crash, SIMD Optimizations

As a follow-up to last week's article around  Firefox leveraging zlib-rs and some nice upstream improvements to this Rust-based Zlib implementation, the zlib-rs 0.6.4 release is now available to ship all of these latest enhancements...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/zlib-rs-0.6.4
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Phoronix@phoronix@masto.ai (2026-06-21 23:54:05)
Qualcomm Posts Linux Patches For HP EliteBook X G2q X2 Elite Laptop

Last month Qualcomm engineers posted patches bringing up the Lenovo Yoga Slim 7x Gen11 Snapdragon X2 laptop on Linux. Sent out this weekend were a new set of patches from Qualcomm for bringing up the HP EliteBook X G2q laptop model powered by the Snapdragon X2 Elite SoC...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/HP-EliteBook-X-G2q-Linux
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Phoronix@phoronix@masto.ai (2026-06-21 21:54:04)
Mesa 26.2 Merges Vulkan Present Timing Support For X11/XWayland

Mesa's Vulkan windowing system integration (WSI) code now has support for present timing support "VK_EXT_present_timing" with X11 and XWayland...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Mesa-26.2-X11-Present-Timing
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Phoronix@phoronix@masto.ai (2026-06-21 19:54:04)
Google's Gemini Partially Figures Out A Lengthy Linux Boot Time On Modern ASUS Laptop

Google Antigravity with the Gemini 3.5 Flash model helped a Linux user sort out a situation where his laptop was taking around 36 seconds to boot the kernel, which shouldn't be the case for the high-end laptop with AMD Ryzen 9 processor and 32GB of RAM. It ended up being yet another case of device firmware issues, but now a Linux kernel patch is pending for working around the issue on …
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Gemini-ASUS-Laptop-Boot-Time
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Phoronix@phoronix@masto.ai (2026-06-21 19:09:06)
Linux 7.2 Begins Making Preparations For NVIDIA "Blackwell-Next"

When going through the VFIO subsystem patches for the ongoing Linux 7.2 merge window, there isn't too much to get excited about for end users with these changes. But there is the first time mentioning "Blackwell-Next" enablement by NVIDIA for the Linux kernel...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/NVIDIA-Blackwell-Next-VFIO
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Phoronix@phoronix@masto.ai (2026-06-21 09:40:16)
Broadcom Working On VMware Zero-Copy Buffer Sharing Between VMs And Hypervisor

Interesting feature work for VMware virtualization on Linux now being pursued by Broadcom is to support zero-copy buffer sharing between the VM(s) and host hypervisor, which would equate to an efficiency and performance win...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/VMware-Zero-Copy-Sharing-Linux
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Phoronix@phoronix@masto.ai (2026-06-20 23:40:21)
Linux Finally Eliminates The strncpy API After Six Years Of Work, 360+ Patches

Linux 7.2 has finally eliminated the strncpy API from the Linux kernel. The strncpy() function for copying up to a specified number of bytes has long been deprecated and after six years of work and hundreds of patches, no more users of the strncpy within the Linux kernel remained that it has now been eliminated...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-7.2-Drops-strncpy
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Phoronix@phoronix@masto.ai (2026-06-20 20:24:05)
Linux's ARM64 NEON Intrinsics CRC64 Code Adapted To Work On 32-bit ARM

Merged for Linux 7.1 was ARMM64 NEON-accelerated CRC64-NVMe support for around 6x the performance out of that checksumming algorithm. The generic code had been a bottleneck in NVMe and other storage subsystem code of the Linux kernel with CRC64-NVMe being used to help verify against data corruption. Now for Linux 7.2, the NEON-accelerated code will also work for those still relying on 32-bit ARM...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-CRC64-NEON-On-ARM32
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Phoronix@phoronix@masto.ai (2026-06-20 20:09:05)
GIMP v0.54 From 1996 With Motif Toolkit Now Flatpak'ed For Modern Linux Desktops

The open-source world waited long enough for the GIMP 3.0 release that finally came last year with its GTK3 port and more, but for those with time on their hands this weekend and want to relive GIMP's past from long ago, GIMP 0.54 has been adapted for Flatpak to work on modern Linux desktops. What makes this version of GIMP from 1996 notable is that it was the last to use the Motif toolkit.…
https://www.phoronix.com/news/GIMP-0.54-Flatpak
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Phoronix@phoronix@masto.ai (2026-06-20 19:40:06)
exFAT File-System Enjoys Better Performance On Linux 7.2 With IOmap Conversion

In addition to open-source developer Namjae Jeon serving as maintainer for the new NTFS Linux driver, he also continues serving as maintainer to the exFAT file-system for that other Microsoft file-system popular with removable storage media...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-7.2-exFAT
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Phoronix@phoronix@masto.ai (2026-06-20 19:24:06)
KDE Plasma 6.8 Making It Easier To Configure Multi-Monitor Setups

With KDE's Plasma 6.7 desktop having released this week, more development attention is turning to feature work toward Plasma 6.8 but there are also some fixes already accumulating for the Plasma 6.7.1 point release...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/KDE-Plasma-6.8-Multi-Monitor
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Phoronix@phoronix@masto.ai (2026-06-20 09:39:05)
New NTFS Driver Sees Hardening & Fixes, Windows Native Symlinks With Linux 7.2

Happening back in Linux 7.1 was the "NTFS resurrection" with landing a new NTFS driver into the Linux kernel that had been years in the making and began as the former NTFS read-only kernel driver many years back before the stint of the Paragon NTFS3 driver in the Linux kernel. For Linux 7.2 that new/modern NTFS driver has seen more hardening work, some fixes, and Windows native symbolic links…
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-7.2-NTFS-Improvements
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Phoronix@phoronix@masto.ai (2026-06-20 05:39:10)
Open-Source NVIDIA NVK Vulkan Driver Now Supports DLSS

With the code merged today to Mesa 26.2-devel, the open-source NVIDIA "NVK" Vulkan driver is capable of handling Deep Learning Super Sampling (DLSS) with modern game titles running on Linux / Steam Play...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Mesa-NVK-Vulkan-Does-DLSS
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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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