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Phoronix@phoronix@masto.ai (2026-06-25 01:54:05)
F2FS Integrates FSERROR Reporting, Reduces Memory Footprint In Linux 7.2
The Flash-Friendly File-System (F2FS) have landed for Linux 7.2...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-7.2-F2FS
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Phoronix@phoronix@masto.ai (2026-06-25 00:39:02)
SilverStone RM32 3U Server Chassis + 1000W Extreme 1000Rz Platinum PSU
For those with limited rack space and wanting to assemble a high-end server/workstation, the SilverStone RM32 provides a lot of opportunities in being a 3U rackmount chassis that can accommodate an E-ATX or SSI-EEB motherboard, up to a 360mm liquid cooling radiator, and up to four full-size expansion cards all within 3U height requirements. Paired with the SilverStone Extreme 1000Rz Platinum 1000W PS…
https://www.phoronix.com/review/silverstone-rm32
Phoronix@phoronix@masto.ai (2026-06-24 23:24:05)
New AMD Linux Patches Expose Gamma 2.4 + Gamma 2.6 Curves
In addition to AMD engineers being busy rolling out HDMI 2.1 for their open-source Linux driver at long last, another notable display-related improvement on the way to their AMDGPU kernel graphics driver is exposing the Gamma 2.4 and Gamma 2.6 curves support...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/AMDGPU-Linux-Gamma-2.4-2.6
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Phoronix@phoronix@masto.ai (2026-06-24 23:09:06)
"So Many AI-Fueled Fixes" Means No New ARM64 KVM Features For Linux 7.2
The KVM virtualization-related changes were merged a few days ago for the ongoing Linux 7.2 kernel merge window. While there are a number of features/improvements for AMD and Intel virtualization as well as the likes of s390 and RISC-V, there aren't any new features on ARM64. The lack of ARM64 feature work this cycle is being attributed to "so many AI-fueled fixes" swamping the ARM Linux developers.…
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-7.2-KVM
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Phoronix@phoronix@masto.ai (2026-06-24 19:54:05)
One Line x86 Change To GCC Compiler Nets +12% Benchmark Win For Modern Intel/AMD CPUs
A one line code change to the GNU Compiler Collection (GCC) for its generic x86 tuning is benefiting modern Intel and AMD processors...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/GCC-x86-Generic-Mispredict
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Phoronix@phoronix@masto.ai (2026-06-24 19:39:26)
Linux 7.2 Protects Against Crafted Perf Data From Going Rogue
With the help of Claude Opus 4.6, the Linux 7.2 kernel added protections to fend off specially crafted or corrupted perf data for the perf tool that could cause a number of issues for the running system...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-7.2-Perf-Tools
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Phoronix@phoronix@masto.ai (2026-06-24 19:09:06)
QSOE v0.1 Released As A QNX-Inspired RISC-V OS
QSOE 0.1 has made its debut as a QNX-inspired, dual kernel architecture open-source operating system just targeting RISC-V...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/QSOE-0.1-Released
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Phoronix@phoronix@masto.ai (2026-06-24 19:09:05)
Linux 7.2 Ready With IMA and EVM Post-Quantum ML-DSA Signature Support
The integrity subsystem changes merged last week for the Linux 7.2 kernel include support now for IMA and EVM post-quantum ML-DSA signature support...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-7.2-Integrity
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Phoronix@phoronix@masto.ai (2026-06-24 09:24:05)
Linux sched_ext Source Files Restructured Following Complaint By Linus Torvalds
Last week the main set of sched_ext changes were merged for Linux 7.2 that included continued work on sub-scheduler support. While Linus Torvalds didn't object to any of the features being worked on for this extensible scheduler framework that relies on user-space BPF programs, he was frustrated by the layout of the new C source files and remarked, "please don't do this disgusting thing...pr…
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-Sched-Ext-Restructured
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Phoronix@phoronix@masto.ai (2026-06-24 05:54:21)
COSMIC Epoch 1.1 Released With COSMIC-Monitor, Compositor Improvements
System76 today released COSMIC Epoch 1.1 as the newest feature release as well as being their first time bumping the minor version number since the December release of COSMIC 1.0...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/COSMIC-Epoch-1.1
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Phoronix@phoronix@masto.ai (2026-06-24 04:39:17)
BASIC09 Programming Language Front-End Developed For LLVM
The 46-year-old BASIC09 programming language has new compiler support with a front-end having been developed for the LLVM compiler stack. BASIC09 was developed in 1980 for the Motorola 6809 CPU running with the OS-9 operating system. With this LLVM compiler front-end, you can write BASIC09 code for modern software and hardware...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/BASIC09-LLVM-Front-End
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Phoronix@phoronix@masto.ai (2026-06-24 01:39:31)
Linux 7.2 Showing Some Unexpected & Nice Performance Gains On AMD EPYC Sorano
While the Linux 7.2 merge window doesn't wrap up until this weekend as the feature cut-off for new material, I have already begun some early benchmarks of the code currently staged for this next version of the Linux kernel. Linux 7.2 already was looking quite exciting with cache aware scheduling and other exciting new features while an unexpected surprise in my early testing this week was seei…
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-7.2--EPYC-Sorano-Network
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Phoronix@phoronix@masto.ai (2026-06-24 00:39:18)
DeviceTree-ACPI Hybrid Mode Proposed For Improving Linux Support On Snapdragon Laptops
Over the years while working at Red Hat, Hans de Goede was known for driving many wonderful Linux laptop improvements benefiting AMD/Intel x86_64 hardware. Hans left Red Hat last year and ended up joining Qualcomm to advance their open-source/Linux support. Today he is out with a significant new patch series for consideration that has the potential of significantly improving the Qualc…
https://www.phoronix.com/news/DT-ACPI-Hybrid-Mode-Linux
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Phoronix@phoronix@masto.ai (2026-06-23 23:24:04)
Open-Source Driver For ATI R300 Era GPUs Seeing Improved Power Mac Support In 2026
For those that happen to still be running a 22+ year old Apple Power Mac such as those from 2004 with an IBM PowerPC processor and ATI Radeon 9600 XT or 9800 XT graphics, there are open-source driver improvements for Linux still happening in 2026 to benefit this vintage hardware...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/ATI-R300-Big-Endian-2026
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Phoronix@phoronix@masto.ai (2026-06-23 22:54:05)
EROFS With Linux 7.2 Better Handles Large Sparse AI Datasets, More Efficient I/O
The EROFS open-source read-only file-system has some nice enhancements in place for the
https://www.phoronix.com/news/EROFS-Sparse-AI-Datasets
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Phoronix@phoronix@masto.ai (2026-06-23 21:39:23)
Fwupd 2.0.21 Brings Fixes For More Than 250 Potential Security Issues Found Via AI
While the Fwupd 2.1 series is the latest stable channel for this open-source firmware updating solution, Fwupd 2.0.21 was released today to backport fixes for more than 250 potential security issues recently uncovered in the codebase...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Fwupd-2.0.21-Released
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Phoronix@phoronix@masto.ai (2026-06-23 19:39:28)
Linux 8250/16550 UART Serial Driver Seeing Some Modernization Work In 2026
The Linux 8250 serial driver as the universal/legacy driver for 8250 and 16550 type serial ports has been seeing some modernization work recently with a number of 8250 serial patches having now been merged for the Linux 7.2 kernel...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-7.2-Serial
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Phoronix@phoronix@masto.ai (2026-06-23 19:24:06)
New Hygon Model 8 "Suzhou" x86 CPU Support Appears In The GCC Compiler
A seemingly new generation of Hygon x86 processors are on the way with the GNU Compiler Collection (GCC) seeing support today for the Hygon Model 8 "Suzhou" c86-4g-m8 processors...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Hygon-c86-4g-m8-Suzhou-GCC
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Phoronix@phoronix@masto.ai (2026-06-23 19:09:07)
Linux 7.2 RISC-V Reduces Kernel Startup Overhead, Eswin SoC Support By Default
Along with the many x86/x86_64 improvements and some ARM64 architecture improvements (albeit slowed down by the AI/LLM noise affecting the development pace), the RISC-V architecture changes were merged last week for the ongoing Linux 7.2 kernel development...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-7.2-RISC-V
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Phoronix@phoronix@masto.ai (2026-06-23 18:54:05)
KDE Plasma 6.7.1 Released With Initial Batch Of Bug Fixes
Following last week's major Plasma 6.7 release, Plasma 6.7.1 is now available today with an initial assortment of bug fixes...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/KDE-Plasma-6.7.1
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Phoronix@phoronix@masto.ai (2026-06-23 06:09:12)
USB4STREAM Merged For Linux 7.2 To Quickly Send Data Between USB4 Connected Systems
As part of today's USB/Thunderbolt subsystem updates for the ongoing Linux 7.2 kernel merge window, USB4STREAM was merged as a nifty and exciting addition to opening up some interesting USB4 connnectivity use-cases for high speed, low latency data transfers...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/USB4STREAM-In-Linux-7.2
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Phoronix@phoronix@masto.ai (2026-06-23 03:54:06)
Intel Optimization Zone 1.1 Lays Out Tuning Recommendations For More Workloads
Back in March Intel announced the Optimization Zone as a new initiative for helping server administrators and developers better maximize the performance of different workloads running on Intel hardware. Out today is the Intel Optimization Zone 1.1 release with more workloads now covered for squeezing out the most performance on Intel CPUs...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Intel-Optimization-Zone-1.1
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Phoronix@phoronix@masto.ai (2026-06-23 02:54:10)
Steam Machine Launches, Priced $1049 To $1428 USD
Valve today finally revealed pricing on their SteamOS Linux-powered Steam Machine living room PC. Given the ongoing RAM and storage pricing pressure, the Steam Machine pricing comes in at the high-end...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Steam-Machine-1049
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Phoronix@phoronix@masto.ai (2026-06-23 00:39:02)
Benchmarking Bcachefs 1.38.6: The First Release No Longer "Experimental"
Released last week was Bcachefs 1.38.6 with a host of performance improvements to this out-of-tree, copy-on-write file-system. Given all the performance improvements and this being the first release since Kent Overstreet dropped the "experimental" flag on the file-system, I decided to fire up some benchmarks looking at how the Bcachefs file-system performance has changed with this new version.
https://www.phoronix.com/review/bcachefs-1386
Phoronix@phoronix@masto.ai (2026-06-22 23:54:04)
Xfce Wayland Compositor Sees First Preview/Alpha Release
Over the past half-year, Xfwl4 has been developed as a Wayland compositor for the Xfce desktop environment. Released this weekend was the first preview release of Xfwl4 in alpha form...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Xfwl4-First-Release
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Phoronix@phoronix@masto.ai (2026-06-22 23:24:05)
Linux Finally Lands Battery/Charger Driver For 14 Year Old Microsoft Surface RT Tablet
It's been 14 years already since Microsoft announced the Surface RT hybrid tablet as their first-generation Surface device for going up against the Apple iPad. All these years later, this NVIDIA Tegra 3 powered device is finally seeing a mainline Linux kernel driver for supporting battery and charger status...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-Surface-RT-Charger-Driver
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Phoronix@phoronix@masto.ai (2026-06-22 22:09:09)
AMD Updates ROCDXG To Deliver Better ROCm Experience On WSL
Back in March AMD introduced ROCDXG to improve their Windows Subsystem for Linux support. This improved Windows Subsystem for Linux "WSL" support with the ROCm compute stack is a cleaneer architecture, open-source compared to their legacy WSL code having closed bits, and more robust handling. Today they issued a new ROCDXG library release to further enhance their WSL support...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/AMD-librocdxg-1.2.1
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Phoronix@phoronix@masto.ai (2026-06-22 20:24:04)
Miracle-WM Mir-Based Wayland Compositor Aiming For v1.0 Later This Year
Miracle-WM 0.10 released on Sunday as the newest feature release for this Mir-based Wayland compositor. With this new release is also acknowledgement they are hoping to cross the "1.0" milestone later in the year...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Miracle-WM-0.10
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Phoronix@phoronix@masto.ai (2026-06-22 19:39:25)
Valve Creates The Ray-Tracing Inspector "RTI" To Help Further Optimize Linux GPU Drivers
Merged today to Mesa 26.1 is the Ray-Tracing Inspector "RTI" as a new GUI created by developers on Valve's open-source Linux graphics team. The Ray-Tracing Inspector is designed to help in analyzing and optimizing the Vulkan ray-tracing performance as part of their continued work on further bettering the Radeon RADV RT performance for Steam Play / Linux gaming...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Mesa-Ray-Tracing-Inspector-RTI
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Phoronix@phoronix@masto.ai (2026-06-22 19:24:05)
OneXPlayer Configuration Driver Merged For Linux 7.2 Along With Other New Hardware
The HID subsystem updates have landed in the Linux 7.2 kernel with some treats that will excite Linux gamers and other desktop users...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-7.2-HID
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