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Phoronix@phoronix@masto.ai (2026-06-30 01:09:04) Microsoft Announces Public Preview For Linux Containers On WSL

Microsoft today shipped the first public preview of WSL Containers "WSLC" as their latest extension of the Windows Subsystem for Linux on Windows 11...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Microsoft-Preview-WSL-WSLC ---Attachments--- image: https://s3.masto.ai/media_attachments/files/116/834/261/038/661/499/original/6a3e9a9fb30b22e8.webp

Phoronix@phoronix@masto.ai (2026-06-29 23:40:19) Red Hat ARM Engineer Abandons ARM64 Linux Personal Desktop, Goes Back To AMD Ryzen System

Red Hat senior software engineer Marcin Juszkiewicz of Red Hat's ARM Team had been dogfeeding with an AArch64 Linux desktop being used as his primary, personal system for nearly the past year. But now he shared he has gone back to using his AMD Ryzen desktop instead over AArch64 Linux issues encountered with his Ampere Altra desktop...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Red-Hat-ARM-Engineer-Back-Ryzen ---Attachments--- image: https://s3.masto.ai/media_attachments/files/116/833/911/204/910/902/original/4ae2f06c268b2aac.webp

Phoronix@phoronix@masto.ai (2026-06-29 23:09:06) Infinity Scheduler Aims To Be A Better Linux Scheduler

The Infinity Scheduler is another attempt at improving the CPU scheduling behavior under Linux and created by the developer behind the existing "scx_flow" sched_ext scheduler. But Infinity Scheduler isn't taking the approach of using sched_ext and is rather patched into the Linux kernel in modifying CFS and RT behavior...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Infinity-Scheduler ---Attachments--- image: https://s3.masto.ai/media_attachments/files/116/833/789/220/193/325/original/4864784e97a96d52.webp

Phoronix@phoronix@masto.ai (2026-06-29 19:54:21) AMD Linux Patches Introduce New "Low Power" CPU Core Type

A new Linux kernel patch series posted to the kernel mailing list minutes ago is introducing a new "Low Power" CPU core type for AMD heterogeneous processors. The x86 topology code in the Linux kernel already supports the notion of Performance and Efficiency type cores while now a new "Low Power" core type is being introduced for AMD heterogeneous platforms...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/AMD-Low-Power-CPU-Core-Linux ---Attachments--- image: https://s3.masto.ai/media_attachments/files/116/833/023/414/364/557/original/b082401cd525b5b0.webp

Phoronix@phoronix@masto.ai (2026-06-29 19:39:05) ZLUDA v6 Gets PhysX Running Well On AMD GPUs But Loses Commercial Funding

ZLUDA as a reminder is the open-source project that began as drop-in CUDA support for Intel graphics hardware and then was quietly funded by AMD for years as a drop-in CUDA replacement on AMD GPUs that went open-source after losing funding. That was then taken down and since late 2024 ZLUDA then began focusing on multi-GPU CUDA focused on AI after beginning to receive funding from an unspecified p…
https://www.phoronix.com/news/ZLUDA-6-Released ---Attachments--- image: https://s3.masto.ai/media_attachments/files/116/832/963/455/750/997/original/80600615adb9d078.webp

Phoronix@phoronix@masto.ai (2026-06-29 19:24:04) TLAC Aims To Be An Open-Source Alternative To Kernel-Level Anti-Cheat Systems

It's not clear that any games have yet to deploy this open-source anti-cheat system but TLAC is a new open-source project that aims to provide a privacy-respecting alternative to kernel-level anti-cheat systems like Denuvo, Easy Anti-Cheat, and BattlEye...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/TLAC-Open-Source-Anti-Cheat ---Attachments--- image: https://s3.masto.ai/media_attachments/files/116/832/904/434/030/487/original/5871d55b7c76cfea.webp

Phoronix@phoronix@masto.ai (2026-06-29 18:54:17) RADV Enables Vulkan Descriptor Heap Support By Default

In time for the Mesa 26.2 stable release expected out in August, the Radeon RADV Vulkan driver is now exposing the VK_EXT_descriptor_heap descriptor heap support by default...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/RADV-Descriptor-Heap-Default ---Attachments--- image: https://s3.masto.ai/media_attachments/files/116/832/786/512/769/910/original/00adf6df3085d1cc.webp

Phoronix@phoronix@masto.ai (2026-06-29 10:24:05) Mageia 10 Released For This Linux Distribution Carrying On The Mandrake Legacy

Mageia 10 ISOs are now available for this Linux distribution long ago derived from Mandriva Linux and in turn the legendary Mandrake Linux...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Mageia-10-Released ---Attachments--- image: https://s3.masto.ai/media_attachments/files/116/830/781/110/936/651/original/e8dd67aaec19d16a.webp

Phoronix@phoronix@masto.ai (2026-06-29 09:54:05) Arch Linux's Archinstall 4.4 Adds Dank Material Shell + Niri Desktop Option

Ahead of the July 2026 ISO refresh for Arch Linux, a new Archinstall 4.4 release has been tagged for this text-based and very convenient installer for Arch Linux...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Arch-Linux-Archinstall-4.4 ---Attachments--- image: https://s3.masto.ai/media_attachments/files/116/830/663/171/467/309/original/e9fea85f74954a1a.webp

Phoronix@phoronix@masto.ai (2026-06-29 05:09:04) Linux 7.2-rc1 Released: "Things Look Reasonably Normal" While Landing AMDGPU HDMI 2.1 FRL, AMD ISP4 & CAS

As expected, Linux 7.2-rc1 was released a brief time ago to cap off the Linux 7.2 merge window. Now it's off for eight weeks or so of testing before Linux 7.2 stable is released that will in turn go on to power the likes of Fedora 45 and Ubuntu 26.10...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-7.2-rc1-Released ---Attachments--- image: https://s3.masto.ai/media_attachments/files/116/829/542/423/029/041/original/768a07c1905d8f75.webp

Phoronix@phoronix@masto.ai (2026-06-29 04:09:17) USB4STREAM, Optimizations, Jay & Other Popular Intel Linux News From This Quarter

With Q2'2026 working toward a close, here is a look back at the most popular Intel Linux and open-source news for the quarter...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Intel-Linux-Q2-2026 ---Attachments--- image: https://s3.masto.ai/media_attachments/files/116/829/307/319/182/592/original/1ed6206e312c05f7.webp

Phoronix@phoronix@masto.ai (2026-06-29 00:09:05) CachyOS June 2026 OS Released With More Performance Optimizations

CachyOS is out today with a new feature release for this Arch Linux powered distribution that delivers stellar out-of-the-box performance...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/CachyOS-June-2026-Released ---Attachments--- image: https://s3.masto.ai/media_attachments/files/116/828/362/864/856/671/original/55249c196db63ff4.webp

Phoronix@phoronix@masto.ai (2026-06-28 22:54:06) Linux 7.3 To Introduce DRM "Color Format" Property With AMD GPU Driver Support

While the Linux 7.2 kernel merge window is only ending later today to cap off the feature work on this next version of the Linux kernel, already for the Linux 7.3 kernel cycle later in the year there is one notable feature on the way: the DRM color format property is being introduced and being first supported by the AMDGPU kernel graphics driver...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-7.3-DRM-Color-Format ---Attachments--- image: https://s3.masto.ai/media_attachments/files/116/828/067/941/611/836/original/64a5d93d548db56b.webp

Phoronix@phoronix@masto.ai (2026-06-28 20:09:08) Linux Dropping Old Drivers, AI Detected Vulnerabilities & Other Kernel Highlights Of Q2

With Q2'2026 quickly coming to an end, here's a recap of the most popular Linux kernel news over the past three months on Phoronix...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-Kernel-Q2-2026 ---Attachments--- image: https://s3.masto.ai/media_attachments/files/116/827/419/334/308/606/original/06ebf89b49c1f4eb.webp

Phoronix@phoronix@masto.ai (2026-06-28 20:09:07) Linux 7.2 Surpasses More Than 43 Million Lines In The Kernel Tree

Today marks the last day of the Linux 7.2 merge window with Linux 7.2-rc1 due out later today. With the many new features and improvements merged over the past week since the Linux 7.1 stable debut, the Linux kernel source tree now exceeds 43 million lines...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-7.2-43-Million-Lines ---Attachments--- image: https://s3.masto.ai/media_attachments/files/116/827/419/154/340/947/original/2b7f3fa655465c2c.webp

Phoronix@phoronix@masto.ai (2026-06-28 19:40:35) Vim Patches Yielding Faster GTK3 Wayland Performance: "Major Milestone"

For those using Vim with its GTK3 toolkit interface on Wayland, it soon should be delivering much better performance with pending patches...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Vim-GTK3-Wayland-Faster ---Attachments--- image: https://s3.masto.ai/media_attachments/files/116/827/305/123/368/528/original/b2a9fed51d323059.webp

Phoronix@phoronix@masto.ai (2026-06-28 10:09:05) Nourish: A New Wayland Compositor Powered By Vulkan With Infinite Scrolling/Panning

The newest Wayland compositor on the block is Nourish, it's a Vulkan-powered and its unique selling point is offering "infinite" zooming and panning to in effect provide an infinite workspace...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Nourish-Wayland-Compositor ---Attachments--- image: https://s3.masto.ai/media_attachments/files/116/825/059/810/155/502/original/b6d85f5c02c55eab.webp

Phoronix@phoronix@masto.ai (2026-06-28 02:09:08) Reserved THP Feature Proposed For Linux To Combine The Best Of HugeTLB & THP

Linux kernel developer and Bytedance engineer Qi Zheng sent out a request for comments (RFC) patch series on a new feature called Reserved THP to combine the best of HugeTLB and THP kernel functionality...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Reserved-THP-Linux ---Attachments--- image: https://s3.masto.ai/media_attachments/files/116/823/172/502/451/304/original/bef9d9c7bdc2c4f2.webp

Phoronix@phoronix@masto.ai (2026-06-27 20:24:04) Linux MD RAID5 Seeing Scalability Improvements Up To 17%

Posted to the Linux kernel mailing list this week was a new patch series working on scalability enhancements to the MD RAID5 software RAID code. Up to a 10~17% improvement was observed in some configurations with these RAID5 scalability patches...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-MD-RAID5-Scalability-Work ---Attachments--- image: https://s3.masto.ai/media_attachments/files/116/821/815/729/848/986/original/034b4075ff20265f.webp

Phoronix@phoronix@masto.ai (2026-06-27 19:54:16) GNOME AI Assistant Adds Image Generation Support

In development over the past three years has been Newelle as a GNOME-aligned AI virtual assistant. Out this week is Newelle 1.4.5 and it now adds AI image generation support and a redesigned chat interface...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/GNOME-Newelle-Image-Gen ---Attachments--- image: https://s3.masto.ai/media_attachments/files/116/821/697/812/739/326/original/79fdb47aec5a38f0.webp

Phoronix@phoronix@masto.ai (2026-06-27 19:39:25) KDE Plasma 6.7.2 To Fix KWin's Most Common Crash, Plasma 6.8 To Not Crash When Ejecting CDs

While Plasma 6.7.1 was just released this week following the recent stable debut of Plasma 6.7, there are already a number of fixes piling up for Plasma 6.7.2 due out in July. Plus more feature work and fixes for Plasma 6.8 as the next desktop version going Wayland-only...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/KDE-Plasma-This-Week-Crashes ---Attachments--- image: https://s3.masto.ai/media_attachments/files/116/821/638/871/471/336/original/d09ffc4cd3a8d913.webp

Phoronix@phoronix@masto.ai (2026-06-27 19:24:05) COSMIC's New System Monitor Is Looking Very Slick

Not only is GNOME 51 working to replace GNOME System Monitor with its new replacement, but over in System76's COSMIC space they have been baking their own new system monitor too...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/COSMIC-System-Monitor ---Attachments--- image: https://s3.masto.ai/media_attachments/files/116/821/579/889/814/830/original/bb00851f2801579d.webp

Phoronix@phoronix@masto.ai (2026-06-27 09:24:05) Shotcut 26.6 Released With HDR Improvements, Vulkan Display On Linux

Shotcut 26.6 is out today as the newest major feature release for this popular cross-platform, open-source video editing solution...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Shotcut-26.6-Released ---Attachments--- image: https://s3.masto.ai/media_attachments/files/116/819/220/546/513/706/original/b8e1c0e472330b01.webp

Phoronix@phoronix@masto.ai (2026-06-27 03:39:16) New Intel Linux Driver Patches Enable HDR Over DP MST Connections

One of the limitations of the Intel Linux driver's high dynamic range (HDR) display support is that it currently doesn't work for any DisplayPort Multi-Stream Transport "DP MST" connections, such as for daisy chaining monitors or multi-monitor docking stations. But the good news is patches are being worked on to address this Intel Linux kernel display driver shortcoming...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Intel-HDR-Over-DP-MST ---Attachments--- image: https://s3.masto.ai/media_attachments/files/116/817/863/916/251/115/original/b7866986e65b28fa.webp

Phoronix@phoronix@masto.ai (2026-06-27 01:09:02) How NVIDIA GB10 CPU Performance Compares To Vera

Since delivering NVIDIA Vera CPU benchmarks one month ago and follow-ups like how the ARM Linux server performance has evolved in 8 years or how Vera compares to Ampere Altra that is still quite common in the marketplace, another frequent discussion point and inquiry is about the performance of NVIDIA Vera relative to NVIDIA's GB10 chip. For those curious about the per-core performance and the like, here are some benchmar…
https://www.phoronix.com/review/nvidia-vera-gb10

Phoronix@phoronix@masto.ai (2026-06-26 23:09:05) More AMD Zen 6 Prepping, Many ASUS / Lenovo / HP Laptop Improvements For Linux 7.2

The many x86 platform driver changes have now been merged for the in-development Linux 7.2 kernel. As usual it's mostly made up of driver enhancements for benefiting modern AMD Ryzen (AI) and Intel Core (Ultra) laptops...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-7.2-x86-Platform-Drivers ---Attachments--- image: https://s3.masto.ai/media_attachments/files/116/816/802/284/201/641/original/b47c3cc5234f6d59.webp

Phoronix@phoronix@masto.ai (2026-06-26 22:39:05) Experimental Code Enables Per-Monitor Backgrounds For GNOME Shell

One of the limitations of GNOME's current multi-monitor handling is that the same background is used across the displays. For those that want to enjoy per-monitor background selection, some experimental / proof-of-concept code is now working to allow such per-monitor backgrounds to work with the modern GNOME desktop...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/PoC-Per-Background-GNOME ---Attachments--- image: https://s3.masto.ai/media_attachments/files/116/816/684/303/677/995/original/269e304784743419.webp

Phoronix@phoronix@masto.ai (2026-06-26 22:09:04) Intel ANV Vulkan Driver Now Enables Descriptor Heaps By Default

Back in early May was the experimental enabling of Vulkan descriptor heaps for the Intel ANV open-source driver. After nearly two months of continued testing and improvements, the VK_EXT_descriptor_heap support for Intel graphics on Linux is now enabled by default...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Intel-ANV-Descriptor-Heaps-On ---Attachments--- image: https://s3.masto.ai/media_attachments/files/116/816/566/336/360/921/original/89723b7645a9575e.webp

Phoronix@phoronix@masto.ai (2026-06-26 21:54:06) Linux 7.2 Fixes Where PCIe Devices Could Be Inadvertently Restricted To 2.5 GT/s

The PCI/PCIe subsystem changes have been merged this week as we approach the end of the Linux 7.2 merge window...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-7.2-PCI ---Attachments--- image: https://s3.masto.ai/media_attachments/files/116/816/507/413/309/012/original/15b8429ad3eb5afb.webp

Phoronix@phoronix@masto.ai (2026-06-26 19:39:25) Intel ISPC 1.31 Brings New Targets For Nova Lake, Experimental PowerPC 64-bit

Intel engineers on Thursday released the newest version of the Intel Implicit SPMD Program Compiler, ISPC. The ISPC 1.31 supports their variant of the C programming language with extensions for Single Program, Multiple Data programming for leveraging their range of CPU and GPU hardware...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Intel-ISPC-1.31-Released ---Attachments--- image: https://s3.masto.ai/media_attachments/files/116/815/976/792/982/446/original/1cb6b4add497122b.webp
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