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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 (2026-07-02 18:56:39)
JPEG-XL libjxl 0.12 Brings More Performance Optimizations

A new release of libjxl is now available for this reference implementation of the JPEG-XL image format, including both image encode and decode support...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/JPEG-XL-libjxl-0.12
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Phoronix@phoronix@masto.ai (2026-07-02 18:56:36)
Box3D Debuts As New Open-Source 3D Physics Engine

Erin Catto who has been developing the Box2D 2D physics engine for games announced the release of Box3D. Box3D is now providing a new open-source 3D physics engine that is forked off from the Box2D code...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Box3D-Open-Source-3D-Physics
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Phoronix@phoronix@masto.ai (2026-07-02 10:54:08)
Fedora Council Seeks To Shutdown Current Discussions Over AI Developer Desktop

Stemming from the widely varying views over the recent Fedora proposal for an "AI Developer Desktop" catering to running local AI and machine learning workloads in pre-configured environments with a seamless hardware-accelerated experience, the Fedora Council issued a statement this evening to effectively shutdown discussions for now over a Fedora AI Developer Desktop and to pause the Fedora …
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Fedora-Council-AI-Desktop
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Phoronix@phoronix@masto.ai (2026-07-02 09:39:05)
Steam On Linux Usage Receded A Bit In June

Back in March Steam on Linux use shot up to 5.33% as a big 3.1% improvement over February. In April it dropped to 4.52% and then fell to 3.99% in May. Valve just published the Steam Survey numbers for June and it points to another minor setback from the recent all-time high of Steam on Linux...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Steam-Survey-June-2026
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Phoronix@phoronix@masto.ai (2026-07-02 06:09:06)
KDE Linux Introduces "Developer Mode" Option, Easier Log Collection

With the start of the new month comes a new progress report on the KDE Linux distribution for the prior month. Even with KDE developers being busy to ship Plasma 6.7 in June, they still accomplished a lot when it comes to KDE Linux...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/KDE-Linux-June-2026
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Phoronix@phoronix@masto.ai (2026-07-02 03:09:04)
System76 Launches New Lemur Pro Laptop Powered By Intel Panther Lake

System76 today announced their new Lemur Pro high-end Linux laptop that is now powered by the Core Ultra Series 3 "Panther Lake" SoCs...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/System76-Lemur-Pro-Panther-Lake
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Phoronix@phoronix@masto.ai (2026-07-02 01:24:04)
Linux 7.3 To Overcome "Significant Bottleneck" For Small I/O With PCIe Gen5 NVMe SSDs

While the Linux 7.2 feature merge window ended just days ago and the better part of two months now before v7.2 will be released as stable, there are already features beginning to accumulate that will target the Linux 7.3 cycle. The most exciting change I've seen to kick off that dance ahead of Linux 7.3 is addressing a "significant" bottleneck affecting small direct I/O performance wit…
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-7.3-Faster-Small-Direct
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Phoronix@phoronix@masto.ai (2026-07-02 00:54:06)
AMD Sends Out Latest Linux Patches For RMPOPT Optimization

Earlier this year AMD disclosed the RMPOPT instruction that given the timing will seemingly be introduced with upcoming Zen 6 EPYC "Venice" processors. The RMPOPT feature amounts to a performance optimization for AMD EPYC SEV-SNP enabled servers by cutting down on the associated Reverse Map Table (RMP) overhead. Linux enablement of AMD RMPOPT remains ongoing and out this week is the latest iteration of the enabl…
https://www.phoronix.com/news/AMD-RMPOPT-Linux-v10
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Phoronix@phoronix@masto.ai (2026-07-01 22:39:08)
Glibc Introduces /etc/tunables.conf For System-Wide Tunables

Red Hat has contributed new system-wide tunables infrastructure to the GNU C Library "glibc" that allows specifying system-wide tunables via the new /etc/tunables.conf configuration file...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Glibc-System-Tunables
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Phoronix@phoronix@masto.ai (2026-07-01 22:39:06)
RADV & RadeonSI Drivers See New Fixes For AMD GCN 1.0/1.1 GPUs

Timur Kristóf of Valve's Linux graphics driver team continues taking special focus on AMD Radeon GCN 1.0 and GCN 1.1 era GPUs for enhancing the open-source graphics driver support for these aging graphics cards...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/RADV-L2-Flush-Fix-GFX6-GFX7
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Phoronix@phoronix@masto.ai (2026-07-01 19:39:25)
GCC 16.2 Being Planned For Early August Release

For those that prefer waiting until the first bug-fix/point release before upgrading to a major new feature series, GCC 16.2 is being planned for an early August release for delivering back-ported bug fixes to the GCC 16 compiler...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/GCC-16.2-Early-August
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Phoronix@phoronix@masto.ai (2026-07-01 19:24:05)
ASUS ROG Strix Laptop Sees Driver Fix For Linux Performance Too Low Compared To Windows

With modern laptops, proper platform/WMI drivers are becoming more depended upon not only for supporting all typical functionality from keyboards to backlights and other handling, but also for achieving proper performance. For many laptop vendors, the Linux platform drivers are maintained by the open-source community and actual customers. The latest example of the challenges of the c…
https://www.phoronix.com/news/ASUS-ROG-Strix-G16-Fix
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Phoronix@phoronix@masto.ai (2026-07-01 19:09:08)
Asahi Linux Fixes Booting With macOS 27, Progress On M3 & Apple Video Decode

The Asahi Linux project published a new blog post outlining recent development efforts in getting Apple Silicon hardware working with their downstream Linux distribution. There is ongoing work on bringing up Apple M3 support, fixing boot support for macOS 27 beta systems, Apple Video Decoder (AVD) support progress, and more...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Asahi-Linux-AVD-Firmware-M3
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Phoronix@phoronix@masto.ai (2026-07-01 18:54:08)
NVIDIA Working On New "TLV" Firmware Binary Format For Nova Driver

NVIDIA engineers have been developing a new binary format for their GPU firmware images for use with the in-development, open-source Nova kernel driver. With this new TLV binary firmware format it aims to be easier to parse by their Rust-based driver code...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/NVIDIA-Nova-Driver-TLV
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Phoronix@phoronix@masto.ai (2026-07-01 09:39:22)
Performance Optimizations, NVIDIA Vera, Arc Pro B70 & Other Linux Highlights From Q2

As the last planned article on Phoronix of Q2, here is a look back at what excited readers the most in the second quarter. There were 872 original news articles this quarter as well as 54 Linux hardware reviews / multi-page featured benchmark articles. Here is what excited readers the most over these past three months...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Q2-2026-Highlights
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Phoronix@phoronix@masto.ai (2026-07-01 07:39:05)
COSMIC Epoch 1.2 Desktop Fixes Flickering Issues For Intel Graphics

Just a week after the COSMIC Epoch 1.1 release with its slick new system monitor, COSMIC Epoch 1.2 is now available for this Rust-based desktop developed by System76...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/COSMIC-Epoch-1.2
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Phoronix@phoronix@masto.ai (2026-07-01 05:24:05)
GraalVM CE 25.1.3 Gets Native Image "Hello World" Program Down To Just 6.5MB

GraalVM, the advanced JDK focused on ahead-of-time (AOT) Native Image compilation and since last year began shifting focus to more non-Java languages like Python and JavaScript,  is out with its newest community feature release. GraalVM Community Edition 25.1.3 is now available with some interesting changes in tow...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/GraalVM-Community-25.1.3
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Phoronix@phoronix@masto.ai (2026-07-01 03:09:05)
Fedora 45 Looks To Finally Offer Install Support For Stratis Storage

Ever since RHEL deprecated their short-lived Btrfs plans, Red Hat engineers over the past decade have been developing Stratis Storage as their storage management solution leveraging XFS, LUKS, DM, and their Rust-based daemon. While Stratis Storage has been available in Fedora Linux going all the way back to Fedora 28, until now there hasn't been the option of using it for the root file-system on new Fe…
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Fedora-45-Stratis-Storage
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Phoronix@phoronix@masto.ai (2026-07-01 01:39:05)
Linux 7.2 Features: Cache Aware Scheduling, USB4STREAM, AMD ISP4, AMDGPU HDMI 2.1 FRL

Linux 7.2 is working toward release in August with its more than 43 million lines in the codebase. With Linux 7.2 there are many new changes in tow as summed up in today's feature overview.
https://www.phoronix.com/review/linux-72-features
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Phoronix@phoronix@masto.ai (2026-07-01 01:24:05)
New Linux Driver Posted To Enable Keyboard Support On M3 MacBooks

While Linux 7.2 introduces the ability to boot on Apple M3 Macs, it's not yet remotely useful for end-users wanting to use an Apple Mac/MacBook as their daily system. As it stands now, the M3 Macs boot to a simple console and that's about it with the lack of proper GPU acceleration and functionality like the keyboard on MacBooks not working either. Posted to the kernel mailing list today was the new drive…
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Apple-DockChannel-M3-Keyboard
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Phoronix@phoronix@masto.ai (2026-06-30 23:54:06)
KDE Plasma 6.7.2 Brings Fix For Most Common KWin Crash, Better Chromium Video Playback

KDE Plasma 6.7.2 is out today as the latest point release to deliver bug fixes for  the Plasma 6.7 desktop that debuted earlier this month...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/KDE-Plasma-6.7.2-Released
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Phoronix@phoronix@masto.ai (2026-06-30 23:39:06)
AMDGPU HDMI 2.1 FRL, Improvements For Old GPUs & Other AMD Linux Highlights In Q2

With Q2'2026 drawing to a close, as part of the different quarterly recaps of popular areas on Phoronix, here is a look back at the most popular AMD Linux/open-source news of the quarter...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/AMD-Linux-Highlights-Q2-2026
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Phoronix@phoronix@masto.ai (2026-06-30 22:09:05)
Canonical First Gold Sponsor Of Trifecta Tech For Building More Infrastructure In Rust

Ubuntu Linux maker Canonical continues making more inroads in the Rust infrastructure space. Canonical announced today they have become the first gold sponsor of the Trifecta Tech Foundation that works on projects like sudo-rs for building more open infrastructure in the Rust programming language...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Canonical-Gold-Trifecta-Tech
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Phoronix@phoronix@masto.ai (2026-06-30 19:39:40)
Intel Kills Off AMX-TF32 Support Before It Even Shipped In Diamond Rapids

Intel has dropped AMX-TF32 before its debut in Xeon Diamond Rapids. The latest Intel programming reference manual has dropped AMX-TF32 and Intel engineers are already moving ahead to strip out the AMX-TF32 support that existed in the GNU Compiler Collection...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Intel-Kills-AMX-TF32
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Phoronix@phoronix@masto.ai (2026-06-30 19:39:39)
Servo Browser Engine Continues Making Much Progress On Less Than $8k Monthly

Released last week was the Servo 0.3 browser engine release along with their latest Servoshell demo browser. Today the project has published their monthly development recap to highlight all of the interesting changes made. Here's a look at what they accomplished over the past month while doing so on less than $8k in monthly donations...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Servo-0.3-Monthly-Changes
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Phoronix@phoronix@masto.ai (2026-06-30 19:24:08)
GCC 17 Compiler Lands SpacemiT X100 Core Targeting

The newest GCC 17 compiler code has landed support for -mcpu=spacemit-x100 and -mtune=spacemit-x100 targeting for the SpacemiT X100 RISC-V core...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/GCC-17-SpacemiT-X100
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Phoronix@phoronix@masto.ai (2026-06-30 06:24:05)
Wine 11.12 Released With Wayland Fractional Scaling & Other Wayland Enhancements

Wine 11.12 fell off the bi-weekly release rhythm with not making it out last Friday, but it managed to ship today. Wine 11.12 brings fractional scaling support to its Wayland driver and various other enhancements...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Wine-11.12-Released
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Phoronix@phoronix@masto.ai (2026-06-30 04:54:06)
Next Bcachefs Release Aims To Include Rust Code In The Kernel Module

The Bcachefs file-system already makes use of the Rust programming language in the user-space tools for this CoW file-system and they have been planning to make use of Rust within the kernel module too. Beginning in the next Bcachefs release, v1.38.7, they are looking at beginning to include Rust code now in their kernel driver...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Bcachefs-1.38.7-Rust-Kernel
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Phoronix@phoronix@masto.ai (2026-06-30 03:09:05)
Git 2.55 Released With Rust Support Enabled By Default, git history fixup

Git 2.55 is out today as the latest stable update to this distributed version control system...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Git-2.55-Released
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Phoronix@phoronix@masto.ai (2026-06-30 02:09:05)
Linux 7.2 On Threadripper Shows Some Nice I/O Improvements & Faster Poll, Some Regressions

I have begun testing out Linux 7.2 on more hardware following the winding down of the merge window and culminating with yesterday's Linux 7.2-rc1 release. Today's tests are looking at how Linux 7.2 in its early development state is comparing to Linux 7.1 stable on AMD Ryzen Threadripper.
https://www.phoronix.com/review/linux-72-threadripper
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