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Phoronix@phoronix@masto.ai (2026-07-07 06:24:06)
Vulkan Video H.264/H.265 Encode Now Working For Intel Alchemist GPUs On Linux
Earlier this year Vulkan Video encode was disabled on newer generations of Intel graphics hardware due to insufficient testing with the Intel ANV open-source driver. That impacted Gen12.5 graphics and newer - basically Alchemist and anything newer. Now at least Gen12.5 graphics with the likes of the Arc A-Series is seeing H.264 and H.265 encoding re-enabled...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Intel-ANV-Gen125-H265-Encode
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Phoronix@phoronix@masto.ai (2026-07-07 04:09:07)
Marek Olšák At Valve Lands RADV Code That Can "Double Performance" With Some VRS Cases
Longtime AMD Linux graphics driver expert Marek Olšák, who joined Valve earlier this year and now focusing more on RADV rather than the RadeonSI Gallium3D driver, has seen some of his latest work now merged for Mesa 26.2. Marek landed a big overhaul to the variable rate shading (VRS) code that in some cases can double the performance...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Marek-Double-VRS-RADV-Perf
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Phoronix@phoronix@masto.ai (2026-07-07 00:09:03)
Ryzen AI Developer Platform: AMD's Own Linux Distribution Built Atop Debian
With the AMD Ryzen AI Halo developer platform there is the option of ordering this Ryzen AI Max+ mini PC with either Microsoft Windows 11 or "Linux OS". When receiving a AMD Ryzen AI Halo review sample last month, I fully expected it to just be an Ubuntu LTS install with ROCm preloaded. I was quite surprised when powering it up to find that it's an OS called the AMD Ryzen AI Developer Platform 1…
https://www.phoronix.com/review/ryzen-ai-linux-os
Phoronix@phoronix@masto.ai (2026-07-07 00:09:02)
AMD Ryzen AI Halo Is An Excellent & Powerful Mini PC With Fully Open-Source Software
Earlier this year AMD announced the Ryzen AI Halo as their in-house mini PC offering built around their leading Ryzen AI Max+ "Strix Halo" platform. After pre-orders began last month, the Ryzen AI Halo is officially beginning to ship this week and over the past few weeks we have been testing it out at Phoronix.
https://www.phoronix.com/review/amd-ryzen-ai-halo
Phoronix@phoronix@masto.ai (2026-07-06 22:39:16)
Linux 7.3 Expected To "Flatten The Pick" For Better Scheduling While Gaming & More
Going back to early May there were patches for improving the Linux scheduler to help with gaming performance on old "potato" hardware by providing better cgroup scheduling. Those patches, referred to as the "flatten the pick" patch series, are now slated for introduction in the Linux 7.3 kernel...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-7.3-Flattens-The-Pick
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Phoronix@phoronix@masto.ai (2026-07-06 21:54:06)
Intel i915 Driver Nearly Ready To "Work Well" With RT Linux Kernel Sans Display Support
When it comes to the real-time "RT" patches carried outside of the Linux kernel, a number of them pertain to adjustments around the Intel i915 kernel DRM graphics driver. The mainline Linux kernel and its RT support depend upon not building "PREEMPT_RT" for the i915 driver support while patches have been worked on recently for making this Intel kernel graphics driver code play nicely…
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Intel-i915-RT-Linux-Kernel
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Phoronix@phoronix@masto.ai (2026-07-06 19:39:27)
Canonical On Making Ubuntu For ARM64 "Truly A First-Class Architecture"
The Ubuntu Foundations Engineering Manager, Ravi Kant Sharma, with Canonical has provided an update regarding the current ARM64 state on Ubuntu Linux...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Ubuntu-ARM64-2026
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Phoronix@phoronix@masto.ai (2026-07-06 19:09:09)
Pioneer DJM-S11 Professional DJ Mixer To Be Supported By Linux 7.3
The Pioneer DJM-S11 is a professional scratch style 2-channel DJ mixer that retails for $2,269 USD. But if currently connecting this expensive piece of kit to Linux, it does nothing and is unusable. With 87 new lines of code, it will begin to work with the Linux 7.3 kernel later this year...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Pioneer-DJ-DJM-S11-Linux
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Phoronix@phoronix@masto.ai (2026-07-06 19:09:07)
Uniwill Laptop Driver Preparing A Number Of Features For Linux 7.3
The Unwill laptop driver on Linux for supporting various device-specific features by that major OEM/ODM will be seeing several new features with the Linux 7.3 cycle later this year. One of the most notable users of the Unwill driver is Bavarian Linux PC vendor TUXEDO Computers...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Uniwill-Improvements-Linux-7.3
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Phoronix@phoronix@masto.ai (2026-07-06 13:24:19)
D7VK's Performance Gains Since Its Inception For Older Direct3D Versions On Linux
In addition to Sunday's release of DXVK 3.0.1, D7VK 1.12 was separately released as the latest version of this implementation for Direct3D 7 and older atop the Vulkan API...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/D7VK-1.12
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Phoronix@phoronix@masto.ai (2026-07-06 10:24:05)
Linux 7.2-rc2 Released: "Things Look Very Normal"
Linux 7.2-rc2 is now available for testing in working toward the stable Linux 7.2 release in August...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-7.2-rc2-Released
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Phoronix@phoronix@masto.ai (2026-07-06 08:24:05)
DXVK 3.0.1 Released With More Game Fixes, Other Improvements
Following the release of DXVK 3.0 from late June that brought several big changes, DXVK 3.0.1 is out today with shipping various game fixes and other improvements to this important piece of Valve's Steam Play (Proton) for Direct3D Windows games on Linux...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/DXVK-3.0.1-Released
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Phoronix@phoronix@masto.ai (2026-07-05 19:54:11)
ReactOS "Open-Source Windows" Project Now Capable Of Running Half-Life 2
One month ago it was exciting to see the open-source ReactOS operating system running Valve's Half-Life game. Little to realize less than 30 days later it would also be running Half-Life 2...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Half-Life-2-ReactOS
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Phoronix@phoronix@masto.ai (2026-07-05 19:39:38)
AMD Begins Staging Graphics Driver Changes For Linux 7.3
In addition to Intel beginning to volley graphics driver patches for Linux 7.3, this week AMD also began sending out their pull requests of "new stuff" to DRM-Next for the Linux 7.3 kernel cycle...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/AMDGPU-AMDKFD-Start-Linux-7.3
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Phoronix@phoronix@masto.ai (2026-07-05 19:39:37)
Intel Preparing Linux For IPU8 Web Camera Support With Nova Lake Laptops
More Linux kernel patches have been surfacing that confirm next-gen, high-end Nova Lake laptops will feature IPU8 image processing capabilities...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Intel-IPU8-With-Nova-Lake
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Phoronix@phoronix@masto.ai (2026-07-05 09:54:07)
OpenRazer 3.12.4 Fixes Compatibility With Linux 7.2
OpenRazer 3.12.4 is now available as the newest update to these out-of-tree, unofficial Linux drivers for Razer devices. OpenRazer when paired with the likes of Polychromatic or other GUI options is what makes for a nice experience running Razer gaming peripherals under Linux...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/OpenRazer-3.12.4
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Phoronix@phoronix@masto.ai (2026-07-05 04:54:04)
FEX 2607 Optimizing For Yet-To-Be-Released ARM 256-bit SVE2 Hardware
The FEX Emulator that allows running Linux x86/x86_64 software on ARM64 (AArch64) systems, including the likes of Wine / Valve's Steam Play (Proton) for Windows gaming on ARM, is out with its newest monthly feature release. The Valve-backed project for running x86_64 games and other software on ARM for the upcoming Steam Frame and other more typical ARM Linux systems has been baking more optimizations …
https://www.phoronix.com/news/FEX-2607-Emulator
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Phoronix@phoronix@masto.ai (2026-07-05 01:40:05)
Linux DRM Scheduler Patches Yield Massive Improvement For Job Submission Latency
A set of patches to the Linux kernel's Direct Rendering Manager (DRM) scheduler that is shared among different kernel graphics drivers is showing the potential of delivering much lower job submission latency when the system is loaded with many runnable CPU processes...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/DRM-Scheduler-Lower-Job-Submit
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Phoronix@phoronix@masto.ai (2026-07-04 22:54:06)
4K @ 60 FPS USB Video Capture Finally Becomes Less Problematic On Linux
One area of Linux hardware testing I haven't explored much in many years has been modern USB video capture for the lack of said hardware. The last time I did much video capturing on Linux was during the Hauppauge PCI card days. It turns out though that USB video capture of 4K 60 FPS content has been a pain point under Linux but is finally smoothing out with newer versions of the Linux kernel...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/4K-60-FPS-USB-Video-Capture
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Phoronix@phoronix@masto.ai (2026-07-04 22:40:03)
Phoronix Premium Summer Sale To Help Support Linux Hardware Testing
For those that missed Phoronix turning 22 years old last month when running a special to help support the site, a few readers mentioned recently they missed out on seeing the deal in time. Paired with the US Independence Day holiday and summer sales elsewhere, now through 10 July is a Phoronix Premium summer sale if wishing to view the site ad-free while supporting the daily open-source/Linux news cover…
https://www.phoronix.com/news/2026-Summer-Sale
Phoronix@phoronix@masto.ai (2026-07-04 21:24:04)
GNOME Lands ext-background-effect-v1 Support For Background Blur Effect
Added to the Wayland Protocols repository back in May of 2025 was the ext-background-effect-v1 protocol for background blur that had been under discussion since early 2024. The initial focus is on being able to apply a blur effect on a window's background or otherwise a specified screen region. GNOME 51 has now merged support for ext-background-effect-v1 with the latest Mutter code...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/GNOME-Mutter-Background-Blur
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Phoronix@phoronix@masto.ai (2026-07-04 19:39:34)
Linux 7.3 Adding More Graphics PCI IDs For Intel Nova Lake S
In addition to this week's drm-intel-next pull request beginning to lay out the Intel kernel graphics driver changes for Linux 7.3, the first drm-xe-next pull request was sent out on Friday. Intel Nova Lake enablement remains the hot area for the Intel GPU driver code...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-7.3-More-Nova-Lake-S-IDs
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Phoronix@phoronix@masto.ai (2026-07-04 19:24:04)
Linux 7.2-rc2 Raising The Default RISC-V 64-bit CPU Limit To 256 Cores
A post merge-window change that landed in Linux Git overnight ahead of tomorrow's Linux 7.2-rc2 release is bumping the default limit on the number of supported CPU cores for RISC-V 64-bit. Now by default Linux will support up to 256 cores with RISC-V 64-bit kernel builds...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-7.2-RISC-V-256-Cores
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Phoronix@phoronix@masto.ai (2026-07-04 18:54:15)
KWin Compositor In KDE Plasma 6.8 Drops Support For Desktop OpenGL
Along with releasing Plasma 6.7.2 this week, KDE developers continue to be quite busy working on new features and improvements for the Plasma 6.8 release while also furthering along fixes for future Plasma 6.7 point releases...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Plasma-6.8-KWin-No-Desktop-GL
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Phoronix@phoronix@masto.ai (2026-07-04 09:54:07)
GNOME Mutter GPU Reset Recovery Becoming A Reality
While typically quite rare encountering a GPU reset under Linux in most conditions, currently if encountering one under GNOME your session gets wiped out. But thanks to a Google Summer of Code "GSoC" project this year, GNOME's Mutter compositor is finally seeing real GPU reset recovery handling...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/GNOME-GPU-Reset-Recovery-2026
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Phoronix@phoronix@masto.ai (2026-07-04 07:54:07)
GNOME 51 Alpha Released With Numerous Enhancements
In working toward the stable GNOME 51 desktop release due out in September, today marks the alpha release of GNOME 51...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/GNOME-51-Alpha
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Phoronix@phoronix@masto.ai (2026-07-04 04:09:19)
UPower 1.91.3 Fixes Behavior To Avoid Degrading Your Laptop Battery Faster
The UPower abstraction layer used for power management on Linux systems, especially laptops and desktops, is out with an important fix today to avoid inadvertently falling back to the laptop battery "fast" charging mode on some laptops that in turn could degrade your laptop battery faster...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/UPower-1.91.3
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Phoronix@phoronix@masto.ai (2026-07-04 00:54:04)
Vulkan Adds Extension For OCP's Microscaling MX Formats To Help Machine Learning
Vulkan 1.4.356 is out today and it's interesting for the lone new extension debuting: VK_EXT_shader_ocp_microscaling_types. The VK_EXT_shader_ocp_microscaling_types is for enabling the Open Compute Project's Microscaling MX data types to help with machine learning workloads with Vulkan...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Vulkan-1.4.356-Released
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Phoronix@phoronix@masto.ai (2026-07-04 00:24:05)
Coreboot + AMD openSIL On MSI Ryzen Motherboard Now Works With Windows 11
With 3mdeb's Dasharo port of AMD openSIL and Coreboot running on the Gigabyte EPYC motherboard, 3mdeb engineers have been devoting more time to their bring-up of Coreboot+openSIL on the MSI PRO B850-P consumer motherboard for desktop AMD Ryzen. They now even have Microsoft Windows 11 working atop this open-source firmware alternative along with other features implemented...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Coreboot-openSIL-MSI-Windows
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Phoronix@phoronix@masto.ai (2026-07-03 21:39:04)
Rust Coreutils cp Ended Up Breaking Ubuntu Image Builds With Latest Incompatibility
While the Rust Coreutils offers better memory safety than GNU Coreutils due to being written in the Rust programming language, subtle incompatibilities continue to be spotted in the Rust Coreutils implementations of the different commands. The latest coming to light this week was the Rust Coreutils cp command breaking Ubuntu image builds due to differences in argument handling...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Rust-Coreutils-cp-Ubuntu-Images
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