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Phoronix@phoronix@masto.ai (2026-07-13 05:40:25)
Linux 7.2 Enabling UltraRISC RISC-V Support In The Default Kernel Build
Similar to Linux 7.2 enabling Eswin SoC support by default in the RISC-V "defconfig" kernel build, UltraRISC RISC-V coverage is also now being enabled by default for RISC-V kernel builds in Linux 7.2...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-7.2-UltraRISC-RISC-V
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Phoronix@phoronix@masto.ai (2026-07-12 20:09:06)
HFI BIOS Aims To Provide A POST-Like Power On Screen & BIOS Setup Utility For RISC-V
The Harmonic Firmware Initiative "HFI" is trying to provide a generic, standardized power-on firmware experience for RISC-V boards. Akin to the x86 world with having immediate graphics card initialization to provide a display while the system is booting and also having a BIOS setup utility for system configuration, HFI is trying to do the same for the RISC-V world...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Harmonic-Firmware-Initiative
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Phoronix@phoronix@masto.ai (2026-07-12 19:39:28)
Linux 7.2-rc3 Bringing Fixes For The SEGA Dreamcast Drivers In 2026
It wasn't on my bingo card for the week but merged to Git ahead of today's Linux 7.2-rc3 kernel release are a number of fixes for the SEGA Dreamcast drivers...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-7.2-rc3-SEGA-Dreamcast
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Phoronix@phoronix@masto.ai (2026-07-12 19:24:06)
Realtek RTL8723BS WiFi Linux Driver Hardened Against Malicious WiFi Access Points
The staging driver fixes that were sent out this week ahead of the Linux 7.2-rc3 release is predominantly made up of hardening the Realtek RTL8723BS WiFi driver. In particular, a number of fixes for addressing out-of-bounds behavior when connecting to "bad" WiFi hosts...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Realtek-RTL8723BS-WiFi-Bad-APs
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Phoronix@phoronix@masto.ai (2026-07-11 23:39:18)
Debian 13.6 Released To Ship All The Latest Security Fixes, Reverts GeoIP Database
Debian 13.6 is out today as the newest point release of Debian Trixie to ship the latest security fixes and other maintenance updates...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Debian-13.6-Released
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Phoronix@phoronix@masto.ai (2026-07-11 22:24:05)
Linux 7.3-rc3 Bringing Display Detection Improvement To Help Some Multi-GPU Systems
Sent out today was this week's round of x86 (x86_64) fixes ahead of the Linux 7.3-rc3 kernel test candidate due out on Sunday...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-7.3-rc3-Multi-GPU-Fix
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Phoronix@phoronix@masto.ai (2026-07-11 19:24:04)
LLVM Merges x86 LFI "Lightweight Fault Isolation" Target For In-Process Sandboxing
Stanford researchers have been developing Lightweight Fault Isolation "LFI" compiler passes and targets for LLVM as a means of efficient, native code sandboxing. The AArch64 LFI target was previously upstreamed while this week the x86/x86_64 LFI target was also upstreamed for this means of in-process sandboxing...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/LLVM-x86-LFI-Merged
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Phoronix@phoronix@masto.ai (2026-07-11 19:09:13)
KDE Developers Continue Landing More Features For Plasma 6.8
KDE developers continue to be very busy this summer landing more features for the upcoming Plasma 6.8 desktop...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Plasma-6.8-Spectacle-Audio
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Phoronix@phoronix@masto.ai (2026-07-11 17:09:06)
Mesa's Rusticl Now Enables Arm Mali Panfrost Driver Support By Default
A change upstreamed to Mesa by an Arm engineer now enables the Panfrost Gallium3D driver for Arm Mali graphics to work with the Rusticl driver by default...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Mesa-Rusticl-Panfrost-Default
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Phoronix@phoronix@masto.ai (2026-07-11 09:54:07)
Wine 11.13 Better Supports Input Pointers, Improved Keyboard Scancode Mapping For X11
Wine 11.13 is out today as the newest bi-weekly development release for this open-source software enabling support for running Windows games and applications on Linux...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Wine-11.13-Released
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Phoronix@phoronix@masto.ai (2026-07-11 09:39:25)
Pop!_OS Rolls Out Its "Frosted Glass" Desktop Style For COSMIC
System76 developers have for the past number of weeks been working on developing a "frosted glass" appearance for the COSMIC desktop environment featured on their Pop!_OS Linux distribution. For Pop!_OS users this frosted glass feature is now available and will become more widespread for other Linux distributions once the next COSMIC release is formally tagged...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/COSMIC-Frosted-Glass-Arrives
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Phoronix@phoronix@masto.ai (2026-07-11 00:54:02)
KDE Plasma 6.7 X11 vs. Wayland Session Gaming Performance For NVIDIA On CachyOS
With KDE Plasma 6.7 now having seen a few point releases to further polish this last version with X11 support ahead of Plasma 6.8 going Wayland-only, here are some NVIDIA Linux gaming benchmarks between the X11 and Wayland sessions on Plasma 6.7.2 using the popular Arch Linux based CachyOS.
https://www.phoronix.com/review/plasma-67-wayland-cachyos
Phoronix@phoronix@masto.ai (2026-07-10 22:40:21)
Linux 7.3 Enabling Second Graphics Pipe For Modern AMD APUs
AMD on Thursday sent out another round of AMDGPU kernel graphics driver and AMDKFD kernel compute driver updates to DRM-Next of new feature material ahead of the Linux 7.3 merge window...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-7.3-Second-Pipe-GFX11-APU
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Phoronix@phoronix@masto.ai (2026-07-10 19:40:05)
Linux DT Patches Provide Very Basic Support For Apple M3 Pro / Max / Ultra
Upstreamed for the Linux 7.2 kernel was initial support for booting Linux on the Apple M3 SoC devices. But just the barebones suppport for booting with not yet any accelerated graphics or other typical function needed for daily use of M3 Apple devices on Linux, just booting to a console. Now this work is complemented by additional Device Tree patches for also booting M3 Pro / Max / Ultra devices …
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-DT-Apple-M3-Pro-Max-Ultra
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Phoronix@phoronix@masto.ai (2026-07-10 19:24:07)
HiZ Plane Optimization Merged For Intel Vulkan Linux Driver For Some Performance Benefit
After two years being on the TODO list for a possible performance optimization, the Intel open-source "ANV" Vulkan driver has now merged an HiZ plane optimization that can yield up to a few percent frame-rate improvement for Linux gaming/graphics on newer Intel integrated and discrete graphics hardware...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Intel-HiZ-Plane-Optimization
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Phoronix@phoronix@masto.ai (2026-07-10 18:54:09)
LLVM Clang Merges Initial Support For NVIDIA Rigel Core With Next-Gen Rosa CPU
Earlier this week NVIDIA confirmed some basic details around their next-gen Rosa CPU that succeeds Vera. Among the public confirmation was that it will feature a "Rigel" Armv9.2-A core iterating on their Olympus core design. With the basic details published, NVIDIA immediately introduced Rigel core support into the GCC compiler. Now they have also upstreamed their initial Rigel core enableme…
https://www.phoronix.com/news/LLVM-Clang-NVIDIA-Rosa-Rigel
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Phoronix@phoronix@masto.ai (2026-07-10 18:54:08)
Intel-Scaler-vLLM 0.21.0-b1 Delivers Latest Features For vLLM On Intel GPUs
Released this morning was Intel's newest version of Intel-Scaler-vLLM as their Docker-based solution providing an optimized vLLM stack for execution on Intel Arc (Pro) graphics hardware...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Intel-Scaler-vLLM-0.21-b1
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Phoronix@phoronix@masto.ai (2026-07-10 13:09:03)
Phoronix Premium 2026 Summer Support Special Ends Tonight
For those that enjoy the daily flow of original open-source/Linux news on Phoronix along with all of the original Linux hardware reviews and performance benchmarking, but haven't yet subscribed to Phoronix Premium to help keep the site going after 22 years, the summer sale ends tonight...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Premium-Summer-26-Ending
Phoronix@phoronix@masto.ai (2026-07-10 10:09:05)
AMD Enabling CACP Feature On Linux For Greater OLED Power Savings
Today's batch of AMDGPU Display Code "DC" updates bring a few noteworthy items for benefiting modern hardware under Linux...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/AMDGPU-DC-Enabling-CACP
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Phoronix@phoronix@masto.ai (2026-07-10 03:09:01)
Graviton5 CPU Benchmarks: 30% Geo Mean Improvement Over Graviton4
After originally announcing Graviton5 last December, recently AWS finally made the M9g and M9gd instances generally available as the first featuring these new in-house ARM server processors for the EC2 cloud. Graviton5 makes use of Arm Neoverse-V3 cores compared to Neoverse-V2 with Graviton4, support up to 192 cores, and feature a higher 3.3GHz clock speed compared to 2.8GHz on the prior-generation Gravit…
https://www.phoronix.com/review/aws-graviton5
Phoronix@phoronix@masto.ai (2026-07-10 00:54:05)
Wayland 1.26 RC1 Released With New Event To Help Ensure Correct Pointer Coordinates
In addition to Weston 16 nearing release and its release candidate out today, the Wayland 1.26 release candidate was just issued with a few notable changes on top of the more typical bug fixing...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Wayland-1.26-RC1
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Phoronix@phoronix@masto.ai (2026-07-09 22:39:26)
Proposed Linux Patch For A Brief Delay To Match PCI Spec Will Hopefully Address Some Bugs
Going back to February there was a bug report around the xHCI controller dieing on resume from s2idle when using an AMD Ryzen AI Max+ "Strix Halo" Framework Desktop. In turn all USB devices behind the xHCI controller are lost on resume, but unbinding and binding the driver can restore the functionality without a reboot. After months of back and forth communication, it looks like a …
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-Delay-D3cold-Patch-Fix
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Phoronix@phoronix@masto.ai (2026-07-09 22:09:06)
Linux Prepares For New USB-C Security Feature On Lenovo ThinkPads
Newer Lenovo ThinkPad systems feature a security feature called USB-C Security Restricted Mode that is in the process of being wired up for reporting under Linux...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/ThinkPad-USB-C-Restricted-Mode
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Phoronix@phoronix@masto.ai (2026-07-09 19:40:40)
Initial Patches Posted For Booting The Apple M4 On Linux
With the Linux 7.2 kernel there is initial support for booting the Apple M3 SoC on Linux but it's not yet functional for end users with just booting to a simple console. There are now Device Tree files posted for booting the Apple M4 on Linux but also not yet useful for any typical Apple Mac/MacBook usage on Linux...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Apple-M4-DT-Linux
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Phoronix@phoronix@masto.ai (2026-07-09 19:24:13)
AMD Ryzen AI Halo Box RGB LED Driver Inches Closer To The Mainline Kernel
The AMD Ryzen AI Halo mini PC powered by Ryzen AI Max+ "Strix Halo" began shipping this week. It features very nice Linux support out-of-the-box with the Debian-based Ryzen AI Developer Platform operating system. For those wishing to run their own x86_64 Linux distribution, one of the only caveats in the Linux support is quite small... No mainline kernel support yet for controlled the RGB LED ligh…
https://www.phoronix.com/news/AMD-Ryzen-AI-Halo-RGB-LED-v8
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Phoronix@phoronix@masto.ai (2026-07-09 19:24:11)
Zlib-rs 0.6.6 Released With Updated Zlib API Support
Zlib-rs 0.6.6 was just released by the Trifecta Tech Foundation. Just weeks after the prior release with a fix for Intel Raptor Lake and bringing new SIMD optimizations, zlib-rs 0.6.6 is about delivering updated Zlib API compatibility...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Zlib-rs-0.6.6
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Phoronix@phoronix@masto.ai (2026-07-09 03:54:05)
Redox OS Gets GTK3 Backend For Orbital Desktop, Fractional Scaling & USB Gamepads
The open-source, Rust-based Redox OS platform had a very eventful June with many new features implemented and more software ported over to run on this from-scratch operating system...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Redox-OS-June-2026
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Phoronix@phoronix@masto.ai (2026-07-09 01:39:13)
LibreOffice 26.8 Beta Released For Improving This Free Software Office Suite
The Document Foundation today announced the first beta release of the LibreOffice 26.8 open-source office suite set for its stable debut in August...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/LibreOffice-26.8-Beta-1
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Phoronix@phoronix@masto.ai (2026-07-09 01:24:05)
OpenMandriva GitHub Disrupted & Nefarious Package Push In Sabotage Attempt
The OpenMandriva project put out a statement today concerning an attempted distribution sabotage effort. Part of the OpenMandriva GitHub repository was deleted and there was an empty package push made to OpenMandriva's Cooker repository in trying to obsolete all GNOME and COSMIC packages...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/OpenMandriva-Disrupted
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Phoronix@phoronix@masto.ai (2026-07-09 00:09:02)
Single vs. Dual Channel Memory Performance With The Intel Core Ultra 7 270K Plus
Given today's pricing environment around system memory, a Phoronix Premium supporter recently requested some benchmarks to quantify the performance difference from single to dual channel memory. In considering a new computer build, he is contemplating whether to go for a single stick of DDR5 memory until memory prices hopefully subside in the future. For those in a similar boat, here are so…
https://www.phoronix.com/review/single-dual-memory-linux
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