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Phoronix@phoronix@masto.ai (2026-07-16 06:24:06)
Mesa 26.2-rc1 Released In Ending Feature Work For This Quarter's 3D Graphics Stack
Mesa 26.2 was branched today from Mesa Git and in turn Mesa 26.3-devel is now open on mainline...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Mesa-26.2-rc1-Released
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Phoronix@phoronix@masto.ai (2026-07-16 05:09:07)
AMD Releases Lemonade 11.0 Local AI Server With Text-To-Speech, Other New Features
Ahead of the AMD Advancing AI event next week, today AMD released Lemonade 11.0 as the latest feature release of their local AI server supporting AMD Ryzen CPUs, AMD Radeon GPUs, and AMD Ryzen AI NPU acceleration...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/AMD-Lemonade-11.0
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Phoronix@phoronix@masto.ai (2026-07-16 01:24:06)
Ubuntu 26.04 LTS vs. Windows 11 vs. CachyOS Performance On A $5399 Laptop
Earlier this month on Phoronix I reviewed the Razer Blade 18 RZ09-0582 as the first laptop Razer is certifying for Linux use via Canonical's hardware certification program for Linux. It offered very nice performance with the Intel Core Ultra 9 290HX Plus and NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5090 graphics albeit costly with a configured price of $5399 USD. That review featured benchmarks on Ubuntu 26.04 LTS but …
https://www.phoronix.com/review/razer-blade18-windows-linux
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Phoronix@phoronix@masto.ai (2026-07-15 22:09:05)
Linux Patches Finally Allow Apple Magic Keyboard/Mouse Battery Monitoring Via Bluetooth
Besides the ongoing challenges of enabling newer Apple Silicon SoC support on Linux, Apple peripheral support on Linux remains a mixed bag depending on the product as well. The latest functionality now being addressed is for having battery reporting work for the Apple Magic Mouse and Magic Keyboard when connected via Bluetooth...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Apple-Magic-Bluetooth-Battery
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Phoronix@phoronix@masto.ai (2026-07-15 19:54:05)
Linus Torvalds Reaffirms That Linux Is Not "Anti-AI" & Not A "Social Warrior" Project
Overnight Linux creator Linus Torvalds wrote another well crafted message that reaffirms the Linux kernel position of not being against AI and lashing back against some kernel developers that are against AI/LLM usage within the kernel project...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-Is-Not-Anti-AI
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Phoronix@phoronix@masto.ai (2026-07-15 19:24:07)
Vocalinux 0.14 Beta Released For Offline Voice Dictation / Speech-To-Text On Linux
Ubuntu 26.10 is notably working on laying the foundation for a context-aware desktop and their initial deliverable being worked on is Myna as a speech-to-text solution for the Linux desktop. Interestingly there is already a promising voice dictation / speech-to-text solution for the Linux desktop called Vocalinux that continues advancing and is usable right now for those looking at their …
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Vocalinux-0.14-Beta
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Phoronix@phoronix@masto.ai (2026-07-15 19:24:06)
FreeBSD Laptop Support Continues Improving With WiFi, GPU & Audio Driver Work
The FreeBSD Foundation's Laptop Support and Usability Project, which has received more than $750k USD in funding to improve the experience of FreeBSD on laptops, is out with its newest monthly progress report. A lot continues to happen for improving the FreeBSD laptop story, which in many aspects also benefits FreeBSD on the desktop too...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/FreeBSD-Laptops-June-2026
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Phoronix@phoronix@masto.ai (2026-07-15 18:54:06)
Mesa's Native Vulkan-To-Metal Driver Now Advertises Vulkan 1.4
KosmicKrisp as the Vulkan API driver built atop Apple's Metal API in Mesa for macOS and iOS systems is now advertising Vulkan 1.4 compatibility...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/KosmicKrisp-Vulkan-1.4
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Phoronix@phoronix@masto.ai (2026-07-15 10:09:05)
Khronos Lists First Conformant OpenCL 3.1 Implementation: Apple M1/M2 On Asashi Linux With Rusticl
Back in May OpenCL 3.1 was announced with a focus on AI and HPC workloads. Just over two months later, this incremental update over OpenCL 3.0 mow has its first listed conformant OpenCL 3.1 implementation for passing the OpenCL 3.1 conformance test suite cases. It's Apple Silicon M1/M2 graphics running on Asahi Linux with the Mesa Rusticl driver...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/OpenCL-3.1-Conformance-Apple
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Phoronix@phoronix@masto.ai (2026-07-15 07:54:05)
COSMIC Epoch 1.3 Released With New Frosted Glass Option
For those that were intrigued by the COSMIC desktop's "Frosted Glass" effect, it's now available in released form with today's COSMIC Epoch 1.3 release...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/COSMIC-Epoch-1.3
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Phoronix@phoronix@masto.ai (2026-07-15 04:54:04)
FreeBSD 16 Retires The Last Of Its GPL Code From Its Base System
As of this past week in the FreeBSD source tree for FreeBSD 16, the last of the GNU GPL licensed code from the base system has been retired...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/FreeBSD-16-Goes-GPL-Free
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Phoronix@phoronix@masto.ai (2026-07-15 04:09:06)
BOSGAME VTA-439: A Great, Linux-Friendly Mini PC Powered By AMD Ryzen AI 9 HX 470
For those that were intrigued by the recent launch of the AMD Ryzen AI Halo developer platform with a very capable mini PC but looking for something more affordable and not needing quite as much horsepower or AI focus, BOSGAME recently launched their VTA-439 mini PC. The BOSGAME VTA-439 is powered by the AMD Ryzen AI 9 HX 470 with Radeon 890M graphics for those wanting still quite a capabl…
https://www.phoronix.com/review/bosgame-vta-439
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Phoronix@phoronix@masto.ai (2026-07-15 01:24:05)
Blender 5.2 LTS Released With Many Great Enhancements
Blender 5.2 is out today as the newest Long Term Support release for this leading, open-source 3D modeling software...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Blender-5.2-Released
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Phoronix@phoronix@masto.ai (2026-07-15 00:39:05)
System76 Launches New Adder Pro Laptop With NVIDIA GPU, 2K OLED & Up To 96GB RAM
System76 today announced their new Adder Pro laptop that they are promoting as the "gamer's dream machine" with its NVIDIA graphics, 2K OLED 500 nit display, up to 96GB RAM, and 3.37 lb weight...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/System76-Adder-Pro-2026
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Phoronix@phoronix@masto.ai (2026-07-14 22:39:03)
Linux Foundation's Latest Foray Is To Standardize Internet-Native Payments For AI Agents
There is yet-another-foundation being stewarded by the Linux Foundation that further broadens its scope outside of the typical Linux/open-source umbrella. Today the Linux Foundation announced the launch of the x402 Foundation for aiming to standardize Internet-native payments for AI agents and applications...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-Foundation-x402
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Phoronix@phoronix@masto.ai (2026-07-14 22:24:05)
Linux Kernel Graphics Driver Proposed For GlandaGPU: An Open-Source Soft GPU Core
A new Direct Rendering Manager (DRM) kernel graphics driver has been sent out for GlandaGPU, an open-source custom 3D graphics core designed in VHDL and running on FPGA hardware...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/GlandaGPU-Linux-Driver-RFC
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Phoronix@phoronix@masto.ai (2026-07-14 22:09:06)
Intel IGC 2.38.2 Brings Latest Round Of Graphics Compiler Improvements
Ahead of the next Intel Compute Runtime release, IGC 2.38.2 was released today as the newest feature update to this open-source graphics compiler used by Intel iGPU/dGPU hardware on both Windows and Linux...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Intel-IGC-2.38.2
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Phoronix@phoronix@masto.ai (2026-07-14 21:09:05)
Intel Vulkan Driver Now Supports H.265 10-bit Video Encoding
Hyunjun Ko with Igalia continues advancing the Vulkan Video capabilities of the Intel open-source "ANV" Vulkan driver for Linux systems...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Intel-Vulkan-Video-10-bit-H265
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Phoronix@phoronix@masto.ai (2026-07-14 19:54:06)
Linux Dealing With Apple's Wild Mess Of Sensors On Apple Silicon SoCs
While there has been the Apple System Management Controller "SMC" hardware monitoring driver with the intent on exposing battery/power stats as well as thermal and more for Apple Silicon SoCs on Linux, it hasn't yet been working out properly on the mainline kernel. Between missing Device Tree nodes to the hodgepodge mess of sensors between the different Apple M-Series SoCs, it's a mess...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Apple-Wild-Mess-Sensors-Linux
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Phoronix@phoronix@masto.ai (2026-07-14 19:24:05)
Haiku Merges NVMM For Initial Virtualization Support, But It Doesn't Yet Fully Work
The BeOS-inspired Haiku open-source operating system project has published their June 2026 status report. In the past month the developers merged their NVMM VM monitor support, hardware driver improvements, and progressed toward the upcoming Haiku sixth beta release...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Haiku-June-2026
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Phoronix@phoronix@masto.ai (2026-07-14 19:09:06)
"Light" GRUB Alternative Package For Confidential Computing Approved For Fedora 45
A month ago there was a change proposal raised for offering a "light" version of the GRUB2 bootloader for use in confidential computing environments. While there were some differing views on the matter for this alternative, stripped-down GRUB package as opposed to just using other bootloaders like systemd-boot, ultimately, the proposal is now approved...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/GRUB-Light-Approved-Fedora-45
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Phoronix@phoronix@masto.ai (2026-07-14 18:54:05)
Weston 16.0 Compositor Released With HDR Improvements, Vulkan Fixes
Overnight the Weston 16.0 release occurred as the latest milestone for this reference Wayland compositor...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Wayland-Weston-16.0
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Phoronix@phoronix@masto.ai (2026-07-14 09:54:07)
New Linux Patches Aim To Better Handle Multiple Swap Devices
For those having Linux systems with multiple swap devices, such as for swap tiering or layered swap handling, a set of patches posted today for the Linux kernel are looking to improve the situation...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-Improve-Multi-Swap-Device
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Phoronix@phoronix@masto.ai (2026-07-14 02:09:02)
Graviton5 Outperforming Intel Xeon Granite Rapids But Falls Short Of AMD EPYC Turin
Following the recent GA of the AWS M9g series as the first instances powered by the new Graviton5 CPUs, I recently ran benchmarks looking at Graviton4 vs. Graviton5 CPU performance. There was very nice generational gains for the new AWS Graviton processors with the shift from Arm Neoverse-V2 to Neoverse-V3 cores and from DDR5-5600 to DDR5-8800 memory, among other improvements. For those …
https://www.phoronix.com/review/graviton5-epyc-xeon
Phoronix@phoronix@masto.ai (2026-07-13 22:39:28)
FreeBSD Desktop Installer Option Working Through NVIDIA Driver Handling, Licensing
Alfonso Siciliano, who has been one of the FreeBSD developers leading the effort on adding a KDE-based desktop option to the FreeBSD installer, provided an update on recent work around adding integrating this desktop option...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/FreeBSD-Desktop-Install-NVIDIA
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Phoronix@phoronix@masto.ai (2026-07-13 19:54:05)
GNOME OS Creating "Test Center" As Its Take On Apple TestFlight For Experiment Software
GNOME developers working on GNOME OS have received funding from Germany's Prototype Fund to work on creating the GNOME OS "Developer Tool Suite" or also tentatively called their "Test Center" to help in testing experimental applications/libraries in a modern Linux computing world with systemd-sysext, Buildstream, and other newer tech...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/GNOME-OS-Test-Center
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Phoronix@phoronix@masto.ai (2026-07-13 19:40:04)
Reworked System Call Entry Handling Slated For Linux 7.3
Stemming from looking at a proposed Linux kernel patch to alter the Linux kernel's system call number handling, veteran Linux kernel developer Thomas Gleixner went down a rabbit hole of the kernel's system call entry handling to make a number of clean-ups and improvements to the code. That rework to the system call entry handling is now expected to land for the Linux 7.3 kernel cycle...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Rework-Sysclal-Entry-Linux-7.3
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Phoronix@phoronix@masto.ai (2026-07-13 19:09:09)
Raspberry Pi 5 IOMMU Driver Being Worked On For The Mainline Linux Kernel
While the Raspberry Pi 5 is already over two and a half years old, one of the missing elements of its support from the mainline Linux kernel has been the IOMMU driver. We are now seeing Raspberry Pi's downstream IOMMU driver being adapted for mainline with hopes of getting it into the upstream kernel...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Raspberry-Pi-5-IOMMU-Driver
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Phoronix@phoronix@masto.ai (2026-07-13 19:09:07)
Cloud Hypervisor 53 Released With Offloaded Snapshot/Restore Daemon
Cloud Hypervisor 53.0 is now available for this open-source, Rust-based VMM focused on cloud workloads and modern security needs. Originally started at Intel, Cloud Hypervisor continues seeing new development these days by Microsoft, Meta, Arm, and other organizations...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Cloud-Hypervisor-53
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Phoronix@phoronix@masto.ai (2026-07-13 07:24:07)
Linux 7.2-rc3 Released: Close To The "New Normal"
Linux 7.2-rc3 is now available for testing in working toward the stable Linux 7.2 kernel version coming up in August...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-7.2-rc3-Released
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