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Phoronix@phoronix@masto.ai (2026-07-28 18:54:12)
KDE Developer Fixing Long-Standing Bug Over Very Long Small-File Copy Times

Since 2014 there has been a KDE bug report titled Ridiculously slow file copy (multiple small files). With the Dolphin file manager or other KIO-based KDE programs, copying many small files can be much slower than using the cp command directly or other copying programs like rsync, Finally that issue is in the process of being resolved for addressing very slow copy times when dealing with many sm…
https://www.phoronix.com/news/KDE-Ridiculous-File-Copy-Times
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Phoronix@phoronix@masto.ai (2026-07-28 18:41:48)
ASUS Laptop Whisper Mode Support Being Worked On For Linux

ASUS laptops support a feature called "Whisper Mode" that intentionally slows down the fan speed and lowers the CPU clock speed in order to keep the device running cool and quiet. The open-source ASUS Armoury Linux kernel driver is now seeing patches to properly support this Whisper Mode on Linux...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/ASUS-Laptop-Whisper-Mode-Linux
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Phoronix@phoronix@masto.ai (2026-07-28 06:39:05)
AMD PMF Testing Tool Slated For Linux 7.3

Looking to be added to the Linux kernel source tree for the upcoming Linux 7.3 cycle is test_amd_pmf, a small testing application for exercising the AMD Platform Management Framework (PMF) interfaces and dumping various system data points...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/AMD-PMF-Testing-Tool-Linux-7.3
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Phoronix@phoronix@masto.ai (2026-07-28 01:54:04)
Mysterious 16-Tile & 32-Tile AMX Implementations Talked Up For More Performance

Last October on Phoronix we were first to point out there being some mysterious intrigue around a new x86 implementation from a "corporate entity other than Intel/AMD" with the developer involved not elaborating on the matter. Now that same developer has posted another semi-cryptic message to the Linux kernel mailing list to talk about 16-tile and 32-tile Advanced Matrix Extensions (AMX) imp…
https://www.phoronix.com/news/16-Tile-32-Tile-AMX-Performance
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Phoronix@phoronix@masto.ai (2026-07-28 01:39:06)
Fwupd 2.1.7 Released With Many Bug Fixes

Fwupd 2.1.7 is out today as the newest update to this open-source firmware updating utility that pairs with the Linux Vendor Firmware Service (LVFS) for offering a nice firmware upgrade story on Linux systems...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Fwupd-2.1.7-Released
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Phoronix@phoronix@masto.ai (2026-07-28 00:24:05)
Framework Laptop 13 Pro: Aiming To Be One Of The Best Upgradeable Linux Laptops

Back in April, Framework Computer announced the Framework Laptop 13 Pro as a ground-up re-design of their modular/upgradeable laptop. This new Framework Laptop 13 Pro features a much larger battery (74Wh), LPCAMM2 memory support, a full CNC aluminum chassis, haptic touchpad, and a new power-optimized touch display. Paired with the very efficient Intel Core Ultra Series 3 "Panther Lake" SoCs,…
https://www.phoronix.com/review/framework-laptop-13-pro
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Phoronix@phoronix@masto.ai (2026-07-27 20:54:13)
Ubuntu To Provide Virtualization HWE Stack For Ubuntu 26.04 LTS

Ubuntu has long provided hardware enablement "HWE" stacks for Ubuntu LTS releases to provide a newer kernel and Mesa drivers and more for better supporting new/modern hardware on the long-term support Ubuntu Linux releases. With Ubuntu 26.04 LTS, Canonical will also now be providing a virtualization HWE stack for shipping newer virtualization / confidential computing features...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Ubuntu-Virtualization-HWE-Stack
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Phoronix@phoronix@masto.ai (2026-07-27 19:54:14)
AMD "Low Power" CPU Core Type Patches Queued Ahead Of Linux 7.3

Last month I wrote bout new AMD Linux patches introducing a new "low power" CPU core type as an alternative to their standard performance cores and dense efficiency cores. That work now is poised to land with the upcoming Linux 7.3 kernel...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/AMD-Low-Power-Core-Linux-7.3
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Phoronix@phoronix@masto.ai (2026-07-27 19:24:07)
Wayfire Wayland Compositor Closing In On v1.0 Release

The Wayfire modular and extensible Wayland compositor formally used by default on Raspberry Pi SBCs is nearing its v1.0 release. Wayfire 0.11 was released on Sunday for this Compiz-inspired, wlroots-powered compositor with that being their hopeful last planned version before Wayfire 1.0 releases...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Wayfire-0.11-Released
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Phoronix@phoronix@masto.ai (2026-07-27 19:24:05)
FreeBSD Developing New NTSYNC Driver For Accelerating Windows NT Sync Primitives

The FreeBSD project published today their Q2-2026 status report that highlights all of their interesting open-source development initiatives for the past quarter. A lot is happening including FreeBSD seeing an AMD ROCm port and also their own NTSYNC driver being created...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/FreeBSD-Q2-2026
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Phoronix@phoronix@masto.ai (2026-07-27 19:09:33)
NVIDIA & Others Form The Open Secure AI Alliance

NVIDIA and more than two dozen other companies have started the Open Secure AI Alliance for helping to keep open-source AI models secure. The other founding members range from Microsoft to Adobe, IBM, Red Hat, SpaceX, OpenClaw, Palantir, and others...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Open-Secure-AI-Alliance
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Phoronix@phoronix@masto.ai (2026-07-27 07:24:05)
Linux 7.2-rc5 Released: "Once More We Have Quite A Massive -rc5"

In working toward releasing the stable Linux 7.2 kernel in less than one month's time, out today is Linux 7.2-rc5 to ship this week's latest bug/regression fixes and help facilitate more testing of this in-development kernel version...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-7.2-rc5-Released
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Phoronix@phoronix@masto.ai (2026-07-27 04:54:12)
GNU Binutils 2.47 Released With More RISC-V Extensions, New Options

Along with this weekend's release of GNU C Library 2.44, the GNU Binutils 2.47 release is also now available for this important set of binary utilities common to Linux systems and other platforms with the GNU toolchain...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/GNU-Binutils-2.47
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Phoronix@phoronix@masto.ai (2026-07-27 00:40:49)
"KVM Chainsaw" Expected To Hit Linux 7.3 For Dealing With God Data Structure

A patch series that appears destined for the upcoming Linux 7.3 merge window is what's dubbed the "KVM Chainsaw" as a major code clean-up in dealing with the kvm_mmu "god data structure"...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/KVM-Chainsaw-Linux-7.3
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Phoronix@phoronix@masto.ai (2026-07-26 22:40:29)
User Frustrations Over The "Tragic State of FreeBSD Audio/Sound" Support

Besides the FreeBSD graphics and WiFi drivers lagging behind Linux and other operating systems, the FreeBSD audio driver support and handling of audio streams with FreeBSD on the desktop can be problematic depending upon the hardware/system. One of the most active mailing list threads this week in the FreeBSD camp was over the "tragic state" of FreeBSD audio/sound support...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Tragic-FreeBSD-Audio-Support
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Phoronix@phoronix@masto.ai (2026-07-26 20:09:06)
Auto-CPUFreq 3.1 Adds Monitoring Mode To GUI, New Configuration Options & Fixes

Auto-CPUFreq is one of the open-source projects striving to be a CPU speed and power optimizer for Linux systems to improve battery life without making any real compromises to the user experience. Out today is v3.1 as the newest feature release of Auto-CPUFreq...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Auto-CPUFreq-3.1
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Phoronix@phoronix@masto.ai (2026-07-26 20:09:05)
Realtek RTL8723B/RTL8723BS Trying To Be Tacked On To The RTW88 Linux Driver

Since 2017 in Linux 4.12 has been the Realtek rtl8723bs WiFi driver where it was introduced into the staging area and remains there nearly a decade later. The rtl8723bs driver for this Realtek 802.11n WiFi SDIO driver has seen a lot of code cleaning over the years and all these years later still is needing lots of code clean-ups from unnecessary code abstractions to dealing with malicious WiFi A…
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Realtek-RTL8723B-RTW88-Patches
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Phoronix@phoronix@masto.ai (2026-07-26 19:54:08)
Linux 7.2-rc5 Fixing Longstanding Bug In IPv4 Networking Over Firewire

Firewire still isn't dead yet on Linux. Current plans call for maintaining IEEE-1394 Firewire on Linux at least through 2029 and with today's Linux 7.2-rc5 kernel release is a fix for those wanting to leverage IPv4 networking over Firewire...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-7.2-Fix-IPv4-Firewire
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Phoronix@phoronix@masto.ai (2026-07-26 09:42:12)
Ubuntu Touch 24.04-2.0 Released With Support For Notches & Rounded Corners

Following last month's beta release, Ubuntu Touch 24.04-2.0 is now available as the latest feature release for this Ubuntu 24.04 LTS derived mobile operating system for select smartphones and tablets...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Ubuntu-Touch-24.04-2.0-Release
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Phoronix@phoronix@masto.ai (2026-07-26 01:54:08)
Fedora Working To Establish Conflict of Interest Policy

Posted this week is a draft copy of the Fedora Conflict of Interest policy being worked on for dealing with identifying, disclosing, and managing any actual, actual, or perceived conflicts of interest within the Fedora Project...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Fedora-Conflict-Interest-Draft
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Phoronix@phoronix@masto.ai (2026-07-25 20:09:05)
Kiwi Menu Continues Bringing macOS Vibes To GNOME

Kiwi Menu as the macOS-inspired quick menu option for the GNOME Shell desktop is continuing to enhance its macOS-esque experience on GNOME...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Kiwi-Menu-macOS-Vibes
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Phoronix@phoronix@masto.ai (2026-07-25 19:54:18)
GNU C Library 2.44 Released With /etc/tunables.conf, More Optimizations

GNU developers today released GNU C Library "glibc" 2.44 as the newest feature release for this critical library to modern Linux systems and other platforms...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/GNU-C-Library-glibc-2.44
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Phoronix@phoronix@masto.ai (2026-07-25 19:54:17)
KDE Plasma 6.8 Introducing New kscreenctl Tool

KDE developers have been working on kscreenctl as a utility replacement to kscreen-doctor. Plasma and related code has also seen a number of bug/crash fixes coming about this week too...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/KDE-Plasma-6.8-kscreenctl
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Phoronix@phoronix@masto.ai (2026-07-25 09:24:05)
Wine 11.14 Brings WoW64 Mode To FreeBSD, Icon Support In Start Menu

Wine 11.14 was tagged today as the newest bi-weekly development release of this open-source software for running Windows games and applications on Linux, macOS, and other platforms...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Wine-11.14-Released
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Phoronix@phoronix@masto.ai (2026-07-25 06:24:05)
Debian Considering General Resolution Over LLM Usage In The Project

Debian developers are discussing a general resolution whether to permit AI large language model (LLM) usage within the Debian software project...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Debian-GR-LLM-Usage
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Phoronix@phoronix@masto.ai (2026-07-25 06:09:17)
AMD ROCm Committed To Six Week Release Cycle Moving Forward

One of many interesting takeaways from this week's AMD Advancing AI event in San Francisco was word that ROCm will be on a rigid six week release cycle moving forward...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/AMD-ROCm-Six-Weeks
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Phoronix@phoronix@masto.ai (2026-07-25 03:54:05)
Qualcomm QCE Driver On The Chopping Block With ~48x Slower Than Armv8 Crypto Extensions

A few days back I wrote about upstream Linux kernel developers marking the Qualcomm crypto accelerator driver as "broken" and "harmful" due to its slow performance, history of bugs, and other limitations. Now this Qualcomm Crypto Engine "QCE" driver might be removed outright from the Linux kernel source tree after discovering it's even worse than anticipated...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Qualcomm-QCE-48x-Slower
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Phoronix@phoronix@masto.ai (2026-07-25 02:09:10)
Imagination PowerVR Driver Marking BXM-4-64 MC1 GPU As Supported In Linux 7.3

Sent out today was the weekly round of drm-misc-next patches of new Direct Rendering Manager feature material ready to be queued in DRM-Next ahead of the Linux 7.3 merge window...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Imagination-BXM-4-64-Linux-7.3
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Phoronix@phoronix@masto.ai (2026-07-24 23:24:05)
Ubuntu Linux Looking To Get Rid Of /etc/debian_version Historical Artifact

Ubuntu Linux has shipped /etc/debian_version that is carried over from upstream Debian and in turn just indicating the Debian Sid development version from which the packages are arrived. Besides it being inaccurate, /etc/os-release has been the long preferred standard for reading the OS release information. Thus finally Ubuntu developers are looking at dropping the /etc/debian_version file...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Ubuntu-Drop-Debian-Version
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Phoronix@phoronix@masto.ai (2026-07-24 23:09:05)
Fedora 45 Looks To Begin Phasing Out In-Kernel Crypto Userspace API

Going along with the upstream Linux 7.2 kernel deprecation of AF_ALG and Linux 7.3 to further restrict this interface for letting user-space programs interact directly with the Linux kernel crypto API, Fedora 45 is looking to follow and help support this transition...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Fedora-45-Disable-Kernel-Crypt
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