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Phoronix@phoronix@masto.ai (2026-08-04 03:54:04)
Linux 7.3 Looks Like It Will Upstream FailFS
Merged back in Linux 7.3 was NULLFS as a "completely catatonic minimal pseudo filesystem". Now expected for Linux 7.3 is its sibling: FailFS...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-7.3-Expects-FailFS
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Phoronix@phoronix@masto.ai (2026-08-03 23:54:07)
Benchmarking Six Linux Distributions On The Framework Laptop 13 Pro
With the new Framework Laptop 13 Pro now shipping powered by Intel Core Ultra Series 3 (Panther Lake) and a brand new hardware design, I have spent the past week testing out various Linux distributions on this very nice high-end laptop. All of the modern Linux distributions tested have been playing nicely with this new Panther Lake laptop. Of course, beyond testing for compatibility I also took the oppo…
https://www.phoronix.com/review/framework-laptop-13-pro-linux
Phoronix@phoronix@masto.ai (2026-08-03 22:39:35)
zlib-rs 0.6.7 Released With LoongArch LSX Optimizations, Use-After-Free Fix
zlib-rs 0.6.7 is out today as the newest version of this "safer zlib" implementation making use of the Rust programming language and aiming to deliver performance on-par with zlib-ng...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/zlib-rs-0.6.7
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Phoronix@phoronix@masto.ai (2026-08-03 22:24:06)
GNOME Boxes Preparing To Deliver Much Improved Virtualization Experience
GNOME Boxes as a front-end to libvirt and QEMU is preparing to deliver a much improved virtualization experience for those wanting to enjoy desktop VMs from the GNOME desktop...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/GNOME-Boxes-2026
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Phoronix@phoronix@masto.ai (2026-08-03 22:24:04)
NVIDIA 610.57.04 Linux Driver Delivers Many Fixes
NVIDIA is kicking off the new month by releasing an updated R610 Linux driver build with quite a number of bug fixes...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/NVIDIA-610.57.04-Linux-Driver
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Phoronix@phoronix@masto.ai (2026-08-03 21:39:05)
Linux 7.3 Expected To Drop The FreeVxFS File-System Driver
It looks like Linux 7.3 will end up dropping FreeVxFS as the read-only Linux kernel driver for the Veritas VxFS file-ssytem used formerly by HP-UX and SCO UnixWare...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-Retiring-FreeVxFS
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Phoronix@phoronix@masto.ai (2026-08-03 20:09:05)
KGamma2 Makes For Easy Gamma Adjustments On KDE Plasma With Wayland
KDE developer David Edmundson announced today his KGamma2 tool in aiming to address a pain point for KDE Plasma desktop users on Wayland...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/KDE-KGamma2-Gamma-Wayland
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Phoronix@phoronix@masto.ai (2026-08-03 19:39:52)
GNOME Mutter 51 Beta Released With Wayland Background Blur, Improved Frame Scheduling
Released overnight on Sunday were the beta versions of Mutter 51 and GNOME Shell 51. This follows GNOME 51 embarking on itsAPI/ABI freeze, feature freeze, and UI freeze a day earlier...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/GNOME-Shell-Mutter-51-Beta
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Phoronix@phoronix@masto.ai (2026-08-03 19:09:12)
KDE Linux Making For Easier First-Run Experience Of Java & DOS Apps
With July all wrapped up, the monthly status report is now published for KDE Linux as the in-house Linux distribution featuring all of the latest KDE wares and other open-source innovations...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/KDE-Linux-July-2026
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Phoronix@phoronix@masto.ai (2026-08-03 18:54:13)
Linux 7.3 Adding Support For MCTP-Over-USB v1.1
Within the Linux networking subsystem's "net-next" Git branch there is now queued up support for MCTP-over-USB v1.1. This is the newest version of the standard for sending Management Component Transport Protocol (MCTP) packets over USB for tasks loike crash dumps, logging, and firmware updates...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-7.3-MCTP-Over-USB-1.1
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Phoronix@phoronix@masto.ai (2026-08-03 09:39:25)
AerynOS Issues First Development Update & New ISOs In Three Months
It's been just over three months since the last AerynOS development update and new ISO spin but fortunately that's been succeeded today by a new development update and ISO images. AerynOS development remains strong and ongoing with many changes to be found in this latest from-scratch Linux distribution release...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/AerynOS-Big-Update-2026
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Phoronix@phoronix@masto.ai (2026-08-03 08:54:07)
Linux 7.2-rc6 Released: "This RC Is Huge"
Like clockwork, the Linux 7.2-rc6 kernel is now available for testing in working toward the stable Linux 7.2 kernel in hopefully two week's time...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-7.2-rc6-Released
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Phoronix@phoronix@masto.ai (2026-08-02 23:54:07)
Linux 7.3 To Begin Laying The Groundwork For Intel Starfire
Intel recently announced Starfire as their new Panther Lake derived, space-grade SoC designed for extreme environments... like survivability in space. With the Linux 7.3, we are going to begin seeing the first Intel Starfire specific patches land in the kernel...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Intel-Starfire-Starts-Linux-7.3
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Phoronix@phoronix@masto.ai (2026-08-02 19:54:10)
Linux 7.3 To Support The Qualcomm Adreno 704 & Adreno 722 GPUs
Sent out on Saturday were the Qualcomm MSM DRM kernel graphics/display driver updates to land for the upcoming Linux 7.3 merge window...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-7.3-MSM-DRM-Driver
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Phoronix@phoronix@masto.ai (2026-08-02 19:54:09)
Ubuntu Touch Making Progress Toward Ubuntu 26.04, Vulkan & App Updates
Following last week's release of Ubuntu Touch 24.04-2.0 for this community-maintained, mobile flavor of Ubuntu Linux, more details are now available on their upcoming development efforts and eventual transition to an Ubuntu 26.04 base...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Ubuntu-Touch-Toward-26.04
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Phoronix@phoronix@masto.ai (2026-08-02 19:39:06)
Linux 7.2-rc6 Fixes Some AMD Zen 5 CPUs Being Mistakenly Identified As Zen 6
Today's batch of x86 fixes for the kernel ahead of the Linux 7.2-rc6 release later in the day addresses some AMD Zen 5 processors mistakenly being classified as Zen 6...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-7.2-rc6-Fixing-Zen-5-IDs
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Phoronix@phoronix@masto.ai (2026-08-02 19:24:04)
Box64 v0.4.4 Released With New Box64-Configurator App
Box64 0.4.4 released today as the newest version of this open-source user-space Linux x86_64 emulator for running binaries on 64-bit ARM, RISC-V, and LoongArch systems...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Box64-0.4.4
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Phoronix@phoronix@masto.ai (2026-08-02 09:39:05)
Steam On Linux Use Back Above 4% In July
Valve just published the Steam Survey results for July 2026 and point to a small uptick in Linux gaming use...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Steam-On-Linux-July-2026
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Phoronix@phoronix@masto.ai (2026-08-02 02:09:05)
NetBSD 11.0 Released With RISC-V Support, Enhanced Linux System Call Compatibility
NetBSD 11.0 officially shipped today as the nineteenth major release of this popular BSD operating system...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/NetBSD-11.0
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Phoronix@phoronix@masto.ai (2026-08-01 22:39:05)
MPEG-4 Patent Expiration, RADV On Windows, Open-Source AI & Other July Highlights
Last month on Phoronix there were 257 original Linux/open-source related news articles and another 20 featured Linux hardware reviews / multi-page benchmark articles. Following the recent 22nd birthday of Phoronix.com, this puts the overall tally at nearly 51k original news articles and more than 5,600 Linux hardware reviews. Here is a look back at what readers found most exciting during t…
https://www.phoronix.com/news/July-2026-Highlights
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Phoronix@phoronix@masto.ai (2026-08-01 21:09:05)
Prominent Arch Linux Developer Resigns After 10 Year Run
Arch Linux developer, security team member, AUR maintainer, and package maintainer Morten Linderud "Foxboron" announced today he is resigning from the project...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Arch-Linux-Foxboron
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Phoronix@phoronix@masto.ai (2026-08-01 20:09:08)
Linux 7.2-rc6 Working Around Several Buggy Western Digital SATA Drives
Merged ahead of tomorrow's Linux 7.2-rc6 kernel test release are several ATA fixes that include a number of device-specific workarounds for some Western Digital SATA drives that have been failing to work on recent versions of the Linux kernel...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-7.2-rc6-ATA
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Phoronix@phoronix@masto.ai (2026-08-01 19:39:10)
GNOME Working To Establish An RFC Process, Battling Sloppy AI-Generated Extensions
GNOME developers were quite busy in closing out the month of July from continued work on establishing a formal Request For Comments (RFC) process for the project to battling the continued flood of AI-generated GNOME Shell extensions...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/GNOME-RFC-Process-AI-Extensions
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Phoronix@phoronix@masto.ai (2026-08-01 19:39:08)
KDE Plasma 6.8 To Enjoy Huge Performance Gains For Multi-GPU/eGPU Performance
It's been a very exciting week in the KDE Plasma 6.8 development space particularly thanks to performance work on bettering KWin's multi-GPU / external GPU handling...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/KDE-Plasma-6.8-Faster-eGPU
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Phoronix@phoronix@masto.ai (2026-08-01 19:09:11)
Picolibc 1.8.12 Brings Latest Improvements To This Embedded-Focused C Library
If the recent release of the GNU C Library glibc 2.44 is too big for your embedded use-cases, Keith Packard continues hacking on Picolibc as his embedded-focused C library. Released overnight was Picolibc 1.8.12 with a variety of improvements for this embedded libc...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Picolibc-1.8.12-Released
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Phoronix@phoronix@masto.ai (2026-08-01 09:39:04)
AMD Begins Posting Display Core Next 6 "DCN6" Linux Patches For RDNA5 GPUs
AMD closed out the month of July by posting some new AMDGPU Display Core "DC" patches. Most notable with this weekly patch ritual is several patches beginning to establish the foundation for Display Core Next 6 "DCN6" as their next-generation display IP. The patches tie DCN6 to the AMD GFX13 graphics engine, which is anticipated to be for the next-generation RDNA5 graphics processors...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/AMD-DCN6-Linux-Start
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Phoronix@phoronix@masto.ai (2026-08-01 05:39:08)
AMD Publishes CDNA5 ISA Documentation For Instinct MI455X
Following last week's launch of the AMD Instinct MI455X, AMD has now kept with tradition and provided ISA documentation concerning this latest CDNA5 architecture...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/AMD-CDNA5-ISA-Documentation
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Phoronix@phoronix@masto.ai (2026-08-01 03:24:05)
The First Open-Source Firmware Released For Modern AMD Ryzen AM5 Platform
Last month 3mdeb released their open-source firmware for a modern AMD EPYC motherboard from Gigabyte that was built off the new AMD openSIL project and Coreboot. Today 3mdeb has delivered the first open-source firmware release for a modern AMD Ryzen desktop motherboard with having independently brought their openSIL+Coreboot powered Dasharo stack to the readily available MSI PRO B850-P WIFI...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/OSS-Firmware-MSI-B850-P-WIFI
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Phoronix@phoronix@masto.ai (2026-08-01 02:54:20)
Shotcut 26.7 Video Editor Released With Stock Asset Library
Shotcut 26.7 is out today as the newest feature release to this open-source, cross-platform video editing solution...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Shotcut-26.7-Released
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Phoronix@phoronix@masto.ai (2026-08-01 00:24:05)
Nouveau Preparing To Finally Enable Atomic Mode-Setting By Default
In addition to the Nouveau kernel driver unblocking Vulkan Video H.264 support for the Mesa NVK driver, another feature change on the way is this open-source NVIDIA Linux driver finally preparing to enable atomic mode-setting by default...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Nouveau-Atomic-Mode-Setting-26
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