https://www.phoronix.com/ Linux Hardware Reviews, Performance Benchmarks & Open-Source / Free Software News en-us https://www.phoronix.com/news/Intel-TDX-Linux-7.2-No-Reboot https://www.phoronix.com/news/Intel-TDX-Linux-7.2-No-Reboot For those interested in Trust Domain Extensions (TDX) with modern Intel Xeon processors for confidential computing but also view system uptime as critical, beginning in Linux 7.2 the TDX support is now much more practical with allowing live updates without the need to reboot the running system in the event of security updates and similar... Fri, 19 Jun 2026 06:18:25 -0400 Michael Larabel https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-7.2-HWMON https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-7.2-HWMON For those that enjoy keeping an eye on all their system vitals from temperatures to voltages, the hardware monitoring "HWMON" updates have seen many device additions for Linux 7.2... Fri, 19 Jun 2026 06:08:12 -0400 Michael Larabel https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-7.2-Media https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-7.2-Media The media subsystem changes were merged tonight for the Linux 7.2 merge window and it includes the long-awaited AMD ISP4 driver now in the mainline kernel.. This ISP4 driver is what completes the loop for enabling the web camera on the HP ZBook Ultra G1a and other future high-end AMD Ryzen laptops... Thu, 18 Jun 2026 21:00:00 -0400 Michael Larabel https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-7.2-MD5-Generic-Only https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-7.2-MD5-Generic-Only The Linux kernel has dropped the last of its architecture-specific optimized MD5 hashing algorithm implementations... Thu, 18 Jun 2026 20:47:04 -0400 Michael Larabel https://www.phoronix.com/news/Godot-4.7-Released https://www.phoronix.com/news/Godot-4.7-Released Godot 4.7 is out today as the newest feature release for this leading open-source, cross-platform game engine... Thu, 18 Jun 2026 15:42:45 -0400 Michael Larabel https://www.phoronix.com/review/ampere-altra-nvidia-vera https://www.phoronix.com/review/ampere-altra-nvidia-vera Last month on Phoronix was an exclusive first look at the NVIDIA Vera CPU performance compared to prior-generation NVIDIA Grace as well as the current AMD EPYC and Intel Xeon competition. Following that was looking at how the ARM Linux server performance has evolved over the past eight years of AArch64 Linux servers. A Phoronix Premium supporter recently requested wanting to see how Vera compares to Ampere Altra. While Ampere Altra has been in the marketplace now for more than five years, they are some of the most readily available ARM Linux server options for DIY/enthusiast builds given the scarcity of AmpereOne and lack of other readily available socketed ARM CPU options. This article shows how the performance compares between Ampere Altra Max and NVIDIA Vera. Thu, 18 Jun 2026 14:43:06 -0400 Michael Larabel https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-7.2-EXT4 https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-7.2-EXT4 The EXT4 file-system improvements were merged today for Linux 7.2 with some enticing optimizations... Thu, 18 Jun 2026 13:53:17 -0400 Michael Larabel https://www.phoronix.com/news/Rust-PNG-Image-Faster https://www.phoronix.com/news/Rust-PNG-Image-Faster The Rust PNG crate, image-png, for PNG image encoding and decoding was already claimed to be the fastest PNG decoder in the world for the past year. Now with the latest optimizations, it's even faster... Thu, 18 Jun 2026 13:04:00 -0400 Michael Larabel https://www.phoronix.com/news/AMDGPU-Fixing-Display-Freeze https://www.phoronix.com/news/AMDGPU-Fixing-Display-Freeze A bug in the AMDGPU Linux kernel graphics driver leading to some laptop displays freezing after periods of use may finally be close to being resolved. Given the length and quantity of bug reports and one of the problematic commits being tracked back to 2017, it's a heavy hitting issue for some Linux users. With the help of Claude Code, it looks like a fix is on the way to the Linux kernel... Thu, 18 Jun 2026 10:00:00 -0400 Michael Larabel https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-7.2-Crypto https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-7.2-Crypto The cryptographic subsystem updates have been merged for the ongoing Linux 7.2 kernel merge window... Thu, 18 Jun 2026 09:43:10 -0400 Michael Larabel https://www.phoronix.com/news/Ubuntu-Flavors-Beta-Mandate https://www.phoronix.com/news/Ubuntu-Flavors-Beta-Mandate Canonical and the Ubuntu Release Team have implemented an important policy change for Ubuntu flavors moving forward. If they are to have an official release, they must now successfully submit a beta release... Thu, 18 Jun 2026 08:39:47 -0400 Michael Larabel https://www.phoronix.com/news/AMD-GFX1250-SRAM-ECC-LLVM https://www.phoronix.com/news/AMD-GFX1250-SRAM-ECC-LLVM With the ongoing work around the AMD GFX1250 (and GFX1251) in the open-source AMD Linux driver stack, it's led to a lot of speculation about these parts in the GFX12 series associated with RDNA4. RDNA4 refresh? Or a lot of signals have pointed to GFX125x being possible AI/HPC accelerators such as for the upcoming Instinct MI400 series. Adding to the intrigue is GFX1251 being an APU. The latest LLVM compiler activity is further pointing to GFX1250/GFX1251 being for enterprise hardware... Thu, 18 Jun 2026 06:36:02 -0400 Michael Larabel https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-7.2-EDAC https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-7.2-EDAC The Error Detection And Correction (EDAC) drivers, such as for dealing with ECC memory error reporting, are heavy on the Intel side with Linux 7.2 in preparing for upcoming hardware... Thu, 18 Jun 2026 06:24:16 -0400 Michael Larabel https://www.phoronix.com/news/SteamOS-3.8.10-Stable https://www.phoronix.com/news/SteamOS-3.8.10-Stable Overnight Valve released SteamOS 3.8.10 into the stable channel. for succeeding SteamOS 3.7. There's a lot happening across the board to their in-house Linux platform for the likes of the Steam Deck and upcoming Steam Machine hardware... Thu, 18 Jun 2026 06:06:06 -0400 Michael Larabel https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-7.2-Timers https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-7.2-Timers There are a number of time(r) core subsystem changes for the Linux 7.2 kernel to better harden the kernel... Thu, 18 Jun 2026 05:58:00 -0400 Michael Larabel https://www.phoronix.com/news/ARM64-Linux-7.2-Changes https://www.phoronix.com/news/ARM64-Linux-7.2-Changes The ongoing rise in AI/LLM-generated patches hitting the mailing lists and affecting development workflows continues to impact Linux kernel development. For the ARM64 architecture updates in Linux 7.2 is an interesting anecdote over over feeling like this activity has "slowed us down a little on the feature side" and having to deal with this AI/LLM patch activity resulted in some features now being postponed from making it for this current Linux kernel development cycle... Wed, 17 Jun 2026 20:26:00 -0400 Michael Larabel https://www.phoronix.com/news/Bcachefs-Tools-1.38.6 https://www.phoronix.com/news/Bcachefs-Tools-1.38.6 Kent Overstreet announced the release today of Bcachefs-Tools 1.38.6 as the user-space tools built around the Bcachefs copy-on-write file-system. There are a few new features and a lot of performance work in v1.38.6 without bringing any on-disk format breakage... Wed, 17 Jun 2026 16:06:22 -0400 Michael Larabel https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-7.2-Slab https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-7.2-Slab The slab memory allocation changes for Linux 7.2 have been merged and continue to see more work around shaves and performance optimizations... Wed, 17 Jun 2026 16:00:48 -0400 Michael Larabel https://www.phoronix.com/news/AMD-Lemonade-10.8-Released https://www.phoronix.com/news/AMD-Lemonade-10.8-Released The open-source Lemonade AI server for "100% free and private" AI usage across Windows and Linux in leveraging AMD Ryzen AI NPUs, Radeon GPUs, and x86_64 CPUs, is now much more powerful with today's v10.8 release... Wed, 17 Jun 2026 15:43:23 -0400 Michael Larabel https://www.phoronix.com/news/Experimental-Vino-DRM-Driver https://www.phoronix.com/news/Experimental-Vino-DRM-Driver The original DisplayLink USB display adapters were great for working with an upstream, open-source driver while sadly the newer DisplayLink tech has been limited to an out-of-tree driver and proprietary user-space daemon. But posted today is an experimental "Vino" driver that is a clean-room, reverse-engineered driver for newer DisplayLink hardware... Wed, 17 Jun 2026 12:23:37 -0400 Michael Larabel https://www.phoronix.com/news/Epic-Games-Lore-VCS https://www.phoronix.com/news/Epic-Games-Lore-VCS Epic Games announced today they have created a new version control system that is now open-source as Lore. Given the proliferation and excellence of Git, you may be wondering why Epic Games is pursuing another VCS option... They are specifically catering Lore to games and entertainment purposes with large file sizes... Wed, 17 Jun 2026 10:45:20 -0400 Michael Larabel https://www.phoronix.com/review/linux-71-panther-lake https://www.phoronix.com/review/linux-71-panther-lake After recently noting the Intel Arc B580 Battlemage performance improving with Linux 7.1 and similarly finding performance gains for the Arc Pro B70 on Linux 7.1, several Phoronix readers have been wondering whether the newer Xe3 graphics with Panther Lake similarly benefit. Here are some CPU and iGPU benchmarks of the Core Ultra X7 358H "Panther Lake" SoC between Linux 7.0 and the recently stabilized Linux 7.1 kernel. Wed, 17 Jun 2026 10:30:00 -0400 Michael Larabel https://www.phoronix.com/news/Ubuntu-Myna-Speech-To-Text https://www.phoronix.com/news/Ubuntu-Myna-Speech-To-Text Earlier this month plans were shared publicly of Ubuntu 26.10 aiming to build a context-aware desktop with local AI features and one of the first capabilities to be integrated speech-to-text support. Now we have more details on the speech-to-text plans with Canonical announcing the Myna project... Wed, 17 Jun 2026 09:34:38 -0400 Michael Larabel https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-7.2-DRM https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-7.2-DRM The Direct Rendering Manager (DRM) kernel graphics/display and accelerator driver changes have been merged for Linux 7.2. The Linux 7.2 DRM merge is headlined by the long-awaited HDMI 2.1 Fixed Rate Link (FRL) support for the AMDGPU open-source driver as part of the larger effort of finally proceeding with a full HDMI 2.1 implementation for this AMD Radeon Linux driver... Wed, 17 Jun 2026 08:21:02 -0400 Michael Larabel https://www.phoronix.com/news/Qt-Creator-20-Released https://www.phoronix.com/news/Qt-Creator-20-Released The Qt Creator integrated development environment focused on Qt/C++ programming is out today with Qt Creator 20 and this new version is headlined by adding AI agent support... Wed, 17 Jun 2026 06:31:37 -0400 Michael Larabel https://www.phoronix.com/news/GCC-17-std-CPP29-Experimental https://www.phoronix.com/news/GCC-17-std-CPP29-Experimental Merged yesterday to the GCC Git development codebase for next year's GCC 17 release is the initial infrastructure laying out support for -std=c++29 and the like for targeting the C++29 standard not anticipated for release until around 2029... Wed, 17 Jun 2026 06:23:00 -0400 Michael Larabel https://www.phoronix.com/news/FreeBSD-drm-kmod-Linux-6.12 https://www.phoronix.com/news/FreeBSD-drm-kmod-Linux-6.12 As part of improving the experience of FreeBSD on laptops and desktops, FreeBSD developers have updated their drm-kmod port against the state of the Linux 6.12 LTS kernel... Wed, 17 Jun 2026 06:04:33 -0400 Michael Larabel https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-Drops-AppleTalk https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-Drops-AppleTalk While the AppleTalk networking protocols were innovative when they first appeared for their plug-and-play capabilities, Apple itself ended their AppleTalk support back in 2009. Now 17 years later, the Linux kernel is ending AppleTalk support due to a recent surge of AI-generated patches... Wed, 17 Jun 2026 05:40:31 -0400 Michael Larabel https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-7.2-Storage https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-7.2-Storage Linux 7.2 continues seeing a fair amount of storage-related changes from file-systems to the block device code itself, software RAID, the wonderful IO_uring interface, and more. Here is some of the latest feature work that has been merged for Linux 7.2... Wed, 17 Jun 2026 04:00:00 -0400 Michael Larabel https://www.phoronix.com/news/Mozilla-Firefox-zlib-rs-Usage https://www.phoronix.com/news/Mozilla-Firefox-zlib-rs-Usage Since the release in May of Firefox 151, Mozilla has been relying on the zlib-rs library for Gzip compression/decompression. This subtle change to use this Rust-based Zlib implementation has yielded some performance benefits and better memory safety but also some headaches when dealing with Intel CPU bugs... Tue, 16 Jun 2026 20:46:00 -0400 Michael Larabel https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-New-File-System-Docs https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-New-File-System-Docs There is no shortage of different file-systems available for Linux. New file-systems continue to come about in the open-source world but ultimately many of them end up not being well maintained or having very limited users and not necessarily innovating enough to make them worthwhile over other alternatives. Given the continued increase in file-systems looking to get into the Linux kernel, such as FTRFS and VMUFAT being some of the most recent and then even having multiple NTFS drivers for Linux, there is now documentation in place to formally lay out criteria for new file-systems to be accepted... Tue, 16 Jun 2026 17:16:42 -0400 Michael Larabel https://www.phoronix.com/news/Slackware-KDE-Plasma-6 https://www.phoronix.com/news/Slackware-KDE-Plasma-6 It's been a while since there has been any Slackware news to pass along, but this week they've finally landed the KDE Plasma 6 desktop in this legendary Linux distribution... Tue, 16 Jun 2026 16:29:33 -0400 Michael Larabel