https://www.phoronix.com/ Linux Hardware Reviews, Performance Benchmarks & Open-Source / Free Software News en-us https://www.phoronix.com/news/AMDGPU-DC-Enabling-CACP https://www.phoronix.com/news/AMDGPU-DC-Enabling-CACP Today's batch of AMDGPU Display Code "DC" updates bring a few noteworthy items for benefiting modern hardware under Linux... Thu, 09 Jul 2026 20:51:44 -0400 Michael Larabel https://www.phoronix.com/review/aws-graviton5 https://www.phoronix.com/review/aws-graviton5 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 Graviton CPUs. Here is an initial look at how the Graviton5 processor performs over Graviton4. Thu, 09 Jul 2026 13:53:00 -0400 Michael Larabel https://www.phoronix.com/news/Wayland-1.26-RC1 https://www.phoronix.com/news/Wayland-1.26-RC1 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... Thu, 09 Jul 2026 11:47:43 -0400 Michael Larabel https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-Delay-D3cold-Patch-Fix https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-Delay-D3cold-Patch-Fix 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 solution has been figured out and comes down to a nuance of the PCI spec with needing a brief wait... Thu, 09 Jul 2026 09:35:01 -0400 Michael Larabel https://www.phoronix.com/news/ThinkPad-USB-C-Restricted-Mode https://www.phoronix.com/news/ThinkPad-USB-C-Restricted-Mode 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... Thu, 09 Jul 2026 09:02:38 -0400 Michael Larabel https://www.phoronix.com/news/Apple-M4-DT-Linux https://www.phoronix.com/news/Apple-M4-DT-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... Thu, 09 Jul 2026 06:22:02 -0400 Michael Larabel https://www.phoronix.com/news/AMD-Ryzen-AI-Halo-RGB-LED-v8 https://www.phoronix.com/news/AMD-Ryzen-AI-Halo-RGB-LED-v8 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 light strip on the driver. But that driver is coming and will hopefully be mainlined soon... Thu, 09 Jul 2026 06:13:06 -0400 Michael Larabel https://www.phoronix.com/news/Zlib-rs-0.6.6 https://www.phoronix.com/news/Zlib-rs-0.6.6 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... Thu, 09 Jul 2026 06:00:18 -0400 Michael Larabel https://www.phoronix.com/news/Redox-OS-June-2026 https://www.phoronix.com/news/Redox-OS-June-2026 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... Wed, 08 Jul 2026 14:30:02 -0400 Michael Larabel https://www.phoronix.com/news/LibreOffice-26.8-Beta-1 https://www.phoronix.com/news/LibreOffice-26.8-Beta-1 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... Wed, 08 Jul 2026 12:27:11 -0400 Michael Larabel https://www.phoronix.com/news/OpenMandriva-Disrupted https://www.phoronix.com/news/OpenMandriva-Disrupted 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... Wed, 08 Jul 2026 12:05:22 -0400 Michael Larabel https://www.phoronix.com/review/single-dual-memory-linux https://www.phoronix.com/review/single-dual-memory-linux 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 some benchmarks of single versus dual channel memory on an Intel Core Ultra 7 270K Plus "Arrow Lake" desktop. Wed, 08 Jul 2026 10:48:06 -0400 Michael Larabel https://www.phoronix.com/news/Intel-Ends-Quantum-Intrinsics https://www.phoronix.com/news/Intel-Ends-Quantum-Intrinsics Intel has formally archived some more of their now-unmaintained open-source projects this week... Wed, 08 Jul 2026 09:37:39 -0400 Michael Larabel https://www.phoronix.com/news/AMD-ZenDNN-6.0 https://www.phoronix.com/news/AMD-ZenDNN-6.0 AMD ZenDNN 6.0 released today as a significant update to this open-source deep neural network library for helping to accelerate inferencing on AMD Zen processors from Ryzen to EPYC... Wed, 08 Jul 2026 09:07:42 -0400 Michael Larabel https://www.phoronix.com/news/LinuxMint-Cinnamon-Wayland-Good https://www.phoronix.com/news/LinuxMint-Cinnamon-Wayland-Good The Linux Mint distribution has published their June development summary that most notably includes work on Cinnamon's Wayland support where it's now ready to graduate... Wed, 08 Jul 2026 08:23:39 -0400 Michael Larabel https://www.phoronix.com/news/Toggle-Syscall-User-Dispatch https://www.phoronix.com/news/Toggle-Syscall-User-Dispatch Introduced to the Linux kernel nearly six years ago was the Syscall User Dispatch feature to help with Linux gaming. Specifically, Syscall User Dispatch was developed to help Windows games run on Linux more efficiently. While it was upstreamed in Linux 5.11 for more efficiently intercepting system calls from Windows software under Wine, now in the name of security there are patches working their way to the mainline kernel to more easily disable it... Wed, 08 Jul 2026 06:40:58 -0400 Michael Larabel https://www.phoronix.com/news/XWayland-24.1.13-Released https://www.phoronix.com/news/XWayland-24.1.13-Released Two more security issues were made public today concerning the X.Org Server codebase and in turn XWayland also being affected... Tue, 07 Jul 2026 21:44:06 -0400 Michael Larabel https://www.phoronix.com/news/Proton-11.0-1 https://www.phoronix.com/news/Proton-11.0-1 Proton 11.0-1 was just released as stable as the newest major version of this downstream of Wine that powers Valve's Steam Play to provide for a great Windows gaming experience across conventional Linux systems plus the popular Steam Deck and brand new Steam Machine... Tue, 07 Jul 2026 17:10:27 -0400 Michael Larabel https://www.phoronix.com/news/AMDGPU-Clearing-Out-BUGs https://www.phoronix.com/news/AMDGPU-Clearing-Out-BUGs AMDGPU kernel driver maintainer Alex Deucher of AMD sent out a set of 30 patches today working on clearing out all of the BUG() usage within this Linux kernel graphics driver... Tue, 07 Jul 2026 16:53:44 -0400 Michael Larabel https://www.phoronix.com/news/NVIDIA-Rigel-Upstream-GCC https://www.phoronix.com/news/NVIDIA-Rigel-Upstream-GCC That didn't take long... Mere minutes after NVIDIA confirmed some basic Rosa CPU details and its "Rigel" CPU core, merged to the upstream GNU Compiler Collection (GCC) codebase is initial enablement on the NVIDIA Rigel core... Tue, 07 Jul 2026 11:45:00 -0400 Michael Larabel https://www.phoronix.com/review/razer-blade-18-linux https://www.phoronix.com/review/razer-blade-18-linux Razer is a brand synonymous with gaming and finally in 2026 they are in the process of certifying their first laptop for Ubuntu Linux. This laptop going through Ubuntu Linux certification is the Razer Blade 18 RZ09-0582 and it offers incredible performance with the Core Ultra 9 290HX Plus processor and GeForce RTX 5090 graphics but with that also comes a very high price tag. Tue, 07 Jul 2026 11:38:00 -0400 Michael Larabel https://www.phoronix.com/news/NVIDIA-Rosa-CPU-Rigel-Core https://www.phoronix.com/news/NVIDIA-Rosa-CPU-Rigel-Core In a blog post today talking up the single threaded CPU performance of their Vera CPU with Olympus cores, NVIDIA confirmed a few basic details of their next-gen Rosa CPU featuring their "Rigel" core... Tue, 07 Jul 2026 11:27:58 -0400 Michael Larabel https://www.phoronix.com/news/NVIDIA-610.43.03-Linux-Driver https://www.phoronix.com/news/NVIDIA-610.43.03-Linux-Driver NVIDIA today published their latest stable driver update for Linux customers in their newest R610 release branch... Tue, 07 Jul 2026 10:58:12 -0400 Michael Larabel https://www.phoronix.com/news/TUXEDO-Computers-Goes-Debian https://www.phoronix.com/news/TUXEDO-Computers-Goes-Debian Bavarian Linux PC vendor TUXEDO Computers announced they are switching from Ubuntu to Debian as the base for their TUXEDO OS platform... Tue, 07 Jul 2026 08:06:31 -0400 Michael Larabel https://www.phoronix.com/news/AF-ALG-Restrict-Sysctl-Linux https://www.phoronix.com/news/AF-ALG-Restrict-Sysctl-Linux The Linux kernel's AF_ALG interface was deprecated in Linux 7.2. This interface for letting user-space programs interact directly with the Linux kernel crypto API has proven to be a "massive attack surface" due to a variety of security concerns. With its deprecation in Linux 7.2, some AF_ALG features are already removed and for Linux 7.3 this interface is being further restrained... Tue, 07 Jul 2026 06:24:22 -0400 Michael Larabel https://www.phoronix.com/news/Nick-Desaulniers-LLVM-Linux https://www.phoronix.com/news/Nick-Desaulniers-LLVM-Linux One of the original developers behind the work to allow the Linux kernel to be compiled using LLVM/Clang as an alternative to the GCC compiler is now back in the saddle working on LLVM Linux support. LLVM/Clang support for building the Linux kernel has been important for improving code portability and addressing GCC'isms, making use of LLVM compiler features not yet found with the GNU toolchain, evaluating the performance between GCC and Clang, and all the more important these days with the Linux kernel Rust integration... Tue, 07 Jul 2026 06:15:23 -0400 Michael Larabel https://www.phoronix.com/news/IBM-EHEA-Being-Retired https://www.phoronix.com/news/IBM-EHEA-Being-Retired In 2026 it's not too surprising when seeing old PCMCIA and ISA drivers being removed from the mainline Linux kernel source tree and old very low-speed network interfaces, with arguably the most surprising fast being how long they lasted in the mainline kernel. Meanwhile for the upcoming Linux 7.3 kernel, one of the first 10Gb Ethernet drivers is already set for retirement from the mainline Linux kernel... Tue, 07 Jul 2026 05:55:50 -0400 Michael Larabel https://www.phoronix.com/news/Microsoft-AV1-Encode-DX12-HMFT https://www.phoronix.com/news/Microsoft-AV1-Encode-DX12-HMFT The newest, unexpected addition to the Mesa codebase by Microsoft engineers is contributed accelerated AV1 video encoding on the GPU using a combination of DirectX 12 and the Hardware Media Foundation Transform (HMFT) support that is part of the Windows Media Foundation layer... Mon, 06 Jul 2026 20:34:05 -0400 Michael Larabel https://www.phoronix.com/news/Intel-ANV-Gen125-H265-Encode https://www.phoronix.com/news/Intel-ANV-Gen125-H265-Encode Earlier this year Vulkan Video encode was disabled on newer generations of Intel graphics hardware due to insufficient testing with the Intel ANV open-source driver. That impacted Gen12.5 graphics and newer - basically Alchemist and anything newer. Now at least Gen12.5 graphics with the likes of the Arc A-Series is seeing H.264 and H.265 encoding re-enabled... Mon, 06 Jul 2026 17:04:03 -0400 Michael Larabel https://www.phoronix.com/news/Marek-Double-VRS-RADV-Perf https://www.phoronix.com/news/Marek-Double-VRS-RADV-Perf Longtime AMD Linux graphics driver expert Marek Olšák, who joined Valve earlier this year and now focusing more on RADV rather than the RadeonSI Gallium3D driver, has seen some of his latest work now merged for Mesa 26.2. Marek landed a big overhaul to the variable rate shading (VRS) code that in some cases can double the performance... Mon, 06 Jul 2026 14:56:57 -0400 Michael Larabel https://www.phoronix.com/review/ryzen-ai-linux-os https://www.phoronix.com/review/ryzen-ai-linux-os With the AMD Ryzen AI Halo developer platform there is the option of ordering this Ryzen AI Max+ mini PC with either Microsoft Windows 11 or "Linux OS". When receiving a AMD Ryzen AI Halo review sample last month, I fully expected it to just be an Ubuntu LTS install with ROCm preloaded. I was quite surprised when powering it up to find that it's an OS called the AMD Ryzen AI Developer Platform 1 "Rex" and is based on Debian Linux. Mon, 06 Jul 2026 11:00:00 -0400 Michael Larabel https://www.phoronix.com/review/amd-ryzen-ai-halo https://www.phoronix.com/review/amd-ryzen-ai-halo Earlier this year AMD announced the Ryzen AI Halo as their in-house mini PC offering built around their leading Ryzen AI Max+ "Strix Halo" platform. After pre-orders began last month, the Ryzen AI Halo is officially beginning to ship this week and over the past few weeks we have been testing it out at Phoronix. Mon, 06 Jul 2026 11:00:00 -0400 Michael Larabel