https://www.phoronix.com/ Linux Hardware Reviews, Performance Benchmarks & Open-Source / Free Software News en-us https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-Kernel-Untrusted-Data-API https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-Kernel-Untrusted-Data-API One of the newest interfaces being worked on for the Rust programming language support within the Linux kernel is an Untrusted Data API for data received into the kernel from user-space... Tue, 19 May 2026 04:00:00 -0400 Michael Larabel https://www.phoronix.com/news/OneXPlayer-Configuration-Drv https://www.phoronix.com/news/OneXPlayer-Configuration-Drv The latest Linux gaming handheld driver work by Derek Clark of Valve's Linux efforts is the OneXPlayer Configuration Driver that is now set to premiere in the upcoming Linux 7.2 kernel cycle... Tue, 19 May 2026 00:00:00 -0400 Michael Larabel https://www.phoronix.com/news/Intel-May-2026-OSS-Archived https://www.phoronix.com/news/Intel-May-2026-OSS-Archived Yet more open-source Intel software projects have been formally archived. Over the past year Intel has formally discontinued a number of open-source projects it formally maintained. Many of them were already dormant and not too noteworthy but there were also some more notable ones discontinued like their legendary Clear Linux, Software Defined Silicon, Optane Memory software projects, and then other efforts like open ecosystem community/evangelism. This past week yet more Intel software projects were formally disbanded... Mon, 18 May 2026 18:00:00 -0400 Michael Larabel https://www.phoronix.com/news/Intel-Xe-Multi-Crescent-Island https://www.phoronix.com/news/Intel-Xe-Multi-Crescent-Island The latest Intel Xe kernel graphics driver patches for Linux now indicate multiple PCI IDs for the upcoming Crescent Island "CRI" accelerators rather than just a lone model... Mon, 18 May 2026 15:50:00 -0400 Michael Larabel https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-7.2-OPENAT2_REGULAR https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-7.2-OPENAT2_REGULAR Among the VFS patches queued into "-next" branches ahead of next month's Linux 7.2 merge window is the code for introducing the new OPENAT2_REGULAR flag for the openat2 system call... Mon, 18 May 2026 14:00:00 -0400 Michael Larabel https://www.phoronix.com/review/linux-66-linux-71 https://www.phoronix.com/review/linux-66-linux-71 The Linux 7.1 kernel performance has been looking quite good on the various Intel/AMD systems I have tested over the past three weeks. Linux 7.1 does bring some solid improvements over Linux 7.0 prior in different workloads and haven't encountered any worrisome regressions compared to the current Linux 7.0 stable kernel. For those wondering the longer-term picture, here are benchmarks of Linux 7.1 Git compared to recent Linux LTS kernel series going back to 2023 for providing a picture at how the upstream Linux kernel has netted 13% faster performance (geo mean) on the same hardware in less than three years. Mon, 18 May 2026 10:30:00 -0400 Michael Larabel https://www.phoronix.com/news/Firefox-151 https://www.phoronix.com/news/Firefox-151 Firefox 151 release binaries are now available as the latest monthly update to Mozilla's open-source web browser... Mon, 18 May 2026 08:46:34 -0400 Michael Larabel https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-AF-ALF-Zero-Copy-Security https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-AF-ALF-Zero-Copy-Security Given all the recent Linux kernel security concerns and new bugs being discovered, the Linux cryptographic subsystem is proactively dropping zero-copy functionality from AF_ALG due to growing security concerns... Mon, 18 May 2026 08:00:00 -0400 Michael Larabel https://www.phoronix.com/news/Torvalds-AI-Tools-Can-Be-Great https://www.phoronix.com/news/Torvalds-AI-Tools-Can-Be-Great With yesterday's Linux 7.1-rc4 release are some additional comments by Linux creator Linus Torvalds around AI tooling and the surge in security bug reporting to the Linux kernel due to said LLM-powered tooling... Mon, 18 May 2026 07:54:13 -0400 Michael Larabel https://www.phoronix.com/news/Lemonade-SDK-10.5-Released https://www.phoronix.com/news/Lemonade-SDK-10.5-Released The Lemonade SDK for "refreshingly fast local AI" that is largely developed by AMD engineers as an open-source project continues advancing quite rapidly for serving optimized LLMs on GPUs and NPUs... Mon, 18 May 2026 05:00:00 -0400 Michael Larabel https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-GKH-Clanker-2000 https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-GKH-Clanker-2000 As first reported on Phoronix in early April, Linux's second-in-command Greg Kroah-Hartman has been leveraging new AI fuzzing tools for uncovering Linux kernel bugs. Prominent due to his position within the Linux kernel community and also being the primary Linux stable maintainer. His AI-assistance for fixing Linux kernel bugs is based on a Framework Desktop powered by AMD Ryzen AI Max. The "gkh_clanker_t1000" continues assisting in Linux kernel development along with the less frequent "gkh_clanker_2000" references.. Mon, 18 May 2026 00:00:00 -0400 Michael Larabel https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-7.1-rc4-Released https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-7.1-rc4-Released It was another busy week in the Linux 7.1 kernel space that has culminated with the release of Linux 7.1-rc4... Sun, 17 May 2026 17:20:29 -0400 Michael Larabel https://www.phoronix.com/news/Ubuntu-Concept-CIX-P1-CPU https://www.phoronix.com/news/Ubuntu-Concept-CIX-P1-CPU Similar to Canonical engineers having published "Ubuntu Concept" ISOs for Qualcomm Snapdragon X Elite laptops to provide the very latest hardware-specific support that hasn't yet worked its way to the mainline Linux kernel and other packages, Canonical has begun providing Ubuntu Concept ISOs for the CIX P1 as an "AI" focused platform... Sun, 17 May 2026 12:00:00 -0400 Michael Larabel https://www.phoronix.com/news/Low-Latency-Layer https://www.phoronix.com/news/Low-Latency-Layer A new open-source project called low_latency_layer is an implicit Vulkan layer that enables AMD Anti-Lag 2 and NVIDIA Reflex 2 to reportedly work in a hardware-agnostic manner so that AMD and Intel graphics cards can both enjoy Reflex or Anti-Lag 2 working on non-AMD graphics cards as well... Sun, 17 May 2026 08:00:00 -0400 Michael Larabel https://www.phoronix.com/news/Adobe-Lightroom-CC-Linux https://www.phoronix.com/news/Adobe-Lightroom-CC-Linux An open-source developer with the assistance of Claude Code has managed to get the Adobe Lightroom CC software working on Linux under Wine... Sun, 17 May 2026 06:20:00 -0400 Michael Larabel https://www.phoronix.com/news/FFmpeg-ProRes-RAW-Vulkan https://www.phoronix.com/news/FFmpeg-ProRes-RAW-Vulkan Last year the widely-used, open-source FFmpeg multimedia library introduced Apple ProRes video acceleration using shaders with the Vulkan API. Now FFmpeg has taken it a step further and can support Apple ProRes RAW Vulkan-based video decoding... Sun, 17 May 2026 06:09:58 -0400 Michael Larabel https://www.phoronix.com/news/Framework-Laptop-13-Pro-Audio https://www.phoronix.com/news/Framework-Laptop-13-Pro-Audio Ahead of the new Framework Laptop 13 Pro laptops beginning to ship in June, an audio microphone fix was merged this weekend to the mainline Linux kernel for these new Intel Panther Lake powered devices... Sun, 17 May 2026 05:10:00 -0400 Michael Larabel https://www.phoronix.com/news/FluidX3D-3.7-Released https://www.phoronix.com/news/FluidX3D-3.7-Released Released this week was FluidX3D 3.7, the latest feature update to this computational fluid dynamics (CFD) software that is CPU/GPU accelerated by way of OpenCL... Sun, 17 May 2026 04:09:00 -0400 Michael Larabel https://www.phoronix.com/news/FreeBSD-15.1-Beta-3 https://www.phoronix.com/news/FreeBSD-15.1-Beta-3 In working toward the stable FreeBSD 15.1 release in early June, FreeBSD 15.1 Beta 3 is out this weekend as the latest weekly test candidate... Sun, 17 May 2026 00:00:00 -0400 Michael Larabel https://www.phoronix.com/news/GNOME-51-Resources-Possible https://www.phoronix.com/news/GNOME-51-Resources-Possible The current GNOME System Monitor is on track to be replaced by the GNOME Resources app for as soon as the GNOME 51 desktop release... Sat, 16 May 2026 16:09:00 -0400 Michael Larabel https://www.phoronix.com/news/Memtest86-Plus-8.10 https://www.phoronix.com/news/Memtest86-Plus-8.10 Memtest86+ 8.10 is out today as a significant update to this legendary open-source RAM testing software... Sat, 16 May 2026 14:37:00 -0400 Michael Larabel https://www.phoronix.com/news/Debian-13.5-Released https://www.phoronix.com/news/Debian-13.5-Released Debian 13.5 is out today as the newest point release to Debian Trixie for incorporating all of the latest security fixes affecting the Linux kernel and dozens of user-space packages... Sat, 16 May 2026 12:36:38 -0400 Michael Larabel https://www.phoronix.com/news/AMD-Marek-Joins-Valve https://www.phoronix.com/news/AMD-Marek-Joins-Valve It seems that Valve isn't done expanding their open-source Linux graphics driver team and securing top talent for enhancing the Linux GPU drivers for a better gaming experience. One of the foremost leading Mesa developers has left AMD to join Valve... Sat, 16 May 2026 07:03:07 -0400 Michael Larabel https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-7.1-rc4-x86-Drivers https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-7.1-rc4-x86-Drivers Ahead of the Linux 7.1-rc4 kernel test release due out on Sunday, a new round of x86 platform driver fixes were submitted for the week... Sat, 16 May 2026 06:42:07 -0400 Michael Larabel https://www.phoronix.com/news/Plasma-6.7-Notifications-RDP https://www.phoronix.com/news/Plasma-6.7-Notifications-RDP This week marked the release of the KDE Plasma 6.7 beta and even so there were some last-minute features being squeezed into this popular Linux desktop option. Plasma's built-in remote desktop server enhancements and improved Plasma notification effects are among the changes topping out this week... Sat, 16 May 2026 06:13:50 -0400 Michael Larabel https://www.phoronix.com/news/Steam-Controller-Mapping-SDL https://www.phoronix.com/news/Steam-Controller-Mapping-SDL A few days ago the widely-used SDL library added support for the new Steam Controller without depending upon the Steam client. Now another improvement for the new Steam Controller has been merged to this widely-used library for cross-platform games/apps with software/hardware abstractions... Sat, 16 May 2026 05:59:04 -0400 Michael Larabel https://www.phoronix.com/news/ROCm-7.13-Released https://www.phoronix.com/news/ROCm-7.13-Released ROCm 7.13 was released today as the newest ROCm Core SDK Preview in working toward what will presumably be called ROCm 8.0 later in the year... Fri, 15 May 2026 21:55:08 -0400 Michael Larabel https://www.phoronix.com/news/Wine-11.9-Released https://www.phoronix.com/news/Wine-11.9-Released Wine 11.9 is out today as the newest bi-weekly development release and nearing the half-way point of the development cycle toward Wine 12.0... Fri, 15 May 2026 18:52:39 -0400 Michael Larabel https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-7.1-Kernel-Docs-AI-Bugs https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-7.1-Kernel-Docs-AI-Bugs Merged today for the Linux 7.1 kernel is some new documentation surrounding what qualifies as a security bug as well as around responsible use of AI for finding kernel bugs... Fri, 15 May 2026 16:30:41 -0400 Michael Larabel https://www.phoronix.com/news/Intel-Panther-Lake-R-Linux https://www.phoronix.com/news/Intel-Panther-Lake-R-Linux A new patch for the Linux kernel posted today by Intel has outed "Panther Lake R" as a ruggedized variant of Panther Lake intended for harsh environments... Fri, 15 May 2026 14:55:43 -0400 Michael Larabel https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-7.0.8-Released https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-7.0.8-Released Following yesterday's disclosure of the ssh-keysign-pwn vulnerability that allows unprivileged users to read root-owned files, a slew of new stable kernel releases are out today to address this latest Linux security issue... Fri, 15 May 2026 10:10:18 -0400 Michael Larabel https://www.phoronix.com/review/zimacube-2 https://www.phoronix.com/review/zimacube-2 Earlier this year we reviewed the ZimaBoard 2 for building a Linux home storage server. That was a nifty little device but for those looking for a more polished product than assembling your storage devices in cardboard cut-outs and the like, IceWhale has launched the ZimaCube 2. The ZimaCube 2 is a nice and polished, literal cube, to serve as your personal cloud / network attached storage (NAS) device. Fri, 15 May 2026 09:15:36 -0400 Michael Larabel