https://www.phoronix.com/ Linux Hardware Reviews, Performance Benchmarks & Open-Source / Free Software News en-us https://www.phoronix.com/news/Open-Image-Denoise-2.5 https://www.phoronix.com/news/Open-Image-Denoise-2.5 Intel's Open Image Denoise is the open-source project providing a high performance denoising library for ray-tracing and used by the likes of Blender and other renderers/creative apps for powerful denoising capabilities. Released last week was Open Image Denoise 2.5 with some very nice performance improvements for Intel GPUs... Thu, 11 Jun 2026 06:04:20 -0400 Michael Larabel https://www.phoronix.com/news/GNOME-Fellowship-First https://www.phoronix.com/news/GNOME-Fellowship-First Back in March the GNOME Foundation announced a fellowship program. The GNOME fellowship program will help with the long-term sustainability of the GNOME desktop and looked to fund independent/community contributors over a twelve month period. Today the first recipients of the fellowship program have been announced... Thu, 11 Jun 2026 05:50:30 -0400 Michael Larabel https://www.phoronix.com/news/Airoha-N8801R-Linux-7.2 https://www.phoronix.com/news/Airoha-N8801R-Linux-7.2 One of the new network drivers destined for the upcoming Linux 7.2 merge window is for supporting the Airoha AN8801R Gigabit Ethernet PHY... Thu, 11 Jun 2026 05:21:19 -0400 Michael Larabel https://www.phoronix.com/news/ReactOS-Running-Half-Life https://www.phoronix.com/news/ReactOS-Running-Half-Life ReactOS, the open-source operating system working for binary compatibility with Microsoft Windows computer programs and drivers, has reached the milestone of being able to enjoy the classic game Half-Life running on this open-source platform... Wed, 10 Jun 2026 20:31:26 -0400 Michael Larabel https://www.phoronix.com/news/Framework-13-Pro-July https://www.phoronix.com/news/Framework-13-Pro-July Framework Computer began informing those that pre-ordered the new Framework Laptop 13 Pro that it will begin shipping in July rather than their original June target. The setback is coming to address two issues that came up in their testing process that delayed the start of mass production... Wed, 10 Jun 2026 16:10:08 -0400 Michael Larabel https://www.phoronix.com/news/Intel-XPU-Manager-2.0 https://www.phoronix.com/news/Intel-XPU-Manager-2.0 Just a week after the release of Intel XPU Manager 1.3.7, Intel today released XPU Manager 2.0 as a major overhaul for this software for monitoring and management of their data center GPUs on Microsoft Windows and Linux... Wed, 10 Jun 2026 15:06:18 -0400 Michael Larabel https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-7.2-ESWIN-Default https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-7.2-ESWIN-Default An important one-liner is set to come for Linux 7.2 to enable ESWIN SoC support by default for RISC-V kernel builds. This change will allow default RISC-V kernel builds in turn to boot on the likes of SiFive's HiFive Premier P550 developer board... Wed, 10 Jun 2026 14:42:00 -0400 Michael Larabel https://www.phoronix.com/news/AMD-Lemonade-10.7-Released https://www.phoronix.com/news/AMD-Lemonade-10.7-Released Lemonade, the local AI server solution developed by AMD that is designed to work across their CPUs, GPUs, and NPUs, is out with a new version today that also adds NVIDIA CUDA support... Wed, 10 Jun 2026 12:25:27 -0400 Michael Larabel https://www.phoronix.com/review/linux-71-arc-pro-b70 https://www.phoronix.com/review/linux-71-arc-pro-b70 After recently noticing the Intel Arc B580 performing better on Linux 7.1 for that kernel version soon to be released as stable, I was curious if there were performance gains also to be found with the new flagship Arc Pro B70 BMG-G31 workstation graphics card. Here are some benchmarks of the Intel Arc Pro B70 in relevant workloads between Linux 7.0 and the near-final Linux 7.1 kernel. Wed, 10 Jun 2026 10:46:00 -0400 Michael Larabel https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-Foundation-OpenSharing https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-Foundation-OpenSharing The Linux Foundation continues working to get more involved in new AI initiatives. Today the Linux Foundation announced the OpenSharing Project with an effort to standardize AI asset and data exchange... Wed, 10 Jun 2026 10:39:40 -0400 Michael Larabel https://www.phoronix.com/news/NVIDIA-Reduce-GCC-Bootstrap https://www.phoronix.com/news/NVIDIA-Reduce-GCC-Bootstrap NVIDIA engineer Kyrylo Tkachov posted a patch for testing yesterday to significantly reduce the amount of time it takes the GNU Compiler Collection (GCC) for conducting a native bootstrap. The time spent in the configure process for native GCC builds is reduced by around 43% while the overall bootstrap wall time is lowered by around 15%... Wed, 10 Jun 2026 09:30:32 -0400 Michael Larabel https://www.phoronix.com/news/CrOS-EC-Custom-Fan-Cuves https://www.phoronix.com/news/CrOS-EC-Custom-Fan-Cuves The cros_ec Linux kernel driver is used for supporting the ChromeOS Embedded Controller "EC" used by Chromebooks and various other laptops like Framework Laptops. With patches pending to cros_ec, support for custom fan curves is being introduced... Wed, 10 Jun 2026 09:12:12 -0400 Michael Larabel https://www.phoronix.com/news/KDE-KWin-Gaming-Latency-2026 https://www.phoronix.com/news/KDE-KWin-Gaming-Latency-2026 Open-source developer Jakub Okoński has been working on comparing the gaming latency between Linux and Windows and in turn working to drive some improvements into KDE's KWin Wayland compositor so the latency is more competitive with the gaming experience under Microsoft Windows 11... Wed, 10 Jun 2026 06:37:00 -0400 Michael Larabel https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-Firmware-AI-Coding-Agents https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-Firmware-AI-Coding-Agents The linux-firmware.git repository that serves as the de facto home of all the binary blobs used by the mainline Linux kernel open-source drivers has now introduced AGENTS.md documentation and other preparations for embracing AI coding agents... Wed, 10 Jun 2026 06:25:39 -0400 Michael Larabel https://www.phoronix.com/news/AMDGPU-DC-Preps-HDMI-Comp-Test https://www.phoronix.com/news/AMDGPU-DC-Preps-HDMI-Comp-Test While not as exciting as features like HDMI 2.1 FRL and Display Stream Compression itself, as part of AMD's efforts to provide a fully open-source HDMI 2.1 driver implementation for AMDGPU, new code is being prepped for their kernel driver to support the HDMI compliance testing efforts... Wed, 10 Jun 2026 06:11:11 -0400 Michael Larabel https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-7.2-Preps-KVM-For-APX https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-7.2-Preps-KVM-For-APX Among the Kernel-based Virtual Machine (KVM) work being queued ahead of the upcoming Linux 7.2 merge window are preparations for supporting Advanced Performance Extensions within KVM virtual machines... Wed, 10 Jun 2026 06:00:34 -0400 Michael Larabel https://www.phoronix.com/news/RADV-INST-PREF-SIZE-RDNA3 https://www.phoronix.com/news/RADV-INST-PREF-SIZE-RDNA3 Initially introduced in RDNA3 (GFX11) GPUs is INST_PREF_SIZE to specify the number of instruction bytes to prefetch prior to a wavefront beginning execution. The Mesa Radeon Vulkan driver "RADV" is now making use of this feature in RDNA3/RDNA4 GPUs for better instruction cache prefetching... Wed, 10 Jun 2026 05:49:50 -0400 Michael Larabel https://www.phoronix.com/news/Arm-CPU-Critical-CVE-2025-10263 https://www.phoronix.com/news/Arm-CPU-Critical-CVE-2025-10263 Made public today is CVE-2025-10263 as a "critical" security vulnerability affecting many different Arm CPU cores. CVE-2025-10263 could allow for privilege escalation on affected systems due to a specific timing condition during a memory permission change. Fundamentally it comes down to completion of affected memory accesses might not be guaranteed by the completion of a TLBI... Tue, 09 Jun 2026 20:35:56 -0400 Michael Larabel https://www.phoronix.com/news/Alpine-Linux-3.24 https://www.phoronix.com/news/Alpine-Linux-3.24 Alpine Linux, the Linux distribution popular especially for containers / micro-services and embedded devices, is out with its newest feature release... Tue, 09 Jun 2026 17:02:15 -0400 Michael Larabel https://www.phoronix.com/news/macOS-27-Beta-Breaks-Asahi https://www.phoronix.com/news/macOS-27-Beta-Breaks-Asahi Asahi Linux is warning its users from trying out the new macOS 27 "Golden Gate" beta released this week by Apple. With macOS 27 beta, the Asahi Linux partition is no longer visible and thus unable to boot to your Apple Silicon Linux installation... Tue, 09 Jun 2026 10:52:33 -0400 Michael Larabel https://www.phoronix.com/review/risc-v-5-year-performance https://www.phoronix.com/review/risc-v-5-year-performance Recently I published some initial SpacemiT K3 benchmarks for that first-to-market RISC-V RVA23 SoC with the K3 Pico-ITX mini computer. In there was a comparison against modern Intel Core Ultra and AMD Ryzen desktop CPUs along with the likes of the Raspberry Pi 5, Loongson 3B6000, and SiFive HiFive Premier. For those curious about the longer-term RISC-V performance, here is a look at how far the RISC-V hardware performance has come compared to the SiFive HiFive Unmatched RISC-V board from five years ago. Tue, 09 Jun 2026 10:12:00 -0400 Michael Larabel https://www.phoronix.com/news/Asterinas-0.18 https://www.phoronix.com/news/Asterinas-0.18 In addition to Redox OS continuing to evolve quite nicely for that from-scratch, Rust-based open-source OS, Asterinas OS is also continuing to move forward for that Rust-based operating system striving for Linux compatibility... Tue, 09 Jun 2026 08:43:01 -0400 Michael Larabel https://www.phoronix.com/news/Hygon-LLVM-Clang-Targeting https://www.phoronix.com/news/Hygon-LLVM-Clang-Targeting Following the recent Hygon C86-4G CPU support added to the GCC 17 compiler, the open-source LLVM Clang compiler has similarly seen Hygon c86-4g-m4 / c86-4g-m6 / c86-4g-m7 CPU support merged... Tue, 09 Jun 2026 08:23:51 -0400 Michael Larabel https://www.phoronix.com/news/Intel-KPT-For-QAT-Gen6 https://www.phoronix.com/news/Intel-KPT-For-QAT-Gen6 Going back to the launch of 1st Gen Xeon Scalable processors in 2017 was Intel Key Protection Technology (KPT) promoted and there have been Key Protection Technology references in QuickAssist (QAT) documentation since 2016. Surprisingly we are only now seeing Key Protection Technology references for the upstream Linux QAT driver as Intel engineers prepare for their next-gen "Gen6" QuickAssist hardware support... Tue, 09 Jun 2026 06:37:56 -0400 Michael Larabel https://www.phoronix.com/news/Pragtical-Adds-SDL-GPU https://www.phoronix.com/news/Pragtical-Adds-SDL-GPU Pragtical, the lightweight open-source code editor that prides itself on using just ~50MB of RAM and ~10MB of disk space while being a full-featured code editor, is tacking on more features. Most notable with the new Pragtical release is adding an SDL-based GPU back-end for this MIT-licensed editor... Tue, 09 Jun 2026 06:14:46 -0400 Michael Larabel https://www.phoronix.com/news/Vortex-3.0-RISC-V-GPGPU https://www.phoronix.com/news/Vortex-3.0-RISC-V-GPGPU The open-source developers at Georgia Tech working on Vortex as an OpenCL-compatible RISC-V GPGPU implementation are out with their next major release for this open-source GPU design... Tue, 09 Jun 2026 06:02:19 -0400 Michael Larabel https://www.phoronix.com/news/Ubuntu-MATE-Without-26.04 https://www.phoronix.com/news/Ubuntu-MATE-Without-26.04 Back in March, Martin Wimpress stepped down as the longtime Ubuntu MATE leader and was looking for contributors to keep this Ubuntu derivative going with its GNOME2-derived desktop. That change in leadership paired with no Ubuntu MATE 26.04 release having occurred led to some concerns among users, but the plan is still for Ubuntu MATE to continue moving forward... Mon, 08 Jun 2026 20:45:10 -0400 Michael Larabel https://www.phoronix.com/news/Fedora-44-RISC-V-Images https://www.phoronix.com/news/Fedora-44-RISC-V-Images Following the official Fedora 44 images released one month ago, Fedora 44 RISC-V images were published today for those wanting to run this newest Fedora Linux on RISC-V hardware... Mon, 08 Jun 2026 20:25:00 -0400 Michael Larabel https://www.phoronix.com/news/AMD-ufshcd-pci-Linux-7.2 https://www.phoronix.com/news/AMD-ufshcd-pci-Linux-7.2 Linux's ufshcd-pci as the Universal Flash Storage host controller PCI driver has supported a variety of Intel devices to this point while for Linux 7.2 the first AMD device is set to be added... Mon, 08 Jun 2026 18:17:08 -0400 Michael Larabel https://www.phoronix.com/news/CachyOS-Bore-Without-Ananicy https://www.phoronix.com/news/CachyOS-Bore-Without-Ananicy Last week I ran benchmarks of CachyOS with the BORE scheduler using its "linux-cachyos-bore" kernel option. The results didn't end up being as enticing as anticipated but the developer behind the BORE scheduler commented in the forums that he recently received reports from users experiencing game stuttering while using BORE that was attributed to CachyOS' default use of Ananicy-Cpp. So over the weekend I did another CachyOS BORE run without that CachyOS default... Mon, 08 Jun 2026 13:56:47 -0400 Michael Larabel https://www.phoronix.com/review/intel-b580-linux-71 https://www.phoronix.com/review/intel-b580-linux-71 Recent testing of the Intel Arc B580 Battlemage desktop graphics card has shown that the upcoming Linux 7.1 kernel release is delivering superior graphics performance over the current stable Linux 7.0 kernel. Mon, 08 Jun 2026 12:00:00 -0400 Michael Larabel https://www.phoronix.com/news/Xfce-Ported-To-Redox-OS https://www.phoronix.com/news/Xfce-Ported-To-Redox-OS The belated "This Month in Redox" was posted today for covering improvements made to this open-source, Rust-based operating system during the month of May. Most notable in May is seeing the Xfce desktop ported over to Redox OS... Mon, 08 Jun 2026 11:09:45 -0400 Michael Larabel