https://www.phoronix.com/ Linux Hardware Reviews, Performance Benchmarks & Open-Source / Free Software News en-us https://www.phoronix.com/news/AMDGPU-FRL-Disabled-By-Default https://www.phoronix.com/news/AMDGPU-FRL-Disabled-By-Default One of the most exciting developments in recent times for the open-source AMDGPU kernel graphics driver is HDMI 2.1 FRL support for the AMDGPU driver along with Display Stream Compression support as they work toward providing full HDMI 2.1 support for this open-source AMD Radeon driver. The details how AMD managed to pull this feat off given prior resistance from the HDMI Forum remains to be confirmed, but it's moving ahead and out today is the latest iteration of the HDMI 2.1 FRL+DSC patches... Wed, 20 May 2026 17:34:11 -0400 Michael Larabel https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-7.2-Likely-CAS https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-7.2-Likely-CAS As a very exciting development ahead of the Linux 7.2 kernel merge window opening in about one month's time, it looks like the long-awaited Cache Aware Scheduling support will finally be merged! CONFIG_SCHED_CACHE has made it into a TIP branch with all the Cache Aware Scheduling code for helping with Linux performance on modern CPUs sporting multiple last level caches... Wed, 20 May 2026 15:44:10 -0400 Michael Larabel https://www.phoronix.com/news/Firefox-Nightly-New-Settings https://www.phoronix.com/news/Firefox-Nightly-New-Settings The latest nightly builds of Firefox 153 have rolled out a new appearance for the browser's settings area... Wed, 20 May 2026 12:50:04 -0400 Michael Larabel https://www.phoronix.com/review/spacemit-k3-pico-itx https://www.phoronix.com/review/spacemit-k3-pico-itx One of the RISC-V SoCs we have been most looking forward to this year is the SpacemiT K3 that features the X100 RISC-V cores that are RVA23 compliant and among the first readily available RVA23 RISC-V platform for running on the likes of Ubuntu 26.04 LTS. In this article is a preview of some very early benchmarks of the SpacemiT K3 with the new Pico-ITX single board computer offering. Wed, 20 May 2026 11:43:25 -0400 Michael Larabel https://www.phoronix.com/news/Intel-XMM6260-Modem-Linux https://www.phoronix.com/news/Intel-XMM6260-Modem-Linux While it has been nearly seven years since Apple acquired the Intel Mobile Communications' smartphone modem business and fifteen years since Intel acquired the wireless solutions division of Infineon, in 2026 we might see mainline Linux kernel support for the out-of-date XMM6260 modem... Wed, 20 May 2026 10:25:16 -0400 Michael Larabel https://www.phoronix.com/news/Red-Hat-RHEL-10.2-RHEL-9.8 https://www.phoronix.com/news/Red-Hat-RHEL-10.2-RHEL-9.8 Red Hat today announced the releases of both Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10.2 as well as RHEL 9.8... Wed, 20 May 2026 09:51:42 -0400 Michael Larabel https://www.phoronix.com/news/Greg-KH-More-Rust-Linux https://www.phoronix.com/news/Greg-KH-More-Rust-Linux Greg Kroah-Hartman took time away from his duties as Linux's second-in-command as stable maintainer, various subsystem maintainer, and recent hobby of using AI/LLMs for uncovering Linux kernel bugs to present at the Rust Week conference... Wed, 20 May 2026 08:29:00 -0400 Michael Larabel https://www.phoronix.com/news/HP-Sponsoring-LVFS-Fwupd https://www.phoronix.com/news/HP-Sponsoring-LVFS-Fwupd That didn't take long. Mere days after Dell and Lenovo began sponsoring the Linux Vendor Firmware Service (LVFS) as premiere sponsors in contributing $100k+ annually to this open-source firmware updating initiative, HP is also now a premiere sponsor... Wed, 20 May 2026 06:32:12 -0400 Michael Larabel https://www.phoronix.com/news/FFmpeg-Vulkan-APV https://www.phoronix.com/news/FFmpeg-Vulkan-APV FFmpeg already supports CPU-based decoding for Samsung's APV as the Advanced Professional Video Codec. FFmpeg also has APV encode support too while now an interesting addition was merged this week: Vulkan-based acceleration for APV... Wed, 20 May 2026 06:25:00 -0400 Michael Larabel https://www.phoronix.com/news/Intel-LLM-Scaler-vLLM-PV-1.4 https://www.phoronix.com/news/Intel-LLM-Scaler-vLLM-PV-1.4 Intel software engineers today rolled out the llm-scaler-vllm PV v1.4 as the Docker build of their latest software stack for those wishing to run vLLM in a pre-configured, performant setup on their Arc (Pro) Graphics hardware... Wed, 20 May 2026 06:18:22 -0400 Michael Larabel https://www.phoronix.com/news/Valkey-9.1-Released https://www.phoronix.com/news/Valkey-9.1-Released Valkey 9.1 released on Tuesday as the latest version of this popular fork of the Redis in-memory, key-value database... Wed, 20 May 2026 06:04:57 -0400 Michael Larabel https://www.phoronix.com/news/GTK4-For-Vim https://www.phoronix.com/news/GTK4-For-Vim The GTK-based GUI version of the Vim text editor, gVim, now has support in place for the modern GTK4 toolkit as an alternative to its long present GTK2/GTK3 support... Tue, 19 May 2026 20:26:29 -0400 Michael Larabel https://www.phoronix.com/news/Fedora-Removing-Deepin https://www.phoronix.com/news/Fedora-Removing-Deepin A year after SUSE decided to remove its Deepin desktop packages over ongoing security concerns, Fedora Linux is now also removing their Deepin packages over similar concerns and lack of activity in maintaining the packages... Tue, 19 May 2026 14:30:31 -0400 Michael Larabel https://www.phoronix.com/news/AMD-EPYC-8005-SKU-Table https://www.phoronix.com/news/AMD-EPYC-8005-SKU-Table Back in late February AMD announced the EPYC 8005 "Sorano" series to succeed EPYC 8004 Siena. At the time details were light while today AMD published the SKU table and more details on the EPYC 8005 series... Tue, 19 May 2026 11:25:38 -0400 Michael Larabel https://www.phoronix.com/news/OpenBSD-7.9-Released https://www.phoronix.com/news/OpenBSD-7.9-Released Theo de Raadt announced the release today of OpenBSD 7.9 as the latest feature update to this unique BSD platform... Tue, 19 May 2026 11:03:40 -0400 Michael Larabel https://www.phoronix.com/news/Mageia-10-RC1 https://www.phoronix.com/news/Mageia-10-RC1 Following the ISOs dropping a few days ago, today the Mageia 10 release candidate was officially announced for those fond of this Linux distribution with its roots tracing back to Mageia and Mandrake Linux... Tue, 19 May 2026 09:52:42 -0400 Michael Larabel https://www.phoronix.com/news/Ubuntu-Core-26 https://www.phoronix.com/news/Ubuntu-Core-26 Following last month's release of Ubuntu 26.04 LTS, Canonical today released Ubuntu Core 26... Tue, 19 May 2026 09:01:36 -0400 Michael Larabel https://www.phoronix.com/news/Intel-Bartlett-Lake-P-State-7.2 https://www.phoronix.com/news/Intel-Bartlett-Lake-P-State-7.2 The fix is set to land in the upcoming Linux 7.2 kernel so the P-core-only Bartlett Lake processors will not report bogus maximum frequency values... Tue, 19 May 2026 06:00:00 -0400 Michael Larabel 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