https://www.phoronix.com/ Linux Hardware Reviews, Performance Benchmarks & Open-Source / Free Software News en-us https://www.phoronix.com/news/Box64-0.4.2-Released https://www.phoronix.com/news/Box64-0.4.2-Released While FEX-Emu has been garnering a lot of attention due to being sponsored by Valve and slated to be used by the Steam Frame for running Linux x86_64 binaries on AArch64, the Box64 project continues moving along with similar goals for x86_64 binaries on other CPU architectures... Mon, 20 Apr 2026 13:16:36 -0400 Michael Larabel https://www.phoronix.com/news/Git-2.54-Released https://www.phoronix.com/news/Git-2.54-Released Git developers continue working toward Git 3.0 while out today is Git 2.54 with a few interesting additions... Mon, 20 Apr 2026 13:03:58 -0400 Michael Larabel https://www.phoronix.com/news/GNU-Coreutils-9.11 https://www.phoronix.com/news/GNU-Coreutils-9.11 It's not only the uutil's Rust Coreutils project seeing performance improvements but some increased healthy competition now from GNU Coreutils. With today's release of GNU Coreutils 9.11 the wc command is up to multiple times faster and even cat can be up to 15 times faster... Mon, 20 Apr 2026 10:48:20 -0400 Michael Larabel https://www.phoronix.com/news/Firefox-150 https://www.phoronix.com/news/Firefox-150 Mozilla today published their Firefox 150 release binaries as the latest milestone for this open-source web browser with growing AI ambitions... Mon, 20 Apr 2026 10:34:36 -0400 Michael Larabel https://www.phoronix.com/news/Intel-Compute-26.14.37833.4 https://www.phoronix.com/news/Intel-Compute-26.14.37833.4 Out today is the Intel Compute Runtime 26.14.37833.4 that now includes production support for the newly-launched Wildcat Lake cut-down Panther Lake SoCs that debuted last week as the Core Series 3... Mon, 20 Apr 2026 09:51:06 -0400 Michael Larabel https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-7.1-MM https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-7.1-MM Andrew Morton recently sent out his various "MM" related pull requests for the ongoing Linux 7.1 kernel. There are a number of memory management optimizations in this next kernel version, which is always nice to see but all the more so these days with the inflated RAM pricing and other computer component prices... Mon, 20 Apr 2026 09:35:30 -0400 Michael Larabel https://www.phoronix.com/news/Redb-4.1-Released https://www.phoronix.com/news/Redb-4.1-Released Redb is one of the open-source, embed-friendly key-value databases written in the Rust programming language. Redb is ACID-compliant while known for being high performance and with its new Redb 4.1 release is even faster thanks to some improvements authored by Claude (AI)... Mon, 20 Apr 2026 06:27:24 -0400 Michael Larabel https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-7.1-Graphics-Drivers https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-7.1-Graphics-Drivers The Direct Rendering Manager (DRM) kernel graphics driver and accelerator driver changes for Linux 7.1 were recently merged to Git. As usual, it's the Intel and AMD kernel graphics drivers seeing a bulk of the interesting open-source GPU driver activity. Plus ongoing work to make Rust-based GPU drivers more viable... Mon, 20 Apr 2026 06:12:48 -0400 Michael Larabel https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-7.1-JFS https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-7.1-JFS It's pretty rare nowadays seeing any real changes to the JFS file-system on Linux when there are multiple far superior solutions available. But in any event, the JFS file-system driver has seen a few fixes in Linux 7.1... Mon, 20 Apr 2026 05:58:12 -0400 Michael Larabel https://www.phoronix.com/news/LXQt-2.4-Released https://www.phoronix.com/news/LXQt-2.4-Released The LXQt 2.4 desktop released today for joining the modern open-source desktop party alongside the likes of the recently debuted GNOME 50, KDE Plasma 6.6, and others... Mon, 20 Apr 2026 05:36:48 -0400 Michael Larabel https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-7.1-HID https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-7.1-HID The HID subsystem updates landed this week for the in-development Linux 7.1 kernel that includes new hardware support and other changes... Sun, 19 Apr 2026 20:42:18 -0400 Michael Larabel https://www.phoronix.com/news/GIMP-3.2.4-Released https://www.phoronix.com/news/GIMP-3.2.4-Released Following last month's GIMP 3.2 feature release that was followed by the GIMP 3.2.2 point release at the end of March, out now is GIMP 3.2.4 to ship more fixes to users of this open-source alternative to Adobe Photoshop and other imaging applications... Sun, 19 Apr 2026 18:45:44 -0400 Michael Larabel https://www.phoronix.com/news/Debian-DPL-Sruthi-Chandran https://www.phoronix.com/news/Debian-DPL-Sruthi-Chandran Sruthi Chandran has been elected the new Debian Project Leader "DPL" after running unopposed in this year's elections... Sun, 19 Apr 2026 16:58:26 -0400 Michael Larabel https://www.phoronix.com/news/GNOME-Fixes-VA-API-H264-Rate https://www.phoronix.com/news/GNOME-Fixes-VA-API-H264-Rate A fix today for GNOME Shell's screen casting/recording service was merged after it was reported that H.264 recordings using the Video Acceleration API (VA-API) are around 18x larger than they should be like when using the VP8 software fallback... Sun, 19 Apr 2026 15:14:03 -0400 Michael Larabel https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-7.1-PCI https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-7.1-PCI The PCI subsystem updates were merged this week for the Linux 7.1 kernel with a wide assortment of PCI(e) changes from new to old hardware... Sun, 19 Apr 2026 13:40:22 -0400 Michael Larabel https://www.phoronix.com/news/AMD-Harvested-GPUs-Linux https://www.phoronix.com/news/AMD-Harvested-GPUs-Linux Timur Kristóf of Valve's Linux graphics driver team is the one that worked on improving the old AMD Radeon GCN 1.0/1.1 graphics card support by making AMDGPU driver improvements so it could become the default for these Southern Islands and Sea Islands GPUs rather than the legacy Radeon kernel driver. That meant better performance, RADV Vulkan support out-of-the-box, and other benefits. More recently he finished AMDGPU improvements for Kaveri and other GCN 1.1 era APUs. Now Timur's out with some more fixes for helping select GCN 1.0 hardware... Sun, 19 Apr 2026 09:25:50 -0400 Michael Larabel https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-7.1-Sound https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-7.1-Sound The sound subsystem changes were merged this week for Linux 7.1 that include some new hardware support and other useful additions... Sun, 19 Apr 2026 07:07:21 -0400 Michael Larabel https://www.phoronix.com/news/CachyOS-Super-Charged-Linux-7.0 https://www.phoronix.com/news/CachyOS-Super-Charged-Linux-7.0 The popular Arch Linux based CachyOS has now rolled out the Linux 7.0 kernel to its users. But beyond re-basing against the latest upstream kernel version it is also carrying some extra patches... Sun, 19 Apr 2026 06:44:05 -0400 Michael Larabel https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-7.1-Crypto-QAT-Zstd https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-7.1-Crypto-QAT-Zstd In addition to the notable libcrypto optimizations and improvements merged during this first week of the Linux 7.1 merge window, the main cryptography subsystem pull was also merged. Notable here are the Intel QuickAssist (QAT) improvements... Sun, 19 Apr 2026 06:30:00 -0400 Michael Larabel https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-7.1-Block-Changes https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-7.1-Block-Changes The block subsystem and IO_uring changes were merged this week for Linux 7.1 in continuing to enhance Linux storage capabilities... Sat, 18 Apr 2026 20:25:46 -0400 Michael Larabel https://www.phoronix.com/news/GhostBSD-26.1-R15.0p2 https://www.phoronix.com/news/GhostBSD-26.1-R15.0p2 GhostBSD 26.1-R15.0p2 released today as a big upgrade for this desktop-focused, BSD operating system derived from FreeBSD... Sat, 18 Apr 2026 15:15:53 -0400 Michael Larabel https://www.phoronix.com/news/AMD-2026-New-SMCA-Bank-Types https://www.phoronix.com/news/AMD-2026-New-SMCA-Bank-Types The AMD Machine Check Exception "mce_amd" driver as part of the Error Detection And Correction (EDAC) subsystem is introducing support for new SMCA bank types on AMD platforms. Given the timing these new bank types are presumably for AMD's upcoming Zen 6 / EPYC Venice hardware... Sat, 18 Apr 2026 14:41:23 -0400 Michael Larabel https://www.phoronix.com/news/WireGuard-For-Windows-1.0 https://www.phoronix.com/news/WireGuard-For-Windows-1.0 For those making use of the WireGuard open-source, secure VPN tunnel software, WireGuard For Windows 1.0 is finally available... Sat, 18 Apr 2026 13:40:05 -0400 Michael Larabel https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-7.1-Scheduler https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-7.1-Scheduler The scheduler changes for Linux 7.1 are now in place and may bring performance benefits for at least some systems and workloads... Sat, 18 Apr 2026 07:06:14 -0400 Michael Larabel https://www.phoronix.com/news/GNOME-Graphs-2.0-Maps-Transit https://www.phoronix.com/news/GNOME-Graphs-2.0-Maps-Transit For pairing nicely with the GNOME 50 desktop release last month, a number of GNOME-associated apps have been seeing new features and refinements... Sat, 18 Apr 2026 06:45:00 -0400 Michael Larabel https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-7.1-HRTIMER-Overhaul https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-7.1-HRTIMER-Overhaul Merged this week for Linux 7.1 was a rework of the high resolution timer "HRTIMER" subsystem for reducing the overhead of frequently-armed timers, such as the HRTICK scheduler timer. The HRTICK scheduler timer is useful for enhancing system responsiveness and fairness... Sat, 18 Apr 2026 06:36:48 -0400 Michael Larabel https://www.phoronix.com/news/KDE-Plasma-6.7-Session https://www.phoronix.com/news/KDE-Plasma-6.7-Session KDE Plasma 6.7 enjoyed a lot of recent feature development work thanks to a developer sprint in Graz, Austria. Also because of that developer sprint, This Week In Plasma wasn't published last week and so in turn a new issue is now available to highlight the changes over the past two weeks... Sat, 18 Apr 2026 06:05:54 -0400 Michael Larabel https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-7.1-New-NTFS-Driver https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-7.1-New-NTFS-Driver As a very exciting follow-up to the recent article around the new NTFS driver being submitted for Linux 7.1 to address the shortcomings of the current Paragon NTFS3 driver and the prior read-only NTFS kernel driver, that work has been merged!.. Fri, 17 Apr 2026 20:57:44 -0400 Michael Larabel https://www.phoronix.com/news/AMD-FP-DSS-Zen-1-Bug https://www.phoronix.com/news/AMD-FP-DSS-Zen-1-Bug Made public today was the Floating Point Divider State Sampling bug (stylized as FP-DSS or FPDSS) affecting original AMD Zen 1 (and Zen 1+) processors. The Linux kernel is already to go with a security fix for those still relying on the very first Ryzen or EPYC processors... Fri, 17 Apr 2026 20:35:23 -0400 Michael Larabel https://www.phoronix.com/news/Wine-11.7-Released https://www.phoronix.com/news/Wine-11.7-Released For those using upstream Wine for running your Windows games/apps on Linux rather than the likes of the Proton 11.0 beta, out today is Wine 11.7 as the newest bi-weekly development release... Fri, 17 Apr 2026 20:24:56 -0400 Michael Larabel https://www.phoronix.com/review/ubuntu-2604-xe2-lunar-lake https://www.phoronix.com/review/ubuntu-2604-xe2-lunar-lake Given the Ubuntu 26.04 LTS release being imminent and also realizing it's been nearly one year to the day since reviewing the Lenovo ThinkPad X1 Carbon Gen 13 Aura Edition laptop under Linux, I ran some fresh benchmarks for seeing how the integrated Xe2 graphics have evolved on Linux over the past year. Fri, 17 Apr 2026 10:52:00 -0400 Michael Larabel https://www.phoronix.com/review/intel-core-ultra-7-270k-plus https://www.phoronix.com/review/intel-core-ultra-7-270k-plus Last month Intel began shipping the Intel Core Ultra 7 270K Plus "Arrow Lake Refresh" desktop processor. This is a mighty interesting processor for the $349 USD price point with more cores and a larger cache compared to the Core Ultra 7 265K and capable of delivering much of the performance of the flagship Core Ultra 9 285K Arrow Lake processor. In today's article is a look at how well the Intel Core Ultra 7 270K Plus performs under Linux with more than 340 different benchmarks representing a range of Linux workloads from gaming to creator to developer and technical computing uses. Thu, 16 Apr 2026 12:00:00 -0400 Michael Larabel