https://www.phoronix.com/ Linux Hardware Reviews, Performance Benchmarks & Open-Source / Free Software News en-us https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-7.1-SoCs https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-7.1-SoCs All of the SoC updates were recently merged for the ongoing Linux 7.1 kernel cycle. Most of the activity as usual is on the Arm side but also with some RISC-V additions too for the Linux 7.1 kernel... Wed, 22 Apr 2026 20:22:23 -0400 Michael Larabel https://www.phoronix.com/news/Intel-Ends-OSS-Evangelism-Repos https://www.phoronix.com/news/Intel-Ends-OSS-Evangelism-Repos Over the past number of months there has been a steady flow of Intel open-source projects archived on GitHub amid the corporate restructuring at the company and realigning of their open-source focus. This week another batch of Intel open-source projects were formally archived... Wed, 22 Apr 2026 16:28:32 -0400 Michael Larabel https://www.phoronix.com/news/Ubuntu-Rust-Coreutils-Audit https://www.phoronix.com/news/Ubuntu-Rust-Coreutils-Audit Ahead of tomorrow's Ubuntu 26.04 LTS release, Canonical published a blog post today outlining the state of Rust Coreutils for its premiere in this long-term support (LTS) version. Canonical also commissioned a security audit recently of Rust Coreutils that turned up 44 CVEs and 113 issues in total... Wed, 22 Apr 2026 12:21:09 -0400 Michael Larabel https://www.phoronix.com/news/GCC-16.1-Coming-Soon https://www.phoronix.com/news/GCC-16.1-Coming-Soon GCC 16.1 as the first stable version of the GCC 16 compiler is nearly ready for its official debut as this year's major feature release for this open-source compiler... Wed, 22 Apr 2026 11:53:15 -0400 Michael Larabel https://www.phoronix.com/news/FreeBSD-Q1-2026-Progress https://www.phoronix.com/news/FreeBSD-Q1-2026-Progress FreeBSD is out today with their Q1-2026 status report to outline the many different development initiatives their open-source developers have participated in over the past quarter. There is a lot of hardware enablement efforts ongoing as well as continuing to make a more compelling desktop experience and also improving GUI and management options for FreeBSD systems... Wed, 22 Apr 2026 11:30:03 -0400 Michael Larabel https://www.phoronix.com/news/KMSCON-9.3.4-Released https://www.phoronix.com/news/KMSCON-9.3.4-Released KMSCON 9.3.4 is out today for this virtual terminal (VT) emulator in user-space that runs atop the Linux DRM/KMS APIs for those wanting to enjoy a CONFIG_VT=n Linux kernel experience... Wed, 22 Apr 2026 10:26:15 -0400 Michael Larabel https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-7.1-Networking https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-7.1-Networking Merged recently to Linux Git were the big set of networking changes for the Linux 7.1 kernel... Wed, 22 Apr 2026 10:11:06 -0400 Michael Larabel https://www.phoronix.com/news/Ubuntu-More-Devpacks-Future https://www.phoronix.com/news/Ubuntu-More-Devpacks-Future Canonical is out with a new blog post today outlining toolchain changes to Ubuntu Linux from Ubuntu 24.04 LTS to Ubuntu 26.04 LTS due for release tomorrow. While those changes over the past two years aren't too news worthy if you have been following the interim Ubuntu releases, what's interesting is their road ahead on the Ubuntu toolchain front for developers... Wed, 22 Apr 2026 09:50:15 -0400 Michael Larabel https://www.phoronix.com/news/Intel-LLM-Scaler-vllm-0.14-b8.2 https://www.phoronix.com/news/Intel-LLM-Scaler-vllm-0.14-b8.2 As part of Intel's LLM-Scaler initiative for AI inferencing on Intel Arc hardware, out today is their vllm-0.14.0-b8.2 update that includes officially supporting the Arc Pro B70 graphics card... Wed, 22 Apr 2026 08:54:02 -0400 Michael Larabel https://www.phoronix.com/news/Intel-Media-Driver-2026Q1 https://www.phoronix.com/news/Intel-Media-Driver-2026Q1 Intel today published their official quarterly feature release to their open-source Media Driver providing Video Acceleration API (VA-API) support on Linux... Wed, 22 Apr 2026 08:26:06 -0400 Michael Larabel https://www.phoronix.com/news/Ghostty-Ubuntu-26.04 https://www.phoronix.com/news/Ghostty-Ubuntu-26.04 Since Ubuntu 25.04 Ptyxis has been the default terminal emulator after it initially became available in Ubuntu 24.10. For the upcoming Ubuntu 26.04 LTS release, Ptyxis remains the default but Ghostty is now available too... Wed, 22 Apr 2026 06:27:40 -0400 Michael Larabel https://www.phoronix.com/news/QEMU-11.0-Released https://www.phoronix.com/news/QEMU-11.0-Released The QEMU 11.0 emulator is now available for this important piece of the open-source Linux virtualization stack... Wed, 22 Apr 2026 06:14:38 -0400 Michael Larabel https://www.phoronix.com/news/F2FS-Linux-7.1 https://www.phoronix.com/news/F2FS-Linux-7.1 The Flash Friendly File-System (F2FS) updates have been merged for the ongoing Linux 7.1 merge window that will wrap up on Sunday. This follows earlier merges for the XFS and EXT4 drivers too... Tue, 21 Apr 2026 20:48:48 -0400 Michael Larabel https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-Old-Network-AI https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-Old-Network-AI Old network maintenance drivers are becoming a maintenance burden in the era of fuzzing and predominantly AI-driven bug detection causing an uptick in possible bug/security reports to upstream Linux kernel developers but with these drivers potentially having no actual users... Tue, 21 Apr 2026 15:45:52 -0400 Michael Larabel https://www.phoronix.com/news/Framework-Laptop-13-Pro https://www.phoronix.com/news/Framework-Laptop-13-Pro At Framework Computer's next-gen hardware launch event today they announced the Framework Laptop 13 Pro as a ground-up redesign of their 13-inch modular laptop... Tue, 21 Apr 2026 14:15:01 -0400 Michael Larabel https://www.phoronix.com/news/FW-OCuLink-Dev-Kit-Preview https://www.phoronix.com/news/FW-OCuLink-Dev-Kit-Preview In addition to announcing the Framework Laptop 13 Pro today, Framework Computer at their next-gen hardware event also previewed the OCuLink Dev Kit for attaching high throughput peripherals like external GPUs (eGPUs) to Framework Laptops... Tue, 21 Apr 2026 14:15:00 -0400 Michael Larabel https://www.phoronix.com/news/AlmaLinux-Age-Verification-Laws https://www.phoronix.com/news/AlmaLinux-Age-Verification-Laws The RHEL-derived AlmaLinux is the latest Linux distribution commenting on the recent age verification laws led by California with their Digital Age Assurance Act... Tue, 21 Apr 2026 12:40:18 -0400 Michael Larabel https://www.phoronix.com/news/NTFS-3G-Driver-2026 https://www.phoronix.com/news/NTFS-3G-Driver-2026 Coming today as a big surprise -- one week after the new NTFS file-system driver was merged for Linux 7.1 and separately the existing NTFS3 kernel driver seeing some fixes -- is a new release of the NTFS-3G driver providing a FUSE-based user-space driver for NTFS on Linux and other platforms... Tue, 21 Apr 2026 11:41:57 -0400 Michael Larabel https://www.phoronix.com/review/amd-ryzen-9950x3d2-linux https://www.phoronix.com/review/amd-ryzen-9950x3d2-linux Today we can finally share performance benchmarks of the long-rumored AMD Ryzen 9 9950X3D2 Dual Edition processor. This new halo product for the Ryzen 9000 series desktop line-up offers captivating performance for developers frequently compiling code, creators, technical computing workloads for students or hobbyists or those not able to afford a Threadripper / EPYC type workstation, or similar heavy computing use. With the 16 cores / 32 threads and both CCDs having 3D V-Cache, the AMD Ryzen 9 9950X3D2 offers leading performance among current generation desktop processors. Tue, 21 Apr 2026 09:00:00 -0400 Michael Larabel https://www.phoronix.com/news/Intel-IRDMA-Gen4-Linux-7.1 https://www.phoronix.com/news/Intel-IRDMA-Gen4-Linux-7.1 The IRDMA driver as Intel's modern Remote Direct Memory Access (RDMA) Linux driver for their high-end Ethernet network controllers is preparing support for new hardware... Tue, 21 Apr 2026 08:55:28 -0400 Michael Larabel https://www.phoronix.com/news/RADV-Default-Host-Image-Copy https://www.phoronix.com/news/RADV-Default-Host-Image-Copy Introduced back in 2023 with Vulkan 1.3.258 was VK_EXT_host_image_copy to copy data between host memory and images on the host processor without needing to stage the data through a CPU-accessible buffer. This direct CPU-to-GPU image data transfer path can reduce memory usage during asset loads and all around more efficiency and performance. Finally now the RADV open-source Radeon driver is enabling support by default... Tue, 21 Apr 2026 08:24:59 -0400 Michael Larabel https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-7.1-Arm-C1-Pro-Fix https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-7.1-Arm-C1-Pro-Fix Merged yesterday to the Linux 7.1 kernel is a workaround for an Arm C1-Pro CPU hardware bug around its Scalable Matrix Extension implementation... Tue, 21 Apr 2026 06:35:16 -0400 Michael Larabel https://www.phoronix.com/news/Initial-Linux-SDXI-Driver https://www.phoronix.com/news/Initial-Linux-SDXI-Driver Recently sent out on the Linux kernel mailing list was the initial patches for implementing the Smart Data Accelerator Interface (SDXI) as a vendor-neutral architecture for memory-to-memory data movement offload... Tue, 21 Apr 2026 06:22:31 -0400 Michael Larabel https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-7.1-Staging https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-7.1-Staging Over the weekend Greg Kroah-Hartman sent out his various pull requests for the areas of the kernel he oversees. Among those is the staging area where this time around the notable activity isn't too much about feature work but many developers making some of their first contributions to the upstream kernel... Tue, 21 Apr 2026 06:00:45 -0400 Michael Larabel https://www.phoronix.com/news/AMD-GAIA-Import-Export-Agent https://www.phoronix.com/news/AMD-GAIA-Import-Export-Agent AMD on the software side continues investing heavily in GAIA "Generative AI Is Awesome" as their cross-platform solution built around the Lemonade SDK for running local AI agents on your AMD-powered hardware from CPUs to GPUs and NPUs. With today's GAIA update, custom-generated AI agents are now portable with easy import and export support... Mon, 20 Apr 2026 20:36:00 -0400 Michael Larabel https://www.phoronix.com/news/HarfBuzz-14.2-Released https://www.phoronix.com/news/HarfBuzz-14.2-Released Released at the beginning of the month was a new version of HarfBuzz, a widely-used, open-source text shaping engine. With this HarfBuzz 14.0 release it introduced a GPU-based text rasterization library that supported GLSL shaders as well as HLSL, WGSL, and APple's Metal MSL. Since then this GPU-accelerated library has been seeing more improvements... Mon, 20 Apr 2026 20:23:56 -0400 Michael Larabel https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-7.1-KVM https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-7.1-KVM The Kernel-based Virtual Machine changes were recently merged for the Linux 7.1 merge window for further enhancing KVM as this important piece of the open-source virtualization stack... Mon, 20 Apr 2026 15:59:34 -0400 Michael Larabel https://www.phoronix.com/news/NTFS3-Linux-7.1 https://www.phoronix.com/news/NTFS3-Linux-7.1 Last week saw the "NTFS resurrection" as Linux Torvalds put it with the new/overhauled NTFS driver having been merged for Linux 7.1. Even still, the NTFS3 driver that was contributed a few years ago by Paragon Software remains in the mainline kernel and today were some fixes/improvements merged for that existing driver... Mon, 20 Apr 2026 15:41:37 -0400 Michael Larabel 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/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