https://www.phoronix.com/ Linux Hardware Reviews, Performance Benchmarks & Open-Source / Free Software News en-us https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-Sched-QoS-v0.1 https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-Sched-QoS-v0.1 Linux developer Qais Yousef with Google has announced the alpha release of Sched QoS as a new initiative for user-space assisted scheduling. The scheduling model in turn is based in part on Apple's quality of service classes used by iOS for classifying software as user interactive, user initiative, utility, or background tasks... Wed, 15 Apr 2026 09:18:20 -0400 Michael Larabel https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-7.1-clone3 https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-7.1-clone3 The clone3() system call in Linux 7.1 is adding three new flags for greater control over the creation of child processes... Wed, 15 Apr 2026 08:45:48 -0400 Michael Larabel https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-7.1-EDAC https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-7.1-EDAC The Error Detection And Correction "EDAC" subsystem updates have been merged for Linux 7.1 that deal with reporting of ECC memory errors and the like from various hardware drivers... Wed, 15 Apr 2026 06:33:57 -0400 Michael Larabel https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-7.1-x86-asm https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-7.1-x86-asm The x86/asm changes merged yesterday for the Linux 7.1 kernel with a few low-level improvements... Wed, 15 Apr 2026 06:25:28 -0400 Michael Larabel https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-7.1-exFAT https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-7.1-exFAT The exFAT file-system changes have landed for the in-development Linux 7.1 kernel... Wed, 15 Apr 2026 06:12:47 -0400 Michael Larabel https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-7.1-Begins-Removing-i486 https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-7.1-Begins-Removing-i486 As a follow-up to the news first-covered on Phoronix earlier this month about Linux 7.1 expected to begin removing i486 CPU support: it indeed happened. Linus Torvalds took the initial removal bits today without any fuss today for beginning the phase out of M486 / M486SX / ELAN kernel support... Tue, 14 Apr 2026 20:14:12 -0400 Michael Larabel https://www.phoronix.com/news/AMD-ROCm-7.2.2 https://www.phoronix.com/news/AMD-ROCm-7.2.2 ROCm 7.2.2 is out today as a small point release to this open-source AMD GPU compute stack. There are a few code changes but most notable is arguably on the documentation side... Tue, 14 Apr 2026 18:57:54 -0400 Michael Larabel https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-7.1-VFS-Kino-32-bit https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-7.1-VFS-Kino-32-bit Code now merged for the Linux 7.1 kernel may provide some negative performance implications for those still running modern Linux kernels on 32-bit hardware. A fundamental change can present cache line alignment and slab sizing implications for 32-bit Linux OS users but will provide for cleaner code with modern 64-bit computing... Tue, 14 Apr 2026 16:21:30 -0400 Michael Larabel https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linus-Rejects-Linux-7.1 https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linus-Rejects-Linux-7.1 While a lot of interesting new features and changes have been merged already for the Linux 7.1 merge window, two pull requests stand out so far for being rejected by Linus Torvalds and complete with his to-the-point commentary... Tue, 14 Apr 2026 15:08:04 -0400 Michael Larabel https://www.phoronix.com/review/ubuntu-2604-strix-point https://www.phoronix.com/review/ubuntu-2604-strix-point As part of my ongoing testing around the upcoming Ubuntu 26.04 release I have been running a lot of benchmarks. After recently showing some nice performance gains for AMD Ryzen AI Max "Strix Halo" with Ubuntu 26.04, several Phoronix readers inquired about any performance uplift from the more modest but still powerful Strix Point laptops like the popular Ryzen AI 9 HX 370 SKU. Here are benchmarks showing the performance of Ubuntu 26.04 in its near final state compared to Ubuntu 24.04.4 LTS with its HWE stack on an ASUS Zenbook S16. Tue, 14 Apr 2026 13:22:37 -0400 Michael Larabel https://www.phoronix.com/news/Nginx-1.30-Released https://www.phoronix.com/news/Nginx-1.30-Released Nginx 1.30 was just released as the newest stable version of this popular web server. Nginx 1.30 incorporates all of the changes from the Nginx 1.29.x mainline branch to provide a lot of new functionality like Multipath TCP (MPTCP)... Tue, 14 Apr 2026 11:26:00 -0400 Michael Larabel https://www.phoronix.com/news/GNOME-Mutter-50.1 https://www.phoronix.com/news/GNOME-Mutter-50.1 GNOME Shell 50.1 and Mutter 50.1 were released today as the first point releases in the GNOME 50 series... Tue, 14 Apr 2026 11:02:06 -0400 Michael Larabel https://www.phoronix.com/news/X.Org-Server-21.1.22 https://www.phoronix.com/news/X.Org-Server-21.1.22 X.Org Server 21.1.22 is out today and driven by five new security vulnerabilities being disclosed for the aging codebase. In turn these vulnerabilities also impact XWayland too and thus necessitating the XWayland 24.1.10 release... Tue, 14 Apr 2026 09:59:38 -0400 Michael Larabel https://www.phoronix.com/news/Sunshine-v2026.413.143228 https://www.phoronix.com/news/Sunshine-v2026.413.143228 Sunshine v2026.413.143228 released this week as a new feature release for this self-hosted game stream host for Moonlight, an open-source game streaming client that is an implementation of the NVIDIA GameStream protocol. Notable with this Sunshine release is Vulkan Video encode support as an alternative to using the Video Acceleration API (VA-API) for game streaming... Tue, 14 Apr 2026 09:48:11 -0400 Michael Larabel https://www.phoronix.com/news/OpenSSL-4.0-Released https://www.phoronix.com/news/OpenSSL-4.0-Released OpenSSL 4.0 was just released as a big update for this widely-used SSL/TLS and crypto library... Tue, 14 Apr 2026 09:18:06 -0400 Michael Larabel https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-7.1-Revamps-T10-PI https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-7.1-Revamps-T10-PI Merged yesterday for the Linux 7.1 kernel is overhauling the T10 PI code for generating and verifying data integrity information. In turn the new code is cleaner while also allowing for better read storage performance... Tue, 14 Apr 2026 09:03:36 -0400 Michael Larabel https://www.phoronix.com/news/RADV-Merges-Descriptor-Heap https://www.phoronix.com/news/RADV-Merges-Descriptor-Heap As a big helper for Valve's Steam Play with DXVK and VKD3D-Proton, the Mesa Radeon Vulkan driver "RADV" has merged its initial support for the VK_EXT_descriptor_heap Vulkan extension... Tue, 14 Apr 2026 08:23:08 -0400 Michael Larabel https://www.phoronix.com/news/KDE-Per-Screen-Virt-Desktops https://www.phoronix.com/news/KDE-Per-Screen-Virt-Desktops A request made a KDE user all the way back in June 2005 on KDE 3.3.2 is finally resolved. After being sought after for 21 years, the latest KWin code now has support for per-screen virtual desktops... Tue, 14 Apr 2026 06:24:13 -0400 Michael Larabel https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-7.1-Power-Management https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-7.1-Power-Management All of the power management subsystem feature updates have been merged for the Linux 7.1 kernel... Tue, 14 Apr 2026 06:10:00 -0400 Michael Larabel https://www.phoronix.com/news/Haiku-OS-ARM64-Booting https://www.phoronix.com/news/Haiku-OS-ARM64-Booting Over the course of March there was much progress made on the ARM64 port of Haiku OS, the open-source operating system serving as the spiritual successor to BeOS... Tue, 14 Apr 2026 05:57:47 -0400 Michael Larabel https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-7.1-Fast-ARM64-CRC64-NVMe https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-7.1-Fast-ARM64-CRC64-NVMe Merged yesterday were all the CRC code updates for the Linux 7.1 kernel. Most notable with that pull is an ARM64-optimized CRC64-NVMe implementation that can deliver multiple times faster performance... Tue, 14 Apr 2026 05:50:00 -0400 Michael Larabel https://www.phoronix.com/news/jemalloc-5.3.1 https://www.phoronix.com/news/jemalloc-5.3.1 Jemalloc 5.3.1 was released today with next month marking four years since the prior release, jemalloc 5.3.0. While the version bump may not seem like much, jemalloc 5.3.1 comes with many performance improvements, new features, and other enhancements... Mon, 13 Apr 2026 20:22:26 -0400 Michael Larabel https://www.phoronix.com/news/GreenBoost-Proton-NVIDIA-vRAM https://www.phoronix.com/news/GreenBoost-Proton-NVIDIA-vRAM Last month we showcased GreenBoost as an open-source means of augmenting NVIDIA GPU vRAM with system RAM and NVMe storage. This memory tiering solution for NVIDIA GPUs was developed by an open-source developer with a focus on CUDA and allowing larger LLMs to be handled on graphics cards with smaller vRAM capacities. There was a setback to the project due to NVIDIA legal but now the project is going in new form and also has introduced GreenBoost-Proton for helping Linux gaming on NVIDIA hardware... Mon, 13 Apr 2026 15:30:00 -0400 Michael Larabel https://www.phoronix.com/news/Coreboot-StarBook-MK-VI https://www.phoronix.com/news/Coreboot-StarBook-MK-VI For those that had purchased a StarBook MK VI laptop 3+ years ago over the advertised support for Coreboot, Star Labs has now delivered with a Coreboot build finally available and working for this AMD Ryzen 5000 series powered laptop... Mon, 13 Apr 2026 15:05:57 -0400 Michael Larabel https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-7.1-User-xattrs-Sockets https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-7.1-User-xattrs-Sockets On this first day of the Linux 7.1 merge window, among the early pull requests merged were beginning to land the various VFS pull requests submitted by Christian Brauner. Among that code merged is enabling support for user.* extended attributes on sockets... Mon, 13 Apr 2026 14:45:50 -0400 Michael Larabel https://www.phoronix.com/news/LLVM-Generated-Spack-Packages https://www.phoronix.com/news/LLVM-Generated-Spack-Packages The Spack package manager is quite popular in the HPC / supercomputer space for scientific software. Even with the more selective niche than a typical general purpose OS package manager, large language models (LLMs) have already proven capable of being useful in generating new Spack packages. But there have also been some headaches involved too for Spack developers... Mon, 13 Apr 2026 12:13:54 -0400 Michael Larabel https://www.phoronix.com/news/NVIDIA-More-Engineers-CUDA-Tile https://www.phoronix.com/news/NVIDIA-More-Engineers-CUDA-Tile Last year NVIDIA announced the new CUDA Tile programming model as one of the biggest updates ever to the CUDA platform. CUDA Tile brings a virtual ISA for tile-based parallel programming and they subsequently open-sourced the CUDA Tile IR as an intermediate representation built atop LLVM's MLIR. Now they are looking to hire additional LLVM compiler engineers to help foster their CUDA Tile initiatives... Mon, 13 Apr 2026 11:45:48 -0400 Michael Larabel https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-7.1-Rust https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-7.1-Rust In advance of the Linux 7.1 merge window opening, Miguel Ojeda sent out all of the Rust feature updates on Friday. This includes bumping the minimum Rust version for building the Linux kernel as well as a new experimental option that can provide better performance for Rust code within the kernel, alongside other updates... Mon, 13 Apr 2026 10:51:11 -0400 Michael Larabel https://www.phoronix.com/news/FTRFS-Linux-File-System https://www.phoronix.com/news/FTRFS-Linux-File-System Sent out today was an initial patch series for comment on introducing the FTRFS file-system. The FTRFS proposal is more interesting than last week's VMUFAT file-system proposal... Mon, 13 Apr 2026 09:20:32 -0400 Michael Larabel https://www.phoronix.com/news/Mold-2.41-Released https://www.phoronix.com/news/Mold-2.41-Released Mold 2.41 is out as the latest major update to this high performance linker and viable alternative to the linkers from the GNU and LLVM projects... Mon, 13 Apr 2026 09:13:52 -0400 Michael Larabel https://www.phoronix.com/news/Servo-Embed-Crates-LTS https://www.phoronix.com/news/Servo-Embed-Crates-LTS The open-source, Rust-based Servo browser engine has been improving its Servoshell demo browser application while one of the most promising potentials for this engine is around embedded use as an alternative to the Chromium Embedded Framework (CEF). With the latest moves by Servo developers, they are making for a more compelling story for its use... Mon, 13 Apr 2026 07:47:51 -0400 Michael Larabel https://www.phoronix.com/review/firefox-chrome-2026 https://www.phoronix.com/review/firefox-chrome-2026 It has been a while since featuring a showdown of the Mozilla Firefox and Google Chrome web browsers on Linux. With some fresh benchmarks being overdue plus the new JetStream 3 browser benchmark having been announced last week, here is some fresh data for how these two dominant web browsers are competing on the modern Linux desktop from an Intel Panther Lake system running Ubuntu 26.04. Fri, 10 Apr 2026 10:20:00 -0400 Michael Larabel