https://www.phoronix.com/ Linux Hardware Reviews, Performance Benchmarks & Open-Source / Free Software News en-us https://www.phoronix.com/review/amd-opensil-coreboot-ar1 https://www.phoronix.com/review/amd-opensil-coreboot-ar1 Ever since AMD announced openSIL in early 2023 for open-source CPU silicon initialization to eventually replace AGESA and enhance their Coreboot support, I have been eager to try it out. The openSIL code drops to date though have just focused on select reference platforms with only aiming for production status in the Zen 6 timeframe. But thanks to 3mdeb porting openSIL and Coreboot to a Gigabyte server motherboard, it's now possible to try out openSIL+Coreboot right now on Zen 5 hardware. Fri, 12 Jun 2026 10:00:00 -0400 Michael Larabel https://www.phoronix.com/news/NTFS-Windows-Symbolic-Links https://www.phoronix.com/news/NTFS-Windows-Symbolic-Links One of the exciting additions to the Linux 7.1 kernel is the introduction of the new NTFS file-system kernel driver. While in good shape already and proving advantageous over other NTFS open-source driver options, one of the initial limitations on it is around Windows native symbolic link handling but that is now in the process of being resolved... Fri, 12 Jun 2026 09:00:46 -0400 Michael Larabel https://www.phoronix.com/news/AVX-512-Linux-RAID-Optimization https://www.phoronix.com/news/AVX-512-Linux-RAID-Optimization Linux cryptography subsystem expert Eric Biggers Eric Biggers of Google worked on some pretty nice Intel/AMD x86_64 optimizations over the years. Especially around AVX-512 optimizations within the Linux kernel's crypto code has been one of his many nice improvements to the kernel in recent times. Today he's out with another enticing AVX-512 optimization and this time it's for the software RAID code... Fri, 12 Jun 2026 06:42:01 -0400 Michael Larabel https://www.phoronix.com/news/Arch-Linux-AUR-400-Compromised https://www.phoronix.com/news/Arch-Linux-AUR-400-Compromised The Arch Linux User Repository "AUR" was hit by a large-scale malware campaign this week with more than 400 of these user-supplied packages being compromised... Fri, 12 Jun 2026 06:39:07 -0400 Michael Larabel https://www.phoronix.com/news/Wine-Wayland-Alpha-Modifier https://www.phoronix.com/news/Wine-Wayland-Alpha-Modifier The Wine Wayland driver continues to be improved upon for bettering the experience around Windows games/applications running natively on Wayland Linux desktops without having to go through X11/XWayland. The newest feature merged is alpha modifier support for opacity handling of surfaces... Fri, 12 Jun 2026 06:15:11 -0400 Michael Larabel https://www.phoronix.com/news/Qt-6.12-Beta-1 https://www.phoronix.com/news/Qt-6.12-Beta-1 The first beta release of the Qt 6.12 toolkit is now available for testing. Qt 6.12 is packing a number of refinements and new features compared to earlier Qt6 releases. For paying Qt commercial customers, Qt 6.12 is also going to be the latest Qt6 Long Term Support (LTS) release... Fri, 12 Jun 2026 06:06:26 -0400 Michael Larabel https://www.phoronix.com/news/GCC-15.3-Released https://www.phoronix.com/news/GCC-15.3-Released For those relying on last year's stable GCC 15 series in not yet having migrated to the latest GCC 16, out today is GCC 15.3 to ship all of the latest back-ported bug fixes... Fri, 12 Jun 2026 05:53:01 -0400 Michael Larabel https://www.phoronix.com/news/Mesa-26.2-Preps-AMD-GFX1156 https://www.phoronix.com/news/Mesa-26.2-Preps-AMD-GFX1156 Being submitted on the kernel side with the upcoming Linux 7.2 kernel is initial support for the GFX 11.5.6 graphics IP block along with several other newer IP blocks such as SDMA 6.4, NBIO 7.11.5, IH 6.4, HDP 6.4, MMHUB 3.4.2, SMU 15.0.5, ATHUB 3.4.2, and VPE 2.2. Now in user-space for the Mesa RadeonSI Gallium3D and RADV Vulkan drivers is the GFX1156 (GFX 11.5.6) support being prepared too... Thu, 11 Jun 2026 13:34:14 -0400 Michael Larabel https://www.phoronix.com/news/Git-2.55-rc0-Released https://www.phoronix.com/news/Git-2.55-rc0-Released Git 2.55-rc0 is out today as the first tagged test version of the forthcoming Git 2.55 distributed version control system. Most notable with Git 2.55 is that Rust support is being enabled by default... Thu, 11 Jun 2026 12:15:02 -0400 Michael Larabel https://www.phoronix.com/review/ubuntu-2610-amd64v3 https://www.phoronix.com/review/ubuntu-2610-amd64v3 With Canonical engineers again experimenting with x86_64-v3 package builds for Ubuntu Linux using an "amd64v3" archive for the current Ubuntu 26.10 development, I decided to see how these latest amd64v3 packages comparing to their conventional Ubuntu 26.10 amd64 packages. Thu, 11 Jun 2026 11:24:24 -0400 Michael Larabel https://www.phoronix.com/news/Khronos-glTF-2.1-Released https://www.phoronix.com/news/Khronos-glTF-2.1-Released It's crazy realizing that glTF 2.0 is already nine years old for this API-neutral 3D runtime and asset delivery format. The Khronos 3D Formats Working Group today extended that with the debut of glTF 2.1 as a backward-compatible revision to the specification... Thu, 11 Jun 2026 10:02:22 -0400 Michael Larabel https://www.phoronix.com/news/YSERVER-Rust-X11-Server https://www.phoronix.com/news/YSERVER-Rust-X11-Server Open-source developer Jos Dehaes wrote in to Phoronix today in announcing a new X11 server he has been working on from scratch that has been quietly developed to this point but now ready to announce to the world... The YSERVER... Thu, 11 Jun 2026 09:46:11 -0400 Michael Larabel https://www.phoronix.com/news/OpenJPH-0.28-Released https://www.phoronix.com/news/OpenJPH-0.28-Released OpenJPH as an open-source implementation of high-throughput JPEG2000 Part-15 (or JPH or HTJ2K) is now significantly faster for both encode and decode operations thanks to new AVX2 optimizations for Intel and AMD processors... Thu, 11 Jun 2026 07:27:04 -0400 Michael Larabel 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