https://www.phoronix.com/ Linux Hardware Reviews, Performance Benchmarks & Open-Source / Free Software News en-us https://www.phoronix.com/news/Phoronix-22-Birthday-Reminder https://www.phoronix.com/news/Phoronix-22-Birthday-Reminder As a friendly reminder, if you wanted to join Phoronix Premium at a discounted rate to show your support for the 22nd birthday of Phoronix.com during these difficult times in the web publishing space, that special is ending later today... Mon, 08 Jun 2026 06:33:16 -0400 Michael Larabel https://www.phoronix.com/news/RISC-V-BeagleV-Lichee-WiFi-7.2 https://www.phoronix.com/news/RISC-V-BeagleV-Lichee-WiFi-7.2 In addition to the SpacemiT K1 and K3 RISC-V SoC Device Tree updates sent out last week, the RISC-V T-HEAD Device Tree "DT" changes were also sent out last week ahead of the upcoming Linux 7.2 kernel merge window... Mon, 08 Jun 2026 06:24:43 -0400 Michael Larabel https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-7.1-rc7 https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-7.1-rc7 Last week Linux 7.1-rc6 was larger than Linus Torvalds wished for and for Linux 7.1-rc7 it has come in still heavier than typically seen this late in the cycle, but is shrinking and making Linus comfortable in hopefully releasing Linux 7.1 stable next Sunday... Sun, 07 Jun 2026 20:26:27 -0400 Michael Larabel https://www.phoronix.com/news/Firefox-Vulkan-Video-Merged https://www.phoronix.com/news/Firefox-Vulkan-Video-Merged As an exciting development for GPU-accelerated video decoding within the Mozilla Firefox web browser, initial support for Vulkan Video has landed in the web browser!.. Sun, 07 Jun 2026 10:55:06 -0400 Michael Larabel https://www.phoronix.com/news/Wayland-Protocols-1.49 https://www.phoronix.com/news/Wayland-Protocols-1.49 Simon Ser just published Wayland Protocols 1.49 as the latest version for this primary set of Wayland protocol definitions... Sun, 07 Jun 2026 09:32:00 -0400 Michael Larabel https://www.phoronix.com/news/Flatten-The-Pick-v3 https://www.phoronix.com/news/Flatten-The-Pick-v3 A month ago I wrote about Linux scheduler work to help boost gaming performance on old "potato" hardware with Intel engineer Peter Zijlstra noting that Linux cgroup scheduling has continued to be "a pain in the arse." This work continues advancing with a third iteration of these "flatten the pick" patches being posted... Sun, 07 Jun 2026 07:06:15 -0400 Michael Larabel https://www.phoronix.com/news/VK-Google-Timing-KHR-Display https://www.phoronix.com/news/VK-Google-Timing-KHR-Display The VK_GOOGLE_display_timing extension for obtaining display timing information that can be useful for frame-pacing and eliminating micro-stuttering in games now has direct display mode support with KHR_display for the Mesa Vulkan drivers. This now merged addition immediately benefits the Intel ANV and Radeon RADV drivers as well as the PowerVR, Turnip, and V3DV drivers too... Sun, 07 Jun 2026 06:47:14 -0400 Michael Larabel https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-7.1-More-Zen-6-Models https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-7.1-More-Zen-6-Models Ahead of the Linux 7.1-rc7 test kernel release due out later today, a pull request has been submitted of some "x86 fixes" for this kernel release. Most notable with this pull request is acknowledging some additional AMD Zen 6 CPU models... Sun, 07 Jun 2026 06:32:09 -0400 Michael Larabel https://www.phoronix.com/news/Broadcom-V3D-Some-Deprecations https://www.phoronix.com/news/Broadcom-V3D-Some-Deprecations Broadcom V3D 3.3 and V3D 4.1 graphics IP is set to be deprecated and removed from the V3D kernel graphics/display driver after the Mesa driver support was removed two years ago already. The situation in both cases amount to lack of hardware by developers for testing and with that likely no other known users of these particular Broadcom graphics in selects SoCs... Sun, 07 Jun 2026 06:23:34 -0400 Michael Larabel https://www.phoronix.com/news/FreeBSD_15.1-RC3-Released https://www.phoronix.com/news/FreeBSD_15.1-RC3-Released FreeBSD 15.1 was supposed to be out at the start of June but a second release candidate pushed it back by a week and now a third needed release candidate has pushed out the stable release by an additional week... Sat, 06 Jun 2026 20:23:57 -0400 Michael Larabel https://www.phoronix.com/news/GNOME-File-Previewer-GTK4 https://www.phoronix.com/news/GNOME-File-Previewer-GTK4 GNOME Sushi as the file previewer component for the GNOME Files (Nautilus) file manager has now been adapted to make use of GTK4 as well as delivering other enhancements for a nicer file previewing experience on GNOME... Sat, 06 Jun 2026 12:32:22 -0400 Michael Larabel https://www.phoronix.com/news/OpenCV-5.0-Released https://www.phoronix.com/news/OpenCV-5.0-Released OpenCV 5.0 released today as a major update to this widely-used, open-source computer vision (CV) library... Sat, 06 Jun 2026 08:06:13 -0400 Michael Larabel https://www.phoronix.com/news/Valve-New-AMD-Anti-Lag https://www.phoronix.com/news/Valve-New-AMD-Anti-Lag Daniel Schürmann of Valve's Linux team has posted a new VK_AMD_anti_lag implementation for the RADV open-source Radeon Vulkan driver... Sat, 06 Jun 2026 07:15:00 -0400 Michael Larabel https://www.phoronix.com/news/Vulkan-Ape-Driver https://www.phoronix.com/news/Vulkan-Ape-Driver Ape is a new open-source Vulkan driver written in the Zig programming language and not dependent upon any Mesa code... Sat, 06 Jun 2026 07:03:00 -0400 Michael Larabel https://www.phoronix.com/news/Plasma-6.8-Low-Battery-Full-S https://www.phoronix.com/news/Plasma-6.8-Low-Battery-Full-S KDE developers continue with last minute bug fixes ahead of the Plasma 6.7 desktop release later this month as well as preparing early feature work toward Plasma 6.8 and also landing more fixes for the current Plasma 6.6 stable series... Sat, 06 Jun 2026 06:55:07 -0400 Michael Larabel https://www.phoronix.com/news/GNUtrition-2026 https://www.phoronix.com/news/GNUtrition-2026 For those looking for open-source food nutrition software, GNU's GNUtrition has seen its first new release in 14 years... Sat, 06 Jun 2026 06:36:08 -0400 Michael Larabel https://www.phoronix.com/news/Phoronix-Turns-22 https://www.phoronix.com/news/Phoronix-Turns-22 Today marks 22 years since I started Phoronix.com to focus on Linux hardware reviews. It's been quite a journey from the early state of Linux hardware support..... Fri, 05 Jun 2026 21:00:00 -0400 Michael Larabel https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-7.1-DRM-Change-Handle https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-7.1-DRM-Change-Handle It's unfortunately another busy week in the Linux 7.1 kernel space with not everything slowing down so well, late in the cycle and leading to the upcoming 7.1 stable release. This week's DRM pull request of kernel graphics/accelerator drivers is again heavy on fixes and also ends up disabling an ioctl interface given ongoing security concerns from that code merged last year... Fri, 05 Jun 2026 20:52:00 -0400 Michael Larabel https://www.phoronix.com/news/Ubuntu-26.10-Desktop-Features https://www.phoronix.com/news/Ubuntu-26.10-Desktop-Features Jean Baptiste Lallement of the Canonical Desktop Team today posted a roadmap of many development items they are hoping to tackle for Ubuntu 26.10 due out in October. Some of these desktop plans are more ambitious and will take multiple release cycles to fully realize, but it goes to show their continued investment into the Ubuntu desktop... Fri, 05 Jun 2026 16:02:23 -0400 Michael Larabel https://www.phoronix.com/news/CUDA-Oxide-0.2 https://www.phoronix.com/news/CUDA-Oxide-0.2 Last month CUDA-Oxide was introduced as an experimental Rust-to-CUDA compiler. From pure Rust programming language code, one can write CUDA GPU kernels in a "safe(ish)" manner with the CUDA-Oxide compiler emitting NVIDIA PTX output directly. Out today is the second update to CUDA-Oxide... Fri, 05 Jun 2026 13:06:55 -0400 Michael Larabel https://www.phoronix.com/review/nvidia-vera-arm-server https://www.phoronix.com/review/nvidia-vera-arm-server NVIDIA's Vera CPU is delivering the fastest ARM performance I have ever seen. For putting it into perspective how far the ARM server CPU hardware has come in just the last decade and for some "fun" benchmarks as part of Phoronix marking 22 years of Linux hardware reviews and benchmarking, here are some benchmarks showing the Ampere eMAG from September 2018 to the performance now with NVIDIA Vera. Not even factoring in the many software optimizations across the stack over the period, from simply the hardware side the ARM server CPU performance has advanced by more than 7x in eight years and in some workloads nearly 15x faster. Fri, 05 Jun 2026 09:44:00 -0400 Michael Larabel https://www.phoronix.com/news/Vulkan-1.4.353 https://www.phoronix.com/news/Vulkan-1.4.353 After three weeks without any Vulkan API spec updates, Vulkan 1.4.353 was released today to deliver the latest documentation updates for this high performance graphics/compute API as well as introducing three new extensions... Fri, 05 Jun 2026 09:35:40 -0400 Michael Larabel https://www.phoronix.com/news/SpacemiT-K1-K3-Linux-7.2 https://www.phoronix.com/news/SpacemiT-K1-K3-Linux-7.2 In addition to Apple M3 Device Trees for Linux 7.2, the SpacemiT RISC-V SoCs are seeing some notable Device Tree improvements with this next version of the Linux kernel... Fri, 05 Jun 2026 08:16:46 -0400 Michael Larabel https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-7.2-DRM-Rust https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-7.2-DRM-Rust Danilo Krummrich sent out the main set of DRM Rust subsystem changes on Thursday that are targeting the Linux 7.2 kernel. NVIDIA's open-source Nova driver continues seeing a bulk of the DRM Rust work as this modern successor to Nouveau continues taking shape... Fri, 05 Jun 2026 06:56:00 -0400 Michael Larabel https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-7.2-AMDGPU-Non-4K https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-7.2-AMDGPU-Non-4K In addition to AMDGPU finally seeing HDMI 2.1 FRL support in Linux 7.2, another change worth noting in this week's AMDGPU pull request is the continued work on enhancing the AMDGPU/AMDKFD kernel driver support for non-4K page size kernel builds. In particular this helps out with AMD graphics and ROCm for the likes of ARM and POWER... Fri, 05 Jun 2026 06:42:39 -0400 Michael Larabel https://www.phoronix.com/news/GNOME-51-Drops-EGLStreams https://www.phoronix.com/news/GNOME-51-Drops-EGLStreams EGLStreams was NVIDIA's original route to supporting Wayland with their official Linux graphics driver stack. Adoption was limited and driver vendors outside of NVIDIA didn't end up going with EGLStreams/EGLDevice. Thankfully, NVIDIA corrected course long ago with DMA-BUF, GBM, and KMS support that aligns with the rest of the ecosystem, and now that old code path is being removed from GNOME Mutter... Fri, 05 Jun 2026 06:28:28 -0400 Michael Larabel https://www.phoronix.com/review/cachyos-bore https://www.phoronix.com/review/cachyos-bore Earlier this week I ran benchmarks of different CachyOS Linux kernel flavors that proved interesting from the performance overhead of their hardened kernel build to various other interesting performancr takeaways. One kernel flavor I hadn't tested though was their build with the BORE scheduler. Given the interest and feedback from Phoronix readers, here is an article focused on looking at the performance of the BORE scheduler for the Linux kernel on CachyOS. Thu, 04 Jun 2026 20:46:36 -0400 Michael Larabel https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-7.1-Mesa-26.1-RX-9070-GRE https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-7.1-Mesa-26.1-RX-9070-GRE With this week's launch day review of the AMD Radeon RX 9070 GRE, Ubuntu 26.04 with its Linux 7.0 and Mesa 26.0 default driver stack was used for testing. That choice was made since the Ubuntu 26.04 release is still fresh, the RDNA4-based RX 9070 GRE was working without issue there, and from other RDNA4 testing knowing there isn't much uplift from the in-development Linux 7.1 kernel or the current stable Mesa 26.1 OpenGL RadeonSI / Vulkan RADV drivers. But for those interested, here are those tests... Thu, 04 Jun 2026 17:25:29 -0400 Michael Larabel https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-7.2-Boots-Apple-M3 https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-7.2-Boots-Apple-M3 The upcoming Linux 7.2 mainline kernel is expected to be able to boot on Apple M3 devices including the M3-powered iMac and MacBook products. But before getting too excited it's still a long ways to go before it will actually be useful for any Apple M3 daily usage under Linux with the overall support at this stage still being very limited for these 2~3 year old Apple Macs... Thu, 04 Jun 2026 11:35:10 -0400 Michael Larabel https://www.phoronix.com/news/Lenovo-Yoga-Slim-7x-Gen11-Linux https://www.phoronix.com/news/Lenovo-Yoga-Slim-7x-Gen11-Linux For those interested in the prospects of running Snapdragon X2 laptops on Linux rather than Windows 11 on ARM, the Lenovo Yoga Slim 7x Gen11 has emerged as one of the initial X2 laptops with tentative Device Tree handling to allow Linux to boot on this latest-generation Qualcomm-powered laptop,.. Thu, 04 Jun 2026 10:48:00 -0400 Michael Larabel https://www.phoronix.com/news/Blender-5.2-Beta https://www.phoronix.com/news/Blender-5.2-Beta Blender 5.2 is now available in beta form for this leading open-source 3D modeling software... Thu, 04 Jun 2026 10:41:00 -0400 Michael Larabel https://www.phoronix.com/news/AMD-GAIA-0.20 https://www.phoronix.com/news/AMD-GAIA-0.20 AMD's GAIA open-source project geared for building AI agents that run locally on your PC is out with a significant new feature release for Windows and Linux systems... Thu, 04 Jun 2026 09:30:55 -0400 Michael Larabel