https://www.phoronix.com/ Linux Hardware Reviews, Performance Benchmarks & Open-Source / Free Software News en-us https://www.phoronix.com/news/Ubuntu-27.04-ntpd-rs-Plans https://www.phoronix.com/news/Ubuntu-27.04-ntpd-rs-Plans Back in March Canonical announced switching to ntpd-rs was its next target as part of transitioning more Ubuntu Linux system components to Rust-based implementations. This time synchronization package is available for testing in the upcoming Ubuntu 26.10 release while it aims to be the default for Ubuntu 27.04... Tue, 06 Oct 2026 17:08:51 -0400 Michael Larabel https://www.phoronix.com/news/Boost-Recently-Busy-CPUs https://www.phoronix.com/news/Boost-Recently-Busy-CPUs Back in July I wrote about AMD P-State driver patches boosting 1%-low frame rates for gaming by as much as 31%. That work was done by David Vernet who is a Linux kernel engineer/hacker at Meta. This week Vernet presented on the topic at the Linux Plumbers Conference happening in Prague... Tue, 06 Oct 2026 14:21:01 -0400 Michael Larabel https://www.phoronix.com/review/nvidia-vera-hpc https://www.phoronix.com/review/nvidia-vera-hpc While most everyone understandably likes to talk about AI these days, one of the areas of NVIDIA's Vera CPU I have been most eager to test has been for conventional high performance computing (HPC) workloads. HPC was talked up as one of Vera's strengths thanks to its 1.2TB/s LPDDR5x memory bandwidth and custom Olympus cores. Vera is seeing deployments at HPC labs like Los Alamos. With recently having unfettered remote access to a dual NVIDIA Vera server, I ran through a variety of HPC workloads and similar performance benchmarks. Here is a look at how NVIDIA Vera performs against AMD EPYC and Intel Xeon, including with CPU power and frequency metrics. Tue, 06 Oct 2026 12:00:08 -0400 Michael Larabel https://www.phoronix.com/news/More-Reliable-Vulkan-Polaris https://www.phoronix.com/news/More-Reliable-Vulkan-Polaris Timur Kristóf of Valve's Linux graphics team has done an incredible job improving older AMD GPU support under Linux with migrating GCN 1.0/1.1 era hardware to the modern AMDGPU kernel driver and an assortment of other improvements for various older Radeon GPUs. The newest work is on enhancing the RADV Vulkan driver support for old Radeon RX 400/500 "Polaris" graphics cards... Tue, 06 Oct 2026 10:21:19 -0400 Michael Larabel https://www.phoronix.com/news/IBM-Red-Hat-Java-400-Vulns https://www.phoronix.com/news/IBM-Red-Hat-Java-400-Vulns IBM and Red Hat announced today they have identified and remediated more than 400 previously unknown vulnerabilities across popular Java libraries... Tue, 06 Oct 2026 09:23:33 -0400 Michael Larabel https://www.phoronix.com/news/Intel-LPMD-Linux-Gaming https://www.phoronix.com/news/Intel-LPMD-Linux-Gaming Intel's LPMD project as the Low Power Mode Daemon for modern Intel Core Ultra desktops and laptops is quite important for achieving peak performance and optimal power efficiency. Here are some of Intel's own findings on the importance of LPMD for Linux gaming.. Tue, 06 Oct 2026 09:11:37 -0400 Michael Larabel https://www.phoronix.com/news/Blender-6.0-May-Remove-OpenGL https://www.phoronix.com/news/Blender-6.0-May-Remove-OpenGL With Blender 5.0 having nice Vulkan API support that's now grown mature, Blender developers are contemplating on potentially removing OpenGL support in Blender 6.0... Tue, 06 Oct 2026 08:11:41 -0400 Michael Larabel https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-CRAM-Compressed-RAM https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-CRAM-Compressed-RAM With today's memory shortages, high prices, and ever increasing memory capacity needs, Meta engineers have been working on Compressed RAM "CRAM" for Linux. This hardware-offloaded compression still allows cacheline/byte access to compressed memory and in turn a better implementation than the likes of ZRAM and Zswap. Very promising is that there is near-native performance to raw DRAM speeds with CRAM... Tue, 06 Oct 2026 06:23:06 -0400 Michael Larabel https://www.phoronix.com/news/Microsoft-WSL-3.0.2 https://www.phoronix.com/news/Microsoft-WSL-3.0.2 Microsoft yesterday released WSL 3.0.2 as their latest WSL update since last week's WSL3 release with "WSLC" for promoting Linux containers on Windows to general availability. Some notable changes in WSL 3.0.2 include automatic virtual NUMA support and experimental support for sparse VHD storage... Tue, 06 Oct 2026 06:05:34 -0400 Michael Larabel https://www.phoronix.com/news/Intel-APX-Projected-Gains https://www.phoronix.com/news/Intel-APX-Projected-Gains Last week at the GNU Tools Cauldron 2026 conference in Prague there was an x86 BOF with presentations both by AMD and Intel compiler engineers. There are a few interesting nuggets out of that with both Advanced Performance Extensions (APX) and AI Compute Extensions (ACE) talked about as part of their ongoing enablement in the GCC compiler... Tue, 06 Oct 2026 05:54:17 -0400 Michael Larabel https://www.phoronix.com/news/YSERVER-1.7 https://www.phoronix.com/news/YSERVER-1.7 YSERVER continues seeing a lot of activity for this vibe coded X11 server written in the Rust programming language. YSERVER has been seeing many apps and desktops working fine on this creation crafted in large part by Claude Code and continues chipping away at more X11 features. YSERVER 1.7 is out today with the latest fixes and improvements... Tue, 06 Oct 2026 05:39:25 -0400 Michael Larabel https://www.phoronix.com/news/TrueNAS-27-RC.1-Release https://www.phoronix.com/news/TrueNAS-27-RC.1-Release TrueNAS 27 RC.1 released today in working toward the next major release of this Linux-based storage/NAS operating system from iXsystems... Mon, 05 Oct 2026 20:25:45 -0400 Michael Larabel https://www.phoronix.com/news/AMD-ROCm-10.1 https://www.phoronix.com/news/AMD-ROCm-10.1 Following the ROCm 10.0 release from late August, ROCm 10.1 is now available in continuing with the ROCm six week release cycle... Mon, 05 Oct 2026 18:08:56 -0400 Michael Larabel https://www.phoronix.com/news/AMD-Zen-6-BTB-CTX-Linux-7.4 https://www.phoronix.com/news/AMD-Zen-6-BTB-CTX-Linux-7.4 The Linux 7.4 kernel is set to introduce support for a new AMD Zen 6 security feature... Mon, 05 Oct 2026 14:47:01 -0400 Michael Larabel https://www.phoronix.com/news/Auto-CPUFreq-3.2 https://www.phoronix.com/news/Auto-CPUFreq-3.2 The open-source Auto-CPUFreq tool for active system monitoring and power optimizations is out with a new release for continuing to enhance battery life on Linux laptops... Mon, 05 Oct 2026 11:36:12 -0400 Michael Larabel https://www.phoronix.com/review/lemonade-vulkan-rocm https://www.phoronix.com/review/lemonade-vulkan-rocm A Phoronix Premium reader recently inquired about seeing some new benchmarks of AI performance between Vulkan and AMD ROCm back-ends to see how the situation plays out today. Here are some fresh benchmarks on two separate systems with AMD Radeon graphics and using the Lemonade local AI server while exploring the difference between the ROCm and Vulkan Llama.cpp back-ends. Mon, 05 Oct 2026 09:50:34 -0400 Michael Larabel https://www.phoronix.com/news/Mesa-Governance-Model https://www.phoronix.com/news/Mesa-Governance-Model The Mesa 3D driver stack has functioned well over the years without a formal governance model and just relying on an informal consensus approach for big changes. But on some occasions this informal handling has been less than ideal so upstream Mesa developers are now looking at establishing a formal governance model... Mon, 05 Oct 2026 09:04:00 -0400 Michael Larabel https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-ZRAM-Rework-Savings https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-ZRAM-Rework-Savings With today's very high memory prices, the Linux ZRAM code for compressed block devices in RAM has seen a rework to provide greater memory savings... Mon, 05 Oct 2026 08:44:11 -0400 Michael Larabel https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-7.4-Google-Tensor-G5 https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-7.4-Google-Tensor-G5 Going back to last year have been patches for booting the mainline Linux kernel on Pixel 10 devices while finally those Google Pixel 10 Device Trees and Tensor G5 SoC support is set to be mainlined for Linux 7.4... Mon, 05 Oct 2026 07:33:00 -0400 Michael Larabel https://www.phoronix.com/news/Mold-3.0-Released https://www.phoronix.com/news/Mold-3.0-Released The Mold high speed linker alternative to the likes of GNU Gold/LD and LLVM LLD recently has been going through a rewrite from C++ to Rust as well as having high ambitions of eventually becoming the default linker on Linux systems. Today marks the release of Mold 3.0 for this Rust-based high performance linker... Mon, 05 Oct 2026 06:29:15 -0400 Michael Larabel https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-7.4-Rugged-Panther-Lake https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-7.4-Rugged-Panther-Lake Back in May we spotted a Linux patch adding "Panther Lake R" as a rugged version of Panther Lake intended for "use in harsh environments". Since Linux 7.2 we have seen some bits of Panther Lake R driver support added while for the upcoming Linux 7.4 cycle there is additional enablement happening for this Panther Lake derivative... Mon, 05 Oct 2026 06:23:18 -0400 Michael Larabel https://www.phoronix.com/news/Qualcomm-HW-BIn-Trip-Point https://www.phoronix.com/news/Qualcomm-HW-BIn-Trip-Point A new patch series sent out from Qualcomm that aims to help at least the Snapdragon X series laptops is hardware-binned trip point support. Some Qualcomm SoCs are available in different multiple thermal/package bins with different junction temperature limits but otherwise being the same silicon. The new Linux patches are working to properly convey that information around the thermal limits for a given piece of silicon... Mon, 05 Oct 2026 06:04:53 -0400 Michael Larabel https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-7.4-AMD-PState-Zen-6 https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-7.4-AMD-PState-Zen-6 With the upcoming Linux 7.4 kernel the necessary changes to the AMD P-State driver are set to land for properly supporting the upcoming AMD Ryzen client processors based on the Zen 6 cores... Mon, 05 Oct 2026 05:45:05 -0400 Michael Larabel https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-7.3-rc6-Released https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-7.3-rc6-Released Linus Torvalds just released Linux 7.3-rc7 as we work toward the stable Linux 7.3 kernel release in two weeks... Sun, 04 Oct 2026 17:04:15 -0400 Michael Larabel https://www.phoronix.com/news/OpenRadioss-OpenCourant https://www.phoronix.com/news/OpenRadioss-OpenCourant This week was the surprising and unfortunate decision of Siemens shutting down the OpenRadioss project as the four year old open-source project started by Altair Engineering with their prominent Radioss finite element solver. Siemens didn't just end the project but they shutdown the GitHub repository that hosted the open-source code and removed other resources that had built around it. Fortunately, there's a new community fork of OpenRadioss as OpenCourant... Sun, 04 Oct 2026 13:51:01 -0400 Michael Larabel https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-MGLRU-FG-Patches https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-MGLRU-FG-Patches Linux's Multi-Gen LRU "MGLRU" has already achieved nice performance gains for Linux in recent years by optimizing page reclaims and improves performance under memory pressure. The new MGLRU-FG patches aim to take things further... Sun, 04 Oct 2026 11:16:26 -0400 Michael Larabel https://www.phoronix.com/news/NVIDIA-Wayland-Xorg-Latency https://www.phoronix.com/news/NVIDIA-Wayland-Xorg-Latency In addition to NVIDIA announcing their Display Config Server project at XDC 2026 in Toronto, at this annual developer's conference they also presented their findings on scientific testing of X.Org vs. Wayland latency... Sun, 04 Oct 2026 07:03:20 -0400 Michael Larabel https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-MONAKA-CPU-Workarounds https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-MONAKA-CPU-Workarounds Last month Fujitsu formally announced their MONAKA CPU as a 144 core Arm-based server processor geared for AI infrastructure. This comes after two years of seeing various Monaka patches to the GCC compiler and other open-source components. Now that MONAKA is announced, we are seeing more patches surface for the Linux kernel with this week seeing several workarounds for MONAKA CPU bugs... Sun, 04 Oct 2026 06:31:23 -0400 Michael Larabel https://www.phoronix.com/news/More-AMDGPU-Linux-7.4 https://www.phoronix.com/news/More-AMDGPU-Linux-7.4 We are nearing the cut-off of new Direct Rendering Manager (DRM) subsystem material for the upcoming Linux 7.4 cycle. AMD this week sent in another feature pull to DRM-Next that is moving over to mostly bug fixing but does contain the enablement of some new GPU intellectual property blocks for upcoming graphics hardware... Sun, 04 Oct 2026 06:14:12 -0400 Michael Larabel https://www.phoronix.com/news/openSUSE-ZUPT-Backups https://www.phoronix.com/news/openSUSE-ZUPT-Backups OpenSUSE developers have announced they are making ZUPT available on their Linux distribution as a solution for providing post-quantum backups. ZUPT combines backup creation, compression, integrity verification, and encryption all via this single open-source utility... Sun, 04 Oct 2026 05:59:30 -0400 Michael Larabel https://www.phoronix.com/news/ARM64-Linux-TLBI-Domains https://www.phoronix.com/news/ARM64-Linux-TLBI-Domains Arm sent out an initial set of patches this week working on support in the Linux kernel for TLBI Domains. This "TLBID" feature is an upcoming Arm architecture capability designed to increase performance on high core count systems... Sat, 03 Oct 2026 20:10:09 -0400 Michael Larabel https://www.phoronix.com/news/XDC-2026-Valve-Timur-AMDGPU https://www.phoronix.com/news/XDC-2026-Valve-Timur-AMDGPU Over the past year Timur Kristóf of Valve's Linux graphics driver team has made multiple very nice improvements to the AMDGPU kernel driver for enhancing support for old (GCN 1.0/1.1 era from a decade ago) graphics cards so that they can better handle Linux gaming and other tasks. This week in Toronto, Kristóf presented on this AMDGPU work that he initially began as a kernel driver development exercise after initially spending years in user-space focused on the Mesa 3D driver code... Sat, 03 Oct 2026 14:56:28 -0400 Michael Larabel