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PhoronixSelf-hostingCloud Hypervisor, the Rust-based Virtual Machine Monitor that began as an Intel open-source project and evolved into a multi-vendor Linux Foundation project, is out today with a sizable feature …
PhoronixENPhoronixDevRustls as the modern TLS library written in the Rust programming language with an emphasis on memory safety is out today with its v0.23.46 release in order to ship four new security fixes...
PhoronixENPhoronixDesktopThe feature-packed and polished Plasma 6.8 KDE desktop is now available. Making this release all the more special is that it coincides with the 30th anniversary of the KDE project...
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PhoronixHardwareWhile Mesa is predominantly used for GPU drivers, open-source developer Tomeu Vizoso continues advancing the capabilities of NPUs within the Mesa driver stack...
PhoronixENPhoronixHardwareIntel ISPC 1.32 released today as the newest version of this Intel Implicit SPMD Program Compiler built atop LLVM/Clang. ISPC is a variant of the C programming language with extensiosn catering to …
PhoronixENPhoronixHardwareLast year Framework Computer launched the Framework Laptop 12 as a convertible, 2-in-1 laptop that was friendly with Linux and upgradeable inline with the beloved Framework Laptop 13 and 16 models.
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PhoronixKernelCurrently there is a policy requirement for Linux kernel patches where AI tools contributed, they should be documented with an "Assisted-by:" tag to make clear AI was used in the creation of said …
PhoronixENPhoronixAppsWith Firefox 158 released, Firefox 159 is now in beta ahead of its official release in two weeks...
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PhoronixDistrosLinux Mint developers continue enjoying their relaxed release schedule in moving from a six to twelve month release cycle. Linux Mint 27 "Adrien" continues tracking for a Christmas release...
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PhoronixAppsONLYOFFICE 10.0 is now available for this open-source office suite alternative to the likes of LibreOffice...
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PhoronixKernelThe DRM Rust changes targeting the Linux 7.4 merge window have been submitted for pulling into DRM-Next ahead of that cycle kicking off (hopefully) next week.
PhoronixENPhoronixDevAsterinas is the open-source project developing a Rust-based, memory-safe Linux alternative OS while striving for Linux software compatibility.
PhoronixENPhoronixKernelRolling out last week was a new version of IREE as the Intermediate Representation Execution Environment for MLIR-based end-to-end compiler and run-time for lowering machine learning models into a …
PhoronixENPhoronixDistrosFreeType 2.15 is now available for this widely-used font rendering library used across many different operating systems and software applications...
PhoronixENPhoronixHardwareIntel announced today the GPU D Series for the enterprise-focused, inference-optimized GPU accelerators known to now as Crescent Island...
PhoronixENPhoronixDistrosA few months ago Canonical announced Myna as a speech-to-text solution for Ubuntu 26.10 as part of their effort for building a context-aware desktop.
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PhoronixHardwareWith all the recent progress on Mesa's Rusticl driver as a Rust-based OpenCL driver working across the different Mesa Gallium3D hardware drivers, a Phoronix Premium supporter inquired about seeing …
PhoronixENPhoronixAppsWith Mozilla's bi-weekly release cycle for Firefox, the Firefox 158 release binaries are now available. Making Firefox 158 particularly notable is finally having JPEG-XL support enabled by default...
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PhoronixHardwareFor those looking to run Linux on new Qualcomm Snapdragon X2 hardware, there are laptops from ASUS, HP, and Lenovo that are powered by the X2 Elite and will be supported with the mainline Linux 7.4 …
PhoronixENPhoronixKernelAfter using Claude Code to draft code to help make a fundamental improvement to the Linux kernel, Linux creator Linus Torvalds continued using AI this weekend and talking up its benefits.
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PhoronixKernelFollowing AMD completing their HDMI 2.1 implementation for the open-source AMDGPU Linux driver after beginning with HDMI FRL patches earlier in the year, Intel's open-source driver developers are …
PhoronixENPhoronixKernelEXT4 with the upcoming Linux 7.4 kernel looks like it will introduce opt-in support for IOmap buffered I/O in replacing the file-system's buffer_head usage with IOmap...
PhoronixENPhoronixDistrosLinus Torvalds has made available what is hopefully the final release candidate before Linux 7.3 is ideally minted next Sunday...
PhoronixENPhoronixKernelLinux creator Linus Torvalds has been known to use AI to help with kernel debugging and outside of the kernel tree has also done some vibe coding with Google's Antigravity.
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PhoronixKernelAMD TLBI Erratum #1718 was worked around in CPU microcode for addressing a defect in certain Zen CPUs where the Translation Lookaside Buffer Invalidate Instruction use could lead to to stale …
PhoronixENPhoronixKernelMicrosoft is contributing a new kernel driver for the upcoming Linux 7.4 cycle. Queued up into the IOMMU subsystem's "-next" branch is a new para-virtualized IOMMU driver for benefiting Linux guest …
PhoronixENPhoronixKernelThe Linux kernel build for RISC-V doesn't currently make use of the CPU ISA's Vector extension. but leveraging it with compiler auto vectorization is showing the ability to provide nice performance …
PhoronixENPhoronixDevDrgn is the open-source project out of Meta developing a very versatile debugger with the intent being a debugger focused on programmability with it striving to "make scripting as natural as …
PhoronixENPhoronixKernelSent out today as part of this week's input subsystem fixes are device ID additions to the XPad driver for enabling two more gaming controllers to work nicely under Linux...
PhoronixENPhoronixDistrosAs some interesting food for thought and weekend forum discussions, this week at the Linux Plumbers Conference in Prague, Qualcomm engineer Khem Raj questioned the relevance of Linux Long Term …
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