AMD Launches Instinct MI455X, Helios AI Rack
([AMD] 23 July 12:59 PM EDT
AMD Instinct MI455X + Helios)
Lisa Su at AMD Advancing AI 2026 just launched the new Instinct MI455X GPUs and the Helios rack.
FreeBSD Ports Currently Frozen Due To A Very Large Commit
([BSD] 23 July 12:25 PM EDT
FreeBSD Frozen)
The FreeBSD project issued a statement today over the FreeBSD Ports repository having been frozen for the past two days. The freeze is not due to a malicious compromise but rather a very large commit breaking things.
Fedora 45 Atomic Desktops Look To Allow For Web-Based Remote Installations
([Fedora] 23 July 09:52 AM EDT
Fedora Atomic Desktop + Remote Install)
One of the latest change proposals filed for Fedora Linux 45 is for supporting web-based remote installations of Fedora Atomic Desktop images.
Ryzen AI Software 1.8 Released With New Model Support, More Optimizations
([AMD] 23 July 07:58 AM EDT
Ryzen AI Software 1.8)
Ahead of Lisa Su's keynote this morning at the AMD Advancing AI event, tagged on GitHub just now was the Ryzen AI Software 1.8 release for helping to deploy AI models on Ryzen AI PCs.
LLVM 23.1-rc1 Released With AMD Zen 6 & AVX-512 BMM Support, Other Compiler Enhancements
([LLVM] 23 July 07:50 AM EDT
LLVM 23.1-rc1)
Following the recent code branching for the LLVM 23 series, LLVM 23.1-rc1 was released today in working toward the next stable release of this open-source compiler stack.
dav1d 1.5.4 Brings AV1 Decoding To OS/2
([Multimedia] 23 July 07:39 AM EDT
dav1d 1.5.4)
While the VideoLAN developers are busy these days working on dav2d for AV2 video decoding, they haven't let up work on dav1d and recently released dav1d 1.5.4 for continuing to enhance this leading open-source, CPU-based AV1 decoder.
Lemonade 11.5 Local AI Server Released With Completed Lemonade Router
([AMD] 22 July 06:35 PM EDT
Lemonade 11.5)
Just one week after releasing Lemonade 11.0, the Lemonade 11.5 local AI server was released today for this open-source AMD backed project during their AMD Advancing AI event.
SDL Lands HDR10 Rendering Support
([Linux Gaming] 22 July 03:13 PM EDT
HDR10 Rendering)
Sam Lantinga of Valve and SDL fame has landed HDR10 rendering support into the Simple DirectMedia Library.
COSMIC Epoch 1.4 Released With More Fixes, Force Quit For COSMIC Monitor
([Desktop] 22 July 02:48 PM EDT
COSMIC)
System76 developers today released COSMIC Epoch 1.4 as the newest stable release to their Rust-based desktop environment.
AMD EPYC Turin With PCIe 5.0 Storage Shows Off Nice Gains On Linux 7.2
([Software] 22 July 12:00 PM EDT
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Earlier this week was an exciting look at Intel Xe3 graphics performance gains on Linux 7.2 with Intel Core Ultra Series 3 "Panther Lake" hardware. On the other side of the table, with AMD hardware on this forthcoming kernel an area to be excited about are some I/O improvements at least for 5th Gen EPYC with speedy PCIe Gen5 NVMe SSD storage.
libx11-compat Is Working To Implement Xlib Atop SDL For Wayland, macOS, Android
([X.Org] 22 July 08:28 AM EDT
libx11-compat)
For helping to keep X11 clients running in a modern Linux desktop world with Wayland or even for running on macOS or Android, there is now yet-another option being developed with libx11-compat. The libx11-compat project is working to re-implement the Xlib client library atop SDL2/SDL3 interfaces for allow broad underlying platform coverage.
Intel Directed Package-Level Thermal Interrupts Slated For Linux 7.3
([Intel] 22 July 08:16 AM EDT
Directed Package-Level Thermal Interrupt)
Back in March Intel software engineers began sending out Linux patches for Directed Package-Level Thermal Interrupts as a new capability with recent Intel processors. This notable efficiency improvement is now queued for introduction in the Linux 7.3 cycle once its merge window opens in a month.
The "New Normal" Of Audio Quirks Submitted For Linux 7.2-rc5
([Multimedia] 22 July 07:56 AM EDT
Lots Of Audio Quirks)
Linux sound subsystem maintainer Takashi Iwai of SUSE sent out this week's batch of sound fixes that he describes as "A collection of fixes that have been accumulated recently. The amount is still "new normal", but all small fixes. Mostly hardware-specific quirks, but including a few core fixes, too." The "new normal" has been a common phrase recently to reflect the increased tempo of patches as well as security/bug disclosures all due to the increased pace of AI/LLM activity.
Raspberry Pi Touch Display 2 10-Inch Model Launches
([Raspberry Pi] 22 July 07:38 AM EDT
Raspberry Pi Touch Display 2 10-inch)
Following the launch of the 7-inch Raspberry Pi Touch Display 2 and the 5-inch display variant, Raspberry Pi announced today the addition of a 10-inch model.
Cryptsetup 2.8.7 Released To Deal With Fallout Of Linux's Rushed AF_ALG Deprecation
([Linux Storage] 21 July 06:00 PM EDT
Cryptsetup 2.8.7)
Linux's cryptsetup for configuring and managing encrypted storage devices is ready with a new version as the developers work to deal with the recent deprecation of the Linux AF_ALG interface.
Three New Ubuntu Snap Vulnerabilities Made Public - One Dates Back To Ubuntu 16.04 LTS
([Ubuntu] 21 July 02:02 PM EDT
Ubuntu Snap Security)
Canonical today disclosed three new Snap security vulnerabilities affecting snapd. Two are rated high impact vulnerabilities while the third is considered medium but covers all Ubuntu releases of the past decade going back to Ubuntu 16.04 LTS.
Qualcomm Posts Linux Patches For X2 Elite Extreme Powered ASUS Zenbook A16
([Hardware] 21 July 01:49 PM EDT
Snapdragon X2 Elite Extreme)
Following recent Linux kernel patches enabling the Snapdragon X2 Elite powered Lenovo Yoga Slim 7x Gen11 and HP EliteBook X G2q X2 Elite laptops to boot outside of Windows 11 on ARM, Qualcomm engineers have now posted a new patch series for getting the X2 Elite Extreme powered ASUS Zenbook A16 working on Linux.
KDE Plasma 6.7 vs. GNOME Shell 50.3 vs. Xfce 4.20 On CachyOS With NVIDIA Graphics
([Software] 21 July 12:00 PM EDT
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Earlier this month I provided a look at the KDE Plasma 6.7 Wayland vs. X11 session performance for graphics/gaming on CachyOS using NVIDIA GeForce RTX 50 graphics. Since then Phoronix readers -- including some premium supporters -- requested seeing some additional desktops tested with the latest CachyOS packages. So here we are now with seeing how KDE Plasma 6.7 compared to the Wayland-only GNOME Shell 50.3 desktop as well as the X11-based Xfce 4.20 desktop on CachyOS.
Canonical Makes The "Enterprise Store" Official For Offline/Air-Gapped Ubuntu Usage
([Ubuntu] 21 July 11:38 AM EDT
Ubuntu Enterprise Store)
For months the Enterprise Store "enterprise-store" has been mentioned in some Ubuntu documentation and other elements while today it was formally announced by Canonical. The Enterprise Store is for helping to manage Ubuntu Linux deployments particularly within enterprise organizations that may have their computers air-gapped or otherwise strict Internet controls.
Stratis Storage Anaconda Integration Approved For Fedora 45
([Fedora] 21 July 09:23 AM EDT
Fedora 45 Features)
The Fedora Engineering and Steering Committee (FESCo) has approved the latest batch of features for the upcoming Fedora 45 release.