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Linux 7.2 Enabling UltraRISC RISC-V Support In The Default Kernel Build

([RISC-V] 12 July 04:25 PM EDT UltraRISC RISC-V)

Similar to Linux 7.2 enabling Eswin SoC support by default in the RISC-V "defconfig" kernel build, UltraRISC RISC-V coverage is also now being enabled by default for RISC-V kernel builds in Linux 7.2.



HFI BIOS Aims To Provide A POST-Like Power On Screen & BIOS Setup Utility For RISC-V

([Free Software] 12 July 06:50 AM EDT Harmonic Firmware Initiative)

The Harmonic Firmware Initiative "HFI" is trying to provide a generic, standardized power-on firmware experience for RISC-V boards. Akin to the x86 world with having immediate graphics card initialization to provide a display while the system is booting and also having a BIOS setup utility for system configuration, HFI is trying to do the same for the RISC-V world.



Linux 7.2-rc3 Bringing Fixes For The SEGA Dreamcast Drivers In 2026

([Hardware] 12 July 06:31 AM EDT SEGA Dreamcast + Linux)

It wasn't on my bingo card for the week but merged to Git ahead of today's Linux 7.2-rc3 kernel release are a number of fixes for the SEGA Dreamcast drivers.



Realtek RTL8723BS WiFi Linux Driver Hardened Against Malicious WiFi Access Points

([Linux Networking] 12 July 06:15 AM EDT Realtek RTL8723BS)

The staging driver fixes that were sent out this week ahead of the Linux 7.2-rc3 release is predominantly made up of hardening the Realtek RTL8723BS WiFi driver. In particular, a number of fixes for addressing out-of-bounds behavior when connecting to "bad" WiFi hosts.



Debian 13.6 Released To Ship All The Latest Security Fixes, Reverts GeoIP Database

([Debian] 11 July 10:31 AM EDT Debian 13.6)

Debian 13.6 is out today as the newest point release of Debian Trixie to ship the latest security fixes and other maintenance updates.



Linux 7.2-rc3 Bringing Display Detection Improvement To Help Some Multi-GPU Systems

([Linux Kernel] 11 July 09:20 AM EDT Multi-GPU Display Detect)

Sent out today was this week's round of x86 (x86_64) fixes ahead of the Linux 7.2-rc3 kernel test candidate due out on Sunday.



LLVM Merges x86 LFI "Lightweight Fault Isolation" Target For In-Process Sandboxing

([LLVM] 11 July 06:12 AM EDT x86 Lightweight Fault Isolation)

Stanford researchers have been developing Lightweight Fault Isolation "LFI" compiler passes and targets for LLVM as a means of efficient, native code sandboxing. The AArch64 LFI target was previously upstreamed while this week the x86/x86_64 LFI target was also upstreamed for this means of in-process sandboxing.



KDE Developers Continue Landing More Features For Plasma 6.8

([KDE] 11 July 05:51 AM EDT Plasma 6.8 Features)

KDE developers continue to be very busy this summer landing more features for the upcoming Plasma 6.8 desktop.



Mesa's Rusticl Now Enables Arm Mali Panfrost Driver Support By Default

([Mesa] 11 July 04:00 AM EDT Rusticl + Panfrost)

A change upstreamed to Mesa by an Arm engineer now enables the Panfrost Gallium3D driver for Arm Mali graphics to work with the Rusticl driver by default.



Wine 11.13 Better Supports Input Pointers, Improved Keyboard Scancode Mapping For X11

([WINE] 10 July 08:49 PM EDT Wine 11.13)

Wine 11.13 is out today as the newest bi-weekly development release for this open-source software enabling support for running Windows games and applications on Linux.



Pop!_OS Rolls Out Its "Frosted Glass" Desktop Style For COSMIC

([Desktop] 10 July 08:57 PM EDT COSMIC Frosted Glass)

System76 developers have for the past number of weeks been working on developing a "frosted glass" appearance for the COSMIC desktop environment featured on their Pop!_OS Linux distribution. For Pop!_OS users this frosted glass feature is now available and will become more widespread for other Linux distributions once the next COSMIC release is formally tagged.



KDE Plasma 6.7 X11 vs. Wayland Session Gaming Performance For NVIDIA On CachyOS

([Linux Gaming] 10 July 11:45 AM EDT 148 Comments)

With KDE Plasma 6.7 now having seen a few point releases to further polish this last version with X11 support ahead of Plasma 6.8 going Wayland-only, here are some NVIDIA Linux gaming benchmarks between the X11 and Wayland sessions on Plasma 6.7.2 using the popular Arch Linux based CachyOS.



Linux 7.3 Enabling Second Graphics Pipe For Modern AMD APUs

([Radeon] 10 July 09:32 AM EDT AMDGPU Pipe1)

AMD on Thursday sent out another round of AMDGPU kernel graphics driver and AMDKFD kernel compute driver updates to DRM-Next of new feature material ahead of the Linux 7.3 merge window.



Linux DT Patches Provide Very Basic Support For Apple M3 Pro / Max / Ultra

([Apple] 10 July 06:26 AM EDT Linux + Apple M3 Pro / Max / Ultra)

Upstreamed for the Linux 7.2 kernel was initial support for booting Linux on the Apple M3 SoC devices. But just the barebones suppport for booting with not yet any accelerated graphics or other typical function needed for daily use of M3 Apple devices on Linux, just booting to a console. Now this work is complemented by additional Device Tree patches for also booting M3 Pro / Max / Ultra devices on Linux.



HiZ Plane Optimization Merged For Intel Vulkan Linux Driver For Some Performance Benefit

([Intel] 10 July 06:13 AM EDT HiZ Plane Optimization)

After two years being on the TODO list for a possible performance optimization, the Intel open-source "ANV" Vulkan driver has now merged an HiZ plane optimization that can yield up to a few percent frame-rate improvement for Linux gaming/graphics on newer Intel integrated and discrete graphics hardware.



LLVM Clang Merges Initial Support For NVIDIA Rigel Core With Next-Gen Rosa CPU

([LLVM] 10 July 05:52 AM EDT Rigel CPU Core In LLVM)

Earlier this week NVIDIA confirmed some basic details around their next-gen Rosa CPU that succeeds Vera. Among the public confirmation was that it will feature a "Rigel" Armv9.2-A core iterating on their Olympus core design. With the basic details published, NVIDIA immediately introduced Rigel core support into the GCC compiler. Now they have also upstreamed their initial Rigel core enablement into the LLVM Clang compiler.



Intel-Scaler-vLLM 0.21.0-b1 Delivers Latest Features For vLLM On Intel GPUs

([Intel] 10 July 05:41 AM EDT Intel-Scaler-vLLM 0.21)

Released this morning was Intel's newest version of Intel-Scaler-vLLM as their Docker-based solution providing an optimized vLLM stack for execution on Intel Arc (Pro) graphics hardware.



Phoronix Premium 2026 Summer Support Special Ends Tonight

([Premium] 10 July 12:00 AM EDT Phoronix Premium Discount)

For those that enjoy the daily flow of original open-source/Linux news on Phoronix along with all of the original Linux hardware reviews and performance benchmarking, but haven't yet subscribed to Phoronix Premium to help keep the site going after 22 years, the summer sale ends tonight.



AMD Enabling CACP Feature On Linux For Greater OLED Power Savings

([Radeon] 9 July 08:51 PM EDT AMDGPU DC Updates)

Today's batch of AMDGPU Display Code "DC" updates bring a few noteworthy items for benefiting modern hardware under Linux.



Graviton5 CPU Benchmarks: 30% Geo Mean Improvement Over Graviton4

([Cloud] 9 July 01:53 PM EDT 12 Comments)

After originally announcing Graviton5 last December, recently AWS finally made the M9g and M9gd instances generally available as the first featuring these new in-house ARM server processors for the EC2 cloud. Graviton5 makes use of Arm Neoverse-V3 cores compared to Neoverse-V2 with Graviton4, support up to 192 cores, and feature a higher 3.3GHz clock speed compared to 2.8GHz on the prior-generation Graviton CPUs. Here is an initial look at how the Graviton5 processor performs over Graviton4.



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When users see one GUI as beautiful,
other user interfaces become ugly.
When users see some programs as winners,
other programs become lossage.

Pointers and NULLs reference each other.
High level and assembler depend on each other.
Double and float cast to each other.
High-endian and low-endian define each other.
While and until follow each other.

Therefore the Guru
programs without doing anything
and teaches without saying anything.
Warnings arise and he lets them come;
processes are swapped and he lets them go.
He has but doesn't possess,
acts but doesn't expect.
When his work is done, he deletes it.
That is why it lasts forever.