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Ubuntu 26.04 LTS Now Available & Powered By Linux 7.0 The official release ISOs of Ubuntu 26.04 LTS, Ubuntu Server 26.04 LTS, and the various other Ubuntu flavors are now available for download...

Ubuntu 26.04 LTS Now Available & Powered By Linux 7.0 - https://www.phoronix.com/news/Ubuntu-26.04-LTS

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Godot 4.7 Will Finally Have HDR Output, Including On Linux With Wayland The upcoming Godor 4.7 open-source, cross-platform game engine release is rolling out support for high dynamic range (HDR)...

Godot 4.7 Will Finally Have HDR Output, Including On Linux With Wayland - https://www.phoronix.com/news/Godot-4.7-With-HDR

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Exploring The Workloads Where The AMD Ryzen 9 9950X3D2 Makes A Lot Of Sense Review With this week's launch of the AMD Ryzen 9 9950X3D2 Dual Edition I've found some of the commentary quite surprising among those arguing it's really not a competitive or interesting product. While the cost may be hard to justify at $899 USD compared to the existing Ryzen 9000 series products or Intel's new Core Plus CPUs, particularly for developers, technical computing, etc the performance of the Ryzen 9 9950X3D2 is quite interesting. I've had much enjoyment benchmarking the Ryzen 9 9950X3D2 for technical use-cases. In this article is a complementary look to my launch day AMD Ryzen 9 9950X3D2 review to better condense the 300+ benchmarks I've run to date on this flagship processor.

Exploring The Workloads Where The AMD Ryzen 9 9950X3D2 Makes A Lot Of Sense - www.phoronix.com/review/amd-ryzen-9950x3d...

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Ubuntu Server 26.04 LTS Will Now Automatically Install HWE/OEM Kernel Packages Ubuntu LTS releases on the desktop have automatically installed OEM vendor kernels where needed and hardware enablement "HWE" kernels in later point releases by default. This provides a better out-of-the-box experience for Ubuntu desktop users and one less chore post-install if desiring a newer/better kernel. With Ubuntu Server 26.04 LTS, the server installer is finally doing the same...

Ubuntu Server 26.04 LTS Will Now Automatically Install HWE/OEM Kernel Packages - www.phoronix.com/news/Ubuntu-Server-26.04...

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Exploring The Workloads Where The AMD Ryzen 9 9950X3D2 Makes A Lot Of Sense Review With this week's launch of the AMD Ryzen 9 9950X3D2 Dual Edition I've found some of the commentary quite surprising among those arguing it's really not a competitive or interesting product. While the cost may be hard to justify at $899 USD compared to the existing Ryzen 9000 series products or Intel's new Core Plus CPUs, particularly for developers, technical computing, etc the performance of the Ryzen 9 9950X3D2 is quite interesting. I've had much enjoyment benchmarking the Ryzen 9 9950X3D2 for technical use-cases. In this article is a complementary look to my launch day AMD Ryzen 9 9950X3D2 review to better condense the 300+ benchmarks I've run to date on this flagship processor.

Exploring The Workloads Where The AMD Ryzen 9 9950X3D2 Makes A Lot Of Sense - www.phoronix.com/review/amd-ryzen-9950x3d...

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System76 Thelio Major Workstation Updated For Better Thermals, More Performance Following the recently-launched Thelio Mira redesign, System76 today announced the new Thelio Major workstation with improved thermals and more performance...

System76 Thelio Major Workstation Updated For Better Thermals, More Performance - www.phoronix.com/news/System76-Thelio-Maj...

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Ubuntu 26.04 Allows "sudo apt install rocm" But It's Months Out-Of-Date Canonical announced last year that in collaboration with AMD they would be bringing the ROCm software libraries into the Ubuntu archive for Ubuntu 26.04 LTS. The plan has been to ship AMD ROCm AI/ML and HPC libraries in the Ubuntu archive so it would be as easy as sudo apt install rocm for getting started with AMD's open-source GPU compute stack. With today being the Ubuntu 26.04 LTS release day, I decided to revisit the topic...

Ubuntu 26.04 Allows "sudo apt install rocm" But It's Months Out-Of-Date - https://www.phoronix.com/news/Ubuntu-26.04-With-ROCm

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OpenBLAS 0.3.33 Released With Automatic "BIGNUMA" For More Than 256 CPU Cores OpenBLAS 0.3.33 is out today as the latest update to this vendor-neutral, optimized Basic Linear Algebra Subprograms "BLAS" library...

OpenBLAS 0.3.33 Released With Automatic "BIGNUMA" For More Than 256 CPU Cores - https://www.phoronix.com/news/OpenBLAS-0.3.33-Released

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Many USB Improvements & New Hardware Merged For Linux 7.1 Ready to go ahead of the Linux 7.1 merge window closing at week's end are numerous new USB device support additions and other USB subsystem enhancements...

Many USB Improvements & New Hardware Merged For Linux 7.1 - https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-7.1-USB

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Linux 7.1 Lands The Apple SMC Power Driver For Reporting Battery Metrics On MacBooks The Linux Multi-Function Device "MFD" subsystem changes were merged this week for Linux 7.1 ahead of the merge window closing on Sunday...

Linux 7.1 Lands The Apple SMC Power Driver For Reporting Battery Metrics On MacBooks - https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-7.1-MFD

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FreeRDP 3.25 Adds Experimental AV1 Support FreeRDP as a leading open-source implementation of the Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP) has introduced experimental AV1 codec support...

FreeRDP 3.25 Adds Experimental AV1 Support - https://www.phoronix.com/news/FreeRDP-3.25-Released

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Linux 7.1 Adds Support For 12 New SoCs, Other ARM & RISC-V Hardware All of the SoC updates were recently merged for the ongoing Linux 7.1 kernel cycle. Most of the activity as usual is on the Arm side but also with some RISC-V additions too for the Linux 7.1 kernel...

Linux 7.1 Adds Support For 12 New SoCs, Other ARM & RISC-V Hardware - https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-7.1-SoCs

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Intel Ends Open Ecosystem Community/Evangelism, Archives Other Open-Source Projects Over the past number of months there has been a steady flow of Intel open-source projects archived on GitHub amid the corporate restructuring at the company and realigning of their open-source focus. This week another batch of Intel open-source projects were formally archived...

Intel Ends Open Ecosystem Community/Evangelism, Archives Other Open-Source Projects - www.phoronix.com/news/Intel-Ends-OSS-Evan...

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Ubuntu Rust Coreutils Audit Revealed 113 Issues, Ubuntu 26.10 Aims For "100% Rust Coreutils" Ahead of tomorrow's Ubuntu 26.04 LTS release, Canonical published a blog post today outlining the state of Rust Coreutils for its premiere in this long-term support (LTS) version. Canonical also commissioned a security audit recently of Rust Coreutils that turned up 44 CVEs and 113 issues in total...

Ubuntu Rust Coreutils Audit Revealed 113 Issues, Ubuntu 26.10 Aims For "100% Rust Coreutils" - www.phoronix.com/news/Ubuntu-Rust-Coreuti...

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GCC 16 Compiler Nearly Ready For Release With Zen 6, AVX10.2, APX & Algol 68 GCC 16.1 as the first stable version of the GCC 16 compiler is nearly ready for its official debut as this year's major feature release for this open-source compiler...

GCC 16 Compiler Nearly Ready For Release With Zen 6, AVX10.2, APX & Algol 68 - https://www.phoronix.com/news/GCC-16.1-Coming-Soon

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FreeBSD Working On Intel FRED Support, Laptop Improvements Continue FreeBSD is out today with their Q1-2026 status report to outline the many different development initiatives their open-source developers have participated in over the past quarter. There is a lot of hardware enablement efforts ongoing as well as continuing to make a more compelling desktop experience and also improving GUI and management options for FreeBSD systems...

FreeBSD Working On Intel FRED Support, Laptop Improvements Continue - https://www.phoronix.com/news/FreeBSD-Q1-2026-Progress

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KMSCON Continues Improving For VT Terminal Emulator In User-Space KMSCON 9.3.4 is out today for this virtual terminal (VT) emulator in user-space that runs atop the Linux DRM/KMS APIs for those wanting to enjoy a CONFIG_VT=n Linux kernel experience...

KMSCON Continues Improving For VT Terminal Emulator In User-Space - https://www.phoronix.com/news/KMSCON-9.3.4-Released

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Many Great Networking Improvements Arrive In Linux 7.1 Merged recently to Linux Git were the big set of networking changes for the Linux 7.1 kernel...

Many Great Networking Improvements Arrive In Linux 7.1 - https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-7.1-Networking

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Ubuntu Looks Toward More Snap-Based Devpacks Moving Forward Canonical is out with a new blog post today outlining toolchain changes to Ubuntu Linux from Ubuntu 24.04 LTS to Ubuntu 26.04 LTS due for release tomorrow. While those changes over the past two years aren't too news worthy if you have been following the interim Ubuntu releases, what's interesting is their road ahead on the Ubuntu toolchain front for developers...

Ubuntu Looks Toward More Snap-Based Devpacks Moving Forward - www.phoronix.com/news/Ubuntu-More-Devpack...

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Intel LLM-Scaler vllm-0.14.0-b8.2 Released With Official Arc Pro B70 Support As part of Intel's LLM-Scaler initiative for AI inferencing on Intel Arc hardware, out today is their vllm-0.14.0-b8.2 update that includes officially supporting the Arc Pro B70 graphics card...

Intel LLM-Scaler vllm-0.14.0-b8.2 Released With Official Arc Pro B70 Support - www.phoronix.com/news/Intel-LLM-Scaler-vl...

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Intel Media Driver 2026Q1 Continues Nova Lake S Enablement Intel today published their official quarterly feature release to their open-source Media Driver providing Video Acceleration API (VA-API) support on Linux...

Intel Media Driver 2026Q1 Continues Nova Lake S Enablement - https://www.phoronix.com/news/Intel-Media-Driver-2026Q1

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Ghostty OpenGL-Accelerated Terminal Available On Ubuntu 26.04 LTS Since Ubuntu 25.04 Ptyxis has been the default terminal emulator after it initially became available in Ubuntu 24.10. For the upcoming Ubuntu 26.04 LTS release, Ptyxis remains the default but Ghostty is now available too...

Ghostty OpenGL-Accelerated Terminal Available On Ubuntu 26.04 LTS - https://www.phoronix.com/news/Ghostty-Ubuntu-26.04

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QEMU 11.0 Released With CET Virtualization Support, Native Nitro Enclaves The QEMU 11.0 emulator is now available for this important piece of the open-source Linux virtualization stack...

QEMU 11.0 Released With CET Virtualization Support, Native Nitro Enclaves - https://www.phoronix.com/news/QEMU-11.0-Released

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F2FS, EXT4 & XFS Focus On Fixes For Linux 7.1 The Flash Friendly File-System (F2FS) updates have been merged for the ongoing Linux 7.1 merge window that will wrap up on Sunday. This follows earlier merges for the XFS and EXT4 drivers too...

F2FS, EXT4 & XFS Focus On Fixes For Linux 7.1 - https://www.phoronix.com/news/F2FS-Linux-7.1

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Linux May Drop Old Network Drivers Now That AI-Driven Bug Reports Are Causing A Burden Old network maintenance drivers are becoming a maintenance burden in the era of fuzzing and predominantly AI-driven bug detection causing an uptick in possible bug/security reports to upstream Linux kernel developers but with these drivers potentially having no actual users...

Linux May Drop Old Network Drivers Now That AI-Driven Bug Reports Are Causing A Burden - https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-Old-Network-AI

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Framework Computer Announces The Framework Laptop 13 Pro At Framework Computer's next-gen hardware launch event today they announced the Framework Laptop 13 Pro as a ground-up redesign of their 13-inch modular laptop...

Framework Computer Announces The Framework Laptop 13 Pro - https://www.phoronix.com/news/Framework-Laptop-13-Pro

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Framework Previews The OCuLink Dev Kit In addition to announcing the Framework Laptop 13 Pro today, Framework Computer at their next-gen hardware event also previewed the OCuLink Dev Kit for attaching high throughput peripherals like external GPUs (eGPUs) to Framework Laptops...

Framework Previews The OCuLink Dev Kit - www.phoronix.com/news/FW-OCuLink-Dev-Kit-...

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AlmaLinux Comments On California Age Verification Law The RHEL-derived AlmaLinux is the latest Linux distribution commenting on the recent age verification laws led by California with their Digital Age Assurance Act...

AlmaLinux Comments On California Age Verification Law - www.phoronix.com/news/AlmaLinux-Age-Verif...

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NTFS-3G FUSE Driver Sees First New Release In Four Years Coming today as a big surprise -- one week after the new NTFS file-system driver was merged for Linux 7.1 and separately the existing NTFS3 kernel driver seeing some fixes -- is a new release of the NTFS-3G driver providing a FUSE-based user-space driver for NTFS on Linux and other platforms...

NTFS-3G FUSE Driver Sees First New Release In Four Years - https://www.phoronix.com/news/NTFS-3G-Driver-2026

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AMD Ryzen 9 9950X3D2 Benchmarks: The Best Desktop Performance For Linux Developers, Creators Review Today we can finally share performance benchmarks of the long-rumored AMD Ryzen 9 9950X3D2 Dual Edition processor. This new halo product for the Ryzen 9000 series desktop line-up offers captivating performance for developers frequently compiling code, creators, technical computing workloads for students or hobbyists or those not able to afford a Threadripper / EPYC type workstation, or similar heavy computing use. With the 16 cores / 32 threads and both CCDs having 3D V-Cache, the AMD Ryzen 9 9950X3D2 offers leading performance among current generation desktop processors.

AMD Ryzen 9 9950X3D2 Benchmarks: The Best Desktop Performance For Linux Developers, Creators - www.phoronix.com/review/amd-ryzen-9950x3d...

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