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AOMedia Will Be Talking More About The AV2 Video Codec Later This Month Last month the Alliance for Open Media "AOMedia" began teasing that the AV2 video codec will release later this year. They have now sent us word that later this month will be a virtual event talking more about this successor to AV1...

AOMedia Will Be Talking More About The AV2 Video Codec Later This Month - https://www.phoronix.com/news/AOMedia-AV2-Talk

08.10.2025 20:38 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Linux 6.18 Block Code Introduces Lockless Bitmap For Software RAID Last week the block subsystem and IO_uring updates were merged for the Linux 6.18 kernel with a few items to draw attention to...

Linux 6.18 Block Code Introduces Lockless Bitmap For Software RAID - https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-6.18-Block-IO-Uring

08.10.2025 19:33 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Linux 6.18 USB Brings Intel USBIO Drivers, Offload Improvements In addition to the Linux 6.18 kernel bringing initial bindings for writing Rust USB drivers, the main USB/Thunderbolt subsystem updates for Linux 6.18 brought a variety of other enhancements...

Linux 6.18 USB Brings Intel USBIO Drivers, Offload Improvements - https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-6.18-USB

08.10.2025 18:13 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

System76 Pop!_OS 24.04 Beta Performing Well In Early Benchmarks Last week System76 released the Pop!_OS 24.04 beta along with the beta COSMIC desktop. This long overdue update to Pop!_OS re-bases against the Ubuntu 24.04 LTS base while featuring their modern, Rust-based desktop environment. For those curious I ran some benchmarks of Pop!_OS 24.04 beta compared to the current Pop!_OS 22.04 stable release.

System76 Pop!_OS 24.04 Beta Performing Well In Early Benchmarks - https://www.phoronix.com/review/popos-2404-beta

08.10.2025 14:23 — 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Linux 6.18 RISC-V Default Kernel Builds To Support Front Panel Shutdown/Reboot Buttons Following last week's RISC-V pull request that brought support for the MIPS Vendor Extensions and other changes plus separately the SoC pull that added mainline ESWIN EIC7700 SoC support and the HiFive Premier P550, a secondary round of RISC-V architecture updates was submitted for the Linux 6.18 merge window...

Linux 6.18 RISC-V Default Kernel Builds To Support Front Panel Shutdown/Reboot Buttons - https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-6.18-More-RISC-V

08.10.2025 13:38 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Blender 5.0 Beta Builds Available Ahead Of Next Month's Official Release Beta builds of the Blender 5.0 3D modeling software are now available ahead of the planned stable release in mid-November...

Blender 5.0 Beta Builds Available Ahead Of Next Month's Official Release - https://www.phoronix.com/news/Blender-5.0-Beta

08.10.2025 13:13 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Linux Fair DRM Scheduler Graduates Out Of The "RFC" Phase Tvrtko Ursulin of Igalia has been leading the work on developing a "fair" DRM scheduler for Linux kernel graphics drivers. This scheduling algorithm is inspired by CFS and aims to improve the experience of running interactive graphical clients in parallel with heavy GPU workloads. This scheduler is inching closer to being ready for the mainline Linux kernel...

Linux Fair DRM Scheduler Graduates Out Of The "RFC" Phase - https://www.phoronix.com/news/Fair-DRM-Scheduler-Post-RFC

08.10.2025 10:57 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

GCC 16 Compiler Shifting To "Stage 3" Development Next Month The GNU Compiler Collection will be shifting to its "stage three" development in November as focusing more on bug fixing now and new ports and less on existing compiler functionality/features...

GCC 16 Compiler Shifting To "Stage 3" Development Next Month - https://www.phoronix.com/news/GCC-16-Stage-3-Next-Month

08.10.2025 10:42 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

KVM Virtualization Sees Several Exciting Improvements For AMD & Intel In Linux 6.18 In recent days there have been two rounds of Kernel-based Virtual Machine "KVM" feature updates to be merged for Linux 6.18 in enhancing the open-source virtualization stack...

KVM Virtualization Sees Several Exciting Improvements For AMD & Intel In Linux 6.18 - https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-6.18-KVM

08.10.2025 10:32 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Linux 6.18 exFAT Driver Lands An Enticing Optimization In addition to the NTFS3 driver changes to land last week for the Linux 6.18 kernel, the exFAT file-system driver for that other Microsoft file-system has also seen some notable updates this cycle...

Linux 6.18 exFAT Driver Lands An Enticing Optimization - https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-6.18-exFAT-File-System

08.10.2025 10:17 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Meta Opens Up OpenZL As Format-Aware Compression Framework Meta already has Zstd (Zstandard) compression while this week they announced the release of OpenZL as a new open-source, format-aware compression framework...

Meta Opens Up OpenZL As Format-Aware Compression Framework - https://www.phoronix.com/news/Mesa-OpenZL-Compression

08.10.2025 00:23 — 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Linux 6.18 Lands Initial Framework For USB Driver Rust Bindings In addition to a lot of rust code merged last week for Linux 6.18, more Rust code has since landed by way of the char/misc pull request...

Linux 6.18 Lands Initial Framework For USB Driver Rust Bindings - https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-6.18-Rust-USB-Framework

07.10.2025 18:58 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Python 3.14 Released With Performance Improvements, Free-Threading & Zstd Python 3.14 is now available as the newest annual major feature release for the Python programming language...

Python 3.14 Released With Performance Improvements, Free-Threading & Zstd - https://www.phoronix.com/news/Python-3.14

07.10.2025 17:03 — 👍 6 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0

AMD Announces Ryzen Embedded 9000 Series AMD today announced the Ryzen Embedded 9000 series for industrial computing and automation platforms...

AMD Announces Ryzen Embedded 9000 Series - https://www.phoronix.com/news/AMD-Ryzen-Embedded-9000-Series

07.10.2025 16:48 — 👍 5 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0

The Many Memory Management Improvements In Linux 6.18 The many memory management "MM" changes were recently merged into the Linux 6.18 kernel, consisting of a number of interesting patch series...

The Many Memory Management Improvements In Linux 6.18 - https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-6.18-MM

07.10.2025 14:58 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Qualcomm Acquires Arduino, Announces Arduino UNO Q Built On Dragonwing Qualcomm announced today that they have acquired Arduino, the popular open-source hardware/electronics prototyping platform for single-board micro-controllers...

Qualcomm Acquires Arduino, Announces Arduino UNO Q Built On Dragonwing - https://www.phoronix.com/news/Qualcomm-Acquires-Arduino

07.10.2025 14:03 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Linear Address Space Separation Revised Following Prior Intel Engineer's Departure Being worked on for the past roughly three years has been Linear Address Space Separation "LASS" for the Linux kernel as a security improvement in light of Spectre/Meltdown...

Linear Address Space Separation Revised Following Prior Intel Engineer's Departure - https://www.phoronix.com/news/Intel-LASS-v10

07.10.2025 13:13 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Realtek ECC Engine Driver Upstreamed For Linux 6.18 The Memory Technology Device "MTD" subsystem updates are merged for the in-development Linux 6.18 kernel...

Realtek ECC Engine Driver Upstreamed For Linux 6.18 - https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-6.18-MTD

07.10.2025 12:28 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Intel QAT Zstd Plugin 1.0 Released With Optimizations, Zstd 1.5.7 Support Initially released two years ago was an Intel QuickAssist/QAT adaptation for Zstd compression. The v0.1 release happened just over two years ago followed by a v0.2 release one year later... Since then, it had been all quiet. Arriving today to surprise is the QAT Zstd 1.0 plug-in release...

Intel QAT Zstd Plugin 1.0 Released With Optimizations, Zstd 1.5.7 Support - https://www.phoronix.com/news/Intel-QAT-Zstd-1.0

07.10.2025 10:43 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

New In 2025: Linux Patches Enable PCI Support For The Amiga 4000 For any Amiga 4000 hobbyists running a Linux m68k operating system, a PCI driver was finally published three decades later for Linux. Patches posted for mainline Linux kernel review today enable the Mediator 4000 PCI bridge available for the Amiga 4000 computer from the early 90's...

New In 2025: Linux Patches Enable PCI Support For The Amiga 4000 - https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-PCI-Amiga-4000

07.10.2025 10:33 — 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Loongson Security Engine Support Added To Linux 6.18 Upstreamed for the Linux 6.18 kernel is supporting the Loongson Security Engine chip found on modern versions of these Chinese computing platforms...

Loongson Security Engine Support Added To Linux 6.18 - https://www.phoronix.com/news/Loongson-Security-Engine

07.10.2025 10:23 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Qt 6.10 Released With PipeWire Audio Backend & Many Other Improvements Qt 6.10 is now available as the latest feature update to this open-source and cross-platform toolkit...

Qt 6.10 Released With PipeWire Audio Backend & Many Other Improvements - https://www.phoronix.com/news/Qt-6.10

07.10.2025 10:18 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Linux 6.18 To Support The Red & Green Status LEDs On QNAP NAS Devices The LED subsystem updates don't tend to be too exciting each kernel cycle but for those with QNAP network attached storage (NAS) devices and wanting to run the mainline kernel, now you can have working red and green status LEDs...

Linux 6.18 To Support The Red & Green Status LEDs On QNAP NAS Devices - https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-6.18-LEDs

07.10.2025 10:08 — 👍 5 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Fedora 43 Landing Emergency Change To Increase /boot Due To NVIDIA GPU Firmware & Other Bloat Fedora 43 is working its way toward release in the coming weeks and is now going through a very late change. A change was announced and accepted today for increasing the size of the /boot partition. This is driven by the ever-increasing number of firmware files needed for different devices to function under Linux with open-source drivers. A large motivator to this change was the very large and growing NVIDIA GPU firmware file sizes for Nouveau and the future Nova driver...

Fedora 43 Landing Emergency Change To Increase /boot Due To NVIDIA GPU Firmware & Other Bloat - https://www.phoronix.com/news/Fedora-43-Bigger-Boot-Firmware

07.10.2025 00:37 — 👍 8 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0

Linux 6.18 NFSD To Help With Scalability From Low-Cost Clouds To High-End Servers The NFS server (NFSD) improvements were merged today for the Linux 6.18 kernel. Most exciting is a new experimental feature that can help with scaling NFSD both for low-end/low-cost servers up through high-end larger server platforms...

Linux 6.18 NFSD To Help With Scalability From Low-Cost Clouds To High-End Servers - https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-6.18-NFSD

07.10.2025 00:17 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Important Patch Series For Nouveau Driver Will Help With NVK Performance A patch series posted today for Nouveau, the open-source NVIDIA kernel driver within the mainline Linux tree, can help overcome some performance obstacles currently observed with the Mesa NVK Vulkan driver...

Important Patch Series For Nouveau Driver Will Help With NVK Performance - https://www.phoronix.com/news/Nouveau-Larger-Page-Sizes

06.10.2025 20:22 — 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Linux 6.18 Works Around An Intel Xeon 6 PCIe Performance Issue The PCI subsystem updates were merged today for the in-development Linux 6.18 kernel. The PCI changes this cycle are mostly a random assortment of different changes to the wide assortment of PCIe drivers. Standing out is a workaround for dealing with a possible PCI Express performance issue for latest-generation Xeon 6 servers...

Linux 6.18 Works Around An Intel Xeon 6 PCIe Performance Issue - https://www.phoronix.com/news/Xeon-6-PCIe-Workaround-Linux

06.10.2025 19:02 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Rust-Written Redox OS Enables Multi-Threading By Default The Rust-written Redox operating system written from scratch is now enabling multi-threaded support by default for x86-based systems...

Rust-Written Redox OS Enables Multi-Threading By Default - https://www.phoronix.com/news/Redox-OS-Multi-Threaded

06.10.2025 15:53 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Ubuntu 25.10 Delivering Some Nice Performance Gains For Intel Core Ultra "Lunar Lake" Ubuntu 25.10 is looking quite nice in the performance department ahead of its official release later this week. On various systems tested thus far, Ubuntu 25.10 is delivering nice gains over Ubuntu 25.04 and compared to the current Ubuntu 24.04 LTS. The latest Ubuntu 25.10 benchmarking at Phoronix is looking at the Intel Core Ultra Lunar Lake performance using the Lenovo ThinkPad X1 Carbon Gen 13 Aura Edition laptop.

Ubuntu 25.10 Delivering Some Nice Performance Gains For Intel Core Ultra "Lunar Lake" - https://www.phoronix.com/review/ubuntu-2510-lunar-lake

06.10.2025 15:01 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Linux Preps IAA Accelerator Support For Intel's Wildcat Lake While the Intel In-Memory Analytics Accelerator (IAA) so far is just found on newer Xeon server processors, prior Linux patches acknowledge IAA being found on at least select Panther Lake SoCs. New patches ready for merging to the Linux 6.18 kernel are indicating IAA accelerator(s) will also be found on at least some of the lower-cost Wildcat Lake SoCs too...

Linux Preps IAA Accelerator Support For Intel's Wildcat Lake - https://www.phoronix.com/news/Intel-IAA-Wildcat-Lake

06.10.2025 14:56 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

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