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NetBSD 11.0 Released With RISC-V Support, Enhanced Linux System Call Compatibility

Phoronix - 2 hours 47 min ago
NetBSD 11.0 officially shipped today as the nineteenth major release of this popular BSD operating system...

MPEG-4 Patent Expiration, RADV On Windows, Open-Source AI & Other July Highlights

Phoronix - Sat, 08/01/2026 - 21:30
Last month on Phoronix there were 257 original Linux/open-source related news articles and another 20 featured Linux hardware reviews / multi-page benchmark articles. Following the recent 22nd birthday of Phoronix.com, this puts the overall tally at nearly 51k original news articles and more than 5,600 Linux hardware reviews. Here is a look back at what readers found most exciting during the course of July...

Prominent Arch Linux Developer Resigns After 10 Year Run

Phoronix - Sat, 08/01/2026 - 19:47
Arch Linux developer, security team member, AUR maintainer, and package maintainer Morten Linderud "Foxboron" announced today he is resigning from the project...

Linux 7.2-rc6 Working Around Several Buggy Western Digital SATA Drives

Phoronix - Sat, 08/01/2026 - 18:49
Merged ahead of tomorrow's Linux 7.2-rc6 kernel test release are several ATA fixes that include a number of device-specific workarounds for some Western Digital SATA drives that have been failing to work on recent versions of the Linux kernel...

GNOME Working To Establish An RFC Process, Battling Sloppy AI-Generated Extensions

Phoronix - Sat, 08/01/2026 - 18:34
GNOME developers were quite busy in closing out the month of July from continued work on establishing a formal Request For Comments (RFC) process for the project to battling the continued flood of AI-generated GNOME Shell extensions...

KDE Plasma 6.8 To Enjoy Huge Performance Gains For Multi-GPU/eGPU Performance

Phoronix - Sat, 08/01/2026 - 18:18
It's been a very exciting week in the KDE Plasma 6.8 development space particularly thanks to performance work on bettering KWin's multi-GPU / external GPU handling...

Picolibc 1.8.12 Brings Latest Improvements To This Embedded-Focused C Library

Phoronix - Sat, 08/01/2026 - 18:00
If the recent release of the GNU C Library glibc 2.44 is too big for your embedded use-cases, Keith Packard continues hacking on Picolibc as his embedded-focused C library. Released overnight was Picolibc 1.8.12 with a variety of improvements for this embedded libc...

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