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Fedora 44 RISC-V Images Released, Including New "Omni" Kernel For Broader RISC-V Hardware Support

Phoronix - Tue, 06/09/2026 - 08:25
Following the official Fedora 44 images released one month ago, Fedora 44 RISC-V images were published today for those wanting to run this newest Fedora Linux on RISC-V hardware...

AMD Support Being Added To UFS Host Controller PCI Driver In Linux 7.2

Phoronix - Tue, 06/09/2026 - 06:17
Linux's ufshcd-pci as the Universal Flash Storage host controller PCI driver has supported a variety of Intel devices to this point while for Linux 7.2 the first AMD device is set to be added...

Running CachyOS With The BORE Scheduler While Disabling Ananicy-CPP

Phoronix - Tue, 06/09/2026 - 01:56
Last week I ran benchmarks of CachyOS with the BORE scheduler using its "linux-cachyos-bore" kernel option. The results didn't end up being as enticing as anticipated but the developer behind the BORE scheduler commented in the forums that he recently received reports from users experiencing game stuttering while using BORE that was attributed to CachyOS' default use of Ananicy-Cpp. So over the weekend I did another CachyOS BORE run without that CachyOS default...

Linux 7.1 Helping Intel Arc Battlemage Graphics Achieve Better Performance

Phoronix - Tue, 06/09/2026 - 00:00
Recent testing of the Intel Arc B580 Battlemage desktop graphics card has shown that the upcoming Linux 7.1 kernel release is delivering superior graphics performance over the current stable Linux 7.0 kernel.

Xfce Ported To Rust-Written Redox OS For Better X11 Experience

Phoronix - Mon, 06/08/2026 - 23:09
The belated "This Month in Redox" was posted today for covering improvements made to this open-source, Rust-based operating system during the month of May. Most notable in May is seeing the Xfce desktop ported over to Redox OS...

Canonical Experimenting With x86-64-v3 Packages For Ubuntu 26.10

Phoronix - Mon, 06/08/2026 - 22:35
Canonical engineers are again evaluating the impact of building the Ubuntu Linux archive for the x86-64-v3 "amd64v3" micro-architecture feature level for its performance benefits on modern Intel and AMD systems. An amd64v3 archive is available of Ubuntu 26.10 for testing with the packages targeting this level that allows for AVX/AVX2 and other newer CPU x86_64 ISA capabilities of the past decade...

Linux 7.2 To Add ACPI CPPC v4 Support Authored By NVIDIA

Phoronix - Mon, 06/08/2026 - 21:41
Ahead of NVIDIA Vera ramping up, the upcoming Linux 7.2 kernel is adding the ACPI CPPC v4 support authored by a NVIDIA engineer...

Flatpak 1.18 Released With Integration For AMD ROCm

Phoronix - Mon, 06/08/2026 - 21:14
Flatpak 1.18 is out today for providing the latest improvements to this leading open-source app sandboxing and distribution tech...

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