Notices by Phoronix (phoronix@masto.ai), page 2

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

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...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Fedora-44-RISC-V-Images

Linux 7.0.8 Released & LTS Kernels Updated For ssh-keysign-pwn

Following yesterday's disclosure of the ssh-keysign-pwn vulnerability that allows unprivileged users to read root-owned files, a slew of new stable kernel releases are out today to address this latest Linux security issue...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-7.0.8-Released

Linux File-System Proliferation A Burden: Requirements Laid Out For Any Future File-Systems

The growing number of file-systems within the Linux kernel source tree is causing an ongoing burden for upstream developers maintaining the virtual file-system (VFS) code around it and associated code. As a result of the continuing rise of new file-systems being proposed for the Linux kernel, documentation is being introduced to establish clear guidelines for getting new file-sys…
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-FS-Proliferation-Burden

FUSEX File-System Being Developed For Extended/Experimental Features

Miklos Szeredi of Red Hat has been developing the FUSEX file-system as an extended/experimental area for File-System in User-Space "FUSE" development...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/FUSEX-File-System

GCC 16.1 Released With AMD Zen 6 Support, Algol 68 & Many C/C++ Improvements

GCC 16.1 is now available as the first stable release of GCC 16 as this year's major open-source GNU compiler feature release...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/GCC-16.1-Released

Linux 7.1 Removes Some Obsolete PCMCIA Drivers That Likely Haven't Been Used In Years

In addition to some network drivers on the chopping block due to AI bug reports for obsolete hardware/drivers and Linux 7.1 dropping various drivers for Russia's Baikal CPUs, the Linux 7.1 kernel as of today also dropped some obsolete PCMCIA host controller drivers...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-7.1-Drops-Old-PCMCIA-Code

Oracle To Reduce The Frequency Of Solaris 11.4 Updates

Oracle announced today they are going to be reducing the frequency of software updates for Solaris 11.4 and their ZFS Storage Appliance software...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Solaris-11.4-Less-Updates

SDL Adds Policy To Forbid LLM/AI Generated Code Contributions

The SDL library widely used by cross-platform games and part of the Steam Runtime has now established a policy to block code contributions made using AI / Large Language Models (LLMs)...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/SDL-Says-No-To-AI-LLMs

Linus Torvalds Merged The Code Beginning To Remove Intel 486 CPU Support In Linux 7.1

As a follow-up to the news first-covered on Phoronix earlier this month about Linux 7.1 expected to begin removing i486 CPU support: it indeed happened. Linus Torvalds took the initial removal bits today without any fuss today for beginning the phase out of M486 / M486SX / ELAN kernel support...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-7.1-Begins-Removing-i486

KDE Merges Per-Screen Virtual Desktops After 21 Years

A request made a KDE user all the way back in June 2005 on KDE 3.3.2 is finally resolved. After being sought after for 21 years, the latest KWin code now has support for per-screen virtual desktops...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/KDE-Per-Screen-Virt-Desktops

Debian Is Figuring Out How Age Verification Laws Will Impact It

With age verification/attestation laws down to the OS level enacted by California and being decided upon by other US states, it's been a hot topic of discussion in the open-source world. For the Debian project that is strictly volunteer/community-driven unlike various commercial Linux platforms, they are figuring out how such laws will impact them...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Debian-Undecided-Age-Laws

MidnightBSD 4.0.4 Released With Aged & Agectl For Age Verification/Attestation

MidnightBSD 4.0.4 is out today as the newest update to this desktop-minded BSD operating system. Notable with this update is introducing the Aged daemon and Agectl program for handling age verification and age attestation given the increasing number of US states pursuing laws around age verification at the OS user level...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/MidnightBSD-4.0.4

Intel Announces The "Optimization Zone"

Intel today formally announced the Optimization Zone as a new initiative at the company that began last October and is building up a centralized repository for maximizing performance and software optimizations around Intel hardware...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Intel-Optimization-Zone

Ubuntu MATE Leader Stepping Down, Seeking New Contributors

After starting and leading the Ubuntu MATE flavor since 2014, Martin Wimpress announced he's looking to step down from leading this flavor of Ubuntu Linux with the MATE desktop environment. He's hoping for new passionate contributors to keep it going...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Ubuntu-MATE-Needs-Leader

XMMS Codebase Brought Back To Life By AI With GTK4 + GStreamer/PipeWire Port

Longtime Linux desktop users will likely remember the glorious days of the XMMS music player inspired by Winamp. It's been about two decades since the last official release but thanks to AI there is now a modern port of the codebase to GTK4 and GStreamer/PipeWire...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/XMMS-AI-Port-To-PipeWire-GTK4

LibreOffice 26.8 To Add A Donation Banner To Its Start Center

LibreOffice 26.8 merged initial support for adding a donation banner to its Start Center. This initial UI when launching LibreOffice aims to make users aware of the community-driven focus of the project and to hopefully solicit additional donations from the community...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/LibreOffice-26-Donation-Banner

Ubuntu Maker Canonical Announces MicroCloud Cluster Manager

Ubuntu maker Canonical announced today MicroCloud Cluster Manager that is now in beta as a new cloud platform for managing lightweight cloud clusters...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Canonical-MicroCloud

systemd 260 Released: mstack, SysV Service Scripts Removed & AI Agents Documentation

Systemd 260 was just released as the newest stable version of this widely-used Linux init system and service manager. Systemd 260 brings yet more features to this critical open-source project and to be incorporated into H1'2026 Linux distributions...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/systemd-260-Released

AMD, NVIDIA, OpenAI & Others Form An Optical Scale-up Consortium

AMD, Broadcom, Meta, Microsoft, NVIDIA and OpenAI jointly announced today the formation of the Optical Compute Interconnect (OCI) Multi-Source Agreement (MSA) optical scale-up consortium...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Optical-Compute-Interconnect

MSI PRO B850-P WiFi: A Special AMD Ryzen AM5 Motherboard For Linux / Open-Source Enthusiasts

The MSI PRO B850-P WIFI motherboard is a unique AMD Ryzen AM5 motherboard for Linux/open-source enthusiasts that is competitively priced at just $179 USD. It's interesting not because of the doings of MSI but rather 3mdeb with this being the desktop motherboard they are working on porting AMD openSIL and Coreboot to for allowing an open-source firmware stack.
https://www.phoronix.com/review/msi-pro-b850p-wifi