Notices by Phoronix (phoronix@masto.ai), page 3

Experimental Zones Protocol Merged To Wayland After 2+ Years, 620+ Comments

After the merge request was opened back in 2023 and after going through 628 comments/activity, merged now to Wayland Protocols is the experimental zones "xx-zones" implementation for area-limited window positioning...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Wayland-Experimental-Zones

Redox OS Gets Cargo & The Rust Compiler Running On This Open-Source OS

The Rust-written Redox OS open-source operating system is now able to leverage Cargo and the Rust compiler "rustc" itself running within this platform. Plus they also made a heck of a lot of other improvements too over the course of the past month. Today they published a status update to outline all of the promising advancements made to this independent OS so far in 2026...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Redox-OS-January-2026

NetBSD 11.0-RC1 Available For Testing With Enhanced Linux Emulation

The first release candidate of the big NetBSD 11.0 release is now available for testing...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/NetBSD-11.0-RC1

Reworked NTFS Linux Driver Posted With More Improvements & Fixes

Announced back in October was NTFS Plus as a new Linux driver for NTFS based on the former NTFS kernel driver prior to Paragon Software contributing the NTFS3 driver code. The intent with this new driver is for better performance. more features, public user-space utilities around it, and all-around a nice step forward for those reliant on this Microsoft file-system. Out this week is the sixth iteration of …
https://www.phoronix.com/news/NTFS-Remake-Linux-v6

Budgie 10.10.1 Released With Better Stability & Improved Labwc Integration

Following the Budgie 10.10 release from earlier this month, Budgie 10.10.1 is now here for closing out January...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Budgie-10.10.1

Ubuntu 26.04 Resolute Snapshot 3 Released For Testing

Resolute Snapshot 3 is now available as the newest monthly test candidate leading up the Ubuntu 26.04 LTS release in April...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Ubuntu-26.04-Snapshot-3

AerynOS Establishes Policy Against LLM Contributions, 2026.01 ISO Refresh

In kicking off 2026, AerynOS developers have continued to make progress on their build tooling and infrastructure for this Linux distribution formerly known as Serpent OS. They have also been working on a new website design and other updated branding to start the new year...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/AerynOS-2026.01

Libgcrypt 1.12 Released With VAES/AVX-512 Accelerated AES: 2x Performance On AMD Zen 5

Werner Koch released libgcrypt 1.12 as the newest feature release to this library providing the cryptographic building blocks used by GnuPG and other software like email clients, file encryption utilities, and other software...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/libgcrypt-1.12

NVIDIA GeForce NOW Is Now Available Natively On Linux In Flatpak Form

Following NVIDIA's announcement back at CES of their GeForce NOW game streaming service coming to Linux as a native desktop application, today's the day. The GeForce NOW Linux-native build is being published and the review embargo has lifted.
https://www.phoronix.com/review/nvidia-geforce-now-linux

Apple M3 Progress On Linux: Asahi Can Boot To KDE Desktop - But No GPU Acceleration Yet

While the Asahi Linux project has made good progress on bringing Linux to Apple Silicon hardware, much of the success and in turn upstreaming to the Linux kernel has been around the aging M1 and M2 Macs. Apple M3 and newer has been a struggle but progress is being made. One of the Asahi Linux developers shared the ability now to boot to the KDE Plasma desktop with the experimental As…
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Apple-M3-Linux-Boot-To-KDE

Firefox Nightly Enables Split-View Mode Option By Default

The latest Firefox Nightly builds have now enabled the Split View mode by default to easily view two web pages at once within a single window...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Firefox-Nightly-Split-View

ASRock Rack PAUL PCIe IPMI Card Sees DT Patches For The Mainline Linux Kernel

ASRock Rack's PAUL is a low-profile PCIe IPMI card built around the widely-used ASPEED AST2500 controller for providing IPMI/BMC capabilities for any platform. New patches provide mainline Linux kernel support for ASRock Rack PAUL with the necessary Device Tree bits...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/ASRock-Rack-PAUL-Linux-Patches

AMD Releases MLIR-AIE 1.2 Compiler Toolchain For Targeting Ryzen AI NPUs

In addition to AMD releasing the Ryzen AI Software 1.7 release on Friday, they also published a new version of their MLIR-AIE compiler toolchain for targeting AMD Ryzen AI NPU devices with this LLVM-based MLIR-focused stack...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/AMD-MLIR-AIE-1.2

Whisper.cpp 1.8.3 Delivers A "12x Performance Boost" With Integrated Graphics

Whisper.cpp as the open-source high performance inference project built around OpenAI's Whisper and from the same developers as Llama.cpp / GGML is out with a big new release. Whisper.cpp 1.8.3 is capable of delivering a 12x performance boost for systems with integrated AMD and Intel graphics...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Whisper-cpp-1.8.3-12x-Perf

GCC 16 Compiler Steps Closer To Release With Algol 68 Frontend, AMD Zen 6, C++20 Default

GCC 16 as this year's major feature release of the GNU Compiler Collection should be out in the typical March~April timeframe if all goes well. Today the GCC 16 compiler transitioned to its final stage "stage 4" of development with a focus exclusively on documentation and regression fixing...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/GCC-16-Stage-4-Development

GYESME: A New Design-Led Downstream Of GNOME Being Explored

A new project trying to get off the ground and currently in an "exploratory phase" is GYESME that describes itself as a "design-led" downstream of GNOME with plans ot only fork when needed that is "minimal by default."..
https://www.phoronix.com/news/GYESME-GNOME-Downstream

Mageia 10 Alpha Released - 32-bit ISOs Still Available

The first alpha release of Mageia 10 is now available for this Linux distribution who's lineage traces back to Mandriva and before that the legendary Mandrake Linux...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Mageia-10-Alpha

ReactOS Starts 2026 With Another "Major Step" Toward Windows NT6 Compatibility

The ReactOS free software project is turning 30 this year and its "open-source Windows" OS ambitions remain. They are starting out this year with another "major step" towards Windows NT 6.0 compatibility...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/ReactOS-Starts-2026

NTFSPLUS Linux Driver Renamed To Just "NTFS" With Latest Code Restructuring

One of the unexpected Linux kernel surprises of 2025 was NTFSPLUS being announced as a new driver for Microsoft's NTFS file-system with better performance and more features compared to the classic read-only NTFS driver or the "NTFS3" kernel driver that Paragon Software submitted upstream. That NTFSPLUS driver has continued expanding its feature set and robustness and sent out today was the third…
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-NTFS-v3-Patches

The Death Of Clear Linux, Other Intel Linux Engineering Setbacks In 2025

When it came to the most viewed AMD Linux/open-source news of 2025 there were a lot of accomplishments for the company this year both on the CPU and graphics side of the house and from consumer to server hardware. Today is a look back at the most popular Intel open-source/Linux news of the year, which unfortunately, their layoffs and other cuts to their software engineer…
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Intel-Linux-News-2025