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

3mdeb Making Progress On AMD Ryzen AM5 Motherboard Port With Coreboot + openSIL

In addition to the 3mdeb firmware consulting firm porting Coreboot with AMD openSIL to an EPYC 9005 "Turin" Gigabyte motherboard, their developers have also been working on a similar Coreboot + openSIL port to an AM5 Ryzen consumer motherboard...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/3mdeb-Ryzen-MSI-Port-Progress

AMD EPYC Turin 128 Core Comparison: EPYC 9745 "Zen 5C" vs. EPYC 9755 "Zen 5"

The AMD EPYC 9755 128-core Zen 5 server processor has been benchmarked a lot at Phoronix since the EPYC 9005 "Turin" launch as their top-end Zen 5 server processor with "full fat" cores compared to the denser Zen 5C cores that extend up to the EPYC 9965 at 192 cores. For those eyeing the 128 core per socket sweet spot, there is also the EPYC 9745 that is made up of 128 Zen 5C cores that allows …
https://www.phoronix.com/review/amd-epyc-9745-9755

GNU Hurd On Guix Is Ready With 64-bit Support, SMP Multi-Processor Support "Soon"

After hearing last month that GNU Hurd is "almost there" with x86_64 support, it was exciting to kickoff today by seeing a developer headline "The 64-bit Hurd is Here!" GNU Hurd 64-bit support is now said to be ready but SMP support for multiple processor cores and the like remain still in development...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/GNU-Hurd-64-bit-2026

AerynOS 2026.02 Brings More Wayland Compositor Options, Other Improvements

AerynOS 2026.02 was released for closing out February as the newest alpha release for this Linux distribution formerly known as Serpent OS. In AerynOS 2026.02 are many package updates plus continued work on the tooling and other innovations around this Linux distribution...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/AerynOS-2026.02

Linux 7.0 Retires The IBM Mwave ACP Modem Driver Used By Some 1990s ThinkPads

Long past due for retirement, the Linux 7.0 kernel has removed the obsolete Mwave driver for the 3780i ACP Modem found in some Pentium II era IBM ThinkPads from the 1990s...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-7.0-Retires-Mwave

NTFS3 Driver Sees Improvements In Linux 7.0 While "NTFS Remake" Driver Bakes

The NTFS3 driver maintained by Paragon Software for Microsoft NTFS file-systems today saw a batch of improvements merged for Linux 7.0 This comes as there is also the competing "NTFS Remake" driver that began a few months ago as the "NTFSPLUS" driver. That NTFS Remake driver isn't looking like it will be submitted for the Linux 7.0 merge window so at least for now the NTFS3 driver continues see…
https://www.phoronix.com/news/NTFS3-Linux-7.0

wlroots 0.20 Nears Release With New Protocols, Enhanced Vulkan Renderer

Version 0.20 of the popular wlroots Wayland support library is nearing its official release. Over the past week were two release candidates for wlroots 0.20 were published for this library used by Sway, Wayfire, Cage, Gamescope, and numerous other Wayland compositors...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/wlroots-0.20-Released

AMD openSIL + Coreboot Being Ported To A Modern AM5 Consumer Motherboard

While we are very eager for the AMD openSIL open-source CPU silicon initialization project to achieve production readiness with Zen 6 platforms for ultimately replacing AGESA, there is some experimental excitement on the way for open-source firmware enthusiasts... OpenSIL and Coreboot are being brought to an AM5 motherboard you can buy retail...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/AMD-openSIL-Coreboot-AM5-Zen-5

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