Notices by Phoronix (phoronix@masto.ai), page 4

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

OpenZFS 2.4 Released With Faster Encryption Performance, Many Other Improvements

OpenZFS 2.4 is out as stable in time for the holidays! The big OpenZFS 2.4 feature release is now available for FreeBSD and Linux systems to continue advancing the open-source ZFS file-system support...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/OpenZFS-2.4-Released

Servo 0.0.3 Browser Engine Brings Better Performance, Embedding Improvements

Servo 0.0.3 is out today as the newest update to this Rust-based, open-source web layout engine. Servo 0.0.3 incorporates many enhancements made over the past month from better performance to enhancing its embedding API and other improvements like context menus for more web content...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Servo-0.0.3-Released

Early Linux 6.19 Benchmarks On AMD EPYC 9965 2P Excelling For AI & HPC Performance

As the Linux 6.19 merge window winded down this weekend, I began running this development kernel on more systems. While there are some scheduler regressions currently with Linux 6.19 Git, for HPC workloads especially I am seeing some encouraging results using a flagship AMD EPYC 9965 2P server configuration.
https://www.phoronix.com/review/amd-epyc-9965-linux-619

New Rule Forbids GNOME Shell Extensions Made Using AI Generated Code

The GNOME.org Extensions hosting for GNOME Shell extensions will no longer accept new contributions with AI-generated code. A new rule has been added to their review guidelines to forbid AI-generated code...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/GNOME-Extensions-Block-AI

Bug-Catching "Smatch" Static Analysis On The Linux Kernel Under Threat Due To Funding Gap

For the past 15 years the Smatch static analysis tool has been routinely run for uncovering countless bugs within the Linux kernel. Dan Carpenter who authored Smatch and has been routinely analyzing the Linux kernel with it has authored more than 5,568 patches over the years to become one of the top bug fixers for the kernel. But his funding at Lina…
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-Smatch-Lacks-Funding

Firefox 146 Now Available With Native Fractional Scaling On Wayland

The Mozilla Firefox 146.0 release binaries are now available with a very exciting improvement for Linux users relying on Wayland...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Firefox-146-Released

NVIDIA 590.44.01 Beta Linux Driver Released With Wayland Improvements

NVIDIA today released the 590.44.01 Linux driver build as the first beta of their R590 series driver branch for Linux customers...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/NVIDIA-590.44.01-Linux-Beta

Rocky Linux 10.1 Released As Community Alternative To RHEL 10.1

Following the release of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10.1 earlier this month, Rocky Linux 10.1 is now available for this popular community-driven alternative to RHEL 10.1...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Rocky-Linux-10.1-Released

Wayland Protocols 1.46 Released With New Experimental Additions

Wayland Protocols 1.46 released this evening with new experimental protocols for text improvements as well as refinements to the color management protocol for HDR...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Wayland-Protocols-1.46

Servo Announces Sponsorship Tiers To Get More Organizations Backing This Browser Engine

The Servo open-source web browser engine has been making good progress in recent times. Long outside the confines of Mozilla and working as a Linux Foundation Europe project, Servo has been advancing thanks to Igalia and other open-source developers while getting by on around ~$5.7k USD per month thanks mostly to donations from individuals. Servo has now…
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Servo-Sponsorship-Tiers