Framework Laptop 16 With GeForce RTX 5070 12GB, One-Piece Keyboard & Haptic Touchpad

While the past few weeks have been quite busy with the new Framework Laptop 13 Pro testing with that all-new laptop model and paired with Intel's Core Ultra Series 3 "Panther Lake", at the same time Framework Computer has begun shipping some updated components for the Framework Laptop 16 laptop. If looking for a bit more GPU compute power hor larger form factor than the 13-inch model, t…
https://www.phoronix.com/review/framework-laptop-16-2026

Nginx Dark Mode Support For Error Pages Remains Elusive

In early 2025 I wrote about the upstream Nginx web server rejecting dark mode support for its error pages on the basis of wanting to keep the default error pages simple and developers arguing the extra HTML tag for the dark mode styling as superfluous. Following a lot of public backlash for being against offering native dark mode handling by default, Nginx stakeholders were polled and largely came out in favor of s…
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Nginx-Dark-Mode-Mystery

Intel Computer Vision Sensing Driver Now Ready For Nova Lake

The main set of media subsystem updates have been merged for the ongoing Linux 7.3 merge window. Notable this round is the Intel Computer Vision Sensing "CVS" driver merged the previous cycle now supporting next-gen Nova Lake platforms...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-7.3-Media

Linux 7.3 Cleans Up Stack Randomization, Ensures It Happen As Early As Possible

Merged this week for the Linux 7.3 kernel was a big clean-up to the stack randomization code for better security on Linux systems and helping unify some of the architecture-specific code...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-7.3-Stack-Randomization

Intel Compute Runtime 26.31.39395.13 Continues Prepping For Crescent Island, OpenCL LEO

Intel today released the Compute Runtime 26.31.39395.13 open-source GPU compute stack update for Windows and Linux systems. Big ongoing trends for the Intel Compute Runtime continue to be preparing for upcoming Crescent Island and Nova Lake Xe3P graphics hardware as well as building out their new OpenCL LEO driver...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Intel-CR-26.31.39395.13

Linux 7.3 Ready With CXL Type-2 Driver Support For AMD Solarflare NICs

With the mainline Linux 7.2 kernel there is now the basic support in place for CXL Type-2 accelerator drivers within the CXL core subsystem code. The first in-tree Type-2 driver with the Linux kernel is for the new AMD Solarflare NIC hardware...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/AMD-Solarflare-NIC-CXL-Type-2

Linus Torvalds Endures A Debug Session From Hell, "Enormously Helped" By AI

It's pretty rare to see Linus Torvalds author patches himself pertaining to the open-source Linux graphics drivers, but waking up this morning I was surprised to see he authored and committed an Intel Xe kernel graphics driver change himself. It ended up being after he encountered a "debug session from hell" but was ultimately helped by AI in fixing a bug that had been irking him...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linus-Torvalds-Debug-AI

Intel Mesa Linux Drivers Now Treating Nova Lake S / U / H / HX As Stable

Intel's open-source Mesa drivers for Iris Gallium3D (OpenGL) and ANV (Vulkan) on Linux are no longer treating next-gen Nova Lake processors with integrated graphics as experimental and off-by-default. With today's Mesa 26.3-devel code, the Intel driver code across Nova Lake's S, U, H, and HX product families are considered stable and enabled by default...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Intel-Mesa-Nova-Lake-Stable

Linux 7.3 Network Changes Merged But Developers "Completely Overwhelmed" Due To AI/LLMs

All of the networking subsystem feature updates were merged today for the Linux 7.3 kernel's merge window. There are a lot of wired and wireless networking improvements this cycle but also a ton of bug fixes -- including many not so important fixes spun up by AI/LLM agents. The networking subsystem maintainers admit now they are "completely overwhelmed" due to this code churn from th…
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-7.3-Networking

Rust 1.98 Adds Algebraic Floating-Point Methods Akin To "-ffast-math"

Rust 1.98 released today and is headlined the debut of new algebraic floating-point methods...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Rust-1.98-Released

KMSCON 10.0.2 Brings asciicast Playback Support, Bug Fixes

KMSCON 10.0.2 debuted today as the latest update to this leading user-space terminal emulator for Linux systems. KMSCON is built around Linux's KMS/DRM interfaces and the most viable alternative to date for in-kernel VTs...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/KMSCON-10.0.2-Released

KDE Software Now Has Stable Btrfs Snapshot Integration With KIO-Snapshot 1.0

With today's release of KIO-Snapshot, KDE software now has stable integration of Btrfs file-system snapshots...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/KDE-Btrfs-Snapshots

Intel Hyper Threading Performance On The Xeon 678X "Granite Rapids-WS"

With the Intel Xeon 678X "Granite Rapids WS" processor that I have been recently testing within the HP Z4 G6i workstation, there are 48 cores plus with Hyper Threading is a total of 96 threads for this high-end workstation processor with a 300 Watt TDP. For those curious about the performance impact of HT/SMT on this Intel Xeon 600 series workstation processor, here are some comparison benchmarks.
https://www.phoronix.com/review/intel-xeon-678x-ht

FSCRYPT Sees Cleanup With Linux 7.3 To Open Door For More Features Like Btrfs Encryption

FSCRYPT is the Linux file-system encryption framework for supporting per-directory, transparent encryption. FSCRYPT so far is used by the likes of EXT4, F2FS, and CephFS. For Linux 7.3 there is an important clean-up to the FSCRYPT code to simplify it while also opening the door for new features moving forward into future kernel versions...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-7.3-FSCRYPT

Linux Driver Posted For The PreSonus Quantum 2626: A ~$700 Thunderbolt Audio Interface

The PreSonus Quantum 2626 is a high-end, Thunderbolt 3 based audio interface. PreSonus just maintains Windows and macOS drivers for this high-end audio interface while now an open-source Linux driver has been posted after being independently developed via reverse engineering...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/PreSonus-Quantum-2626-Linux

RPM 6.1 Released With Clang Build Fixes, New Release Model

RPM 6.1 is out today as the newest feature release for this package management system. With RPM 6.1 comes a number of features and improvements as well as a new release model...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/RPM-6.1-Released

Mesa 26.2.1 Released With Dozens Of Fixes

For those preferring the tradition of waiting for the first point release of a new Mesa feature release before upgrading, Mesa 26.2.1 is available today with a healthy round of bug fixing...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Mesa-26.2.1-Released

Linux 7.3 Cleans Up The Code For Disabling Of Legacy 32-bit Time Support

The Linux kernel has supported the CONFIG_COMPAT_32BIT_TIME Kconfig build time option for optionally disabling of legacy 32-bit time system call support. This is intended to disable the code that uses a 32-bit integer for time that is thus not Year 2038 safe, but at the cost of breaking compatibility for legacy 32-bit applications. Even if building without Linux 32-bit time support, it turns out so…
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-7.3-vDSO-32-bit-Time

KDE Gear 26.08 Delivers The Latest KDE App Experience

KDE Gear 26.08 was released today to deliver the latest collection of KDE application updates...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/KDE-Gear-26.08

X.Org Server 26.1 RC1 Prepares For First Feature Release In Five Years

Following today's release of XWayland 26.1 RC1, X.Org Server 26.1 RC1 was tagged. This xorg-server 26.1 release is aiming to become the first major feature release in five years, succeeding the xorg-server 21.1 series...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/X.Org-Server-26.1-RC1