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      ARCTIC Launches Its New Fan Controller That Already Has Mainline Linux Support

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 29 July 2026

    In over 22 years of Linux hardware reviews and testing at Phoronix, I have never been more excited for a fan controller... ARCTIC today launched their new Fan Controller and in making the product very unique for Linux users, it already has mainline Linux kernel support via a open-source driver contributed directly by ARCTIC...
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      Starling: A New Linux Desktop Written In Swift, Own Wayland Compositor & Written With AI

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 28 July 2026

    There's yet another new open-source desktop option for Linux users in the era of new open-source projects largely written via AI/LLMs. Starling is this new project largely written via Claude and using the Swift programming language for the desktop while having its own Wayland compositor implemented in C. It also includes a built-in X11 server for handling X11 clients...
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      CachyOS Outperforming Windows 11, Slight Advantage Over Ubuntu & Fedora On AMD Ryzen AI 9 HX 470

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 28 July 2026

    A recent mini PC being benchmarked at Phoronix is the BOSGAME VTA-439 that employs the new AMD Ryzen AI 9 HX 470 Gorgon Point SoC. With the BOSGAME mini PC having shipped with Microsoft Windows 11, here are some comparison benchmarks of the out-of-the-box Windows 11 performance up against Ubuntu 26.04 LTS and Fedora Workstation 44 while also tossing the rolling-release, highly-optimized Arch Linux based CachyOS into the benchmarking mix.
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      AMD P-State Linux Driver Patches Can Boost 1%-Low FPS Gaming Performance By 31%

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 28 July 2026

    A set of patches posted today to the Linux kernel mailing list implement per-core Energy Performance Preference (EPP) boosting for recently-busy CPUs. This feature is designed to have a dramatic impact for Linux gaming and helping especially with the 1% low frame-rates improving by 31.8% on the Valve Steam Deck...
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      KDE Developer Fixing Long-Standing Bug Over Very Long Small-File Copy Times

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 28 July 2026

    Since 2014 there has been a KDE bug report titled Ridiculously slow file copy (multiple small files). With the Dolphin file manager or other KIO-based KDE programs, copying many small files can be much slower than using the cp command directly or other copying programs like rsync, Finally that issue is in the process of being resolved for addressing very slow copy times when dealing with many small files on the KDE Plasma desktop...
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      Linux's crypto_rng Abstraction Layer Next On The Chopping Block

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 28 July 2026

    In addition to the deprecation and stripping down of AF_ALG, another piece of the Linux kernel crypto code steaming ahead toward removal is the crypto_rng abstraction layer...
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      ASUS Laptop Whisper Mode Support Being Worked On For Linux

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 28 July 2026

    ASUS laptops support a feature called "Whisper Mode" that intentionally slows down the fan speed and lowers the CPU clock speed in order to keep the device running cool and quiet. The open-source ASUS Armoury Linux kernel driver is now seeing patches to properly support this Whisper Mode on Linux...
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      AMD PMF Testing Tool Slated For Linux 7.3

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 27 July 2026

    Looking to be added to the Linux kernel source tree for the upcoming Linux 7.3 cycle is test_amd_pmf, a small testing application for exercising the AMD Platform Management Framework (PMF) interfaces and dumping various system data points...
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      Mysterious 16-Tile & 32-Tile AMX Implementations Talked Up For More Performance

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 27 July 2026

    Last October on Phoronix we were first to point out there being some mysterious intrigue around a new x86 implementation from a "corporate entity other than Intel/AMD" with the developer involved not elaborating on the matter. Now that same developer has posted another semi-cryptic message to the Linux kernel mailing list to talk about 16-tile and 32-tile Advanced Matrix Extensions (AMX) implementations. To date Intel only has 8-tile AMX...