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      Mold 3.0 High Speed Linker Released Following Rust Rewrite

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 5 October 2026

    The Mold high speed linker alternative to the likes of GNU Gold/LD and LLVM LLD recently has been going through a rewrite from C++ to Rust as well as having high ambitions of eventually becoming the default linker on Linux systems. Today marks the release of Mold 3.0 for this Rust-based high performance linker...
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      Linux 7.4 Continues Preparing For Intel's Rugged Panther Lake

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 5 October 2026

    Back in May we spotted a Linux patch adding "Panther Lake R" as a rugged version of Panther Lake intended for "use in harsh environments". Since Linux 7.2 we have seen some bits of Panther Lake R driver support added while for the upcoming Linux 7.4 cycle there is additional enablement happening for this Panther Lake derivative...
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      Qualcomm Patching Linux For Hardware Thermal Binning To Benefit Snapdragon X Laptops

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 5 October 2026

    A new patch series sent out from Qualcomm that aims to help at least the Snapdragon X series laptops is hardware-binned trip point support. Some Qualcomm SoCs are available in different multiple thermal/package bins with different junction temperature limits but otherwise being the same silicon. The new Linux patches are working to properly convey that information around the thermal limits for a given piece of silicon...
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      Linux 7.4 AMD P-State Driver Will Be Ready For Ryzen Zen 6 CPUs

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 5 October 2026

    With the upcoming Linux 7.4 kernel the necessary changes to the AMD P-State driver are set to land for properly supporting the upcoming AMD Ryzen client processors based on the Zen 6 cores...
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      Linux 7.3-rc6 Released: Normal For The New "AI Normal"

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 4 October 2026

    Linus Torvalds just released Linux 7.3-rc7 as we work toward the stable Linux 7.3 kernel release in two weeks...
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      OpenCourant: Rocky Linux Developers Create Community Fork Of OpenRadioss

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 4 October 2026

    This week was the surprising and unfortunate decision of Siemens shutting down the OpenRadioss project as the four year old open-source project started by Altair Engineering with their prominent Radioss finite element solver. Siemens didn't just end the project but they shutdown the GitHub repository that hosted the open-source code and removed other resources that had built around it. Fortunately, there's a new community fork of OpenRadioss as OpenCourant...
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      MGLRU-FG Delivering Up To 10~40% Higher Performance For Linux In Some Tests

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 4 October 2026

    Linux's Multi-Gen LRU "MGLRU" has already achieved nice performance gains for Linux in recent years by optimizing page reclaims and improves performance under memory pressure. The new MGLRU-FG patches aim to take things further...
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      NVIDIA's Results Of Conducting Wayland vs. X.Org Latency Testing

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 4 October 2026

    In addition to NVIDIA announcing their Display Config Server project at XDC 2026 in Toronto, at this annual developer's conference they also presented their findings on scientific testing of X.Org vs. Wayland latency...
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      Linux Begins Seeing Workarounds For Fujitsu MONAKA CPU Bugs

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 4 October 2026

    Last month Fujitsu formally announced their MONAKA CPU as a 144 core Arm-based server processor geared for AI infrastructure. This comes after two years of seeing various Monaka patches to the GCC compiler and other open-source components. Now that MONAKA is announced, we are seeing more patches surface for the Linux kernel with this week seeing several workarounds for MONAKA CPU bugs...