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      Greg KH Forewarns Of "Rough" Linux 7.3 Kernel Cycle Due To Continued AI Churn

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 10:39

    While Linux 7.3-rc1 only released this week and there are another roughly seven weeks to go until the official kernel release, Linux's second-in-command Greg Kroah-Hartman is already warning that it's likely to be another "rough" kernel cycle given the ongoing noise caused by AI/LLM with the increase in bug reports and kernel patches...
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      GCC 17 Compiler Merges Initial Support For Intel/AMD AI Compute Extensions "ACE"

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 10:22

    Landing today in the GNU Compiler Collection (GCC) codebase is initial support for the AI Compute Extensions (ACEv1) as the initial work out of the x86 Ecosystem Advisory Group between Intel and AMD for a common matrix acceleration architecture for helping AI/ML workloads with future CPUs...
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      FreeDesktop SDK 26.08 Released With Snap Support Dropped, Bootstrap Changes

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 10:08

    The newest FreeDesktop SDK is now available for this collection of components used for Flatpak runtimes as well as for building out of containers and other software stacks...
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      Intel Updates LLM-Scaler-vLLM Build For vLLM 0.26 & Other Improvements

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 9:50

    For those looking for the smoothest experience to get vLLM up and running on Intel Arc (Pro) graphics hardware, out today is the newest beta of Intel's LLM-Scaler-vLLM project for a Docker-based setup of vLLM ready to go on Intel GPUs...
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      Steam On Linux Dips Below 4% For August

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 0:19

    Valve just published the Steam Survey results for August 2026. After jumping above 4% in July, in August it fell back below that threshold. Meanwhile CachyOS continues gaining ground among Linux gamers...
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      WinBtrfs 1.10 Released With Two Years Worth Of Improvements For Btrfs On Windows

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 13 hours ago

    WinBtrfs is a driver for Microsoft Windows to support reading and writing to Btrfs file-systems. WinBtrfs works with Windows XP and newer. It hadn't seen a new release in over two years but a big feature release is now available with a combination of new features and bug fixes...
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      AMDGPU Linux Driver's Latest Patches For HDMI Passive VRR Support

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 14 hours ago

    As part of AMD's ongoing effort for getting HDMI 2.1 support squared away in their upstream AMDGPU kernel graphics driver, sent out today were the latest patches around passive variable refresh rate "Passive VRR" for HDMI connections...
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      Linux Gets A Reverse-Engineered Driver For ASUS ROG NVMe Enclosure RGB Lighting

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 19 hours ago

    If you are into RGB lighting, you can even find NVMe external enclosures these days with RGB LEDs like the ASUS ROG Strix Arion. Now thanks to reverse engineering there is a Linux driver for allowing the RGB lighting controls for the ASUS ROG Strix Arion NVMe enclosure...
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      Lekuo SouthBridge Max Puts An AMD B650 Chipset Onto A PCIe Card For More I/O

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 21 hours ago

    For those looking at expanding the SATA, NVMe, and/or the USB/USB-C capabilities of your system, the Lekuo SouthBridge Max PB65MX3 is an interesting creation that I have been trying out. The Lekuo SouthBridge Max puts an AMD B650 chipset onto a low-profile PCIe add-in card to provide all of the above without any bifurcation required. Given that it's an AMD B650 chipset, it also "just works" nicely under Linux.