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      Linux 7.3 Lands Improvements For Voodoo 3 / 4 / 5 & Vintage Atari Computers In 2026

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 17:53

    At a time when Linux continues dropping older hardware drivers due to the influx of AI/LLM-generated bug reports and patches for hardware extremely unlikely to be used with modern versions of the mainline Linux kernel, Voodoo graphics cards and vintage Atari computers are seeing some reprieve with the upcoming Linux 7.3 kernel release...
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      Framework Laptop 16 With GeForce RTX 5070 12GB, One-Piece Keyboard & Haptic Touchpad

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 15:54

    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, the Framework Laptop 16 can now be equipped with the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5070 GPU as well as a haptic touchpad and one-piece keyboard for improving the input experience.
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      Nginx Dark Mode Support For Error Pages Remains Elusive

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 15:25

    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 supporting the functionality but more than one year later it remains elusive from upstream Nginx...
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      Intel Computer Vision Sensing Driver Now Ready For Nova Lake

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 13:13

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

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 12:29

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

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 12:03

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

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 0:44

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

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 22 hours ago

    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 the output of AI large language models...
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      Rust 1.98 Adds Algebraic Floating-Point Methods Akin To "-ffast-math"

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 1 day ago

    Rust 1.98 released today and is headlined the debut of new algebraic floating-point methods...