Years Later, EDAC Linux Driver Coming For The ARM Cortex-A72 It's wild to think that the ARM Cortex-A72 was already announced ten years ago as the ARM core design that went on to appear in the Raspberry Pi 4, AWS Graviton server processor, and various other SoCs. ARM Cortex-A72 based hardware remains in widespread use and finally by the end of 2025 there will be a mainline Error Detection And Correction "EDAC" driver in the mainline Linux kernel for this core... https://www.phoronix.com/news/EDAC-Driver-ARM-Cortex-A72

Qualcomm Adreno X1-45 GPU Support Appears Ready For The Linux Kernel The open-source upstream driver support for the Qualcomm Adreno X1-45 that is used by the Snapdragon X1 Plus 8-core SoC appears ready for the mainline kernel and could be all aligned for the upcoming Linux v6.18 kernel cycle... https://www.phoronix.com/news/Adreno-X1-45-Linux-Ready

Linux Primed For Significant Performance Gains With Kernel Swap Code Overhaul A patch series posted overnight that is part of a larger planned rework for the kernel to introduce a "Swap Table" is poised to bring significant real-world performance gains to the Linux kernel... https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-Swap-Table-Swap-Cache

Linux 6.17 Adds Fan & Thermal Profile Support For HP Victus 16-r1000 Gaming Laptops For those that happen to have an HP Victus 16-r1000 gaming laptop or considering one with the 14th Gen Intel Core CPUs and NVIDIA GeForce RTX 40 graphics, the Linux support is now slightly better off thanks to the HP-WMI driver adding fan and thermal profile support for the Victus 16-r1000 series... https://www.phoronix.com/news/HP-Victus-16-r1000-Linux

KDE Plasma 6.5 Introducing "KISS" - An Initial System Setup Wizard KDE developer Nate Graham is out with his customary weekend blog post to summarize all the interesting Plasma desktop developments for the week. Most exciting in recent days is Plasma 6.5 receiving an initial system setup wizard... https://www.phoronix.com/news/KDE-KISS-Initial-Setup-Wizard

OpenZFS 2.4-rc1 Brings Linux 6.16 Compatibility, Better Encryption Performance With AVX2 The first release candidate of OpenZFS 2.4 is now available for testing of this ZFS file-system implementation for Linux and FreeBSD systems... https://www.phoronix.com/news/OpenZFS_2.4-rc1-Released

New Ubuntu Snapdragon X1E Concept ISO Published - Still A Mess On The Acer Swift 14 AI Released on Thursday were new Ubuntu X1E "Concept" install images for installing the modified Ubuntu 25.04 environment on Qualcomm Snapdragon X1 powered laptops... https://www.phoronix.com/news/Ubuntu-X1E-ISO-21-August

Servo Lands APNG & Animated WebP Support, Vello Backends For Faster 2D Graphics The Servo browser project has published a monthly status report to outline all of the interesting changes made to this interesting, Rust-based browser layout engine over the past several weeks. Development continues moving along with Servo as more critical functionality continues to be added as well as new performance optimizations and other features to make it a compelling option for future embedded web use and more... https://www.phoronix.com/news/Servo-July-2025-Highlights

AMD Ryzen AI 5 340 Windows 11 vs. Ubuntu Linux Performance For Budget "Krackan Point" Laptops Earlier this month we looked at the Linux laptop performance of AMD's Krackan Point using the Ryzen AI 5 340 within a HP OmniBook 5 that can be found for as low as ~$450 during sales. For six Zen 5 cores and RDNA 3.5 graphics, Krackan Point worked well as a budget Linux laptop option. For those wondering how the Linux vs. Windows 11 performance compares for the budget HP OmniBook, here are some benchmarks. https://www.phoronix.com/review/amd-krackan-point-windows-linux

Intel Compute Runtime 25.31.34666.3 Continues Prepping For Panther Lake Released minutes ago was the newest monthly feature release to the Intel Compute Runtime providing open-source OpenCL and Level Zero capabilities on Intel graphics hardware... https://www.phoronix.com/news/Intel-CR-25.31.34666.3