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Auto-CPUFreq 3.2 Adds Configurable HWP Dynamic Boost, Platform Profile Reporting
The open-source Auto-CPUFreq tool for active system monitoring and power optimizations is out with a new release for continuing to enhance battery life on Linux laptops...
Phosh 0.58 Linux Mobile Shell Improves Screenshots and Flatpak Apps
Phosh 0.58 brings better screenshot notifications, improved Flatpak startup tracking, configurable Caffeine behavior, and multiple mobile Linux fixes.
AMD ROCm vs. Vulkan Performance For Lemonade Local AI Server With Llama.cpp
A Phoronix Premium reader recently inquired about seeing some new benchmarks of AI performance between Vulkan and AMD ROCm back-ends to see how the situation plays out today. Here are some fresh benchmarks on two separate systems with AMD Radeon graphics and using the Lemonade local AI server while exploring the difference between the ROCm and Vulkan Llama.cpp back-ends.
Mesa Developers Looking At A Formal Governance Model
The Mesa 3D driver stack has functioned well over the years without a formal governance model and just relying on an informal consensus approach for big changes. But on some occasions this informal handling has been less than ideal so upstream Mesa developers are now looking at establishing a formal governance model...
MAKERphone 2.0 Is an Open, Hackable 4G Phone You Build Yourself
CircuitMess launches MAKERphone 2.0, a solder-free ESP32-S3 phone with 4G, MicroPython and C++ support, plus modular hardware expansion.
Linux's ZRAM Reworked For Greater Memory Savings, Better Performance
With today's very high memory prices, the Linux ZRAM code for compressed block devices in RAM has seen a rework to provide greater memory savings...
Linux 7.4 To Mainline Support For The Google Tensor G5, Pixel 10 Devices
Going back to last year have been patches for booting the mainline Linux kernel on Pixel 10 devices while finally those Google Pixel 10 Device Trees and Tensor G5 SoC support is set to be mainlined for Linux 7.4...
Mold 3.0 High Speed Linker Released Following Rust Rewrite
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...
Linux 7.4 Continues Preparing For Intel's Rugged Panther Lake
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...
Qualcomm Patching Linux For Hardware Thermal Binning To Benefit Snapdragon X Laptops
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...
Kernel prepatch 7.3-rc6
The 7.3-rc6 kernel prepatch is out for testing. Linus said: Next week might look a bit different: we've got the annual maintainer summit and the Linux plumbers conference going on , so I'll be on the road, as will a number of other maintainers. That may or may not end up changing the stats for -rc7. But it's unlikely to affect the release schedule, although the fact that I have my yearly family vacation the week after that might make the next merge window a bit wonky.
Linux 7.4 AMD P-State Driver Will Be Ready For Ryzen Zen 6 CPUs
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...
The only 2 Linux distros I recommend for laptops with 4GB of RAM
Breathing life into old hardware has been getting increasingly complicated, but it can work out if you know how to.
Linuxiac Weekly Wrap-Up: Week 40, 2026 (September 28 – October 4)
Catch up on the latest Linux news: OpenMandriva ROME 26.09, Ubuntu 26.10 Beta, Nitrux 7.0, Firefox 157, Wine 11.19, Git 2.56, COSMIC stops accepting AI-generated PRs, and more.