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Ubuntu Server 26.04 LTS Will Now Automatically Install HWE/OEM Kernel Packages

Phoronix | April 23, 2026, 11:23 a.m. | Original

Ubuntu LTS releases on the desktop have automatically installed OEM vendor kernels where needed and hardware enablement "HWE" kernels in later point releases by default. This provides a better out-of-the-box experience for Ubuntu desktop users and one less chore post-install if desiring a newer/better kernel. With Ubuntu Server 26.04 LTS, the server installer is finally doing the same.

With today's Subiquity 26.04 release announcement as the server installer for Ubuntu Linux, the Ubuntu

Exploring The Workloads Where The AMD Ryzen 9 9950X3D2 Makes A Lot Of Sense

Phoronix | April 23, 2026, 11 a.m. | Original

With this week's launch of the AMD Ryzen 9 9950X3D2 Dual Edition I've found some of the commentary quite surprising among those arguing it's really not a competitive or interesting product. While the cost may be hard to justify at $899 USD compared to the existing Ryzen 9000 series products or Intel's new Core Plus CPUs, particularly for developers, technical computing, etc the performance of the Ryzen 9 9950X3D

System76 Thelio Major Workstation Updated For Better Thermals, More Performance

Phoronix | April 23, 2026, 10:49 a.m. | Original

Following the recently-launched Thelio Mira redesign , System76 today announced the new Thelio Major workstation with improved thermals and more performance.

Complementing the redesigned Thelio Mira desktop is now the new Thelio Major with a similar overhaul to the larger chassis that continues to be manufactured in-house by System76 in Colorado. The Thelio Major hardware also has a nice upgrade with now being configurable up to a 64-core AMD Ryzen Threadripper 9980X, 256GB of DDR5 ECC memory,

Ubuntu 26.04 Allows "sudo apt install rocm" But It's Months Out-Of-Date

Phoronix | April 23, 2026, 9:28 a.m. | Original

Canonical announced last year that in collaboration with AMD they would be bringing the ROCm software libraries into the Ubuntu archive for Ubuntu 26.04 LTS . The plan has been to ship AMD ROCm AI/ML and HPC libraries in the Ubuntu archive so it would be as easy as sudo apt install rocm for getting started with AMD's open-source GPU compute stack. With today being the Ubuntu 26.04 LTS release day, I decided to revisit the topic.

Last month when checking in on

OpenBLAS 0.3.33 Released With Automatic "BIGNUMA" For More Than 256 CPU Cores

Phoronix | April 23, 2026, 8:23 a.m. | Original

OpenBLAS 0.3.33 is out today as the latest update to this vendor-neutral, optimized Basic Linear Algebra Subprograms "BLAS" library.

For a while now OpenBLAS has supported a "BIGNUMA" setting if wanting to enable support for more than 256 CPU cores. This experimental option has allowed supporting up to 1024 CPU cores and 128 NUMA nodes in the "BIGNUMA=1" configuration. Now with OpenBLAS 0.3.33, the BIGNUMA setting is automatic

Many USB Improvements & New Hardware Merged For Linux 7.1

Phoronix | April 23, 2026, 6:28 a.m. | Original

Ready to go ahead of the Linux 7.1 merge window closing at week's end are numerous new USB device support additions and other USB subsystem enhancements.

Recently merged to Linux Git was the usual assortment of different USB device/driver changes. The max77759 USB power supply / charger driver is a new driver this cycle. The max77759 charger driver was developed by Google with the MAX77759 PMIC used in the Pixel 6 and Pixel 6 Pro smartphones

Linux 7.1 Lands The Apple SMC Power Driver For Reporting Battery Metrics On MacBooks

Phoronix | April 23, 2026, 6:12 a.m. | Original

The Linux Multi-Function Device "MFD" subsystem changes were merged this week for Linux 7.1 ahead of the merge window closing on Sunday.

With this merge, the Apple SMC power driver is now wired up. The Apple SMC power driver has been coming together in recent months for the mainline kernel after originally being worked on by Hector Martin for Asahi Linux.

The patch wiring up the macsmc-power driver to the MFD core is now in place for in turn being able to report the AC status, battery

FreeRDP 3.25 Adds Experimental AV1 Support

Phoronix | April 23, 2026, 5:56 a.m. | Original

FreeRDP as a leading open-source implementation of the Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP) has introduced experimental AV1 codec support.

FreeRDP 3.25 is out today and with this new release there is experimental AV1 upport when using FreeRDP-based servers. This merge last month added the extension for being able to use the AV1 codec with RDP. Encoding and decoding is done with the AOMedia library. Hardware-accelerated AV1 support doesn't appear to be yet in place.

Linux 7.1 Adds Support For 12 New SoCs, Other ARM & RISC-V Hardware

Phoronix | April 22, 2026, 8:22 p.m. | Original

All of the SoC updates were recently merged for the ongoing Linux 7.1 kernel cycle. Most of the activity as usual is on the Arm side but also with some RISC-V additions too for the Linux 7.1 kernel.

For Linux 7.1 there are 12 new SoCs added to the upstream kernel, among other notable changes from the multiple SoC pulls that are now merged to Git. Some of the highlights include:

- Qualcomm Glymur is now upstream as a compute SOC using 18 Oryon-

Intel Ends Open Ecosystem Community/Evangelism, Archives Other Open-Source Projects

Phoronix | April 22, 2026, 4:28 p.m. | Original

Over the past number of months there has been a steady flow of Intel open-source projects archived on GitHub amid the corporate restructuring at the company and realigning of their open-source focus . This week another batch of Intel open-source projects were formally archived.

It's not only open-source code projects that have been formally disbanded on GitHub but as part of this latest batch of project archiving, they have also stopped the Intel Open Ecosystem Community and Evangelism with supporting documentation on their open-source efforts and

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