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AMD-Optimized Rocky Linux Distribution To Focus On AI & HPC Workloads

Phoronix | March 24, 2026, 3:58 p.m. | Original

AMD and CIQ jointly announced today that AMD-optimized Rocky Linux builds are being worked on for this RHEL-derived operating system. The AMD-optimized Rocky Linux will focus on AI and HPC workloads and be nicely integrated with ROCm.

While Intel formally maintained Clear Linux as their high performance Linux showcase for their wares, AMD hasn't ventured into their own in-house Linux distribution or collaborated as much around a Linux distribution catered specifically toward their platforms -- well, many years ago, they did bet on MeeGo

GNOME Foundation Announces Fellowship Program

Phoronix | March 24, 2026, 2:08 p.m. | Original

Following last week's big GNOME 50 release , the GNOME Foundation today formally announced the creation of the GNOME Fellowship program.

The GNOME Fellowship program will begin directly funding community members to help with the long-term sustainability of GNOME. The first fellowship cycle will begin in May and fund independent/community contributors over a 12 month period.

"A fellowship is funding for an individual to spend dedicated time over a 12 month period working in an area where they have expertise. Unlike traditional contracts with rigid scopes

Arm Announces AGI CPU For AI Data Centers

Phoronix | March 24, 2026, 1:39 p.m. | Original

Arm announced their first silicon product in history with today's AGI CPU. The Arm AGI CPU complements their existing IP offerings into a production-ready silicon product for AI data centers.

The Arm AGI CPU will deliver up to 136 Arm Neoverse V3 cores per CPU with a 300 Watt TDP. The Arm AGI CPU uses a dual chiplet design while the memory and I/O are on the same die. Arm AGI CPUs will support 96 lanes of PCIe Gen 6, CXL 3.

Pop!_OS 24.04 vs. Ubuntu 24.04 LTS vs. Ubuntu 26.04 Development Benchmarks

Phoronix | March 24, 2026, 10:45 a.m. | Original

While having the new System76 Thelio Mira desktop in the lab, I took the opportunity to run some benchmarks to see how Pop!_OS 24.04 is currently performing relative to Ubuntu 24.04 LTS for which it is based as well as looking ahead at how Ubuntu 26.04 LTS in its current near-final development form is looking on the same hardware.

NVIDIA 595.58.03 Linux Driver Debuts As Stable R595 Build

Phoronix | March 24, 2026, 10 a.m. | Original

Building off the NVIDIA 595.45.04 Linux beta driver that brought DRI3 v1.2 support and new Vulkan capabilities, the NVIDIA 595.58.03 Linux driver released this morning as the first stable Linux driver build in the R595 release branch.

Since the prior R595 beta driver, the NVIDIA 595.58.03 Linux driver fixes a regression that caused some X11 compositors to blink, fixing KWin

Blender Optimization Leads To Twice As Fast Performance With CPU Bottlenecked Scenes

Phoronix | March 24, 2026, 9:25 a.m. | Original

Proposed code for Blender's EEVEE engine can lead to both the OpenGL and Vulkan performance doubling in instancing-heavy scenes that are CPU bottlenecked.

A pull request was opened last month for Blendr's EEVEE to implement HandleRange support as part of the instancing optimizations support for this real-time rasterization engine.

This is part of a broader effort since 2024 to reduce the overhead of the drawing logic.

The main takeaway of the pending pull request is the ability to see twice as fast performance.

Krita 6.0 Released With Qt6 Port & Better Wayland Support

Phoronix | March 24, 2026, 9:11 a.m. | Original

Krita 6.0 debuted today as the Qt6 port of this digital painting program aligned with KDE/Qt development. Krita 6.0 also brings improved Wayland support while Krita 5.3 is being simultaneously released for running on the mature Qt5 toolkit.

Krita 5.3 and Krita 6.0 are functionally identical for this prominent open-source digital painting program but with the latter being on Qt6 and featuring improved Wayland functionality too.

Various features have been rewritten for Krita 5.3/6.0

Linux 7.1 To Overcome Reporting Limitation For Multiple Batteries Per HID Device

Phoronix | March 24, 2026, 7 a.m. | Original

A limitation affecting various gaming headsets, graphic tablets, wireless earbuds, multi-device receivers and more with Linux has been not being able to report multiple batteries per HID device . After patches were proposed last year for dealing with the increasingly common scenario these days of having multiple batteries per device, the upcoming Linux 7.1 kernel is set to address this limitation.

The HID core code with the upcoming Linux 7.1 kernel is set to support multiple batteries per device. The HID device structure rather than being able to

OpenBLAS 0.3.32 Brings Improved Detection Of Newer Intel CPUs

Phoronix | March 24, 2026, 6:27 a.m. | Original

OpenBLAS 0.3.32 is now available for this optimized open-source Basic Linear Algebra Subprograms "BLAS" library. Notable with the OpenBLAS 0.3.32 release is improving CPU auto-detection for newer Intel processors.

OpenBLAS 0.3.32 adds automatic detection for Intel Arrow Lake H/U processors as well as the new Core Ultra Series 3 Panther Lake processors. Intel Jasper Lake detection was also missing but now in place as was Xeon Emerald Rapids support too. Plus code restructuring

Additional AMD RDNA 4m GPU Targets Coming: GFX1171 & GFX1172

Phoronix | March 24, 2026, 6:10 a.m. | Original

Back in February AMD engineers introduced a new GFX1170 GPU target in LLVM for their AMDGPU shader compiler and was marked with new "RDNA 4m" branding. It's part of the GFX11 family associated with RDNA3 but carrying this new "4m" branding. In follow-up commits they made further ISA changes distinguishing it from existing RDNA 3 GPUs . Now there are two more RDNA 4m targets being added.

A pending pull request to LLVM is adding GFX117

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