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CachyOS Starts 2026 By Switching To Plasma Login Manager & Live ISO Using Wayland

Phoronix | Jan. 24, 2026, 12:50 p.m. | Original

The Arch Linux powered CachyOS distribution is out with its first new ISO release of 2026. This Linux distribution continues to be quite popular with Linux gamers, enthusiasts craving peak performance, and others for wanting to enjoy a polished Arch Linux desktop experience.

CachyOS is kicking off the new year by enhancing their OS installer. CachyOS has made various "quality of life" improvements, including making Limine the default bootloader. Installations to Btrfs file-systems will also default to compression level one.

The CachyOS ISO has also

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DAXFS Proposed As Newest Linux File-System

Phoronix | Jan. 24, 2026, 12:42 p.m. | Original

There's yet another new Linux file-system on the block: DAXFS has been announced as a new read-only open-source file-system.

DAXFS as implied by the name makes use of the Linux kernel's direct access " DAX " infrastructure. DAX is designed as a simple read-only file-system operating directly atop shared physical memory.

DAXFS is designed to provide zero-copy reads from contiguous memory regions and bypasses the traditional block I/O stack, buffer heads, and page cache

DXVK-NVAPI 0.9.1 Released With New Override & Improvements

Phoronix | Jan. 24, 2026, 12:24 p.m. | Original

DXVK-NVAPI 0.9.1 is out today as this NVIDIA NVAPI implementation that is used by Valve's Steam Play (Proton) with DXVK and VKD3D-Proton. This is the important piece of the Steam Play puzzle to allow for NVIDIA DLSS, NVIDIA Reflex, PhysX, and other features for Windows games running on Linux.

With DXVK-NVAPI 0.9.1 there is a new environment variable to override the DLSS SR/RR scaling ratio, various fixes/workarounds, improved Vulkan

A Decade In The Making, Time Slice Extension Could Be Merged For Linux 7.0

Phoronix | Jan. 24, 2026, 9:51 a.m. | Original

With the upcoming Linux 6.20~7.0 kernel cycle it looks like the time slice extension work could finally been merged, which has seen various attempts over the past decade. Time slice extension for the Linux kernel implemented using Restartable Sequences "RSEQ" allows user-space processes to request a temporary, opportunistic extension of their CPU time slice without being preempted.

Thomas Gleixner of Intel-owned Linutronix explained of the time slice extension work in last year's patches as:

"Time slice extensions are an

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AMD Releases MLIR-AIE 1.2 Compiler Toolchain For Targeting Ryzen AI NPUs

Phoronix | Jan. 24, 2026, 7:22 a.m. | Original

In addition to AMD releasing the Ryzen AI Software 1.7 release on Friday, they also published a new version of their MLIR-AIE compiler toolchain for targeting AMD Ryzen AI NPU devices with this LLVM-based MLIR-focused stack.

The MLIR-AIE compiler allows generating Python code for execution on the Ryzen AI NPU and ultimately opens the door to other software targeting LLVM's Multi-Level Intermediate Representation (MLIR). While Ryzen AI NPUs are a big focus these days, the toolchain also works for other

AMDGPU Driver Reverts Code For A Number Of Regressions On Linux 6.19

Phoronix | Jan. 24, 2026, 6:36 a.m. | Original

Merged on Friday as part of this week's DRM kernel graphics driver fixes for the week is addressing a regression affecting many different users with the Linux 6.19 development kernel.

Hitting Linux 6.19 yesterday was a revert to a change introduced during the Linux 6.19 merge window to pause the workload setting in the display manager when doing idle optimization. That turned to have some unexpected fallout for AMD Radeon Linux users.

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GNOME's AI Assistant Newelle Adds Llama.cpp Support, Command Execution Tool

Phoronix | Jan. 24, 2026, 6:19 a.m. | Original

Newlle as a virtual AI assistant for the GNOME desktop with API integration for Google Gemini, OpenAI, Groq, and also local LLMs is out with a new release. Newelle has been steadily expanding its AI integration and capabilities and with the new Newelle 1.2 are yet more capabilities for those wanting AI on the GNOME desktop.

The Newelle 1.2 release introduces Llama.cpp integration as well as support for using its different back-ends from CPUs to the device-specific GPU back-ends and also the notable

ASUS Armoury Driver For Linux 6.19 Picks Up Support For More ASUS Laptops

Phoronix | Jan. 24, 2026, 5:52 a.m. | Original

A new driver in the Linux 6.19 kernel is the ASUS Armoury driver for supporting additional functionality with the ROG Ally gaming handhelds and other ASUS ROG gaming hardware like their laptops. The ASUS Armoury driver builds off the existing ASUS WMI driver but provides some design improvements to make it better than handling it within the existing driver. There is support for adjusting the APU-allocated memory, Intel core count control for P and E cores, FHD and UHD mode switching for display panels, and other features typically only exposed

KDE Plasma Saw At Least 9 Crash Fixes This Week

Phoronix | Jan. 24, 2026, midnight | Original

KDE Plasma 6.6 feature development work continues winding down while Plasma 6.7 has begun seeing more feature work. This week also saw at least nine different crash fixes affecting Plasma/KWin.

This Week In Plasma is out with its latest issue for highlighting the changes merged over the past week. Some of the prominent KDE Plasma changes for the past week included:

- Plasma 6.7 is adding a new dedicated setup UI for configuring shared printers on Windows networks.

- Plasma 6.6 will now use the

GNU C Library 2.43 Released With More C23 Features, mseal & openat2 Functions

Phoronix | Jan. 23, 2026, 8:06 p.m. | Original

Version 2.43 of the GNU C Library "glibc" was released on Friday evening as the newest half-year feature update. This is a very feature packed update and even managed to be released ahead of the 1 February release plan.

Highlights of the GNU C Library glibc 2.43 release include:

- Support for more ISO C23 language features like the free_sized / free_aligned_sized / memset_explicit / memalignment functions, changes to some existing functions, support for the

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