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Canonical Makes The "Enterprise Store" Official For Offline/Air-Gapped Ubuntu Usage

Phoronix | July 21, 2026, 11:38 a.m. | Original

For months the Enterprise Store "enterprise-store" has been mentioned in some Ubuntu documentation and other elements while today it was formally announced by Canonical. The Enterprise Store is for helping to manage Ubuntu Linux deployments particularly within enterprise organizations that may have their computers air-gapped or otherwise strict Internet controls.

The Enterprise Store aims to make the software distribution more manageable and scalable for environments that are offline/air-gapped or with other Internet access restrictions. Similarly for industries under regulated controls on software versioning and only validated software

Stratis Storage Anaconda Integration Approved For Fedora 45

Phoronix | July 21, 2026, 9:23 a.m. | Original

The Fedora Engineering and Steering Committee (FESCo) has approved the latest batch of features for the upcoming Fedora 45 release.

Most notable in this week's batch of approvals is the Anaconda installer support for Stratis Storage . A decade after Red Hat began developing Stratis after abandoning Btrfs dreams, Fedora Linux is finally integrating support into Anaconda for allowing Fedora 45 deployments atop this XFS + LVM Stratis stack.

AMD Ryzen AI Halo LED Driver Queued For Introduction In Linux 7.3

Phoronix | July 21, 2026, 8 a.m. | Original

For those that have picked up one of the neat AMD Ryzen AI Halo mini PCs , the LED driver allowing for customization of the LED lighting bar is set to be mainlined for the Linux 7.3 kernel cycle.

The AMD Ryzen AI Halo PC is in great shape for Linux and AMD even ships their own customized Linux distribution based on Debian as the Ryzen AI Developer Platform. One of the few Linux limitations at launch though was the inability to control the LED lighting with the mainline kernel, although could be toggled within

Intel Compute Runtime Continues Building Out Exciting "LEO"

Phoronix | July 21, 2026, 6:23 a.m. | Original

Going in-step with last week's release of the Intel Graphics Compiler 2.38.2 , out today is the Intel Compute Runtime 26.27.39122.11. Most intriguing with the new release is Intel continuing to build out the still-experimental LEO feature.

Intel Compute Runtime continues to serve as the principal OpenCL and Level Zero compute stack for Intel integrated/discrete graphics hardware on Windows and Linux systems. Introduced in last month's Compute Runtime release

AMD Getting The Linux Kernel Ready For Zen 6 Profiling/Perf With More EILVT Registers

Phoronix | July 21, 2026, 6:06 a.m. | Original

Among the recent patch series in preparing Linux for upcoming AMD Zen 6 processors is making the kernel aware of additional EILVT registers to be found with at least EPYC Venice platforms.

Extended Interrupt Local Vector Table (EILVT) registers are used on AMD CPUs for Instruction-Based Sampling (IBS) for performance monitoring and profiling and Machine Check Exception (MCE) error reporting and similar roles. With Zen 6 processors, the EILVT table is being doubled from four to eight entries.

As part of preparing the Linux kernel for more EILVT

InputPlumber 0.78 Released With Expanded Hardware Support

Phoronix | July 21, 2026, 5:48 a.m. | Original

InputPlumber is out with its newest feature release. As a reminder, InputPlumber is the open-source input router and remapper daemon for combining various input devices from gamepads to mice and keyboards as well as the ability to emulate them.

InputPlumber is particularly popular with Linux gamers and those using handheld gaming devices with a variety of inputs.

Cold Reset Recovery Coming Together To Better Help Intel GPUs On Linux

Phoronix | July 20, 2026, 8:35 p.m. | Original

One of the patch series going through nearly a dozen revisions now is for introducing a cold reset recovery method for the Direct Rendering Manager (DRM) drivers with an initial focus on the Intel Xe kernel graphics driver.

The cold reset recovery is for handling of errors that require a complete device power cycle in order to recover. For select hardware errors, a cold reset may be necessary to completely clear the state and allow for the device to recover without going through a complete system reboot / power cycle.

The main motivation currently

NetworkManager 1.58 Released With 464XLAT CLAT Support & GENEVE Interface

Phoronix | July 20, 2026, 4:12 p.m. | Original

NetworkManager 1.58 is out today with the latest feature enhancements for bettering wired and wireless network management on Linux.

NetworkManager 1.58 adds support for 464XLAT Customer-side Translator (CLAT) to create a virtual IPv4 interface for intercepting outbound IPv4 traffic from legacy applications and translate the headers into IPv6. 464XLAT is for helping IPv6 transition to allow devices on IPv6-only networks to still access legacy IPv4 services and applications.

NetworkManager 1.58

Intel Expanding Memory Options For Current Xeon 6 / Xeon 6+ Servers

Phoronix | July 20, 2026, 2:47 p.m. | Original

With Intel's next-generation Xeon Diamond Rapids processors not slated to launch until next year and with AMD EPYC Venice being right around the corner, Intel announced today that with upcoming BIOS updates they will be expanding the range of RDIMM and MRDIMM memory support for current-generation Xeon 6 and Xeon 6+ processors.

As shown in previous Phoronix articles such as DDR5-6400 vs. MRDIMM-8800 Performance With Intel Xeon 6 "Granite Rapids" , there can be massive performance benefits

AMD Talks Up The Great Opportunities Of SPIR-V IR With ROCm

Phoronix | July 20, 2026, 12:18 p.m. | Original

While AMD ROCm 7.14 released last week as the first production release built off TheRock, there is already more to look forward to moving into the future with the AMD ROCm stack... In particular, SPIR-V with ROCm becoming a reality for unified binaries that can work across graphics architectures/targets, better portability across GPU hardware, and other improvements to the experience in targeting a unified IR.

SPIR-V is the intermediate representation typically associated with Vulkan API drivers but also supported by other Khronos APIs

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