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OpenMandriva GitHub Disrupted & Nefarious Package Push In Sabotage Attempt

Phoronix | July 8, 2026, 12:05 p.m. | Original

The OpenMandriva project put out a statement today concerning an attempted distribution sabotage effort. Part of the OpenMandriva GitHub repository was deleted and there was an empty package push made to OpenMandriva's Cooker repository in trying to obsolete all GNOME and COSMIC packages.

OpenMandriva developer AngryPenguin issued the statement minutes ago regarding this reported sabotage effort. Part of their GitHub repository was removed and the empty package if not caught could have led to issues for OpenMandriva users running the GNOME or COSMIC packages.

OpenMandriva developers are working now to restore the deleted repositories

Single vs. Dual Channel Memory Performance With The Intel Core Ultra 7 270K Plus

Phoronix | July 8, 2026, 10:48 a.m. | Original

Given today's pricing environment around system memory, a Phoronix Premium supporter recently requested some benchmarks to quantify the performance difference from single to dual channel memory. In considering a new computer build, he is contemplating whether to go for a single stick of DDR5 memory until memory prices hopefully subside in the future. For those in a similar boat, here are some benchmarks of single versus dual channel memory on an Intel Core Ultra 7 270K Plus "Arrow Lake" desktop.

This testing is quite straight-

Intel Sunsets Quantum Intrinsics & Other Open-Source Projects This Week

Phoronix | July 8, 2026, 9:37 a.m. | Original

Intel has formally archived some more of their now-unmaintained open-source projects this week.

While Intel / Intel Labs continues working on new quantum computing chip research, their open-source software efforts around quantum processors have taken another step back. Back in February Intel archived their Quantum Passes project that was providing additional compiler optimization passes for the Intel Quantum SDK. This week they archived their Quantum Intrinsics open-source project.

Intel Quantum Intrinsics provided a C++-based front-end for the Intel Quantum Compiler and

AMD ZenDNN 6.0 Brings Many Improvements For Accelerating Inference On Ryzen/EPYC CPUs

Phoronix | July 8, 2026, 9:07 a.m. | Original

AMD ZenDNN 6.0 released today as a significant update to this open-source deep neural network library for helping to accelerate inferencing on AMD Zen processors from Ryzen to EPYC.

ZenDNN is AMD's alternative to the Intel / UXL Foundation oneDNN library and to serve as an AMD CPU optimized solution that can work with the likes of TensorFlow and PyTorch via plug-ins. While typically we don't begin seeing new AMD software releases until at/after new AMD CPU launches, this time around with ZenDNN 6.

Wayland No Longer Considered Experimental For Linux Mint's Next Cinnamon Release

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

The Linux Mint distribution has published their June development summary that most notably includes work on Cinnamon's Wayland support where it's now ready to graduate.

Beginning with the next Cinnamon release, Wayland support will no longer be considered "experimental". Cinnamon for now intends to continue both fully supporting X11 and Wayland. They noted in the June summary:

"We worked really hard on Wayland and we got to the point where it feels solid and the experience is almost on par with X11. Wayland

Linux 7.3 To Make It Easier To Disable Syscall User Dispatch

Phoronix | July 8, 2026, 6:40 a.m. | Original

Introduced to the Linux kernel nearly six years ago was the Syscall User Dispatch feature to help with Linux gaming . Specifically, Syscall User Dispatch was developed to help Windows games run on Linux more efficiently. While it was upstreamed in Linux 5.11 for more efficiently intercepting system calls from Windows software under Wine, now in the name of security there are patches working their way to the mainline kernel to more easily disable it.

In the name of better security, patches are pending that will likely be mainlined for Linux 7

XWayland 24.1.13 Released To Fix Two More Security Issues In The X.Org Codebase

Phoronix | July 7, 2026, 9:44 p.m. | Original

Two more security issues were made public today concerning the X.Org Server codebase and in turn XWayland also being affected.

The Trend Micro Zero Day Initiative continues to be relentless in uncovering new X.Org Server security vulnerabilities in recent years. Assisted by Claude Opus 4.6, these latest security woes are now resolved.

Peter Hutterer of Red Hat just announced CVE-2026-55999 as a buffer overflow in the font code for GLAMOR as well as CVE-2026

Proton 11.0-1 Released To Advance Valve's Steam Play For The Best Linux Experience Yet

Phoronix | July 7, 2026, 5:10 p.m. | Original

Proton 11.0-1 was just released as stable as the newest major version of this downstream of Wine that powers Valve's Steam Play to provide for a great Windows gaming experience across conventional Linux systems plus the popular Steam Deck and brand new Steam Machine.

Since April the Proton 11.0 series has been available in beta as a re-base of this key Steam Play component against Wine 11.0 upstream. Plus a variety of other fixes and updates pulled in compared to the Proton 1

AMD Linux Graphics Driver Working To Clear Out All Of Its BUG()s

Phoronix | July 7, 2026, 4:53 p.m. | Original

AMDGPU kernel driver maintainer Alex Deucher of AMD sent out a set of 30 patches today working on clearing out all of the BUG() usage within this Linux kernel graphics driver.

The Linux BUG() macro is used as a crash mechanism when encountering unrecoverable conditions. Calling BUG() results in a halt of execution and dumping of important debug information. But calling BUG() can lead to a full kernel panic and can also be used by attackers for nefarious purposes like trying to cause a denial of service.

NVIDIA Upstreams Initial Rigel CPU Core Support Into GCC Compiler

Phoronix | July 7, 2026, 11:45 a.m. | Original

That didn't take long... Mere minutes after NVIDIA confirmed some basic Rosa CPU details and its "Rigel" CPU core , merged to the upstream GNU Compiler Collection (GCC) codebase is initial enablement on the NVIDIA Rigel core.

NVIDIA's Rosa CPU with Rigel cores is the successor to the Vera CPU with Olympus cores. The NVIDIA blog post today confirmed the Rigel in-house cores are based on Armv9.2-A and other basic details. With that confirmation out there, NVIDIA compiler

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