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Ryzen AI Developer Platform: AMD's Own Linux Distribution Built Atop Debian

Phoronix | July 6, 2026, 11 a.m. | Original

With the AMD Ryzen AI Halo developer platform there is the option of ordering this Ryzen AI Max+ mini PC with either Microsoft Windows 11 or "Linux OS". When receiving a AMD Ryzen AI Halo review sample last month, I fully expected it to just be an Ubuntu LTS install with ROCm preloaded. I was quite surprised when powering it up to find that it's an OS called the AMD Ryzen AI Developer Platform 1 "Rex" and is based on Debian Linux.

AMD Ryzen AI Halo Is An Excellent & Powerful Mini PC With Fully Open-Source Software

Phoronix | July 6, 2026, 11 a.m. | Original

Earlier this year AMD announced the Ryzen AI Halo as their in-house mini PC offering built around their leading Ryzen AI Max+ " Strix Halo " platform. After pre-orders began last month , the Ryzen AI Halo is officially beginning to ship this week and over the past few weeks we have been testing it out at Phoronix.

Linux 7.3 Expected To "Flatten The Pick" For Better Scheduling While Gaming & More

Phoronix | July 6, 2026, 9:22 a.m. | Original

Going back to early May there were patches for improving the Linux scheduler to help with gaming performance on old "potato" hardware by providing better cgroup scheduling . Those patches, referred to as the "flatten the pick" patch series, are now slated for introduction in the Linux 7.3 kernel.

Intel engineer Peter Zijlstra explains with the patch moving EEVDF to a single runqueue in the commit message :

"Infamously fair/cgroup isn't working for a number of people; typically the complaint is latencies and/or

Intel i915 Driver Nearly Ready To "Work Well" With RT Linux Kernel Sans Display Support

Phoronix | July 6, 2026, 8:29 a.m. | Original

When it comes to the real-time "RT" patches carried outside of the Linux kernel, a number of them pertain to adjustments around the Intel i915 kernel DRM graphics driver. The mainline Linux kernel and its RT support depend upon not building "PREEMPT_RT" for the i915 driver support while patches have been worked on recently for making this Intel kernel graphics driver code play nicely with real-time Linux.

For the RT patches , nearly half of them pertain to Intel i9

Canonical On Making Ubuntu For ARM64 "Truly A First-Class Architecture"

Phoronix | July 6, 2026, 6:20 a.m. | Original

The Ubuntu Foundations Engineering Manager, Ravi Kant Sharma, with Canonical has provided an update regarding the current ARM64 state on Ubuntu Linux.

Over the past year Canonical has been working to make the Ubuntu stack for ARM64 "truly a first-class architecture" and that is what today's Ubuntu Discourse post is summarizing. Since Ubuntu 26.04 LTS, ARM64 packages are now in the Ubuntu main archive properly rather than Ubuntu Ports. Since last month, Canonical has also begun supporting

Pioneer DJM-S11 Professional DJ Mixer To Be Supported By Linux 7.3

Phoronix | July 6, 2026, 5:57 a.m. | Original

The Pioneer DJM-S11 is a professional scratch style 2-channel DJ mixer that retails for $2,269 USD. But if currently connecting this expensive piece of kit to Linux, it does nothing and is unusable. With 87 new lines of code, it will begin to work with the Linux 7.3 kernel later this year.

The Pioneer DJ DJM-S11 caters to the DJ needs of clubs, concerts, music studios, and live events with its plethora of features

Uniwill Laptop Driver Preparing A Number Of Features For Linux 7.3

Phoronix | July 6, 2026, 5:49 a.m. | Original

The Unwill laptop driver on Linux for supporting various device-specific features by that major OEM/ODM will be seeing several new features with the Linux 7.3 cycle later this year. One of the most notable users of the Unwill driver is Bavarian Linux PC vendor TUXEDO Computers.

Several Uniwill laptop driver patches were queued over the past week into the x86 platform drivers' "for-next" Git branch ahead of the Linux 7.3 merge window in late August.

D7VK's Performance Gains Since Its Inception For Older Direct3D Versions On Linux

Phoronix | July 6, 2026, midnight | Original

In addition to Sunday's release of DXVK 3.0.1 , D7VK 1.12 was separately released as the latest version of this implementation for Direct3D 7 and older atop the Vulkan API.

With the D7VK 1.12 release there has been more optimizations to land. As part of the release announcement, some performance compares of the new D7VK 1.12 was benchmarked against older D7VK releases when particular Direct3D version support was added using

Linux 7.2-rc2 Released: "Things Look Very Normal"

Phoronix | July 5, 2026, 9:08 p.m. | Original

Linux 7.2-rc2 is now available for testing in working toward the stable Linux 7.2 release in August.

Linux 7.2-rc2 this week saw increasing the default RISC-V 64-bit core limit from 64 to 256 cores to better reflect the increasing core counts of RISC-V designs. Linux 7.2-rc2 also brings hardening of BPF against JIT spraying attacks . Plus a wide variety of more, mostly mundane bug/regression fixes.

DXVK 3.0.1 Released With More Game Fixes, Other Improvements

Phoronix | July 5, 2026, 7:08 p.m. | Original

Following the release of DXVK 3.0 from late June that brought several big changes, DXVK 3.0.1 is out today with shipping various game fixes and other improvements to this important piece of Valve's Steam Play (Proton) for Direct3D Windows games on Linux.

DXVK 3.0.1 now disables secondary command buffer usage on all desktop GPUs. This may "slightly impact performance" for a small number of games but this code has been producing hard to debug rendering issues and GPU hangs

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