Ever since RHEL deprecated their short-lived Btrfs plans , Red Hat engineers over the past decade have been developing Stratis Storage as their storage management solution leveraging XFS, LUKS, DM, and their Rust-based daemon. While Stratis Storage has been available in Fedora Linux going all the way back to Fedora 28, until now there hasn't been the option of using it for the root file-system on new Fedora installations. Finally with Fedora 45 that may change.

A change proposal has been filed for

While Linux 7.2 introduces the ability to boot on Apple M3 Macs , it's not yet remotely useful for end-users wanting to use an Apple Mac/MacBook as their daily system. As it stands now, the M3 Macs boot to a simple console and that's about it with the lack of proper GPU acceleration and functionality like the keyboard on MacBooks not working either. Posted to the kernel mailing list today was the new driver patches for enabling the internal keyboard on more recent Apple MacBooks

KDE Plasma 6.7.2 is out today as the latest point release to deliver bug fixes for the Plasma 6.7 desktop that debuted earlier this month.

Most notable with Plasma 6.7.2 is fixing the most common crash within KWin that pertained to variable refresh rate handling with multi-monitor setups. Plasma 6.7.2 also fixes a possible crash within the KDE Info Center when trying to display information on select NVIDIA GPUs.

There is also improved full-screen video playback performance for Chromium

With Q2'2026 drawing to a close, as part of the different quarterly recaps of popular areas on Phoronix, here is a look back at the most popular AMD Linux/open-source news of the quarter.

During this quarter there were more than 137 original news articles pertaining to AMD Linux/open-source topics. Similar to the recent Intel Linux recap for Q2 , below is a look at the most popular AMD Linux news of the quarter on Phoronix. Plus the most

Ubuntu Linux maker Canonical continues making more inroads in the Rust infrastructure space. Canonical announced today they have become the first gold sponsor of the Trifecta Tech Foundation that works on projects like sudo-rs for building more open infrastructure in the Rust programming language.

Canonical already has supported the Trifecta Tech Foundation with initiatives like the Rust version of sudo while now they have become a gold sponsor with a €40,000/year contribution to help create and maintain more memory-safe system utilities in Rust.

Canonical and

Intel has dropped AMX-TF32 before its debut in Xeon Diamond Rapids. The latest Intel programming reference manual has dropped AMX-TF32 and Intel engineers are already moving ahead to strip out the AMX-TF32 support that existed in the GNU Compiler Collection.

Intel updated their ISA programming reference manual and the newly-published version now eliminates AMX-TF32 as well as User-Timer Events and Interrupts. AMX-TF32 was the planned ISA extension for adding the NVIDIA TensorFloat-

Released last week was the Servo 0.3 browser engine release along with their latest Servoshell demo browser. Today the project has published their monthly development recap to highlight all of the interesting changes made. Here's a look at what they accomplished over the past month while doing so on less than $8k in monthly donations.

Some of the improvements incorporated into Servo 0.3 and other changes made over the last month include:

- Support for many CSS font features.

- Several new DOM APIs added.

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The newest GCC 17 compiler code has landed support for -mcpu=spacemit-x100 and -mtune=spacemit-x100 targeting for the SpacemiT X100 RISC-V core.

The SpacemiT X100 is notable in making up the primary cores of the SpacemiT K3 SoC as the first widely-available RVA23 profile compliant RISC-V design. The K3 features eight X100 cores clocking up to 2.4GHz plus there are the