A new Linux kernel patch series posted to the kernel mailing list minutes ago is introducing a new "Low Power" CPU core type for AMD heterogeneous processors. The x86 topology code in the Linux kernel already supports the notion of Performance and Efficiency type cores while now a new "Low Power" core type is being introduced for AMD heterogeneous platforms.

AMD engineer Vishal Badole commented on the Linux kernel patch cover letter of this new Low Power core type:

"This series extends the x86 topology cpu_type

ZLUDA as a reminder is the open-source project that began as drop-in CUDA support for Intel graphics hardware and then was quietly funded by AMD for years as a drop-in CUDA replacement on AMD GPUs that went open-source after losing funding. That was then taken down and since late 2024 ZLUDA then began focusing on multi-GPU CUDA focused on AI after beginning to receive funding from an unspecified party. Now, unfortunately, funding has once again been cut from that unnamed party but in

It's not clear that any games have yet to deploy this open-source anti-cheat system but TLAC is a new open-source project that aims to provide a privacy-respecting alternative to kernel-level anti-cheat systems like Denuvo, Easy Anti-Cheat, and BattlEye.

TLAC is a user-level anti-cheat tool developed with Linux. But with not currently supporting Windows would make it another roadblock in finding it to be picked up by any prominent games. The TLAC lead developer noted in

In time for the Mesa 26.2 stable release expected out in August, the Radeon RADV Vulkan driver is now exposing the VK_EXT_descriptor_heap descriptor heap support by default.

Back in Mesa 26.1, RADV introduced descriptor heap support but until now has required setting the RADV_EXPERIMENTAL=heap environment variable for enabling the support. But with no more known issues remaining, Samuel Pitoiset of Valve's Linux graphics team has enabled descriptor heap support by default with the latest Git code.

OpenAPV, the Academy Software Foundation project that provides a reference implementation of the Advanced Professional Video (APV) codec is out with a new feature update.

APV is the leading open-source alternative to Apple's ProRes video codec that is supported from the likes of Samsung to DaVinci Resolve for high fidelity, high quality video content.

The big addition to the OpenAPV 0.3 professional video codec reference implementation is adding APV raw support. Both APV RAW video encoding and decoding are supported. A compressing and expanding algorithm for

Mageia 10 ISOs are now available for this Linux distribution long ago derived from Mandriva Linux and in turn the legendary Mandrake Linux.

It's been nearly three years since the release of Mageia 9 and the ISOs for Mageia 10 finally crept out this Sunday. Mageia 10 had been Planning for an April 2026 release albeit delays have pushed it out to the end of June. In mid-May the Mageia 10 RC was published while all looks to be buttoned up now for the final release

Ahead of the July 2026 ISO refresh for Arch Linux, a new Archinstall 4.4 release has been tagged for this text-based and very convenient installer for Arch Linux.

Archinstall 4.4 adds a console font selection option to the Locales menu, now shows an install summary when configuration is valid, adds an IWD standalone option for the network configuration, improved color coding for the install preview text, adds a Plymouth configuration setup, and various other enhancements. Plus many bug fixes as well. A

As expected, Linux 7.2-rc1 was released a brief time ago to cap off the Linux 7.2 merge window. Now it's off for eight weeks or so of testing before Linux 7.2 stable is released that will in turn go on to power the likes of Fedora 45 and Ubuntu 26.10.

Linux 7.2 merged many new features including Cache Aware Scheduling, various other performance optimizations, the innovative USB4STREAM feature from Intel, fixes for the new

With Q2'2026 working toward a close, here is a look back at the most popular Intel Linux and open-source news for the quarter.

Of nearly 100 Intel-related Linux/open-source/hardware related news articles this quarter, below is a look back at the most popular Intel news on Phoronix over the past three months. A lot has been happening from their software performance optimizations to enabling new hardware, the new Jay compiler, and more.

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