The belated "This Month in Redox" was posted today for covering improvements made to this open-source, Rust-based operating system during the month of May. Most notable in May is seeing the Xfce desktop ported over to Redox OS.

Open-source developer Wildan Mubarok ported Xfce over to Redox OS as an effort to provide a better X11 experience. Xfce on Redox OS ends up being more stable than the GNOME2-derived MATE desktop environment due to crashes being encountered there. While Xfce is up

Canonical engineers are again evaluating the impact of building the Ubuntu Linux archive for the x86-64-v3 "amd64v3" micro-architecture feature level for its performance benefits on modern Intel and AMD systems. An amd64v3 archive is available of Ubuntu 26.10 for testing with the packages targeting this level that allows for AVX/AVX2 and other newer CPU x86_64 ISA capabilities of the past decade.

Canonical the past few release

Ahead of NVIDIA Vera ramping up, the upcoming Linux 7.2 kernel is adding the ACPI CPPC v4 support authored by a NVIDIA engineer.

Linux 7.2 is poised to introduce support for ACPI's version 4 standard of the Collaborative Processor Performance Control interface. CPPC v4 introduces a new OSPM nominal performance feature for the OS to indicate to the platform what is "nominal" performance as the threshold between any boost performance or below that being throttled for power/thermal needs. CPPC v4 also adds resource

Flatpak 1.18 is out today for providing the latest improvements to this leading open-source app sandboxing and distribution tech.

Flatpak 1.18 brings improved error handling and better printed output from the flatpak-coredumpctl command. The output from flatpak update has also been enhanced. Another nice addition is the improved start-up time when running under the Fish shell. Plus there are several small bug fixes.

Most notable with Flatpak 1.18 is adding support for AMD's /dev/kfd device

An interesting quandary has arose on the Linux kernel mailing list over maintainership of old, unmaintained code within the Linux kernel. Someone has stepped up to maintain an old, very rare file-system driver but admittedly doesn't even use it and just submitted basic fixes. Or is it just better removing that old code?

The interesting Linux kernel mailing list discussion is over the EFS file-system driver. No, not to be confused with Amazon's Elastic File-System (EFS) but the Linux fs/

As the discussions continue among developers over potentially branching off some of the older Mesa drivers , the AMD R600 Gallium3D driver saw 59 commits on Sunday to Mesa 26.2. Making this code restructuring and code cleaning all the more notable is that the improvements to this old AMD Radeon graphics driver was done in part by GitHub Copilot.

Gert Wollny has been among the few open-source developers left working on the AMD R600g driver that covers from the Radeon HD 20

As a friendly reminder, if you wanted to join Phoronix Premium at a discounted rate to show your support for the 22nd birthday of Phoronix.com during these difficult times in the web publishing space, that special is ending later today.

This past Friday marked the 22nd birthday of Phoronix.com for Linux hardware reviews and benchmarks. It keeps going with new daily, original content even with these unfortunate times of rampant ad block use, the awful state of web advertising, and being a one man shop

In addition to the SpacemiT K1 and K3 RISC-V SoC Device Tree updates sent out last week, the RISC-V T-HEAD Device Tree "DT" changes were also sent out last week ahead of the upcoming Linux 7.2 kernel merge window.

The RISC-V T-HEAD DT changes for this next kernel release aren't too notable unless you use the BeagleV Ahead and/or Lichee Pi 4a RISC-V single board computers. What's notable for the BeagleV Ahead

Last week Linux 7.1-rc6 was larger than Linus Torvalds wished for and for Linux 7.1-rc7 it has come in still heavier than typically seen this late in the cycle, but is shrinking and making Linus comfortable in hopefully releasing Linux 7.1 stable next Sunday.

Linux 7.1 development continues coming in heavier than historical trends due to an uptick in patches as a result of AI/LLM coding agents. But at least it's calming down a bit and making Linus comfortable