Linux Foundation Looks To Become More Involved With AI Models, Welcomes OMI With all the craze around "AI" and hoping to foster more open-source AI models, the Linux Foundation has welcomed the Open Model Initiative (OMI) into its umbrella of open-source initiatives to help foster high quality, openly-licensed AI models... https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-Foundation-OMI-AI-Models

Updated XZ Code For The Kernel Looks Like It's Ready For Linux 6.12 The past few months have seen patches for updating the XZ (de)compression code within the Linux kernel that's been a lengthy process in part due to the XZ backdoor situation earlier this year and the reputable XZ developers in turn being busy cleaning up that mess. In any event it appears that the updated XZ code for the Linux kernel is now on track for mainlining come L… https://www.phoronix.com/news/XZ-Update-Linux-6.12-Queue

Wine-Staging 9.15 Adds Fixes For Lotus Approach & Need For Speed: Underground Building off yesterday's release of Wine 9.15, Wine-Staging 9.15 is now available with 376 patches currently being applied atop the upstream codebase... https://www.phoronix.com/news/Wine-Staging-9.15

KDE Rolling Out SVG-Based Cursor Themes, Performance Improvements KDE developers remain very busy this summer working toward the Plasma 6.2 release with exciting new features... https://www.phoronix.com/news/KDE-SVG-Based-Cursors

Linux Will Be Able To Boot ~0.035 Seconds Faster With One Line Kernel Patch The Linux kernel itself can already boot quite fast but with a simple one-line patch another ~0.035 seconds will be able to be shaved off the boot time... https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-Faster-Boot-One-Line-ACPI

Red Hat's Tuned 2.24 Can Now Control AMD Core Performance Boost Red Hat's performance team has been working on the Tuned profile delivery software as an alternative to power-profiles-daemon on Linux systems. Fedora will be switching over to Tuned to replace power-profiles-daemon and the newest Tuned 2.24 release is now available... https://www.phoronix.com/news/Red-Hat-Tuned-2.24

Valve's SteamOS 3.6.9 Beta Brings Many Fixes & Supports More Controllers Valve has just released a SteamOS 3.6.9 beta as the newest update to their Arch Linux derived operating system powering the Steam Deck and other gaming devices... https://www.phoronix.com/news/Valve-SteamOS-3.6.9-Beta

More HDR Preparations Merged In Time For GNOME 47 Following the recent Mutter 47 beta release that also marks the feature freze point for GNOME 47, there still are some High Dynamic Range (HDR) display preparations being merged ahead of this next stable desktop release due out in September... https://www.phoronix.com/news/GNOME-47-Mutter-More-HDR-Prep

AMD Ryzen 5 9600X & Ryzen 7 9700X Offer Excellent Linux Performance This could quite well be my simplest review in the past twenty years of Phoronix. The AMD Ryzen 9000 series starting with the Ryzen 5 9600X and Ryzen 7 9700X launching tomorrow are some truly great desktop processors. The generational uplift is very compelling, even in single-threaded Linux workloads shooting ahead of Intel's 14th Gen Core competition, across nearly 400 benchma… https://www.phoronix.com/review/ryzen-9600x-9700x

Sway Compositor Lands Wayland Explicit Sync Support Yesterday the Sway i3-inspired Wayland compositor saw tearing control support merged while today another prominent Wayland protocol has been merged: linux-drm-syncobj-v1 for explicit sync support... https://www.phoronix.com/news/Sway-Explicit-Sync-Merged