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Phoronix is a technology news site covering Linux kernel development, open-source software, and hardware benchmarking.
Microsoft has released Defender for the Linux desktop, available with Defender for Endpoint Plan 2 or Microsoft 365 E5 and E7. Mixed fleets can manage Linux developer machines with Windows tooling, and TechSpot calls the product notorious for false positives.
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GNOME Project released GNOME OS Preview, an image built from stable GNOME 51.1 for non-developer enthusiasts. The project calls it reliable enough for daily use but says GNOME OS is not yet ready for the broader public.
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Canonical released Ubuntu 26.10 with GNOME 51 and a completed Rust-based coreutils rollout, according to Phoronix and LWN. Teams coming from 26.04 LTS have several separate changes to test, and we'd start with coreutils.
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Linus Torvalds submitted Claude Code-assisted patches that lift synthetic page-cache reads 23-fold, to 304 million a second. He warned real workloads will gain far less, and reviewers have since reported a race condition.
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Framework's Laptop 12 now ships with Intel Wildcat Lake processors in Core 3, Core 5 and Core 7 versions, Phoronix reported. Tom's Hardware found configurations often reach about $1,000 unless buyers supply their own RAM and SSD.
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Valve's Timur Kristóf moved AMD's GCN 1.0/1.1 Radeons onto the AMDGPU kernel driver, opening RADV Vulkan and a roughly 30% speedup on decade-old cards. AMD has invested little in these cards for years, so their kernel upkeep now depends almost entirely on one engineer on Valve's payroll.
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Linus Torvalds said selftests make up a quarter of the Linux 7.3-rc5 patch by line count, a split he called unusual. A few very large test patches produce that share, so the size of the rc alone gives teams planning for 7.3 little reason to wait.
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Lorenzo Stoakes' AI-assisted Kbuild patches cut a clean kernel build from over 22 seconds to 15 on one dual-EPYC machine in Phoronix tests. Getting to 10 seconds is a separate bet on next-generation EPYC hardware.
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The 20 percent per-core margin over Nvidia's Vera is the same claim AMD made in July. The detail now published behind it rests on a 256-core part down-cored to 96, a 600W budget, and two different major GCC releases.
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The tdfxfb change merged for Linux 7.3 trades one dependency for another: nothing has to execute the option ROM any more, but the driver now has to understand its layout.
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