The Brutalist Report

Phoronix

• Linux 7.0-mk2 Released For Multi-Kernel Linux With Promising Performance Results [27d]
• COSMIC Epoch 1.7 Released: No Longer Slow Browsing Network Filesystems [28d]
• LLVM/Clang 23.1 Released With AMD Zen 6 & NVIDIA Rigel Support, Partial C++26 Support [28d]
• Wayland Found To Be "Intrinsically Faster Than X11, But Not Necessarily More Efficient" [28d]
• AI/LLM Usage Becoming A "Denial of Service Attack" On Open-Source Project Maintainers [28d]
• Benchmarking Some Incredible Performance Gains With Btrfs On Linux 7.3 [28d]
• Apple Launches The M6 2nm 12-core CPU, Quad-Die M5 Ultra [28d]
• The Modern NTFS Linux Driver Adds Read Support For Windows System Compression (WOF) [28d]
• Linux 7.3 Device Mapper Sees Many Fixes, Including Code Cleanups By Claude Opus [28d]
• DisplayPort 2.1 ALPM Still Being Worked On For Intel Xe3P / Nova Lake [28d]
• KDE Remote Desktop Experience Improving For Closing The X11 vs. Wayland Gap [28d]
• Lots Of New Audio Hardware Support In Linux 7.3 [28d]
• Linux 7.3 Merges Initial Kernel Driver Support For The 2026 Steam Controller [28d]