Cyan bought a U-shaped pillow and she instantly fell asleep on it! I tried it and now she says every time she comes into the bedroom, there's a catgirl on it...
Today we slept with it until noon, and after lunch I lied down and she snuggled up. We woke up at 6:30 PM... It's too powerful!!!!
Latest Intel Engineering Layoffs Lead To An Intel Linux Driver Being Orphaned
The latest round of cost-cutting at Intel seems to be having a larger impact on their software engineering efforts than some of their previous rounds of layoffs. In addition to a prominent Linux kernel developer veteran leaving Intel last week where he worked for the past 14 years and responsible for many great upstream improvements, other Intel software enginee… phoronix.com/news/Intel-SLM-Dr…
Google Publishes Updated Proposal For Standardizing Haptic Touchpads On Linux
As part of work going back to 2019, an engineer on Google's Chromium OS team submitted an updated proposal on Monday for seeking to standardize the haptic touchpad support within the Linux kernel... phoronix.com/news/Google-Hapti…
RADV Lands Experimental Host Image Copy Support (VK_EXT_host_image_copy)
Making it into the RADV Vulkan driver ahead of this week's Mesa 25.2 feature freeze is experimental support for the VK_EXT_host_image_copy extension. The Vulkan host image copy extension was worked on by Valve and others for letting applications/games copy data between the host memory and images on the host processor without having to first stage via a GPU-accessible buf… phoronix.com/news/RADV-Experim…
The LTTng tracing toolkit is twenty years old this year and it's seen significant adoption by different hyperscalers and other notable organizations like IBM and Sony and Siemens beyond basic end-users and administrators for system tracing/debugging
We all want to see more people move to a free and open source operating system, but this story shows how those users may one day turn around and contribute to the very projects they use! Awesome to see :)
This is the story of how I became a contributor on the Fedora Release Schedule Planner application hosted on Codeberg. I started my open-source journey when I got my first laptop.
Users on Ubuntu 24.04 LTS (and any Linux distribution based on it, like Linux Mint 22) will shortly receive Linux kernel 6.15 and Mesa 25.0.7 via a software update.
In addition to last minute feature work on the latest AMD RDNA4 graphics cards ahead of the Mesa 25.2 code branching, there's also some new fixes going into Mesa for the open-source Radeon driver code..
New Effort To Upstream LTTng In The Linux Kernel Draws Criticism From Torvalds
The LTTng tracing toolkit is twenty years old this year and it's seen significant adoption by different hyperscalers and other notable organizations like IBM and Sony and Siemens beyond basic end-users and administrators for system tracing/debugging. While having many successes over the past two decades, the kernel modules remain outside of the kernel tree. Eve… phoronix.com/news/LTTng-Kernel…
Intel Xe3 Panther Lake OpenGL & Vulkan Support Now Enabled By Default On Linux
With the upcoming Linux 6.17 kernel the Intel Xe kernel graphics driver is enabling Panther Lake graphics out-of-the-box. Now going along with that Linux 6.17+ support out-of-the-box, the Mesa OpenGL and Vulkan user-space drivers are also ready to declare their Xe3 Panther Lake graphics support by default... phoronix.com/news/Intel-Panthe…
Following the NanoPi R3S LTS, FriendlyELEC has launched the NanoPi R76S, a compact router board powered by the Rockchip RK3576. Designed for edge networking and IoT, it features dual 2.5Gbps Ethernet, HDMI, USB 3.2, and AI acceleration.
Nate needs to bite the bullet, spend a few extra bucks and get a laptop from System76: The hunt for a perfect laptop continues pointieststick.com/2025/07/13/…
This is a bit of a rant; feel free to skip it if you’re here for the KDE content. This isn’t the first time I’ve blogged about the dearth of truly great PC laptops out there, and …
A key requirement was touch screen to improve and test touch support on the Plasma desktop. AFAIK system 76 has no touch screen options and, subsequently, the Cosmic desktop itself lacks consistent touch support.
A key requirement was touch screen to improve and test touch support on the Plasma desktop. AFAIK system 76 has no touch screen options and, subsequently, the Cosmic desktop itself lacks consistent touch support.
New Linux Patches Enable Support For The Snapdragon X1 Powered Microsoft Surface Pro 11
Posted today to the Linux kernel mailing list are a set of nine patches for bringing up support for the Qualcomm Snapdragon X Elite/Plus powered Microsoft Surface Pro 11 2-in-1 laptop... phoronix.com/news/MS-Surface-P…
Mesa 25.2 NVK vs. NVIDIA R575 Linux Graphics Performance For GeForce RTX 40 Series
A number of Phoronix readers have been interested in seeing some fresh benchmarks of Mesa's NVK Vulkan driver in providing open-source Vulkan API support on NVIDIA GeForce graphics cards as well as the modern OpenGL approach of using Zink for layering OpenGL atop Vulkan. Here are some fresh benchmarks using the very latest Mesa 25.2 code for NVK on the latest u… phoronix.com/review/mesa-252-n…
A number of Phoronix readers have been interested in seeing some fresh benchmarks of Mesa's NVK Vulkan driver in providing open-source Vulkan API support on NVIDIA GeForce graphics cards as well as the modern OpenGL approach of using Zink for layerin…
SFrame Support Upstreamed To GNU C Library For Glibc 2.42
Merged today into the upstream GNU C Library code ahead of next month's Glibc 2.42 release is support for SFrame stack tracing with ELF binaries on x86 and AArch64 architectures... phoronix.com/news/SFrame-Merge…
Catch up on the latest Linux news: CachyOS, Krita 5.2.10, OBS Studio 31.1, Plasma 6.3.6, KDE ISO Image Writer, Amarok 3.3, Thunderbird 140, Red Hat offers free RHEL access, and more.
NVMe Controller Data Queue "CDQ" Patches Posted For Linux
New feature patches posted for review today on the Linux kernel mailing list are working to implement the NVMe specification's Controller Data Queue (CDQ) functionality within the NVMe storage driver... phoronix.com/news/NVMe-CDQ-Lin…
Old Radeon HD 2000/3000/4000 GPUs Still Seeing Open-Source Driver Fixes In 2025
In addition to last minute feature work on the latest AMD RDNA4 graphics cards ahead of the Mesa 25.2 code branching, there's also some new fixes going into Mesa for the open-source Radeon driver code... Coming in this Monday morning by surprise are some fixes for the Radeon HD 2000/3000 series approaching two decades old as well as a fix for the Radeon HD 40… phoronix.com/news/R600-RV770-F…
Although being a die hard WH40k fan, this doesn't tickle me. I played DoW in every iteration for hundreds of hours back then, so this definitive edition offers to little imho. I'd rather want to have a proper reboot or a sequel to DoW II. A shame there never was a third game. For some reason my heart feels stabbed now.
RADV Vulkan Video Improvements Make It Into Mesa 25.2 For AMD RDNA4 GPUs
Ahead of the Mesa 25.2 code branching / feature freeze expected later this week, last minute feature additions and other changes continue landing in the codebase for these open-source OpenGL and Vulkan drivers. One of the additions today worth mentioning are continued Vulkan Video improvements for AMD Radeon graphics... phoronix.com/news/RADV-RDNA4-T…
One of the interesting new additions with the upcoming Intel Xe3 integrated and discrete graphics is the Variable Register Thread "VRT" feature. Making use of Variable Register Thread can reduce register splitting, reduce bandwidth consumption, and improve overall performance. More background information on Intel VRT can be found in that aforelinked Phoronix… phoronix.com/news/Intel-Mesa-V…
The Linux Mint developers have put out their monthly status update to outline their work in recent weeks. Over the course of June, Linux Mint developers were primarily focused on Linux Mint 22.2 with the beta release expected soon... phoronix.com/news/LMDE-7-Follo…
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