Mesa 25.2 Drops Legacy DRI2 Code With A Bonfire To Pre-DMABUF Winsys Support
A big merge today to Mesa Git ahead of next week's Mesa 25.2 code branching is removing the pre-DMA-BUF winsys support and as part of that clearing out all of the old DRI2 driver support... phoronix.com/news/Mesa-25.2-Dr…
Brett Wilson LLP Sent Over 5KG Kilograms (or Over 12 Pounds) of Legal Papers! Because Writing About Microsoft Abuses is 'Illegal'. lxer.com/module/newswire/ext_l…
New ZLUDA 5 Preview Released For CUDA On Non-NVIDIA GPUs
ZLUDA Version 5-preview.43 was released today as this open-source CUDA implementation for use on non-NVIDIA GPUs, with one of the current focuses being on enabling CUDA on AMD Radeon GPUs with ROCm... phoronix.com/news/ZLUDA-5-prev…
AMD's Epic Performance Gains From The Original EPYC 7601 To EPYC 9755 / EPYC 9965
Last week I published fresh benchmarks showing how AMD's EPYC 4005 series for budget servers can outperform the original EPYC 7601 flagship processor when EPYC first launched during the Zen 1 period. Even with lower core counts and fewer memory channels, the modern EPYC 4005 "Grado" processors were able to outpace that original EPYC "Naples" flagship processor fr… phoronix.com/review/amd-epyc-9…
Amarok is one of the oldest Linux music players still in development, and the latest release includes foundational changes to ensure it will keep going for years to come.
A new version of free music player Amarok has been released, ported to Qt 6 and no longer using the Phonon audio backend. Details on what's new inside.
Amarok yet *LIVES*???? This is undoubtedly the best news I'll hear all day! It was always my favorite music player (whoever I am), I was bummed when I thought it was abandonware. Happy day!
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Red Hat Announces No-Cost RHEL For Business Developers
Red Hat this morning went public with RHEL for Business Developers, an expansion of their RHEL Developer Program to make it easier for business developers to make use of Red Hat Enterprise Linux at no-cost for their development efforts... phoronix.com/news/Red-Hat-RHEL…
Miracle-WM 0.6 Brings Many Improvements For This Mir-Based Wayland Compositor
Miracle-WM 0.6 is out today as a mega release for this Mir-based Wayland compositor by Canonical/Ubuntu developer Matthew Kosarek. Miracle-WM provides tiling window manager support inspired by i3 and Sway while being one of the most pronounced users of the Mir code... phoronix.com/news/Miracle-WM-0…
Intel SR-IOV Support Ready For Panther Lake Graphics But Some Current Platforms Left Behind
Intel discontinued Graphics Virtualization Technology (GVT-G) support several generations ago in favor of supporting SR-IOV for graphics virtualization with Iris Xe and newer integrated/discrete graphics hardware. But with the transition as well from the Linux i915 to Xe kernel graphics drivers, the official SR-IOV support state on Intel graphics … phoronix.com/news/Intel-SR-IOV…
PowerVR Vulkan Driver Enhancements Merged Ahead Of Mesa 25.2
The Mesa 25.2 code is expected to be branched next week to kick off the release process for this quarter's iteration of open-source OpenGL and Vulkan drivers. As such, there's going to be a mad dash over the next week to land lingering features and other improvements for Mesa 25.2. Making it into Mesa Git today was a big set of 42 patches for the Imagination PowerVR Vulkan driver… phoronix.com/news/Mesa-25.2-Po…
Google Developing Skia "Graphite" For Faster Chrome: Multi-Threaded + Modern Graphics APUs
Google yesterday lifted the lid on their work around Skia "Graphite" as a new rasterization back-end designed for modern graphics APIs like Vulkan and supporting multi-threading by default. Skia Graphite aims to deliver much better performance within the Chrome/Chromium web browser... phoronix.com/news/Chromium-Ski…
Google yesterday lifted the lid on their work around Skia 'Graphite' as a new rasterization back-end designed for modern graphics APIs like Vulkan and supporting multi-threading by default
The first alpha release of PHP 8.5 was issued last week in kicking off the release cycle in working toward the official PHP 8.5.0 release later in the year... phoronix.com/news/PHP-8.5-Alph…
Microsoft's Azure Linux 3.0.20250702 Brings Many Security Fixes
Microsoft released Azure Linux 3.0.20250702 on Tuesday as the newest monthly update to this in-house Linux distribution used throughout the company and by external parties... phoronix.com/news/Azure-Linux-…
# Cities in Washington will have the legal authority to create shared streets, which feature much lower speed limits and put pedestrians first, under Senate Bill 5595. Governor Bob Ferguson signed the bill into law Saturday.
You've got "Fedora-Based" on the "Linux distribution (combined) share on Steam over time" graph, but the line doesn't seem to be anywhere (not even at 0), is that correct?
but the graph doesn't reflect that, "Fedora Based" enabled and disabled doesn't have any change. There should be at least one dot at 1 in a month, no? EDIT: Nevermind! I just saw the tiny dot hidden behind the dark green Debian :D
Collabora has introduced Tyr, a new Rust-based Direct Rendering Manager (DRM) driver for CSF-based Arm Mali GPUs. This step strengthens Rust integration within the Linux kernel community.
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