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2026-04-16 21:39:06 GMT

Proton 11.0 Beta Released With More Games Playable On Steam Play
Valve and CodeWeavers have just released Proton 11.0 Beta as their first beta milestone for this software that powers Steam Play now rebased against upstream Wine 11.0...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Proton-11.0-Beta
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2026-04-16 21:39:05 GMT

Linux 7.1 sched_ext Brings cgroup Sub-Scheduler Groundwork, Idle SMT Sibling Improvement
The extensible scheduler "sched_ext" code for allowing Linux scheduling behavior to be defined via BPF programs is seeing some useful improvements with the in-development Linux 7.1 kernel...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-7.1-sched-ext
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2026-04-16 12:24:04 GMT

Mozilla Announces "Thunderbolt" As An Open-Source, Enterprise AI Client
Mozilla today announced "Thunderbolt" as an open-source AI client built for control and independence. Mozilla Thunderbolt, while having the worst possible name, is built for organizations and others wanting to deploy self-hosted AI infrastructure...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Mozilla-Thunderbolt
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2026-04-16 10:39:09 GMT

Linux Begins Removing Support For Russia's Baikal CPUs
Beyond Linux 7.1 beginning to phase out Intel 486 CPU support, this next Linux kernel version is also beginning to remove driver code for supporting Russia's Baikal CPUs...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-Dropping-Baikal-CPUs
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2026-04-15 00:24:05 GMT

Linus Torvalds Merged The Code Beginning To Remove Intel 486 CPU Support In Linux 7.1
As a follow-up to the news first-covered on Phoronix earlier this month about Linux 7.1 expected to begin removing i486 CPU support: it indeed happened. Linus Torvalds took the initial removal bits today without any fuss today for beginning the phase out of M486 / M486SX / ELAN kernel support...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-7.1-Begins-Removing-i486
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2026-04-10 14:24:05 GMT

Firefox 149 vs. Chrome 147 Web Browser Performance On Linux
It has been a while since featuring a showdown of the Mozilla Firefox and Google Chrome web browsers on Linux. With some fresh benchmarks being overdue plus the new JetStream 3 browser benchmark having been announced last week, here is some fresh data for how these two dominant web browsers are competing on the modern Linux desktop from an Intel Panther Lake system running Ubuntu 26.04.
https://www.phoronix.com/review/firefox-chrome-2026
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2026-04-10 12:39:05 GMT

Vulkan 1.4.349 Released With Data Graph Optical Flow Extension
Vulkan 1.4.349 is out today as a small update to the Vulkan API specification that incorporates various fixes that accumulated over the past week. Plus there is one new extension...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Vulkan-1.4.349
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2026-04-06 22:09:04 GMT

Rust Coreutils 0.8 Brings Significant Performance Gains
Rust Coreutils 0.8 was released today as the newest major release to this alternative to GNU Coreutils...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Rust-Coreutils-0.8-Released
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2026-03-30 22:39:07 GMT

Archinstall 4.0 Released For Improved Arch Linux Installer Using Textual UI
Archinstall 4.0 is out today and just in time for the April 1 monthly refresh to the Arch Linux installer. With Archinstall 4.0, this Arch Linux OS installer is now using the Textual TUI library rather than the Curses library...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Archinstall-4.0-Released
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2026-03-25 00:24:04 GMT

Intel's Vulkan Linux Driver Lands New Feature To Boost DX12 Game Performance
Intel's open-source "ANV" Vulkan driver for Linux systems enabled a new feature called BTP+BTI RCC Keying. You may be wondering what it means or stands for, but long story short it helps with the performance of Direct3D 12 (DX12) games running on Linux by way of Valve's Steam Play with Proton + VKD3D-Proton...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Intel-ANV-BTP-BTI-RCC-Keying
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2026-03-23 14:09:07 GMT

Firefox 149 Now Available With XDG Portal File Picker, Rust-Based JPEG-XL Decoder
Firefox 149.0 release binaries are now available with a wide assortment of improvements for this month's update to the cross-platform Mozilla web browser solution...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Mozilla-Firefox-149
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2026-03-19 12:09:08 GMT

OpenGL Lands New Extension To Benefit Wine
The OpenGL API is still seeing new extensions introduced in 2026. Merged today to the OpenGL Registry is a new extension intended to help Wine usage for 32-bit Windows games/apps on 64-bit Linux systems...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/OpenGL-Mesa-Wine-Ext
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2026-01-23 15:24:04 GMT

Vulkan Roadmap 2026 Milestone: Variable Rate Shading, Host Image Copies & More
In addition to the release today of Vulkan 1.4.340 with the new descriptor heap "VK_EXT_descriptor_heap" extension and three other new extensions, The Khronos Group's Vulkan Working Group has also published the Vulkan Roadmap 2026 Milestone...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Vulkan-Roadmap-2026
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2026-01-23 14:09:05 GMT

GNU Guix 1.5 Released With RISC-V Support, Experimental x86_64 GNU Hurd Kernel
GNU Guix 1.5 is out today as the latest major release for this platform built around its functional package manager. This is a big upgrade with it having been three years since the GNU Guix 1.4 release...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/GNU-Guix-1.5-Released
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2026-01-23 11:09:04 GMT

Vulkan 1.4.340 Released With Descriptor Heap & Other New Extensions
Vulkan 1.4.340 is out today as the first significant new Vulkan API update following the end of year holidays. With Vulkan 1.4.340 comes four new extensions worth talking about...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Vulkan-1.4.340-Descriptor-Heap
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2026-01-23 10:54:07 GMT

Servo 0.0.4 Browser Engine Released & Finally Supporting Multiple Windows
Servo 0.0.4 is out today as the newest monthly update to this open-source, Rust-based web browser engine. Building off recent Servo embedding API additions, Servo 0.0.4 introduces support for multiple browser windows...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Servo-0.0.4
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2026-01-22 14:24:04 GMT

Rust 1.93 Brings Improvement For Inline Assembly Handling
Rust 1.93 is out today as the first feature release for this programming lanugage of 2026...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Rust-1.93-Released
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2026-01-21 20:09:05 GMT

Mesa 26.0-rc1 Released With RADV Improvements Leading The Way Along With Intel & NVK
Eric Engestrom just released Mesa 26.0-rc1 with the code for this quarter's Mesa feature release now branched and under a feature freeze leading up to the stable release in February...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Mesa-26.0-rc1-Released
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2026-01-21 01:24:06 GMT

An Exciting Day With More Performance Optimizations Merged For RADV In Mesa 26.0
Mesa 26.0 was due to be branched last week and in turn start its feature freeze but ended up being pushed back to tomorrow (21 January) to allow some lingering features to land. It's been beneficial for the Radeon Vulkan driver "RADV" with several interesting merge requests having landed in time for Mesa 26.0...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/RADV-More-Perf-Mesa-26.0
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2026-01-20 11:24:07 GMT

Adreno Gen 8 Vulkan Graphics Merged For Mesa 26.0 To Support The Snapdragon X2
Merged in time for the upcoming Mesa 26.0 release is the merging of Vulkan driver support for the Qualcomm Adreno Gen 8 graphics support that is notably used by the new Snapdragon X2 laptop SoCs as well as the Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Mesa-26.0-Adreno-Gen-8-Graphics
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2026-01-20 11:24:06 GMT

DragonFlyBSD Now Allows Optional AMD GCN 1.1 Support In AMDGPU Driver
DragonFlyBSD's AMDGPU kernel graphics driver continues to be a port of the AMDGPU Linux kernel driver. Their latest porting effort for AMD graphics on DragonFlyBSD is now enabling optional support for the GCN 1.1 "Sea Islands (CIK) graphics processors on this modern alternative to the prior Radeon kernel driver...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/AMD-CIK-AMDGPU-DragonFlyBSD
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2026-01-19 19:54:05 GMT

OPEN_TREE_NAMESPACE To Provide A Security & Performance Win For Dealing With Containers
A new feature expected to be merged for the upcoming Linux 7.0 kernel cycle is adding an OPEN_TREE_NAMESPACE flag for the open_tree() system call. This OPEN_TREE_NAMESPACE option can provide a nice performance win with added security benefits if you are dealing a lot with containerized workloads on Linux...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-Open-Tree-Namespace
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2026-01-19 16:24:03 GMT

Mozilla Now Providing RPM Packages For Firefox Nightly Builds
In late 2023 Mozilla began providing Debian packages of Firefox Nightly builds complete with an APT repository. Those on Debian/Ubuntu distributions have a much easier path for enjoying Firefox Nightly since then and now Mozilla engineers are providing similar RPM builds of Firefox nightly too...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Firefox-Nightly-RPMs
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2026-01-19 11:54:06 GMT

New Patches Provide HDMI VRR & Auto Low Latency Mode Gaming Features For AMD Linux GPU Driver
Support for newer HDMI features in the open-source AMD Linux graphics driver have been limited due to being blocked by the HDMI Forum. There are though some new HDMI gaming features being enabled via new AMDGPU kernel driver patches that are coming outside of AMD and based on public knowledge and/or "trying things out until they work/break" for functionality like HDMI Variable …
https://www.phoronix.com/news/AMDGPU-HDMI-Gaming-Features
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2026-01-19 11:39:04 GMT

RADV Vulkan Driver Now Implements HPLOC For Even Faster Ray-Tracing Performance
There have been a number of nice RADV driver Vulkan ray-tracing performance optimizations for Mesa in recent times... Here is yet another merge request now merged for Mesa 26.0 and helping deliver some nice performance uplift for ray-traced games on Linux. And, yes, this is yet another Valve contribution to this open-source AMD Radeon Linux graphics driver...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/RADV-Vulkan-Driver-HPLOC-Valve
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2026-01-18 17:54:05 GMT

Linux 6.19 Landing Fixes For USB2/USB3 Issues With Apple M1/M2 Macs
Ahead of the Linux 6.19-rc6 kernel release due out later today are two USB fixes for Apple M1 / M2 Macs running the mainline kernel. These Apple USB fixes are also marked for back-porting to the stable Linux kernel series...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-6.19-Apple-Mac-USB2-Fixes
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2026-01-18 11:09:05 GMT

ChaosBSD Is A New BSD For "Broken Drivers, Half-Working Hardware, Vendor Trash" Test Bed
A new BSD on the block is ChaosBSD that intends to serve as a testing distribution for unfinished and broken drivers not suitable for upstreaming to FreeBSD proper...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/ChaosBSD
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2026-01-18 01:39:06 GMT

Synex Server: A New Debian Based Linux Distro With Native ZFS Installation Support
Synex is a Linux distribution that's been around for some months as a Debian-based, minimalistic Linux distribution out of Argentina focused on the needs of small and medium businesses. Making it a bit more intriguing for some now is that with their new release based on Debian 13 is a server edition and they have added native OpenZFS file-system support for new installations...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Synex-Debian-With-ZFS
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2026-01-17 12:39:13 GMT

FreeBSD 15.1 Aims To Have KDE Desktop Installer Option
FreeBSD 15.0 had been aiming to offer a KDE desktop installation option as part of the FreeBSD OS installer. This initiative as part of the FreeBSD laptop support enhancements project didn't pan out in time for FreeBSD 15.0 but now they are working on getting the installer option ready for FreeBSD 15.1. Adding a NVIDIA GPU driver option to the FreeBSD installer was also recently carried out...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/FreeBSD-15.1-KDE-Desktop-Option
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2026-01-17 11:24:04 GMT

KDE Begins Landing Features For Plasma 6.7, Some Last Minute Plasma 6.6 Improvements
KDE developers have been quite busy this week in preparing for the upcoming Plasma 6.6 release in February while also beginning to land features for what will be the Plasma 6.7 desktop...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Plasma-6.6-Scheduler-Priority
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2026-01-17 10:54:05 GMT

GNOME 50 Will Make Sure You Don't Use Your Computer Past Your Bedtime
As part of the GNOME Foundation funded Digital Wellbeing project, the GNOME Shell for GNOME 50 has merged options to prevent unlocking the desktop session past their bed time. The intent here is on rounding out GNOME's parental controls functionality...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/GNOME-50-Screen-Lock-Bedtime
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2026-01-16 21:40:02 GMT

Adobe Photoshop 2025 Installer Now Working On Linux With Patched Wine
An open-source developer has worked through the last of the issues preventing the Adobe Creative Cloud installers for Windows from running on Linux via Wine. With pending patches, Adobe Photoshop 2021 and Photoshop 2025 are expected to install and run on Linux...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Adobe-Photoshop-2025-Wine-Patch

2026-01-16 16:54:27 GMT

AMD EPYC 8004 "Siena" Shows Some Nice Linux Performance Gains Over The Past Two Years
As part of my various end-of-year benchmarks, recently I looked at the Linux LTS kernel performance on AMD EPYC 9005 over the past year, the AMD EPYC Milan-X performance over the past four years, and various other performance comparisons over time to look the evolution of the Linux software performance. Another run I had carried out was looking at the AMD EPYC 8004 "Siena" series since…
https://www.phoronix.com/review/amd-epyc-8534p-2year-linux
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2026-01-16 13:24:08 GMT

Ubuntu 26.04 Aims To Deliver Better NVIDIA Wayland Performance Atop GNOME
If all goes well the upcoming Ubuntu 26.04 LTS release will further enhance the NVIDIA graphics performance under its default GNOME Wayland session. The improvements might be upstreamed to GNOME 50 in time but otherwise it's looking like Ubuntu 26.04 will carry its own patch(es) for improving the NVIDIA Wayland performance...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Ubuntu-26.04-Faster-NVIDIA
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2026-01-16 10:54:14 GMT

Wild 0.8 Linker Adds SFrame Support, LoongArch64 & More Performance
Wild 0.8 is now available as this speedy linker focused on iterative development, a goal of incremental linking, and written in the Rust programming language...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Wild-Linker-0.8
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2026-01-16 01:54:04 GMT

GNOME 50 Alpha Released With The X11 Code Gutted
The GNOME 50 Alpha "50.alpha" release is now available for testing ahead of this open-source desktop's official release in March...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/GNOME-50-Alpha
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2026-01-15 12:39:55 GMT

D7VK 1.2 Released For Improving Direct3D 6 Front-End
Started last year was D7VK as a project bringing Direct3D 7 implemented over the Vulkan API for enjoying better performance and support for legacy Windows games on Linux, akin to DXVK and VKD3D-Proton for newer versions of Direct3D over Vulkan that is used by Valve's Steam Play (Proton). Back in December D7VK added a Direct3D 6 front-end for allowing even older game titles to be accelerated using the modern Vulkan API…
https://www.phoronix.com/news/D7VK-1.2-Released
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2026-01-15 10:39:17 GMT

Raspberry Pi AI HAT+ 2 Released & Designed For Running GenAI Models
In late 2024 the folks at Raspberry Pi announced the Raspberry Pi AI HAT+ as an AI accelerator capable of 26 TOPS and costing $110 for pairing with Raspberry Pi single board computers. Today they announced the much more capable Raspberry Pi AI HAT+ 2 that can begin to take on some generative AI "GenAI" models...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Raspberry-Pi-AI-HAT-2
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2026-01-15 01:24:05 GMT

Another RADV Ray-Tracing Merge Lands Some Additional Gains For Mesa 26.0
Separate from the Mesa merge request talked about earlier today for new RADV code that can deliver 10x faster ray-tracing pipeline compilation for this open-source Radeon Vulkan driver, another merge request landed today in Mesa 26.0 that was also carried out by Valve contractor Natalie Vock. That second merge request now in Mesa 26.0 delivers some additional gains for at least some ray-tracing gam…
https://www.phoronix.com/news/RADV-RT-RDNA3-RDNA4-Wave32
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2026-01-14 23:09:05 GMT

GRUB 2.14 Bootloader Released With EROFS Support, Shim Loader Protocol
More than two years after the release of GRUB 2.12, GRUB 2.14 shipped today as the newest feature release of this widely-used bootloader on Linux systems and elsewhere...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/GRUB-2.14-Released
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2026-01-14 17:54:05 GMT

New RADV Code Can Deliver 10x Faster Ray-Tracing Pipeline Compilation For Some Games
A new merge request opened today for Mesa's Radeon Vulkan driver "RADV" by Valve contractor Natalie Vock provides another significant boost for the Vulkan ray-tracing performance in multiple titles...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/RADV-10x-Fast-RT-Pipeline-Comp
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2026-01-14 16:24:05 GMT

Fedora Games Lab Approved To Switch To KDE Plasma, Become A Better Linux Gaming Showcase
Back in December we reported on drafted plans for revitalizing Fedora Games Lab to be a modern Linux gaming showcase. This Fedora Labs initiative has featured some open-source games paired with an Xfce desktop while moving forward they are looking to better position it as a modern Linux gaming showcase...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Fedora-Games-Lab-Overhaul-2026
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2026-01-14 15:24:05 GMT

$99 BeaglePlay Board Achieves "100% Open-Source" Upstream PowerVR Graphics
Going back many years Imagination PowerVR graphics were widely despised by open-source enthusiasts and Linux desktop users for their lack of an open-source GPU driver. But over the past few years the Imagination PowerVR driver focused on their Rogue graphics IP has matured nicely within the Linux kernel and the PowerVR Vulkan driver in Mesa taking shape too. Paired with Zink for OpenGL over Vulka…
https://www.phoronix.com/news/BeaglePlay-PowerVR-Success
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2026-01-14 14:54:04 GMT

GNOME Mutter 50 Alpha Released With X11 Backend Removed
In preparing for the GNOME 50 Alpha release, the "50.alpha" tags just occurred for the Mutter compositor and GNOME Shell. Most notable with GNOME Mutter 50 Alpha is the X11 back-end indeed being removed to focus exclusively on the Wayland session...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/GNOME-Mutter-Shell-50-Alpha
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2026-01-14 11:24:06 GMT

XWayland RandR Improvements Merged For Kicking Off 2026 X.Org Server Activity
Michel Dänzer of Red Hat has kicked off 2026 xorg-server activity with landing a patch series enhancing the Resize and Rotate (RandR) extension support under XWayland for improving mode handling by X11 clients...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/XWayland-RandR-Improve-2026
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2026-01-13 16:54:21 GMT

KDE Plasma 6.6 Beta Released With Plasma Login Manager, Plasma Setup
The KDE Plasma 6.6 beta release is available today for helping to test this next iteration of the Plasma 6 desktop...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/KDE-Plasma-6.6-Beta
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2026-01-13 13:24:05 GMT

FFmpeg Merges A Number Of Vulkan Improvements To Start 2026
FFmpeg developer Lynne has landed a number of Vulkan-related imporvements to this widely-used open-source multimedia library. Over the past year FFmpeg saw Vulkan shader-based decoding for more video formats, AV1 and VP9 extension work, performance improvements, and other work around Vulkan Video. It will be very exciting to see how FFmpeg delivers in 2026 with Vulkan Video and how the software ecosystem as a w…
https://www.phoronix.com/news/FFmpeg-Vulkan-Starts-2026
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2026-01-13 11:09:06 GMT

LLVM/Clang 22 Feature Development Ends With Intel Nova Lake, Arm C1 & Ampere1C Support
LLVM/Clang 22 feature development ended overnight with the code now being branched and working toward a stable release likely by the end of February...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/LLVM-Clang-22-Branched
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2026-01-13 01:09:06 GMT

GCC 16 Compiler Steps Closer To Release With Algol 68 Frontend, AMD Zen 6, C++20 Default
GCC 16 as this year's major feature release of the GNU Compiler Collection should be out in the typical March~April timeframe if all goes well. Today the GCC 16 compiler transitioned to its final stage "stage 4" of development with a focus exclusively on documentation and regression fixing...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/GCC-16-Stage-4-Development
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2026-01-12 14:39:12 GMT

Firefox 147 Now Available With XDG Base Directory Specification Support
Firefox 147.0 release binaries have hit the Mozilla servers today as the latest monthly update to this open-source web browser. Firefox 147 is exciting for Linux users in finally delivering XDG Base Directory Specification support...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Firefox-147-Downloads
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2026-01-12 06:39:14 GMT

Linux 6.19-rc5 Brings Fix For Newer NVIDIA GPUs, Logitech HID++ For Anywhere 3S & Fixes
In addition to Linus Torvalds doing some vibe coding and more with his new "AudioNoise" project this week, Linux 6.19 kernel development ticked back up with the holidays having passed. A variety of fixes made it into today's Linux 6.19-rc5 release in working toward v6.19 stable in early February...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-6.19-rc5-Released
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2026-01-11 11:09:05 GMT

Linus Torvalds' Latest Open-Source Project Is AudioNoise - Made With The Help Of Vibe Coding
In addition to Linus Torvalds' recent comments around AI tooling documentation, it turns out in fact that Linus Torvalds has been using vibe coding himself. Over the holidays Linus Torvalds has been working on a new open-source project called AudioNoise that was started with the help of AI vibe coding...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linus-Torvalds-Vide-Coding
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2026-01-10 20:24:04 GMT

Budgie 10.10 Released: Officially Migrated From X11 To Wayland
The Budgie 10.10 desktop has been officially released in marking the open-source project's transition from X11 to Wayland...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Budgie-10.10-Released
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2026-01-10 14:54:07 GMT

Debian 13.3 Released With Many Security & Bug Fixes
Debian 13.3 is out today as the newest stable point release for Debian Trixie...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Debian-13.3-Released
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2026-01-10 14:54:05 GMT

Linux Working Around Audio Problems On The ASUS ROG Xbox Ally X
For those loading Linux on the ASUS ROG Xbox Ally X gaming handheld, there is currently audio quality issues, including gaps/dropouts in audio playback. A workaround is in the process of making its way to the Linux kernel until a proper solution can be sorted out...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/ASUS-Xbox-Ally-X-Linux-Audio
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2026-01-10 11:39:05 GMT

ZLUDA Adds CUDA 13.1 Compatibility For Running CUDA Apps On Non-NVIDIA Hardware
The current incarnation of ZLUDA continues moving along for running unmodified CUDA apps on non-NVIDIA GPUs. Released on Friday was ZLUDA 6-preview.48 with now boasting CUDA 13.1 compatibility...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/ZLUDA-CUDA-13.1-Compatibility
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2026-01-10 01:39:08 GMT

AI Assistant App For GNOME Adds MCP Server Support To Integrate With Much More Software
Hitting the "1.0" milestone last summer was the GNOME AI virtual assistant app called Newelle. This third-party GNOME app has continued evolving as an AI-focused assistant on the GNOME desktop and has now rolled out MCP server support to integrate with "thousands" of other apps...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/GNOME-AI-Newelle-MCP-Server
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2026-01-09 11:39:05 GMT

Mesa 26.0 RADV Lands Dedicated Transfer-Only Queue Using SDMA
There is another open-source Radeon Vulkan driver (RADV) improvement to look forward to in the upcoming Mesa 26.0 release that was worked on by one of Valve's Linux graphics driver developers...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Mesa-26.0-RADV-Transfer-SDMA
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2026-01-09 11:09:05 GMT

Linux 6.19-rc5 To Fix Broken Nouveau Driver With Newer NVIDIA GPUs
Now past the end-of-year holidays, this round of Direct Rendering Manager (DRM) fixes for the in-development Linux 6.19 are a bit more meaningful following those light holiday weeks. Sent out today were the DRM fixes for Linux 6.19-rc5 that includes a fix for broken support for newer NVIDIA GPUs on the Nouveau open-source driver...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-6.19-rc5-DRM-Fixes
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2026-01-09 10:54:05 GMT

Qualcomm Sends Out Linux Patches For RAS Support On RISC-V For Reporting Hardware Errors
The latest work by Qualcomm on the RISC-V CPU architecture is sending out their first non-RFC patch series for enabling Reliability, Availability and Serviceability (RAS) support by making use of the RISC-V RERI specification. This RISC-V RAS support is useful for conveying hardware errors to users and will be especially important with future RISC-V Linux servers...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/RISC-V-RAS-RERI-Linux-Patches
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2026-01-09 01:39:07 GMT

Canonical Builds Steam Snap For Ubuntu ARM64 Leveraging FEX
Canonical is making it easier for ARM64 Ubuntu users like those on the NVIDIA DGX Spark to do a bit of gaming with Steam. Canonical engineers have assembled a Steam Snap for 64-bit ARM that comes complete with the FEX emulator for running Windows/Linux x86-based games on ARM64 Linux...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Steam-Snap-ARM64-FEX
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2026-01-08 18:09:05 GMT

Mesa 26.0 Now Supports GPU Hardware Replay With The Intel Xe Kernel Driver
The Intel Mesa graphics drivers have supported a GPU hardware replay feature for making it easier to reproduce issues. But until now that functionality has only worked with the i915 kernel driver while for Mesa 26.0 the Intel Xe driver will also be supported...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Mesa-26.0-Hang-Replay-Xe
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2026-01-08 13:24:04 GMT

NVIDIA Optimizes Printing Of Linux Memory Stats For 11% System Time Savings
A NVIDIA engineer restructuring some of the printf-related code within the memory resource controller "memcg" statistics printing code to reduce the system time by 11% for dumping those stats...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/NVIDIA-Optimize-Printf-Memcg
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2026-01-08 11:54:04 GMT

Linus Torvalds: "The AI Slop Issue Is *NOT* Going To Be Solved With Documentation"
The Linux kernel developers for months now have been debating proposed guidelines for tool-generated submissions to the Linux kernel. As part of the "tools", the main motivator for this documentation has been around the era of AI and large language models with coding assistants and more. Torvalds made some remarks on the Linux kernel mailing list around his belief in focusing the document…
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Torvalds-Linux-Kernel-AI-Slop
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2026-01-07 11:24:04 GMT

Radeon RADV Vulkan Driver Is On The Verge Of Another Big Ray-Tracing Performance Gain
Natalie Vock as one of the open-source developers on Valve's Linux graphics team has been spearheading another big ray-tracing performance improvement for the AMD Radeon Vulkan driver. RADV ray-tracing performance improved a lot in 2025 but it's looking like 2026 could be even more exciting...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/RADV-More-RT-Performance-2026
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2026-01-06 19:39:14 GMT

All Fedora 44 KDE Variants To Use Plasma Login Manager Rather Than SDDM
The Fedora Engineering and Steering Committee (FESCo) has approved a Fedora 44 change for switching all KDE variants away from using the SDDM display manager to instead use the newer Plasma Login Manager...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Fedora-44-KDE-To-Plasma-Login
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2026-01-06 17:09:05 GMT

Redox OS Begins Developing Its Own Intel Graphics Driver
The Rust-written Redox OS operating system had an exciting end to the year as it began developing its own native Intel graphics driver...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Redox-OS-Own-Intel-GPU-Driver
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2026-01-06 14:09:05 GMT

Revised Steam Survey For December 2025 Puts Linux Gaming Marketshare At 3.58%
Back on the 1st Valve published the Steam Survey results for December 2025 and they put the Linux gaming marketshare at 3.19%, a 0.01% dip from November. But now the December results have been revised with a nice bump to the Linux marketshare...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Steam-December-2025-Revised
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2026-01-06 11:39:05 GMT

Flatpak Exploring GPU Virtualization To Ease Driver Challenges
Open-source developer Sebastian Wick has written a blog post outlining work to improve the graphics driver situation for Flatpaks. Particularly around situations like the NVIDIA driver stack that may depend upon a specific kernel version or where a Flatpak runtime may be end-of-life, dealing with GPU drivers in Flatpaks can be a burden. A solution being explored is GPU virtualization to deal with those GPU d…
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Flatpak-GPU-Virtualization
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2026-01-06 11:09:05 GMT

GStreamer 1.28-RC1 Brings A Rust-Based GIF Decoder, Other New Rust Components
On Monday the first release candidate of the GStreamer 1.28 multimedia framework was released. As is a recurring focus in recent releases, more GStreamer code is written in Rust for memory safety especially around decoding content...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/GStreamer-1.28-RC1
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2026-01-05 23:54:05 GMT

Intel Talks Up Core Ultra Series 3 "Panther Lake" & Arc B390 Graphics
Intel just hosted their CES keynote where they formally launched Panther Lake as the Core Ultra Series 3 SoCs...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Intel-CES-2026-Keynote
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2026-01-05 17:54:06 GMT

GNOME & Firefox Consider Disabling Middle Click Paste By Default: "An X11'ism...Dumpster Fire"
Both the GNOME desktop and Mozilla Firefox browser projects are considering disabling middle-click-paste functionality by default...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/GNOME-Firefox-MiddleClick-Paste
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2026-01-05 17:24:05 GMT

Valve & AMD Developers Delivered The Most Code Contributions To Mesa In 2025
A developer from Valve working on the RADV Vulkan driver was once again the most prolific contributor to Mesa in 2025 followed by AMD's Marek Olšák with continued improvements around RadeonSI and Gallium3D...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Mesa-Git-Stats-2025
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2026-01-05 17:09:05 GMT

Radeon RADV Driver Lands Another Ray-Tracing Improvement: 30% Faster On RDNA2
Konstantin Seurer as one of the open-source developers working on the RADV driver for Valve has landed another ray-tracing performance optimization for the upcoming Mesa 26.0 release...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Mesa-26.0-RADV-RT-RDNA2-Faster
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2026-01-05 15:09:05 GMT

Apple SMC Power Driver Posted For Linux Kernel To Finally Expose Battery Stats
The newest open-source Apple Silicon driver being submitted for review in working toward its inclusion in the mainline Linux kernel is the Apple Silicon SMC power driver for being able to expose MacBook battery power metrics as well as AC power adapter status reporting under Linux...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Apple-Silicon-Power-Driver-2026
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2026-01-04 16:54:07 GMT

GNU ddrescue 1.30 "Orders of Magnitude" Better In Recovery From Drives With A Dead Head
GNU ddrescue as the free software data recovery tool from files or block devices is out today with a big feature release. The new GNU ddrescue 1.30 is improved by "orders of magnitude" for the automatic recovery from drives with a dead head...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/GNU-ddrescue-1.30
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2026-01-04 16:24:05 GMT

Manjaro Linux 26.0 Rolling Out - Xfce Edition Recommended If Wanting To Use X11
Package updates for the Arch Linux powered Manjaro Linux distribution have been pushed out for Manjaro 26.0 "Anh-Linh" while updated ISOs are expected to soon become available. The Manjaro 26.0 milestone brings KDE Plasma 6.5 and GNOME 49 but with both of those you may lose X11 session support so they are recommending their Xfce Edition for wanting wanting to continue using an X.Org desktop …
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Manjaro-Linux-26.0
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2026-01-04 11:54:05 GMT

Patch Posted For Bringing Rock Band 4 PS4 / PS5 Guitar Support To Linux
Following Linux 6.19 adding support for CRKD guitar controllers, new patches posted to the Linux kernel mailing list are bringing some additional guitar controllers to Linux. This latest work is around enabling the Rock Band 4 guitars for the PlayStation 4 and PS5 consoles to work under Linux...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Rock-Band-4-PS4-PS5-Linux
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2026-01-03 11:24:05 GMT

KDE Plasma 6.6 Fixes A Common Panel-Related Crash, Improves OpenBSD Support
KDE developer Nate Graham is out with the first issue of This Week in Plasma for 2026. Last week was a warning that This Week in Plasma could become less frequent without new volunteers to help takeover. Nate Graham announced that John Veness has stepped up to help co-author these weekly KDE development posts...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Plasma-6.6-Starts-2026
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2026-01-02 14:54:06 GMT

RadeonSI Starts 2026 With NIR Compilation Refactoring For Better Performance, Lower GLSL Compile Times
Merged on New Year's Day was a set of 36 patches authored by well known AMD Mesa developer Marek Olšák for refactoring the NIR compilation code for the RadeonSI Gallium3D driver...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/RadeonSI-NIR-Comp-Refactoring
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2026-01-02 05:09:06 GMT

Mesa 25.3.3 Ships Latest Bug Fixes, Intel Vulkan GTK4 Toolkit Workarounds
Mesa 25.3.3 shipped on Thursday as the newest stable point release for Q4's Mesa 25.3 feature series. Now being into the new quarter, we have Mesa 26.0 to look forward to as stable likely by late February, but for now Mesa 25.3.3 is the latest and greatest stable version...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Mesa-25.3.3-Released
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2026-01-02 01:39:16 GMT

Steam On Linux Ends 2025 With 3.19% Marketshare, AMD Linux CPU Use Approaches 72%
Back in November Steam on Linux use hit an all-time high at 3.2%. With the still increasing popularity around the Steam Deck powered by the Arch Linux based SteamOS, Linux gaming continuing to grow thanks to Steam Play (Proton), and excitement around the upcoming Steam Frame and Steam Machine hardware, the Linux gaming outlook continues to be positive. The Steam Survey results for December…
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Steam-December-2025-Survey
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2026-01-02 01:24:05 GMT

Devuan 6.1 Released For Latest Debian 13 "Init Freedom" Without systemd
Released back in November was Devuan 6.0 for Debian 13 without systemd dependence in order to provide "init freedom" with letting users instead opt for SysVinit, OpenRC, or Runit as the init system. Devuan 6.1 is out today as the newest stable point release...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Devuan-6.1-Released
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2026-01-01 20:24:05 GMT

NVIDIA Graphics On Haiku OS Make Progress With NVIDIA Open Kernel Modules + NVK/Zink
As a wonderful New Year surprise, there's good momentum on NVIDIA graphics support for the BeOS-inspired Haiku open-source operating system...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/NVIDIA-Haiku-0.0.1
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2026-01-01 17:54:04 GMT

Valve's Linux Efforts, Kernel Improvements & KDE Plasma Wayland Advancements Topped 2025
After looking yesterday at the most viewed Linux hardware reviews and benchmarks of 2025, today's look is at the most popular open-source/Linux news of the past year. There were 3,286 original news articles on Phoronix during 2025 written by your's truly, here's a look back at what excited readers the most over these past twelve months...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Top-Linux-News-2025
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2026-01-01 12:09:06 GMT

SDL 3.4 Released With Many New APIs, Better Emscripten & Native PNG Support
Kicking off the new year for Linux gaming and cross-platform gaming at large is the release of the SDL 3.4 library. SDL is part of the Steam runtime and continues to be widely-used for abstracting software/hardware for creating more portable games and other applications...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/SDL-3.4-Released
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2026-01-01 11:54:06 GMT

More Improvements To Old AMD GPU Support On Linux Are Planned For 2026
With Linux 6.19 aging AMD GCN 1.0 and GCN 1.1 GPUs switched the default kernel driver used to provide for much better performance, RADV Vulkan support out-of-the-box, and other improvements compared to using the legacy Radeon DRM kernel driver. For 2026, Timur Kristóf of Valve's Linux graphics team has more improvements still planned to enhance these older AMD graphics cards on Linux...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Timur-More-Old-AMDGPU-2026
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2026-01-01 01:39:27 GMT

AMD Ryzen AI Max, Intel Graphics & Other Linux Benchmarks That Commanded 2025
This looks to be a wrap on 2025, Happy New Year to all the Phoronix readers over the past 21+ years. This year on Phoronix there were 226 original Linux hardware reviews and featured benchmark articles written by your's truly. Plus another 3,286 original open-source/Linux software and hardware news articles this calendar year. Here were the big topics of 2025 for the featured Linux hardware re…
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-Hardware-Reviews-2025
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2026-01-01 01:09:04 GMT

Ncurses 6.6 Released With Improved Windows Terminal Support, Other Enhancements
Ncurses 6.6 was released today prior to closing out 2025. This programming library update for creating terminal-based text user interfaces (TUIs) features a variety of great improvements for ending out the year...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Ncurses-6.6
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2025-12-31 13:39:05 GMT

Arch Linux Installer Adds CUPS, rEFInd Boot, IWD, COSMIC & Power Management Options
Ahead of the January 2026 ISO refresh for Arch Linux, Archinstall 3.0.15 released today as the newest update to this convenient text-based OS installer...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Arch-Linux-Archinstall-3.0.15
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2025-12-31 11:54:06 GMT

Open-Source Crown Game Engine v0.60 Released
While the Godot Engine receives a lot of attention as a prominent open-source game engine, it's far from the only one in this space. Another open-source game engine capping out 2025 with a new release is the Crown Engine...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Crown-Engine-0.60
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2025-12-31 11:54:04 GMT

OpenCV 4.13 Brings More AVX-512 Usage, CUDA 13 Support, Many Other New Features
OpenCV 4.13 is out this New Year's Eve in providing the latest open-source computer vision (CV) capabilities. OpenCV 4.13 brings a wide variety of enhancements to this widely-used computer vision library...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/OpenCV-4.13-Released
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2025-12-30 22:09:09 GMT

Unexpected Surprise: Windows 11 Outperforming Linux On An Intel Arrow Lake H Laptop
Typically when receiving any review hardware preloaded with Microsoft Windows I tend to run some Windows vs. Linux benchmarks just as a sanity test plus it still seems to generate a fair amount of interest even though the outcome is almost always the same: Linux having a hefty performance advantage over Windows especially in the more demanding creator-type workloads. As an unexpected twi…
https://www.phoronix.com/review/windows-beats-linux-arl-h
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2025-12-30 12:09:06 GMT

InputPlumber 0.70 Released With Expanded Hardware Support
InputPlumber 0.70 is out today as the newest feature update to this open-source input router and re-mapper daemon for Linux systems. With more gaming handhelds coming to market and other controllers as well as the upward trajectory of Linux gaming, InputPlumber is becoming more applicable for this daemon to combine various input devices into different virtual device formats...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/InputPlumber-0.70
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2025-12-30 11:24:10 GMT

The Open-Source OpenGL & Vulkan Drivers Enjoyed A Rather Remarkable 2025
The open-source OpenGL and Vulkan drivers making up Mesa had another very successful year. Even with all the years being invested into Mesa largely by Intel, AMD, Valve, Red Hat, and others, the upward trajectory continues for Mesa on expanding the hardware support, punctually adding new Vulkan extensions, and racking up other wins...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Mesa-2025-Highlights
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2025-12-29 01:54:06 GMT

KDE Plasma's Wayland Transition "Nears Completion" In Ending Out 2025
In addition to today's blog post calling out the need for others to takeover the This Week In Plasma series, KDE developer Nate Graham also published another blog post to highlight the successes of the Plasma desktop over 2025. In particular, the KDE Plasma Wayland transition "nears completion" as it works to become Wayland-only in early 2027...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/KDE-Plasma-2025-Wayland-Success
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2025-12-28 20:24:05 GMT

D7VK 1.1 Released With An Experimental Direct3D 6 Frontend
Between the DXVK and VKD3D(-Proton) projects there is good support for Direct3D 8 through Direct3D 12 implementations atop the Vulkan API for Linux gaming usage. For those preferring more retro classic gaming, D7VK came about more recently for Direct3D 7 as a DXVK fork. Out today is D7VK 1.1 and besides delivering fixes for its D3D7 implementation has also now tacked on an experimental D3D6 front-end...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/D7VK-1.1-Released
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2025-12-28 12:54:04 GMT

New Patches Bring Linux Driver Support To 25+ SteelSeries Arctis Gaming Headsets
Within the mainline Linux kernel already is the SteelSeries HID driver for supporting basic battery monitoring on the Arctis 1 and Arctis 9 gaming headsets. But a new patch series posted this morning to the Linux kernel mailing list overhaul this SteelSeries HID driver support. The patches take the support to 25+ different Arctis headset models and provide more comprehensive driver support.…
https://www.phoronix.com/news/SteelSeries-Artis-Linux-Driver
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2025-12-28 12:09:05 GMT

KDE's "This Week In Plasma" Will Become Less Frequent Without New Volunteers
The This Week In Plasma series written by KDE developer Nate Graham has been a great way to keep-up with all of the interesting KDE Plasma desktop developments over the past eight years. This Week In Plasma is regularly featured on Phoronix and always provides an interesting weekend look at the very newest innovations to land in Plasma. Unfortunately, This Week In Plasma will become less freque…
https://www.phoronix.com/news/KDE-This-Week-In-Plasma-2026
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2025-12-28 11:54:05 GMT

Fish 4.3 Brings Scripting & Interactivity Improvements, Enhanced Terminal Support
Fish 4.3 is out today as the newest update to this user-friendly command line shell. Fish 4.0 released at the beginning of this year in porting the codebase from C++ to Rust and now before closing out 2025 they have out Fish 4.3...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Fish-4.3-Released
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