NVIDIA 590.48.01 Linux Driver Brings R590 Series To Stable NVIDIA has promoted their R590 driver series to stable with the release today of the NVIDIA 590.48.01 Linux driver as their latest new feature branch version...

NVIDIA 590.48.01 Linux Driver Brings R590 Series To Stable - Phoronix

NVIDIA has promoted their R590 driver series to stable with the release today of the NVIDIA 590.48.01 Linux driver as their latest new feature bran...

AMD Radeon RX 9000 Series vs. NVIDIA GeForce RTX 50 Open-Source Linux Performance For 2025 In the past few weeks on Phoronix we have explored a fresh look at the open-source Nouveau/NVK performance compared to the NVIDIA 580 packaged Linux driver as well as a multi-generation Nouveau vs. NVIDIA comparison from the GeForce GTX 980 to RTX 5080 since the forthcoming NVIDIA R590 driver series is ending the GTX 900/1000 series support. Today…

AMD Radeon RX 9000 Series vs. NVIDIA GeForce RTX 50 Open-Source Linux Performance For 2025 - Phoronix

In the past few weeks on Phoronix we have explored a fresh look at the open-source Nouveau/NVK performance compared to the NVIDIA 580 packaged Linu...

Debusine Repositories Enter Beta: Ubuntu PPA-Like User Archives For Debian Linux Colin Watson announced that Debusine repositories are now available in beta form, which can be used to maintain APT-compatible add-on package repositories for Debian Linux. This comes down to being similar in nature to Personal Package Archives (PPAs) that are popular with Ubuntu Linux...

Debusine Repositories Enter Beta: Ubuntu PPA-Like User Archives For Debian Linux - Phoronix

Colin Watson announced that Debusine repositories are now available in beta form, which can be used to maintain APT-compatible add-on package repos...

Opus 1.6 Audio Codec Adds New Machine Learning Functionality Version 1.6 of libopus as the library for the open-source Opus audio codec is now available. Opus 1.6 brings new machine learning "ML" based features in building atop the machine learning features initially added to Opus 1.5...

Opus 1.6 Audio Codec Adds New Machine Learning Functionality - Phoronix

Version 1.6 of libopus as the library for the open-source Opus audio codec is now available

Servo 0.0.3 Browser Engine Brings Better Performance, Embedding Improvements Servo 0.0.3 is out today as the newest update to this Rust-based, open-source web layout engine. Servo 0.0.3 incorporates many enhancements made over the past month from better performance to enhancing its embedding API and other improvements like context menus for more web content...

Servo 0.0.3 Browser Engine Brings Better Performance, Embedding Improvements - Phoronix

Servo 0.0.3 is out today as the newest update to this Rust-based, open-source web layout engine

GIMP 3.2-RC2 Brings Bug Fixes & Minor Refinements GIMP 3.2-RC2 is out today as what could be the last release candidate of GIMP 3.2 before its stable release. This leading open-source image editor/creation alternative to the likes of Adobe Photoshop continues becoming much more refined and polished in the GIMP 3 series...

GIMP 3.2-RC2 Brings Bug Fixes & Minor Refinements - Phoronix

GIMP 3.2-RC2 is out today as what could be the last release candidate of GIMP 3.2 before its stable release

Torvalds On Linux Security Modules: "I Already Think We Have Too Many Of Those Pointless Things" Stemming from a security researcher and his team proposing a new Linux Security Module (LSM) three years ago and it not being accepted to the mainline kernel, he raised issue over the lack of review/action to Linus Torvalds and the mailing lists. In particular, seeking more guidance for how new LSMs should be introduced and raised the possib…

Torvalds On Linux Security Modules: "I Already Think We Have Too Many Of Those Pointless Things" - Phoronix

Stemming from a security researcher and his team proposing a new Linux Security Module (LSM) three years ago and it not being accepted to the mainl...

Flatpak Adds Support For Building OCI Bundles Using Zstd Compressed Layers Back in November Flatpak 1.17 released with support for sideloading from OCI images and other improvements in working toward the Flatpak 1.18 stable release. Out today is Flatpak 1.17.1 and was then followed quickly by Flatpak 1.17.2 to fix a mistake in the release artifacts...

Flatpak Adds Support For Building OCI Bundles Using Zstd Compressed Layers - Phoronix

Back in November Flatpak 1.17 released with support for sideloading from OCI images and other improvements in working toward the Flatpak 1.18 stabl...

Wayland Protocols 1.47 Released With Updated Color Management Protocol Following the Color Management protocol introduced in Wayland Protocols 1.41, out today is Wayland Protocols 1.47 with various revisions to that color management and HDR support...

Wayland Protocols 1.47 Released With Updated Color Management Protocol - Phoronix

Following the Color Management protocol introduced in Wayland Protocols 1.41, out today is Wayland Protocols 1.47 with various revisions to that co...

CentOS Kmods SIG Providing NVIDIA Linux Open GPU Kernel Modules For RHEL/CentOS Users The CentOS kernel modules "Kmods" special interest group (SIG) is now providing NVIDIA Linux Open GPU Kernel Modules for users of Red Hat Enterprise Linux and its downstreams as well as for CentOS Stream...

CentOS Kmods SIG Providing NVIDIA Linux Open GPU Kernel Modules For RHEL/CentOS Users - Phoronix

The CentOS kernel modules 'Kmods' special interest group (SIG) is now providing NVIDIA Linux Open GPU Kernel Modules for users of Red Hat...