GNOME Session & GDM Can Now Be Built Without X11 Support Following the recent work to Mutter and GNOME Shell that was merged for allowing to build with X11 support disabled, the GDM display manager and GNOME-Session code have also seen the ability added to compile without X11 support...

GNOME Session & GDM Can Now Be Built Without X11 Support - Phoronix

Following the recent work to Mutter and GNOME Shell that was merged for allowing to build with X11 support disabled, the GDM display manager and GN...

KDE Implements More Wayland Bits, Lowers Bug Count To Match Plasma 5 Stability KDE developer Nate Graham is out with his weekly recap that highlights all of the interesting KDE desktop changes to have landed over the past week...

KDE Implements More Wayland Bits, Lowers Bug Count To Match Plasma 5 Stability - Phoronix

KDE developer Nate Graham is out with his weekly recap that highlights all of the interesting KDE desktop changes to have landed over the past week.

Radeon "RADV" Vulkan Driver Now Handles 12-bit AV1 Video Decoding The Vulkan Video support within Mesa's Radeon "RADV" Vulkan driver continues to be improved upon. The newest addition now found in the code for Mesa 24.3 is enabling 12-bit AV1 content accelerated decoding...

Radeon "RADV" Vulkan Driver Now Handles 12-bit AV1 Video Decoding - Phoronix

The Vulkan Video support within Mesa's Radeon 'RADV' Vulkan driver continues to be improved upon

Red Hat Developing Ramalama To "Make AI Boring" By Offering Great AI Simplicity & Ease Of Use Red Hat engineers have been developing Ramalama as a new open-source project that hopes to "make AI boring" by this inferencing tool striving for simplicity so users can quickly and easily deploy AI workloads without much fuss...

Red Hat Developing Ramalama To "Make AI Boring" By Offering Great AI Simplicity & Ease Of Use - Phoronix

Red Hat engineers have been developing Ramalama as a new open-source project that hopes to 'make AI boring' by this inferencing tool stri...

Quantifying The AVX-512 Performance Impact With AMD Zen 5 - Ryzen 9 9950X Benchmarks With the AMD Ryzen 9 9900X and Ryzen 9 9950X Linux review out of the way yesterday, today's benchmarking of the Ryzen 9000 series is looking closely at the AVX-512 performance impact. With the Ryzen 9000 series the Zen 5 cores have a full 512-bit data-path compared to the "double pumped" 256-bit data path found in the Zen 4 processors as well as the Strix …

Quantifying The AVX-512 Performance Impact With AMD Zen 5 - Ryzen 9 9950X Benchmarks Review - Phoronix

With the AMD Ryzen 9 9900X and Ryzen 9 9950X Linux review out of the way yesterday, today's benchmarking of the Ryzen 9000 series is looking c...

Mesa 24.2 Released With New Vulkan Extensions, New Shader Cache Mesa 24.2 is out today as stable for this quarterly feature release to these open-source OpenGL and Vulkan drivers used commonly on Linux systems and other platforms...

Mesa 24.2 Released With New Vulkan Extensions, New Shader Cache - Phoronix

Mesa 24.2 is out today as stable for this quarterly feature release to these open-source OpenGL and Vulkan drivers used commonly on Linux systems a...

AMD Ryzen 9 9950X & Ryzen 9 9900X Deliver Excellent Linux Performance Last Wednesday was the review embargo for the Ryzen 5 9600X and Ryzen 7 9700X Zen 5 desktop processors that proved to be very exciting for Linux workloads from developers to creators to AVX-512 embracing AI and HPC workloads. Today the review embargo lifts on the Ryzen 9 9900X and Ryzen 9 9950X and as expected given the prior 6-core/8-core tests: these new chips are wild!…

AMD Ryzen 9 9950X & Ryzen 9 9900X Deliver Excellent Linux Performance Review - Phoronix

Last Wednesday was the review embargo for the Ryzen 5 9600X and Ryzen 7 9700X Zen 5 desktop processors that proved to be very exciting for Linux wo...

AMD To Provide Update On Long-Term Strategy For Open-Source Firmware Next month AMD will be providing an update on their long-term strategy for open-source firmware. Central to their open-source firmware plans is their OpenSIL effort that remains in development for eventually replacing AGESA on future generations of Ryzen and EPYC platforms...

AMD To Provide Update On Long-Term Strategy For Open-Source Firmware - Phoronix

Next month AMD will be providing an update on their long-term strategy for open-source firmware

Haiku OS R1 Beta 5 Approaching Soon, New Performance Improvements The BeOS-inspired Haiku open-source operating system is out with their latest status update that highlights various improvements made in recent weeks...

Haiku OS R1 Beta 5 Approaching Soon, New Performance Improvements - Phoronix

The BeOS-inspired Haiku open-source operating system is out with their latest status update that highlights various improvements made in recent weeks.

Framework Laptop 13 With Intel Core Ultra Series, 2.8K 120Hz Display Back in May the folks at Framework Computer announced Framework Laptop 13 support for the Intel Core Ultra Series 1 (Meteor Lake) alongside announcing a new 2.8K 120Hz display option, a new web camera upgrade, and new colors for their expansion cards. Today marks the review embargo expiration with the hardware now shipping. Here's my initial look at the Intel Core Ultra …

Framework Laptop 13 With Intel Core Ultra Series, 2.8K 120Hz Display - Phoronix

Back in May the folks at Framework Computer announced Framework Laptop 13 support for the Intel Core Ultra Series 1 (Meteor Lake) alongside announc...