Chromium Web Browser Lands Support For Wayland XDG-Session-Management Google's Ozone Wayland support continues to improve for benefiting the Chrome/Chromium web browser. The newest addition merged this past week is support for the xdg-session-management protocol...

Chromium Web Browser Lands Support For Wayland XDG-Session-Management - Phoronix

Google's Ozone Wayland support continues to improve for benefiting the Chrome/Chromium web browser

Mesa's Exciting Q1 With More Ray-Tracing, NVK Progress & Performance Optimizations The first quarter of 2025 is already drawing to a close... It seemed like Q1'2025 flew by but when looking back at all the Mesa 3D graphics driver activity, there was a heck of a lot accomplished in this area of the open-source landscape. Open-source Vulkan drivers continued advancing feverishly, Mesa code continues to be adapted to new platforms from Windows…

Mesa's Exciting Q1 With More Ray-Tracing, NVK Progress & Performance Optimizations - Phoronix

The first quarter of 2025 is already drawing to a close..

Debian 13 "Trixie" Freeze Process Begins The Debian release team announced that the Debian 13 "Trixie" transition and toolchain freeze began on-schedule this month...

Debian 13 "Trixie" Freeze Process Begins - Phoronix

The Debian release team announced that the Debian 13 'Trixie' transition and toolchain freeze began on-schedule this month.

GNOME Builder IDE Adds Arduino Integration, New Remote Desktop Software For VMs While fresh off the GNOME 48 release, GNOME desktop developers aren't slowing down and there's been some interesting activity to report this week...

GNOME Builder IDE Adds Arduino Integration, New Remote Desktop Software For VMs - Phoronix

While fresh off the GNOME 48 release, GNOME desktop developers aren't slowing down and there's been some interesting activity to report t...

GNOME 48 & KDE Plasma 6.3 Delivering Great Wayland Desktop Experience On Ubuntu 25.04 For Linux Gaming While there were a few graphics benchmarks in yesterday's Ubuntu 25.04 beta benchmarks, today's article is looking more at the Ubuntu 25.04 Linux gaming performance for both the GNOME 48 and KDE Plasma 6.3 desktops that default to the Wayland-based session by default while also trying out the X11 session for both of these desktops.

GNOME 48 & KDE Plasma 6.3 Delivering Great Wayland Desktop Experience On Ubuntu 25.04 For Linux Gaming Review - Phoronix

While there were a few graphics benchmarks in yesterday's Ubuntu 25.04 beta benchmarks, today's article is looking more at the Ubuntu 25....

Linux 6.15 Better Handles PS5 Controllers, AMD Human Presence Detection Off By Default All of the HID subsystem updates have been merged for the ongoing Linux 6.15 merge window...

Linux 6.15 Better Handles PS5 Controllers, AMD Human Presence Detection Off By Default - Phoronix

All of the HID subsystem updates have been merged for the ongoing Linux 6.15 merge window.

Akamai Now Providing The Hosting Infrastructure For Kernel.org It's not only FreeDesktop.org that has been transitioning to new infrastructure this month but separately, Kernel.org is now receiving hosting and CDN needs provided by Akamai...

Akamai Now Providing The Hosting Infrastructure For Kernel.org - Phoronix

It's not only FreeDesktop.org that has been transitioning to new infrastructure this month but separately, Kernel.org is now receiving hosting...

Linux 6.15 Brings Support For New Sound Hardware, Continued SoundWire Improvements Linux sound subsystem maintainer Takashi Iwai of SUSE has submitted all the feature updates slated for Linux 6.15. There is a lot of new audio hardware support and other enhancements that are now merged for this next kernel release...

Linux 6.15 Brings Support For New Sound Hardware, Continued SoundWire Improvements - Phoronix

Linux sound subsystem maintainer Takashi Iwai of SUSE has submitted all the feature updates slated for Linux 6.15

RadeonSI Goes Rusticl-Only, Clearing Out Support For Old Clover OpenCL Earlier this month Mesa deprecated the Clover OpenCL driver in favor of the modern Rust-written Rusticl Gallium3D state tracker. Clover is expected to be removed in Q3's Mesa 25.2 release while today the RadeonSI driver has decided to preemptively remove its Clover support...

RadeonSI Goes Rusticl-Only, Clearing Out Support For Old Clover OpenCL - Phoronix

Earlier this month Mesa deprecated the Clover OpenCL driver in favor of the modern Rust-written Rusticl Gallium3D state tracker

Linux 6.15 Adds AMD Zen 5 SRSO Mitigation For KVM, Preps For Attack Vector Controls While there is a lot of exciting new x86_64 CPU features coming with Linux 6.15, there is also some of the not so fun changes too: namely the "x86/bugs" pull request to bring the latest CPU security mitigation work to the mainline kernel...

Linux 6.15 Adds AMD Zen 5 SRSO Mitigation For KVM, Preps For Attack Vector Controls - Phoronix

While there is a lot of exciting new x86_64 CPU features coming with Linux 6.15, there is also some of the not so fun changes too: namely the &#039...