Intel Lunar Lake On Linux Can Roughly Match Windows 11 Xe2 Graphics - When Not Stuck At 400MHz Earlier this month I looked at the AMD RDNA 3.5 graphics with Strix Point between Windows 11 and Ubuntu 25.04 Linux. The testing showed the AMD RDNA 3.5 graphics on the open-source Linux driver up to around 96% the performance of Radeon Software on Windows. The most frequent question that came up from that most recent round of benchmark…

Intel Lunar Lake On Linux Can Roughly Match Windows 11 Xe2 Graphics - When Not Stuck At 400MHz - Phoronix

Earlier this month I looked at the AMD RDNA 3.5 graphics with Strix Point between Windows 11 and Ubuntu 25.04 Linux.

Amarok 3.3 Beta Released For Qt6-Powered KDE Music Player Last year work on KDE's Amarok music player was resurrected after a six year development hiatus. With the return to Amarok development it was ported to Qt6 and KDE Frameworks 5. At the end of last year Amarok 3.2 released with initial Qt6 and KDE Frameworks 6 support while retaining Qt5/KF5 support. Now out today is the Amarok 3.3 beta to drop that prior-generation support...

Amarok 3.3 Beta Released For Qt6-Powered KDE Music Player - Phoronix

Last year work on KDE's Amarok music player was resurrected after a six year development hiatus

Pinta 3.0 Image Editing Program Released With Port To GTK4 One month after GIMP 3.0 was finally released for this popular image editor ported to GTK3 and many other changes, Pinta 3.0 has now been released. Pinta as a reminder is the open-source image editing program inspired by Paint.NET. With the Pinta 3.0 release the image editor has been ported to GTK4 and libadwaita...

Pinta 3.0 Image Editing Program Released With Port To GTK4 - Phoronix

One month after GIMP 3.0 was finally released for this popular image editor ported to GTK3 and many other changes, Pinta 3.0 has now been released

SDL Merges Wayland Multi-Seat Support An interesting merge this weekend to the Simple DirectMedia Library (SDL) that is widely-used by cross-platform games and other applications for software/hardware abstractions is Wayland multi-seat support. This addition also comes with a developer working on Valve's Linux graphics efforts...

SDL Merges Wayland Multi-Seat Support - Phoronix

An interesting merge this weekend to the Simple DirectMedia Library (SDL) that is widely-used by cross-platform games and other applications for so...

KDE Plasma 6.4 Lands Initial Support For The Wayland Session Restore Protocol It's been a very exciting week in the KDE Plasma space with the start of a big new feature landing for the Plasma 6.4 desktop...

KDE Plasma 6.4 Lands Initial Support For The Wayland Session Restore Protocol - Phoronix

It's been a very exciting week in the KDE Plasma space with the start of a big new feature landing for the Plasma 6.4 desktop.

Mesa 25.1 Merges Support For Intel EU Stall Sampling As New Xe2 Profiling Feature Merged to the Intel Xe kernel graphics driver for the current Linux 6.15 kernel cycle is EU Stall Sampling support as a new feature found with Xe2 Lunar Lake and Battlemage graphics. EU Stall Sampling is used for exposing information/reasons why execution units are stalled for helping to debug performance issues. Now that the kernel support is ready to go …

Mesa 25.1 Merges Support For Intel EU Stall Sampling As New Xe2 Profiling Feature - Phoronix

Merged to the Intel Xe kernel graphics driver for the current Linux 6.15 kernel cycle is EU Stall Sampling support as a new feature found with Xe2 ...

GCC 15 Is Bringing Some Nice Usability Improvements For Developers In addition to the upcoming GCC 15 stable compiler release bringing a COBOL language front-end, much better Rust support, revamped AVX10 support, and other shiny new language features and hardware supports, there are also some more fundamental usability improvements for developers...

GCC 15 Is Bringing Some Nice Usability Improvements For Developers - Phoronix

In addition to the upcoming GCC 15 stable compiler release bringing a COBOL language front-end, much better Rust support, revamped AVX10 support, a...

Intel Linux Graphics Driver Will Now Be Less Restrictive Over RAM Use A change merged yesterday to the Intel Mesa graphics driver code lessens a restriction around the amount of system memory (RAM) that can be used by processes for the Vulkan system heap. This will allow more games/apps to work with the Intel integrated graphics that previously exceeded the driver-enforced limits but at the risk of running into broader out-of-memory…

Intel Linux Graphics Driver Will Now Be Less Restrictive Over RAM Use - Phoronix

A change merged yesterday to the Intel Mesa graphics driver code lessens a restriction around the amount of system memory (RAM) that can be used by...

Gzip 1.14 Released With Faster Decompression On Intel & AMD CPUs Gzip 1.14 released earlier today as the first new release to this widely-used file compression format on Linux systems and other platforms...

Gzip 1.14 Released With Faster Decompression On Intel & AMD CPUs - Phoronix

Gzip 1.14 released earlier today as the first new release to this widely-used file compression format on Linux systems and other platforms.

Wayland Protocols 1.43 Released With Toplevel Tag Protocol Wayland Protocols 1.43 is out this morning with one new protocol: xdg_toplevel_tag_v1...

Wayland Protocols 1.43 Released With Toplevel Tag Protocol - Phoronix

Wayland Protocols 1.43 is out this morning with one new protocol: xdg_toplevel_tag_v1.