Orange Pi RV2 Benchmarks: The Most Performant RISC-V Board For Less Than $100 With 8 Cores + 8GB RAM Earlier this month Canonical announced Ubuntu Linux support for the Orange Pi RV2 as a low-cost RISC-V developer board. The Orange Pi RV2 with eight RISC-V cores and 8GB of RAM costs just around $64 USD. The price point and specs were interesting that I ordered one and have been running performance benchmarks on it since for seeing how ca…

Orange Pi RV2 Benchmarks: The Most Performant RISC-V Board For Less Than $100 With 8 Cores + 8GB RAM Review - Phoronix

Earlier this month Canonical announced Ubuntu Linux support for the Orange Pi RV2 as a low-cost RISC-V developer board.

Fedora 43 Change Proposal Filed For Removing GNOME X11 Packages: Wayland-Only GNOME Following a lot of work in this direction toward the end goal of removing GNOME X11 support, this milestone may finally be acheived for the Fedora 43 cycle due out by the end of the year. A change proposal has been filed for removing the GNOME X11 packages in the repository and in turn making the GNOME desktop Wayland-only on Fedora Linux...

Fedora 43 Change Proposal Filed For Removing GNOME X11 Packages: Wayland-Only GNOME - Phoronix

Following a lot of work in this direction toward the end goal of removing GNOME X11 support, this milestone may finally be acheived for the Fedora ...

Patches Hoping For The Upstream Kernel Finally Provide Google Pixel 4a Support The Google Pixel 4a smartphones launched in mid-2020 and now in mid-2025 it looks like we might finally be close to seeing mainline kernel support for the Pixel 4a devices and other hardware making use of Qualcomm Snapdragon 730/730G/732G SoCs...

Patches Hoping For The Upstream Kernel Finally Provide Google Pixel 4a Support - Phoronix

QEMU 10.0 Released With True Multi-Queue Support, New Apple Graphics Devices QEMU 10.0 was released today as the newest version of this emulator code that plays an important role in the open-source Linux virtualization stack...

QEMU 10.0 Released With True Multi-Queue Support, New Apple Graphics Devices - Phoronix

QEMU 10.0 was released today as the newest version of this emulator code that plays an important role in the open-source Linux virtualization stack.

NVK Now Vulkan 1.4 Conformant For NVIDIA Maxwell GPUs Mesa's NVK Vulkan driver had been Vulkan 1.4 conformant for Turing and newer GPUs, but now with Mesa 25.2-devel it's Vulkan 1.4 conformant going back to Maxwell GPUs. This change is exported to be back-ported to the upcoming Mesa 25.1 release as well for those interested in using this open-source NVIDIA Vulkan driver...

NVK Now Vulkan 1.4 Conformant For NVIDIA Maxwell GPUs - Phoronix

Mesa's NVK Vulkan driver had been Vulkan 1.4 conformant for Turing and newer GPUs, but now with Mesa 25.2-devel it's Vulkan 1.4 conforman...

Sway 1.11-rc1 Released With Many New Features & New Wayland Protocols Sway 1.11-rc1 is out today as a test release ahead of this next Wayland compositor feature release. Sway 1.11 is bringing a number of new features for this i3-inspired Wayland compositor while also building off the new features laid out in the recent wlroots 0.19-rc1 library...

Sway 1.11-rc1 Released With Many New Features & New Wayland Protocols - Phoronix

Sway 1.11-rc1 is out today as a test release ahead of this next Wayland compositor feature release

FFmpeg AV1 Vulkan Encoder Patch Posted While the FFmpeg multimedia library merged Vulkan Video encode support last year, it was initially limited to H.264 and H.265 formats. With a new patch posted for review this week, AV1 encode support using the Vulkan Video API is now underway...

FFmpeg AV1 Vulkan Encoder Patch Posted - Phoronix

While the FFmpeg multimedia library merged Vulkan Video encode support last year, it was initially limited to H.264 and H.265 formats

GCC 16 Adding Support For GNU/Hurd On RISC-V Targets GNU/Hurd has long struggled with hardware support and is still working on its x86_64 support while having a host of various hardware limitations but it also appears they are eager to explore Hurd on RISC-V platforms...

GCC 16 Adding Support For GNU/Hurd On RISC-V Targets - Phoronix

GNU/Hurd has long struggled with hardware support and is still working on its x86_64 support while having a host of various hardware limitations bu...

KDE Preps More Wayland Improvements, Addresses Another Possible KWin Crash KDE developers continue to be very busy working toward the Plasma 6.4 desktop release and making other enhancements throughout this open-source desktop...

KDE Preps More Wayland Improvements, Addresses Another Possible KWin Crash - Phoronix

KDE developers continue to be very busy working toward the Plasma 6.4 desktop release and making other enhancements throughout this open-source des...

GCC 15.1 Compiler Release Candidate For Testing, GCC 15.1.0 Potentially Next Week Following the GCC 15 code branching after working its way down to zero "P1" regressions of the highest priority, GCC 15.1 Release Candidate 1 is out today for testing...

GCC 15.1 Compiler Release Candidate For Testing, GCC 15.1.0 Potentially Next Week - Phoronix

Following the GCC 15 code branching after working its way down to zero 'P1' regressions of the highest priority, GCC 15.1 Release Candida...