Mesa 25.1 Released With Many Open-Source Vulkan Driver Improvements Mesa 25.1 is out today as the new quarterly feature release for this set of open-source user-space graphics drivers primarily consisting of OpenGL and Vulkan driver support on Linux systems...

Mesa 25.1 Released With Many Open-Source Vulkan Driver Improvements - Phoronix

Mesa 25.1 is out today as the new quarterly feature release for this set of open-source user-space graphics drivers primarily consisting of OpenGL ...

Microsoft Welcomes Fedora Linux As An Official WSL Distro Microsoft announced today that Fedora Linux is now treated as an official distribution within their Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL) confines...

Microsoft Welcomes Fedora Linux As An Official WSL Distro - Phoronix

Microsoft announced today that Fedora Linux is now treated as an official distribution within their Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL) confines.

Ampere Computing Soft Announces AmpereOne M With 12 Channel DDR5 Memory Ampere Computing last year talked up AmpereOne M for 12-channel DDR5 memory and up to 192 cores up from the 8-channel DDR5 memory found with the initial AmpereOne processors. They said at the time AmpereOne M would be shipping in Q4-2024. Now half way into 2025, it looks like they quietly announced the AmpereOne M processors...

Ampere Computing Soft Announces AmpereOne M With 12 Channel DDR5 Memory - Phoronix

Ampere Computing last year talked up AmpereOne M for 12-channel DDR5 memory and up to 192 cores up from the 8-channel DDR5 memory found with the in...

Redox OS Seeing More Software Porting, Many Internal Improvements The open-source, Rust-based Redox OS operating system has published their April 2025 status report to outline interesting changes made over the past several weeks to this innovative project...

Redox OS Seeing More Software Porting, Many Internal Improvements - Phoronix

The open-source, Rust-based Redox OS operating system has published their April 2025 status report to outline interesting changes made over the pas...

21-Way Intel Core / AMD Ryzen Linux Laptop Comparison On Ubuntu 25.04 As part of fresh re-testing of existing laptops on-hand given the recent release of Ubuntu 25.04 and then also recent Linux reviews of some interesting models like the Framework Laptop 13 with AMD Strix Point and the Lenovo ThinkPad X1 Carbon Gen 13 Aura Edition, I have been running a lot of Linux laptop benchmarks the past few weeks. I ended up taking things a bit fu…

21-Way Intel Core / AMD Ryzen Linux Laptop Comparison On Ubuntu 25.04 Review - Phoronix

As part of fresh re-testing of existing laptops on-hand given the recent release of Ubuntu 25.04 and then also recent Linux reviews of some interes...

Vulkan API 1.4.314 Brings One New Extension In Working Toward Vulkan Roadmap 2026 Vulkan 1.4.314 is now available as the newest routine spec update for this high performance GPU graphics and compute API. With Vulkan 1.4.314 there are more early preparations toward Vulkan Roadmap 2026 in aiming for a baseline of high-end smartphones, computers, and more for next year...

Vulkan API 1.4.314 Brings One New Extension In Working Toward Vulkan Roadmap 2026 - Phoronix

Vulkan 1.4.314 is now available as the newest routine spec update for this high performance GPU graphics and compute API

FFmpeg Integrates Video Encoder For Advanced Professional Video (APV) One week ago FFmpeg merged decode support for Samsung's Advanced Professional Video "APV" codec. APV is designed for professional-grade video recording purposes and is a royalty-free video codec geared for prosumers. Now arriving within FFmpeg Git is APV video encode support...

FFmpeg Integrates Video Encoder For Advanced Professional Video (APV) - Phoronix

One week ago FFmpeg merged decode support for Samsung's Advanced Professional Video 'APV' codec

Rust Use Within The QEMU Emulator Shaping Up Well The QEMU processor emulator that plays an important role in the open-source Linux virtualization stack has been seeing experimental support for the Rust programming language developing within its codebase. There continues to be good progress being made on this Rust support as more QEMU components get ported over to this programming language for memory safety and other security benefits...

Rust Use Within The QEMU Emulator Shaping Up Well - Phoronix

The QEMU processor emulator that plays an important role in the open-source Linux virtualization stack has been seeing experimental support for the...

Labwc 0.8.4 Ships More Usability Improvements For This Wayland Compositor Labwc 0.8.4 is out as the newest stable update to this wlroots-based, window-stacking Wayland compositor...

Labwc 0.8.4 Ships More Usability Improvements For This Wayland Compositor - Phoronix

Labwc 0.8.4 is out as the newest stable update to this wlroots-based, window-stacking Wayland compositor.

KDE Plasma 6.4 Tackles An 18 Year Old Feature Request, More Wayland Protocols Added The KDE Plasma developer sprint in Graz wrapped up just days ago but there's still been no shortage of new feature work landing into Plasma 6.4 this week. It was another exciting week of feature development as the soft feature freeze approaches for Plasma 6.4...

KDE Plasma 6.4 Tackles An 18 Year Old Feature Request, More Wayland Protocols Added - Phoronix

The KDE Plasma developer sprint in Graz wrapped up just days ago but there's still been no shortage of new feature work landing into Plasma 6....