Marking 21 Years Of Covering Linux Hardware Phoronix has made it another year. Today marks 21 years since I started Phoronix.com with a focus on providing Linux hardware reviews. Linux hardware support is a night and day difference then to today as is the overall ecosystem with all the major hardware vendors these days having some -- often significant -- levels of interest in Linux support. No longer is it typically a worry of whether your mouse,…

Marking 21 Years Of Covering Linux Hardware - Phoronix

Phoronix has made it another year

Mesa 25.1.2 Released With More Intel Battlemage & Panther Lake IDs Added Mesa 25.1.2 is out today as the newest stable bi-weekly point release to this collection of open-source OpenGL/Vulkan/video drivers widely relied upon by Linux systems...

Mesa 25.1.2 Released With More Intel Battlemage & Panther Lake IDs Added - Phoronix

Mesa 25.1.2 is out today as the newest stable bi-weekly point release to this collection of open-source OpenGL/Vulkan/video drivers widely relied u...

Hardware Monitoring For More ASUS Motherboards & Additional Zen 5 CPUs In Linux 6.16 The numerous hardware monitoring "HWMON" subsystem updates were merged to Linux 6.16 on Tuesday for further enhancing the desktop hardware reporting capabilities and more with this next kernel release...

Hardware Monitoring For More ASUS Motherboards & Additional Zen 5 CPUs In Linux 6.16 - Phoronix

The numerous hardware monitoring 'HWMON' subsystem updates were merged to Linux 6.16 on Tuesday for further enhancing the desktop hardwar...

SquashFS Tools 4.7 Released: "20% To More Than Ten Times Faster" SquashFS-Tools 4.7 is out today as a big feature update to the user-space utilities for creating/modifying/extracting SquashFS read-only file-system images. SquashFS 4.7 delivers some big performance improvements and other nice enhancements...

SquashFS Tools 4.7 Released: "20% To More Than Ten Times Faster" - Phoronix

SquashFS-Tools 4.7 is out today as a big feature update to the user-space utilities for creating/modifying/extracting SquashFS read-only file-syste...

Updated Steam Client Beta For Linux Fixes Slow Install Speeds For Updates One day after Steam on Linux set a recent high with the Steam Survey, a new Steam client beta is out today to fix an excruciating annoyance affecting some Linux gamers...

Updated Steam Client Beta For Linux Fixes Slow Install Speeds For Updates - Phoronix

One day after Steam on Linux set a recent high with the Steam Survey, a new Steam client beta is out today to fix an excruciating annoyance affecti...

Open-Source TPDE Can Compile Code 10-20x Faster Than LLVM Researchers from the Technical University of Munich (TUM) have announced TPDE as a fast and adaptable compiler back-end framework. The code is now open-source and they are talking up some very wild compile time improvements... Compiling code for x86_64 and AArch64 with TPDE can be ten to twenty times faster than using the LLVM Clang compiler...

Open-Source TPDE Can Compile Code 10-20x Faster Than LLVM - Phoronix

Researchers from the Technical University of Munich (TUM) have announced TPDE as a fast and adaptable compiler back-end framework

Phoronix Turns 21 This Week - Show Your Support For Linux Hardware Reviews This week on 5 June marks 21 years since I started Phoronix.com for providing Linux hardware reviews and open-source news. In marking the 21st birthday of Phoronix is a special Phoronix Premium offering if you wish to show your support and hopefully provide for a successful year...

Phoronix Turns 21 This Week - Show Your Support For Linux Hardware Reviews - Phoronix

This week on 5 June marks 21 years since I started Phoronix.com for providing Linux hardware reviews and open-source news

Mesa 25.2 Lands RADV VCN5 Video Encode/Decode Support For RDNA4 GPUs Posted for the AMDGPU Linux kernel driver in early 2024 was the initial Video Core Next 5.0 IP enablement that was part of their bring-up for the Radeon RX 9000 "RDNA4" graphics processors. It's taken until now though for enabling the VCN5 video encode/decode support within the user-space code for the RADV driver with Mesa 25.2...

Mesa 25.2 Lands RADV VCN5 Video Encode/Decode Support For RDNA4 GPUs - Phoronix

Posted for the AMDGPU Linux kernel driver in early 2024 was the initial Video Core Next 5.0 IP enablement that was part of their bring-up for the R...

Snapdragon X Elite & AMD's Grado + Strix Halo CPUs Captured Phoronix Reader Interest In May May was another busy month when it comes to Linux hardware and software milestones albeit depressing when looking at the ongoing state of the web/ad industry. In any event there were 25 featured Linux hardware reviews / multi-page benchmark articles and another 268 original Linux-related news articles all written by your's truly for the month. Here is a lo…

Snapdragon X Elite & AMD's Grado + Strix Halo CPUs Captured Phoronix Reader Interest In May - Phoronix

May was another busy month when it comes to Linux hardware and software milestones albeit depressing when looking at the ongoing state of the web/a...

Intel Prepping Linux Driver For Future Data Center GPUs Based On Battlemage Intel engineers are preparing the Linux kernel for future Data Center GPUs. This work confirms new Intel Data Center GPUs coming based on Battlemage...

Intel Prepping Linux Driver For Future Data Center GPUs Based On Battlemage - Phoronix

Intel engineers are preparing the Linux kernel for future Data Center GPUs