KDE Plasma 6.5 To Introduce Wayland Picture-In-Picture Support While KDE Plasma 6.4 is set for release next week, there are already exciting feature improvements brewing for Plasma 6.5...

KDE Plasma 6.5 To Introduce Wayland Picture-In-Picture Support - Phoronix

While KDE Plasma 6.4 is set for release next week, there are already exciting feature improvements brewing for Plasma 6.5.

Intel Begins Preparing Linux For Next-Gen DSA 3.0 Accelerators In addition to Intel recently upstreaming Linux support for new QAT "Gen 6" hardware as their next-generation QuickAssist Technology IP, Intel today began posting Linux kernel driver patches for a new version of their Data Streaming Accelerator (DSA). It looks like upcoming Xeon processors will be rolling out a lot of new accelerator IP...

Intel Begins Preparing Linux For Next-Gen DSA 3.0 Accelerators - Phoronix

In addition to Intel recently upstreaming Linux support for new QAT 'Gen 6' hardware as their next-generation QuickAssist Technology IP, ...

LibreOffice 25.8 Beta Released For Testing LibreOffice 25.8 beta is now available for this popular open-source office suite. LibreOffice 25.8 has been baking many improvements for this popular Microsoft Office alternative and leading office suite option for the Linux desktop...

LibreOffice 25.8 Beta Released For Testing - Phoronix

LibreOffice 25.8 beta is now available for this popular open-source office suite

Vulkan 1.4.318 Released With A New Valve Extension Just one week past the notable Vulkan 1.4.317 release, Vulkan 1.4.318 is out with some documentation clarifications plus two new extensions...

Vulkan 1.4.318 Released With A New Valve Extension - Phoronix

Just one week past the notable Vulkan 1.4.317 release, Vulkan 1.4.318 is out with some documentation clarifications plus two new extensions.

Wayland Protocols 1.45 Brings Background Effects, Pointer Warp & Session Management Wayland Protocols 1.45 was released today with new staging and experimental protocols for Wayland compositors to begin rolling out...

Wayland Protocols 1.45 Brings Background Effects, Pointer Warp & Session Management - Phoronix

Wayland Protocols 1.45 was released today with new staging and experimental protocols for Wayland compositors to begin rolling out.

Intel Vulkan Linux Driver Lands Initial Support For VP9 Decoding Introduced last week with Vulkan 1.4.317 was Vulkan Video support for VP9 video decoding. Following that the open-source Radeon "RADV" Vulkan driver landed its VK_KHR_video_decode_vp9 support and now similarly the open-source Intel Vulkan driver has too...

Intel Vulkan Linux Driver Lands Initial Support For VP9 Decoding - Phoronix

Introduced last week with Vulkan 1.4.317 was Vulkan Video support for VP9 video decoding

Amazon/AWS Is Now Sponsoring & Powering All Of GNOME's Web Infrastructure On the GNOME Foundation blog today is an interesting post how Amazon Web Services (AWS) has ended up sponsoring and powering all of the GNOME web infrastructure...

Amazon/AWS Is Now Sponsoring & Powering All Of GNOME's Web Infrastructure - Phoronix

On the GNOME Foundation blog today is an interesting post how Amazon Web Services (AWS) has ended up sponsoring and powering all of the GNOME web i...

DXVK 2.6.2 Released For Direct3D On Vulkan DXVK 2.6.2 was released this morning as the newest update to this Direct3D 8 / 9 / 10 / 11 over Vulkan API implementation. DXVK continues to be most notably used by Valve's Steam Play (Proton) for running countless Windows games well on Linux...

DXVK 2.6.2 Released For Direct3D On Vulkan - Phoronix

DXVK 2.6.2 was released this morning as the newest update to this Direct3D 8 / 9 / 10 / 11 over Vulkan API implementation

Canonical Confirms Ubuntu 25.10 Will Drop Support For GNOME On X.Org In aligning with upstream GNOME 49 expected to ship with X11 support disabled by default, Canonical announced today that the upcoming Ubuntu 25.10 release will also ship without support for running the GNOME desktop on X11...

Canonical Confirms Ubuntu 25.10 Will Drop Support For GNOME On X.Org - Phoronix

In aligning with upstream GNOME 49 expected to ship with X11 support disabled by default, Canonical announced today that the upcoming Ubuntu 25.10 ...

IO_uring Shows Promising Potential For Linux Accelerator Drivers Last year there was some ideas raised around potentially making use of the Linux kernel's IO_uring functionality for graphics drivers to help with better performance and synchronization. It turns out Qualcomm engineers have recently been exploring IO_uring use for the DRM accelerator drivers with very promising results on their Cloud AI hardware in seeing around 50% spee…

IO_uring Shows Promising Potential For Linux Accelerator Drivers - Phoronix

Last year there was some ideas raised around potentially making use of the Linux kernel's IO_uring functionality for graphics drivers to help ...