Windows 11 vs. Ubuntu Linux Performance On The AMD Ryzen AI Max PRO 390 "Strix Halo" While the results shouldn't be too surprising given the recent AMD Ryzen AI Max+ 395 Windows 11 vs. Linux testing, when the HP ZBook Ultra G1a powered by the step-down AMD Ryzen AI Max PRO 390 arrived with Microsoft Windows 11 Pro, I also took the opportunity to run some Windows vs. Linux performance benchmarks on that AMD Strix Halo SoC.

Windows 11 vs. Ubuntu Linux Performance On The AMD Ryzen AI Max PRO 390 "Strix Halo" - Phoronix

While the results shouldn't be too surprising given the recent AMD Ryzen AI Max+ 395 Windows 11 vs.

Intel NPU Accelerator Driver Readies "Turbo Mode" For Better Performance Sent out today was the latest weekly batch of drm-misc-next changes for consisting of various Direct Rendering Manager (DRM) core updates as well as changes to the smaller display/graphics kernel drivers plus the growing work around accelerator "accel" drivers within the kernel. Intel NPU accelerator driver changes stand out for this week's pull request ahead o…

Intel NPU Accelerator Driver Readies "Turbo Mode" For Better Performance - Phoronix

Sent out today was the latest weekly batch of drm-misc-next changes for consisting of various Direct Rendering Manager (DRM) core updates as well a...

Intel Begins Sending In Kernel Graphics Driver Changes For Linux 6.17 Intel open-source software driver engineers have begun sending in their new kernel graphics driver feature pulls to DRM-Next ahead of the Linux 6.17 merge window coming up by early August. There is some new feature work included as part of Intel's pull requests for the weeks along with more PCI device IDs being introduced, bug fixes, and other code refactoring...

Intel Begins Sending In Kernel Graphics Driver Changes For Linux 6.17 - Phoronix

Intel open-source software driver engineers have begun sending in their new kernel graphics driver feature pulls to DRM-Next ahead of the Linux 6.1...

Mesa 25.1.4 Delivers Latest Open-Source OpenGL & Vulkan Driver Fixes Eric Engestrom released Mesa 25.1.4 on Wednesday as the latest bi-weekly point release for this collection of open-source OpenGL and Vulkan drivers predominantly used on Linux systems...

Mesa 25.1.4 Delivers Latest Open-Source OpenGL & Vulkan Driver Fixes - Phoronix

Eric Engestrom released Mesa 25.1.4 on Wednesday as the latest bi-weekly point release for this collection of open-source OpenGL and Vulkan driver...

Godot 4.5 Beta Released With Better Wayland Support The first beta release of the Godot 4.5 open-source game engine is now available for testing. Notable for Linux users is the continued quest toward Wayland support at parity to X11...

Godot 4.5 Beta Released With Better Wayland Support - Phoronix

The first beta release of the Godot 4.5 open-source game engine is now available for testing

XWayland 24.1.8 & X.Org Server 21.1.18 Further Address Yesterday's Security Disclosures Released yesterday were X.Org Server 21.1.17 and XWayland 24.1.7 to address another batch of six security vulnerabilities reported by security researchers. Out today is X.Org Server 21.1.18 and XWayland 24.1.8 in order to further button up one of the security issues reported yesterday...

XWayland 24.1.8 & X.Org Server 21.1.18 Further Address Yesterday's Security Disclosures - Phoronix

Released yesterday were X.Org Server 21.1.17 and XWayland 24.1.7 to address another batch of six security vulnerabilities reported by security rese...

Servo Browser Engine Finally Supporting Animated GIFs The Servo browser engine project born out of Mozilla as an early Rust project and now advanced by open-source developers from various firms continues moving forward. Servo has finally scratched animated GIF support off its TODO list among other features...

Servo Browser Engine Finally Supporting Animated GIFs - Phoronix

The Servo browser engine project born out of Mozilla as an early Rust project and now advanced by open-source developers from various firms continu...

Arch Linux Moving To WoW64 Wine & Wine-Staging The Arch Linux project announced this week they are working to transition their Wine and Wine-Staging packages over to pure WoW64 builds. This "Windows on Windows 64-bit" allows for 32-bit Windows applications on 64-bit Linux platforms without needing 32-bit software libraries/prefixes present and overall a big architectural win...

Arch Linux Moving To WoW64 Wine & Wine-Staging - Phoronix

The Arch Linux project announced this week they are working to transition their Wine and Wine-Staging packages over to pure WoW64 builds

Mesa's Rusticl Driver Now Supports sRGB Images Mesa's Rusticl OpenCL driver has supported various elements of 2D image handling while the latest addition in enhancing this open-source driver's support is for sRGB images...

Mesa's Rusticl Driver Now Supports sRGB Images - Phoronix

Mesa's Rusticl OpenCL driver has supported various elements of 2D image handling while the latest addition in enhancing this open-source drive...

X.Org Server 21.1.17 & XWayland 24.1.7 Fix The Latest Batch Of Security Issues The X.Org Server 21.1.17 and XWayland 24.1.7 point releases were issued today to fix the latest batch of security issues...

X.Org Server 21.1.17 & XWayland 24.1.7 Fix The Latest Batch Of Security Issues - Phoronix

The X.Org Server 21.1.17 and XWayland 24.1.7 point releases were issued today to fix the latest batch of security issues.