systemd 258 Closing In On Its Stable Release As what might be its last test release before declaring the stable release, systemd 258-rc4 was released this week as the latest stepping stone for this dominant Linux init system and service manager...

systemd 258 Closing In On Its Stable Release - Phoronix

As what might be its last test release before declaring the stable release, systemd 258-rc4 was released this week as the latest stepping stone for...

New x86 Hardware Support & Device Quirks Merged Ahead Of Linux 6.17-rc5 Merged today to Linux Git ahead of the Linux 6.17-rc5 release on Sunday were a few notable x86 platform driver changes. This includes some new hardware support and device quirks...

New x86 Hardware Support & Device Quirks Merged Ahead Of Linux 6.17-rc5 - Phoronix

Merged today to Linux Git ahead of the Linux 6.17-rc5 release on Sunday were a few notable x86 platform driver changes

Wine 10.15 To Feature Initial Support For Using NTSYNC On Linux With Wine 10.15 expected to be released next Friday there will be initial support for using the NTSYNC driver found within the Linux kernel...

Wine 10.15 To Feature Initial Support For Using NTSYNC On Linux - Phoronix

With Wine 10.15 expected to be released next Friday there will be initial support for using the NTSYNC driver found within the Linux kernel.

Four Months Have Passed Since The Last AMDVLK Driver Release Back in May was the surprise but welcoming decision out of AMD that they would begin officially supporting the Mesa Vulkan driver (RADV) and that their proprietary OpenGL and Vulkan drivers would no longer be included in their Radeon Software for Linux releases. This indeed appears to have effectively spelled the end to their AMDVLK driver with Mesa's RADV taking the cake...

Four Months Have Passed Since The Last AMDVLK Driver Release - Phoronix

Back in May was the surprise but welcoming decision out of AMD that they would begin officially supporting the Mesa Vulkan driver (RADV) and that t...

Linux Kernel Runtime Guard 1.0 Released For Security Vulnerability Exploit Detection Linux Kernel Runtime Guard 1.0 has been released. LKRG is a project providing runtime integrity checking of the Linux kernel and is able to detect security vulnerability exploits against the running kernel...

Linux Kernel Runtime Guard 1.0 Released For Security Vulnerability Exploit Detection - Phoronix

Linux Kernel Runtime Guard 1.0 has been released

Intel's Vulkan Linux Driver Finally Exposes VK_EXT_shader_object As of today in Mesa 25.3-devel Git, the Intel "ANV" open-source Vulkan driver for Linux systems is finally exposing the VK_EXT_shader_object extension...

Intel's Vulkan Linux Driver Finally Exposes VK_EXT_shader_object - Phoronix

As of today in Mesa 25.3-devel Git, the Intel 'ANV' open-source Vulkan driver for Linux systems is finally exposing the VK_EXT_shader_obj...

NVIDIA's Open-Source Nova Driver Now Explicitly Requires 64-bit Support As part of the Rust DRM drivers now having their own development tree, sent out today was the first pull request from the drm-rust-fixes branch...

NVIDIA's Open-Source Nova Driver Now Explicitly Requires 64-bit Support - Phoronix

As part of the Rust DRM drivers now having their own development tree, sent out today was the first pull request from the drm-rust-fixes branch.

Linux 6.17 With EXT4 Showing Some Nice Performance Improvements With the Linux 6.17 kernel there are some block allocation scalability improvements for EXT4 on top of other file-system enhancements with this new kernel and other new features. Linux 6.17 performance has been looking good and when drilling down to the EXT4 file-system performance, it's looking extremely good. Here are some benchmarks of EXT4 on Linux 6.17 compared to the 6.15 and 6.…

Linux 6.17 With EXT4 Showing Some Nice Performance Improvements - Phoronix

With the Linux 6.17 kernel there are some block allocation scalability improvements for EXT4 on top of other file-system enhancements with this new...

HIP-RT Update For Blender 5.0 To Deliver Improved Ray-Tracing On RDNA4 GPUs AMD engineers have submitted a HIP-RT update for Blender developers ahead of the big Blender 5.0 release to enhance the RDNA4 ray-tracing performance...

HIP-RT Update For Blender 5.0 To Deliver Improved Ray-Tracing On RDNA4 GPUs - Phoronix

AMD engineers have submitted a HIP-RT update for Blender developers ahead of the big Blender 5.0 release to enhance the RDNA4 ray-tracing performance.

NVIDIA Posts Initial Linux Patches For Extended GPU Memory "EGM" Virtualization NVIDIA engineer Ankit Agrawal today posted a request for comments (RFC) patch series working on Linux virtualization support for Extended GPU Memory (EGM)...

NVIDIA Posts Initial Linux Patches For Extended GPU Memory "EGM" Virtualization - Phoronix

NVIDIA engineer Ankit Agrawal today posted a request for comments (RFC) patch series working on Linux virtualization support for Extended GPU Memor...