Arch Linux Based Endeavour OS Updated After ISO Refresh Hiatus Endeavour OS is one of the popular desktop Linux distributions built around Arch Linux providing a nice out-of-the-box experience. Since their last ISO refresh back in March there hadn't been much news from the project nor any new ISO releases for this rolling-release distro. But thankfully today they are back in the saddle with a new ISO release, Endeavour OS 2025.11.24 "Ganymede"…

Arch Linux Based Endeavour OS Updated After ISO Refresh Hiatus - Phoronix

Endeavour OS is one of the popular desktop Linux distributions built around Arch Linux providing a nice out-of-the-box experience

Framework Computer Now Sponsoring LVFS / Fwupd Development With the Linux Vendor Firmware Service serving more than 135 million downloads for Linux users updating their system and device firmware, LVFS has been working to get more hardware vendors to contribute either engineering resources or directly contributing annual dues as sponsors. Framework Computer is now the first one to have executed an agreement under these new sponsorship eff…

Framework Computer Now Sponsoring LVFS / Fwupd Development - Phoronix

With the Linux Vendor Firmware Service serving more than 135 million downloads for Linux users updating their system and device firmware, LVFS has ...

Intel Hiring Two More Experienced Linux Kernel Engineers While there have been a number of Intel Linux engineers laid off over roughly the past year, other Linux kernel engineers opting to pursue employment opportunities elsewhere amid the ongoing challenges and restructuring at the company, and shifts in their open-source strategy, there's some good news as we work toward the 2025 holidays. Intel is currently hiring for two more ex…

Intel Hiring Two More Experienced Linux Kernel Engineers - Phoronix

While there have been a number of Intel Linux engineers laid off over roughly the past year, other Linux kernel engineers opting to pursue employme...

KDE Plasma 6.6's KWin Implements RandR Emulation For Better XWayland Experience KDE developers have been busy ending out the month of November with a number of new features and fixes queued up for next year's Plasma 6.6 desktop release...

KDE Plasma 6.6's KWin Implements RandR Emulation For Better XWayland Experience - Phoronix

KDE developers have been busy ending out the month of November with a number of new features and fixes queued up for next year's Plasma 6.6 de...

Niri 25.11 Rust-Written Wayland Compositor Adds Alt-Tab Switcher, New Animations Niri 25.11 is now available as the latest feature release for this Rust-written, scrollable-tiling Wayland compositor...

Niri 25.11 Rust-Written Wayland Compositor Adds Alt-Tab Switcher, New Animations - Phoronix

Niri 25.11 is now available as the latest feature release for this Rust-written, scrollable-tiling Wayland compositor.

Open-Source Nouveau+NVK vs. NVIDIA 580 Linux Gaming/Graphics & Compute Driver Performance This Black Friday is an in-depth look at the current performance of the open-source NVIDIA Linux driver stack with the Nouveau kernel driver (the Nova driver not yet being ready for end-users) paired with the latest Mesa NVK driver for open-source Vulkan API support. With that NVK Vulkan driver is also looking at the OpenGL performance using the…

Open-Source Nouveau+NVK vs. NVIDIA 580 Linux Gaming/Graphics & Compute Driver Performance - Phoronix

This Black Friday is an in-depth look at the current performance of the open-source NVIDIA Linux driver stack with the Nouveau kernel driver (the N...

Black Friday Reminder For Those Hating Ads But Loving Linux Hardware/Software As the one and last friendly reminder, if you enjoy the daily and original content found on Phoronix.com but not liking ads and wanting to view multi-page articles on a single page, native dark mode, and more: the 2025 Black Friday / Cyber Week deal is ending Monday to help support the site while enjoying a discounted rate...

Black Friday Reminder For Those Hating Ads But Loving Linux Hardware/Software - Phoronix

As the one and last friendly reminder, if you enjoy the daily and original content found on Phoronix.com but not liking ads and wanting to view mul...

Vulkan 1.4.335 Released With The Very Notable VK_EXT_present_timing Vulkan 1.4.335 released a few hours ago as the latest iteration of this high performance graphics and compute API. With being just a week since the prior update and given the US Thanksgiving week, it's on the lighter side in terms of issues addressed. There is one new extension though and it's a big one: VK_EXT_present_timing is finally merged...

Vulkan 1.4.335 Released With The Very Notable VK_EXT_present_timing - Phoronix

Vulkan 1.4.335 released a few hours ago as the latest iteration of this high performance graphics and compute API

GCC 16 Switches To Using C++20 Standard By Default Following up on the discussion from earlier this month among GCC developers over switching to C++20 by default for the GCC compiler as the default C++ standard when not otherwise set, that change has indeed happened. Merged now is the change defaulting to C++20 (well, the GNU++20 dialect) rather than C++17/GNU++17 when not otherwise specified when compiling C++ code...

GCC 16 Switches To Using C++20 Standard By Default - Phoronix

Following up on the discussion from earlier this month among GCC developers over switching to C++20 by default for the GCC compiler as the default ...

NVIDIA Is Interested In Helping Bring Vulkan Video To Chrome NVIDIA engineers are interested in helping Google bring Vulkan Video accelerated GPU video decoding to the Chrome/Chromium web browser...

NVIDIA Is Interested In Helping Bring Vulkan Video To Chrome - Phoronix

NVIDIA engineers are interested in helping Google bring Vulkan Video accelerated GPU video decoding to the Chrome/Chromium web browser.