KDE Plasma 6.6 Supporting Per-DRM-Plane Color Pipelines, More Hardware Quirks/Fixes It was a busy start of December for KDE Plasma developers in working out several hardware fixes for the current Plasma 6.5 series while also working on new Plasma 6.6 features like the per-DRM-plane color pipelines...

KDE Plasma 6.6 Supporting Per-DRM-Plane Color Pipelines, More Hardware Quirks/Fixes - Phoronix

It was a busy start of December for KDE Plasma developers in working out several hardware fixes for the current Plasma 6.5 series while also workin...

Venus Vulkan Driver Lands Mesh Shader Support In Mesa 26.0 Venus is the VirtIO-GPU driver that allows for Vulkan support within guest virtual machines permitting sufficient host driver support and other requirements in place with hypervisors like CrosVM and QEMU. The Venus driver now supports Vulkan's mesh shader capabilities and in turn advances the DXVK-Proton support for Linux gaming within VMs...

Venus Vulkan Driver Lands Mesh Shader Support In Mesa 26.0 - Phoronix

Venus is the VirtIO-GPU driver that allows for Vulkan support within guest virtual machines permitting sufficient host driver support and other re...

Intel Graphics Score A Big Win With Linux 6.19: Color Management & Xe VFIO Driver Merged On top of enabling Xe3P graphics for Nova Lake and Crescent Island plus other changes like CASF adaptive sharpening for Lunar Lake and newer, another set of Intel kernel graphics driver updates were merged overnight as a big win for the open-source Intel graphics stack on Linux...

Intel Graphics Score A Big Win With Linux 6.19: Color Management & Xe VFIO Driver Merged - Phoronix

On top of enabling Xe3P graphics for Nova Lake and Crescent Island plus other changes like CASF adaptive sharpening for Lunar Lake and newer, anoth...

Intel Nova Lake Audio Support Merged For Linux 6.19 The sound subsystem updates were merged on Thursday for enabling a variety of new audio hardware with the Linux 6.19. Among the hardware standing out is getting Intel Nova Lake audio support in order...

Intel Nova Lake Audio Support Merged For Linux 6.19 - Phoronix

The sound subsystem updates were merged on Thursday for enabling a variety of new audio hardware with the Linux 6.19

NVIDIA Releases CUDA 13.1 With New "CUDA Tile" Programming Model NVIDIA just released CUDA 13.1 for what they claim is "the largest and most comprehensive update to the CUDA platform since it was invented two decades ago." The most notable addition with the CUDA 13.1 release is CUDA Tile as a new tile-based programming model...

NVIDIA Releases CUDA 13.1 With New "CUDA Tile" Programming Model - Phoronix

NVIDIA just released CUDA 13.1 for what they claim is 'the largest and most comprehensive update to the CUDA platform since it was invented tw...

Linux 6.19 Brings Temperature Monitoring For The Steam Deck APU, Apple Silicon SMC The many hardware monitoring (HWMON) subsystem updates were merged today for Linux 6.19 that is predominantly around delivering new hardware support...

Linux 6.19 Brings Temperature Monitoring For The Steam Deck APU, Apple Silicon SMC - Phoronix

The many hardware monitoring (HWMON) subsystem updates were merged today for Linux 6.19 that is predominantly around delivering new hardware support.

Mesa 25.3.1 Released With Initial Set Of Fixes, Mesa 25.2 Comes To An End Mesa 25.3.1 was released overnight as the first point release of the Mesa 25.3 series. The Mesa point releases are typically bi-weekly but this one dragged out to nearly three weeks. In turn this also marks an end to the Mesa 25.2 series...

Mesa 25.3.1 Released With Initial Set Of Fixes, Mesa 25.2 Comes To An End - Phoronix

Mesa 25.3.1 was released overnight as the first point release of the Mesa 25.3 series

EXT4 Optimizes Online Defragmentation, Improves Performance & Larger Block Sizes The merged EXT4 changes for Linux 6.19 bring some of the most prominent feature changes in recent times for this mature and widely-used Linux file-system...

EXT4 Optimizes Online Defragmentation, Improves Performance & Larger Block Sizes - Phoronix

The merged EXT4 changes for Linux 6.19 bring some of the most prominent feature changes in recent times for this mature and widely-used Linux file-...

Intel's Open-Source Linux Graphics Driver Delivered Significant Improvements In 2025 Last week I provided a look at how Intel's GPU compute performance on Battlemage evolved in 2025. In today's article is a similar Intel Arc A-Series "Alchemist" and B-Series "Battlemage" look at how the OpenGL and Vulkan graphics performance has evolved over the past year. Simply put, the open-source Intel Linux graphics driver stack has evolved …

Intel's Open-Source Linux Graphics Driver Delivered Significant Improvements In 2025 - Phoronix

Last week I provided a look at how Intel's GPU compute performance on Battlemage evolved in 2025.

LibreOffice 26.2 Alpha 1 Released For Testing The first alpha release of the LibreOffice 26.2 open-source and cross platform office suite is now available for testing ahead of its official release in February...

LibreOffice 26.2 Alpha 1 Released For Testing - Phoronix

The first alpha release of the LibreOffice 26.2 open-source and cross platform office suite is now available for testing ahead of its official rele...