LibreOffice 26.2 Beta 1 Now Available For This Free Software Office Suite LibreOffice 26.2 Beta 1 is now available for testing in working toward the stable release in February for this cross-platform, open-source office suite solution...

LibreOffice 26.2 Beta 1 Now Available For This Free Software Office Suite - Phoronix

LibreOffice 26.2 Beta 1 is now available for testing in working toward the stable release in February for this cross-platform, open-source office s...

KDE Gear 25.12 Released For Shipping The Latest KDE Applications KDE Gear 25.12 is out today as the collection of the latest KDE desktop/mobile applications for running nicely on the Plasma 6 desktop...

KDE Gear 25.12 Released For Shipping The Latest KDE Applications - Phoronix

KDE Gear 25.12 is out today as the collection of the latest KDE desktop/mobile applications for running nicely on the Plasma 6 desktop.

Microsoft Is Back To Working On "Hornet" Security For eBPF Programs On Linux Earlier in the year Microsoft proposed the "Hornet" Linux security module to provide signature verification capabilities for eBPF programs to provide for better system security. It's been months since hearing anything more about it and not being merged, but yesterday they "reintroduced" it to the Linux kernel community...

Microsoft Is Back To Working On "Hornet" Security For eBPF Programs On Linux - Phoronix

Earlier in the year Microsoft proposed the 'Hornet' Linux security module to provide signature verification capabilities for eBPF program...

Mesa's "Present Timing" Vulkan Driver Support Now Feature Complete Last month the Vulkan VK_EXT_present_timing extension was merged after 5+ years in development. VK_EXT_present_timing ended up debuting at the end of November within the Vulkan 1.4.335 spec update to much excitement for providing functionality to obtain information on the presentation engine's display for accurate timing information and to assist in scheduling a present t…

Mesa's "Present Timing" Vulkan Driver Support Now Feature Complete - Phoronix

Last month the Vulkan VK_EXT_present_timing extension was merged after 5+ years in development

Linux 6.19 Networking Delivers 4x Improvement For Heavy Transfer Workloads, New Hardware The big set of networking subsystem updates was recently merged for the ongoing Linux 6.19 merge window. There are some enticing core networking improvements like a big performance improvement for heavy transfer workloads, Bluetooth PAST enablement, and more. Plus a lot of wired and wireless networking driver activity and new hardware enablement...

Linux 6.19 Networking Delivers 4x Improvement For Heavy Transfer Workloads, New Hardware - Phoronix

The big set of networking subsystem updates was recently merged for the ongoing Linux 6.19 merge window

Intel's Vulkan Linux Driver Merges Shader VMA Allocator For Ray-Tracing Capture/Replay Merged today to the Intel open-source "ANV" Vulkan driver in Mesa 26.0 is introducing a shader VMA allocator. Long story short this new allocator steps toward enabling Vulkan ray-tracing capture/replay support, which can come in hand for debugging issues with Vulkan ray-tracing on Intel graphics hardware under Linux and similarly to assist in optim…

Intel's Vulkan Linux Driver Merges Shader VMA Allocator For Ray-Tracing Capture/Replay - Phoronix

Merged today to the Intel open-source 'ANV' Vulkan driver in Mesa 26.0 is introducing a shader VMA allocator

Qt Toolkit Lands IO_uring Abstraction The newest feature to land in the cross-platform Qt toolkit is QIORing as an abstraction for Linux's IO_uring interface. This QIORing may also end up supporting Microsoft's Windows IORing implementation as well...

Qt Toolkit Lands IO_uring Abstraction - Phoronix

The newest feature to land in the cross-platform Qt toolkit is QIORing as an abstraction for Linux's IO_uring interface

Budgie 10.10 Desktop Approved For Fedora 44 Packaging, Fedora Budgie Spin All-Wayland In addition to approving Fedora Cloud switching /boot to a Btrfs subvolume, another change approved this week by the Fedora Engineering and Steering Committee (FESCo) is for shipping the Budgie 10.10 desktop packages in Fedora 44...

Budgie 10.10 Desktop Approved For Fedora 44 Packaging, Fedora Budgie Spin All-Wayland - Phoronix

In addition to approving Fedora Cloud switching /boot to a Btrfs subvolume, another change approved this week by the Fedora Engineering and Steerin...

AerynOS 2025.12 Brings Many Package Updates AerynOS 2025.12 is available today as the latest installment of this from-scratch Linux distribution originally known as Serpent OS...

AerynOS 2025.12 Brings Many Package Updates - Phoronix

AerynOS 2025.12 is available today as the latest installment of this from-scratch Linux distribution originally known as Serpent OS.

Linux Foundation's Newest Endeavor: The Agentic AI Foundation The Linux Foundation today announced it's formed another foundation under its growing umbrella that extends well beyond the traditional "Linux" landscape: the Agentic AI Foundation...

Linux Foundation's Newest Endeavor: The Agentic AI Foundation - Phoronix

The Linux Foundation today announced it's formed another foundation under its growing umbrella that extends well beyond the traditional '...