Labwc 0.8.4 Ships More Usability Improvements For This Wayland Compositor Labwc 0.8.4 is out as the newest stable update to this wlroots-based, window-stacking Wayland compositor...

Labwc 0.8.4 Ships More Usability Improvements For This Wayland Compositor - Phoronix

Labwc 0.8.4 is out as the newest stable update to this wlroots-based, window-stacking Wayland compositor.

KDE Plasma 6.4 Tackles An 18 Year Old Feature Request, More Wayland Protocols Added The KDE Plasma developer sprint in Graz wrapped up just days ago but there's still been no shortage of new feature work landing into Plasma 6.4 this week. It was another exciting week of feature development as the soft feature freeze approaches for Plasma 6.4...

KDE Plasma 6.4 Tackles An 18 Year Old Feature Request, More Wayland Protocols Added - Phoronix

The KDE Plasma developer sprint in Graz wrapped up just days ago but there's still been no shortage of new feature work landing into Plasma 6....

Full Disk Encryption Performance With Ubuntu 25.04 + Framework Laptop 13 Strix Point For anyone storing personal information on their laptops especially, I definitely recommend making use of Linux LUKS-based full disk encryption capabilities. I've been recommending going with the full disk encryption capabilities for nearly two decades to help protect personal data in case your laptop is lost or stolen. The performance implications of usin…

Full Disk Encryption Performance With Ubuntu 25.04 + Framework Laptop 13 Strix Point - Phoronix

For anyone storing personal information on their laptops especially, I definitely recommend making use of Linux LUKS-based full disk encryption cap...

Debian Developers Pursuing A General Resolution Around AI Models The Debian developer community is pursuing a General Resolution for voting on their policy around AI models...

Debian Developers Pursuing A General Resolution Around AI Models - Phoronix

The Debian developer community is pursuing a General Resolution for voting on their policy around AI models.

Redis 8.0 Released: Now Tri-Licensed With AGPLv3 Last year Redis made the much criticized move to Redis Source Available License v2 and Server Side Public License v1 (SSPL) licensing. The move was widely panned by the open-source community and led to the Linux Foundation forking it as Valkey and also other forks like Redict coming about. In the months since many Linux distributions have switched from Redis to Valkey. Now Redis Labs announced …

Redis 8.0 Released: Now Tri-Licensed With AGPLv3 - Phoronix

Last year Redis made the much criticized move to Redis Source Available License v2 and Server Side Public License v1 (SSPL) licensing

Ubuntu 25.10 "Questing Quokka" Opens For Development Ubuntu 25.10 "Questing Quokka" is now formally open for development...

Ubuntu 25.10 "Questing Quokka" Opens For Development - Phoronix

Ubuntu 25.10 'Questing Quokka' is now formally open for development.

GCC 15 Compiler Demonstrating Measurable Performance Gains For AMD EPYC Turin With the recently released GCC 15 (GCC 15.1) compiler besides adding new language features, enhancements to help developers in debugging build failures, and other refinements, there is the never-ending quest of compiler performance optimizations. Since the recent GCC 15.1 release candidate I've been testing this annual compiler feature release on more hardware, inc…

GCC 15 Compiler Demonstrating Measurable Performance Gains For AMD EPYC Turin - Phoronix

With the recently released GCC 15 (GCC 15.1) compiler besides adding new language features, enhancements to help developers in debugging build fail...

Kcompressd Proposed For Accelerated Memory Compression On Linux Mediatek engineers have proposed Kcompressd as a new addition to the Linux kernel to improve the efficiency of memory reclamation. Mediatek engineers testing these patches on their handheld Linux devices have found huge benefit in alleviating memory pressure and enhancing system responsiveness...

Kcompressd Proposed For Accelerated Memory Compression On Linux - Phoronix

Mediatek engineers have proposed Kcompressd as a new addition to the Linux kernel to improve the efficiency of memory reclamation

OSU Open Source Lab At Risk Of Closure This Year Due To Lack Of Funding For those that have spent any length of time in the open-source world have likely come across osuosl.org when downloading open-source projects that often are mirrored at the Oregon State University Open Source Lab (OSU OSL). The OSU OSL over the past two decades has also provided VMs for various architectures from x86 and AArch64 to POWER for CI and testing purposes to op…

OSU Open Source Lab At Risk Of Closure This Year Due To Lack Of Funding - Phoronix

For those that have spent any length of time in the open-source world have likely come across osuosl.org when downloading open-source projects that...

Intel's Vulkan Linux Driver Adds Memory Pool Support For Some Massive Performance Gains Merged a few minutes ago to the Mesa 25.2-devel graphics driver code for the open-source Intel "ANV" Vulkan Linux driver is proper memory pool support. In turn this can deliver some magnificent performance improvements on the likes of Lunar Lake and other newer Intel graphics processors...

Intel's Vulkan Linux Driver Adds Memory Pool Support For Some Massive Performance Gains - Phoronix

Merged a few minutes ago to the Mesa 25.2-devel graphics driver code for the open-source Intel 'ANV' Vulkan Linux driver is proper memory...