Rust Coreutils 0.1 Released With Big Performance Gains - Can Match Or Exceed GNU Speed With Ubuntu 25.10 planning to ship the Rust-based Coreutils "uutils" by default, it's a big year ahead for this alternative to GNU Coreutils. In furthering along the project's goals, today marks the Rust Coreutils v0.1 release...

Rust Coreutils 0.1 Released With Big Performance Gains - Can Match Or Exceed GNU Speed - Phoronix

With Ubuntu 25.10 planning to ship the Rust-based Coreutils 'uutils' by default, it's a big year ahead for this alternative to GNU C...

Mike Blumenkrantz Axes Old Mesa Code: Goodbye Gallium Nine While there was the big 62k lines of code patch from Microsoft merged yesterday to Mesa, separately there was also some code cleaning to remove some previously-deprecated code from the codebase...

Mike Blumenkrantz Axes Old Mesa Code: Goodbye Gallium Nine - Phoronix

While there was the big 62k lines of code patch from Microsoft merged yesterday to Mesa, separately there was also some code cleaning to remove som...

KDE Plasma 6.4 Adds Time-Of-Day Wallpapers, Disabling Adaptive-Sync By Default KDE developers have been busy addressing bugs within the Plasma 6.4 desktop ahead of its stable release in June. But there has been some last minute feature work to arrive, including support for time-of-day wallpapers with Plasma 6.4...

KDE Plasma 6.4 Adds Time-Of-Day Wallpapers, Disabling Adaptive-Sync By Default - Phoronix

KDE developers have been busy addressing bugs within the Plasma 6.4 desktop ahead of its stable release in June

Microsoft Lands 62k Lines Of Code Patch In Mesa: Adds New "MFT" Gallium3D Frontend Microsoft's open-source code contributions to the Mesa 3D graphics stack continues... Hitting Mesa 25.2-devel today was a patch adding 61,925 lines of code patch as they introduce a new Gallium3D front-end...

Microsoft Lands 62k Lines Of Code Patch In Mesa: Adds New "MFT" Gallium3D Frontend - Phoronix

Microsoft's open-source code contributions to the Mesa 3D graphics stack continues..

Linux 6.15 Brings Many Features For Intel & AMD Hardware With the Linux 6.15 kernel expected to be released as stable on Sunday unless Linus Torvalds has last-minute reservations, here's a look back at some of the most interesting Linux 6.15 changes...

Linux 6.15 Brings Many Features For Intel & AMD Hardware - Phoronix

With the Linux 6.15 kernel expected to be released as stable on Sunday unless Linus Torvalds has last-minute reservations, here's a look back ...

GNOME Help & Documentation Are In Need Of Help The GNOME Release Team is issuing a call for help as GNOME Help and the associated GNOME documentation are much in need of some assistance...

GNOME Help & Documentation Are In Need Of Help - Phoronix

The GNOME Release Team is issuing a call for help as GNOME Help and the associated GNOME documentation are much in need of some assistance.

Wayland 1.24 Release Candidate Brings Few Changes Following the recent decision to no longer issue alpha or beta releases of Wayland, the Wayland 1.24 release candidate was issued on Thursday in working toward that next release...

Wayland 1.24 Release Candidate Brings Few Changes - Phoronix

Following the recent decision to no longer issue alpha or beta releases of Wayland, the Wayland 1.24 release candidate was issued on Thursday in wo...

FFmpeg FFV1 Vulkan Encoder Lands +35% Improvement For AMD, +50% For NVIDIA FFmpeg developers have been working on Vulkan-accelerated FFV1 video encode/decode for that two decade old lossless video coding format. Merged this week to FFmpeg Git were more enhancements to their Vulkan-based FFV1 encoder and yielding big performance improvements for both AMD and NVIDIA graphics processors...

FFmpeg FFV1 Vulkan Encoder Lands +35% Improvement For AMD, +50% For NVIDIA - Phoronix

FFmpeg developers have been working on Vulkan-accelerated FFV1 video encode/decode for that two decade old lossless video coding format

AMD Preparing For Some Nice GPU Reset Improvements Under Linux Longtime AMDGPU driver engineer Alex Deucher has posted an interesting set of patches on Wednesday for enhancing the GPU reset experience under Linux with RDNA graphics cards...

AMD Preparing For Some Nice GPU Reset Improvements Under Linux - Phoronix

Longtime AMDGPU driver engineer Alex Deucher has posted an interesting set of patches on Wednesday for enhancing the GPU reset experience under Lin...

libinput Preparing To Introduce A Lua-Based Plugin System For Modifying Devices/Events The libinput input handling library that's used by both X11 and Wayland based environments on the Linux desktop is preparing to introduce a Lua-based plug-in system. Via Lua scripts it will be possible to modify evdev input events / input device behavior to deal with quirky/broken input devices and better workaround other problems that aren't currently…

libinput Preparing To Introduce A Lua-Based Plugin System For Modifying Devices/Events - Phoronix

The libinput input handling library that's used by both X11 and Wayland based environments on the Linux desktop is preparing to introduce a Lu...