Radeon Software For Linux Dropping AMD's Proprietary OpenGL/Vulkan Drivers With how well the open-source and upstream AMD Radeon Linux graphics driver stack is these days between the mainline Linux kernel and Mesa, the Radeon Software for Linux packaged driver releases are not usually notable these days on Phoronix... The packaged Radeon Software for Linux drivers haven't been popular with gamers/enthusiasts in years given how good …

Radeon Software For Linux Dropping AMD's Proprietary OpenGL/Vulkan Drivers - Phoronix

With how well the open-source and upstream AMD Radeon Linux graphics driver stack is these days between the mainline Linux kernel and Mesa, the Rad...

AMDGPU High Priority Graphics User Queue Support Merged For Mesa 25.2 For making use of AMDGPU user queue functionality, the latest Mesa user-space side work has been merged for Mesa 25.2 to enable support for high priority graphics user queues...

AMDGPU High Priority Graphics User Queue Support Merged For Mesa 25.2 - Phoronix

For making use of AMDGPU user queue functionality, the latest Mesa user-space side work has been merged for Mesa 25.2 to enable support for high pr...

NVIDIA 575.57.08 Linux Stable Driver Released With Smooth Motion & Other Updates NVIDIA just released their v575.57.08 driver as the first stable Linux driver in their R575 release branch...

NVIDIA 575.57.08 Linux Stable Driver Released With Smooth Motion & Other Updates - Phoronix

NVIDIA just released their v575.57.08 driver as the first stable Linux driver in their R575 release branch.

KDE Plasma 6.4 Beta 2 Brings XWayland Fixes The second beta release of KDE's Plasma 6.4 desktop is now available for testing ahead of the official release in June...

KDE Plasma 6.4 Beta 2 Brings XWayland Fixes - Phoronix

The second beta release of KDE's Plasma 6.4 desktop is now available for testing ahead of the official release in June.

EROFS Lands Support For Tapping Intel QAT Accelerators There is a lot of exciting file-system changes landing for the Linux 6.16 kernel... EXT4 brings a "really stupendous performance" change, Btrfs also brings some performance improvements, XFS landed atomic writes, and Bcachefs continues stabilizing. For the EROFS read-only file-system its changes have been merged and includes support for Intel QAT acceleration...

EROFS Lands Support For Tapping Intel QAT Accelerators - Phoronix

There is a lot of exciting file-system changes landing for the Linux 6.16 kernel..

Canonical To Release Monthly Ubuntu Snapshots For Testing & Building Out Automation Canonical is sticking to Ubuntu Linux releases every six months and a Long Term Support (LTS) release every two years, but a new change to their development process is that they are now working to release monthly Ubuntu snapshots of their testing stream...

Canonical To Release Monthly Ubuntu Snapshots For Testing & Building Out Automation - Phoronix

Canonical is sticking to Ubuntu Linux releases every six months and a Long Term Support (LTS) release every two years, but a new change to their de...

More Intel Battlemage Graphics PCI IDs Added To Mesa OpenGL/Vulkan Drivers Intel engineers have added yet more PCI graphics device IDs for Battlemage to their open-source driver code within Mesa for Iris OpenGL and ANV Vulkan driver support...

More Intel Battlemage Graphics PCI IDs Added To Mesa OpenGL/Vulkan Drivers - Phoronix

Intel engineers have added yet more PCI graphics device IDs for Battlemage to their open-source driver code within Mesa for Iris OpenGL and ANV Vul...

Mesa's Rusticl Lands Support For Shared Virtual Memory & Intel Subgroups Rusticl as Mesa's Rust-based OpenCL driver implementation for Gallium3D drivers is ending the month of May on a high note... Merged this week was support for the Intel Subgroups OpenCL extension (cl_intel_subgroups) and before getting to that on my TODO list, an even bigger item was merged: Shared Virtual Memory (SVM) support...

Mesa's Rusticl Lands Support For Shared Virtual Memory & Intel Subgroups - Phoronix

Rusticl as Mesa's Rust-based OpenCL driver implementation for Gallium3D drivers is ending the month of May on a high note..

Arch Linux Installer Adds Option To Configure Btrfs Snapshots Post-Install Archinstall 3.0.7 is out today as the newest feature update to this text-based Arch Linux installer that makes it quick and easy to deploy a new Arch Linux installation...

Arch Linux Installer Adds Option To Configure Btrfs Snapshots Post-Install - Phoronix

Archinstall 3.0.7 is out today as the newest feature update to this text-based Arch Linux installer that makes it quick and easy to deploy a new Ar...

EXT4 For Linux 6.16 Brings A Change Yielding "Really Stupendous Performance" Ted Ts'o sent out the EXT4 file-system changes today for the Linux 6.16 kernel. While EXT4 may not see as much code churn these days given its mature state compared to say Btrfs and Bcachefs, with Linux 6.16 are some tantalizing performance improvements...

EXT4 For Linux 6.16 Brings A Change Yielding "Really Stupendous Performance" - Phoronix

Ted Ts'o sent out the EXT4 file-system changes today for the Linux 6.16 kernel