Sway 1.11 Released With New Wayland Protocols & More Simon Ser announced the release of Sway 1.11 on Sunday as the newest feature update to this popular i3-inspired Wayland compositor from which the wlroots library was originally born...

Sway 1.11 Released With New Wayland Protocols & More - Phoronix

Simon Ser announced the release of Sway 1.11 on Sunday as the newest feature update to this popular i3-inspired Wayland compositor from which the w...

Linux 6.16-rc1 Released: New AMD & Intel Drivers, More Performance & Blackwell Support Linux 6.16-rc1 was just released by Linus Torvalds. This first release candidate of Linux 6.16 marks the close of the two-week merge window where many new features and other changes were introduced...

Linux 6.16-rc1 Released: New AMD & Intel Drivers, More Performance & Blackwell Support - Phoronix

Linux 6.16-rc1 was just released by Linus Torvalds

GNOME 49 Alpha 0 Releases Begin As GNOME 49 Preps For X11 Disabled-By-Default The GNOME 49 Alpha release isn't expected until the end of June but for facilitating additional testing and a number of prominent changes this cycle, a number of GNOME packages have begun releasing "GNOME 49 Alpha 0" tags as part of plans to issue multiple alpha releases this cycle. Notable for GNOME 49 are plans moving forward for disabling X11 session support …

GNOME 49 Alpha 0 Releases Begin As GNOME 49 Preps For X11 Disabled-By-Default - Phoronix

The GNOME 49 Alpha release isn't expected until the end of June but for facilitating additional testing and a number of prominent changes this...

Vulkan 1.4.317 Introduces VP9 Video Decode, ARM Tensors & 8-bit Floating Point Vulkan 1.4.317 was made public on Friday with a number of exciting new extensions, including VP9 video decoding for Vulkan Video, 8-bit floating-point data type support, and other additions...

Vulkan 1.4.317 Introduces VP9 Video Decode, ARM Tensors & 8-bit Floating Point - Phoronix

Vulkan 1.4.317 was made public on Friday with a number of exciting new extensions, including VP9 video decoding for Vulkan Video, 8-bit floating-po...

Initial USB Audio Offloading Code Merged For Linux 6.16 Merged on Friday to the Linux 6.16 kernel by way of the USB/Thunderbolt branch was the massive set of patches (12k+ lines of code) for USB offload support for audio devices...

Initial USB Audio Offloading Code Merged For Linux 6.16 - Phoronix

Merged on Friday to the Linux 6.16 kernel by way of the USB/Thunderbolt branch was the massive set of patches (12k+ lines of code) for USB offload ...

KDE Prepares For Plasma 6.4 Debut Next Week With Better VRR Experience KDE developers are on the final stretch of fixes and polishing ahead of the Plasma 6.4 release next Thursday. Plus there has been plenty of early work building toward Plasma 6.5...

KDE Prepares For Plasma 6.4 Debut With Better VRR Experience - Phoronix

KDE developers are on the final stretch of fixes and polishing ahead of the Plasma 6.4 release next Thursday

Intel Vulkan Driver Lands Improvement For Helping Direct3D Games Under Steam Play Merged today to Mesa 25.2 is an adjustment for the Intel "ANV" open-source Vulkan driver to help with Direct3D games running under Linux with Valve's Steam Play via Proton + VKD3D...

Intel Vulkan Driver Lands Improvement For Helping Direct3D Games Under Steam Play - Phoronix

Merged today to Mesa 25.2 is an adjustment for the Intel 'ANV' open-source Vulkan driver to help with Direct3D games running under Linux ...

The Performance Gains Brought By Linux 6.15+ & Mesa 25.2 For AMD Strix Halo While the AMD Ryzen AI Max+ Strix Halo SoCs have a nice out-of-the-box experience with modern Linux distributions for the Radeon 8050S and Radeon 8060S graphics, if going for the recently-released Linux 6.15 kernel there are some performance gains to enjoy as well as if opting for the latest Mesa 25.2 development code for the latest RadeonSI OpenGL and RADV …

The Performance Gains Brought By Linux 6.15+ & Mesa 25.2 For AMD Strix Halo - Phoronix

While the AMD Ryzen AI Max+ Strix Halo SoCs have a nice out-of-the-box experience with modern Linux distributions for the Radeon 8050S and Radeon 8...

Mesa's Rusticl Lands OpenCL FP16 Half-Float Support Mesa's modern Rust-written OpenCL driver for Gallium3D "Rusticl" has closed one of the few remaining gaps with the former Clover OpenCL state tracker. Merged today for Mesa 25.2 is native FP16 support...

Mesa's Rusticl Lands OpenCL FP16 Half-Float Support - Phoronix

Mesa's modern Rust-written OpenCL driver for Gallium3D 'Rusticl' has closed one of the few remaining gaps with the former Clover Ope...

Marking 21 Years Of Covering Linux Hardware Phoronix has made it another year. Today marks 21 years since I started Phoronix.com with a focus on providing Linux hardware reviews. Linux hardware support is a night and day difference then to today as is the overall ecosystem with all the major hardware vendors these days having some -- often significant -- levels of interest in Linux support. No longer is it typically a worry of whether your mouse,…

Marking 21 Years Of Covering Linux Hardware - Phoronix

Phoronix has made it another year