Ubuntu 25.10's Move To Rust Coreutils Is Causing Major Breakage For Some Executables I noticed a number of benchmarks failing to run on Ubuntu 25.10 this week with reported checksum errors on the files... I quickly realized it's due to the recent Rust Coreutils transition for Ubuntu 25.10 causing some major breakage for those relying on Makeself archives...

Ubuntu 25.10's Move To Rust Coreutils Is Causing Major Breakage For Some Executables - Phoronix

I noticed a number of benchmarks failing to run on Ubuntu 25.10 this week with reported checksum errors on the files..

Wild: A Very Fast Linker Written In Rust, Aims To Outperform Mold Linker While the Mold linker has been very impressive for its speed the past few years compared to the linkers out of the LLVM and GNU toolchain projects, there is a new high speed linker on the scene and it's written in Rust: meet Wild...

Wild: A Very Fast Linker Written In Rust, Aims To Outperform Mold Linker - Phoronix

While the Mold linker has been very impressive for its speed the past few years compared to the linkers out of the LLVM and GNU toolchain projects,...

Mesa's PowerVR Vulkan Driver Gets Rid Of Its Old Hardcoded Shader Code Imagination's open-source PowerVR Vulkan driver within Mesa now is able to generate its different internal shaders required by the driver to forego shipping old hard-coded shaders...

Mesa's PowerVR Vulkan Driver Gets Rid Of Its Old Hardcoded Shader Code - Phoronix

Imagination's open-source PowerVR Vulkan driver within Mesa now is able to generate its different internal shaders required by the driver to f...

FFmpeg Introduces MPEG-H 3D Audio Decoding Support The widely-used FFmpeg open-source multimedia library has merged support for MPEG-H 3D Audio decoding...

FFmpeg Introduces MPEG-H 3D Audio Decoding Support - Phoronix

The widely-used FFmpeg open-source multimedia library has merged support for MPEG-H 3D Audio decoding.

Sony DualSense Controller Audio Jack Handling Ready For Linux 6.18 In addition to the patches providing haptic touchpad support for Linux 6.18, another notable HID addition queued into the "hid-next" tree ahead of the imminent Linux 6.18 merge window is proper audio jack handling with the Sony PlayStation DualSense controller...

Sony DualSense Controller Audio Jack Handling Ready For Linux 6.18 - Phoronix

In addition to the patches providing haptic touchpad support for Linux 6.18, another notable HID addition queued into the 'hid-next' tree...

SquashFS Optimization Achieves 15,277x Performance In Developer Benchmark SquashFS developer Phillip Lougher posted a patch today just over one hundred lines of code yielding an outright massive performance gain for some operations with this compressed. read-only file-system...

SquashFS Optimization Achieves 15,277x Performance In Developer Benchmark - Phoronix

SquashFS developer Phillip Lougher posted a patch today just over one hundred lines of code yielding an outright massive performance gain for some ...

Haptic Touchpad Support Expected For Linux 6.18 The upcoming Linux 6.18 kernel is expected to land initial haptic touchpad support as part of the HID subsystem updates...

Haptic Touchpad Support Expected For Linux 6.18 - Phoronix

The upcoming Linux 6.18 kernel is expected to land initial haptic touchpad support as part of the HID subsystem updates.

New Patches Optimize EXT4 Online Defragmentation For Better Performance A set of 13 patches were posted today to the Linux kernel mailing list for optimizing the online defragmentation handling by the EXT4 kernel driver. The online defragmentation improvements for EXT4 can net a nice performance win with a very significant improvement in a variety of scenarios...

New Patches Optimize EXT4 Online Defragmentation For Better Performance - Phoronix

A set of 13 patches were posted today to the Linux kernel mailing list for optimizing the online defragmentation handling by the EXT4 kernel driver

FFmpeg Lands Support For AHX, ADPCM Silicon Graphics N64 Decoder Beyond the continued flow of new performance optimizations via hand-written Assembly, with the FFmpeg project it's also interesting to monitor their ever-expanding scope of supported audio/video formats. The newest to land in FFmpeg Git is support for AHX audio files...

FFmpeg Lands Support For AHX, ADPCM Silicon Graphics N64 Decoder - Phoronix

Beyond the continued flow of new performance optimizations via hand-written Assembly, with the FFmpeg project it's also interesting to monitor...

Qt 6.10 RC Available For Testing With Native PipeWire Audio Back-End Out today is the Qt 6.10 release candidate for this forthcoming toolkit release...

Qt 6.10 RC Available For Testing With Native PipeWire Audio Back-End - Phoronix

Out today is the Qt 6.10 release candidate for this forthcoming toolkit release.