Proposal Seeks To Replace MySQL With MariaDB By Default For Ubuntu 25.04 Most Linux distributions have been defaulting to MariaDB as the default MySQL server for years. Ubuntu though has been a notable outlier still relying on Oracle MySQL for the default MySQL service. A proposal raised by an Ubuntu developer hopes to change that for Ubuntu 25.04 in the new year... https://www.phoronix.com/news/Ubuntu-25.04-Maybe-MariaDB

Haiku OS Working On USB 3 SuperSpeed Plus Support The Haiku open-source operating project known for letting the BeOS spirit live on is out with their newest monthly progress report... https://www.phoronix.com/news/Haiku-OS-August-2024

Wow! Microsoft DirectX Adopting SPIR-V Moving Forward Well this is a hell of a surprise... Microsoft announced today that DirectX will be adopting SPIR-V as the interchange format of the future. Microsoft's DirectX 12 will accept shaders compiled to SPIR-V, the intermediate representation defined by The Khronos Group and commonly associated with Vulkan / OpenGL / OpenCL drivers... https://www.phoronix.com/news/DirectX-Adopting-SPIR-V

Linux 6.12 Scheduler Code Adds SCHED_DEADLINE Servers & Complete EEVDF The scheduler updates have been submitted for the Linux 6.12 kernel and come with several notable enhancements... https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-6.12-Scheduler

H.264/H.265 Vulkan Encoder Support Merged Into FFmpeg The FFmpeg multimedia library continues to enhance its support around the Vulkan Video APIs with the latest commits seeing H.264 and H.265/HEVC Vulkan encode support merged... https://www.phoronix.com/news/FFmpeg-Vulkan-Encode-H.265

Btrfs Sees Minor Performance Optimizations With Linux 6.12 The Btrfs file-system continues marching ahead with the Linux 6.12 kernel... https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-6.12-Btrfs

Mir 2.18 Released With Wayland Server-Side Decorations Canonical today shipped Mir 2.18 as the latest version of this set of open-source libraries for assembly Wayland-based shells. Mir 2.18 brings a number of new features including Wayland server-side decorations... https://www.phoronix.com/news/Mir-2.18-Released

AMD Publishes RDNA 3.5 ISA Documentation AMD today made public their RDNA 3.5 instruction set architecture (ISA) programming guide for these updated RDNA3 graphics found within new Ryzen AI 300 "Strix Point" APUs thus far... https://www.phoronix.com/news/AMD-RDNA-3.5-ISA-Documentation

Linux 6.11 Features Many Exciting Updates For AMD Hardware & More It's expected to be the Linux 6.11 release day! We are just hours away from hopefully seeing Linux 6.11 stable christened as the kernel set to power the likes of Ubuntu 24.10 and Fedora 41. Here's a reminder of some of the most interesting new features and changes to look forward to with Linux 6.11... https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-6.11-Feature-Recap

AMD GPU Linux Driver Becoming "Really Really Big" That It's Starting To Cause Problems The modern AMD kernel graphics driver "AMDGPU" is the biggest driver within the mainline Linux kernel and is approaching six million lines of code albeit a large chunk of that is made up of auto-generated header files for each supported GPU. But this AMDGPU kernel driver is becoming "really really big" that it's beginning to cause issues for Plymouth … https://www.phoronix.com/news/AMDGPU-Driver-Plymouth-Woes