NVIDIA 575.51.02 Linux Driver Beta Released With Smooth Motion Support With today's launch of the GeForce RTX 5060 Ti graphics card, NVIDIA has also introduced their first Linux driver beta in the R575 driver series...

NVIDIA 575.51.02 Linux Driver Beta Released With Smooth Motion Support - Phoronix

With today's launch of the GeForce RTX 5060 Ti graphics card, NVIDIA has also introduced their first Linux driver beta in the R575 driver series.

GCC 15 Squeezes In Some Last Minute Adjustments For AMD Zen 5 "znver5" The GCC 15.1 compiler release is expected in the coming weeks as the first stable version of GCC 15 as this annual GNU Compiler Collection release. As we approach the finish line, some last minute changes were merged for the AMD Zen 5 "znver5" CPU target...

GCC 15 Squeezes In Some Last Minute Adjustments For AMD Zen 5 "znver5" - Phoronix

The GCC 15.1 compiler release is expected in the coming weeks as the first stable version of GCC 15 as this annual GNU Compiler Collection release

Mesa 25.1 Panfrost & PanVK Begin Supporting Newer Arm Mali 5th Gen Graphics With the newest Mesa 25.1-devel Git code merged today the Panfrost Gallium3D and PanVK Vulkan drivers for Arm Mali open-source graphics are supporting Mali 5th Gen gen 1 (v12) and gen 2 (v13) devices...

Mesa 25.1 Panfrost & PanVK Begin Supporting Newer Arm Mali 5th Gen Graphics - Phoronix

With the newest Mesa 25.1-devel Git code merged today the Panfrost Gallium3D and PanVK Vulkan drivers for Arm Mali open-source graphics are support...

Fedora 42 Released As A Fantastic Update To This Leading-Edge Linux Distribution Fedora 42 is out today as a fabulous update to this prominent leading-edge Linux distribution sponsored by Red Hat. I've been running Fedora 42 on several systems already -- including upgrading my main production system to it -- and it's been working out very well. Fedora 42 is packed full of new features and software updates making it a great H1'2025 Linux operatin…

Fedora 42 Released As A Fantastic Update To This Leading-Edge Linux Distribution - Phoronix

Fedora 42 is out today as a fabulous update to this prominent leading-edge Linux distribution sponsored by Red Hat

Manjaro 25.0 Released With Upgrades To Linux 6.12 Plus GNOME 48 & KDE Plasma 6.3 In addition to yesterday's alpha release of the semi-immutable Majaro Summit distribution, Manjaro Linux has now resolved Manjaro 25.0 as the newest version of this (non-immutable) Arch Linux based desktop operating system...

Manjaro 25.0 Released With Upgrades To Linux 6.12 Plus GNOME 48 & KDE Plasma 6.3 - Phoronix

In addition to yesterday's alpha release of the semi-immutable Majaro Summit distribution, Manjaro Linux has now resolved Manjaro 25.0 as the ...

Manjaro Summit Now In Alpha For Semi-Immutable, Atomically Updated Arch Linux Distro For fans of the Arch-based Manjaro Linux distribution, the distribution team announced the public alpha release of Manjaro Summit: a new semi-immutable flavor along similar lines to Fedora Silverblue, Nitrux, Aeryn OS, openSUSE Aeon, and others...

Manjaro Summit Now In Alpha For Semi-Immutable, Atomically Updated Arch Linux Distro - Phoronix

For fans of the Arch-based Manjaro Linux distribution, the distribution team announced the public alpha release of Manjaro Summit: a new semi-immut...

Intel Lunar Lake On Linux Can Roughly Match Windows 11 Xe2 Graphics - When Not Stuck At 400MHz Earlier this month I looked at the AMD RDNA 3.5 graphics with Strix Point between Windows 11 and Ubuntu 25.04 Linux. The testing showed the AMD RDNA 3.5 graphics on the open-source Linux driver up to around 96% the performance of Radeon Software on Windows. The most frequent question that came up from that most recent round of benchmark…

Intel Lunar Lake On Linux Can Roughly Match Windows 11 Xe2 Graphics - When Not Stuck At 400MHz - Phoronix

Earlier this month I looked at the AMD RDNA 3.5 graphics with Strix Point between Windows 11 and Ubuntu 25.04 Linux.

Amarok 3.3 Beta Released For Qt6-Powered KDE Music Player Last year work on KDE's Amarok music player was resurrected after a six year development hiatus. With the return to Amarok development it was ported to Qt6 and KDE Frameworks 5. At the end of last year Amarok 3.2 released with initial Qt6 and KDE Frameworks 6 support while retaining Qt5/KF5 support. Now out today is the Amarok 3.3 beta to drop that prior-generation support...

Amarok 3.3 Beta Released For Qt6-Powered KDE Music Player - Phoronix

Last year work on KDE's Amarok music player was resurrected after a six year development hiatus

Pinta 3.0 Image Editing Program Released With Port To GTK4 One month after GIMP 3.0 was finally released for this popular image editor ported to GTK3 and many other changes, Pinta 3.0 has now been released. Pinta as a reminder is the open-source image editing program inspired by Paint.NET. With the Pinta 3.0 release the image editor has been ported to GTK4 and libadwaita...

Pinta 3.0 Image Editing Program Released With Port To GTK4 - Phoronix

One month after GIMP 3.0 was finally released for this popular image editor ported to GTK3 and many other changes, Pinta 3.0 has now been released

SDL Merges Wayland Multi-Seat Support An interesting merge this weekend to the Simple DirectMedia Library (SDL) that is widely-used by cross-platform games and other applications for software/hardware abstractions is Wayland multi-seat support. This addition also comes with a developer working on Valve's Linux graphics efforts...

SDL Merges Wayland Multi-Seat Support - Phoronix

An interesting merge this weekend to the Simple DirectMedia Library (SDL) that is widely-used by cross-platform games and other applications for so...