GNOME 49 Will Enjoy Better Performance With More Fullscreen Apps Another change to look forward to with GNOME 49 come September is better/faster direct scanout for more applications thanks to a change that was merged to the Mutter compositor this past week...

GNOME 49 Will Enjoy Better Performance With More Fullscreen Apps - Phoronix

Another change to look forward to with GNOME 49 come September is better/faster direct scanout for more applications thanks to a change that was me...

KDE Developers Prepare More Wayland Improvements For Plasma 6.4 As we near the end of April, KDE developers remain quite busy working on more enhancements for the Plasma 6.4 desktop while many of them were also meeting this week in Graz, Austria for further development and planning...

KDE Developers Prepare More Wayland Improvements For Plasma 6.4 - Phoronix

As we near the end of April, KDE developers remain quite busy working on more enhancements for the Plasma 6.4 desktop while many of them were also ...

Newer Arm Mali GPUs Now Advertising Vulkan 1.2 Support With Mesa's PanVK Driver Following recent Vulkan 1.1 support within Mesa for the PanVK driver for open-source Arm Mali Vulkan driver support, Vulkan 1.2 is now being advertised...

Newer Arm Mali GPUs Now Advertising Vulkan 1.2 Support With Mesa's PanVK Driver - Phoronix

Following recent Vulkan 1.1 support within Mesa for the PanVK driver for open-source Arm Mali Vulkan driver support, Vulkan 1.2 is now being advert...

Intel 200S Boost Performance Mode Benchmarks On Linux This week Intel announced "200S Boost" for Core Ultra "Arrow Lake" K-Series desktop processors as effectively a new overclocking profile rolling out to existing Z890 motherboards via a BIOS update. Enabling the 200S Boost profile is said to help with low-latency workloads like gaming by allowing higher fabric / die-to-die / memory frequencies. While some Windows benchmarks have begun em…

Intel 200S Boost Performance Mode Benchmarks On Linux - Phoronix

This week Intel announced '200S Boost' for Core Ultra 'Arrow Lake' K-Series desktop processors as effectively a new overclockin...

Linus Torvalds Expresses His Hatred For Case-Insensitive File-Systems Linus Torvalds is sharing some of his classic and straight-to-the-point wisdom today over file-systems with case-folding / case-insensitive file and folder support...

Linus Torvalds Expresses His Hatred For Case-Insensitive File-Systems - Phoronix

Linus Torvalds is sharing some of his classic and straight-to-the-point wisdom today over file-systems with case-folding / case-insensitive file an...

Intel Linux Graphics Driver Patches Updated For DRM Panic Support One of the interesting new features merged to the Linux kernel last year was the DRM Panic infrastructure so that Linux can display an error screen akin to Windows' "Blue Screen of Death" when encountering problems. With follow-on kernel releases it's been extended to add QR code error messages and other improvements. But DRM Panic does require the support/cooperation of …

Intel Linux Graphics Driver Patches Updated For DRM Panic Support - Phoronix

One of the interesting new features merged to the Linux kernel last year was the DRM Panic infrastructure so that Linux can display an error screen...

Orange Pi RV2 Benchmarks: The Most Performant RISC-V Board For Less Than $100 With 8 Cores + 8GB RAM Earlier this month Canonical announced Ubuntu Linux support for the Orange Pi RV2 as a low-cost RISC-V developer board. The Orange Pi RV2 with eight RISC-V cores and 8GB of RAM costs just around $64 USD. The price point and specs were interesting that I ordered one and have been running performance benchmarks on it since for seeing how ca…

Orange Pi RV2 Benchmarks: The Most Performant RISC-V Board For Less Than $100 With 8 Cores + 8GB RAM Review - Phoronix

Earlier this month Canonical announced Ubuntu Linux support for the Orange Pi RV2 as a low-cost RISC-V developer board.

Fedora 43 Change Proposal Filed For Removing GNOME X11 Packages: Wayland-Only GNOME Following a lot of work in this direction toward the end goal of removing GNOME X11 support, this milestone may finally be acheived for the Fedora 43 cycle due out by the end of the year. A change proposal has been filed for removing the GNOME X11 packages in the repository and in turn making the GNOME desktop Wayland-only on Fedora Linux...

Fedora 43 Change Proposal Filed For Removing GNOME X11 Packages: Wayland-Only GNOME - Phoronix

Following a lot of work in this direction toward the end goal of removing GNOME X11 support, this milestone may finally be acheived for the Fedora ...

Patches Hoping For The Upstream Kernel Finally Provide Google Pixel 4a Support The Google Pixel 4a smartphones launched in mid-2020 and now in mid-2025 it looks like we might finally be close to seeing mainline kernel support for the Pixel 4a devices and other hardware making use of Qualcomm Snapdragon 730/730G/732G SoCs...

Patches Hoping For The Upstream Kernel Finally Provide Google Pixel 4a Support - Phoronix

QEMU 10.0 Released With True Multi-Queue Support, New Apple Graphics Devices QEMU 10.0 was released today as the newest version of this emulator code that plays an important role in the open-source Linux virtualization stack...

QEMU 10.0 Released With True Multi-Queue Support, New Apple Graphics Devices - Phoronix

QEMU 10.0 was released today as the newest version of this emulator code that plays an important role in the open-source Linux virtualization stack.