Snapdragon X Elite & AMD's Grado + Strix Halo CPUs Captured Phoronix Reader Interest In May May was another busy month when it comes to Linux hardware and software milestones albeit depressing when looking at the ongoing state of the web/ad industry. In any event there were 25 featured Linux hardware reviews / multi-page benchmark articles and another 268 original Linux-related news articles all written by your's truly for the month. Here is a lo…

Snapdragon X Elite & AMD's Grado + Strix Halo CPUs Captured Phoronix Reader Interest In May - Phoronix

May was another busy month when it comes to Linux hardware and software milestones albeit depressing when looking at the ongoing state of the web/a...

Intel Prepping Linux Driver For Future Data Center GPUs Based On Battlemage Intel engineers are preparing the Linux kernel for future Data Center GPUs. This work confirms new Intel Data Center GPUs coming based on Battlemage...

Intel Prepping Linux Driver For Future Data Center GPUs Based On Battlemage - Phoronix

Intel engineers are preparing the Linux kernel for future Data Center GPUs

Alpine Linux 3.22 Replaces Gummiboot With systemd-efistub Alpine Linux 3.22 is now available as the newest version of this Linux distribution popular for use with containers and embedded purposes due to its small, simple, and secure focus...

Alpine Linux 3.22 Replaces Gummiboot With systemd-efistub - Phoronix

Alpine Linux 3.22 is now available as the newest version of this Linux distribution popular for use with containers and embedded purposes due to it...

Radeon Software For Linux Dropping AMD's Proprietary OpenGL/Vulkan Drivers With how well the open-source and upstream AMD Radeon Linux graphics driver stack is these days between the mainline Linux kernel and Mesa, the Radeon Software for Linux packaged driver releases are not usually notable these days on Phoronix... The packaged Radeon Software for Linux drivers haven't been popular with gamers/enthusiasts in years given how good …

Radeon Software For Linux Dropping AMD's Proprietary OpenGL/Vulkan Drivers - Phoronix

With how well the open-source and upstream AMD Radeon Linux graphics driver stack is these days between the mainline Linux kernel and Mesa, the Rad...

AMDGPU High Priority Graphics User Queue Support Merged For Mesa 25.2 For making use of AMDGPU user queue functionality, the latest Mesa user-space side work has been merged for Mesa 25.2 to enable support for high priority graphics user queues...

AMDGPU High Priority Graphics User Queue Support Merged For Mesa 25.2 - Phoronix

For making use of AMDGPU user queue functionality, the latest Mesa user-space side work has been merged for Mesa 25.2 to enable support for high pr...

NVIDIA 575.57.08 Linux Stable Driver Released With Smooth Motion & Other Updates NVIDIA just released their v575.57.08 driver as the first stable Linux driver in their R575 release branch...

NVIDIA 575.57.08 Linux Stable Driver Released With Smooth Motion & Other Updates - Phoronix

NVIDIA just released their v575.57.08 driver as the first stable Linux driver in their R575 release branch.

KDE Plasma 6.4 Beta 2 Brings XWayland Fixes The second beta release of KDE's Plasma 6.4 desktop is now available for testing ahead of the official release in June...

KDE Plasma 6.4 Beta 2 Brings XWayland Fixes - Phoronix

The second beta release of KDE's Plasma 6.4 desktop is now available for testing ahead of the official release in June.

EROFS Lands Support For Tapping Intel QAT Accelerators There is a lot of exciting file-system changes landing for the Linux 6.16 kernel... EXT4 brings a "really stupendous performance" change, Btrfs also brings some performance improvements, XFS landed atomic writes, and Bcachefs continues stabilizing. For the EROFS read-only file-system its changes have been merged and includes support for Intel QAT acceleration...

EROFS Lands Support For Tapping Intel QAT Accelerators - Phoronix

There is a lot of exciting file-system changes landing for the Linux 6.16 kernel..

Canonical To Release Monthly Ubuntu Snapshots For Testing & Building Out Automation Canonical is sticking to Ubuntu Linux releases every six months and a Long Term Support (LTS) release every two years, but a new change to their development process is that they are now working to release monthly Ubuntu snapshots of their testing stream...

Canonical To Release Monthly Ubuntu Snapshots For Testing & Building Out Automation - Phoronix

Canonical is sticking to Ubuntu Linux releases every six months and a Long Term Support (LTS) release every two years, but a new change to their de...

More Intel Battlemage Graphics PCI IDs Added To Mesa OpenGL/Vulkan Drivers Intel engineers have added yet more PCI graphics device IDs for Battlemage to their open-source driver code within Mesa for Iris OpenGL and ANV Vulkan driver support...

More Intel Battlemage Graphics PCI IDs Added To Mesa OpenGL/Vulkan Drivers - Phoronix

Intel engineers have added yet more PCI graphics device IDs for Battlemage to their open-source driver code within Mesa for Iris OpenGL and ANV Vul...