Linux Mint Releases LMDE 7 Beta Following the recent release of Linux Mint 22.2 as the Linux Mint project's premiere operating system currently built atop Ubuntu 24.04 LTS, today marks the beta release of Linux Mint Debian Edition 7...

Linux Mint Releases LMDE 7 Beta - Phoronix

Following the recent release of Linux Mint 22.2 as the Linux Mint project's premiere operating system currently built atop Ubuntu 24.04 LTS, t...

Intel's Latest Open-Source Project To End & Layoff Developers... But A New Home At NumPy Beyond shutting down the Clear Linux project, various Linux driver maintainers let go that have even led to some Intel drivers being "orphaned" in the Linux kernel, there is another open-source project that has ended at Intel with the developers departing the company. Though at least this project has found a new open-source home under the NumPy umbrel…

Intel's Latest Open-Source Project To End & Layoff Developers... But A New Home At NumPy - Phoronix

Beyond shutting down the Clear Linux project, various Linux driver maintainers let go that have even led to some Intel drivers being 'orphaned...

OpenJDK 25 & GraalVM 25 Released With 32-bit x86 Support Removed Released yesterday was the OpenJDK Java 25 release along with Oracle's GraalVM 25 alternative JVM...

OpenJDK 25 & GraalVM 25 Released With 32-bit x86 Support Removed - Phoronix

Released yesterday was the OpenJDK Java 25 release along with Oracle's GraalVM 25 alternative JVM.

GNOME 49 Officially Released With Wayland Improvements, Showtime As Video Player GNOME 49.0 is out today as the latest half-year feature release to the GNOME desktop that will go on to power the likes of Fedora Workstation 43 and Ubuntu 25.10...

GNOME 49 Officially Released With Wayland Improvements, Showtime As Video Player - Phoronix

GNOME 49.0 is out today as the latest half-year feature release to the GNOME desktop that will go on to power the likes of Fedora Workstation 43 an...

Mesa's Zink Driver Achieves Hits Major Milestone For Workstation Graphics Mike Blumenkrantz of Valve's Linux graphics team is the one who has been driving the development forward on Mesa's Zink OpenGL-on-Vulkan driver. While traditionally focused on getting OpenGL games running over Zink, recently he has taken to optimizing Zink for workstation graphics...

Mesa's Zink Driver Achieves Hits Major Milestone For Workstation Graphics - Phoronix

Mike Blumenkrantz of Valve's Linux graphics team is the one who has been driving the development forward on Mesa's Zink OpenGL-on-Vulkan ...

AMD ROCm 7.0 Officially Released With Many Significant Improvements Overnight the AMD ROCm 7.0 release tags began appearing within the public Git repositories. Now AMD ROCm 7.0 is officially released as a very significant step forward for AMD's open-source GPU compute stack for better competing against NVIDIA's CUDA ecosystem...

AMD ROCm 7.0 Officially Released With Many Significant Improvements - Phoronix

Overnight the AMD ROCm 7.0 release tags began appearing within the public Git repositories

AOMedia To Release AV2 Video Codec At Year's End The Alliance for Open Media announced today that they will be launching the next-generation AV2 video codec at the end of 2025...

AOMedia To Release AV2 Video Codec At Year's End - Phoronix

The Alliance for Open Media announced today that they will be launching the next-generation AV2 video codec at the end of 2025.

AMD Officially Confirms The End Of The AMDVLK Driver To no real surprise given the happenings (or there the lack of) the past few months, AMD formally announced publicly today that their open-source AMDVLK driver has been discontinued in favor of the Mesa RADV driver for Vulkan needs on Linux...

AMD Officially Confirms The End Of The AMDVLK Driver - Phoronix

To no real surprise given the happenings (or there the lack of) the past few months, AMD formally announced publicly today that their open-source A...