Mesa 25.3.1 Released With Initial Set Of Fixes, Mesa 25.2 Comes To An End Mesa 25.3.1 was released overnight as the first point release of the Mesa 25.3 series. The Mesa point releases are typically bi-weekly but this one dragged out to nearly three weeks. In turn this also marks an end to the Mesa 25.2 series...

Mesa 25.3.1 Released With Initial Set Of Fixes, Mesa 25.2 Comes To An End - Phoronix

Mesa 25.3.1 was released overnight as the first point release of the Mesa 25.3 series

EXT4 Optimizes Online Defragmentation, Improves Performance & Larger Block Sizes The merged EXT4 changes for Linux 6.19 bring some of the most prominent feature changes in recent times for this mature and widely-used Linux file-system...

EXT4 Optimizes Online Defragmentation, Improves Performance & Larger Block Sizes - Phoronix

The merged EXT4 changes for Linux 6.19 bring some of the most prominent feature changes in recent times for this mature and widely-used Linux file-...

Intel's Open-Source Linux Graphics Driver Delivered Significant Improvements In 2025 Last week I provided a look at how Intel's GPU compute performance on Battlemage evolved in 2025. In today's article is a similar Intel Arc A-Series "Alchemist" and B-Series "Battlemage" look at how the OpenGL and Vulkan graphics performance has evolved over the past year. Simply put, the open-source Intel Linux graphics driver stack has evolved …

Intel's Open-Source Linux Graphics Driver Delivered Significant Improvements In 2025 - Phoronix

Last week I provided a look at how Intel's GPU compute performance on Battlemage evolved in 2025.

LibreOffice 26.2 Alpha 1 Released For Testing The first alpha release of the LibreOffice 26.2 open-source and cross platform office suite is now available for testing ahead of its official release in February...

LibreOffice 26.2 Alpha 1 Released For Testing - Phoronix

The first alpha release of the LibreOffice 26.2 open-source and cross platform office suite is now available for testing ahead of its official rele...

Important Performance Work: Overhaul Of RSEQ & CID Management Merged For Linux 6.19 An important set of patches were just merged a few minutes ago to Linux Git for the ongoing Linux 6.19 kernel with some important performance implications...

Important Performance Work: Overhaul Of RSEQ & CID Management Merged For Linux 6.19 - Phoronix

An important set of patches were just merged a few minutes ago to Linux Git for the ongoing Linux 6.19 kernel with some important performance impli...

NVIDIA 590.44.01 Beta Linux Driver Released With Wayland Improvements NVIDIA today released the 590.44.01 Linux driver build as the first beta of their R590 series driver branch for Linux customers...

NVIDIA 590.44.01 Beta Linux Driver Released With Wayland Improvements - Phoronix

NVIDIA today released the 590.44.01 Linux driver build as the first beta of their R590 series driver branch for Linux customers.

FreeBSD 15.0 Now Officially Available With Many Software Updates, Reproducible Builds FreeBSD 15.0 is officially released as the newest major update to this leading BSD operating system...

FreeBSD 15.0 Now Officially Available With Many Software Updates, Reproducible Builds - Phoronix

FreeBSD 15.0 is officially released as the newest major update to this leading BSD operating system.

Apple HFS/HFS+ File-System Drivers Receive Corruption Fixes & More For Linux 6.19 It was just earlier this year that Linux developers considered dropping the Apple HFS and HFS+ file-system drivers from the mainline Linux kernel for being unmaintained. But then some new developers stepped up to maintain the drivers and there has been new HFS/HFS+ file-system patches each kernel cycle since. With the now in-development Linux 6.19 kernel there…

Apple HFS/HFS+ File-System Drivers Receive Corruption Fixes & More For Linux 6.19 - Phoronix

It was just earlier this year that Linux developers considered dropping the Apple HFS and HFS+ file-system drivers from the mainline Linux kernel f...

Steam Machine, Continued Open-Source Rust Usage & Linux Kernel Happenings In November It was an eventful past month with Valve announcing the new Steam Machine, a lot of new Linux kernel activity, the continued increase of Rust programming language adoption by open-source projects, a lot of fun hardware benchmarks, and more. There were 283 original news articles on Phoronix the past month about Linux/open-source software and hardware plus …

Steam Machine, Continued Open-Source Rust Usage & Linux Kernel Happenings In November - Phoronix

It was an eventful past month with Valve announcing the new Steam Machine, a lot of new Linux kernel activity, the continued increase of Rust progr...

Intel Finally Posts Open-Source Gaudi 3 Driver Code For The Linux Kernel The good news is that Intel tonight posted a pull request for open-source Gaudi 3 accelerator support for the mainline Linux kernel! The bad news is that it's coming quite late in the product cycle, much later than the former excellent Habana Labs open-source track record, and their hopes of squeezing this code into the Linux 6.19 kernel may be dashed...

Intel Finally Posts Open-Source Gaudi 3 Driver Code For The Linux Kernel - Phoronix

The good news is that Intel tonight posted a pull request for open-source Gaudi 3 accelerator support for the mainline Linux kernel! The bad news i...