More Improvements To Old AMD GPU Support On Linux Are Planned For 2026 With Linux 6.19 aging AMD GCN 1.0 and GCN 1.1 GPUs switched the default kernel driver used to provide for much better performance, RADV Vulkan support out-of-the-box, and other improvements compared to using the legacy Radeon DRM kernel driver. For 2026, Timur Kristóf of Valve's Linux graphics team has more improvements still planned to enhance these older AMD graphics cards on Linux...

More Improvements To Old AMD GPU Support On Linux Are Planned For 2026 - Phoronix

With Linux 6.19 aging AMD GCN 1.0 and GCN 1.1 GPUs switched the default kernel driver used to provide for much better performance, RADV Vulkan supp...

AMD Ryzen AI Max, Intel Graphics & Other Linux Benchmarks That Commanded 2025 This looks to be a wrap on 2025, Happy New Year to all the Phoronix readers over the past 21+ years. This year on Phoronix there were 226 original Linux hardware reviews and featured benchmark articles written by your's truly. Plus another 3,286 original open-source/Linux software and hardware news articles this calendar year. Here were the big topics of 2025 for the featured Linux hardware re…

AMD Ryzen AI Max, Intel Graphics & Other Linux Benchmarks That Commanded 2025 - Phoronix

This looks to be a wrap on 2025, Happy New Year to all the Phoronix readers over the past 21+ years

Ncurses 6.6 Released With Improved Windows Terminal Support, Other Enhancements Ncurses 6.6 was released today prior to closing out 2025. This programming library update for creating terminal-based text user interfaces (TUIs) features a variety of great improvements for ending out the year...

Ncurses 6.6 Released With Improved Windows Terminal Support, Other Enhancements - Phoronix

Ncurses 6.6 was released today prior to closing out 2025

Arch Linux Installer Adds CUPS, rEFInd Boot, IWD, COSMIC & Power Management Options Ahead of the January 2026 ISO refresh for Arch Linux, Archinstall 3.0.15 released today as the newest update to this convenient text-based OS installer...

Arch Linux Installer Adds CUPS, rEFInd Boot, IWD, COSMIC & Power Management Options - Phoronix

Ahead of the January 2026 ISO refresh for Arch Linux, Archinstall 3.0.15 released today as the newest update to this convenient text-based OS insta...

Open-Source Crown Game Engine v0.60 Released While the Godot Engine receives a lot of attention as a prominent open-source game engine, it's far from the only one in this space. Another open-source game engine capping out 2025 with a new release is the Crown Engine...

Open-Source Crown Game Engine v0.60 Released - Phoronix

While the Godot Engine receives a lot of attention as a prominent open-source game engine, it's far from the only one in this space

OpenCV 4.13 Brings More AVX-512 Usage, CUDA 13 Support, Many Other New Features OpenCV 4.13 is out this New Year's Eve in providing the latest open-source computer vision (CV) capabilities. OpenCV 4.13 brings a wide variety of enhancements to this widely-used computer vision library...

OpenCV 4.13 Brings More AVX-512 Usage, CUDA 13 Support, Many Other New Features - Phoronix

OpenCV 4.13 is out this New Year's Eve in providing the latest open-source computer vision (CV) capabilities

Unexpected Surprise: Windows 11 Outperforming Linux On An Intel Arrow Lake H Laptop Typically when receiving any review hardware preloaded with Microsoft Windows I tend to run some Windows vs. Linux benchmarks just as a sanity test plus it still seems to generate a fair amount of interest even though the outcome is almost always the same: Linux having a hefty performance advantage over Windows especially in the more demanding creator-type workloads. As an unexpected twi…

Unexpected Surprise: Windows 11 Outperforming Linux On An Intel Arrow Lake H Laptop - Phoronix

Typically when receiving any review hardware preloaded with Microsoft Windows I tend to run some Windows vs.

InputPlumber 0.70 Released With Expanded Hardware Support InputPlumber 0.70 is out today as the newest feature update to this open-source input router and re-mapper daemon for Linux systems. With more gaming handhelds coming to market and other controllers as well as the upward trajectory of Linux gaming, InputPlumber is becoming more applicable for this daemon to combine various input devices into different virtual device formats...

InputPlumber 0.70 Released With Expanded Hardware Support - Phoronix

InputPlumber 0.70 is out today as the newest feature update to this open-source input router and re-mapper daemon for Linux systems

The Open-Source OpenGL & Vulkan Drivers Enjoyed A Rather Remarkable 2025 The open-source OpenGL and Vulkan drivers making up Mesa had another very successful year. Even with all the years being invested into Mesa largely by Intel, AMD, Valve, Red Hat, and others, the upward trajectory continues for Mesa on expanding the hardware support, punctually adding new Vulkan extensions, and racking up other wins...

The Open-Source OpenGL & Vulkan Drivers Enjoyed A Rather Remarkable 2025 - Phoronix

The open-source OpenGL and Vulkan drivers making up Mesa had another very successful year

KDE Plasma's Wayland Transition "Nears Completion" In Ending Out 2025 In addition to today's blog post calling out the need for others to takeover the This Week In Plasma series, KDE developer Nate Graham also published another blog post to highlight the successes of the Plasma desktop over 2025. In particular, the KDE Plasma Wayland transition "nears completion" as it works to become Wayland-only in early 2027...

KDE Plasma's Wayland Transition "Nears Completion" In Ending Out 2025 - Phoronix

In addition to today's blog post calling out the need for others to takeover the This Week In Plasma series, KDE developer Nate Graham also pu...