More HDR Preparations Merged In Time For GNOME 47 Following the recent Mutter 47 beta release that also marks the feature freze point for GNOME 47, there still are some High Dynamic Range (HDR) display preparations being merged ahead of this next stable desktop release due out in September... https://www.phoronix.com/news/GNOME-47-Mutter-More-HDR-Prep

AMD Ryzen 5 9600X & Ryzen 7 9700X Offer Excellent Linux Performance This could quite well be my simplest review in the past twenty years of Phoronix. The AMD Ryzen 9000 series starting with the Ryzen 5 9600X and Ryzen 7 9700X launching tomorrow are some truly great desktop processors. The generational uplift is very compelling, even in single-threaded Linux workloads shooting ahead of Intel's 14th Gen Core competition, across nearly 400 benchma… https://www.phoronix.com/review/ryzen-9600x-9700x

Sway Compositor Lands Wayland Explicit Sync Support Yesterday the Sway i3-inspired Wayland compositor saw tearing control support merged while today another prominent Wayland protocol has been merged: linux-drm-syncobj-v1 for explicit sync support... https://www.phoronix.com/news/Sway-Explicit-Sync-Merged

LLVM OpenMP Runtime Lands Improvements For Intel Meteor Lake A three month old merge request finally landed in mainline LLVM Git this past week to deliver improvements initially for Intel Meteor Lake processors... https://www.phoronix.com/news/LLVM-OpenMP-Better-Intel-MTL