62 Patches Posted For Stripping Classic Initrd Support From The Linux Kernel Last month I wrote about initrd support potentially being on its way out of the Linux kernel. For years Linux developers have wanted to phase out the classic initial RAM disk support from the Linux kernel and it looks like that day may finally be near with patches having been posted for removing the support...

62 Patches Posted For Stripping Classic Initrd Support From The Linux Kernel - Phoronix

Last month I wrote about initrd support potentially being on its way out of the Linux kernel

libadwaita 1.8 Released Ahead Of GNOME 49 Ahead of the GNOME 49 stable release expected on Wednesday, libadwaita 1.8 released this week to incorporate all the enhancements made over the past six months to this GTK4 library that provides GNOME-specific widgets and features...

libadwaita 1.8 Released Ahead Of GNOME 49 - Phoronix

Ahead of the GNOME 49 stable release expected on Wednesday, libadwaita 1.8 released this week to incorporate all the enhancements made over the pas...

Intel Linux Graphics Driver Seeing 2~5% Faster Shader Compilation Times, Up To ~20% A few days ago I wrote about Intel fixing some Panther Lake Xe3 graphics performance issues ahead of launch. The downside of those performance optimizations for Panther Lake was that they led to longer shader compilation times. The good news though is that some separate improvements were merged now for Mesa 25.3 to help enhance the Intel graphics shade…

Intel Linux Graphics Driver Seeing 2~5% Faster Shader Compilation Times, Up To ~20% - Phoronix

A few days ago I wrote about Intel fixing some Panther Lake Xe3 graphics performance issues ahead of launch

Linux Mint 22.3 Planned To Bring More Wayland Improvements While Linux Mint 22.2 was just released one week ago, Linux Mint developers are planning for a Linux Mint 22.3 update before year's end...

Linux Mint 22.3 Planned To Bring More Wayland Improvements - Phoronix

While Linux Mint 22.2 was just released one week ago, Linux Mint developers are planning for a Linux Mint 22.3 update before year's end.

Fedora 43 Beta Being Released Next Week Fedora 43 Beta is declared a "GO" and ready for release next Tuesday...

Fedora 43 Beta Being Released Next Week - Phoronix

Fedora 43 Beta is declared a 'GO' and ready for release next Tuesday.

Apache Software Foundation Unveils Its Branding Overhaul With New Logo & "The ASF" Name The Apache Software Foundation announced last year that they would be changing its corporate logo and overhaul its branding after being criticized by American Indian activists. Today they announced the brand new Apache Software Foundation branding...

Apache Software Foundation Unveils Its Branding Overhaul With New Logo & "The ASF" Name - Phoronix

The Apache Software Foundation announced last year that they would be changing its corporate logo and overhaul its branding after being criticized ...

GCC Rust Compiler Continues Quest To Compile The Linux Kernel Crate The GCC Rust compiler "gccrs" compiler developers have been keeping at it toward their goal of being able to compile the Linux kernel's Rust kernel crate and as part of that the Rust core library...

GCC Rust Compiler Continues Quest To Compile The Linux Kernel Crate - Phoronix

The GCC Rust compiler 'gccrs' compiler developers have been keeping at it toward their goal of being able to compile the Linux kernel&#03...

Firefox Finally Introducing Matroska / MKV Playback Support Within the nightly builds of the Firefox web browser is finally the ability to support playback of Matroska "MKV" content...

Firefox Finally Introducing Matroska / MKV Playback Support - Phoronix

Within the nightly builds of the Firefox web browser is finally the ability to support playback of Matroska 'MKV' content.

Linux 6.18 To Introduce Pixpaper DRM Driver, boot_display DRM Attribute Thomas Zimmermann of SUSE sent out today what is anticipated to be the last drm-misc-next feature pull request for DRM-Next that is targeting the upcoming Linux 6.18 kernel cycle...

Linux 6.18 To Introduce Pixpaper DRM Driver, boot_display DRM Attribute - Phoronix

Thomas Zimmermann of SUSE sent out today what is anticipated to be the last drm-misc-next feature pull request for DRM-Next that is targeting the u...

Mesa Drops VDPAU Video Acceleration In Favor Of VA-API Mesa's Gallium3D video acceleration code has long supported both the VA-API and VDPAU interfaces for video acceleration. VA-API has enjoyed more widespread support among Linux applications and typically more robust while the Video Decode and Presentation API for Unix (VDPAU) was the interface originally started by NVIDIA for their official Linux driver. As of today, Mesa has now removed suppor…

Mesa Drops VDPAU Video Acceleration In Favor Of VA-API - Phoronix

Mesa's Gallium3D video acceleration code has long supported both the VA-API and VDPAU interfaces for video acceleration