New Input Drivers Merged For Linux 6.18 In addition to last week's HID subsystem pull that brought haptic touchpad support and other exciting additions for Linux 6.18, the input subsystem pull was merged this week to introduce a few new input drivers...

New Input Drivers Merged For Linux 6.18 - Phoronix

In addition to last week's HID subsystem pull that brought haptic touchpad support and other exciting additions for Linux 6.18, the input subs...

Intel's Lead Engineer For Linux Performance Monitoring Is Leaving The Company This morning while finishing up work on the concerning Intel open-source comments from Intel Tech Tour in Arizona and summing up the declining open-source contributions and departures of numerous Intel open-source/Linux developers from the company, yet another Linux engineering departure crossed my wire...

Intel's Lead Engineer For Linux Performance Monitoring Is Leaving The Company - Phoronix

This morning while finishing up work on the concerning Intel open-source comments from Intel Tech Tour in Arizona and summing up the declining open...

OpenGL Mesh Shader Extension Merged Proposed last year was GL_EXT_mesh_shader as a cross-vendor mesh shading extension. That OpenGL mesh shader work led by an AMD engineer was merged today into the OpenGL Registry...

OpenGL Mesh Shader Extension Merged - Phoronix

Proposed last year was GL_EXT_mesh_shader as a cross-vendor mesh shading extension

Blender 5.0 Beta Builds Available Ahead Of Next Month's Official Release Beta builds of the Blender 5.0 3D modeling software are now available ahead of the planned stable release in mid-November...

Blender 5.0 Beta Builds Available Ahead Of Next Month's Official Release - Phoronix

Beta builds of the Blender 5.0 3D modeling software are now available ahead of the planned stable release in mid-November.

GCC 16 Compiler Shifting To "Stage 3" Development Next Month The GNU Compiler Collection will be shifting to its "stage three" development in November as focusing more on bug fixing now and new ports and less on existing compiler functionality/features...

GCC 16 Compiler Shifting To "Stage 3" Development Next Month - Phoronix

The GNU Compiler Collection will be shifting to its 'stage three' development in November as focusing more on bug fixing now and new port...

Python 3.14 Released With Performance Improvements, Free-Threading & Zstd Python 3.14 is now available as the newest annual major feature release for the Python programming language...

Python 3.14 Released With Performance Improvements, Free-Threading & Zstd - Phoronix

Python 3.14 is now available as the newest annual major feature release for the Python programming language.

The Many Memory Management Improvements In Linux 6.18 The many memory management "MM" changes were recently merged into the Linux 6.18 kernel, consisting of a number of interesting patch series...

The Many Memory Management Improvements In Linux 6.18 - Phoronix

The many memory management 'MM' changes were recently merged into the Linux 6.18 kernel, consisting of a number of interesting patch series.

Qt 6.10 Released With PipeWire Audio Backend & Many Other Improvements Qt 6.10 is now available as the latest feature update to this open-source and cross-platform toolkit...

Qt 6.10 Released With PipeWire Audio Backend & Many Other Improvements - Phoronix

Qt 6.10 is now available as the latest feature update to this open-source and cross-platform toolkit.

Ubuntu 25.10 Delivering Some Nice Performance Gains For Intel Core Ultra "Lunar Lake" Ubuntu 25.10 is looking quite nice in the performance department ahead of its official release later this week. On various systems tested thus far, Ubuntu 25.10 is delivering nice gains over Ubuntu 25.04 and compared to the current Ubuntu 24.04 LTS. The latest Ubuntu 25.10 benchmarking at Phoronix is looking at the Intel Core Ultra Lunar Lake performance …

Ubuntu 25.10 Delivering Some Nice Performance Gains For Intel Core Ultra "Lunar Lake" - Phoronix

Ubuntu 25.10 is looking quite nice in the performance department ahead of its official release later this week.

Many Networking Performance Improvements & New Hardware In Linux 6.18 The networking subsytem updates for Linux 6.18 have been merged. There is a lot of enticing performance optimizations in different areas of the networking stack for this new kernel. Plus new wired and wireless networking hardware support and other improvements to get excited about for this LTS kernel version...

Many Networking Performance Improvements & New Hardware In Linux 6.18 - Phoronix

The networking subsytem updates for Linux 6.18 have been merged