Devuan 6.1 Released For Latest Debian 13 "Init Freedom" Without systemd Released back in November was Devuan 6.0 for Debian 13 without systemd dependence in order to provide "init freedom" with letting users instead opt for SysVinit, OpenRC, or Runit as the init system. Devuan 6.1 is out today as the newest stable point release...

Devuan 6.1 Released For Latest Debian 13 "Init Freedom" Without systemd - Phoronix

Released back in November was Devuan 6.0 for Debian 13 without systemd dependence in order to provide 'init freedom' with letting users i...

NVIDIA Graphics On Haiku OS Make Progress With NVIDIA Open Kernel Modules + NVK/Zink As a wonderful New Year surprise, there's good momentum on NVIDIA graphics support for the BeOS-inspired Haiku open-source operating system...

NVIDIA Graphics On Haiku OS Make Progress With NVIDIA Open Kernel Modules + NVK/Zink - Phoronix

As a wonderful New Year surprise, there's good momentum on NVIDIA graphics support for the BeOS-inspired Haiku open-source operating system.

Valve's Linux Efforts, Kernel Improvements & KDE Plasma Wayland Advancements Topped 2025 After looking yesterday at the most viewed Linux hardware reviews and benchmarks of 2025, today's look is at the most popular open-source/Linux news of the past year. There were 3,286 original news articles on Phoronix during 2025 written by your's truly, here's a look back at what excited readers the most over these past twelve months...

Valve's Linux Efforts, Kernel Improvements & KDE Plasma Wayland Advancements Topped 2025 - Phoronix

After looking yesterday at the most viewed Linux hardware reviews and benchmarks of 2025, today's look is at the most popular open-source/Linu...

SDL 3.4 Released With Many New APIs, Better Emscripten & Native PNG Support Kicking off the new year for Linux gaming and cross-platform gaming at large is the release of the SDL 3.4 library. SDL is part of the Steam runtime and continues to be widely-used for abstracting software/hardware for creating more portable games and other applications...

SDL 3.4 Released With Many New APIs, Better Emscripten & Native PNG Support - Phoronix

Kicking off the new year for Linux gaming and cross-platform gaming at large is the release of the SDL 3.4 library

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