NVIDIA Optimizes Printing Of Linux Memory Stats For 11% System Time Savings A NVIDIA engineer restructuring some of the printf-related code within the memory resource controller "memcg" statistics printing code to reduce the system time by 11% for dumping those stats...

NVIDIA Optimizes Printing Of Linux Memory Stats For 11% System Time Savings - Phoronix

A NVIDIA engineer restructuring some of the printf-related code within the memory resource controller 'memcg' statistics printing code to...

Linus Torvalds: "The AI Slop Issue Is *NOT* Going To Be Solved With Documentation" The Linux kernel developers for months now have been debating proposed guidelines for tool-generated submissions to the Linux kernel. As part of the "tools", the main motivator for this documentation has been around the era of AI and large language models with coding assistants and more. Torvalds made some remarks on the Linux kernel mailing list around his belief in focusing the document…

Linus Torvalds: "The AI Slop Issue Is *NOT* Going To Be Solved With Documentation" - Phoronix

The Linux kernel developers for months now have been debating proposed guidelines for tool-generated submissions to the Linux kernel

Radeon RADV Vulkan Driver Is On The Verge Of Another Big Ray-Tracing Performance Gain Natalie Vock as one of the open-source developers on Valve's Linux graphics team has been spearheading another big ray-tracing performance improvement for the AMD Radeon Vulkan driver. RADV ray-tracing performance improved a lot in 2025 but it's looking like 2026 could be even more exciting...

Radeon RADV Vulkan Driver Is On The Verge Of Another Big Ray-Tracing Performance Gain - Phoronix

Natalie Vock as one of the open-source developers on Valve's Linux graphics team has been spearheading another big ray-tracing performance imp...

All Fedora 44 KDE Variants To Use Plasma Login Manager Rather Than SDDM The Fedora Engineering and Steering Committee (FESCo) has approved a Fedora 44 change for switching all KDE variants away from using the SDDM display manager to instead use the newer Plasma Login Manager...

All Fedora 44 KDE Variants To Use Plasma Login Manager Rather Than SDDM - Phoronix

The Fedora Engineering and Steering Committee (FESCo) has approved a Fedora 44 change for switching all KDE variants away from using the SDDM displ...

Redox OS Begins Developing Its Own Intel Graphics Driver The Rust-written Redox OS operating system had an exciting end to the year as it began developing its own native Intel graphics driver...

Redox OS Begins Developing Its Own Intel Graphics Driver - Phoronix

The Rust-written Redox OS operating system had an exciting end to the year as it began developing its own native Intel graphics driver.

Revised Steam Survey For December 2025 Puts Linux Gaming Marketshare At 3.58% Back on the 1st Valve published the Steam Survey results for December 2025 and they put the Linux gaming marketshare at 3.19%, a 0.01% dip from November. But now the December results have been revised with a nice bump to the Linux marketshare...

Revised Steam Survey For December 2025 Puts Linux Gaming Marketshare At 3.58% - Phoronix

Back on the 1st Valve published the Steam Survey results for December 2025 and they put the Linux gaming marketshare at 3.19%, a 0.01% dip from Nov...

Flatpak Exploring GPU Virtualization To Ease Driver Challenges Open-source developer Sebastian Wick has written a blog post outlining work to improve the graphics driver situation for Flatpaks. Particularly around situations like the NVIDIA driver stack that may depend upon a specific kernel version or where a Flatpak runtime may be end-of-life, dealing with GPU drivers in Flatpaks can be a burden. A solution being explored is GPU virtualization to deal with those GPU d…

Flatpak Exploring GPU Virtualization To Ease Driver Challenges - Phoronix

Open-source developer Sebastian Wick has written a blog post outlining work to improve the graphics driver situation for Flatpaks

GStreamer 1.28-RC1 Brings A Rust-Based GIF Decoder, Other New Rust Components On Monday the first release candidate of the GStreamer 1.28 multimedia framework was released. As is a recurring focus in recent releases, more GStreamer code is written in Rust for memory safety especially around decoding content...

GStreamer 1.28-RC1 Brings A Rust-Based GIF Decoder, Other New Rust Components - Phoronix

On Monday the first release candidate of the GStreamer 1.28 multimedia framework was released

Intel Talks Up Core Ultra Series 3 "Panther Lake" & Arc B390 Graphics Intel just hosted their CES keynote where they formally launched Panther Lake as the Core Ultra Series 3 SoCs...

Intel Talks Up Core Ultra Series 3 "Panther Lake" & Arc B390 Graphics - Phoronix

Intel just hosted their CES keynote where they formally launched Panther Lake as the Core Ultra Series 3 SoCs.

GNOME & Firefox Consider Disabling Middle Click Paste By Default: "An X11'ism...Dumpster Fire" Both the GNOME desktop and Mozilla Firefox browser projects are considering disabling middle-click-paste functionality by default...

GNOME & Firefox Consider Disabling Middle Click Paste By Default: "An X11'ism...Dumpster Fire" - Phoronix

Both the GNOME desktop and Mozilla Firefox browser projects are considering disabling middle-click-paste functionality by default.