Linux NewsDebian 13.6 Released To Ship All The Latest Security Fixes, Reverts GeoIP Database
Debian 13.6 is out today as the newest point release of Debian Trixie to ship the latest security fixes and other maintenance updates...
Linux 7.3-rc3 Bringing Display Detection Improvement To Help Some Multi-GPU Systems
Sent out today was this week's round of x86 (x86_64) fixes ahead of the Linux 7.3-rc3 kernel test candidate due out on Sunday...
LLVM Merges x86 LFI "Lightweight Fault Isolation" Target For In-Process Sandboxing
Stanford researchers have been developing Lightweight Fault Isolation "LFI" compiler passes and targets for LLVM as a means of efficient, native code sandboxing. The AArch64 LFI target was previously upstreamed while this week the x86/x86_64 LFI target was also upstreamed for this means of in-process sandboxing...
KDE Developers Continue Landing More Features For Plasma 6.8
KDE developers continue to be very busy this summer landing more features for the upcoming Plasma 6.8 desktop...
Mesa's Rusticl Now Enables Arm Mali Panfrost Driver Support By Default
A change upstreamed to Mesa by an Arm engineer now enables the Panfrost Gallium3D driver for Arm Mali graphics to work with the Rusticl driver by default...
Wine 11.13 Better Supports Input Pointers, Improved Keyboard Scancode Mapping For X11
Wine 11.13 is out today as the newest bi-weekly development release for this open-source software enabling support for running Windows games and applications on Linux...
Pop!_OS Rolls Out Its "Frosted Glass" Desktop Style For COSMIC
System76 developers have for the past number of weeks been working on developing a "frosted glass" appearance for the COSMIC desktop environment featured on their Pop!_OS Linux distribution. For Pop!_OS users this frosted glass feature is now available and will become more widespread for other Linux distributions once the next COSMIC release is formally tagged...
KDE Plasma 6.7 X11 vs. Wayland Session Gaming Performance For NVIDIA On CachyOS
With KDE Plasma 6.7 now having seen a few point releases to further polish this last version with X11 support ahead of Plasma 6.8 going Wayland-only, here are some NVIDIA Linux gaming benchmarks between the X11 and Wayland sessions on Plasma 6.7.2 using the popular Arch Linux based CachyOS.
Linux 7.3 Enabling Second Graphics Pipe For Modern AMD APUs
AMD on Thursday sent out another round of AMDGPU kernel graphics driver and AMDKFD kernel compute driver updates to DRM-Next of new feature material ahead of the Linux 7.3 merge window...
Linux DT Patches Provide Very Basic Support For Apple M3 Pro / Max / Ultra
Upstreamed for the Linux 7.2 kernel was initial support for booting Linux on the Apple M3 SoC devices. But just the barebones suppport for booting with not yet any accelerated graphics or other typical function needed for daily use of M3 Apple devices on Linux, just booting to a console. Now this work is complemented by additional Device Tree patches for also booting M3 Pro / Max / Ultra devices on Linux...
HiZ Plane Optimization Merged For Intel Vulkan Linux Driver For Some Performance Benefit
After two years being on the TODO list for a possible performance optimization, the Intel open-source "ANV" Vulkan driver has now merged an HiZ plane optimization that can yield up to a few percent frame-rate improvement for Linux gaming/graphics on newer Intel integrated and discrete graphics hardware...
LLVM Clang Merges Initial Support For NVIDIA Rigel Core With Next-Gen Rosa CPU
Earlier this week NVIDIA confirmed some basic details around their next-gen Rosa CPU that succeeds Vera. Among the public confirmation was that it will feature a "Rigel" Armv9.2-A core iterating on their Olympus core design. With the basic details published, NVIDIA immediately introduced Rigel core support into the GCC compiler. Now they have also upstreamed their initial Rigel core enablement into the LLVM Clang compiler...
Intel-Scaler-vLLM 0.21.0-b1 Delivers Latest Features For vLLM On Intel GPUs
Released this morning was Intel's newest version of Intel-Scaler-vLLM as their Docker-based solution providing an optimized vLLM stack for execution on Intel Arc (Pro) graphics hardware...
Phoronix Premium 2026 Summer Support Special Ends Tonight
For those that enjoy the daily flow of original open-source/Linux news on Phoronix along with all of the original Linux hardware reviews and performance benchmarking, but haven't yet subscribed to Phoronix Premium to help keep the site going after 22 years, the summer sale ends tonight...
AMD Enabling CACP Feature On Linux For Greater OLED Power Savings
Today's batch of AMDGPU Display Code "DC" updates bring a few noteworthy items for benefiting modern hardware under Linux...
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