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PhoronixSiliconGIMP 3.2.8 Released With Many Refinements, Numerous Security Fixes Due To AI Reports GIMP 3.2.8 is out today as the newest stable release of this open-source image editing application that's most popular on the Linux desktop...
PhoronixSiliconLinux 7.4 Features Steam Frame VR Headset, More AMD Zen 6 Enablement & Initial Apple M4 / A18 Pro Bring-Up The Linux 7.4 kernel is hopefully going to be this year's Long Term Support (LTS) kernel version and is coming jam-packed with new features and changes.
PhoronixSiliconRadeonSI & RADV Now Enabling D16 Support For GFX8 Era GPUs Thanks to the latest work by Georg Lehmann of Valve's Linux graphics team, the AMD GFX8 generation of GPUs that stretch from GCN Volcanic Islands through Polaris GPUs is still seeing improved Linux…
PhoronixSiliconFedora 45 Released With Many Leading-Edge Linux Innovations After challenged by two release delays, Fedora 45 is officially out as the latest six-month update to this leading Linux distribution...
PhoronixSiliconLinux Preparing Faster FAT32 Performance In 2027 With Up To 4.06x Improvement In addition to some significant performance improvements for FAT32 in Linux 7.4, more performance improvements are on the way.
PhoronixSiliconopenSUSE Leap 16.1 Released With Immutable Sever Integration The openSUSE Leap 16.1 Linux distribution is out today and built from the same sources as SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 16.1...
PhoronixSiliconThe Linux Kernel Preparing To Remove The Last Of Its MMX Optimized Code For what will likely be merged to the Linux 7.5 kernel, the mainline kernel is preparing to drop its last optimization its been carrying for far outdated MMX processors.
PhoronixSiliconIntel Compute Runtime Continues Prepping For GPU D Series, OpenCL LEO for Nova Lake P Released today was the Intel Compute Runtime 26.40.40196.8 as the newest version of their open-source GPU compute stack for both Windows and Linux systems...
PhoronixSiliconSUSE Laying Off 10% Of Its Workforce Due To AI & Automation Bavarian-based enterprise Linux distribution vendor SUSE is laying off 10% of its global workforce as a result of AI and automation...
PhoronixSiliconGCC 17 Compiler Merges Support For AVX10V1AUX Landing today into the GCC 17 compiler codebase is initial support for AVX10V1AUX as the auxillary updates to AVX10.1 that are out of the cross-vendor AI Compute Extensions "ACE" initiative between…
PhoronixSiliconIntel Brings RPL-M/RPL-P SoundWire To Upstream Linux For Raptor Lake Powered Automobiles Intel today posted a set of patches for bringing SoundWire support in the upstream Intel AVS driver for Raptor Lake.
PhoronixSiliconAerynOS 2026.11 Released With New Installer Option, Other Improvements AerynOS 2026.11 was released today along with a lengthy blog post highlighting the recent development work on this original Linux distribution...
PhoronixSiliconRadeon RADV Vulkan Driver Adopts An LLM Policy The Mesa RADV driver that provides Vulkan API support for AMD Radeon GPUs on Linux has adopted its own policy around AI / large language models (LLMs) for code contributions...
PhoronixSiliconFreeRDP 3.33 Released With WebAssembly Support, Huge Influx Of Activity Due To AI The FreeRDP 3.33 software released today as the newest version of this open-source Microsoft Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP) implementation...
PhoronixSiliconKDE Linux Nearing Its Beta Milestone, Now Ships With NTSYNC By Default KDE developer Nate Graham published his monthly blog post on Sunday to outline the current state of KDE Linux and some of the changes made to this in-house Linux distribution over the course of…
PhoronixSiliconSteam On Linux Just Under 4% For October 2026 Valve just published their Steam Survey results for October and point to a small uptick in Linux gaming use on a relative basis...
PhoronixSiliconLinux 7.4-rc1 Released With Nice Performance Improvements, AMD Ryzen Zen 6 Preparations & AMDGPU HDMI 2.1 Default Even with Linus Torvalds having been on holiday, Linux 7.4-rc1 is out today on-schedule for capping off the Linux 7.4 merge window...
PhoronixSiliconThe Linux 7.4 Merge Window Is Easily The Largest In Kernel History After writing this morning with some stats about the size of the Linux 7.4 merge window and the kernel's source tree approaching 42 million lines, I was curious to run some numbers for putting the…
PhoronixSiliconOverlayFS Sees Many Fixes Thanks To AI Code Review Merged this weekend for Linux 7.4 and also marked for back-porting to current stable kernel versions are a number of fixes to the OverlayFS union mount file-system...
PhoronixSiliconAI Use In The Linux Kernel, Microsoft Defender On Linux & Other October Highlights October brought the releases of Linux 7.3, Ubuntu 26.10, the KDE Plasma 6.8 desktop, and a wealth of other open-source software releases.
PhoronixSiliconLinux's Perf Python Scripts More Robust & Faster With Linux 7.4 Merged this weekend to Linux 7.4 Git were all of the perf subsystem tooling updates. Most notable to these tooling updates for dealing with performance counters and more on Linux is an overhaul to…
PhoronixSiliconLinux 7.4 Merge Window Saw Nearly 20k Commits, Source Tree Approaching 42 Million Lines Linux 7.3 started out just under 41 million lines in total in the kernel source tree. In the end the Linux v7.3 tag came in at 41,019,555 lines as measured by cloc while now with Linux 7.4 we are…
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