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ACD Power/Performance Feature Being Worked On For The GPU Within The Snapdragon X1
For the Qualcomm Adreno X1-85 GPU found within the Snapdragon X1 series of laptop chips, an Adaptive Clock Distribution "ACD" feature is currently being wired up to the open-source MSM kernel driver to help with power and performance...
2025-01-02 06:38
Linux "steelseries" Driver Being Extended For The SteelSeries Arctis 9 Wireless Headset
Within the mainline Linux kernel has been the open-source SteelSeries HID driver while newly posted patches are tacking on support for the SteelSeries Arctis 9 wireless gaming headset...
2025-01-02 06:27
What Do You Want to See From Ubuntu in 2025?
A new year has started, and who knows what kind of innovations and improvements it holds for for Ubuntu, which remains the world’s most used desktop Linux operating system. We get 2 new releases of Ubuntu each year, one in April and one in October. P...
2025-01-01 21:03
Steam On Linux Ends 2024 With A Nice Boost To Its Marketshare, AMD Linux CPU Use At 74%
Valve has just published the Steam Survey results for December 2024 and they reflect a nice upward trend for the Linux gaming statistics and a high point in recent times...
2025-01-01 20:41
Serpent OS To Explore Offline Rollbacks & Tools As A Service
Following the recent Serpent OS alpha builds for this original Linux distribution led by well known developer Ikey Doherty, the project has now outlined both some of their short term and longer term plans for this from-scratch Linux platform...
2025-01-01 20:26
Fedora-Based Nobara 41 Gaming Distro Switches to Open-Source NVIDIA Driver
Nobara 41 gaming distribution is now available for download based on Fedora Linux 41 and featuring the KDE Plasma 6.2 desktop environment. Here's what's new! The post Fedora-Based Nobara 41 Gaming Distro Switches to Open-Source NVIDIA Driver appeared f...
2025-01-01 16:56
PeaZip 10.2 Open-Source Archive Manager Released with Qt 6 Package for Linux
PeaZip 10.2 open-source archive manager is now available for download with GUI support for Brotli and Zstandard maximum compression settings and other changes. Here's what's new! The post PeaZip 10.2 Open-Source Archive Manager Released with Qt 6 Packa...
2025-01-01 13:13
X.Org Server Development Hit A Decade High For The Number Of Commits In 2024
To much surprise, the X.Org Server Git tree saw the most commits in 2024 going all the way back to 2014... While there were many more commits than in years prior, it's not a sign of resurgence for the X.Org Server with Wayland continuing to become the ...
2025-01-01 11:53
Managing IPv4 Address Conflict Detection with NetworkManager
This article describes address conflict detection with NetworkManager, providing examples to demonstrate the new features. Detecting any potential address conflict in IP networks is paramount to avoid issues such as: The mechanisms to avoid IP address ...
2025-01-01 08:00
GCC Patches Posted For Half-Century Old ALGOL 68 Programming Language
Mere hours into 2025 and some news I didn't expect to be writing about... An Oracle engineer has posted a set of patches implementing an ALGOL 68 programming language front-end for the GNU Compiler Collection (GCC). These are work-in-progress patches f...
2025-01-01 07:14
The Most Popular Linux & Open-Source News Of 2024
During the course of 2024 there were 3,021 original news articles written on Phoronix around Linux and open-source topics... Fresh content each and every day, 99% of which was written by your's truly. It was quite an eventful year with a lot of excitem...
2025-01-01 06:56
Linux "hid-universal-pidff" Driver Proposed For Fixing More Quirky Devices
The hid-pidff driver exists within the Linux kernel for enabling force feedback "FF" support on various USB HID PID (Physical Interface Device) compliant devices. With a new set of patches posted yesterday, that hid-pidff driver is extended to "hid-uni...
2025-01-01 06:45
Zlib-ng 2.2.3 Rings In The New Year With ~17.8% Faster Inflate For AVX2
Zlib-ng 2.2.3 is out as the "next gen" Zlib replacement led by Hans Kristian Rosbach that retains a Zlib-compatible API while also offering a modernized API, modern C11 syntax, support for more CPU intrinsics, and other leading-edge features compared t...
2025-01-01 06:33
RISC-V Made Nice Software Progress In 2024 While Interesting Hardware Still Rare
RISC-V on the software front made very nice progress over the past year with a lot of Linux kernel and toolchain improvements, new targets being enabled, and new instructions being supported along with other additions for improving the overall RISC-V s...
2025-01-01 06:22
10 Cool Changes Ubuntu Received in 2024
As another year transitions from present to past, I want1 to recap the notable new features, changes, updates and innovations Ubuntu saw over the past 12 months. And there was a fair bit: we got a noble new long-term support release in Ubuntu 24.04 LTS...
2024-12-31 23:22
KDE Plasma 6.2.5 Released as the Last Update in the Series with More Bug Fixes
KDE Plasma 6.2.5 is now available as the fifth and last update to the KDE Plasma 6.2 desktop environment series with more bug fixes and other changes. The post KDE Plasma 6.2.5 Released as the Last Update in the Series with More Bug Fixes appeared firs...
2024-12-31 21:25
Arch Linux Had A Great Year With Valve's Continued Backing, EndeavourOS & CachyOS Boost
The Arch Linux project appears to have enjoyed a rather robust and successful 2024 with Valve continuing to make use of it as a base for their SteamOS distribution and now engaging more with upstream Arch Linux. Downstreams like CachyOS, Manjaro, and E...
2024-12-31 20:41
Debian 13 “Trixie” Installer Alpha Released with Linux 6.12 LTS, RISCV64 Support
Debian GNU/Linux 13 “Trixie” installer is now ready for public testing with support for Linux kernel 6.12 LTS, RISCV64 support, a new default theme, and many other changes. The post Debian 13 “Trixie” Installer Alpha Released with Linux 6.12 LT...
2024-12-31 17:52
The Linux Kernel Hit A Decade Low In 2024 For The Number Of New Commits Per Year
With New Year's Eve at Phoronix it means combing through Git statistics for the past year of various open-source projects among other end of year coverage... The most surprising takeaway from today's end of year exploration was seeing the Linux kernel ...
2024-12-31 16:07
Debian Installer Trixie Alpha 1 Brings RISC-V & Drops i386 Installer
In working toward the Debian 13 "Trixie" stable release in 2025, as a lovely New Year's Eve surprise today is the first alpha release of the Debian Installer for Trixie...
2024-12-31 11:20