Linux

NVIDIA Blackwell, Continued AMD Zen 5 Benchmarking & Rust Drama Dominated February
While a shorter month, there were still 263 original articles published on Phoronix during February. A lot of exciting hardware in the lab to notable open-source milestones and interesting kernel developments made for an interesting month besides the u...
2025-03-01 06:38
GNOME's Mutter Now Supports The Wayland Cursor Shape Protocol
Racing toward the GNOME 48 finish line, developers have remained busy squeezing some remaining bits into place for this big open-source desktop release...
2025-03-01 06:26
KDE Developers Begin More Feature Work On Plasma 6.4
With the Plasma 6.3 desktop settling down and the early bugs being addressed, KDE developers have begun spending more time on feature work toward the Plasma 6.4 release...
2025-03-01 06:12
DeepSeek Develops Linux File-System For Better AI Training & Inference Performance
Chinese AI company DeepSeek made public this week 3FS, a Linux FUSE-based file-system intended for allowing better AI training and inference performance...
2025-02-28 20:36
Skype Hangs Up (For Good) on May 5 – Export Data Before Then!
Skype, one of the best-known video chat/calling apps, is shutting down forever on May 5, Microsoft has announced today. Nothing gold can stay, and neither can VoIP services shorn their cultural zeitgeist it seems. Replacing Skype will be a free version...
2025-02-28 19:32
NVIDIA Vulkan Beta Driver Updated For Blackwell & New Extensions
NVIDIA engineers closed out February by releasing the NVIDIA 570.123.01 Vulkan beta driver for Linux and on the Windows side was the NVIDIA 572.63 driver release...
2025-02-28 17:47
NetworkManager 1.52 Released with IPvlan Interface Support, ethtool FEC Mode
NetworkManager 1.52 open-source network connection manager is now available for download with IPvlan interface support, ethtool FEC mode, and other changes. Here's what's new! The post NetworkManager 1.52 Released with IPvlan Interface Support, ethtool...
2025-02-28 16:26
Linux App Release Roundup (Feb 2025)
February proved a bumper month for Linux software updates, seeing big release of productivity suites LibreOffice and ONLYOFFICE and, plus a crop of smaller app updates which didn’t merit a full-length article on this blog. Rather than skip over those...
2025-02-28 16:11
Life at Canonical: Akshara Pathak shares her experience as a new joiner in Customer Success
As Canonical continues to grow, we have developed a unique onboarding process that enables our new hires to quickly settle and establish themselves in our globally distributed environment.  During your first few weeks, your manager will create an onbo...
2025-02-28 15:37
AMD Prepares Linux Driver Support For Image Signal Processor With New Laptops
Patches were posted today for the Linux kernel implementing new drivers for web camera image signal processing (ISP) for supporting new, unspecified AMD Ryzen laptops...
2025-02-28 12:40
FreeDesktop.org Devises New Hosting Plan For GitLab Infrastructure
One month ago FreeDesktop.org/X.Org experienced a new cloud crisis with Equinix Metal shutting down and losing access to all the FreeDesktop.org cloud/hosting resources at the end of April. FreeDesktop.org GitLab powers not only the X.Org projects but ...
2025-02-28 11:58
How to conduct a vulnerability assessment
The realm of information security is fraught with jargon, as anyone who has come across vulnerability-related terms can tell you. To complicate matters further, some of these terms are used interchangeably or in contexts outside of computing. This can ...
2025-02-28 11:24
Learn how to run your data centre like a cloud at our March after-work event
At this in-person event, you’ll have the chance to rub shoulders with your colleagues in the cloud space, learn first-hand how open source infrastructure can have colossal impacts on your operating costs and business growth, and unwind with coffee, c...
2025-02-28 10:19
NetworkManager 1.52 Brings IPVLAN Interface Support, Ethtool FEC Mode
NetworkManager 1.52 is out today as the newest version of this widely-used system network service and network configuration tool suite for Linux systems...
2025-02-28 09:56
AMD Radeon RX 9070 Series Officially Announced
The embargo is over! We finally can share details on the exciting Radeon RX 9070 series graphics cards powered by RDNA4 that will be available from Internet retailers next week.
2025-02-28 08:00
There Will Not Be Official ROCm Support For The Radeon RX 9070 Series On Launch Day
AMD has been investing a lot into the ROCm compute stack to make it a more formidable contender against the NVIDIA CUDA software ecosystem. From better documentation and improved application/API coverage to expanding their range of supported AMD GPUs, ...
2025-02-28 08:00
AMD Engineer Talks Up Vulkan/SPIR-V As Part Of Their MLIR-Based Unified AI Software Play
An AMD engineer presented earlier this month at the Vulkanised 2025 conference in Cambridge (UK) around the work they are pursuing for AI using the MLIR intermediate representation, IREE, and the role that Vulkan/SPIR-V can play for AI acceleration acr...
2025-02-28 06:46
GCC 15.1 Compiler Nears Release As Bugs Whittled Away
Current GNU Compiler Collection release manager Richard Biener of SUSE provided an update concerning the upcoming GCC 15 stable compiler release...
2025-02-28 06:28
RADV Driver Expands Use Of Performance-Helping DCC Fast Clears On RDNA3 GPUs
Just ahead of the AMD RDNA4 GPUs launching, the Mesa RADV Vulkan driver has expanded a performance optimization technique for existing RDNA3 graphics processors...
2025-02-28 06:20
AI hands out Windows keys, but Linux never had a lock
AI’s latest escapade into software piracy has left Microsoft scrambling, but let’s be honest; why even go through the hassle? If people are looking at not paying for an operating system, they don’t need to look far when alternatives like openSUSE...
2025-02-28 06:00