…Vulkan to Level Zero compute benchmarks , scaling up to four Arc Pro B70 graphics cards , comparing to NVIDIA RTX PRO Blackwell , and other relevant tests. While not intended for gaming, many Phoronix…
With Q2'2026 drawing to a close, as part of the different quarterly recaps of popular areas on Phoronix, here is a look back at the most popular AMD Linux/open-source…
Open-source developer Jos Dehaes wrote in to Phoronix today in announcing a new X11 server he has been working on from scratch that has been quietly developed to this point but…
…New developer "sofus" has been working on V4L2 support while ultimately this work will also be important for VA-API and/or Vulkan Video as well in the future. Asahi Linux also…
…Open-source developer and Phoronix reader Gianluca Masci wrote in to share his proof-of-concept work for allowing per-monitor wallpapers with the GNOME Shell. This brings the needed architectural changes…
Introduced back in 2023 with Vulkan 1.3.258 was VK_EXT_host_image_copy to copy data between host memory and images on the host processor without needing to stage the…
…After recently showing some nice performance gains for AMD Ryzen AI Max "Strix Halo" with Ubuntu 26.04 , several Phoronix readers inquired about any performance uplift from the more modest but still…
…Plasma 6.7 X11/Wayland benchmarks are coming up soon on Phoronix as a last look before the X11 session removal in Plasma 6.8. The full list of changes and other…
…The TLAC lead developer noted in an email to Phoronix that TLAC 2.0 supports scanning process memory using ptrace and procfs, detection of cheat signatures, and HWID-based banning. There is…
…Back in May, Phoronix was first to report on Intel developing the USB4STREAM protocol for Linux as a "super simple" way for transferring raw packets from one host to another via USB4…