As part of Valve's work on developing the Steam Frame VR headset, they worked on foveated rendering support for the Mesa Turnip driver that supports the Qualcomm Adreno graphics with open-source Vulkan API support. Foveated rendering is the technique to more closely mimic human vision by rendering high detail at your direct gaze point and lower quality in the peripheral vision. For computer graphics, foveated rendering for headsets can be beneficial for conserving power in areas of the render frame that are less important to provide more performance with your main area of focus...

Tcl/Tk 9.1 adds screen reader accessibility, initial right-to-left text support, a new toggle switch widget, and several Tcl improvements.

Immediately following the OpenJDK 8 through OpenJDK 27 benchmarks I expanded the scope of testing to look at how recent OpenJDK releases have been comparing to alternative JVMs like GraalVM, Temurin, and Semeru. Here are those benchmarks if curious about the Java performance in those different environments.

PeaZip 11.3 has been released today as a new point release in the latest PeaZip 11 series of this open-source, free, and cross-platform archive manager for GNU/Linux, macOS, and Windows platforms.

With the third quarter wrapping up, here is a look back at the most interesting content on Phoronix over the past three months...

The GNOME Project released GNOME 50.5 as the fifth maintenance update to the latest GNOME 50 “Tokyo” desktop environment series to fix more bugs across various core apps and components.

Edison Design Group has open-sourced their EDG C/C++ front-end that has been known in the commercial world for its extensive dialect support and other features. The EDG C++ front-end has been used by the likes of Intel C++ Compiler classic, NVIDIA CUDA NVCC, and even Microsoft Visual Studio for IntelliSense...

The FSF’s concerns go beyond whether AI platforms need kill switches. They extend to who controls them—and whether users will have any say.

AI is having an oversized impact on the open-source OpenStack cloud infrastructure platform.

AI workloads are driving new hardware and storage requirements in OpenStack, while AI-assisted security research is driving up the number of vulnerability reports. Those are two of the prevailing themes in OpenStack 2026.2, code-named Hibiscus, which reaches general availability on Sept. 30.

Audacity 4.0.1 has been released today as the first maintenance update to the latest Audacity 4.0 series of this open-source, free, and cross-platform audio editing software for Linux, macOS, and Windows.

Released overnight was the Intel Media Driver 2026Q3 stack for providing the latest open-source video encode/decode capabilities on Intel integrated/discrete graphics hardware. Most notable with the new release is rolling out Crescent Island support...

Mozilla Thunderbird 157 rolls out with fixes for a 100% CPU usage bug, OpenPGP key handling, IMAP message saving, Gmail OAuth2, and CalDAV.

Discover how to install and use WPS Office, a versatile office suite for Linux users, and explore its features, compatibility, and installation methods.

Ahead of the October ISO refresh of the Arch Linux media, Archinstall 4.5 released today as the newest update to this convenient, text-based Arch Linux installer...

Boot from USB, unplug it, and keep working. Compare 10 Linux distros that run entirely in RAM, with pros, cons, RAM needs, and best use cases.

ASRock Industrial has announced four compact platforms based on Intel Core Series 3 “Wildcat Lake-U” processors. The lineup includes the NUC BOX-320 and NUC BOX-304 mini PCs, alongside the NUC-320 and NUC-304 motherboards, with up to 40 TOPS of AI performance, DDR5 memory, dual 2.5GbE networking, and multi-display support for embedded applications. The platforms use […]

For those after in-depth hardware and system monitoring support from the Linux desktop, hw-monitor continues to advance as one of the modern options. Released on Monday was hw-monitor 0.6 with per-process GPU reporting metrics when using capable DRM drivers like the AMDGPU, Intel i915 and Xe, and Nouveau drivers...

OpenSSL 4.0.3 has been released today as the third maintenance/security update to the latest OpenSSL 4.0 series of this widely used TLS/SSL and crypto library for providing secure communications over computer networks.

It's been a while since any new Spectre vulnerabilities have come to light but that's changing today. The embargo has now lifted on BTR, Branch Target Reuse as a new Spectre-V2 attack affecting just-in-time (JIT) compilers...

Archinstall 4.5 has been released today as the latest stable version of the official installer for the Arch Linux distribution, with new features, improvements, and bug fixes.

Canonical has enabled upgrades from Ubuntu 24.04 LTS to Ubuntu 26.04.1 LTS, with the rollout beginning gradually through Update Manager.

antiX Linux 26.1 (codename Stephen Kapos) is out today as a maintenance update to the antiX Linux 26 series, addressing bugs reported since the initial release and updating the kernels.

Just shy of one year ago Meta announced OpenZL as a format-ware compression framework focused on delivering both high compression ratios and high speed compression/decompression. OpenZL has continued making more optimizations and out today is OpenZL v0.3 and advertising some huge gains over Zstandard (Zstd) that is also worked on by Meta engineers...

As an initiative from NVIDIA for improving the Linux ecosystem outside the world of AI, they have been developing Display-Config-Server as a new solution to help enhance the Linux capabilities for complex display walls...

Git 2.56 has been released today as the latest stable update to this free and open-source distributed version control system designed to handle everything from small to very large projects with speed and efficiency.

Qualcomm hiring one of Red Hat's top x86_64 Linux laptop experts last year, Hans de Goede, is indeed having a positive benefit on enhancing the Fedora Linux support for Qualcomm Snapdragon X powered hardware...

With the release of Firefox 157 rolling out to all supported platforms, Mozilla promoted the next major release, Firefox 158, to the beta channel for public testing, so it’s time to take a look at the new features and improvements.

The latest Git release brings a dedicated resolved-files staging mode, new maintenance commands, and substantial scalability improvements.

Shiva is entering development for Mesa Vulkan drivers as a new framework akin to Gallium3D but for Vulkan drivers rather than OpenGL. It's going to be some time before the work will come to fruition but should hopefully lead to more code sharing and a better Mesa Vulkan driver development experience in the future...

Emmabuntüs Debian Edition 6 1.03 has been released today as the third point release in the latest Emmabuntüs Debian Edition 6 series of this Debian-based distribution designed to facilitate the reconditioning of old computers.