GNOME’s Glycin 2.1 Beta Enables JPEG 2000 Support By Default
Michael Larabel is the principal author of Phoronix.com and founded the site in 2004 with a focus on…
Debian’s Challenge When Its Developers Quietly Drift Away
You may recall the news last month around no one was left on Debian’s data protection team and…
AI Code Review Prompts Initiative Making Progress For The Linux Kernel
Chris Mason, the longtime Linux kernel developer most known for being the creator of Btrfs, has been working…
DAXFS Proposed As Newest Linux File-System
There’s yet another new Linux file-system on the block: DAXFS has been announced as a new read-only open-source…
The CPU Performance Of The NVIDIA GB10 With The Dell Pro Max vs. AMD Ryzen AI Max+ “Strix Halo”
With the Dell Pro Max GB10 testing at Phoronix we have been focused on the AI performance with…
New Linux Patch Improved NVMe Performance +15% With CPU Cluster-Aware Handling
Intel Linux engineers have been working on enhancing the NVMe storage performance with today’s high core count processors.…
System76 Continues Driving More Improvements Into The COSMIC Desktop
Following the December launch of Pop!_OS 24.04 LTS and the first major COSMIC desktop release, System76 software engineers…
ReactOS Starts 2026 With Another “Major Step” Toward Windows NT6 Compatibility
The ReactOS free software project is turning 30 this year and its “open-source Windows” OS ambitions remain. They…
LLVM Considering An AI Tool Policy, AI Bot For Fixing Build System Breakage Proposed
Last week a request for comments (RFC) was issued around establishing an LLVM AI Tool Use Policy. The…
New Rule Forbids GNOME Shell Extensions Made Using AI Generated Code
The GNOME.org Extensions hosting for GNOME Shell extensions will no longer accept new contributions with AI-generated code. A…
The Opt-In Proactive & Crash Time Data Collection On Valve’s Steam Deck
Valve’s Steam Deck with SteamOS features built-in crash data collection as well as for logging other system events…
Exciting Laptop & Gaming Handheld Device Improvements Merged For Linux 6.19
Merged during this second week of the Linux 6.19 feature merge window were the many x86 platform driver…