• Ph chevron_right

      New Debian Project Leader Elected For 2026

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 19 April 2026

    Sruthi Chandran has been elected the new Debian Project Leader "DPL" after running unopposed in this year's elections...
    • Ph chevron_right

      GNOME Fixes Screencasting Issue With H.264 Recordings Being ~18x Larger Than VP8

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 19 April 2026

    A fix today for GNOME Shell's screen casting/recording service was merged after it was reported that H.264 recordings using the Video Acceleration API (VA-API) are around 18x larger than they should be like when using the VP8 software fallback...
    • Ph chevron_right

      Linux 7.1 Adds Some New PCIe Drivers While Nuking Some PCI Drivers

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 19 April 2026

    The PCI subsystem updates were merged this week for the Linux 7.1 kernel with a wide assortment of PCI(e) changes from new to old hardware...
    • Ph chevron_right

      New NTFS File-System Driver Submitted For Linux 7.1

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 17 April 2026

    Making today very exciting in Linux 7.1 merge window land was a pull request being sent out for introducing the new, modern NTFS file-system driver. Linus Torvalds has yet to comment if he's going to merge the new driver but it looks like it's ready for providing a better Linux NTFS experience over the current NTFS3 driver that was upstreamed by Paragon Software a few years ago and hasn't seen too much feature progress...
    • Ph chevron_right

      Proton 11.0 Beta Released With More Games Playable On Steam Play

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 16 April 2026

    Valve and CodeWeavers have just released Proton 11.0 Beta as their first beta milestone for this software that powers Steam Play now rebased against upstream Wine 11.0...
    • Ph chevron_right

      Linux 7.1 sched_ext Brings cgroup Sub-Scheduler Groundwork, Idle SMT Sibling Change

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 16 April 2026

    The extensible scheduler "sched_ext" code for allowing Linux scheduling behavior to be defined via BPF programs is seeing some useful improvements with the in-development Linux 7.1 kernel...
    • Ph chevron_right

      Mir 2.26 Begins Working On Rust-Based Input Platform

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 16 April 2026

    Canonical today released Mir 2.26 as the newest feature release for this compositor for building Wayland-based shells. Notable with Mir 2.26 is a Rust-based input platform is in development as part of their broader effort for bringing Rust code into Mir...
    • Ph chevron_right

      New Media Drivers Merged For Linux 7.1

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 16 April 2026

    The media subsystem updates have been merged for the ongoing Linux 7.1 merge window and includes new hardware support...
    • Ph chevron_right

      Intel Core Ultra 7 270K Plus Performance In 340+ Linux Benchmarks

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 16 April 2026

    Last month Intel began shipping the Intel Core Ultra 7 270K Plus "Arrow Lake Refresh" desktop processor. This is a mighty interesting processor for the $349 USD price point with more cores and a larger cache compared to the Core Ultra 7 265K and capable of delivering much of the performance of the flagship Core Ultra 9 285K Arrow Lake processor. In today's article is a look at how well the Intel Core Ultra 7 270K Plus performs under Linux with more than 340 different benchmarks representing a range of Linux workloads from gaming to creator to developer and technical computing uses.