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AMD Ryzen AI Max, Intel Graphics & Other Linux Benchmarks That Commanded 2025

Phoronix - 7 hours 29 min ago
This looks to be a wrap on 2025, Happy New Year to all the Phoronix readers over the past 21+ years. This year on Phoronix there were 226 original Linux hardware reviews and featured benchmark articles written by your's truly. Plus another 3,286 original open-source/Linux software and hardware news articles this calendar year. Here were the big topics of 2025 for the featured Linux hardware reviews and benchmark articles...

Ncurses 6.6 Released With Improved Windows Terminal Support, Other Enhancements

Phoronix - 7 hours 54 min ago
Ncurses 6.6 was released today prior to closing out 2025. This programming library update for creating terminal-based text user interfaces (TUIs) features a variety of great improvements for ending out the year...

Asahi Linux Has Experimental Code For DisplayPort, Apple M3/M4/M5 Bring-Up Still Ongoing

Phoronix - 11 hours 23 min ago
Prominent Asahi Linux developer Sven Peter spoke at this week's 39th Chaos Communication Congress "39C3" in Hamburg, Germany. He provided an update around the still-in-the-works Apple M3 / M4 / M5 SoC and device support as well as other outstanding features like getting DisplayPort working on Apple Macs under Linux...

Intel Meteor Lake On Linux Two Years Post-Launch: 93% The Original Performance

Phoronix - 16 hours 26 min ago
As part of the various end-of-year annual benchmarking comparisons and the like on Phoronix, today is a look at how the Intel Core Ultra 7 155H "Meteor Lake" performance has evolved under Ubuntu Linux in the two years since launching. Plus with next-gen Intel Panther Lake laptops expected to be showcased next week at CES, it's a good time for revisiting the Meteor Lake performance to see the difference two years have made for Intel Meteor Lake laptops on Linux.

Arch Linux Installer Adds CUPS, rEFInd Boot, IWD, COSMIC & Power Management Options

Phoronix - Wed, 12/31/2025 - 21:33
Ahead of the January 2026 ISO refresh for Arch Linux, Archinstall 3.0.15 released today as the newest update to this convenient text-based OS installer...

Linux 6.19 Closing Out 2025 With Several Laptop Additions

Phoronix - Wed, 12/31/2025 - 20:16
A New Year's Eve pull request is ready with several Intel/AMD laptop improvements for the ongoing Linux 6.19 kernel cycle. An x86 platform drivers pull request sent to Linus Torvalds today brings several notable driver enhancements with expanding the range of supported laptops...

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