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AMD Windows Driver Changes For RX 5000/6000 Series Won't Impact Linux Users

Phoronix - Fri, 10/31/2025 - 18:51
Over the past day there have been many reports of AMD planning to no longer provide game optimizations for the Radeon RX 5000 and RX 6000 series graphics cards for their Microsoft Windows driver. Surprisingly many in the Linux community still seem to think it will impact the Linux drivers, but long story short, there is no real concern for Linux users/gamers...

Linux 6.18-rc4 Fixes Another Performance Regression In The Power Management Code

Phoronix - Fri, 10/31/2025 - 18:36
Last week there was a fix for a "serious performance regression" in the Linux kernel's power management code that affected some Intel-powered Chromebooks. This week the power management fixes ahead of Linux 6.18-rc4 is addressing another performance regression...

AerynOS 2025.10 ISOs Released - GNOME 49, Switches Back To GNU libstdc++

Phoronix - Fri, 10/31/2025 - 18:12
AerynOS 2025.10 ISOs were released today for closing out the month of October. AerynOS as a reminder is the Linux distribution that was started by Ikey Doherty and originally known as Serpent OS that has since evolved into an open-source team effort...

Krita Lands Basic HDR Support On Wayland

Phoronix - Fri, 10/31/2025 - 18:04
The KDE/Qt-aligned Krita digital painting application is the latest creative app now supporting high dynamic range (HDR) on Linux when using Wayland...

Vulkan 1.4.331 Brings Two New Extensions

Phoronix - Fri, 10/31/2025 - 17:48
Just one week after Vulkan 1.4.330 brought five new extensions, Vulkan 1.4.331 is now available with another two new extensions for this high performance graphics and compute API...

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