Open-source News

Linus Torvalds Rejects MMC Changes For Linux 7.0 Cycle: "Complete Garbage"  Phoronix

The InkPad One Takes Aim at Amazon's Kindle Scribe With Open Linux Architecture and a Bold Bet on E-Reader Freedom  WebProNews

Linux Gamers on Radeon Graphics Get Ray Tracing Performance Boost in Mesa 26.0.0 Update  TechPowerUp

Mesa 26.0 Open-Source Graphics Stack Officially Released, Here’s What’s New  9to5Linux

Linux Kernel Graphics Driver Development Now Experimenting With AI Code Review  Phoronix

Well known open-source Linux graphics driver developer David Airlie of Red Hat, who is the co-maintainer of the Direct Rendering Manager (DRM) kernel graphics/display drivers and accelerator "accel" drivers, announced experimental work on AI-drive code/patch review for these open-source kernel drivers...

Longtime Linux users may recall the Sabayon Linux distribution that was Gentoo-based and focused on a nice out-of-the-box experience from the mid 2000s through 2019 before fading away after 2018. Sabayon Linux creator Fabio Erculiani wrote in to Phoronix today to announce he's begun working on a new Linux distribution called matrixOS...

Sabayon Linux Creator Now Developing Gentoo-Based, Immutable matrixOS  Phoronix

Bluefin Linux: ChromeOS simplicity meets Linux power  The New Stack

FLOSS Weekly Episode 864: Work Hard, Save Money, Retire Early  Hackaday

New Proton Experimental update adds controller support to more launchers on Linux / SteamOS  GamingOnLinux

Mesa 26.0 open-source graphics library for Linux releases, significant imporvmenets to raytraicng on Radeon GPUs  VideoCardz.com

Mesa 26.0 Released With Much Better Radeon Ray-Tracing, Many Vulkan Driver Improvements  Phoronix

Mesa 26.0 was just officially released as this quarter's new feature release for these open-source OpenGL / Gallium3D and Vulkan drivers used commonly on Linux systems and elsewhere like within the confines of Microsoft's WSL...

Following yesterday's Chrome 145 release with JPEG-XL support, Chrome 146 today was promoted to the beta channel to help facilitate broader testing of the next round of Chrome/Chromium browser improvements...

Linux Mint might overhaul its release schedule  How-To Geek

Handmade by human hands using machines  Digg

Linux vs Other OS: Memory Management Efficiency Statistics 2026  commandlinux.com

Linux Mint plans fewer releases per year  OMG! Ubuntu

Last week on Phoronix we provided initial Linux graphics benchmarks for the new Xe3-based Arc B390 graphics found with the higher-end Panther Lake SoCs with 12 Xe cores. Those benchmarks showed great gains over recent generations of Intel graphics like with Lunar Lake, Meteor Lake, and even Alder/Raptor Lake... But what if you hold onto your laptop for even longer? In this article is an Intel integrated graphics comparison looking at the general performance and power efficiency going all the way back to the Gen9 graphics era for what seemed like an eternity of Gen9-derived graphics during the Skylake era.