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AMD funded a drop-in CUDA implementation built on ROCm: It's now open-source (www.phoronix.com)

1045 points by mfiguiere 7 months ago | 410 comments
Valve is a wonderful upstream contributor to Linux and the open-source community (www.phoronix.com)

929 points by WithinReason 12 months ago | 362 comments
Firefox finally outperforming Google Chrome in SunSpider (www.phoronix.com)

850 points by marcodiego about 1 year ago | 387 comments
FFmpeg lands CLI multi-threading as its "most complex refactoring" in decades (www.phoronix.com)

628 points by worble 9 months ago | 181 comments
Framework Laptop 16 Review (www.phoronix.com)

424 points by mikece 8 months ago | 390 comments
Steam survey shows Linux marketshare hitting 1.0% (www.phoronix.com)

401 points by bemmu about 3 years ago | 354 comments
HDMI Forum Rejects Open-Source HDMI 2.1 Driver Support Sought by AMD (www.phoronix.com)

394 points by jiripospisil 7 months ago | 235 comments
2.3k Patch Would Improve Linux Build Times 50~80% & Fix “Dependency Hell” (www.phoronix.com)

392 points by marcodiego over 2 years ago | 22 comments
Linus Torvalds: Rust for the Kernel Could Possibly Be Merged for Linux 5.20 (www.phoronix.com)

392 points by FPGAhacker about 2 years ago | 293 comments
Ubuntu squeezes more performance than Windows 11 on new AMD Zen 4 Threadripper (www.phoronix.com)

351 points by marcodiego 10 months ago | 388 comments
Windows 11 Pro: about 11% slower than Linux on Intel Core i9 11900K (www.phoronix.com)

345 points by marcodiego almost 3 years ago | 365 comments
Roundcube open-source webmail software merges with Nextcloud (www.phoronix.com)

341 points by mikece 10 months ago | 250 comments
AMD CPU Use Among Linux Gamers Approaching 70% Marketshare (www.phoronix.com)

340 points by mfiguiere about 1 year ago | 286 comments
Cloudflare has replaced Nginx with in-house, Rust-written Pingora (www.phoronix.com)

334 points by Avlin67 about 2 years ago | 141 comments
Bcachefs Merged into the Linux 6.7 Kernel (www.phoronix.com)

302 points by LinuxBender 11 months ago | 159 comments
Intel Publishes Fast AVX-512 Sorting Library, 10~17x Faster Sorts in NumPy (www.phoronix.com)

286 points by mfiguiere over 1 year ago | 112 comments
The Framework Laptop Is Great for a Linux-Friendly, Upgradeable/Modular Laptop (www.phoronix.com)

285 points by commoner almost 3 years ago | 198 comments
A Look at the CPU Security Mitigation Costs Three Years After Spectre/Meltdown (www.phoronix.com)

285 points by zdw over 3 years ago | 121 comments
AMD Is Currently Hiring More Linux Engineers (www.phoronix.com)

266 points by thg over 3 years ago | 84 comments
Linux 5.13 Reverts and Fixes the Problematic University of Minnesota Patches (www.phoronix.com)

262 points by varbhat over 3 years ago | 111 comments
Linux 6.8 Network Optimizations Can Boost TCP Performance by ~40% (www.phoronix.com)

262 points by mfiguiere 8 months ago | 44 comments
The Rust Implementation of GNU Coreutils Is Becoming Remarkably Robust (www.phoronix.com)

261 points by sdht0 over 1 year ago | 218 comments
AMD Ryzen 7000 Series performs better with Spectre V2 Mitigations enabled (www.phoronix.com)

256 points by ad8e almost 2 years ago | 41 comments
Valve Makes All Steam Audio SDK Source Code Available Under Apache 2.0 License (www.phoronix.com)

252 points by LinuxBender 7 months ago | 62 comments
Btrfs in Linux 6.2 brings performance improvements, better RAID 5/6 reliability (www.phoronix.com)

251 points by pantalaimon almost 2 years ago | 225 comments
It‘s been 9 years since Valve rolled out the Steam Linux beta (www.phoronix.com)

239 points by underscore_ku almost 3 years ago | 118 comments
Python 3.11 Performance Benchmarks Are Looking Fantastic (www.phoronix.com)

234 points by HieronymusBosch over 2 years ago | 85 comments
Intel Itanium IA-64 Support Removed with the Linux 6.7 Kernel (www.phoronix.com)

231 points by scrlk 11 months ago | 211 comments
FSF Slams Google over Dropping JPEG-XL in Chrome (www.phoronix.com)

228 points by YakBizzarro over 1 year ago | 191 comments
Red Hat to author new Linux driver for Nvidia GPUs in Rust (www.phoronix.com)

224 points by dralley 6 months ago | 117 comments
System76 Reportedly Developing Their Own Rust-Written Desktop (www.phoronix.com)

223 points by sdht0 almost 3 years ago | 184 comments
Acer Aspire 1 ARM Laptop Has Nearly Complete Upstream Linux Support (www.phoronix.com)

220 points by rbanffy 9 months ago | 215 comments
AMD Publishes XDNA Linux Driver: Support for Ryzen AI on Linux (www.phoronix.com)

219 points by pella 8 months ago | 89 comments
Firefox Is Going to Try and Ship with Wayland Enabled by Default (www.phoronix.com)

213 points by AdmiralAsshat 10 months ago | 151 comments
Google shifting to “upstream first” Linux kernel approach for Android features (www.phoronix.com)

211 points by rbanffy almost 3 years ago | 112 comments
The most prolific packager for Alpine Linux is stepping away (www.phoronix.com)

211 points by pantalaimon about 1 year ago | 79 comments
MIDI 2.0 driver support coming with Linux 6.5 (www.phoronix.com)

206 points by rcarmo over 1 year ago | 106 comments
Solaris 11.4 free for non-production personal use (www.phoronix.com)

203 points by nix23 over 2 years ago | 228 comments
KDE desktop cube effect returns (www.phoronix.com)

199 points by leidenfrost 11 months ago | 109 comments
Germany's Sovereign Tech Fund Now Supporting FFmpeg (www.phoronix.com)

198 points by vmbrasseur 4 months ago | 46 comments
In OpenZFS and Btrfs, everyone was just guessing (www.phoronix.com)

195 points by whereistimbo 10 months ago | 165 comments
Nvidia publishes 73k lines of 3D header files for Fermi through Ampere GPUs (www.phoronix.com)

186 points by pantalaimon about 2 years ago | 38 comments
A 20 Year Old Chipset Workaround Has Been Hurting Modern AMD Linux Systems (www.phoronix.com)

185 points by rbanffy almost 2 years ago | 32 comments
AMD finally opens up its Radeon raytracing analyzer “RRA” source code (www.phoronix.com)

183 points by rbanffy almost 2 years ago | 35 comments
New Intel Linux Graphics Driver Patches, Up to 10~15% Better Performance (www.phoronix.com)

183 points by mikece over 1 year ago | 35 comments
AMD proposes an FPGA subsystem user-space interface for Linux (www.phoronix.com)

180 points by mikhael 9 months ago | 103 comments
Firefox 115 Now Available with Intel GPU Video Decoding on Linux (www.phoronix.com)

179 points by LinuxBender about 1 year ago | 72 comments
Ipmitool Repository Archived, Developer Suspended by GitHub (www.phoronix.com)

177 points by marcodiego over 1 year ago | 66 comments
OBS Studio Lands AV1 and HEVC RTMP Streaming Support (www.phoronix.com)

174 points by mikece over 1 year ago | 66 comments
AMD and Valve Working on New Linux CPU Performance Scaling Design (www.phoronix.com)

172 points by bpierre about 3 years ago | 34 comments
KDE Plasma 6.0 Is Enabling Wayland by Default (www.phoronix.com)

172 points by istotex 10 months ago | 195 comments
AMD Ryzen 5 8500G: A surprisingly fascinating sub-$200 CPU (www.phoronix.com)

171 points by mfiguiere 7 months ago | 160 comments
Linux 6.1 Officially Promoted to Being an LTS Kernel (www.phoronix.com)

167 points by 0xDEF over 1 year ago | 55 comments
CodeWeavers Now Controlled by an Employee Ownership Trust (www.phoronix.com)

166 points by computerliker over 1 year ago | 16 comments
LibreOffice 24.2 Will Succeed LibreOffice 7.6 (www.phoronix.com)

164 points by profwalkstr about 1 year ago | 208 comments
sudo and su Being Rewritten in Rust for Memory Safety (www.phoronix.com)

164 points by cf100clunk over 1 year ago | 124 comments
AMD Ryzen 9 7900X / Ryzen 9 7950X Benchmarks Show Impressive Linux Performance (www.phoronix.com)

159 points by nicolaslem almost 2 years ago | 118 comments
Systemd Creator Lands at Microsoft (www.phoronix.com)

158 points by wtfishackernews about 2 years ago | 146 comments
Apple M2 vs. AMD Ryzen 7 Pro 6850U Performance in Nearly 200 Benchmarks (www.phoronix.com)

155 points by TangerineDream about 2 years ago | 253 comments
RISC-V with Linux 6.7 Gains Optimized TLB Flushing, Software Shadow Call Stacks (www.phoronix.com)

154 points by rbanffy 10 months ago | 10 comments
AMD Open-Source GPU Kernel Driver Above 5M Lines, Entire Linux Kernel at 34.8M (www.phoronix.com)

148 points by TangerineDream about 1 year ago | 73 comments
Google set to deprecate JPEG XL support in Chrome 110 (www.phoronix.com)

146 points by berkut almost 2 years ago | 93 comments
OBS Studio Now Ready with Wayland Capture Support (www.phoronix.com)

145 points by infomax over 3 years ago | 67 comments
Linux 6.3 Introducing Hardware Noise “Hwnoise” Tool (www.phoronix.com)

145 points by isaacfrond over 1 year ago | 19 comments
Linux Kernel Has Been Forcing Different Behavior for Processes Starting with “X” (www.phoronix.com)

144 points by HieronymusBosch almost 2 years ago | 95 comments
Canonical turned a profit, back above 500 employees (www.phoronix.com)

143 points by marcodiego about 3 years ago | 60 comments
Amazon Cloud Traffic Is Suffocating Fedora's Mirrors (www.phoronix.com)

143 points by heywire 4 months ago | 90 comments
DragonFlyBSD's HAMMER2 File-System Being Ported to NetBSD (www.phoronix.com)

142 points by networked over 1 year ago | 44 comments
FreeBSD 14.0 Delivering Great Performance Uplift (www.phoronix.com)

142 points by vermaden 10 months ago | 97 comments
Glibc dynamic loader hit by a nasty local privilege escalation vulnerability (www.phoronix.com)

140 points by mfiguiere 12 months ago | 66 comments
Framework 13 with AMD Ryzen 7040 Series Makes for a Great Linux Laptop (www.phoronix.com)

140 points by jiripospisil 10 months ago | 102 comments
ReactOS “Open-Source Windows” Manages to Run Some Battlefield Games (www.phoronix.com)

138 points by marcodiego over 2 years ago | 67 comments
XFS Metadata Corruption on Linux 6.3 Tracked Down to One Missing One-Line Patch (www.phoronix.com)

137 points by LinuxBender over 1 year ago | 53 comments
Intel to disable TSX by default on more CPUs with new microcode (www.phoronix.com)

133 points by pella about 3 years ago | 79 comments
Orange Pi 5 Is a Great and Fast Alternative to the Raspberry Pi 4 (www.phoronix.com)

133 points by LinuxBender over 1 year ago | 69 comments
Pop_OS Cosmic Desktop to Make Use of Iced Rust Toolkit Rather Than GTK (www.phoronix.com)

132 points by dbcooper almost 2 years ago | 93 comments
The Linux Kernel Prepares for Rust 1.77 Upgrade (www.phoronix.com)

131 points by mindracer 7 months ago | 101 comments
AMD has a one-liner to help speed up Linux system resume time (www.phoronix.com)

129 points by sharjeelsayed over 1 year ago | 76 comments
Canonical Launches MicroCloud to Deploy Your Own "Fully Functional Cloud" (www.phoronix.com)

129 points by laktak 10 months ago | 89 comments
AMD Zen 4 is faster with CPU security mitigations enabled on Linux (www.phoronix.com)

128 points by simjue almost 2 years ago | 16 comments
5 minutes of coding yields a 6%+ boost to Linux I/O performance (www.phoronix.com)

128 points by mfiguiere 8 months ago | 37 comments
IBM to Kernel Maintainer: “You Are an IBM Employee 100% of the Time” (www.phoronix.com)

127 points by tankenmate over 3 years ago | 148 comments
Intel continues with more optimizations to the Linux kernel (www.phoronix.com)

126 points by isaacfrond over 1 year ago | 25 comments
Ubuntu Looking at Applying Low-Latency Optimizations to Its Generic Kernel (www.phoronix.com)

126 points by mfiguiere 8 months ago | 39 comments
Gitlab Now the Main Development Platform for Wine (www.phoronix.com)

125 points by TangerineDream over 2 years ago | 68 comments
FreeBSD Experimenting with a Port of Nvidia's Linux Open DRM Kernel Driver (www.phoronix.com)

125 points by mikece about 1 year ago | 44 comments
Linux Achieves 5.1M IOPS Per-Core with AMD Zen 3 and Intel Optane (www.phoronix.com)

124 points by ksec almost 3 years ago | 20 comments
Wayland Protocol Finally Ready for Fractional Scaling (www.phoronix.com)

122 points by edward almost 2 years ago | 98 comments
AMD Details OpenSIL for Advancing Open-Source System Firmware (www.phoronix.com)

122 points by YakBizzarro over 1 year ago | 32 comments
Orange Pi Neo Coming as a Ryzen 7 and Linux Powered Handheld Device (www.phoronix.com)

122 points by ahloiscreamo 7 months ago | 84 comments
AMD Ryzen 7 7840U Performance Benchmarks on Linux (www.phoronix.com)

121 points by nedsma about 1 year ago | 92 comments
Intel Releases x86-SIMD-sort 2.0 With Faster AVX-512 Sorting, New Algorithms (www.phoronix.com)

120 points by ashvardanian about 1 year ago | 56 comments
X.org Server Clears Out Remnants for Supporting Old Compilers (www.phoronix.com)

120 points by WhyUVoteGarbage 7 months ago | 111 comments
The Maintainer of the Nvidia Open-Source “Nouveau” Linux Kernel Driver Resigns (www.phoronix.com)

118 points by pabs3 12 months ago | 20 comments
Intel Thunder Bay is officially canceled, Linux driver code to be removed (www.phoronix.com)

115 points by nippoo over 1 year ago | 51 comments
Rocky Linux shares how they may continue to obtain the RHEL source code (www.phoronix.com)

114 points by pathompong about 1 year ago | 100 comments
Bcachefs File-System Plans to Try Again to Land in Linux 6.6 (www.phoronix.com)

113 points by mikece about 1 year ago | 139 comments
Linux 6.4 Bringing Apple M2 Additions for 2022 MacBook and Mac Mini (www.phoronix.com)

112 points by mfiguiere over 1 year ago | 30 comments
Axboe Achieves 8M IOPS Per-Core with Newest Linux Optimization Patches (www.phoronix.com)

111 points by marcodiego almost 3 years ago | 51 comments
Firefox 116 Should Have Experimental PipeWire Camera Support (www.phoronix.com)

111 points by LinuxBender over 1 year ago | 30 comments