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The Open-Source OpenGL & Vulkan Drivers Enjoyed A Rather Remarkable 2025

Phoronix | Dec. 30, 2025, 6:15 a.m. | Original

The open-source OpenGL and Vulkan drivers making up Mesa had another very successful year. Even with all the years being invested into Mesa largely by Intel, AMD, Valve, Red Hat, and others, the upward trajectory continues for Mesa on expanding the hardware support, punctually adding new Vulkan extensions, and racking up other wins.

This year when Valve announced the much anticipated Steam Frame VR headset, we found out that the Adreno TURNIP driver is even going to be used by default as the biggest win to date for

It Took 6+ Years For Linux's "New" Mount API To Be Properly Documented In Man Pages

Phoronix | Dec. 29, 2025, 8:35 p.m. | Original

In demonstrating one of the gaps of man pages in modern times and likely having hindered the adoption of the Linux kernel's new mount API , it took more than six years for those system calls to be properly documented within man pages. The Linux "new" mount API was introduced back in mid-2019 with Linux 5.2 and since supported by key file-systems after several years but not until weeks ago was this file descriptor based mount API scoped out within man pages.

The "new

Hyprland 0.53 Released With New Launcher For Crash Recovery & Safe Mode, New Welcome App

Phoronix | Dec. 29, 2025, 2:55 p.m. | Original

Hyprland 0.53 was released today as the last feature update to this Wayland compositor for 2025.

Hyprland 0.53 ships with start-hyprland as the new launcher script for the Hyprland compositor rather than invoking hyprland directly. With the start-hyprland script is now support for crash recovery and safe mode handling. The safe mode support for Hyprland depends upon having the separate hyprland-guiutils package installed and in turn making it now more of a hard dependency rather than optional.

Hyprland 0.5

The Performance Of Arch Linux Powered CachyOS On AMD EPYC Servers

Phoronix | Dec. 29, 2025, 10:10 a.m. | Original

One of the more interesting announcements over the holiday period thus far is that moving into 2026, CachyOS is looking to develop a server edition for their Arch Linux based operating system. CachyOS has garnered quite a following among Linux enthusiasts and gamers for its competitive out-of-the-box performance, employing some of the optimizations by Intel's now defunct Clear Linux distribution, and pulling in all of the goodness from upstream Arch Linux. It will be very interesting to see how CachyOS Server Edition takes shape

NTFSPLUS Linux Driver Renamed To Just "NTFS" With Latest Code Restructuring

Phoronix | Dec. 29, 2025, 9:33 a.m. | Original

One of the unexpected Linux kernel surprises of 2025 was NTFSPLUS being announced as a new driver for Microsoft's NTFS file-system with better performance and more features compared to the classic read-only NTFS driver or the "NTFS3" kernel driver that Paragon Software submitted upstream. That NTFSPLUS driver has continued expanding its feature set and robustness and sent out today was the third iteration of the patches. Now this driver is simply being called "NTFS" with no longer going by the NTFSPLUS name.

With

Linux's Cache Aware Scheduling On AMD Ryzen 9 9950X3D 3D V-Cache

Phoronix | Dec. 29, 2025, 6:57 a.m. | Original

One of the many interesting Linux kernel innovations I have closely been following this year has been the proposed Cache Aware Scheduling support. I have shown the Cache Aware Scheduling performance on AMD EPYC as well as the Intel Xeon 6 Granite Rapids performance , but what about desktops? In this article is a quick look at Cache Aware Scheduling with the Ryzen 9 9950X3D.

While not as interesting as running on big server CPUs, stemming from my own curiosity and reader interest over the holiday weekend I ran benchmarks

Updated Linux Drivers Posted For Legion Go & Legion Go S Configuration

Phoronix | Dec. 29, 2025, 6:34 a.m. | Original

Open-source developer Derek J. Clark continues leading the efforts on improving the Lenovo Legion Go series hardware support under Linux. Posted today was the second iteration of the HID driver work for the Legion Go and Legion Go S for configuration support with the built-in controller HID interfaces.

There has been a lot of Lenovo Legion Go Linux activity over the past year for ensuring that these gaming handhelds work well for the likes of Valve's Steam OS. Most recently Clark has been working on the HID driver support for

Linux 7.0 Expected To Bring IO_uring IOPOLL Polling Improvements

Phoronix | Dec. 29, 2025, 6:13 a.m. | Original

The next Linux kernel cycle, which will be known as Linux 6.20 or more than likely Linux 7.0, is expected to land some IO_uring improvements for better IOPOLL polling.

IO_uring lead developer and Linux block maintainer Jens Axboe has queued a patch into the "for-7.0/io_uring" branch for improving the IOPOLL polling for this wonderful asynchronous I/O interface. Axboe explains with the patch :

"io_uring manages issued and pending IOPOLL read/write

SuperTux 0.7 Reaches Beta For Reviving An Open-Source Classic

Phoronix | Dec. 29, 2025, 5:56 a.m. | Original

Longtime Linux users likely have fond memories of SuperTux as the open-source jump-n-run game that used to be included on some early Linux live CD/DVDs for this Super Mario Bros inspired game. There hasn't been a new release of SuperTux in over four years but out today is the beta of SuperTux 0.7 as a major overhaul to the free software, family-friendly game title.

SuperTux 0.7 beta is described as " perhaps one of the largest facelifts to the base game

KDE Plasma's Wayland Transition "Nears Completion" In Ending Out 2025

Phoronix | Dec. 28, 2025, 8:40 p.m. | Original

In addition to today's blog post calling out the need for others to takeover the This Week In Plasma series , KDE developer Nate Graham also published another blog post to highlight the successes of the Plasma desktop over 2025. In particular, the KDE Plasma Wayland transition "nears completion" as it works to become Wayland-only in early 2027.

Headlining the KDE highlights for 2025 by Nate Graham was the work on the Wayland transition. This year saw Wayland work around HDR

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