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Ubuntu 26.04 "Resolute Raccoon" Snapshot 1 ISOs Published

Phoronix | Nov. 27, 2025, 6:01 a.m. | Original

Canonical announced today the Ubuntu 26.04 "Resolute Raccoon" Snapshot 1 images as their first monthly ISO snapshots of the upcoming Ubuntu 26.04 LTS release.

Earlier this year Canonical decided to begin publishing monthly Ubuntu Linux snapshot ISOs as part of building out their release automation and other infrastructure. With it being a month and a half since the Ubuntu 25.10 stable release, the first snapshot of Ubuntu 26.04 is now available before closing out November.

This Resolute Snapshot

Common Desktop Environment "CDE" 2.5.3 Released After Two Years

Phoronix | Nov. 26, 2025, 8:43 p.m. | Original

Two years and one week since the prior point release, Common Desktop Environment 2.5.3 is now available as the latest iteration of this Unix desktop environment built around the Motif toolkit. CDE has been open-source for more than a decade now but its development not exactly brisk. But for those resisting the likes of Wayland and other modern display tech -- especially with KDE announcing today Plasma 6.8 will be Wayland-exclusive -- CDE 2.5.3 is now available.

CDE 2.

Vulkan's VK_EXT_present_timing Merged After Five Years In The Making

Phoronix | Nov. 26, 2025, 8:24 p.m. | Original

Originally opened in September 2020 by NVIDIA Linux engineer James Jones, tonight the Vulkan VK_EXT_present_timing extension was finally merged! Five years in the making and incorporating contributions from Google, NVIDIA, AMD, Collabora, Samsung, Unity, and Red Hat is this prominent new addition to the Vulkan API.

The VK_EXT_present_timing extension allows for an application/game using Vulkan swapchains to obtain information on the presentation engine's display for accurate timing information about present and being

Radeon Software for Linux 25.20.3 Released - "Exclusively Open-Source" With RADV

Phoronix | Nov. 26, 2025, 3:16 p.m. | Original

With the great upstream support for AMD Radeon graphics in the Linux kernel and Mesa, most desktop users / gamers / enthusiasts are best off just using the latest code shipped by their distributions or via the enthusiast-supported third-party archives/repositories. But for those on older enterprise Linux distributions, Radeon Software for Linux 25.20.3 was recently released for shipping that packaged AMD Linux graphics driver stack. This 25.20 series is the big one where they are now officially supporting the Mesa

Open Source LLM

AMD ROCm 7.1.1 Released With RHEL 10.1 Support, More Models Working On RDNA4

Phoronix | Nov. 26, 2025, 1:47 p.m. | Original

Following the release of ROCm 7.1 from just under one month ago, ROCm 7.1.1 is now available with expanded Linux operating system support, continued Instinct MI350 series work, more large language models working on RDNA4 GPUs, and other enhancements.

ROCm 7.1.1 is now available as the newest point release for this open-source AMD GPU compute stack for Radeon and Instinct hardware. Some of the ROCm 7.1.1 release highlights include:

- Support for Red

Intel

Intel Core Ultra 9 285K "Arrow Lake" Linux Performance Up ~9% One Year Later At ~85% Power Use

Phoronix | Nov. 26, 2025, 10:45 a.m. | Original

It's been just over one year now since the launch of the Core Ultra 9 285K and other Arrow Lake desktop processors. For those that may be considering an Arrow Lake CPU this holiday season for a Linux desktop or just curious how the power and performance has evolved one year later, here are some leading-edge benchmarks of the Intel Core Ultra 9 285K compared to the launch-day performance last October.

Since last October we have continued to highlight the performance optimizations and other open

KDE Plasma 6.8 Will Go Wayland-Exclusive In Dropping X11 Session Support

Phoronix | Nov. 26, 2025, 10:34 a.m. | Original

KDE developers announced they are going "all-in on a Wayland future" and with the Plasma 6.8 desktop it will become Wayland-exclusive. The Plasma X11 session is going away.

KDE developers announced with Plasma 6.8 it will be Wayland-exclusive in removing Plasma X11 session support although continuing to support X11 apps/games via XWayland.

KDE developers report that "the vast majority of our users are already using the Wayland session" and longer-term this change will

Fedora SIG Proposed To Improve Production Stability

Phoronix | Nov. 26, 2025, 9:24 a.m. | Original

A Fedora special interest group is being proposed to help improve production stability of Fedora Linux and better handling incident management when problems do arise.

Stemming from recent Fedora package updates causing issues like a Mesa "stable" update causing breakage for Steam Play (Proton) games, a proposal was posted today for a Fedora SIG that would focus on production stability and incident management.

The proposal lays out the intent of this SIG:

"This proposal aims to create a SIG which will develop a recommended stream of work to improve our stability

Urgent ACPI Revert For Linux 6.18 To Deal With Some Hardware Crashing

Phoronix | Nov. 26, 2025, 8:31 a.m. | Original

The Linux 6.18 kernel is anticipated for release this coming Sunday while this week a last-minute crisis was averted following reports of a kernel crash from recent ACPI code changes.

Borislav Petkov of AMD reported on Monday with the latest development code he was hitting a null pointer dereference within the ACPI code and in turn a crash at boot. This was noticed on an old AMD Phenom II era system with MSI MS-7599 motherboard.

NVIDIA Is Interested In Helping Bring Vulkan Video To Chrome

Phoronix | Nov. 26, 2025, 6:34 a.m. | Original

NVIDIA engineers are interested in helping Google bring Vulkan Video accelerated GPU video decoding to the Chrome/Chromium web browser.

The Chrome/Chromium web browser on Linux has mostly been centered around the Video Acceleration API (VA-API) for GPU-accelerated video decoding. But the NVIDIA Linux official driver doesn't natively support VA-API and thus requires alternatives like this NVIDIA VA-API driver built atop the NVDEC interface . But it looks like NVIDIA is now willing to commit resources to help Chrome/Chromium support Vulkan

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