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Archinstall 3.0.13 Adds WiFi Connection Menu To Arch Linux Installer

Phoronix | Nov. 6, 2025, 2:26 p.m. | Original

Just days after the Archinstall 3.0.12 release for this text-based Arch Linux installer, Archinstall 3.0.13 is now available to deliver a new feature. That new feature is a text-based interface for being able to connect to a WiFi network within Archinstall.

For addressing a nearly three year old feature request to be able to connect to a wireless network from the Arch Linux installer, Archinstall 3.0.13 adds such support similar to other Linux distribution installers.

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CachyOS Continues Delivering Leading Performance Over Ubuntu 25.10, Fedora Workstation 43

Phoronix | Nov. 6, 2025, 12:30 p.m. | Original

With Intel having sunset Clear Linux, when it comes to aggressive out-of-the-box Linux performance there is the Arch Linux based CachyOS as the leading contender. Given the recent releases of Ubuntu 25.10 and Fedora Workstation 43, if you are curious about the out-of-the-box performance here are some fresh benchmarks of all three using the Framework Desktop.

For those wondering if CachyOS is still commanding superior performance to the likes of the new Ubuntu 25.10 and

Intel ANV Vulkan Driver Finally Exposes Pipeline Binary "VK_KHR_pipeline_binary"

Phoronix | Nov. 6, 2025, 11:58 a.m. | Original

Introduced back in August of 2024 with Vulkan 1.3.294 was VK_KHR_pipeline_binary as a pipeline binary extension to retrieve binary data associated with individual pipelines. The focus of this is to bypass the Vulkan pipeline caching mechanism and so applications can manage caches themselves. Finally today for Mesa 26.0-devel the Intel "ANV" open-source Vulkan driver has enabled this extension.

VK_KHR_pipeline_binary allows games/apps to manage caching Vulkan

CodeWeavers Launches CrossOver Preview For Linux ARM64

Phoronix | Nov. 6, 2025, 10:18 a.m. | Original

CodeWeavers announced this morning a new CrossOver Preview that includes Linux ARM64 support for the first time. This commercial software built atop Wine is now comfortable with the state of running Windows x86/x64 apps on Linux ARM64 and even the ability ro enjoy many Windows games on ARM64 Linux devices like the System76 Thelio Astra .

CodeWeavers' CrossOver is now available in preview form for Linux ARM64 devices. This builds off all the upstream Wine ARM64 work the past

Cloudflare Makes Open-Source The Rust Code To Tokio-Quiche

Phoronix | Nov. 6, 2025, 9:55 a.m. | Original

Cloudflare announced today they have open-sourced the code to Tokio-Quiche as their async QUIC library that combines their previously-open-sourced Quiche QUIC implementation with Rust's Tokio async runtime.

With Tokio-Quiche you end up with a Rust-based asynchronous wrapper around the Quiche QUIC code:

"Today we’re announcing the open sourcing of tokio-quiche, our battle-tested, asynchronous QUIC library combining both quiche and the Rust Tokio async runtime. Powering Cloudflare’s Proxy B in Apple iCloud Private

RadeonSI + ACO Brings Some Performance Gains For Radeon Workstation Graphics

Phoronix | Nov. 6, 2025, 9:12 a.m. | Original

Last week Mesa 26.0-devel enabled the ACO back-end by default within the RadeonSI Gallium3D driver for all supported Radeon graphics cards by this open-source Linux driver. This move was done in the name of better performance, faster shader compilation times, and ACO being all-around better than the AMDGPU LLVM back-end these days for both OpenGL and Vulkan use. It was also noted that RadeonSI has "slightly better" viewperf performance with NIR+ACO than using the AMDGPU LLVM back

FreeDesktop.org Adopts The Filesystem Hierarchy Standard

Phoronix | Nov. 6, 2025, 6:18 a.m. | Original

Adding to the array of software projects and specifications under the FreeDesktop.org umbrella, the Filesystem Hierarchy Standard "FHS" has been adopted by these desktop-focused open-source developers.

The Filesystem Hierarchy Standard is the standard around file/directory placement on Linux and Unix-like systems. Prominent open-source developer Matthias Klumpp announced today that the Filesystem Hierarchy Standard has been adopted by FreeDesktop.org. For the moment the FHS version is still 3.0, which was released a decade ago (May 20

Linux 6.18 Lands Electronic Privacy Screen Hotkey Handling For Some Dell Laptops

Phoronix | Nov. 6, 2025, 6:07 a.m. | Original

Merged yesterday to the mainline Linux 6.18 development kernel were the latest round of x86 platform driver fixes. Mostly some small fixes but standing out is electronic privacy screen hotkey support for some Dell laptops.

The Linux 6.18 kernel has added to the input code the keycodes for electronic privacy screen on/off hotkeys plus changes to the Dell WMI driver to handle electronic privacy screen on/off events.

Hans de Goede explained when adding the keycodes for the hotkeys toggling the electronic privacy screen:

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NVIDIA Preparing For Hopper & Blackwell GPU Support With Open-Source Nova Driver

Phoronix | Nov. 6, 2025, 5:52 a.m. | Original

NVIDIA engineers continue working a lot on the open-source and upstream Nova driver for the Linux kernel. This modern, Rust-written open-source NVIDIA driver is still taking shape as an alternative to NVIDIA's official downstream open-source driver and the aging and reverse-engineered Nouveau driver. Out on the horizon for Nova is Hopper and Blackwell GPU support.

NVIDIA engineer John Hubbard is in the process of preparing Hopper and Blackwell GPU generations for being supported by the Nova driver. Another NVIDIA engineer is working on

FEX 2511 Delivers More Performance Improvements For Linux x86 Binaries On ARM64

Phoronix | Nov. 5, 2025, 8:37 p.m. | Original

FEX 2511 is out today for this open-source emulator akin to Apple's Rosetta that allows running x86/x86+64 applications on ARM64. But in the case of FEX, for ARM64 Linux devices and akin to other open-source projects like Box64.

The FEX open-source project continues going strong with enabling various Linux x86/x86_64-only games -- including Windows games running under Valve'