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FUSE File-Systems To Support Longer Filenames With Linux 6.15

news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 1 April

All of the FUSE updates have been sent in for the in-development Linux 6.15 kernel for supporting file-systems in user-space...

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Intel Posts New Linux Kernel Patches To "Hide The Disgusting Turds"

news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 1 April

No, it's not at all an April Fools' Joke or anything along those lines... An Intel open-source engineer just posted the patch series entitled "hide the disgusting turds" for the Linux kernel...

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Linux Patches Enable Support For The Snapdragon X1 Powered ASUS Zenbook A14

news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 1 April

For those interested in the Qualcomm Snapdragon X1 powered laptops, there's another option to consider for Linux use soon with pending patches: the ASUS Zenbook A14...

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Another New Intel Battlemage Device ID Added To Mesa Graphics Driver Code

news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 1 April

Merged today for the Mesa 25.1-devel graphics driver code and also marked for back-porting to the Mesa 25.0 OpenGL/Vulkan drivers is another new Intel Battlemage device ID...

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Linux Driver Core Rust Bindings Updated Following Initial Developer Use

news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 1 April

As part of the various areas of the kernel overseen by Greg Kroah-Hartman, on Sunday he sent out the driver core updates for the Linux 6.15 kernel. The driver core changes this cycle aren't too notable except for revising the Rust bindings now that more developers are attempting to use them...

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Linux 6.15 Brings New Hardware Monitoring Additions For AMD BC-250 & Various Sensor ICs

news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 1 April

Merged for the Linux 6.15 kernel last week was the big set of hardware monitoring "HWMON" subsystem updates with new hardware support as well as a few new sensor drivers...

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AMD's Latest Wares, NVIDIA RTX 50 & Kernel Changes Excited Linux Users So Far In 2025

news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 1 April

As the last planned article of the quarter, here is a look back at the most popular Phoronix content from Q1'2025 with 822 original news articles and 40 featured articles / Linux hardware reviews written by your's truly. There were interesting hardware launches from Intel, AMD, and NVIDIA this quarter along with a never-ending pace of new open-source software innovations and the unfortunate ongoing drama within the free software community...

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Wayland Is On Track For A Very Exciting 2025

news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 31 March

While the first quarter is coming to an end, there has already been immense progress this year to the Wayland protocols and compositors along with associated Linux desktop software for embracing this alternative to legacy X11/X.Org. From HDR color management seeing much adoption this quarter to Wine Wayland becoming more viable and the large number of Wayland compositors maturing, it was a pretty incredible quarter...

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Linux 6.15 Perf Tooling Introduces New Support For Latency Profiling

news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 31 March

The perf tools changes were merged today for the Linux 6.15 kernel. Most notable this cycle for the wonderful perf tooling is introducing the notion of latency profiling by leveraging kernel scheduler information. This latency data will be further useful for Linux software engineers working to optimize system latency/performance...