As part of Valve’s work on developing the Steam Frame VR headset, they worked on foveated rendering support for the Mesa Turnip driver that supports the Qualcomm Adreno graphics with open-source Vulkan API support. Foveated rendering is the technique to more closely mimic human vision by rendering high detail at your direct gaze point and lower quality in the peripheral vision. For computer graphics, foveated rendering for headsets can be beneficial for conserving power in areas of the render frame that are less important to provide more performance with your main area of focus…

During the last round of price hikes on Raspberry Pi devices due to RAM pricing, they were able to keep the 1GB and 2GB single board computer versions steady. But Eben Upton announced today that the RAM pricing has become “unsustainable” and even the 2GB versions now are facing steep price hikes…

Tcl/Tk 9.1 adds screen reader accessibility, initial right-to-left text support, a new toggle switch widget, and several Tcl improvements.

Immediately following the OpenJDK 8 through OpenJDK 27 benchmarks I expanded the scope of testing to look at how recent OpenJDK releases have been comparing to alternative JVMs like GraalVM, Temurin, and Semeru. Here are those benchmarks if curious about the Java performance in those different environments.

PeaZip 11.3 has been released today as a new point release in the latest PeaZip 11 series of this open-source, free, and cross-platform archive manager for GNU/Linux, macOS, and Windows platforms.

With the third quarter wrapping up, here is a look back at the most interesting content on Phoronix over the past three months…

The GNOME Project released GNOME 50.5 as the fifth maintenance update to the latest GNOME 50 “Tokyo” desktop environment series to fix more bugs across various core apps and components.

For ending out the month of September the OpenMandriva Linux distribution crew released OpenMandriva ROME 26.0 as their long overdue release held up by various technical issues and a reported sabotage attempt to their platform. With OpenMandriva ROME 24.12 having been their last release, this is quite a big update…

Edison Design Group has open-sourced their EDG C/C++ front-end that has been known in the commercial world for its extensive dialect support and other features. The EDG C++ front-end has been used by the likes of Intel C++ Compiler classic, NVIDIA CUDA NVCC, and even Microsoft Visual Studio for IntelliSense…

Inside this week’s LWN.net Weekly Edition:

• Front: PostgreSQL and the kernel; Rust on the GPU; KDE Plasma; C and memory safety; Rust radio; KDE funding; Chromium development.
• Briefs: File-notification attacks; Kernel report; TAB election; F-Droid 2.0; Firefox 157.0; GDB 18.1; Git v2.56.0; Quotes; …
• Announcements: Newsletters, conferences, security updates, patches, and more.

As part of Valve’s work on developing the Steam Frame VR headset, they worked on foveated rendering support for the Mesa Turnip driver that supports the Qualcomm Adreno graphics with open-source Vulkan API support. Foveated rendering is the technique to more closely mimic human vision by rendering high detail at your direct gaze point and lower quality in the peripheral vision. For computer graphics, foveated rendering for headsets can be beneficial for conserving power in areas of the render frame that are less important to provide more performance with your main area of focus…

The FSF’s concerns go beyond whether AI platforms need kill switches. They extend to who controls them—and whether users will have any say.

AI is having an oversized impact on the open-source OpenStack cloud infrastructure platform.AI workloads are driving new hardware and storage requirements in OpenStack, while AI-assisted security research is driving up the number of vulnerability reports. Those are two of the prevailing themes in OpenStack 2026.2, code-named Hibiscus, which reaches general availability on Sept. 30.

Canonical has enabled upgrades from Ubuntu 24.04 LTS to Ubuntu 26.04.1 LTS, with the rollout beginning gradually through Update Manager.

If you have an AMD Ryzen laptop/desktop and looking to leverage AI/LLM capabilities with the integrated graphics, Linux 7.4 is going to be a real treat especially for lower-end hardware. AMD’s new PerfOpt feature being introduced in Linux 7.4 is set to provide some solid gains as shown in these benchmarks today across different AMD Ryzen/Radeon hardware.

antiX Linux 26.1 (codename Stephen Kapos) is out today as a maintenance update to the antiX Linux 26 series, addressing bugs reported since the initial release and updating the kernels.

Christian Legnitto is the maintainer of

rust-gpu and

Rust CUDA, two
libraries that make it possible to program a computer’s graphics processing unit
(GPU) from Rust. He isn’t satisfied with the current state of GPU support in
Rust, however. In a talk at

RustConf 2026, he explained his vision for how the
GPU could become an ordinary compiler target for normal Rust code, without the
need for any special libraries or new ecosystem support. That vision is not yet
fully implemented, but he does have a prototype that he is preparing to release.

Just shy of one year ago Meta announced OpenZL as a format-ware compression framework focused on delivering both high compression ratios and high speed compression/decompression. OpenZL has continued making more optimizations and out today is OpenZL v0.3 and advertising some huge gains over Zstandard (Zstd) that is also worked on by Meta engineers…

Following the public preview of Linux containers on WSL, Microsoft today announced the general availability of WSLC for supporting Linux containers on Windows…