Blumenkrantz Proposes Workflow Improvements For Wayland Protocols It's been a busy week for Valve Linux graphics software engineer Mike Blumenkrantz. Besides hacking on Mesa's Zink OpenGL-on-Vulkan driver implementation, this week his latest target was working to help accelerate the pace of Wayland protocol development. He's been working through a few proposals like addressing NACK usage for how Wayland protocols can be rejected and i…

Blumenkrantz Proposes Workflow Improvements For Wayland Protocols - Phoronix

It's been a busy week for Valve Linux graphics software engineer Mike Blumenkrantz

Linux 6.12 Adds Driver For PixArt PS/2 Touchpad Found In Some Laptops The input subsystem updates merged this week bring a number of improvements to existing drivers while adding one new input driver...

Linux 6.12 Adds Driver For PixArt PS/2 Touchpad Found In Some Laptops - Phoronix

The input subsystem updates merged this week bring a number of improvements to existing drivers while adding one new input driver.

Unauthenticated RCE Flaw With CVSS 9.9 Rating For Linux Systems Affects CUPS There's been much speculation since this morning over a reported "severe" unauthenticated remote code execution (RCE) flaw affecting Linux systems that carries a CVSS 9.9.9 score... The embargo has now lifted with the details on this nasty issue...

Unauthenticated RCE Flaw With CVSS 9.9 Rating For Linux Systems Affects CUPS - Phoronix

There's been much speculation since this morning over a reported 'severe' unauthenticated remote code execution (RCE) flaw affecting...

Vulkan 1.3.296 Released With VK_EXT_device_generated_commands Vulkan 1.3.296 is out as the first spec update in nearly one month. Given the time that has passed there are more bug fixes than usual but there is also a prominent new extension: VK_EXT_device_generated_commands...

Vulkan 1.3.296 Released With VK_EXT_device_generated_commands - Phoronix

Vulkan 1.3.296 is out as the first spec update in nearly one month

Valve Engineer Mike Blumenkrantz Hoping To Accelerate Wayland Protocol Development Valve open-source graphics software engineer Mike Blumenkrantz is well known in the Linux community for his work on the Zink OpenGL-on-Vulkan driver code, various Mesa driver optimizations, and creative writing on his blog. He's also taken up a new task: further accelerating Wayland protocol development...

Valve Engineer Mike Blumenkrantz Hoping To Accelerate Wayland Protocol Development - Phoronix

Valve open-source graphics software engineer Mike Blumenkrantz is well known in the Linux community for his work on the Zink OpenGL-on-Vulkan drive...

Firewire Maintainer Is Looking For Help Testing IEEE-1394 Devices On Linux 6.12 While not as exciting as some of the shiny new features for Linux 6.12 like real-time going mainline and Lunar Lake and Battlemage graphics by default, the Firewire (IEEE-1394) subsystem has seen some significant alterations this cycle. With Firewire hardware increasingly rare, the maintainer is hoping to get this Linux 6.12 code better tested by the community...

Firewire Maintainer Is Looking For Help Testing IEEE-1394 Devices On Linux 6.12 - Phoronix

While not as exciting as some of the shiny new features for Linux 6.12 like real-time going mainline and Lunar Lake and Battlemage graphics by defa...

SDL Now Prefers Vulkan Over Direct3D 12 On Windows The SDL abstraction library commonly used by cross-platform games now prefers using Vulkan on Windows as its ideal graphics API. Direct3D 12 has been demoted lower in priority compared to Vulkan for this Simple DirectMedia Layer...

SDL Now Prefers Vulkan Over Direct3D 12 On Windows - Phoronix

The SDL abstraction library commonly used by cross-platform games now prefers using Vulkan on Windows as its ideal graphics API

KDE Optimizes How It Finds Mount Points - Up To 80% Speed-Up KDE developers have been busy preparing for Plasma 6.2 with lots of bug fixing and polishing while also beginning to land some features for Plasma 6.3...

KDE Optimizes How It Finds Mount Points - Up To 80% Speed-Up - Phoronix

KDE developers have been busy preparing for Plasma 6.2 with lots of bug fixing and polishing while also beginning to land some features for Plasma ...

Wine 9.18 Delivers New Desktop Control Panel Applet Wine 9.18 is out today as the newest bi-weekly development release for this open-source software that enables running Windows games and applications under Linux and other platforms...

Wine 9.18 Delivers New Desktop Control Panel Applet - Phoronix

Wine 9.18 is out today as the newest bi-weekly development release for this open-source software that enables running Windows games and application...

Proposal Seeks To Replace MySQL With MariaDB By Default For Ubuntu 25.04 Most Linux distributions have been defaulting to MariaDB as the default MySQL server for years. Ubuntu though has been a notable outlier still relying on Oracle MySQL for the default MySQL service. A proposal raised by an Ubuntu developer hopes to change that for Ubuntu 25.04 in the new year...

Proposal Seeks To Replace MySQL With MariaDB By Default For Ubuntu 25.04 - Phoronix

Most Linux distributions have been defaulting to MariaDB as the default MySQL server for years