KDE Plasma 6.4 Adding Support For P010 Formatted Videos, KWin Improving Pixel Perfection KDE developer Nate Graham is out with his traditional weekend update to highlight all of the interesting Plasma desktop changes to have been merged over the past week...

KDE Plasma 6.4 Adding Support For P010 Formatted Videos, KWin Improving Pixel Perfection - Phoronix

Git 2.49 Released With Faster Packing, Rust Foreign Language Interface Git 2.49 is out today as the latest feature update for this widely-used distributed version control system...

Git 2.49 Released With Faster Packing, Rust Foreign Language Interface - Phoronix

Git 2.49 is out today as the latest feature update for this widely-used distributed version control system.

Free95 0.2 Alpha Released As Open-Source Windows Compatible OS While ReactOS is widely known as the open-source operating system working on maintaining software and driver compatibility with Microsoft Windows, there's another new one in the field and it's Free95. The Free95 project is working to become an open-source, Windows-compatible operating system. Version 0.2 Alpha of Free95 was released today for testing...

Free95 0.2 Alpha Released As Open-Source Windows Compatible OS - Phoronix

While ReactOS is widely known as the open-source operating system working on maintaining software and driver compatibility with Microsoft Windows, ...

DXVK 2.6 Released With NVIDIA Reflex Support, Numerous Improvements Released today ahead of a potential Proton 10.0 release for re-basing Valve's Steam Play tech atop the recent Wine 10.0 release, DXVK 2.6 is out today as the newest iteration of this Direct3D 8 / 9 / 10 / 11 implementation atop the Vulkan API for enhancing the Linux gaming experience...

DXVK 2.6 Released With NVIDIA Reflex Support, Numerous Improvements - Phoronix

Released today ahead of a potential Proton 10.0 release for re-basing Valve's Steam Play tech atop the recent Wine 10.0 release, DXVK 2.6 is o...

Rusticl Wins: Mesa Officially Deprecates Clover OpenCL With today's Mesa 25.1-devel Git code, the "Clover" OpenCL Gallium3D state tracker is officially deprecated. Clover will be eventually removed with the Rust-written Rusticl OpenCL driver being modern, much more actively maintained, and all-around a better option than the aging Clover code...

Rusticl Wins: Mesa Officially Deprecates Clover OpenCL - Phoronix

With today's Mesa 25.1-devel Git code, the 'Clover' OpenCL Gallium3D state tracker is officially deprecated

Mesa 25.1 To Enable Working Chromium VA-API Support A new set of Gallium3D video acceleration front-end patches by AMD contractor David Rosca allow for the Google Chromium/Chrome browser code to enjoy working VA-API accelerated video decoding with the open-source Mesa drivers...

Mesa 25.1 To Enable Working Chromium VA-API Support - Phoronix

A new set of Gallium3D video acceleration front-end patches by AMD contractor David Rosca allow for the Google Chromium/Chrome browser code to enjo...

Ubuntu 25.10 Looks To Make Use Of Rust Coreutils & Other Rust System Components Plans have been drafted to begin using more Rust-rewritten Linux system components within the Ubuntu 25.10 release due out later this year and ahead of next year's all important Ubuntu 26.04 LTS release. Among the Rust components being planned for use in Ubuntu 25.10 is the Rust Coreutils "uutils" software...

Ubuntu 25.10 Looks To Make Use Of Rust Coreutils & Other Rust System Components - Phoronix

Plans have been drafted to begin using more Rust-rewritten Linux system components within the Ubuntu 25.10 release due out later this year and ahea...

AMD's 3D V-Cache Optimizer Driver For Squeezing More Ryzen 9 9950X3D Performance Merged for the Linux 6.13 kernel was the AMD 3D V-Cache Optimizer driver for being able to influence the kernel's scheduling decisions on AMD processors where only a subset of CCDs have the larger 3D V-Cache. With this new driver users can communicate their cache vs. frequency preference for influencing where new tasks are first placed if on the CCD w…

AMD's 3D V-Cache Optimizer Driver For Squeezing More Ryzen 9 9950X3D Performance Review - Phoronix

Merged for the Linux 6.13 kernel was the AMD 3D V-Cache Optimizer driver for being able to influence the kernel's scheduling decisions on AMD ...

OpenSSL 3.5 Alpha 1 Released With Server-Side QUIC OpenSSL 3.5 Alpha 1 is out today as the first development milestone on the path to releasing OpenSSL 3.5.0 in April...

OpenSSL 3.5 Alpha 1 Released With Server-Side QUIC - Phoronix

OpenSSL 3.5 Alpha 1 is out today as the first development milestone on the path to releasing OpenSSL 3.5.0 in April.

Nouveau On NVIDIA Turing GPUs & Newer Will Now Prefer NVK+Zink For OpenGL As a sign of the times for both the NVK open-source NVIDIA Vulkan driver within Mesa and the generic Zink OpenGL-on-Vulkan code, with next quarter's Mesa 25.1 release when using a NVIDIA Turing GPU or newer with the Nouveau driver stack it will now default to using Zink atop NVK for OpenGL rather than the existing NVC0 Gallium3D driver...

Nouveau On NVIDIA Turing GPUs & Newer Will Now Prefer NVK+Zink For OpenGL - Phoronix

As a sign of the times for both the NVK open-source NVIDIA Vulkan driver within Mesa and the generic Zink OpenGL-on-Vulkan code, with next quarter&...