Mediatek DRM Driver Prepares For HDMI 2.0 With MT8195/MT8188 The Direct Rendering Manager (DRM) updates have been submitted for the Mediatek driver in advance of the upcoming Linux 6.16 merge window...

Mediatek DRM Driver Prepares For HDMI 2.0 With MT8195/MT8188 - Phoronix

The Direct Rendering Manager (DRM) updates have been submitted for the Mediatek driver in advance of the upcoming Linux 6.16 merge window.

Firefox Source Code Now Hosted On GitHub The Mozilla Firefox source code is now officially available on GitHub as they work to transition from their hg.mozilla.org servers...

Firefox Source Code Now Hosted On GitHub - Phoronix

The Mozilla Firefox source code is now officially available on GitHub as they work to transition from their hg.mozilla.org servers.

Mesa 25.2 RADV Merges Ray-Tracing Improvements For Radeon RX 9070 Series / RDNA4 Merged for the Mesa 25.2 release next quarter are some further enhancements to the Vulkan ray-tracing support with the RADV open-source driver for AMD's new RDNA4 graphics cards...

Mesa 25.2 RADV Merges Ray-Tracing Improvements For Radeon RX 9070 Series / RDNA4 - Phoronix

Merged for the Mesa 25.2 release next quarter are some further enhancements to the Vulkan ray-tracing support with the RADV open-source driver for ...

Updated Nouveau Driver Patches For NVIDIA Hopper & Blackwell GPUs At the end of April was the open-source surprise of NVIDIA posting Nouveau Linux driver patches for their Hopper and Blackwell GPUs. This comes to complement their official (open-source but out of tree) kernel driver support for these newer NVIDIA GPUs and in the absence of the modern Rust-based NOVA Linux kernel driver not being in working shape yet on the mainline kerne…

Updated Nouveau Driver Patches For NVIDIA Hopper & Blackwell GPUs - Phoronix

At the end of April was the open-source surprise of NVIDIA posting Nouveau Linux driver patches for their Hopper and Blackwell GPUs

Linux 6.15 Adds Support For Several More Gaming Controllers Merged today to Linux Git ahead of the Linux 6.15-rc6 release is support for several more gaming controllers...

Linux 6.15 Adds Support For Several More Gaming Controllers - Phoronix

Merged today to Linux Git ahead of the Linux 6.15-rc6 release is support for several more gaming controllers.

KDE Plasma Will Now Make Sure Your System Doesn't Suspend When Transferring Files KDE Plasma 6.4 embarked on its soft feature freeze this week. Thus KDE Plasma developers are now predominantly working on bug fixing and UI polishing for this next open-source desktop release...

KDE Plasma Will Now Make Sure Your System Doesn't Suspend When Transferring Files - Phoronix

KDE Plasma 6.4 embarked on its soft feature freeze this week

RADV Vulkan Driver Lands BFloat16 Support In Mesa 25.2 Introduced at the end of March was Vulkan 1.4.311 with VK_KHR_shader_bfloat16 for allowing BFloat16 "BF16" operations within SPIR-V shaders with SPV_KHR_bfloat16. This BFloat16 support can be beneficial for Vulkan machine learning / AI workloads and other use cases moving forward. Now the Mesa Radeon Vulkan driver "RADV" is the newest wiring up support for VK_KHR_shader_bfloat16...

RADV Vulkan Driver Lands BFloat16 Support In Mesa 25.2 - Phoronix

Introduced at the end of March was Vulkan 1.4.311 with VK_KHR_shader_bfloat16 for allowing BFloat16 'BF16' operations within SPIR-V shade...

Mesa's Lavapipe Driver Wires Up More Features Used By VKD3D-Proton Mesa developer Konstantin Seurer has been adding more features to the Lavapipe Vulkan driver for functionality needed by VKD3D-Proton for mapping Direct3D 12 APIs atop Vulkan...

Mesa's Lavapipe Driver Wires Up More Features Used By VKD3D-Proton - Phoronix

Mesa developer Konstantin Seurer has been adding more features to the Lavapipe Vulkan driver for functionality needed by VKD3D-Proton for mapping D...

Hyprland 0.49 Wayland Compositor Working On Permission Management & New Protocols Hyprland 0.49 released on Thursday as the newest version of this unique Wayland compositor project...

Hyprland 0.49 Wayland Compositor Working On Permission Management & New Protocols - Phoronix

Hyprland 0.49 released on Thursday as the newest version of this unique Wayland compositor project.

Python 3.14 Reaches Beta With New Tail-Call Interpreter For Better Performance Python 3.14 Beta 1 is now available in working toward this next major Python release due out in early October...

Python 3.14 Reaches Beta With New Tail-Call Interpreter For Better Performance - Phoronix

Python 3.14 Beta 1 is now available in working toward this next major Python release due out in early October.