Mesa 25.2 RADV Driver Merges Support For AV1 Vulkan Video Encode Published last November as part of Vulkan 1.3.302 was the VK_KHR_video_encode_av1 extension for adding AV1 video encoding to the Vulkan Video API. Ahead of next quarter's Mesa 25.2 release, the open-source Radeon Vulkan driver "RADV" has merged its AV1 encode support...

Mesa 25.2 RADV Driver Merges Support For AV1 Vulkan Video Encode - Phoronix

Published last November as part of Vulkan 1.3.302 was the VK_KHR_video_encode_av1 extension for adding AV1 video encoding to the Vulkan Video API

Mir 2.21 Released With Cursor Scaling & Mouse Keys Support Mir 2.21 is out today for this Ubuntu/Canonical project to serve as a set of libraries used to simplify the development of Wayland-based shells/environments...

Mir 2.21 Released With Cursor Scaling & Mouse Keys Support - Phoronix

Mir 2.21 is out today for this Ubuntu/Canonical project to serve as a set of libraries used to simplify the development of Wayland-based shells/env...

Firefox 141 Beta Lowering RAM Use On Linux But Still Benchmarking Behind Chrome Following this week's release of Firefox 140, Firefox 141 was promoted to beta. Most exciting for Linux users with next month's Firefox 141 release is finally lowering system RAM use! I've been running some benchmarks looking at the impact.

Firefox 141 Beta Lowering RAM Use On Linux But Still Benchmarking Behind Chrome - Phoronix

Following this week's release of Firefox 140, Firefox 141 was promoted to beta.

Blender 5.0 Introducing HDR Support On Linux With Vulkan + Wayland The upcoming Blender 5.0 3D modeling software application is introducing High Dynamic Range (HDR) display support on Linux when making use of Wayland -- no X11 support for HDR -- and Vulkan graphics accelerator...

Blender 5.0 Introducing HDR Support On Linux With Vulkan + Wayland - Phoronix

The upcoming Blender 5.0 3D modeling software application is introducing High Dynamic Range (HDR) display support on Linux when making use of Wayla...

NVIDIA Engineer Now Co-Maintainer Of "NOVA" Open-Source Rust NVIDIA GPU Driver The NOVA-Core driver as the basis for a modern, Rust-written open-source NVIDIA GPU driver for the upstream Linux kernel and eventual successor to the reverse-engineered Nouveau DRM driver has a new co-maintainer...

NVIDIA Engineer Now Co-Maintainer Of "NOVA" Open-Source Rust GPU Driver - Phoronix

The NOVA-Core driver as the basis for a modern, Rust-written open-source NVIDIA GPU driver for the upstream Linux kernel and eventual successor to ...

Proposal To Ship XLibre As X11 Server Packages On Fedora Linux Is Withdrawn The controversial proposal to replace the upstream X.Org X11 server packages on Fedora Linux with XLibre is not going to happen... At least not for now. The change proposal has been withdrawn prior to being voted on by the Fedora Engineering and Steering Committee (FESCo)...

Proposal To Ship XLibre As X11 Server Packages On Fedora Linux Is Withdrawn - Phoronix

The controversial proposal to replace the upstream X.Org X11 server packages on Fedora Linux with XLibre is not going to happen..

Mozilla Formally Discontinues Its DeepSpeech Project One of the interesting projects engaged in by Mozilla that directly wasn't related to their web browser efforts was DeepSpeech, an embedded/offline speech-to-text engine. To not much surprise given the lack of activity in recent years, last week they finally and formally discontinued the open-source project...

Mozilla Formally Discontinues Its DeepSpeech Project - Phoronix

One of the interesting projects engaged in by Mozilla that directly wasn't related to their web browser efforts was DeepSpeech, an embedded/of...

Fairphone 6 Announced With Same-Day Linux Support Patches Dutch electronics company Fairphone today announced their Fairphone Gen 6 smartphone as the successor to the Fairphone 5. Fairphone 6 continues to be repair-friendly and was just announced this morning while already the Linux support patches have hit the Linux kernel mailing list...

Fairphone 6 Announced With Same-Day Linux Support Patches - Phoronix

Dutch electronics company Fairphone today announced their Fairphone Gen 6 smartphone as the successor to the Fairphone 5

Linux Kernel's gconfig Finally Ported From GTK2 To GTK3 While the GIMP image editor received a bad rap for the amount of time it took to see a stable release based on the GTK3 toolkit rather than GTK2, only today patches have emerged for taking the Linux kernel's gconfig graphical kernel configuration utility from GTK2 to GTK3...

Linux Kernel's gconfig Finally Ported From GTK2 To GTK3 - Phoronix

While the GIMP image editor received a bad rap for the amount of time it took to see a stable release based on the GTK3 toolkit rather than GTK2, o...

Fedora's FESCo To Decide Whether To Replace Upstream X.Org Server With XLibre Fork In addition to the Fedora Engineering and Steering Committee (FESCo) having to decide on whether i686 support should end for Fedora Linux (including multilib), another contentious proposal is on replacing the X.Org X11 Server with the controversial XLibre fork...

Fedora's FESCo To Decide Whether To Replace Upstream X.Org Server With XLibre Fork - Phoronix

In addition to the Fedora Engineering and Steering Committee (FESCo) having to decide on whether i686 support should end for Fedora Linux (includin...