Many NGG Improvements Arrive For AMD's Open-Source Linux OpenGL/Vulkan Drivers Well known AMD Mesa developer Marek Olšák has been working on a number of improvements to benefit the Next-Gen Geometry "NGG" support within the RadeonSI and RADV graphics drivers for benefiting modern Radeon GPUs under Linux...

Many NGG Improvements Arrive For AMD's Open-Source Linux OpenGL/Vulkan Drivers - Phoronix

Well known AMD Mesa developer Marek Olšák has been working on a number of improvements to benefit the Next-Gen Geometry 'NGG' support w...

DXVK 2.7 Released With Many Improvements & Better Support On Newer Intel GPUs DXVK 2.7 released today as a major feature update for this translation layer for enabling Direct3D 8 / 9 / 10 / 11 based games and applications to run atop the Vulkan API. DXVK is a critical piece of Valve's Steam Play (Proton) software stack for enabling Windows games on Linux...

DXVK 2.7 Released With Many Improvements & Better Support On Newer Intel GPUs - Phoronix

DXVK 2.7 released today as a major feature update for this translation layer for enabling Direct3D 8 / 9 / 10 / 11 based games and applications to ...

SUSE's Agama Installer Switches From X.Org To Wayland For Installation GUI SUSE developers working on their new operating system installer "Agama" have been making steady progress and on Friday debuted Agama 16. With Agama 16 they have moved from X.Org to Wayland for powering their installer UI along with a number of other changes...

SUSE's Agama Installer Switches From X.Org To Wayland For Installation GUI - Phoronix

SUSE developers working on their new operating system installer 'Agama' have been making steady progress and on Friday debuted Agama 16

Coreboot 25.06 Released With Xeon Emerald Rapids Support, Better Panther Lake Building off Coreboot 25.03 is now the availability of Coreboot 25.06 for further enhancing this open-source system firmware project that continues to see new hardware improvements -- predominantly for Google Chromebook devices but also more Intel platforms and other hardware -- as well as new capabilities to further rival proprietary BIOS solutions...

Coreboot 25.06 Released With Xeon Emerald Rapids Support, Better Panther Lake - Phoronix

Building off Coreboot 25.03 is now the availability of Coreboot 25.06 for further enhancing this open-source system firmware project that continues...

Vulkan 1.4.321 Released With A Handful Of New Extensions The Vulkan working group is celebrating the US Independence Day with graphics API independence in today publishing Vulkan 1.4.321 that comes with several new extensions...

Vulkan 1.4.321 Released With A Handful Of New Extensions - Phoronix

The Vulkan working group is celebrating the US Independence Day with graphics API independence in today publishing Vulkan 1.4.321 that comes with s...

Intel Enables Wildcat Lake Display & Experimental Flip Queue For Linux 6.17 Graphics Intel today sent out a batch of new kernel graphics/display driver code for queuing ahead of the Linux 6.17 merge window opening in a few weeks. There is now DRM Panic support for the Intel i915 and Xe kernel drivers, Wildcat Lake "WCL" display enablement, and experimental flip queue support for Lunar Lake and Panther Lake hardware, among other chan…

Intel Enables Wildcat Lake Display & Experimental Flip Queue For Linux 6.17 Graphics - Phoronix

Intel today sent out a batch of new kernel graphics/display driver code for queuing ahead of the Linux 6.17 merge window opening in a few weeks

Bash 5.3 Released With Many Improvements Three years since the Bash 5.2 release and one year since the first alpha release, GNU Bash 5.3 was released overnight as the newest step forward for this popular shell used on Linux and other operating systems...

Bash 5.3 Released With Many Improvements - Phoronix

Three years since the Bash 5.2 release and one year since the first alpha release, GNU Bash 5.3 was released overnight as the newest step forward f...

Perl 5.42 Released With New Operators, Unicode 16 Support, Security Fixes Perl 5.42 is out today as the newest feature release for this popular programming language that comes one year after the prior Perl 5.40 release...

Perl 5.42 Released With New Operators, Unicode 16 Support, Security Fixes - Phoronix

Perl 5.42 is out today as the newest feature release for this popular programming language that comes one year after the prior Perl 5.40 release.

X.Org Server Lands Big Improvement For Using Zink With GLAMOR A nice improvement was merged today to the X.Org Server for benefiting the GLAMOR 2D acceleration code when using the Zink OpenGL-on-Vulkan driver...

X.Org Server Lands Big Improvement For Using Zink With GLAMOR - Phoronix

A nice improvement was merged today to the X.Org Server for benefiting the GLAMOR 2D acceleration code when using the Zink OpenGL-on-Vulkan driver.

Wayback Hopes To Be Ready Next Year With Alpine Linux Planning To Use It By Default A few days ago Wayback was announced as an X11 compatibility layer for X11 desktops environments leveraging a rootful XWayland server. While currently experimental, the hope is that it will be production-ready next year and Alpine Linux is looking at using it by default for its X11 environment...

Wayback Hopes To Be Ready Next Year With Alpine Linux Planning To Use It By Default - Phoronix

A few days ago Wayback was announced as an X11 compatibility layer for X11 desktops environments leveraging a rootful XWayland server