Arch Linux AUR Packages For Firefox & Other Browsers Removed For Containing Malware While the Arch Linux AUR repository can be popular for fetching some packages not found in Arch Linux proper, it's important to keep in mind that AUR stands for the Arch User Repository. These user packages aren't always the best and rarely can be done with malicious intent as shown this week with an advisory over several malicious browser packages being b…

Arch Linux AUR Packages For Firefox & Other Browsers Removed For Containing Malware - Phoronix

While the Arch Linux AUR repository can be popular for fetching some packages not found in Arch Linux proper, it's important to keep in mind t...

Intel Announces It's Shutting Down Clear Linux The most depressing news of the week: Intel is ending their performance-optimized Clear Linux distribution. Over the past decade the Clear Linux operating system has shown what's possible with out-of-the-box performance on x86_64 hardware... Not just for Intel platforms but even showing extremely great performance results on AMD x86_64 too. But with the cost-cutting going on at Intel, Clear Linu…

Intel Announces It's Shutting Down Clear Linux - Phoronix

The most depressing news of the week: Intel is ending their performance-optimized Clear Linux distribution

Google Continues Working On "Magma" For Mesa Cross-Platform System Call Interface Mesa 25.2 entered its feature freeze yesterday with many exciting driver improvements with new features and performance optimizations while one feature that wasn't ready for merging in this quarter's release is Magma, which is a recent effort by Google engineers working on a cross-platform system call interface for Mesa. And it's written in Rust...

Google Continues Working On "Magma" For Mesa Cross-Platform System Call Interface - Phoronix

Mesa 25.2 entered its feature freeze yesterday with many exciting driver improvements with new features and performance optimizations while one fea...

Mesa 25.1.6 Released With Intel Xe3 Panther Lake Graphics Enabled By Default In addition to releasing Mesa 25.2-rc1 with its many new features to test, Mesa release manager Eric Engestrom today released Mesa 25.1.6 as the newest bi-weekly stable point release for last quarter's series...

Mesa 25.1.6 Released With Intel Xe3 Panther Lake Graphics Enabled By Default - Phoronix

In addition to releasing Mesa 25.2-rc1 with its many new features to test, Mesa release manager Eric Engestrom today released Mesa 25.1.6 as the ne...

Mesa 25.2-rc1 Released: Faster RADV Ray-Tracing, NVK Blackwell & More Optimizations Mesa 25.2 is now branched and thus under a feature freeze and with Mesa 25.2-rc1 having just been released. This marks the start of weekly release candidates until the Mesa 25.2 stable release is ready to ship sometime in August...

Mesa 25.2-rc1 Released: Faster RADV Ray-Tracing, NVK Blackwell & More Optimizations - Phoronix

Mesa 25.2 is now branched and thus under a feature freeze and with Mesa 25.2-rc1 having just been released

12k Lines Of NVIDIA Blackwell 3D Class Header Files Open-Sourced Similar to the 3D class header files previously open-sourced by NVIDIA for prior generation GPUs, yesterday NVIDIA carried out a similar open-source move to publish all the 3D class header files for their newest Blackwell graphics processors...

12k Lines Of NVIDIA Blackwell 3D Class Header Files Open-Sourced - Phoronix

Similar to the 3D class header files previously open-sourced by NVIDIA for prior generation GPUs, yesterday NVIDIA carried out a similar open-sourc...

Hyprland 0.50 Released With New Render Scheduling, Drops Legacy Renderer Hyprland 0.50 is out today as the newest feature release for this Wayland compositor focused on delivering a lot of Linux desktop bling...

Hyprland 0.50 Released With New Render Scheduling, Drops Legacy Renderer - Phoronix

Hyprland 0.50 is out today as the newest feature release for this Wayland compositor focused on delivering a lot of Linux desktop bling.

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 600/700 "Kepler" GPUs Now Vulkan 1.2 Conformant With NVK Yet more feature code continues piling in for the Mesa 25.2 release due out next month and days ahead of the feature freeze. Hitting Mesa Git this evening is now treating NVIDIA Kepler GPUs as Vulkan 1.2 conformant following the Vulkan 1.2 CTS passing with the NVK open-source driver paired with the Nouveau kernel driver...

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 600/700 "Kepler" GPUs Now Vulkan 1.2 Conformant With NVK - Phoronix

Yet more feature code continues piling in for the Mesa 25.2 release due out next month and days ahead of the feature freeze

Additional AMD RDNA3 & RDNA4 Ray-Tracing Improvements For Mesa 25.2 RADV Ahead of the Mesa 25.2 feature freeze and code branching expected later this week, some additional ray-tracing optimizations were merged today for the Radeon "RADV" Vulkan driver. These latest RADV ray-tracing improvements benefit the latest Radeon RX 9000 series "RDNA4" the most but there are also some optimizations too for RDNA3 class GPUs...

Additional AMD RDNA3 & RDNA4 Ray-Tracing Improvements For Mesa 25.2 RADV - Phoronix

Ahead of the Mesa 25.2 feature freeze and code branching expected later this week, some additional ray-tracing optimizations were merged today for ...

Blender 4.5 LTS Released With Vulkan & Wayland Improvements, Some Optimizations Blender 4.5 is now officially available today as the newest feature release and one that is a Long Term Support (LTS) for this popular, cross-platform 3D modeling software...

Blender 4.5 LTS Released With Vulkan & Wayland Improvements, Some Optimizations - Phoronix

Blender 4.5 is now officially available today as the newest feature release and one that is a Long Term Support (LTS) for this popular, cross-platf...