Google Prepares Chrome Field Trial For Accelerated Video Decode On Wayland Google is preparing a field trial with the Chrome web browser of accelerated video decoding under Wayland/Linux as a step toward rolling it out by default for a better video playback experience on the Linux desktop with Wayland-based environments...

Google Prepares Chrome Field Trial For Accelerated Video Decode On Wayland - Phoronix

Google is preparing a field trial with the Chrome web browser of accelerated video decoding under Wayland/Linux as a step toward rolling it out by ...

Nouveau Driver Receives Patch For GPU Reclocking With The Pascal GP10B Nearly a decade after the Tegra X2 SoC shipped in the likes of the Jetson TX2, the Pascal-based GP10B GPU has received a patch for allowing GPU re-clocking within the open-source Nouveau driver...

Nouveau Driver Receives Patch For GPU Reclocking With The Pascal GP10B - Phoronix

Nearly a decade after the Tegra X2 SoC shipped in the likes of the Jetson TX2, the Pascal-based GP10B GPU has received a patch for allowing GPU re-...

GNOME's Glycin Lands "Dramatically Improved" JPEG-XL Image Loading Performance Glycin 2.0 Beta 3 was released this week for the GNOME project providing a Rust-based library for decoding, editing, and creating images and associated metadata. Glycin is in turn used by a growing number of GNOME components for imaging needs...

GNOME's Glycin Lands "Dramatically Improved" JPEG-XL Image Loading Performance - Phoronix

Glycin 2.0 Beta 3 was released this week for the GNOME project providing a Rust-based library for decoding, editing, and creating images and associ...

Mesa 25.3 Lands More Changes To Prepare For OpenGL Mesh Shaders Being worked on for a number of months now is GL_EXT_mesh_shader as an extension for bringing mesh shaders to OpenGL. This is an alternative to NVIDIA's GL_NV_mesh_shader extension being worked on for Mesa drivers and in particular the RadeonSI Gallium3D driver...

Mesa 25.3 Lands More Changes To Prepare For OpenGL Mesh Shaders - Phoronix

Being worked on for a number of months now is GL_EXT_mesh_shader as an extension for bringing mesh shaders to OpenGL

FFmpeg 8.0 Released With OpenAI Whisper Filter, Many Vulkan Video Improvements FFmpeg 8.0 is now available! FFmpeg 8.0 is a magnificent update to this widely-used open-source multimedia library and with this new version is the introduction of an OpenAI Whisper filter for automatic speech recognition, many Vulkan Video improvements for greater GPU-accelerated video handling, and a number of CPU performance optimizations...

FFmpeg 8.0 Released With OpenAI Whisper Filter, Many Vulkan Video Improvements - Phoronix

Libre-Chip Awarded NLnet Grant To Prototype A CPU That Isn't Vulnerable To Spectre Flaws The Libre-Chip project led by Jacob Lifshay has received a grant from NLNet to develop a prototype/proof-of-concept processor design that can be high performance but not vulnerable to speculative execution vulnerabilities like Spectre...

Libre-Chip Awarded NLnet Grant To Prototype A CPU That Isn't Vulnerable To Spectre Flaws - Phoronix

The Libre-Chip project led by Jacob Lifshay has received a grant from NLNet to develop a prototype/proof-of-concept processor design that can be hi...

LibreOffice 25.8 Released With UI Enhancements, Better Performance LibreOffice 25.8 is now available as the latest half-year feature release to this open-source office suite that is one of the most comprehensive alternatives to Microsoft Office for Linux and other platforms...

LibreOffice 25.8 Released With UI Enhancements, Better Performance - Phoronix

LibreOffice 25.8 is now available as the latest half-year feature release to this open-source office suite that is one of the most comprehensive al...

Git 2.51 Released With More Changes Preparing For Git 3.0 Git 2.51 is out this Monday as the newest milestone for this widely-used, distributed version control system...

Git 2.51 Released With More Changes Preparing For Git 3.0 - Phoronix

Git 2.51 is out this Monday as the newest milestone for this widely-used, distributed version control system.

SDL3 Enhances Logic For Selecting The Most Performant Vulkan GPU The SDL3 library that is widely-used by cross-platform games has landed new code for revising how it selects the high performance GPU in multi-GPU systems...

SDL3 Enhances Logic For Selecting The Most Performant Vulkan GPU - Phoronix

The SDL3 library that is widely-used by cross-platform games has landed new code for revising how it selects the high performance GPU in multi-GPU ...

Wine-Staging 10.13 Adds Patch For 13 Year Old Bug Building off yesterday's Wine 10.13 release following the month-long summer release hiatus, Wine-Staging 10.13 is out today with some 300 patches atop the upstream codebase...

Wine-Staging 10.13 Adds Patch For 13 Year Old Bug - Phoronix

Building off yesterday's Wine 10.13 release following the month-long summer release hiatus, Wine-Staging 10.13 is out today with some 300 patc...