GTK 4.20 Released With Better Wayland Support, Rendering Enhancements GTK 4.20 released on Friday as the newest version of this open-source toolkit aligned with the GNOME project. GTK 4.20 brings improved support for Wayland on Linux along with platform enhancements for macOS, Android, and Windows too...

GTK 4.20 Released With Better Wayland Support, Rendering Enhancements - Phoronix

GTK 4.20 released on Friday as the newest version of this open-source toolkit aligned with the GNOME project

GNOME Executive Director Steps Down After Four Months It was barely four months ago that the GNOME Foundation announced its new Executive Director, Steven Deobald, who was taking over afterHolly Million stepped down after less than one year. Today Deobald announced he is stepping down as the Executive Director...

GNOME Executive Director Steps Down After Four Months - Phoronix

It was barely four months ago that the GNOME Foundation announced its new Executive Director, Steven Deobald, who was taking over afterHolly Millio...

Linux 6.17 Showing Off Some Nice Gains For 5th Gen AMD EPYC "Turin" Performance Earlier this week I provided benchmarks looking at the Linux 5.15 LTS through Linux 6.17 Git kernel performance using the latest stable and development kernels compared to the Long Term Support (LTS) kernels over the past four years. For having hardware support back to Linux 5.15 I was using an AMD EPYC Milan-X server. In those benchmarks there were some nice …

Linux 6.17 Showing Off Some Nice Gains For 5th Gen AMD EPYC "Turin" Performance - Phoronix

Earlier this week I provided benchmarks looking at the Linux 5.15 LTS through Linux 6.17 Git kernel performance using the latest stable and develop...

Mesa's LLVMpipe Driver Adds Support For 8x MSAA The newest feature addition for Mesa 25.3 is enabling support 8x multi-sample anti-aliasing (MSAA) within the LLVMpipe software rasterizer...

Mesa's LLVMpipe Driver Adds Support For 8x MSAA - Phoronix

The newest feature addition for Mesa 25.3 is enabling support 8x multi-sample anti-aliasing (MSAA) within the LLVMpipe software rasterizer.

Mesa 25.1.9 Released To End Out The Mesa 25.1 Series With Mesa 25.2.1 recently having been released, the prior quarter's Mesa 25.1 series is now drawing to a close. Excellent Mesa release manager Eric Engestrom released Mesa 25.1.9 as one last point release for Mesa 25.1 before ending this branch...

Mesa 25.1.9 Released To End Out The Mesa 25.1 Series - Phoronix

With Mesa 25.2.1 recently having been released, the prior quarter's Mesa 25.1 series is now drawing to a close

RADV Vulkan Driver Lands Untyped Pointers Support Introduced earlier this month with the Vulkan API 1.4.325 spec update was the introduction of the untyped pointers extension with VK_KHR_shader_untyped_pointers and SPIR-V's underlying SPV_KHR_untyped_pointers for providing an alternative option to strongly-typed pointers. As of yesterday the Mesa Radeon Vulkan driver "RADV" is now supporting this untyped pointers extension...

RADV Vulkan Driver Lands Untyped Pointers Support - Phoronix

Introduced earlier this month with the Vulkan API 1.4.325 spec update was the introduction of the untyped pointers extension with VK_KHR_shader_unt...

Latest NOVA Patches From NVIDIA Get The GSP Booting To RISC-V Active State The NOVA open-source kernel graphics driver continues getting slowly built-up for the NVIDIA RTX 20 "Turing" and newer GPUs that sport the GPU System Processor (GSP) for easing the hardware initialization and management of modern NVIDIA GPUs within the mainline kernel. This Rust-written kernel driver now has patches pending for booting up the NVIDIA GSP to its RISC-…

Latest NOVA Patches From NVIDIA Get The GSP Booting To RISC-V Active State - Phoronix

The NOVA open-source kernel graphics driver continues getting slowly built-up for the NVIDIA RTX 20 'Turing' and newer GPUs that sport th...

QEMU 10.1 Released With Intel TDX Improvements, Support For Compiling To WASM QEMU 10.1 was released overnight as the latest iteration of this open-source machine emulator that plays an important role in the Linux virtualization stack...

QEMU 10.1 Released With Intel TDX Improvements, Support For Compiling To WASM - Phoronix

QEMU 10.1 was released overnight as the latest iteration of this open-source machine emulator that plays an important role in the Linux virtualizat...

Mir 2.22 Released With Tackling NVIDIA Support, Initial Rust Scaffolding Mir 2.22 is out today as the newest version of this Canonical project providing libraries for building Wayland-based shells/compositors. Mir 2.22 brings some notable improvements around NVIDIA GPU/driver support as well as initial preparations for Rust programming language support...

Mir 2.22 Released With Tackling NVIDIA Support, Initial Rust Scaffolding - Phoronix

Mir 2.22 is out today as the newest version of this Canonical project providing libraries for building Wayland-based shells/compositors

Initrd Support Could Finally Be On Its Way To Being Removed From The Linux Kernel Linux's classic initial RAM disk "initrd" support might finally be on its way out of the Linux kernel depending upon feedback from stakeholders. Long live initramfs...

Initrd Support Could Finally Be On Its Way To Being Removed From The Linux Kernel - Phoronix

Linux's classic initial RAM disk 'initrd' support might finally be on its way out of the Linux kernel depending upon feedback from s...