Mesa's Zink Driver Achieves Hits Major Milestone For Workstation Graphics Mike Blumenkrantz of Valve's Linux graphics team is the one who has been driving the development forward on Mesa's Zink OpenGL-on-Vulkan driver. While traditionally focused on getting OpenGL games running over Zink, recently he has taken to optimizing Zink for workstation graphics...

Mesa's Zink Driver Achieves Hits Major Milestone For Workstation Graphics - Phoronix

Mike Blumenkrantz of Valve's Linux graphics team is the one who has been driving the development forward on Mesa's Zink OpenGL-on-Vulkan ...

AMD ROCm 7.0 Officially Released With Many Significant Improvements Overnight the AMD ROCm 7.0 release tags began appearing within the public Git repositories. Now AMD ROCm 7.0 is officially released as a very significant step forward for AMD's open-source GPU compute stack for better competing against NVIDIA's CUDA ecosystem...

AMD ROCm 7.0 Officially Released With Many Significant Improvements - Phoronix

Overnight the AMD ROCm 7.0 release tags began appearing within the public Git repositories

AOMedia To Release AV2 Video Codec At Year's End The Alliance for Open Media announced today that they will be launching the next-generation AV2 video codec at the end of 2025...

AOMedia To Release AV2 Video Codec At Year's End - Phoronix

The Alliance for Open Media announced today that they will be launching the next-generation AV2 video codec at the end of 2025.

AMD Officially Confirms The End Of The AMDVLK Driver To no real surprise given the happenings (or there the lack of) the past few months, AMD formally announced publicly today that their open-source AMDVLK driver has been discontinued in favor of the Mesa RADV driver for Vulkan needs on Linux...

AMD Officially Confirms The End Of The AMDVLK Driver - Phoronix

To no real surprise given the happenings (or there the lack of) the past few months, AMD formally announced publicly today that their open-source A...

Casilda 1.0 Released As Wayland Compositor Widget For GTK4 Casilda 1.0 is out today as the Wayland compositor widget for the GTK4 toolkit...

Casilda 1.0 Released As Wayland Compositor Widget For GTK4 - Phoronix

Casilda 1.0 is out today as the Wayland compositor widget for the GTK4 toolkit.

Jonathan Riddell Leaving KDE Development After 25 Years Prominent KDE developer Jonathan Riddell who was formerly involved with Kubuntu and then KDE Neon, served for a while on KDE Plasma release management, and other significant contributions over the years announced he's stepping away from the KDE world...

Jonathan Riddell Leaving KDE Development After 25 Years - Phoronix

Prominent KDE developer Jonathan Riddell who was formerly involved with Kubuntu and then KDE Neon, served for a while on KDE Plasma release managem...

Intel Loses One Of Its USB4 / Thunderbolt Linux Driver Maintainers It's unfortunate the number of significant Linux engineering losses at Intel this year. Beyond the staffing reductions throughout the company, seeing the loss of Linux engineering talent and many of their open-source contributors outside of kernel space too has been especially hard hitting to see. Intel for years has been very well regarded for their prolific open-source…

Intel Loses One Of Its USB4 / Thunderbolt Linux Driver Maintainers - Phoronix

It's unfortunate the number of significant Linux engineering losses at Intel this year

Linux's New "Sheaves" Per-CPU Caching Layer Showing Massive Wins For AMD Performance Earlier this week I wrote about Sheaves as an opt-in, per-CPU array-based caching layer likely coming for Linux 6.18. The sheaves patches have been queued into the "slab/for-next" Git branch ahead of the Linux 6.18 kernel merge window. Patches posted now by Google are showing the Linux Sheaves code having a massive beneficial impact for large AMD syst…

Linux's New "Sheaves" Per-CPU Caching Layer Showing Massive Wins For AMD Performance - Phoronix

Earlier this week I wrote about Sheaves as an opt-in, per-CPU array-based caching layer likely coming for Linux 6.18

62 Patches Posted For Stripping Classic Initrd Support From The Linux Kernel Last month I wrote about initrd support potentially being on its way out of the Linux kernel. For years Linux developers have wanted to phase out the classic initial RAM disk support from the Linux kernel and it looks like that day may finally be near with patches having been posted for removing the support...

62 Patches Posted For Stripping Classic Initrd Support From The Linux Kernel - Phoronix

Last month I wrote about initrd support potentially being on its way out of the Linux kernel

libadwaita 1.8 Released Ahead Of GNOME 49 Ahead of the GNOME 49 stable release expected on Wednesday, libadwaita 1.8 released this week to incorporate all the enhancements made over the past six months to this GTK4 library that provides GNOME-specific widgets and features...

libadwaita 1.8 Released Ahead Of GNOME 49 - Phoronix

Ahead of the GNOME 49 stable release expected on Wednesday, libadwaita 1.8 released this week to incorporate all the enhancements made over the pas...