Mesa Adds Contributor Guidelines - Will Allow AI Generated Code If Author Understands It Merged to Mesa Git are new contributor guidelines added to the documentation. This can help new users in submitting patches to Mesa. It also lays out a policy of allowing AI-generated/assisted code but the author submitting the code must be able to understand the code in question and take responsibility for it...

Mesa Adds Contributor Guidelines - Will Allow AI Generated Code If Author Understands It - Phoronix

Merged to Mesa Git are new contributor guidelines added to the documentation

Zink OpenGL-On-Vulkan Driver Tackles OpenGL Mesh Shaders In addition to working on optimizing the performance of Zink for workstation graphics, Mike Blumenkrantz has also been tackling support for OpenGL mesh shaders with this generic OpenGL-on-Vulkan open-source driver...

Zink OpenGL-On-Vulkan Driver Tackles OpenGL Mesh Shaders - Phoronix

In addition to working on optimizing the performance of Zink for workstation graphics, Mike Blumenkrantz has also been tackling support for OpenGL ...

KDE Plasma 6.5 Beta Released With KNightTime, Rounded Bottom Window Corners The beta release of KDE's Plasma 6.5 desktop took place on Thursday as they work toward the stable release expected on 21 October...

KDE Plasma 6.5 Beta Released With KNightTime, Rounded Bottom Window Corners - Phoronix

The beta release of KDE's Plasma 6.5 desktop took place on Thursday as they work toward the stable release expected on 21 October.

Rust 1.90 Released With LLD Default On Linux x86_64 While macOS x86_64 Demoted Rust 1.90 is out today as the newest feature release for this popular programming language...

Rust 1.90 Released With LLD Default On Linux x86_64 While macOS x86_64 Demoted - Phoronix

Rust 1.90 is out today as the newest feature release for this popular programming language.

Python 3.14-rc3 Released Ahead Of Next Month's Official Release Python 3.14-rc3 is out today as the final test preview ahead of next month's official Python 3.14 stable release...

Python 3.14-rc3 Released Ahead Of Next Month's Official Release - Phoronix

Python 3.14-rc3 is out today as the final test preview ahead of next month's official Python 3.14 stable release.

NVIDIA To Make $5B Investment Into Intel - x86 RTX SoCs & More To Come NVIDIA is making a $5 billion investment into Intel and the two companies will work together on custom data center and client CPUs...

NVIDIA To Make $5B Investment Into Intel - x86 RTX SoCs & More To Come - Phoronix

NVIDIA is making a $5 billion investment into Intel and the two companies will work together on custom data center and client CPUs.

Linux Mint Releases LMDE 7 Beta Following the recent release of Linux Mint 22.2 as the Linux Mint project's premiere operating system currently built atop Ubuntu 24.04 LTS, today marks the beta release of Linux Mint Debian Edition 7...

Linux Mint Releases LMDE 7 Beta - Phoronix

Following the recent release of Linux Mint 22.2 as the Linux Mint project's premiere operating system currently built atop Ubuntu 24.04 LTS, t...

Intel's Latest Open-Source Project To End & Layoff Developers... But A New Home At NumPy Beyond shutting down the Clear Linux project, various Linux driver maintainers let go that have even led to some Intel drivers being "orphaned" in the Linux kernel, there is another open-source project that has ended at Intel with the developers departing the company. Though at least this project has found a new open-source home under the NumPy umbrel…

Intel's Latest Open-Source Project To End & Layoff Developers... But A New Home At NumPy - Phoronix

Beyond shutting down the Clear Linux project, various Linux driver maintainers let go that have even led to some Intel drivers being 'orphaned...

OpenJDK 25 & GraalVM 25 Released With 32-bit x86 Support Removed Released yesterday was the OpenJDK Java 25 release along with Oracle's GraalVM 25 alternative JVM...

OpenJDK 25 & GraalVM 25 Released With 32-bit x86 Support Removed - Phoronix

Released yesterday was the OpenJDK Java 25 release along with Oracle's GraalVM 25 alternative JVM.

GNOME 49 Officially Released With Wayland Improvements, Showtime As Video Player GNOME 49.0 is out today as the latest half-year feature release to the GNOME desktop that will go on to power the likes of Fedora Workstation 43 and Ubuntu 25.10...

GNOME 49 Officially Released With Wayland Improvements, Showtime As Video Player - Phoronix

GNOME 49.0 is out today as the latest half-year feature release to the GNOME desktop that will go on to power the likes of Fedora Workstation 43 an...