NVIDIA Has Been Supplying NDA'ed Docs To Red Hat For Helping NVK Driver Following AMD announcing the end of the AMDVLK Vulkan driver development in favor of focusing on the Mesa RADV driver for Linux systems, Red Hat engineer David Airlie who was one of the co-lead developers of the RADV driver shared some interesting insight on NVK as the open-source NVIDIA Vulkan driver being developed within Mesa...

NVIDIA Has Been Supplying NDA'ed Docs To Red Hat For Helping NVK Driver - Phoronix

Following AMD announcing the end of the AMDVLK Vulkan driver development in favor of focusing on the Mesa RADV driver for Linux systems, Red Hat en...

NVIDIA, Disney & Google Contribute Open-Source Newton Engine To The Linux Foundation Earlier this year NVIDIA announced Newton as an open-source physics engine focused on robotic simulations. This physics engine was developed by NVIDIA in cooperation with Google DeepMind and Disney Research. Today it's been contributed to the Linux Foundation...

NVIDIA, Disney & Google Contribute Open-Source Newton Engine To The Linux Foundation - Phoronix

Earlier this year NVIDIA announced Newton as an open-source physics engine focused on robotic simulations

Unvanquished Game Ported To SDL3, Working Natively On Wayland When it comes to open-source games, Unvanquished remains one of the most promising and interesting open-source FPS games from a technical perspective. With its next release, Unvanquished has been ported to the SDL3 library and is working well natively on Wayland...

Unvanquished Game Ported To SDL3, Working Natively On Wayland - Phoronix

When it comes to open-source games, Unvanquished remains one of the most promising and interesting open-source FPS games from a technical perspective

Vulkan 1.4.328 Published With Copy Memory Indirect Extension Vulkan 1.4.328 is now available as the latest specification update to this high performance graphics and compute API from The Khronos Group...

Vulkan 1.4.328 Published With Copy Memory Indirect Extension - Phoronix

Vulkan 1.4.328 is now available as the latest specification update to this high performance graphics and compute API from The Khronos Group.

Ubuntu 25.10's Move To Rust Coreutils Is Causing Major Breakage For Some Executables I noticed a number of benchmarks failing to run on Ubuntu 25.10 this week with reported checksum errors on the files... I quickly realized it's due to the recent Rust Coreutils transition for Ubuntu 25.10 causing some major breakage for those relying on Makeself archives...

Ubuntu 25.10's Move To Rust Coreutils Is Causing Major Breakage For Some Executables - Phoronix

I noticed a number of benchmarks failing to run on Ubuntu 25.10 this week with reported checksum errors on the files..

Wild: A Very Fast Linker Written In Rust, Aims To Outperform Mold Linker While the Mold linker has been very impressive for its speed the past few years compared to the linkers out of the LLVM and GNU toolchain projects, there is a new high speed linker on the scene and it's written in Rust: meet Wild...

Wild: A Very Fast Linker Written In Rust, Aims To Outperform Mold Linker - Phoronix

While the Mold linker has been very impressive for its speed the past few years compared to the linkers out of the LLVM and GNU toolchain projects,...

Mesa's PowerVR Vulkan Driver Gets Rid Of Its Old Hardcoded Shader Code Imagination's open-source PowerVR Vulkan driver within Mesa now is able to generate its different internal shaders required by the driver to forego shipping old hard-coded shaders...

Mesa's PowerVR Vulkan Driver Gets Rid Of Its Old Hardcoded Shader Code - Phoronix

Imagination's open-source PowerVR Vulkan driver within Mesa now is able to generate its different internal shaders required by the driver to f...

FFmpeg Introduces MPEG-H 3D Audio Decoding Support The widely-used FFmpeg open-source multimedia library has merged support for MPEG-H 3D Audio decoding...

FFmpeg Introduces MPEG-H 3D Audio Decoding Support - Phoronix

The widely-used FFmpeg open-source multimedia library has merged support for MPEG-H 3D Audio decoding.

Sony DualSense Controller Audio Jack Handling Ready For Linux 6.18 In addition to the patches providing haptic touchpad support for Linux 6.18, another notable HID addition queued into the "hid-next" tree ahead of the imminent Linux 6.18 merge window is proper audio jack handling with the Sony PlayStation DualSense controller...

Sony DualSense Controller Audio Jack Handling Ready For Linux 6.18 - Phoronix

In addition to the patches providing haptic touchpad support for Linux 6.18, another notable HID addition queued into the 'hid-next' tree...

SquashFS Optimization Achieves 15,277x Performance In Developer Benchmark SquashFS developer Phillip Lougher posted a patch today just over one hundred lines of code yielding an outright massive performance gain for some operations with this compressed. read-only file-system...

SquashFS Optimization Achieves 15,277x Performance In Developer Benchmark - Phoronix

SquashFS developer Phillip Lougher posted a patch today just over one hundred lines of code yielding an outright massive performance gain for some ...