CLUDA Posted For Mesa: Gallium3D API Implemented Atop NVIDIA CUDA Driver API Well, here is a weekend surprise... Red Hat engineer and Rusticl lead developer Karol Herbst has opened a Mesa merge request for "CLUDA" as a compute-only driver that implements the Gallium3D API atop the NVIDIA CUDA driver API. Wow...

CLUDA Posted For Mesa: Gallium3D API Implemented Atop NVIDIA CUDA Driver API - Phoronix

Well, here is a weekend surprise..

Git Developers Talk About Potentially Releasing Git 3.0 By The End Of Next Year Git developers have been talking in recent weeks around release plans for Git 3.0. If all goes well we could potentially see Git 3.0 released before the end of 2026...

Git Developers Talk About Potentially Releasing Git 3.0 By The End Of Next Year - Phoronix

Git developers have been talking in recent weeks around release plans for Git 3.0

Imagination PowerVR Mesa Vulkan Driver Enables Unofficial Support For More GPUs Merged today for the Mesa 25.3 graphics driver code is enabling support for more PowerVR Imagination GPUs within the "PVR" Vulkan driver albeit not officially supported nor in active development. Your mileage may vary but for some users with certain GPUs may work out well enough...

Imagination PowerVR Mesa Vulkan Driver Enables Unofficial Support For More GPUs - Phoronix

Merged today for the Mesa 25.3 graphics driver code is enabling support for more PowerVR Imagination GPUs within the 'PVR' Vulkan driver ...

Phosh 0.50 Released, GNOME App Aims To Help You Learn Assembly For going along with the recent release of the GNOME 49 desktop, Phosh 0.50 has been released for this Wayland compositor focused on mobile devices...

Phosh 0.50 Released, GNOME App Aims To Help You Learn Assembly - Phoronix

For going along with the recent release of the GNOME 49 desktop, Phosh 0.50 has been released for this Wayland compositor focused on mobile devices.

KDE Plasma 6.5 Fixing Some Of The Most Common Crashes, Other Bugs Fixed Too KDE developer Nate Graham describes this week as having seen a "massive amount of stability work" for the Plasma 6.5 desktop. Among the many fixes to land this week for this next Plasma desktop release were fixing the second and third most common causes of Plasma crashes. Additionally, the most prolific common crash scenario was discovered to be caused by third-party…

KDE Plasma 6.5 Fixing Some Of The Most Common Crashes, Other Bugs Fixed Too - Phoronix

KDE developer Nate Graham describes this week as having seen a 'massive amount of stability work' for the Plasma 6.5 desktop

Vulkan 1.4.329 Released With New Fused-Multiply Add Extension Vulkan 1.4.329 is now available with one notable new extension in tow...

Vulkan 1.4.329 Released With New Fused-Multiply Add Extension - Phoronix

Vulkan 1.4.329 is now available with one notable new extension in tow.

Python 3.14 Performance Running Strong In Benchmarks With this week's release of Python 3.14 bringing performance improvements, debugging improvements, a new Zstd compression module, and other enhancements I have been eager to run some benchmarks seeing how Python 3.14 compares to prior Python releases.

Python 3.14 Performance Looking Good In Benchmarks - Phoronix

With this week's release of Python 3.14 bringing performance improvements, debugging improvements, a new Zstd compression module, and other en...

NVIDIA Posts Latest Linux Driver Patches For Open-Source vGPU Support Just over one year ago NVIDIA posted open-source Linux GPU driver code for GPU virtualization "vGPU" support. That NVIDIA vGPU driver work was recently revised while still posted under a request for comments (RFC) flag...

NVIDIA Posts Latest Linux Driver Patches For Open-Source vGPU Support - Phoronix

Just over one year ago NVIDIA posted open-source Linux GPU driver code for GPU virtualization 'vGPU' support

GCC Patches Posted For C++26 SIMD Support One of the exciting additions on the way for the C++26 programming language is a standardized library around Single Instruction Multiple Data (SIMD) operations. This portable SIMD implementation makes it easier to leverage SIMD and data parallelism in C++ for better performance and to work across SIMD architectures like AVX-512...

GCC Patches Posted For C++26 SIMD Support - Phoronix

One of the exciting additions on the way for the C++26 programming language is a standardized library around Single Instruction Multiple Data (SIMD...

New Input Drivers Merged For Linux 6.18 In addition to last week's HID subsystem pull that brought haptic touchpad support and other exciting additions for Linux 6.18, the input subsystem pull was merged this week to introduce a few new input drivers...

New Input Drivers Merged For Linux 6.18 - Phoronix

In addition to last week's HID subsystem pull that brought haptic touchpad support and other exciting additions for Linux 6.18, the input subs...