Intel ANV Vulkan Driver Finally Exposes Pipeline Binary "VK_KHR_pipeline_binary" Introduced back in August of 2024 with Vulkan 1.3.294 was VK_KHR_pipeline_binary as a pipeline binary extension to retrieve binary data associated with individual pipelines. The focus of this is to bypass the Vulkan pipeline caching mechanism and so applications can manage caches themselves. Finally today for Mesa 26.0-devel the Intel "ANV" open-source Vulkan…

Intel ANV Vulkan Driver Finally Exposes Pipeline Binary "VK_KHR_pipeline_binary" - Phoronix

Introduced back in August of 2024 with Vulkan 1.3.294 was VK_KHR_pipeline_binary as a pipeline binary extension to retrieve binary data associated ...

RadeonSI + ACO Brings Some Performance Gains For Radeon Workstation Graphics Last week Mesa 26.0-devel enabled the ACO back-end by default within the RadeonSI Gallium3D driver for all supported Radeon graphics cards by this open-source Linux driver. This move was done in the name of better performance, faster shader compilation times, and ACO being all-around better than the AMDGPU LLVM back-end these days for both OpenGL and Vulkan use. I…

RadeonSI + ACO Brings Some Performance Gains For Radeon Workstation Graphics - Phoronix

Last week Mesa 26.0-devel enabled the ACO back-end by default within the RadeonSI Gallium3D driver for all supported Radeon graphics cards by this ...

FreeDesktop.org Adopts The Filesystem Hierarchy Standard Adding to the array of software projects and specifications under the FreeDesktop.org umbrella, the Filesystem Hierarchy Standard "FHS" has been adopted by these desktop-focused open-source developers...

FreeDesktop.org Adopts The Filesystem Hierarchy Standard - Phoronix

Adding to the array of software projects and specifications under the FreeDesktop.org umbrella, the Filesystem Hierarchy Standard 'FHS' h...

NVIDIA Preparing For Hopper & Blackwell GPU Support With Open-Source Nova Driver NVIDIA engineers continue working a lot on the open-source and upstream Nova driver for the Linux kernel. This modern, Rust-written open-source NVIDIA driver is still taking shape as an alternative to NVIDIA's official downstream open-source driver and the aging and reverse-engineered Nouveau driver. Out on the horizon for Nova is Hopper and Blackwell GPU su…

NVIDIA Preparing For Hopper & Blackwell GPU Support With Open-Source Nova Driver - Phoronix

NVIDIA engineers continue working a lot on the open-source and upstream Nova driver for the Linux kernel

Fwupd 2.0.17 Released With More Hardware Support & Features Days after the Linux Vendor Firmware Service celebrated 135 million firmware downloads, a new version of the Fwupd utility is now available for firmware updating systems and peripherals under Linux...

Fwupd 2.0.17 Released With More Hardware Support & Features - Phoronix

Days after the Linux Vendor Firmware Service celebrated 135 million firmware downloads, a new version of the Fwupd utility is now available for fir...

GNOME Mutter Now "Completely Drops The Whole X11 Backend" The merge to GNOME Mutter has finally happened that "completely drops" the X11 back-end to make GNOME strictly focused on Wayland-based environments...

GNOME Mutter Now "Completely Drops The Whole X11 Backend" - Phoronix

The merge to GNOME Mutter has finally happened that 'completely drops' the X11 back-end to make GNOME strictly focused on Wayland-based e...

LXQt 2.3 Released With Improved Wayland Support LXQt 2.3 is out today as the newest release of this lightwight, Qt-based desktop environment...

LXQt 2.3 Released With Improved Wayland Support - Phoronix

LXQt 2.3 is out today as the newest release of this lightwight, Qt-based desktop environment.

systemd-appd Is A New Component Being Planned By Flatpak Developers Given this week's release of Flatpak 1.17 for app sandboxing, open-source developer Sebastian Wick published a blog post on Tuesday around the latest Flatpak developments and a look ahead at some of the feature development planned. Arguably most significant of that is the plans for systemd-appd...

systemd-appd Is A New Component Being Planned By Flatpak Developers - Phoronix

Given this week's release of Flatpak 1.17 for app sandboxing, open-source developer Sebastian Wick published a blog post on Tuesday around the...

Open Container Initiative "OCI" Runtime Spec v1.3 Released With FreeBSD Support The Open Container Initiative unveiled today the OCI Runtime Specification v1.3 update for this standard around operating system process and application containers. This runtime specification continues to evolve for outlining the configuration, execution environment, and lifecycle of a container. Notable with the v1.3 revision is introducing official Free…

Open Container Initiative "OCI" Runtime Spec v1.3 Released With FreeBSD Support - Phoronix

The Open Container Initiative unveiled today the OCI Runtime Specification v1.3 update for this standard around operating system process and applic...

Wild 0.7 Released For This Very Fast Linker Written In Rust Wild 0.7 released on Monday as the newest feature release for this very fast linker for Linux systems competing with Mold on x86_64 / ARM64 / RISC-V devices...

Wild 0.7 Released For This Very Fast Linker Written In Rust - Phoronix

Wild 0.7 released on Monday as the newest feature release for this very fast linker for Linux systems competing with Mold on x86_64 / ARM64 / RISC-...