Vulkan 1.4.336 Released With NVIDIA Compute Occupancy Priority Extension Vulkan 1.4.336 is out today as the first spec update in two weeks for this high performance graphics and compute API...

Vulkan 1.4.336 Released With NVIDIA Compute Occupancy Priority Extension - Phoronix

Vulkan 1.4.336 is out today as the first spec update in two weeks for this high performance graphics and compute API.

Ubuntu Studio 26.04 May Modernize Its Desktop Layout Ubuntu Studio is the variant of Ubuntu Linux focused on content creation and audio recording needs, video editing, and other creative workloads. Ubuntu Studio's desktop hasn't seen too many changes since Ubuntu 12.04 LTS some 13+ years ago. But Ubuntu Studio developers are now considering desktop layout changes to help modernize its appearance...

Ubuntu Studio 26.04 May Modernize Its Desktop Layout - Phoronix

Ubuntu Studio is the variant of Ubuntu Linux focused on content creation and audio recording needs, video editing, and other creative workloads

D7VK 1.0 Released For "Production Ready" Direct3D 7 On Vulkan The D7VK project recently started as the Direct3D 7 API implemented atop the Vulkan API akin to DXVK and VKD3D-Proton with newer versions of Microsoft Direct3D. Today marks the D7VK 1.0 release for this project in now declaring itself "production ready" for Linux gamers...

D7VK 1.0 Released For "Production Ready" Direct3D 7 On Vulkan - Phoronix

The D7VK project recently started as the Direct3D 7 API implemented atop the Vulkan API akin to DXVK and VKD3D-Proton with newer versions of Micros...

NVIDIA GTX 980 Through RTX 5080: Open-Source Nouveau/Mesa Drivers vs. NVIDIA 580 Linux Drivers With the NVIDIA 590 Linux driver series removing GeForce 900 series "Maxwell" and GeForce 10 series "Pascal" as part of punting it off to the latest legacy driver branch, it's time for a last look at how the mainline NVIDIA Linux driver is performing with these aging graphics cards relative to the current state of the upstream open-source NVIDIA L…

NVIDIA GTX 980 Through RTX 5080: Open-Source Nouveau/Mesa Drivers vs. NVIDIA 580 Linux Drivers - Phoronix

With the NVIDIA 590 Linux driver series removing GeForce 900 series 'Maxwell' and GeForce 10 series 'Pascal' as part of punting...

LibreOffice 26.2 Beta 1 Now Available For This Free Software Office Suite LibreOffice 26.2 Beta 1 is now available for testing in working toward the stable release in February for this cross-platform, open-source office suite solution...

LibreOffice 26.2 Beta 1 Now Available For This Free Software Office Suite - Phoronix

LibreOffice 26.2 Beta 1 is now available for testing in working toward the stable release in February for this cross-platform, open-source office s...

KDE Gear 25.12 Released For Shipping The Latest KDE Applications KDE Gear 25.12 is out today as the collection of the latest KDE desktop/mobile applications for running nicely on the Plasma 6 desktop...

KDE Gear 25.12 Released For Shipping The Latest KDE Applications - Phoronix

KDE Gear 25.12 is out today as the collection of the latest KDE desktop/mobile applications for running nicely on the Plasma 6 desktop.

Microsoft Is Back To Working On "Hornet" Security For eBPF Programs On Linux Earlier in the year Microsoft proposed the "Hornet" Linux security module to provide signature verification capabilities for eBPF programs to provide for better system security. It's been months since hearing anything more about it and not being merged, but yesterday they "reintroduced" it to the Linux kernel community...

Microsoft Is Back To Working On "Hornet" Security For eBPF Programs On Linux - Phoronix

Earlier in the year Microsoft proposed the 'Hornet' Linux security module to provide signature verification capabilities for eBPF program...

Mesa's "Present Timing" Vulkan Driver Support Now Feature Complete Last month the Vulkan VK_EXT_present_timing extension was merged after 5+ years in development. VK_EXT_present_timing ended up debuting at the end of November within the Vulkan 1.4.335 spec update to much excitement for providing functionality to obtain information on the presentation engine's display for accurate timing information and to assist in scheduling a present t…

Mesa's "Present Timing" Vulkan Driver Support Now Feature Complete - Phoronix

Last month the Vulkan VK_EXT_present_timing extension was merged after 5+ years in development

Linux 6.19 Networking Delivers 4x Improvement For Heavy Transfer Workloads, New Hardware The big set of networking subsystem updates was recently merged for the ongoing Linux 6.19 merge window. There are some enticing core networking improvements like a big performance improvement for heavy transfer workloads, Bluetooth PAST enablement, and more. Plus a lot of wired and wireless networking driver activity and new hardware enablement...

Linux 6.19 Networking Delivers 4x Improvement For Heavy Transfer Workloads, New Hardware - Phoronix

The big set of networking subsystem updates was recently merged for the ongoing Linux 6.19 merge window

Intel's Vulkan Linux Driver Merges Shader VMA Allocator For Ray-Tracing Capture/Replay Merged today to the Intel open-source "ANV" Vulkan driver in Mesa 26.0 is introducing a shader VMA allocator. Long story short this new allocator steps toward enabling Vulkan ray-tracing capture/replay support, which can come in hand for debugging issues with Vulkan ray-tracing on Intel graphics hardware under Linux and similarly to assist in optim…

Intel's Vulkan Linux Driver Merges Shader VMA Allocator For Ray-Tracing Capture/Replay - Phoronix

Merged today to the Intel open-source 'ANV' Vulkan driver in Mesa 26.0 is introducing a shader VMA allocator