Apple Vulkan Driver "HoneyKrisp" Lands Many Fixes & Features HoneyKrisp as the open-source Mesa Vulkan driver for Apple Silicon graphics and developed as part of the Asahi Linux project has landed a number of enhancements into the mainline Mesa code...

Apple Vulkan Driver "HoneyKrisp" Lands Many Fixes & Features - Phoronix

HoneyKrisp as the open-source Mesa Vulkan driver for Apple Silicon graphics and developed as part of the Asahi Linux project has landed a number of...

OpenRazer 3.9 Adds Support For Many Newer Razer Devices On Linux OpenRazer 3.9 is out today as the newest version of this community project providing open-source driver support for Razer peripherals on Linux. This out-of-tree set of Linux kernel drivers allows for various Razer devices to be configured and fully leveraged under Linux...

OpenRazer 3.9 Adds Support For Many Newer Razer Devices On Linux - Phoronix

OpenRazer 3.9 is out today as the newest version of this community project providing open-source driver support for Razer peripherals on Linux

The Long-Awaited GIMP 3.0 Closing In On Its First Release Candidate The long-in-development GIMP 3.0 open-source alternative to Adobe Photoshop hopes to ship its release candidate in the near future...

The Long-Awaited GIMP 3.0 Closing In On Its First Release Candidate - Phoronix

The long-in-development GIMP 3.0 open-source alternative to Adobe Photoshop hopes to ship its release candidate in the near future.

Wine 9.19 Brings Improved Window Positioning On Wayland We are quickly working our way to the end of the calendar year where Wine 9.xx bi-weekly development releases will focus on a shift to stability for releasing Wine 10.0 in early 2025. But we're not there yet and Wine 9.19 is out today to deliver the newest batch of features and fixes for this open-source software to enjoy Windows games and apps on Linux...

Wine 9.19 Brings Improved Window Positioning On Wayland - Phoronix

We are quickly working our way to the end of the calendar year where Wine 9.xx bi-weekly development releases will focus on a shift to stability fo...

AMD Ryzen AI 300 Series Dominates Intel Core Ultra 7 Lunar Lake Performance For Linux Developers & Creators Earlier this week I delivered initial Intel Xe2 Lunar Lake graphics benchmarks on Linux while today the focus is on Lunar Lake's CPU performance. The Xe2 graphics performance under Linux was disappointingly slow with it performing even worse than Meteor Lake while RDNA3.5 graphics led. Intel has been investigating the Xe2 Linu…

AMD Ryzen AI 300 Series Dominates Intel Core Ultra 7 Lunar Lake Performance For Linux Developers & Creators Review - Phoronix

Earlier this week I delivered initial Intel Xe2 Lunar Lake graphics benchmarks on Linux while today the focus is on Lunar Lake's CPU performance.

Blender 4.3 Beta Delivers Experimental Vulkan UI Rendering Blender 4.3 is available today in beta form to encourage public testing of this next feature release to this leading open-source 3D modeling software...

Blender 4.3 Beta Delivers Experimental Vulkan UI Rendering - Phoronix

Blender 4.3 is available today in beta form to encourage public testing of this next feature release to this leading open-source 3D modeling software.

Red Hat Engineer Working On DRM Panic Support For AMDGPU Driver Red Hat engineer Jocelyn Falempe has been working to sort out DRM Panic support for the AMDGPU driver. The DRM Panic infrastructure is useful since it's what allows presenting a panic screen, a.k.a. a "Blue Screen of Death" type experience when running into major kernel problems. With Linux 6.12 there's now the ability to show QR codes for error messages with DRM Panic...

Red Hat Engineer Working On DRM Panic Support For AMDGPU Driver - Phoronix

Red Hat engineer Jocelyn Falempe has been working to sort out DRM Panic support for the AMDGPU driver

Zrythm Digital Audio Workstation Abandoning GTK For Qt6 Zrythm is an interesting open-source digital audio workstation (DAW) software package. It's been making use of the GTK toolkit but now the developers have decided to switch to Qt6 instead...

Zrythm Digital Audio Workstation Abandoning GTK For Qt6 - Phoronix

Zrythm is an interesting open-source digital audio workstation (DAW) software package

Steam Remote Play Adds AV1 Video Streaming Support Plus More Linux Fixes Steam's Remote Play feature that allows playing Steam games on phones / tablets / TVs / other PCs while streamed from your main gaming system now is able to handle AV1 video streaming...

Steam Remote Play Adds AV1 Video Streaming Support Plus More Linux Fixes - Phoronix

Steam's Remote Play feature that allows playing Steam games on phones / tablets / TVs / other PCs while streamed from your main gaming system ...

Reverse PRIME Now Works Nicely On Ubuntu 24.10 For those making use of "reverse PRIME" setups where you have a primary NVIDIA discrete GPU while monitors are connected to Intel integrated graphics as the secondary GPU, such configurations should be working nicely with the upcoming Ubuntu 24.10 release under Wayland. This support is also likely to be back-ported for Ubuntu 24.04 LTS...

Reverse PRIME Now Works Nicely On Ubuntu 24.10 - Phoronix

For those making use of 'reverse PRIME' setups where you have a primary NVIDIA discrete GPU while monitors are connected to Intel integra...