AMD's GPUOpen Vulkan Memory Allocator Now Supports Vulkan 1.4 AMD's GPUOpen team managed to squeeze in a new Vulkan Memory Allocator release into 2024. As a reminder this is a easy to use/integrate Vulkan memory allocation library for both Windows and Linux systems with hopes of making memory allocation and resource creation more easier like with Direct3D 11 and OpenGL...

AMD's GPUOpen Vulkan Memory Allocator Now Supports Vulkan 1.4 - Phoronix

AMD's GPUOpen team managed to squeeze in a new Vulkan Memory Allocator release into 2024

Linux 6.13-rc5 Released To Cap Off Linus Torvalds' Birthday Week The holiday between Christmas and New Year's is... Linus Torvalds' birthday on 28 December. Capping off the Linux creator's 55th birthday week is the Linux 6.13-rc5 kernel release...

Linux 6.13-rc5 Released To Cap Off Linus Torvalds' Birthday Week - Phoronix

The holiday between Christmas and New Year's is..

Kdenlive Preparing For An Exciting 2025 With Background Removal Tool & More The KDE app Kdenlive that is a very popular and featureful open-source video editor is preparing for an exciting 2025...

Kdenlive Preparing For An Exciting 2025 With Background Removal Tool & More - Phoronix

The KDE app Kdenlive that is a very popular and featureful open-source video editor is preparing for an exciting 2025.

Ubuntu's Great Year From 24.04 LTS To Focusing More On Performance Optimizations From my independent monitoring, Ubuntu Linux had a pretty great year. Ubuntu 24.04 LTS shipped and has been well received across enterprises, Canonical engineers have been focusing more on performance optimizations for Ubuntu, and there has been other interesting changes like their new commitment to always ship the latest upstream Linux kernel version as of Ubun…

Ubuntu's Great Year From 24.04 LTS To Focusing More On Performance Optimizations - Phoronix

From my independent monitoring, Ubuntu Linux had a pretty great year

Fish Shell Outlines Their Successes & Challenges Going From C++ To Rust Earlier this month the Fish Shell 4.0 went into beta with the C++ code ported to Rust. Now with most of the Fish Shell code transitioned to Rust, the project put out a blog post this weekend outlining the successes and challenges they have encountered in porting their large C++ codebase to Rust...

Fish Shell Outlines Their Successes & Challenges Going From C++ To Rust - Phoronix

Earlier this month the Fish Shell 4.0 went into beta with the C++ code ported to Rust

NVIDIA Made Great Strides With Their Open-Source Kernel Code & Wayland Support In 2024 This year NVIDIA's official Linux graphics driver enjoyed much more robust Wayland support, their open-source kernel modules have matured greatly and are now being used by default, and their proprietary Vulkan and OpenGL drivers remain in good standing for performant Linux gaming and workstation graphics. NVIDIA's Linux driver stack had a rather grea…

NVIDIA Made Great Strides With Their Open-Source Kernel Code & Wayland Support In 2024 - Phoronix

This year NVIDIA's official Linux graphics driver enjoyed much more robust Wayland support, their open-source kernel modules have matured grea...

GIMP 3.0 RC2 Released With Bug Fixes Plus A Few Last Minute Features The long-awaited GIMP 3.0 image editing program that is a free software alternative to Adobe Photoshop will not see its stable release in 2024... But just before the New Year, the GIMP 3.0 Release Candidate 2 is now available for testing...

GIMP 3.0 RC2 Released With Bug Fixes Plus A Few Last Minute Features - Phoronix

The long-awaited GIMP 3.0 image editing program that is a free software alternative to Adobe Photoshop will not see its stable release in 2024..

GNOME Image Viewer Adds Image Editing Support The GNOME Image Viewer has merged initial support for basic image editing capabilities into the application...

GNOME Image Viewer Adds Image Editing Support - Phoronix

The GNOME Image Viewer has merged initial support for basic image editing capabilities into the application.

Bottles Software For Easily Running Windows Games/Apps On Linux To Leverage Rust Bottles as the open-source manager for Wine to more easily run Windows games and applications on Linux has been pursuing the "Bottles Next" initiative as a rewrite to this software. The Bottles developers have decided they will be leveraging the Rust programming language as well as the libcomsic UI toolkit as part of this rewrite...

Bottles Software For Easily Running Windows Games/Apps On Linux To Leverage Rust - Phoronix

Bottles as the open-source manager for Wine to more easily run Windows games and applications on Linux has been pursuing the 'Bottles Next&#03...

The Performance Benefits Of Linux 6.12 LTS Over Linux 6.6 LTS Linux 6.12 was recently promoted to being this year's Long Term Support (LTS) kernel with it being the last major kernel release of 2024. For those enterprise Linux users, hyperscalers, and others typically jumping from one annual LTS kernel to the next, in this holiday article are some benchmarks looking at the performance benefits of Linux 6.12 LTS compared to Linux 6.6 LTS while te…

The Performance Benefits Of Linux 6.12 LTS Over Linux 6.6 LTS - Phoronix

Linux 6.12 was recently promoted to being this year's Long Term Support (LTS) kernel with it being the last major kernel release of 2024.