Nouveau On NVIDIA Turing GPUs & Newer Will Now Prefer NVK+Zink For OpenGL As a sign of the times for both the NVK open-source NVIDIA Vulkan driver within Mesa and the generic Zink OpenGL-on-Vulkan code, with next quarter's Mesa 25.1 release when using a NVIDIA Turing GPU or newer with the Nouveau driver stack it will now default to using Zink atop NVK for OpenGL rather than the existing NVC0 Gallium3D driver...

Nouveau On NVIDIA Turing GPUs & Newer Will Now Prefer NVK+Zink For OpenGL - Phoronix

As a sign of the times for both the NVK open-source NVIDIA Vulkan driver within Mesa and the generic Zink OpenGL-on-Vulkan code, with next quarter&...

CrossOver 25.0 Announced - Built Atop Wine 10.0 For Linux & macOS CodeWeavers that continues to be the largest patron to the development of the open-source Wine software announced today CrossOver 25.0 as the newest version of their commercial downstream...

CrossOver 25.0 Announced - Built Atop Wine 10.0 For Linux & macOS - Phoronix

CodeWeavers that continues to be the largest patron to the development of the open-source Wine software announced today CrossOver 25.0 as the newes...

GNOME Dash To Panel Extension Development Being "Passed On" The GNOME Dash To Panel extension that allows moving the dash into the GNOME main panel has proven popular with GNOME desktop users for an integrated icon taskbar and status panel on GNOME Shell. Unfortunately though one of the main developers to Charles Gagnon is "passing on" development of the extension moving forward...

GNOME Dash To Panel Extension Development Being "Passed On" - Phoronix

The GNOME Dash To Panel extension that allows moving the dash into the GNOME main panel has proven popular with GNOME desktop users for an integrat...

COBOL Language Frontend Merged For GCC 15 Compiler A big albeit late feature landed today for the upcoming GCC 15 compiler... The COBOL programming language front-end has been merged!..

COBOL Language Frontend Merged For GCC 15 Compiler - Phoronix

A big albeit late feature landed today for the upcoming GCC 15 compiler..

Servo Makes Improvements To Its Demo Browser & Embedding API The Servo open-source web engine is out with its February 2025 status update to highlight work on the engine itself as well as its demo browser and embed API capabilities for using Servo by other applications...

Servo Makes Improvements To Its Demo Browser & Embedding API - Phoronix

The Servo open-source web engine is out with its February 2025 status update to highlight work on the engine itself as well as its demo browser and...

Wine Releases Framework Mono 6.14 In Taking Over The Mono Project Last year Microsoft donated the Mono Project to Wine for its stewardship under the WineHQ umbrella. Today marks the Framework Mono 6.14 release as the first major Mono release in five years and the first under the WineHQ organization...

Wine Releases Framework Mono 6.14 In Taking Over The Mono Project - Phoronix

Last year Microsoft donated the Mono Project to Wine for its stewardship under the WineHQ umbrella

Rust Coreutils 0.0.30 Enhances GNU Compatibility, Uutils To Port More Common Unix Tools The uutils project has released Rust Coreutils 0.0.30 as the newest version of this GNU Coreutils rewrite within the Rust programming language. Uutils developers will also be targeting more common Unix tools to port over to Rust too...

Rust Coreutils 0.0.30 Enhances GNU Compatibility, Uutils To Port More Common Unix Tools - Phoronix

The uutils project has released Rust Coreutils 0.0.30 as the newest version of this GNU Coreutils rewrite within the Rust programming language

Mesa's Venus Driver Adds Vulkan Ray-Tracing Support For VMs Mesa's Venus driver that allows for 3D graphics acceleration within virtual machines is now able to make use of the Vulkan ray-tracing extensions when using Mesa 25.1-devel along with updated Venus Protocol and Virglrenderer code...

Mesa's Venus Driver Adds Vulkan Ray-Tracing Support For VMs - Phoronix

Mesa's Venus driver that allows for 3D graphics acceleration within virtual machines is now able to make use of the Vulkan ray-tracing extensi...

Wine-Staging 10.3 Adds Patch For A 15 Year Old Bug Building off yesterday's release of Wine 10.3 is now Wine-Staging 10.3 for this more experimental version of Wine that is presently shipping 347 experimental/testing patches atop the upstream state...

Wine-Staging 10.3 Adds Patch For A 15 Year Old Bug - Phoronix

Building off yesterday's release of Wine 10.3 is now Wine-Staging 10.3 for this more experimental version of Wine that is presently shipping 3...

KDE This Week Took Care Of "A Very Large Number Of Bugs" KDE developer Nate Graham is out with the newest issue of This Week in Plasma to highlight all of the interesting KDE Plasma improvements merged for the week...

KDE This Week Took Care Of "A Very Large Number Of Bugs" - Phoronix

KDE developer Nate Graham is out with the newest issue of This Week in Plasma to highlight all of the interesting KDE Plasma improvements merged fo...