NVIDIA Posts 60 Patches For Open-Source Hopper & Blackwell GPU Support On Nouveau Ben Skeggs formerly of Red Hat who had been the maintainer of the Nouveau Linux kernel driver for reverse-engineered open-source NVIDIA driver support had joined NVIDIA last year and continued his engagements with the open-source Linux community. For ending out April there's a big surprise... The NVIDIA engineer posted a set of 60 patches enabling supp…

NVIDIA Posts 60 Patches For Open-Source Hopper & Blackwell GPU Support On Nouveau - Phoronix

Ben Skeggs formerly of Red Hat who had been the maintainer of the Nouveau Linux kernel driver for reverse-engineered open-source NVIDIA driver supp...

AMDVLK 2025.Q2.1 Released With More Vulkan Extensions, Hawk Point 1 & 2 Support AMDVLK 2025.Q2.1 was released today as the first update to this official open-source AMD Vulkan driver since the previous release in mid-March. AMDVLK 2025.Q2.1 brings new hardware support, new Vulkan API extensions, and other new features...

AMDVLK 2025.Q2.1 Released With More Vulkan Extensions, Hawk Point 1 & 2 Support - Phoronix

AMDVLK 2025.Q2.1 was released today as the first update to this official open-source AMD Vulkan driver since the previous release in mid-March

Valve's Proton 10.0 Beta Released With More Windows Games Now Playable On Linux Valve and CodeWeavers today announced the much anticipated beta release of Proton 10.0 as the newest version of their downstream version of Wine that powers Steam Play for running Windows games on Linux...

Valve's Proton 10.0 Beta Released With More Windows Games Now Playable On Linux - Phoronix

Valve and CodeWeavers today announced the much anticipated beta release of Proton 10.0 as the newest version of their downstream version of Wine th...

Intel's Open-Source Vulkan Driver Lands BFloat16 Support In Mesa 25.2 Introduced last month in the Vulkan 1.4.311 spec was VK_KHR_shader_bfloat16 for supporting BF16 types within SPIR-V shaders. Merged today for Mesa 25.2 is that BFloat16 support for Intel's open-source Vulkan Linux driver...

Intel's Open-Source Vulkan Driver Lands BFloat16 Support In Mesa 25.2 - Phoronix

Introduced last month in the Vulkan 1.4.311 spec was VK_KHR_shader_bfloat16 for supporting BF16 types within SPIR-V shaders

Mutter Merges Wayland Toplevel Tag Protocol For GNOME 49 In addition to the recent merge to Mutter for improving fullscreen apps with direct scanout enhancements for GNOME 49, another early addition also landed today in Mutter: support for Wayland's toplevel tag protocol...

Mutter Merges Wayland Toplevel Tag Protocol For GNOME 49 - Phoronix

In addition to the recent merge to Mutter for improving fullscreen apps with direct scanout enhancements for GNOME 49, another early addition also ...

MoltenVK 1.3-rc1 Released To Advertise Vulkan 1.3 Support For Apple Devices MoltenVK 1.3-rc1 was released today as the first test release of this updated Apple iOS / macOS / tvOS / visionOS layer that implements the Vulkan API atop the Apple Metal drivers. With MoltenVK 1.3 there is Vulkan API 1.3 support finally in tow...

MoltenVK 1.3-rc1 Released To Advertise Vulkan 1.3 Support For Apple Devices - Phoronix

MoltenVK 1.3-rc1 was released today as the first test release of this updated Apple iOS / macOS / tvOS / visionOS layer that implements the Vulkan ...

Meson 1.8 Build System Released - Wayland Module Declared Stable Meson 1.8 was released this afternoon as the newest update to this popular, cross-platform and open-source build system / build automation tool...

Meson 1.8 Build System Released - Wayland Module Declared Stable - Phoronix

Meson 1.8 was released this afternoon as the newest update to this popular, cross-platform and open-source build system / build automation tool.

GNOME 49 Will Enjoy Better Performance With More Fullscreen Apps Another change to look forward to with GNOME 49 come September is better/faster direct scanout for more applications thanks to a change that was merged to the Mutter compositor this past week...

GNOME 49 Will Enjoy Better Performance With More Fullscreen Apps - Phoronix

Another change to look forward to with GNOME 49 come September is better/faster direct scanout for more applications thanks to a change that was me...

KDE Developers Prepare More Wayland Improvements For Plasma 6.4 As we near the end of April, KDE developers remain quite busy working on more enhancements for the Plasma 6.4 desktop while many of them were also meeting this week in Graz, Austria for further development and planning...

KDE Developers Prepare More Wayland Improvements For Plasma 6.4 - Phoronix

As we near the end of April, KDE developers remain quite busy working on more enhancements for the Plasma 6.4 desktop while many of them were also ...

Newer Arm Mali GPUs Now Advertising Vulkan 1.2 Support With Mesa's PanVK Driver Following recent Vulkan 1.1 support within Mesa for the PanVK driver for open-source Arm Mali Vulkan driver support, Vulkan 1.2 is now being advertised...

Newer Arm Mali GPUs Now Advertising Vulkan 1.2 Support With Mesa's PanVK Driver - Phoronix

Following recent Vulkan 1.1 support within Mesa for the PanVK driver for open-source Arm Mali Vulkan driver support, Vulkan 1.2 is now being advert...