Improved Intel Vulkan Video Code Merged For Mesa 25.3 Merged overnight to Mesa 25.3 is an improvement for the Intel driver's Vulkan Video encode/decode handling that has been in the works the past few months...

Improved Intel Vulkan Video Code Merged For Mesa 25.3 - Phoronix

Merged overnight to Mesa 25.3 is an improvement for the Intel driver's Vulkan Video encode/decode handling that has been in the works the past...

SDL Merges X11TK: A Basic X11 Toolkit It looks like the Simple DirectMedia Layer (SDL) library widely used by cross-platform games for software/hardware abstractions isn't done enhancing its support for running on the X.Org/X11 Server. Similarly, Valve is still committing resources to enhancing the support...

SDL Merges X11TK: A Basic X11 Toolkit - Phoronix

It looks like the Simple DirectMedia Layer (SDL) library widely used by cross-platform games for software/hardware abstractions isn't done enh...

NVIDIA 580.82.07 Driver Brings Fix For Vulkan On Wayland, Smooth Motion For RTX 40 NVIDIA just released the 580.82.07 stable Linux driver as their newest R580 driver series update...

NVIDIA 580.82.07 Driver Brings Fix For Vulkan On Wayland, Smooth Motion For RTX 40 - Phoronix

NVIDIA just released the 580.82.07 stable Linux driver as their newest R580 driver series update.

Arch Linux's Archinstall No Longer Treating LVM-Based Installs As "Beta" Arch Linux's convenient text-based OS installer "archinstall" is out with a new release today that promotes Logical Volume Manager (LVM) based installs no longer as "beta" quality...

Arch Linux's Archinstall No Longer Treating LVM-Based Installs As "Beta" - Phoronix

Arch Linux's convenient text-based OS installer 'archinstall' is out with a new release today that promotes Logical Volume Manager (...

New GIMP Plug-In Integrates Google Gemini AI Image Creation Separate from yesterday's upstream new GIMP 3.2 development release, open-source developer Josh Ellithorpe announced the creation of a new GIMP plug-in dubbed "Dream Prompter" for bringing the power of Google's Gemini 2.5 Flash Image Preview model to this open-source photo/image editing software...

New GIMP Plug-In Integrates Google Gemini AI Image Creation - Phoronix

Separate from yesterday's upstream new GIMP 3.2 development release, open-source developer Josh Ellithorpe announced the creation of a new GIM...

FFmpeg swscale Rewrite Begins Landing With 2.6x Faster Overall, As Much As 254x Now that FFmpeg 8.0 has shipped for this widely-used multimedia library, development is back on of major feature work toward the next major release. Landing on Monday was the initial code for a major rewrite to the swscale code in providing a new framework that is faster and more maintainable/extensible moving forward...

FFmpeg swscale Rewrite Begins Landing With 2.6x Faster Overall, As Much As 254x - Phoronix

Now that FFmpeg 8.0 has shipped for this widely-used multimedia library, development is back on of major feature work toward the next major release

Steam On Linux Use Recedes Slightly During August For the Steam Survey results published last month for July it showed Steam on Linux use approaching 3%. With hitting 2.89% in July there was hope that perhaps in August it would breach the elusive 3.0% threshold not seen since the original days of Steam on Linux when the overall Steam user base was also much smaller than it is today. But that didn't pan out and Steam on Linux numbers for Au…

Steam On Linux Use Recedes Slightly During August - Phoronix

For the Steam Survey results published last month for July it showed Steam on Linux use approaching 3%

GIMP 3.1.4 Released With A Project From 2006 Resurrected And Another Big Feature GIMP 3.1.4 is out today as the second development release treking toward GIMP 3.2. Most notable with GIMP 3.1.4 are the initial implementations of two of the main features planned for GIMP 3.2: link layers and vector layers...

GIMP 3.1.4 Released With A Project From 2006 Resurrected And Another Big Feature - Phoronix

GIMP 3.1.4 is out today as the second development release treking toward GIMP 3.2

Rust 1.90 Switching To LLD Linker On Linux For Faster Linking Times With the Rust 1.90 release due out in mid-September, the Rust compiler on Linux x86_64 will begun using the LLD linker by default in order to "significantly reduce" linking times...

Rust 1.90 Switching To LLD Linker On Linux For Faster Linking Times - Phoronix

With the Rust 1.90 release due out in mid-September, the Rust compiler on Linux x86_64 will begun using the LLD linker by default in order to &#039...

Linux's exFAT File-System Driver Optimization Leads To 16.5x Speedup For Loading Time A patch queued up into the Linux exFAT driver's development tree optimizes the allocation bitmap loading time. For cases of small cluster sizes on large partitions this can yield around 16x faster loading times...

Linux's exFAT File-System Driver Optimization Leads To 16.5x Speedup For Loading Time - Phoronix

A patch queued up into the Linux exFAT driver's development tree optimizes the allocation bitmap loading time