Intel's Vulkan Linux Driver Finally Exposes VK_EXT_shader_object As of today in Mesa 25.3-devel Git, the Intel "ANV" open-source Vulkan driver for Linux systems is finally exposing the VK_EXT_shader_object extension...

Intel's Vulkan Linux Driver Finally Exposes VK_EXT_shader_object - Phoronix

As of today in Mesa 25.3-devel Git, the Intel 'ANV' open-source Vulkan driver for Linux systems is finally exposing the VK_EXT_shader_obj...

NVIDIA's Open-Source Nova Driver Now Explicitly Requires 64-bit Support As part of the Rust DRM drivers now having their own development tree, sent out today was the first pull request from the drm-rust-fixes branch...

NVIDIA's Open-Source Nova Driver Now Explicitly Requires 64-bit Support - Phoronix

As part of the Rust DRM drivers now having their own development tree, sent out today was the first pull request from the drm-rust-fixes branch.

Linux 6.17 With EXT4 Showing Some Nice Performance Improvements With the Linux 6.17 kernel there are some block allocation scalability improvements for EXT4 on top of other file-system enhancements with this new kernel and other new features. Linux 6.17 performance has been looking good and when drilling down to the EXT4 file-system performance, it's looking extremely good. Here are some benchmarks of EXT4 on Linux 6.17 compared to the 6.15 and 6.…

Linux 6.17 With EXT4 Showing Some Nice Performance Improvements - Phoronix

With the Linux 6.17 kernel there are some block allocation scalability improvements for EXT4 on top of other file-system enhancements with this new...

HIP-RT Update For Blender 5.0 To Deliver Improved Ray-Tracing On RDNA4 GPUs AMD engineers have submitted a HIP-RT update for Blender developers ahead of the big Blender 5.0 release to enhance the RDNA4 ray-tracing performance...

HIP-RT Update For Blender 5.0 To Deliver Improved Ray-Tracing On RDNA4 GPUs - Phoronix

AMD engineers have submitted a HIP-RT update for Blender developers ahead of the big Blender 5.0 release to enhance the RDNA4 ray-tracing performance.

NVIDIA Posts Initial Linux Patches For Extended GPU Memory "EGM" Virtualization NVIDIA engineer Ankit Agrawal today posted a request for comments (RFC) patch series working on Linux virtualization support for Extended GPU Memory (EGM)...

NVIDIA Posts Initial Linux Patches For Extended GPU Memory "EGM" Virtualization - Phoronix

NVIDIA engineer Ankit Agrawal today posted a request for comments (RFC) patch series working on Linux virtualization support for Extended GPU Memor...

Linux Mint 22.2 Officially Released With Fingwit, UI Tweaks Linux Mint 22.2 is officially out today as the newest version of this popular desktop Linux distribution built atop an Ubuntu 24.04 LTS package base...

Linux Mint 22.2 Officially Released With Fingwit, UI Tweaks - Phoronix

Linux Mint 22.2 is officially out today as the newest version of this popular desktop Linux distribution built atop an Ubuntu 24.04 LTS package base.

GNOME 49 Release Candidate Ships With GDM Re-Enabling X11 Support By Default The GNOME 49 release candidate "49.rc" was just released as we close in on the stable GNOME 49.0 release in two weeks...

GNOME 49 Release Candidate Ships With GDM Re-Enabling X11 Support By Default - Phoronix

The GNOME 49 release candidate '49.rc' was just released as we close in on the stable GNOME 49.0 release in two weeks.

Linux Hardware Enablement Leader Hans de Goede Leaving Red Hat Well, here is some sad news... After the better part of two decades at Red Hat, Hans de Goede shared today he will be leaving the company next month. Hans de Goede during his time at Red Hat has been responsible for countless hardware improvements especially for Linux laptops, serves as the x86 platform subsystem lead maintainer for the Linux kernel, and has done immense w…

Linux Hardware Enablement Leader Hans de Goede Leaving Red Hat - Phoronix

Well, here is some sad news..

openSUSE Leap 16 To Provide 24 Months Of Maintenance Updates / Community Support SUSE's Lubos Kocman announced today on the behalf of the openSUSE team that they will be providing extended maintenance updates and community support with the upcoming Leap 16 release...

openSUSE Leap 16 To Provide 24 Months Of Maintenance Updates / Community Support - Phoronix

SUSE's Lubos Kocman announced today on the behalf of the openSUSE team that they will be providing extended maintenance updates and community ...

Niri 25.08 Wayland Compositor Introduces xwayland-satellite Support Niri 25.08 is out this week as the newest version of this scrollable-tiling Wayland compositor. Notable now is adding xwayland-satellite integration for offering legacy X11 app support...

Niri 25.08 Wayland Compositor Introduces xwayland-satellite Support - Phoronix

Niri 25.08 is out this week as the newest version of this scrollable-tiling Wayland compositor