Linux 6.18 To Introduce Pixpaper DRM Driver, boot_display DRM Attribute Thomas Zimmermann of SUSE sent out today what is anticipated to be the last drm-misc-next feature pull request for DRM-Next that is targeting the upcoming Linux 6.18 kernel cycle...

Linux 6.18 To Introduce Pixpaper DRM Driver, boot_display DRM Attribute - Phoronix

Thomas Zimmermann of SUSE sent out today what is anticipated to be the last drm-misc-next feature pull request for DRM-Next that is targeting the u...

Mesa Drops VDPAU Video Acceleration In Favor Of VA-API Mesa's Gallium3D video acceleration code has long supported both the VA-API and VDPAU interfaces for video acceleration. VA-API has enjoyed more widespread support among Linux applications and typically more robust while the Video Decode and Presentation API for Unix (VDPAU) was the interface originally started by NVIDIA for their official Linux driver. As of today, Mesa has now removed suppor…

Mesa Drops VDPAU Video Acceleration In Favor Of VA-API - Phoronix

Mesa's Gallium3D video acceleration code has long supported both the VA-API and VDPAU interfaces for video acceleration

Fwupd 2.0.15 Released With Support For Newer NVIDIA ConnectX NICs Richard Hughes of Red Hat announced the availability today of Fwupd 2.0.15 as the latest increment to this open-source firmware updating solution built around the Linux Vendor Firmware Service (LVFS)...

Fwupd 2.0.15 Released With Support For Newer NVIDIA ConnectX NICs - Phoronix

Richard Hughes of Red Hat announced the availability today of Fwupd 2.0.15 as the latest increment to this open-source firmware updating solution b...

Hyprland 0.51 Compositor Released With Reworked Gesture System, New Animations Hyprland 0.51 is now available as the latest feature release for this unique Wayland compositor...

Hyprland 0.51 Compositor Released With Reworked Gesture System, New Animations - Phoronix

Hyprland 0.51 is now available as the latest feature release for this unique Wayland compositor.

Zink Begins Optimizing For Workstation Graphics With SPECViewPerf: Doubles The Perf The Zink OpenGL-on-Vulkan driver is well optimized for Linux gaming and desktop use thanks to the work by Mike Blumenkrantz being funded by Valve. Zink has even worked with OpenCL thanks to Rusticl and now another frontier is being conquered for this generic OpenGL on Vulkan driver: workstation graphics with optimizing around the SPECViewPerf test cases...

Zink Begins Optimizing For Workstation Graphics With SPECViewPerf: Doubles The Perf - Phoronix

The Zink OpenGL-on-Vulkan driver is well optimized for Linux gaming and desktop use thanks to the work by Mike Blumenkrantz being funded by Valve

Pogocache 1.2 Now Uses Microsoft's Mimalloc By Default: "Excellent Performance" Pogocache is the open-source fast caching software built from scratch that is optimized for low latency and CPU scalability/efficiency. Pogocache claims to outperform Memcached, Valkey, Redis, and other alternatives. Out today is Pogocache 1.2 as the newest feature release for this fast cache...

Pogocache 1.2 Now Uses Microsoft's Mimalloc By Default: "Excellent Performance" - Phoronix

Pogocache is the open-source fast caching software built from scratch that is optimized for low latency and CPU scalability/efficiency

Rust Coreutils 0.2.2 Released With Faster base64: Outperforming GNU's base64 It was just a few days ago that Rust Coreutils 0.2 released with "massive" performance gains and production-ready Ubuntu support. Rust Coreutils 0.2.2 is out today and is delivering a few more enhancements -- most excitingly is a faster base64 command that can now outperform the GNU Coreutils version...

Rust Coreutils 0.2.2 Released With Faster base64: Outperforming GNU's base64 - Phoronix

It was just a few days ago that Rust Coreutils 0.2 released with 'massive' performance gains and production-ready Ubuntu support

NVIDIA CUDA Toolkit 13.0 Update 1 Brings Some Performance Enhancements Released just over one month ago was the general availability of CUDA !3.0 while out this week is CUDA 13.0 Update 1 as the first incremental step forward to CUDA 13...

NVIDIA CUDA Toolkit 13.0 Update 1 Brings Some Performance Enhancements - Phoronix

Released just over one month ago was the general availability of CUDA 13.0 while out this week is CUDA 13.0 Update 1 as the first incremental step ...

New Linux Patches Enhance Intel Nested Virtualization Performance On Linux A new set of Linux kernel patches posted today work to improve the nested VMX performance for benefiting Intel processors making use of KVM virtualization...

New Linux Patches Enhance Intel Nested Virtualization Performance On Linux - Phoronix

A new set of Linux kernel patches posted today work to improve the nested VMX performance for benefiting Intel processors making use of KVM virtual...

Linux 6.17-rc5 Released With NVIDIA "Nouveau" Driver Stability Issues Addressed Linux 6.17-rc5 is out for testing as the newest weekly release candidate as we near the stable Linux 6.17 release in late September...

Linux 6.17-rc5 Released With NVIDIA "Nouveau" Driver Stability Issues Addressed - Phoronix

Linux 6.17-rc5 is out for testing as the newest weekly release candidate as we near the stable Linux 6.17 release in late September.