openSUSE Leap 16 Released - Requires x86-64-v2 CPUs, No x86 32-bit Support By Default OpenSUSE Leap 16.0 is out today as this community Linux distributiom built from the same sources as SUSE Linux Enterprise 16... image
Academy Software Foundation's OpenColorIO Adds Vulkan Support The Academy Software Foundation's OpenColorIO "OCIO" project as a color management solution for motion picture production and related uses has added support for the Vulkan API... image
Mesa PowerVR Driver Lands Changes For Vulkan 1.2 Support Changes merged this week to the Mesa PowerVR Vulkan driver now allow it to support all of the functionality required by the Vulkan 1.2 specification... image
AMD Publishes Open-Source openSIL Code For Phoenix SoCs After originally hoping to publish the open-source code last year, today AMD published the initial openSIL code for enabling Phoenix SoCs to make use of this in-development CPU silicon initialization alternative to AGESA... image
Qualcomm Posts Initial Open-Source GPU Driver Patches For Adreno 800 Series Qualcomm engineers have posted the initial patches for bringing up the newest Adreno 800 series graphics IP within the open-source MSM Linux kernel Direct Rendering Manager (DRM) driver... image
NVIDIA 580.95.05 Linux Driver Released Debuting today is the newest NVIDIA 580 Linux driver series release... image
NVIDIA Has Been Supplying NDA'ed Docs To Red Hat For Helping NVK Driver Following AMD announcing the end of the AMDVLK Vulkan driver development in favor of focusing on the Mesa RADV driver for Linux systems, Red Hat engineer David Airlie who was one of the co-lead developers of the RADV driver shared some interesting insight on NVK as the open-source NVIDIA Vulkan driver being developed within Mesa... image
NVIDIA, Disney & Google Contribute Open-Source Newton Engine To The Linux Foundation Earlier this year NVIDIA announced Newton as an open-source physics engine focused on robotic simulations. This physics engine was developed by NVIDIA in cooperation with Google DeepMind and Disney Research. Today it's been contributed to the Linux Foundation... image
Unvanquished Game Ported To SDL3, Working Natively On Wayland When it comes to open-source games, Unvanquished remains one of the most promising and interesting open-source FPS games from a technical perspective. With its next release, Unvanquished has been ported to the SDL3 library and is working well natively on Wayland... image
Vulkan 1.4.328 Published With Copy Memory Indirect Extension Vulkan 1.4.328 is now available as the latest specification update to this high performance graphics and compute API from The Khronos Group... image