Yet Another Longtime Linux Driver Maintainer At Intel Has Left Adding to the unfortunately long list of unfortunate Intel Linux/open-source setbacks over the past year, yet another Intel Linux software engineer that was an upstream Linux kernel driver maintainer has departed Intel...

Yet Another Longtime Linux Driver Maintainer At Intel Has Left - Phoronix

Adding to the unfortunately long list of unfortunate Intel Linux/open-source setbacks over the past year, yet another Intel Linux software engineer...

Linux 6.19 Will Continue With More Rust Graphics Driver Preparations Even prior to the recent ending of the Linux 6.18 merge window and its many new features, the first "drm-misc-next" pull request of new material intended for Linux 6.19 was already submitted for inclusion to DRM-Next...

Linux 6.19 Will Continue With More Rust Graphics Driver Preparations - Phoronix

Even prior to the recent ending of the Linux 6.18 merge window and its many new features, the first 'drm-misc-next' pull request of new m...

Intel Lands Big Linux GPU Driver Fix: Fixing Rendering Issues & Game Hangs/Crashes Problematic code dating back to 2017 has now been reverted within the Intel open-source Mesa driver code that led to various games having rendering/corruption issues as well as various hangs and crashes in other games. This affected a variety of Intel graphics hardware and software while now has finally been tracked down with the problematic code remo…

Intel Lands Big Linux GPU Driver Fix: Fixing Rendering Issues & Game Hangs/Crashes - Phoronix

Problematic code dating back to 2017 has now been reverted within the Intel open-source Mesa driver code that led to various games having rendering...

Mir 2.23 Released With New Documentation For Building A Desktop Environment Mir 2.23 is out today as the newest version of this Canonical-led library for crafting Wayland-based shells and for smaller desktops to ease the adoption of Wayland, with a focus on Ubuntu Linux platforms...

Mir 2.23 Released With New Documentation For Building A Desktop Environment - Phoronix

Mir 2.23 is out today as the newest version of this Canonical-led library for crafting Wayland-based shells and for smaller desktops to ease the ad...

Blender Experimenting With Vulkan Ray Queries As part of Blender continuing to build out the Vulkan API capabilities for this open-source 3D modeling software, a proof of concept merge request was opened for beginning to make use of Vulkan ray queries...

Blender Experimenting With Vulkan Ray Queries - Phoronix

As part of Blender continuing to build out the Vulkan API capabilities for this open-source 3D modeling software, a proof of concept merge request ...

CLUDA Posted For Mesa: Gallium3D API Implemented Atop NVIDIA CUDA Driver API Well, here is a weekend surprise... Red Hat engineer and Rusticl lead developer Karol Herbst has opened a Mesa merge request for "CLUDA" as a compute-only driver that implements the Gallium3D API atop the NVIDIA CUDA driver API. Wow...

CLUDA Posted For Mesa: Gallium3D API Implemented Atop NVIDIA CUDA Driver API - Phoronix

Well, here is a weekend surprise..

Git Developers Talk About Potentially Releasing Git 3.0 By The End Of Next Year Git developers have been talking in recent weeks around release plans for Git 3.0. If all goes well we could potentially see Git 3.0 released before the end of 2026...

Git Developers Talk About Potentially Releasing Git 3.0 By The End Of Next Year - Phoronix

Git developers have been talking in recent weeks around release plans for Git 3.0

Imagination PowerVR Mesa Vulkan Driver Enables Unofficial Support For More GPUs Merged today for the Mesa 25.3 graphics driver code is enabling support for more PowerVR Imagination GPUs within the "PVR" Vulkan driver albeit not officially supported nor in active development. Your mileage may vary but for some users with certain GPUs may work out well enough...

Imagination PowerVR Mesa Vulkan Driver Enables Unofficial Support For More GPUs - Phoronix

Merged today for the Mesa 25.3 graphics driver code is enabling support for more PowerVR Imagination GPUs within the 'PVR' Vulkan driver ...

Phosh 0.50 Released, GNOME App Aims To Help You Learn Assembly For going along with the recent release of the GNOME 49 desktop, Phosh 0.50 has been released for this Wayland compositor focused on mobile devices...

Phosh 0.50 Released, GNOME App Aims To Help You Learn Assembly - Phoronix

For going along with the recent release of the GNOME 49 desktop, Phosh 0.50 has been released for this Wayland compositor focused on mobile devices.

KDE Plasma 6.5 Fixing Some Of The Most Common Crashes, Other Bugs Fixed Too KDE developer Nate Graham describes this week as having seen a "massive amount of stability work" for the Plasma 6.5 desktop. Among the many fixes to land this week for this next Plasma desktop release were fixing the second and third most common causes of Plasma crashes. Additionally, the most prolific common crash scenario was discovered to be caused by third-party…

KDE Plasma 6.5 Fixing Some Of The Most Common Crashes, Other Bugs Fixed Too - Phoronix

KDE developer Nate Graham describes this week as having seen a 'massive amount of stability work' for the Plasma 6.5 desktop