The Latest Sheaves Work To Hopefully Improve Linux Performance Merged for Linux 6.18 was a new feature called Sheaves as an opt-in, per-CPU array-based caching layer. Plus there is a per-NUMA-node cache of Sheaves called a "Barn". In continuing to build out the Linux kernel usage of Sheaves, a set of initial patches were posted this week to replace the CPU slabs with Sheaves within the slub allocator code...

The Latest Sheaves Work To Hopefully Improve Linux Performance - Phoronix

Merged for Linux 6.18 was a new feature called Sheaves as an opt-in, per-CPU array-based caching layer

Vulkan 1.4.330 Released With Five New Extensions Vulkan 1.4.330 is out today with a few specification corrections/clarifications plus five new extensions...

Vulkan 1.4.330 Released With Five New Extensions - Phoronix

Vulkan 1.4.330 is out today with a few specification corrections/clarifications plus five new extensions.

GTK 4.22 To Natively Support SVG - Including Animations GTK has long supported Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) for icons but with up until recently relying on the external librsvg library, the integration hasn't been perfect. But Red Hat engineer Matthias Clasen has been working on having the GTK toolkit natively support SVG...

GTK 4.22 To Natively Support SVG - Including Animations - Phoronix

GTK has long supported Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) for icons but with up until recently relying on the external librsvg library, the integration...

Mesa 25.3-rc2 Release Led By Intel, AMD Radeon & NVK Driver Fixes The second weekly release candidate of Mesa 25.3 is now available for testing ahead of the official release in the coming weeks for this quarterly feature update to this set of open-source OpenGL, OpenCL, and Vulkan graphics drivers...

Mesa 25.3-rc2 Release Led By Intel, AMD Radeon & NVK Driver Fixes - Phoronix

The second weekly release candidate of Mesa 25.3 is now available for testing ahead of the official release in the coming weeks for this quarterly ...

Linux 6.19 To Support The XP-PEN Artist 24 Pro Drawing Tablet While XP-PEN does provide out-of-tree drivers for their drawing tablets on Linux including the XP-PEN Artist 24 Pro, the Linux 6.19 kernel is set to provide upstream support for the XP-PEN Artist 24 Pro...

Linux 6.19 To Support The XP-PEN Artist 24 Pro Drawing Tablet - Phoronix

While XP-PEN does provide out-of-tree drivers for their drawing tablets on Linux including the XP-PEN Artist 24 Pro, the Linux 6.19 kernel is set t...

More Kernel Graphics Driver & Accelerator/NPU Driver Updates Ready For Linux 6.19 Following the initial set of drm-misc-next updates for Linux 6.19, another round of drm-misc-next updates were sent out today in queuing ahead of that next kernel cycle. There are a number of updates to the smaller DRM graphics/display drivers as well as growing activity around the accelerator "accel" open-source drivers for different NPUs / AI accelerators…

More Kernel Graphics Driver & Accelerator/NPU Driver Updates Ready For Linux 6.19 - Phoronix

Following the initial set of drm-misc-next updates for Linux 6.19, another round of drm-misc-next updates were sent out today in queuing ahead of t...

Blender 5.1 Aiming For Vulkan By Default, More Improvements Coming While the Blender 5.0 3D modeling software is being released next month, there is already exciting changes to look forward to with Blender 5.1 in the new year. Beyond AMD HIP-RT ray-tracing by default in Blender 5.1, this follow-on Blender release is also planning on enabling Vulkan API support by default...

Blender 5.1 Aiming For Vulkan By Default, More Improvements Coming - Phoronix

While the Blender 5.0 3D modeling software is being released next month, there is already exciting changes to look forward to with Blender 5.1 in t...

KDE Plasma 6.5 Released With Rounded Bottom Window Corners, Better HDR & Much More KDE Plasma 6.5 is out today as the newest major feature release for the Plasma 6 desktop. Plasma 6.5 brings many great improvements and continues further evolving this modern, Wayland-focused open-source desktop...

KDE Plasma 6.5 Released With Rounded Bottom Window Corners, Better HDR & Much More - Phoronix

KDE Plasma 6.5 is out today as the newest major feature release for the Plasma 6 desktop

Tellusim Core SDK Opens Up For Use By OSI-Approved Open-Source Projects Over the weekend we wrote about the visually-impressive Tellusim Core SDK being posted to GitHub as a C++ SDK for high-end graphics and compute. The downside was that the Tellusim Core SKD was rather restrictive in only being free for education, free for companies with less than $200k USD in annual revenue, and evaluation purposes. Or you needed to obtain a negotiate…

Tellusim Core SDK Opens Up For Use By OSI-Approved Open-Source Projects - Phoronix

Over the weekend we wrote about the visually-impressive Tellusim Core SDK being posted to GitHub as a C++ SDK for high-end graphics and compute

Patches Posted To Allow Hibernation Cancellation On Linux Currently on Linux if you are putting the system into hibernation, there isn't a way to interrupt it and cancel it if you change your mind, even with most systems taking a number of seconds to successfully hibernate. But a new patch series sent out this weekend would introduce that capability...

Patches Posted To Allow Hibernation Cancellation On Linux - Phoronix

Currently on Linux if you are putting the system into hibernation, there isn't a way to interrupt it and cancel it if you change your mind, ev...