Mesa 25.2.7 Ships The Latest Open-Source OpenGL & Vulkan Driver Fixes Eric Engestrom today released Mesa 25.2.7 as the newest bi-weekly point release for this stable set of open-source (predominantly) OpenGL and Vulkan drivers for Linux systems...

Mesa 25.2.7 Ships The Latest Open-Source OpenGL & Vulkan Driver Fixes - Phoronix

Valve Already Upstreams Support For The New Steam Controller To SDL3 Just hours ago Valve announced the new Steam Controller along with the Steam Frame VR headset and new Steam Machine. While these new Steam hardware products won't be available until early 2026, Valve has just-now upstreamed support for the new Steam Controller to the SDL3 library...

Valve Already Upstreams Support For The New Steam Controller To SDL3 - Phoronix

Just hours ago Valve announced the new Steam Controller along with the Steam Frame VR headset and new Steam Machine

The State Of The Vulkan Renderer For Wayland's Weston 15.0 Compositor With the upcoming release of Weston 15.0, this Wayland reference compositor will finally feature a Vulkan renderer. For those curious about its potential, a presentation recently outlined the current state of this Vulkan code path...

The State Of The Vulkan Renderer For Wayland's Weston 15.0 Compositor - Phoronix

With the upcoming release of Weston 15.0, this Wayland reference compositor will finally feature a Vulkan renderer

Intel Releases New CPU Microcode, Publishes 30 New Security Advisories It's "Patch Tuesday" and Intel is out with new CPU microcode for Linux users in addition to making public 30 new security advisories that affect a range of Intel products...

Intel Releases New CPU Microcode, Publishes 30 New Security Advisories - Phoronix

It's 'Patch Tuesday' and Intel is out with new CPU microcode for Linux users in addition to making public 30 new security advisories...

Linux Proposal Aims To Overcome Kernel Limitation Affecting Various Gaming Peripherals The Linux kernel's Human Interface Devices (HID) subsystem has an existing architectural limitation that there is just up to one battery per HID device. But with modern devices -- especially among various gaming peripherals -- there can be more than one battery when considering earbuds with a battery for each earbud, multi-device wireless receiver…

Linux Proposal Aims To Overcome Kernel Limitation Affecting Various Gaming Peripherals - Phoronix

The Linux kernel's Human Interface Devices (HID) subsystem has an existing architectural limitation that there is just up to one battery per H...

SDL3 Now Implements Render Batching For Direct3D, Metal & Vulkan The SDL3 library that is popular with cross-platform games for abstracting various software/hardware features has implemented render batching for its built-in rendering API. This render batching is successfully wired up now for Direct3D 11/12, Apple Metal, and Vulkan APIs for more efficient graphics rendering...

SDL3 Now Implements Render Batching For Direct3D, Metal & Vulkan - Phoronix

The SDL3 library that is popular with cross-platform games for abstracting various software/hardware features has implemented render batching for i...

POLYVAL Work Bringing More Performance Gains To Linux Crypto Subsystem Whenever seeing Linux kernel mailing list patches from Google engineer Eric Biggers it tends to be about performance optimizations to the Linux kernel's cryptography subsystem. That was once again the case on Sunday with the newest patch series providing some nice gains...

POLYVAL Work Bringing More Performance Gains To Linux Crypto Subsystem - Phoronix

Whenever seeing Linux kernel mailing list patches from Google engineer Eric Biggers it tends to be about performance optimizations to the Linux ker...

Rust Coreutils 0.4 Released With Better GNU Compatibility & Faster Performance Rust Coreutils continues moving fast on their goal "toward full GNU compatibility" with the GNU Coreutils. The uutils project announced Rust Coreutils 0.4 this evening with better compatibility, performance optimizations, and other improvements...

Rust Coreutils 0.4 Released With Better GNU Compatibility & Faster Performance - Phoronix

Rust Coreutils continues moving fast on their goal 'toward full GNU compatibility' with the GNU Coreutils

The Linux Kernel Looks To "Bite The Bullet" In Enabling Microsoft C Extensions Two patches queued into the Linux kernel's build system development tree, kbuild-next, would enable the

The Linux Kernel Looks To "Bite The Bullet" In Enabling Microsoft C Extensions - Phoronix

Two patches queued into the Linux kernel's build system development tree, kbuild-next, would enable the -fms-extensions compiler argument ever...

AMD Preps More Graphics Driver Changes For Linux 6.19 AMD continues preparing more kernel driver code for Linux 6.19. This week another round of AMDGPU kernel graphics driver updates were submitted to DRM-Next ahead of the early December merge window...

AMD Preps More Graphics Driver Changes For Linux 6.19 - Phoronix

AMD continues preparing more kernel driver code for Linux 6.19