NVIDIA Linux Engineer Raises Point Around Unifying DRM Driver-Side API One of the NVIDIA presentations at the recent XDC2025 developer conference was not around the NVIDIA driver itself but the ongoing fragmentation that's happening within the Linux Direct Rendering Manager (DRM) subsystem and arguing the need for unifying more driver-side APIs for supporting different Linux DRM clinets...

NVIDIA Linux Engineer Highlights The Need For Unifying DRM Driver-Side API - Phoronix

One of the NVIDIA presentations at the recent XDC2025 developer conference was not around the NVIDIA driver itself but the ongoing fragmentation th...

PureAudio Lotus DAC5 & Other PureAudio Hardware Supported For Linux 6.18 As part of this week's sound subsystem fixes ahead of today's Linux 6.18-rc6 kernel release is adding some quirks for supporting the PureAudio Lotus DAC5 and other PureAudio audio hardware...

PureAudio Lotus DAC5 & Other PureAudio Hardware Supported For Linux 6.18 - Phoronix

As part of this week's sound subsystem fixes ahead of today's Linux 6.18-rc6 kernel release is adding some quirks for supporting the Pure...

Debian 13.2 Released With Dozens Of Fixes Debian 13.2 is out today as the latest maintenance update to this current stable version of Debian GNU/Linux...

Debian 13.2 Released With Dozens Of Fixes - Phoronix

Debian 13.2 is out today as the latest maintenance update to this current stable version of Debian GNU/Linux.

NVIDIA Sends Out Initial Turing GPU Support For Open-Source Nova Driver NVIDIA engineers continue working a lot on the in-development and in-tree open-source Nova kernel driver for their GPUs. Sent out on Friday night were the Turing enablement patches for this Rust-written Nova-Core driver code...

NVIDIA Sends Out Initial Turing GPU Support For Open-Source Nova Driver - Phoronix

NVIDIA engineers continue working a lot on the in-development and in-tree open-source Nova kernel driver for their GPUs

Mesa 25.3 Released With Many Open-Source Vulkan Driver Improvements Mesa 25.3 is out tonight as the newest quarterly feature release to this set of (predominantly) OpenGL and Vulkan drivers widely used across Linux systems. Mesa 25.3 features numerous Vulkan extensions added to the different open-source drivers, continued enhancements to the OpenGL drivers, and various other changes...

Mesa 25.3 Released With Many Open-Source Vulkan Driver Improvements - Phoronix

Mesa 25.3 is out tonight as the newest quarterly feature release to this set of (predominantly) OpenGL and Vulkan drivers widely used across Linux ...

Vulkan 1.4.333 Released With New Ray-Tracing Extension Vulkan 1.4.333 is out with a handful of fixes plus two new extensions...

Vulkan 1.4.333 Released With New Ray-Tracing Extension - Phoronix

Vulkan 1.4.333 is out with a handful of fixes plus two new extensions.

Nouveau Driver To Support Larger Pages & Compression Support With Linux 6.19 While the "Nova" driver continues to be developed as a modern Rust-written, open-source and in-kernel NVIDIA graphics driver for Linux, for the time being Nouveau is what's working for end-users for those wanting a mainline open-source NVIDIA graphics driver for gaming and other workloads. With Linux 6.19 the Nouveau driver is picking up support for handlin…

Nouveau Driver To Support Larger Pages & Compression Support With Linux 6.19 - Phoronix

While the 'Nova' driver continues to be developed as a modern Rust-written, open-source and in-kernel NVIDIA graphics driver for Linux, f...

GCC Compiler Developers Begin Considering C++20 Default Compiler engineer Marek Polacek of Red Hat recently proposed making the C++20 language specification (or rather the GNU++20 dialect) the default C++ version when not otherwise specified...

GCC Compiler Developers Begin Considering C++20 Default - Phoronix

Compiler engineer Marek Polacek of Red Hat recently proposed making the C++20 language specification (or rather the GNU++20 dialect) the default C+...

Proton 10.0-3 Released For Steam Play With Dozens Of Fixes, More Games Working Valve and CodeWeavers today released Proton 10.0-3 as the newest stable update to this Wine-based software that powers Steam Play for enabling countless Windows games to run often extremely well under Linux...

Proton 10.0-3 Released For Steam Play With Dozens Of Fixes, More Games Working - Phoronix

RadeonSI OpenGL Mesh Shader Support Is Now Completed For Mesa 26.0 For next quarter's Mesa 26.0 release, the AMD RadeonSI Gallium3D driver will present OpenGL mesh shaders support. It's been a long journey from the GL_EXT_mesh_shader extension being crafted and merged to wiring up the Mesa driver support while now it's in place for the AMD Radeon Linux graphics driver...

RadeonSI OpenGL Mesh Shader Support Is Now Completed For Mesa 26.0 - Phoronix

For next quarter's Mesa 26.0 release, the AMD RadeonSI Gallium3D driver will present OpenGL mesh shaders support