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24 Years After The ATI R300 Launched, Open-Source R300 Driver Continues With Big Rework

Phoronix - 2 hours 22 min ago
While there has been talk of potentially branching off the older Mesa graphics drivers, the ATI R300 Gallium3D driver just won't die yet. The R300 Gallium3D driver for supporting ATI R300 through R500 graphics cards saw a big rework merged today in restructuring the driver's intemediate representation (IR) handling...

KRAID Being Developed As New Compiler For Modern Arm Mali Graphics

Phoronix - 4 hours 19 min ago
KRAID is a new Rust-written shader compiler currently being developed for the Panfrost/PanVK open-source Arm Mali driver code. KRAID is designed for Mali's Valhall graphics processors and new as a modern, clean sheet design...

O3DE 26.05 Released With New Open Particle System, Other Engine Improvements

Phoronix - 4 hours 35 min ago
It's been nearly five years already since the start of O3DE as the Open 3D Engine that began as Amazon's Lumberyard project spun into an open-source project under the Linux Foundation umbrella. Out this week is O3DE 26.05 for shipping the latest improvements to this cross platform game engine...

GTK Introduces Snapping Feature For Better Fractional Scaling Experience

Phoronix - 4 hours 44 min ago
The upcoming GTK 4.23.1 development release is introducing a new feature called Snapping, which should enhance the experience when dealing with fractional scaling on today's high resolution displays...

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Google News - 7 hours 37 min ago
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Mesa 26.0.8 Released To End Out The Series

Phoronix - 14 hours 16 min ago
Eric Engestrom announced the release of Mesa 26.0.8 today as the latest stable point release of that Q1'2026 driver series and the last planned update for that stable series...

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