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Intel's Vulkan Linux Driver Adds Memory Pool Support For Some Massive Performance Gains

Wed, 04/30/2025 - 22:18
Merged a few minutes ago to the Mesa 25.2-devel graphics driver code for the open-source Intel "ANV" Vulkan Linux driver is proper memory pool support. In turn this can deliver some magnificent performance improvements on the likes of Lunar Lake and other newer Intel graphics processors...

openSUSE Leap 16 Available For Beta Testing - Built From SUSE Linux Enterprise 16

Wed, 04/30/2025 - 21:55
OpenSUSE announced the beta release today of openSUSE Leap 16.0, their next-generation Linux distribution from from SUSE Linux Enterprise 16 (SLE 16) and its new base of SUSE Linux Framework One that was previously known as the Adaptable Linux Platform (ALP)...

LibreSSL 4.1 Released With Faster SHA-1/SHA-256/SHA-512 On Modern AMD & Intel CPUs

Wed, 04/30/2025 - 20:52
LibreSSL 4.1 released today as the newest version of this SSL/TLS library project forked a decade ago by OpenBSD from OpenSSL...

Bytedance Proposes Faster Linux Inter-Process Communication With "Run Process As Library"

Wed, 04/30/2025 - 20:35
Bytedance engineers are exploring faster inter-process communication (IPC) on Linux via a new approach they call Run Process As Library (RPAL). Their initial benchmarks of RPAL are very promising for faster Linux IPC performance...

NVIDIA Posts 60 Patches For Open-Source Hopper & Blackwell GPU Support On Nouveau

Wed, 04/30/2025 - 18:30
Ben Skeggs formerly of Red Hat who had been the maintainer of the Nouveau Linux kernel driver for reverse-engineered open-source NVIDIA driver support had joined NVIDIA last year and continued his engagements with the open-source Linux community. For ending out April there's a big surprise... The NVIDIA engineer posted a set of 60 patches enabling support for NVIDIA Hopper and Blackwell GPUs atop the open-source Nouveau kernel driver...

Firefox 139 Beta Delivers Faster HTTP/3 Upload Performance

Wed, 04/30/2025 - 18:14
Firefox 138 was released yesterday and wasn't particularly exciting besides enhanced profile management and Tab Groups support... Aside from that it was a pretty basic release. In turn Firefox 139 is now in beta and that release does bring some items worth mentioning like faster HTTP/3 upload performance...

AMDVLK 2025.Q2.1 Released With More Vulkan Extensions, Hawk Point 1 & 2 Support

Wed, 04/30/2025 - 17:59
AMDVLK 2025.Q2.1 was released today as the first update to this official open-source AMD Vulkan driver since the previous release in mid-March. AMDVLK 2025.Q2.1 brings new hardware support, new Vulkan API extensions, and other new features...

Pixman 0.46 Delivers Faster Performance On RISC-V With V Vector Extension

Wed, 04/30/2025 - 17:43
Pixman as the open-source pixel manipulation library used by the X.Org Server and Cairo graphics library is out today with Pixman 0.46 as the newest feature release...

Valve's Proton 10.0 Beta Released With More Windows Games Now Playable On Linux

Wed, 04/30/2025 - 06:34
Valve and CodeWeavers today announced the much anticipated beta release of Proton 10.0 as the newest version of their downstream version of Wine that powers Steam Play for running Windows games on Linux...

Intel's Open-Source Vulkan Driver Lands BFloat16 Support In Mesa 25.2

Wed, 04/30/2025 - 02:47
Introduced last month in the Vulkan 1.4.311 spec was VK_KHR_shader_bfloat16 for supporting BF16 types within SPIR-V shaders. Merged today for Mesa 25.2 is that BFloat16 support for Intel's open-source Vulkan Linux driver...

Ubuntu 25.04 & Fedora 42 Hit A Long Sought Milestone With HDR Support Working Well On The Linux Desktop

Tue, 04/29/2025 - 23:31
It's almost majestic: HDR display support working on the Linux desktop. If you asked me at the start of the calendar year if I'd expect to see modern Linux distributions shipping with working HDR display support in H1'2025, I would have been doubtful. But after a lot of miraculous work that landed across numerous upstream repositories over the past two months or so, everything has come together just in time for the likes of Ubuntu 25.04 and Fedora Workstation 42. There still are apps not supporting HDR and the like, but the core infrastructure is in place and working. The past two weeks I've begun testing out the Linux HDR desktop experience with the ASUS ROG Swift OLED PG27UCDM 27-inch 4K display. Between the ASUS PG27UCDM's QD-OLED display and HDR support enabled under Linux, it delivers a very beautiful Linux desktop experience.

DRM Code For Linux 6.16 Hides The "Disgusting Turds" & Adds TI AM68 GPU Support

Tue, 04/29/2025 - 21:59
Sent out today was a batch of drm-misc-next patches for queuing ahead of the Linux 6.16 merge window. There are a few notable changes here as part of the Direct Rendering Manager updates for the core code and smaller kernel drivers...

Mutter Merges Wayland Toplevel Tag Protocol For GNOME 49

Tue, 04/29/2025 - 20:45
In addition to the recent merge to Mutter for improving fullscreen apps with direct scanout enhancements for GNOME 49, another early addition also landed today in Mutter: support for Wayland's toplevel tag protocol...

3dfx Voodoo 5 Graphics Driver Can Work On Open-Source React OS

Tue, 04/29/2025 - 18:39
For nostalgic open-source fans, React OS as the "open-source Windows" operating system striving for binary compatibility with Windows drivers and applications can now work with the 3dfx Voodoo 5 driver...

Intel Xe Driver Preps Additional Changes For Linux 6.16

Tue, 04/29/2025 - 18:14
On top of the Intel Xe driver changes already queued in DRM-Next for the upcoming Linux 6.16 merge window, an additional set of Intel Xe kernel graphics driver changes were mailed out yesterday...

Intel HID Preps For Panther Lake, Other Laptop Enhancements Squeeze Into Linux 6.15

Tue, 04/29/2025 - 18:06
Another round of x86 platform driver updates was sent out today for the ongoing Linux 6.15 merge window. Besides some fixes, there is also new hardware support making it into this week's platform-drivers-x86 updates...

MoltenVK 1.3-rc1 Released To Advertise Vulkan 1.3 Support For Apple Devices

Tue, 04/29/2025 - 08:17
MoltenVK 1.3-rc1 was released today as the first test release of this updated Apple iOS / macOS / tvOS / visionOS layer that implements the Vulkan API atop the Apple Metal drivers. With MoltenVK 1.3 there is Vulkan API 1.3 support finally in tow...

Meson 1.8 Build System Released - Wayland Module Declared Stable

Tue, 04/29/2025 - 04:36
Meson 1.8 was released this afternoon as the newest update to this popular, cross-platform and open-source build system / build automation tool...

A Linux 6.15 Performance Regression Hits Modern AMD CPUs

Tue, 04/29/2025 - 03:53
Separate from last week in uncovering a big performance regression on Linux 6.15 affecting workloads like Nginx and that regression getting fixed, I unfortunately discovered another heavy-hitting regression on Linux 6.15. This latest performance regression has been bisected and a possible fix is being thought through by the relevant party, but for the moment has yet to be fixed upstream and affects modern AMD processors.

Kdenlive 25.04 Video Editor Delivers New Features

Tue, 04/29/2025 - 02:47
Kdenlive 25.04 is out today as the newest feature release to this KDE/Qt-aligned non-linear, open-source video editing application...

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