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

Phoronix - Thu, 11/13/2025 - 05:32
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...

Valve Already Upstreams Support For The New Steam Controller To SDL3

Phoronix - Thu, 11/13/2025 - 04:00
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 Announces New Steam Machine, Steam Controller & Steam Frame

Phoronix - Thu, 11/13/2025 - 02:06
Valve just sent over the press release announcing three new Steam Hardware devices...

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

Phoronix - Thu, 11/13/2025 - 01:35
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...

Framework Laptop 16 Upgrade To AMD Ryzen AI 300 Series Benchmarks

Phoronix - Thu, 11/13/2025 - 00:00
Framework Computer announced back in August that the Framework Laptop 16 would be rolling out upgrades to the AMD Ryzen AI 300 series and a GeForce RTX 5070 graphics option. Today the review embargo lifts on these new Framework 16 laptop upgrades and some Linux benchmarking of the new hardware.

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