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Open-Source Nouveau+NVK vs. NVIDIA 580 Linux Gaming/Graphics & Compute Driver Performance  Phoronix

This Black Friday is an in-depth look at the current performance of the open-source NVIDIA Linux driver stack with the Nouveau kernel driver (the Nova driver not yet being ready for end-users) paired with the latest Mesa NVK driver for open-source Vulkan API support. With that NVK Vulkan driver is also looking at the OpenGL performance using the Zink OpenGL-on-Vulkan driver used now for OpenGL on modern NVIDIA GPUs rather than maintaining the Nouveau Gallium3D driver. Plus the Rusticl driver for OpenCL compute atop the NVK driver. This fully open-source and latest NVIDIA Linux driver support was compared to NVIDIA's official 580 series Linux driver. Both RTX 40 Ada and RTX 50 Blackwell graphics cards were tested for this thorough GPU driver comparison.

In addition to the proposed Hierarchical Queued NUMA-aware spinlocks for better performance, another interesting performance-enhancing patch series posted in the past 24 hours for the Linux kernel is for improving the performance of single-threaded tasks running on high core count CPU desktops / workstations / servers...

New Linux Patches Enhance Single-Threaded Performance On Many-Core CPUs  Phoronix

MangoHud performance overlay for Linux v0.8.2 released  GamingOnLinux

KDE Plasma sets date to dump X11 as Wayland push accelerates  theregister.com

Why people keep flocking to Linux in 2025 (and it's not just to escape Windows)  ZDNET

3 cool Linux apps to try this weekend (November 28 - 30)  How-To Geek

VK messenger Max becomes available on Astra Linux  Telecompaper

We eagerly await to see if the AMD ISP4 driver will be ready for mainlining in the imminent Linux v6.19 merge window but it's getting down to the wire and thus looking less likely it will make it unless action is taken in the coming days. Today though a sixth version of this AMD ISP4 image signal processor driver was posted for this last piece of the puzzle in enabling the web camera on the HP ZBook Ultra G1a Strix Halo laptop as well as future Ryzen high-end laptops...

AMD ISP4 Linux Webcam Driver Updated For HP ZBook Ultra G1a & Future Ryzen Laptops  Phoronix

Damaged Pocket Computer Becomes Portable Linux Machine  Hackaday

Damaged Pocket Computer Becomes Portable Linux Machine  Hackaday

AV Linux 25 Multimedia Production Distro Brings Enlightenment to MX Linux 25  9to5Linux

The NTFSPLUS Linux kernel driver as a modern NTFS file-system driver implementation continues quickly taking shape as it aims to become the most performant and feature-rich NTFS read/write driver for Linux systems...

A Huawei engineer has sent out patches proposing HQspinlock as a Hierarchical Queued NUMA-aware spinlock for the Linux kernel. HQspinlock aims to addresss inefficiencies within the Linux kernel's spinlock on modern NUMA-systems due to frequent and costly cross-NUMA cache-line transfers...

HQspinlock Proposal For Linux Shows Very Nice Performance Benefits For Large Servers  Phoronix

KDE is going Wayland-only in the future  gHacks Technology News

itch.io is hosting a creator day today where they take no fee from developers  GamingOnLinux

Self-Hosting is Rising and Linux Users are Leading This Revolution  It's FOSS