ByoWave Proteus Controller Support Coming To Linux The ByoWave Proteus Controller Kit is a modular gaming controller that allows snapping together different combinations of input toggles and to reposition the triggers and buttons depending upon your preferences. Support for the ByoWave Proteus Controllers is already supported by Valve's SteamOS while now the controllers will soon be supported by the mainline Linux kernel... image
Niri 25.05 Brings New Features To This Innovative Wayland Compositor Niri 25.05 is out today as the newest major step forward for this scrollable-tiling Wayland compositor that has developed a devoted following... image
NVIDIA Upstreams Newer GSP Firmware For Open-Source Nouveau Driver NVIDIA has supplied updated GPU System Processor (GSP) firmware derived from their R570 driver series to the upstream linux-firmware.git repository... image
Rust Language Celebrates Ten Years By Releasing Rust 1.87 Rust 1.87 is now available as the newest version of this popular programming language. With the Rust 1.87 release it also marks ten years already of this system programming language focused on memory safety and modern features... image
Arch Linux Installer Adds Labwc & Niri Wayland Compositor Options Archinstall 3.0.5 is now available as the latest update to this easy-to-use, text-based Arch Linux OS installer... image
Linux Swap Table Code Shows The Potential For Huge Performance Gains Following recent discussions by Linux kernel developers around integrating swap cache and swap maps functionality with the swap allocator, Swap Table was born. With Swap Tables the hope is for lower memory use, higher performance, dynamic swap allocation and growth, greater extensibility, and other improvements over the existing swap code within the Linux kernel... image
Vulkan 1.4.315 With VK_EXT_zero_initialize_device_memory For VKD3D-Proton & More Released last week was the Vulkan 1.4.315 spec update and with it comes the new VK_EXT_zero_initialize_device_memory extension for allowing device memory allocations to be zero-initialized... image
Intel ANV Driver Lands Fixes For AV1 Decoding With Vulkan Video For those interested in making use of GPU-accelerated AV1 video decoding with Intel graphics hardware using the Vulkan Video API, some important fixes were merged to Mesa 25.2-devel and will presumably be backported soon to existing Mesa releases... image
Mediatek DRM Driver Prepares For HDMI 2.0 With MT8195/MT8188 The Direct Rendering Manager (DRM) updates have been submitted for the Mediatek driver in advance of the upcoming Linux 6.16 merge window... image
Firefox Source Code Now Hosted On GitHub The Mozilla Firefox source code is now officially available on GitHub as they work to transition from their hg.mozilla.org servers... image