VKD3D 1.16 Released With DXIL Shader Support VKD3D 1.16 was released today by Wine/CodeWeavers developers as this upstream Direct3D 12 over Vulkan API implementation used by Wine for running D3D12 Windows games/applications on Linux... image
More "Nova" Open-Source NVIDIA Driver Code To Be Upstreamed For Linux 6.16 In addition to the Nouveau driver set to see NVIDIA Blackwell and Hopper GPU support with the upcoming Linux 6.16 cycle, the modern, Rust-based Nova driver for future open-source NVIDIA GPU support is set to become a bit more full with this next kernel release... image
Debian's APT 3.1 Released With Why/Why-Not Commands, New Solver Default On Ubuntu Following the release earlier this year of the big APT 3.0 package manager tool release, APT 3.1 was tagged today as another step forward to this key tool on Debian-based Linux distributions...
Microsoft Makes "Edit" Command Line Editor Open-Source, WSL Going Open-Source Too Microsoft kicked off its Build 2025 developer conference today with some open-source announcements... image
Open-Source NVIDIA Blackwell + Hopper Support Slated For Linux 6.16 Coming somewhat as a surprise is the Nouveau driver patches for enabling NVIDIA Blackwell and Hopper GPUs has now been queued to DRM-Next ahead of the Linux 6.16 merge window. So barring any surprises, this next version of the Linux kernel will feature preliminary open-source mainline kernel driver support for these newer NVIDIA GPUs... image
FUSE To Enjoy A Performance Improvement With Linux 6.16 Queued up via the FUSE "for-next" Git branch ahead of the upcoming Linux 6.16 merge window is a change to increase the read directory buffer size to in turn enhance the performance... image
Linux 6.16 To Support The Realtek RTL8127A 10GbE Ethernet Controller On the networking front with the upcoming Linux 6.16 merge window is supporting the new Realtek RTL8127A 10GbE Ethernet Controller... image