HIP-RT Update For Blender 5.0 To Deliver Improved Ray-Tracing On RDNA4 GPUs AMD engineers have submitted a HIP-RT update for Blender developers ahead of the big Blender 5.0 release to enhance the RDNA4 ray-tracing performance...

HIP-RT Update For Blender 5.0 To Deliver Improved Ray-Tracing On RDNA4 GPUs - Phoronix

AMD engineers have submitted a HIP-RT update for Blender developers ahead of the big Blender 5.0 release to enhance the RDNA4 ray-tracing performance.

NVIDIA Posts Initial Linux Patches For Extended GPU Memory "EGM" Virtualization NVIDIA engineer Ankit Agrawal today posted a request for comments (RFC) patch series working on Linux virtualization support for Extended GPU Memory (EGM)...

NVIDIA Posts Initial Linux Patches For Extended GPU Memory "EGM" Virtualization - Phoronix

NVIDIA engineer Ankit Agrawal today posted a request for comments (RFC) patch series working on Linux virtualization support for Extended GPU Memor...

Linux Mint 22.2 Officially Released With Fingwit, UI Tweaks Linux Mint 22.2 is officially out today as the newest version of this popular desktop Linux distribution built atop an Ubuntu 24.04 LTS package base...

Linux Mint 22.2 Officially Released With Fingwit, UI Tweaks - Phoronix

Linux Mint 22.2 is officially out today as the newest version of this popular desktop Linux distribution built atop an Ubuntu 24.04 LTS package base.

GNOME 49 Release Candidate Ships With GDM Re-Enabling X11 Support By Default The GNOME 49 release candidate "49.rc" was just released as we close in on the stable GNOME 49.0 release in two weeks...

GNOME 49 Release Candidate Ships With GDM Re-Enabling X11 Support By Default - Phoronix

The GNOME 49 release candidate '49.rc' was just released as we close in on the stable GNOME 49.0 release in two weeks.

Linux Hardware Enablement Leader Hans de Goede Leaving Red Hat Well, here is some sad news... After the better part of two decades at Red Hat, Hans de Goede shared today he will be leaving the company next month. Hans de Goede during his time at Red Hat has been responsible for countless hardware improvements especially for Linux laptops, serves as the x86 platform subsystem lead maintainer for the Linux kernel, and has done immense w…

Linux Hardware Enablement Leader Hans de Goede Leaving Red Hat - Phoronix

Well, here is some sad news..

openSUSE Leap 16 To Provide 24 Months Of Maintenance Updates / Community Support SUSE's Lubos Kocman announced today on the behalf of the openSUSE team that they will be providing extended maintenance updates and community support with the upcoming Leap 16 release...

openSUSE Leap 16 To Provide 24 Months Of Maintenance Updates / Community Support - Phoronix

SUSE's Lubos Kocman announced today on the behalf of the openSUSE team that they will be providing extended maintenance updates and community ...

Niri 25.08 Wayland Compositor Introduces xwayland-satellite Support Niri 25.08 is out this week as the newest version of this scrollable-tiling Wayland compositor. Notable now is adding xwayland-satellite integration for offering legacy X11 app support...

Niri 25.08 Wayland Compositor Introduces xwayland-satellite Support - Phoronix

Niri 25.08 is out this week as the newest version of this scrollable-tiling Wayland compositor

Improved Intel Vulkan Video Code Merged For Mesa 25.3 Merged overnight to Mesa 25.3 is an improvement for the Intel driver's Vulkan Video encode/decode handling that has been in the works the past few months...

Improved Intel Vulkan Video Code Merged For Mesa 25.3 - Phoronix

Merged overnight to Mesa 25.3 is an improvement for the Intel driver's Vulkan Video encode/decode handling that has been in the works the past...

SDL Merges X11TK: A Basic X11 Toolkit It looks like the Simple DirectMedia Layer (SDL) library widely used by cross-platform games for software/hardware abstractions isn't done enhancing its support for running on the X.Org/X11 Server. Similarly, Valve is still committing resources to enhancing the support...

SDL Merges X11TK: A Basic X11 Toolkit - Phoronix

It looks like the Simple DirectMedia Layer (SDL) library widely used by cross-platform games for software/hardware abstractions isn't done enh...

NVIDIA 580.82.07 Driver Brings Fix For Vulkan On Wayland, Smooth Motion For RTX 40 NVIDIA just released the 580.82.07 stable Linux driver as their newest R580 driver series update...

NVIDIA 580.82.07 Driver Brings Fix For Vulkan On Wayland, Smooth Motion For RTX 40 - Phoronix

NVIDIA just released the 580.82.07 stable Linux driver as their newest R580 driver series update.