D7VK 1.1 Released With An Experimental Direct3D 6 Frontend Between the DXVK and VKD3D(-Proton) projects there is good support for Direct3D 8 through Direct3D 12 implementations atop the Vulkan API for Linux gaming usage. For those preferring more retro classic gaming, D7VK came about more recently for Direct3D 7 as a DXVK fork. Out today is D7VK 1.1 and besides delivering fixes for its D3D7 implementation has also now tacked on an experimental D3D6 front-end...

D7VK 1.1 Released With An Experimental Direct3D 6 Frontend - Phoronix

Between the DXVK and VKD3D(-Proton) projects there is good support for Direct3D 8 through Direct3D 12 implementations atop the Vulkan API for Linux...

New Patches Bring Linux Driver Support To 25+ SteelSeries Arctis Gaming Headsets Within the mainline Linux kernel already is the SteelSeries HID driver for supporting basic battery monitoring on the Arctis 1 and Arctis 9 gaming headsets. But a new patch series posted this morning to the Linux kernel mailing list overhaul this SteelSeries HID driver support. The patches take the support to 25+ different Arctis headset models and provide more comprehensive driver support.…

New Patches Bring Linux Driver Support To 25+ SteelSeries Arctis Gaming Headsets - Phoronix

Within the mainline Linux kernel already is the SteelSeries HID driver for supporting basic battery monitoring on the Arctis 1 and Arctis 9 gaming ...

KDE's "This Week In Plasma" Will Become Less Frequent Without New Volunteers The This Week In Plasma series written by KDE developer Nate Graham has been a great way to keep-up with all of the interesting KDE Plasma desktop developments over the past eight years. This Week In Plasma is regularly featured on Phoronix and always provides an interesting weekend look at the very newest innovations to land in Plasma. Unfortunately, This Week In Plasma will become less freque…

KDE's "This Week In Plasma" Will Become Less Frequent Without New Volunteers - Phoronix

The This Week In Plasma series written by KDE developer Nate Graham has been a great way to keep-up with all of the interesting KDE Plasma desktop ...

Fish 4.3 Brings Scripting & Interactivity Improvements, Enhanced Terminal Support Fish 4.3 is out today as the newest update to this user-friendly command line shell. Fish 4.0 released at the beginning of this year in porting the codebase from C++ to Rust and now before closing out 2025 they have out Fish 4.3...

Fish 4.3 Brings Scripting & Interactivity Improvements, Enhanced Terminal Support - Phoronix

Fish 4.3 is out today as the newest update to this user-friendly command line shell

Wine 11.0-rc4 Brings 22 Bug Fixes Wine 11.0-rc4 is out today as the latest weekly release candidate in working toward the stable Wine 11.0 release in January...

Wine 11.0-rc4 Brings 22 Bug Fixes - Phoronix

Wine 11.0-rc4 is out today as the latest weekly release candidate in working toward the stable Wine 11.0 release in January.

Nova Driver Progress & Other NVIDIA Linux News From 2025 This year there was a lot of going on in the NVIDIA Linux world from their official driver stack seeing better Wayland support to a lot on the open-source scene from NVIDIA engineers contributing a lot directly to the Rust-based Nova open-source driver that continues taking shape, the Mesa NVK Vulkan driver becoming more performant and capable, and a lot of other happenings. Here…

Nova Driver Progress & Other NVIDIA Linux News From 2025 - Phoronix

This year there was a lot of going on in the NVIDIA Linux world from their official driver stack seeing better Wayland support to a lot on the open...

NVIDIA CUDA Tile IR Open-Sourced As a wonderful Christmas gift to open-source fans, NVIDIA dropped their proprietary license on the CUDA Tile intermediate representation and has now made the IR open-source software...

NVIDIA CUDA Tile IR Open-Sourced - Phoronix

As a wonderful Christmas gift to open-source fans, NVIDIA dropped their proprietary license on the CUDA Tile intermediate representation and has no...

Final Benchmarks Of AMDVLK vs. RADV AMD Radeon Vulkan Drivers One of the pleasant surprises this year was AMD ending the AMDVLK driver development with AMD dropping their proprietary OpenGL and Vulkan driver components on Linux at long last for their Radeon Software for Linux packages. This was arguably long overdue with enthusiasts and Linux gamers long preferring the RadeonSI+RADV Mesa drivers and those drivers even doing very well in …

Final Benchmarks Of AMDVLK vs. RADV AMD Radeon Vulkan Drivers - Phoronix

One of the pleasant surprises this year was AMD ending the AMDVLK driver development with AMD dropping their proprietary OpenGL and Vulkan driver c...

Wayback 0.3 Released For Advancing This X11 Compatibility Layer One of the interesting open-source projects to come about this year was Wayback as an X11 compatibility layer using Wayland. Wayback could be used by default on Alpine Linux next year among other distributions. For ending out 2025 development, Wayback 0.3 is now available...

Wayback 0.3 Released For Advancing This X11 Compatibility Layer - Phoronix

One of the interesting open-source projects to come about this year was Wayback as an X11 compatibility layer using Wayland

PowerVR Open-Source Vulkan Driver Preparing For New GPU Support The open-source Mesa PowerVR "PVR" Vulkan driver has merged multi-architecture support as part of preparing to add support for newer Imagination GPUs...

PowerVR Open-Source Vulkan Driver Preparing For New GPU Support - Phoronix

The open-source Mesa PowerVR 'PVR' Vulkan driver has merged multi-architecture support as part of preparing to add support for newer Imag...