Qualcomm Posts Initial Open-Source GPU Driver Patches For Adreno 800 Series Qualcomm engineers have posted the initial patches for bringing up the newest Adreno 800 series graphics IP within the open-source MSM Linux kernel Direct Rendering Manager (DRM) driver... image
NVIDIA 580.95.05 Linux Driver Released Debuting today is the newest NVIDIA 580 Linux driver series release... image
NVIDIA Has Been Supplying NDA'ed Docs To Red Hat For Helping NVK Driver Following AMD announcing the end of the AMDVLK Vulkan driver development in favor of focusing on the Mesa RADV driver for Linux systems, Red Hat engineer David Airlie who was one of the co-lead developers of the RADV driver shared some interesting insight on NVK as the open-source NVIDIA Vulkan driver being developed within Mesa... image
NVIDIA, Disney & Google Contribute Open-Source Newton Engine To The Linux Foundation Earlier this year NVIDIA announced Newton as an open-source physics engine focused on robotic simulations. This physics engine was developed by NVIDIA in cooperation with Google DeepMind and Disney Research. Today it's been contributed to the Linux Foundation... image
Unvanquished Game Ported To SDL3, Working Natively On Wayland When it comes to open-source games, Unvanquished remains one of the most promising and interesting open-source FPS games from a technical perspective. With its next release, Unvanquished has been ported to the SDL3 library and is working well natively on Wayland... image
Vulkan 1.4.328 Published With Copy Memory Indirect Extension Vulkan 1.4.328 is now available as the latest specification update to this high performance graphics and compute API from The Khronos Group... image
Ubuntu 25.10's Move To Rust Coreutils Is Causing Major Breakage For Some Executables I noticed a number of benchmarks failing to run on Ubuntu 25.10 this week with reported checksum errors on the files... I quickly realized it's due to the recent Rust Coreutils transition for Ubuntu 25.10 causing some major breakage for those relying on Makeself archives... image
Wild: A Very Fast Linker Written In Rust, Aims To Outperform Mold Linker While the Mold linker has been very impressive for its speed the past few years compared to the linkers out of the LLVM and GNU toolchain projects, there is a new high speed linker on the scene and it's written in Rust: meet Wild... image
Mesa's PowerVR Vulkan Driver Gets Rid Of Its Old Hardcoded Shader Code Imagination's open-source PowerVR Vulkan driver within Mesa now is able to generate its different internal shaders required by the driver to forego shipping old hard-coded shaders... image
FFmpeg Introduces MPEG-H 3D Audio Decoding Support The widely-used FFmpeg open-source multimedia library has merged support for MPEG-H 3D Audio decoding... image