AMD Begins Posting Open-Source Linux Patches For Their Next-Gen GPU IP Beginning yesterday and continuing today are several patch series beginning to lay the foundation in the AMDGPU kernel graphics driver for enabling some next-generation graphics IP. Due to the AMD graphics driver block by block enablement strategy and IP-based discovery adopted by their driver over the past few years, it's not clear what this new hardware enablement…

AMD Begins Posting Open-Source Linux Patches For Their Next-Gen GPU IP - Phoronix

Beginning yesterday and continuing today are several patch series beginning to lay the foundation in the AMDGPU kernel graphics driver for enabling...

Vulkan SER Showing Up To ~47% Performance Improvement For Ray-Tracing Last week's Vulkan 1.4.333 brought a new ray-tracing extension with VK_EXT_ray_tracing_invocation_reorder that was derived from a prior NVIDIA vendor extension (VK_NV_ray_tracing_invocation_reorder). This new extension for Shader Execution Reordering "SER" is showing to deliver some nice performance potential for Vulkan ray-tracing performance...

Vulkan SER Showing Up To ~47% Performance Improvement For Ray-Tracing - Phoronix

Last week's Vulkan 1.4.333 brought a new ray-tracing extension with VK_EXT_ray_tracing_invocation_reorder that was derived from a prior NVIDIA...

NVK Still Working Toward Ray-Tracing, Vulkan Video & More Performance In addition to the RADV driver status update shared recently in Vienna at XDC2025, there was also a presentation on the current status of the NVK driver as the open-source NVIDIA Vulkan driver within Mesa that currently targets the Nouveau kernel driver and the Rust-based Nova kernel driver in the future...

NVK Still Working Toward Ray-Tracing, Vulkan Video & More Performance - Phoronix

In addition to the RADV driver status update shared recently in Vienna at XDC2025, there was also a presentation on the current status of the NVK d...

The State Of The AMD RADV Vulkan Driver In Late 2025 In addition to talking about the Valve-backed open-source driver work for old AMD Radeon GPUs, Timur Kristóf also presented at the XDC2025 conference on the state of the RADV Vulkan driver. Timur was joined by Daniel Schürmann to talk about the great Linux gaming experience now possible on the RADV driver with the work done by Valve, AMD, Red Hat, Google, and the open-source commun…

The State Of The AMD RADV Vulkan Driver In Late 2025 - Phoronix

In addition to talking about the Valve-backed open-source driver work for old AMD Radeon GPUs, Timur Kristóf also presented at the XDC2025 confere...

Wayland-Only Budgie 10.10 Desktop Preview Released At the start of the year developers behind the Budgie desktop environment hoped for shipping Budgie 10.10 in Q1-2025. We are now in Q4 without a stable release but at long last a preview version is at least available. Budgie 10.10 is the point at which Budgie is going all-in on Wayland in leaving behind the X11 desktop session support...

Wayland-Only Budgie 10.10 Desktop Preview Released - Phoronix

At the start of the year developers behind the Budgie desktop environment hoped for shipping Budgie 10.10 in Q1-2025

VKD3D-Proton 3.0 Released: Big Update To Direct3D 12 On Vulkan With FSR4 Support Hans-Kristian Arntzen of Valve just announced VKD3D-Proton 3.0 as a major update to this Direct3D 12 implementation atop the Vulkan API that is used by Valve's Steam Play (Proton)...

VKD3D-Proton 3.0 Released: Big Update To Direct3D 12 On Vulkan With FSR4 Support - Phoronix

Hans-Kristian Arntzen of Valve just announced VKD3D-Proton 3.0 as a major update to this Direct3D 12 implementation atop the Vulkan API that is use...

NVIDIA Highlights The Shortcomings With Wayland Screencasting In addition to showing the need for unifying DRM driver-side APIs within the Linux kernel, NVIDIA's Linux graphics driver team at XDC2025 also showcased the shortcomings of screencasting under Wayland...

NVIDIA Highlights The Shortcomings With Wayland Screencasting - Phoronix

In addition to showing the need for unifying DRM driver-side APIs within the Linux kernel, NVIDIA's Linux graphics driver team at XDC2025 also...

NVIDIA Linux Engineer Raises Point Around Unifying DRM Driver-Side API One of the NVIDIA presentations at the recent XDC2025 developer conference was not around the NVIDIA driver itself but the ongoing fragmentation that's happening within the Linux Direct Rendering Manager (DRM) subsystem and arguing the need for unifying more driver-side APIs for supporting different Linux DRM clinets...

NVIDIA Linux Engineer Highlights The Need For Unifying DRM Driver-Side API - Phoronix

One of the NVIDIA presentations at the recent XDC2025 developer conference was not around the NVIDIA driver itself but the ongoing fragmentation th...

PureAudio Lotus DAC5 & Other PureAudio Hardware Supported For Linux 6.18 As part of this week's sound subsystem fixes ahead of today's Linux 6.18-rc6 kernel release is adding some quirks for supporting the PureAudio Lotus DAC5 and other PureAudio audio hardware...

PureAudio Lotus DAC5 & Other PureAudio Hardware Supported For Linux 6.18 - Phoronix

As part of this week's sound subsystem fixes ahead of today's Linux 6.18-rc6 kernel release is adding some quirks for supporting the Pure...

Debian 13.2 Released With Dozens Of Fixes Debian 13.2 is out today as the latest maintenance update to this current stable version of Debian GNU/Linux...

Debian 13.2 Released With Dozens Of Fixes - Phoronix

Debian 13.2 is out today as the latest maintenance update to this current stable version of Debian GNU/Linux.