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...

Google Taps More Performance Out Of AMD Zen CPUs With BPF-CCX Scheduling For helping with thread placement on modern AMD Zen systems with multiple CPU core complexes, Google has been developing "BPF CCX" that leverages the Linux kernel's eBPF capabilities paired with a user-space agent for fine-grained thread control. Google has found very positive performance results out of their use of this alternative means of high performance scheduling for…

Google Taps More Performance Out Of AMD Zen CPUs With BPF-CCX Scheduling - Phoronix

For helping with thread placement on modern AMD Zen systems with multiple CPU core complexes, Google has been developing 'BPF CCX' that l...

RADV Adds Support For New Performance Counters To Help Game Developers Samuel Pitoiset of Valve's open-source Linux graphics team has landed improvements for the Mesa 260 RADV driver to support new performance counters in conjunction with AMD's Radeon GPU Profiler 2.6 release...

RADV Adds Support For New Performance Counters To Help Game Developers - Phoronix

Samuel Pitoiset of Valve's open-source Linux graphics team has landed improvements for the Mesa 260 RADV driver to support new performance cou...

Elementary OS 8.1 Switches Over To Wayland Session By Default Thirteen months after the release of Elementary OS 8.0, Elementary OS 8.1 is now available for this Ubuntu 24.04 LTS based Linux distribution that focuses on ease of use and usability. With Elementary OS 8.1 they have transitioned to using the Wayland session by default...

Elementary OS 8.1 Switches Over To Wayland Session By Default - Phoronix

Thirteen months after the release of Elementary OS 8.0, Elementary OS 8.1 is now available for this Ubuntu 24.04 LTS based Linux distribution that ...

Lua 5.5 Released With Declarations For Global Variables, Garbage Collection Improvements Five years after releasing Lua 5.4, Lua 5.5 debuted today as the newest version of this lightweight and embeddable scripting language...

Lua 5.5 Released With Declarations For Global Variables, Garbage Collection Improvements - Phoronix

Five years after releasing Lua 5.4, Lua 5.5 debuted today as the newest version of this lightweight and embeddable scripting language.

Weston 15.0 Alpha Released With New Protocols, Experimental Vulkan Renderer After being delayed by three months to allow additional time for new features to land, Weston 15.0 Alpha 1 is out today as a big feature release for this reference Wayland compositor...

Weston 15.0 Alpha Released With New Protocols, Experimental Vulkan Renderer - Phoronix

After being delayed by three months to allow additional time for new features to land, Weston 15.0 Alpha 1 is out today as a big feature release fo...

MPV 0.41 Released With Wayland Improvements, Vulkan Hardware Decoding Preferred MPV 0.41 is out today as the newest feature release for this MPlayer/mplayer2-derived open-source video player. With MPV 0.41 there is a big focus on improving Wayland support as well as now preferring Vulkan Video acceleration over alternative video decode APIs...

MPV 0.41 Released With Wayland Improvements, Vulkan Hardware Decoding Preferred - Phoronix

MPV 0.41 is out today as the newest feature release for this MPlayer/mplayer2-derived open-source video player