Mesa 25.1.6 Released With Intel Xe3 Panther Lake Graphics Enabled By Default
In addition to releasing Mesa 25.2-rc1 with its many new features to test, Mesa release manager Eric Engestrom today released Mesa 25.1.6 as the newest bi-weekly stable point release for last quarter's series...
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Hyprland 0.50 is out today as the newest feature release for this Wayland compositor focused on delivering a lot of Linux desktop bling.lxer.com
Krita 5.2.11, a free and open-source digital painting app, brings bug fixes for Android canvas issues, index color filtering, and more.Bobby Borisov (Linuxiac)
8-Way Linux OS Comparison On The Framework 12: Squeezing More Performance Out Of Raptor Lake
Earlier this year when the Framework 13 was updated for the AMD Ryzen AI 300 series I ran benchmarks looking at the performance gains across different Linux distributions with Debian 13, Clear Linux, and CachyOS being the outstanding performers for that Strix Point hardware. With the recent launch of the Framework 12 2-in-1 laptop powered by Intel R…
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Earlier this year when the Framework 13 was updated for the AMD Ryzen AI 300 series I ran benchmarks looking at the performance gains across different Linux distributions with Debian 13, Clear Linux, and CachyOS being the outstanding performers for t…www.phoronix.com
Super Productivity isn’t just another to-do app—it’s like having a personal project sidekick that actually gets it.Jack Wallen (FOSS Force)
Mesa 25.2-rc1 Released: Faster RADV Ray-Tracing, NVK Blackwell & More Optimizations
Mesa 25.2 is now branched and thus under a feature freeze and with Mesa 25.2-rc1 having just been released. This marks the start of weekly release candidates until the Mesa 25.2 stable release is ready to ship sometime in August...
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12k Lines Of NVIDIA Blackwell 3D Class Header Files Open-Sourced
Similar to the 3D class header files previously open-sourced by NVIDIA for prior generation GPUs, yesterday NVIDIA carried out a similar open-source move to publish all the 3D class header files for their newest Blackwell graphics processors...
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More AMD FidelityFX Super Resolution 4 Improvements Land For Open-Source Driver
It's a very busy week for the open-source OpenGL and Vulkan drivers leading up to the Mesa 25.2 code branching. On top of RADV ray-tracing improvements, Vulkan 1.2 conformance for Kepler GPUs, Xe3 Panther Lake graphics enabled by default, and many other last minute changes, over the past week has also been a push getting more AMD FidelityFX Super Resolution 4 "…
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Blender 4.5 is now officially available today as the newest feature release and one that is a Long Term Support (LTS) for this popular, cross-platform 3D modeling software.lxer.com
LLVM 22 Eliminates The Final Support For Google Native Client "NaCl"
One of the early changes for the LLVM 22 compiler stack now in development is completing the removal of support for Google's Native Client "NaCl"...
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One of the early changes for the LLVM 22 compiler stack now in development is completing the removal of support for Google's Native Client 'NaCl'.www.phoronix.com
ASRock Industrial has introduced a new developer kit based on the NVIDIA Jetson AGX Orin platform, designed to deliver high-performance AI computing at the edge.Giorgio Mendoza (LinuxGizmos.com)
ESWIN Computing EBC77 RISC-V SBC To Support Ubuntu Linux
Canonical announced today that they teamed up with ESWIN Computing to ship Ubuntu Linux as the preferred operating system on their ESWIN Computing EBC77 Series single board computer...
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Intel Media Driver 2025Q2 Ships Panther Lake Video Encoding Support
The Intel Media Driver is out with its quarterly feature release for bringing all of the latest open-source video acceleration improvements for Intel graphics hardware on Linux. Enhancing support for upcoming Panther Lake SoCs continues to be a primary focus...
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Blender 4.5 LTS open-source 3D graphics and modeling software is now available for download with various new featuers and improvements.Marius Nestor (9to5Linux)
Hyprland 0.50 Released With New Render Scheduling, Drops Legacy Renderer
Hyprland 0.50 is out today as the newest feature release for this Wayland compositor focused on delivering a lot of Linux desktop bling...
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: Maintainers struggle to handle growing flow of low-quality bug reports written by botsThomas Claburn (The Register)
The latest round of cost-cutting at Intel seems to be having a larger impact on their software engineering efforts than some of their previous rounds of layoffslxer.com
: Apache-licensed plan takes aim at costlier optionsThomas Claburn (The Register)
Yet more feature code continues piling in for the Mesa 25.2 release due out next month and days ahead of the feature freezelxer.com
The lightweight Linux distro Sparky 7.8 rolls out with updated packages, kernel 6.1 LTS, desktop refreshes, and GIMP preinstalled in live media.Bobby Borisov (Linuxiac)
Following below is the step by step review of recent video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cuqe5Hs00Go&t=686s posted by Stephan Raabe . No...lxer.com
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 600/700 "Kepler" GPUs Now Vulkan 1.2 Conformant With NVK
Yet more feature code continues piling in for the Mesa 25.2 release due out next month and days ahead of the feature freeze. Hitting Mesa Git this evening is now treating NVIDIA Kepler GPUs as Vulkan 1.2 conformant following the Vulkan 1.2 CTS passing with the NVK open-source driver paired with the Nouveau kernel driver...
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VirtualBox 7.1.12 open-source virtualization software is now available for download with improved support for Linux kernel 6.16.Marius Nestor (9to5Linux)
Additional AMD RDNA3 & RDNA4 Ray-Tracing Improvements For Mesa 25.2 RADV
Ahead of the Mesa 25.2 feature freeze and code branching expected later this week, some additional ray-tracing optimizations were merged today for the Radeon "RADV" Vulkan driver. These latest RADV ray-tracing improvements benefit the latest Radeon RX 9000 series "RDNA4" the most but there are also some optimizations too for RDNA3 class GPUs...
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Ahead of the Mesa 25.2 feature freeze and code branching expected later this week, some additional ray-tracing optimizations were merged today for the Radeon 'RADV' Vulkan driverwww.phoronix.com
: Big Red’s changes to Java licensing also inspire exodus to open sourceLindsay Clark (The Register)
PHP may drop its legacy license in favor of BSD 3-Clause in version 9.0, thereby enhancing compatibility and simplifying distribution rights.Bobby Borisov (Linuxiac)
Intel Enabling SR-IOV For Battlemage Graphics Cards With Linux 6.17
The upcoming Linux 6.17 kernel is going to be an especially nice release for users of modern Intel graphics hardware on Linux. The very latest feature being enabled for this next Linux kernel version is SR-IOV for Battlemage GPUs to vastly enhance the Intel Linux graphics experience in virtualized environments...
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: Simular is starting with industries like insurance and healthcare with tons of forms to fillThomas Claburn (The Register)
Blender 4.5 LTS open-source 3D creation suite delivers major updates in animation, geometry nodes, Grease Pencil, Vulkan rendering, and improved UI.Bobby Borisov (Linuxiac)
Merged yesterday to the latest development code for the LibreOffice open-source office suite is now recognizing Bitcoin 'BTC' as a supported currency for use within the Calc spreadsheet program and elsewhere within this cross-platform free software o…lxer.com
Later on, he went on to create the Brave browser, an alternative to Firefox that blocks Internet ads and aims to protect users' privacy.FOSS Post Team (FOSS Post)
Blender 4.5 LTS Released With Vulkan & Wayland Improvements, Some Optimizations
Blender 4.5 is now officially available today as the newest feature release and one that is a Long Term Support (LTS) for this popular, cross-platform 3D modeling software...
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Broadcom BCM5770X Networking Driver Support Heading To Linux 6.17
One month ago there was the report on Phoronix of the Broadcom "BNGE" open-source driver being published for forthcoming BCM5770X networking chipsets. That new Broadcom BNGE driver is now set to be introduced in the upcoming Linux 6.17 kernel for supporting the new Broadcom wired networking hardware at up to 800 Gigabit speeds...
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One month ago there was the report on Phoronix of the Broadcom 'BNGE' open-source driver being published for forthcoming BCM5770X networking chipsetswww.phoronix.com
LLVM 22 Compiler Enters Development With LLVM 21 Now Branched
The LLVM 21 compiler stack was branched today as release preparations get underway for shipping this next half-year compiler release as stable in late August or early September. In turn that now opens up LLVM 22 for development...
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GTK3 Port Of The Kernel's gconfig Utility Appears Ready For Linux 6.17
Last month patches were posted for porting the Linux kernel's "gconfig" graphical kernel configuration utility from GTK2 to GTK3. It looks like those patches for the GTK3-ified gconfig are ready for upstreaming come Linux 6.17...
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Last month patches were posted for porting the Linux kernel's 'gconfig' graphical kernel configuration utility from GTK2 to GTK3www.phoronix.com
KDE Plasma 6.4.3 introduces important fixes for KWin, Discover, and Spectacle, along with translation updates and enhanced accessibility.Bobby Borisov (Linuxiac)
Intel ANV Driver Now Exposes Vulkan Video AV1 Decode On Battlemage & Lunar Lake
While the Intel Media SDK with VA-API has long supported accelerated video decoding, the latest Mesa 25.2 development code has now landed support for AV1 decoding using the Vulkan Video API with the Intel ANV driver for Xe2 Battlemage / Lunar Lake graphics and Gfx125 Xe graphics too...
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Latest Intel Engineering Layoffs Lead To An Intel Linux Driver Being Orphaned
The latest round of cost-cutting at Intel seems to be having a larger impact on their software engineering efforts than some of their previous rounds of layoffs. In addition to a prominent Linux kernel developer veteran leaving Intel last week where he worked for the past 14 years and responsible for many great upstream improvements, other Intel software enginee…
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Google Publishes Updated Proposal For Standardizing Haptic Touchpads On Linux
As part of work going back to 2019, an engineer on Google's Chromium OS team submitted an updated proposal on Monday for seeking to standardize the haptic touchpad support within the Linux kernel...
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RADV Lands Experimental Host Image Copy Support (VK_EXT_host_image_copy)
Making it into the RADV Vulkan driver ahead of this week's Mesa 25.2 feature freeze is experimental support for the VK_EXT_host_image_copy extension. The Vulkan host image copy extension was worked on by Valve and others for letting applications/games copy data between the host memory and images on the host processor without having to first stage via a GPU-accessible buf…
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