Mesa's Freedreno Gallium3D Driver Lands Initial Adreno 700 [GPU on ARM based devices] Series Support (www.phoronix.com)
Mesa 24.3 Lands "The Juiciest Refactor Ever" [Mike Blumenkrantz from Valve :"I'm gonna go full doomguy across the whole DRI frontend and everything it touches"] (www.phoronix.com)
NVIDIA's Open-Source Linux Kernel Driver Performing At Parity To Proprietary Driver Review - Phoronix (www.phoronix.com)
NVIDIA 560 Linux Driver Beta Released - Defaults To Open GPU Kernel Modules (www.phoronix.com)
More information available on NVIDIA.com
EXT4 Has A Very Nice Performance Optimization For Linux 6.11 (Phoronix) (www.phoronix.com)
Ted Ts’o sent out the EXT4 updates today for Linux 6.11. He explained in that pull request:...
Vulkan 1.3.291 Published With VK_AMD_anti_lag, AMD Anti Lag Extension (www.phoronix.com)
Linux Patch To Disable The Snapdragon X Elite "X1E80100" GPU By Default (www.phoronix.com)
ARM64 Updates Submitted For The Linux 6.11 Kernel (www.phoronix.com)
Fedora 41 Looks To Finally Say Goodbye To Python 2.7 (www.phoronix.com)
Linux's DRM Panic "Screen of Death" Sees Patches For QR Code Error Messages (www.phoronix.com)
Panic "Screen of Death" To Gain Monochrome Fat Tux Logo In Linux 6.11 (www.phoronix.com)
GNOME 47 Can Now Be Built With X11 Support Disabled (www.phoronix.com)
For those wanting to build a Wayland-only Linux desktop experience without carrying any aging X11 baggage, GNOME 47 will be able to optionally offer Wayland-only support without carrying X11/X.Org support. This Mutter merge request landed today that allows compiling Mutter with X11 support disabled. That landed today along with...
Qualcomm Aiming For Snapdragon X Elite GPU Support In Linux 6.11 (www.phoronix.com)
A lot of people here seemed excited for these chips. It’ll be very interesting to see the gaming performance as this could bring in an entire new segment of portable devices running Linux if powerful enough to deliver solid battery life and CPU performance.
Ubuntu 24.10 Now Defaults To NVIDIA On Wayland (www.phoronix.com)
Longtime Linux Wireless Developer Passes Away (www.phoronix.com)
Ubuntu 24.10 Now Defaults To NVIDIA On Wayland (www.phoronix.com)
VKD3D-Proton 2.13 Brings OpenVR/OpenXR Interop & Performance Improvements (www.phoronix.com)
Full changelog here: github.com/HansKristian-Work/…/v2.13
Blumenkrantz "Massively Improves" Mesa's glReadPixels Performance With 7 Lines Of Code (www.phoronix.com)
tl;dr Performance for Blazblue Centralfiction using Zink should be greatly improved once this MR is merged...
“Systemd is the future” (www.phoronix.com)
Initially the bug report was shot down by systemd developer Luca Boccassi of Microsoft with:...