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Rust-Written LAVD Kernel Scheduler Shows Promising Results For Linux Gaming   Linux Gaming   2024-04-18
Raspberry Pi OS Now Shipping With Vulkan Support By Default   Raspberry Pi   2024-04-08
Raspberry Pi V3D Kernel Graphics Driver Prepares For Big & Super Pages To Boost Speed   Raspberry Pi   2024-04-06
Servo Web Engine Adds WOFF2 Web Fonts, HTML Tables By Default   Free Software   2024-03-30
Raspberry Pi "V3DV" Vulkan Driver Now Supports Dynamic Rendering   Mesa   2024-03-21
Raspberry Pi V3D Graphics Driver Preps For Super Pages To Boost Performance   Raspberry Pi   2024-03-11
Radeon Memory Visualizer Hooks Up With Qualcomm Adreno Vulkan Driver   Mesa   2024-03-10
WebKitGTK Moving To Skia For 2D Rendering To Yield Better Performance   GNOME   2024-02-21
Linux Developers To Meet Again To Work On HDR, Color Management & VRR   Hardware   2024-02-18
Intel Posts Patches For Plane Color Pipeline Support On Linux - Jiving With AMD's Design   Intel   2024-02-15
AMDGPU Driver Changes Begin For Linux 6.9: RAS ACA Framework, SEQ64 Infrastructure & Fixes   Radeon   2024-02-11
Cassia Aims To Pair Wine/DXVK/VKD3D-Proton/FEX For Windows Games On Android   Mesa   2024-02-04
Mesa Merge Request Opened For RADV Driver With VK_KHR_video_decode_av1   Mesa   2024-02-02
Servo Engine Updates Bring CSS Tables & Its Browser Gets Back/Forward Buttons   Mozilla   2024-01-26
Mesa 24.0-rc3 Up For Testing, Mesa 23.3.4 Out As Stable   Mesa   2024-01-24
Servo Browser Engine Making Embedded App Progress With Tauri   Free Software   2024-01-19
Intel's New "Xe" Driver Submitted For Linux 6.8 Along With Imagination's PowerVR Driver   Linux Kernel   2024-01-11
Mesa 24.0 Feature Development Ends With Many OpenGL & Vulkan Driver Features   Mesa   2024-01-11
Linux 6.8 To Introduce New Intel Xe & PowerVR Graphics Drivers, Prepare For New AMD & Intel CPUs   Linux Kernel   2024-01-07
Freedreno Now Supports The Qualcomm Adreno 644 GPU   Mesa   2023-12-31
AMD Stages The Radeon Graphics Color Management Code For Linux 6.8   Radeon   2023-12-16
Mesa 23.3 Released With Initial NVK Vulkan Driver, AMD RDNA3 Refresh & Raspberry Pi 5   Mesa   2023-11-29
Servo Browser Engine Receives Funding To Work On HTML <table> Support   Free Software   2023-11-07
Btrfs Picks Up New Features For Linux 6.7   Linux Storage   2023-10-30
Igalia Has Been Doing A Great Job On The Raspberry Pi Graphics Drivers   Raspberry Pi   2023-10-19
The State Of HDR On The Steam Deck With Valve's Gamescope Compositor   Valve   2023-10-18
Mesa Merges Initial OpenGL/Vulkan Support For Raspberry Pi 5's GPU   Mesa   2023-10-14
The Servo Browser Engine Has Been Making Great Progress In 2023   Free Software   2023-09-27
Linux 6.7 Adding New Feature To Btrfs For The Steam Deck   Linux Storage   2023-09-25
Valve Is A Wonderful Upstream Contributor To Linux & The Open-Source Community   Valve   2023-09-22
XDC 2023 To Provide Update On AMD HDR For The Steam Deck, Rusticl & Wine Wayland   X.Org   2023-09-20
Raspberry Pi's V3D Kernel Driver Prepares For "CPU Jobs" To Assist Vulkan   Raspberry Pi   2023-09-06
AMD Color Management Improvements For Linux & The Steam Deck Continue   Radeon   2023-08-21
Raspberry Pi V3D Driver Gaining Per-Process GPU Usage Stats   Raspberry Pi   2023-08-15
Vulkan 1.3.254 Published With Another Extension Drafted By Valve   Vulkan   2023-06-16
Raspberry Pi V3D Driver Adds Native ASTC Texture Compression Support   Mesa   2023-05-31
Vulkan 1.3.251 Released With One New Extension Worked On By Valve, Nintendo & Others   Vulkan   2023-05-28
Updated AMD Linux Graphics Driver Patches For Color Management   Radeon   2023-05-24
Intel's Vulkan Linux Driver Adds H.265 Video Decoding Support   Intel   2023-05-19
Vulkan 1.3.250 Released With Another New Extension From Valve   Vulkan   2023-05-04
"Guilty" API Proposed For Better Communicating Why Radeon GPUs Hang/Reset   Radeon   2023-05-02
Red Hat's HDR Hackfest Sounds Like It Was A Success   Desktop   2023-05-01
Improved AMD Color Management Being Worked On For The Steam Deck   Valve   2023-04-24
WebKitGTK Working On Accelerated Composited Rendering With DMA-BUF   GNOME   2023-04-03
Linux VGEM Driver Rewritten In Rust Sent Out For Review   Linux Kernel   2023-03-21
Vulkan 1.3.241 Released With Another Extension To Help VKD3D / Direct3D 12 Emulation   Vulkan   2023-02-16
X.Org Developers Conference 2023 Returning To Spain   X.Org   2023-02-12
Vulkan 1.3.240 Brings New Extension To Help With DirectX Ray-Tracing Compatibility   Vulkan   2023-01-26
Running The Open-Source Upstream V3D Driver On The Raspberry Pi 4 & Newer   Raspberry Pi   2022-11-13
Mesa's Turnip Now Advertises Vulkan 1.3 Support   Mesa   2022-09-22
NUMA Interface For FUTEX2 Still Being Tackled For Linux   Linux Kernel   2022-09-16
Vulkan 1.3.224 Introduces Another New Extension To Help Valve's Steam Play   Vulkan   2022-08-04
Raspberry Pi V3DV Driver Now Exposes Vulkan 1.2   Raspberry Pi   2022-07-29
Turnip Vulkan Driver Now Works With Zink For OpenGL 4.6, Approaching Vulkan 1.3   Mesa   2022-07-26
Igalia Working Towards Faster 2D Rendering For Older Raspberry Pi Boards   Raspberry Pi   2022-07-16
FUTEX2 Begins Sorting Out NUMA Awareness   Linux Kernel   2022-07-14
NVIDIA 515.49.06 Linux Vulkan Beta Driver Released   NVIDIA   2022-07-02
Vulkan 1.3.219 Released With Two New Extensions   Vulkan   2022-07-02
Raspberry Pi's V3DV Driver Nearly Across The Finish Line For Vulkan 1.2   Vulkan   2022-06-16
Raspberry Pi "V3DV" Open-Source Driver Closing In On Vulkan 1.2   Raspberry Pi   2022-05-23
Raspberry Pi's Vulkan Driver Has Been Adding More Extensions, Multi-Sync Support   Raspberry Pi   2022-05-16
Improved Vulkan Profiling Support For Raspberry Pi's V3DV Driver   Raspberry Pi   2022-05-09
A Big Performance Fix Is Pending For WebKit / WPE On Wayland   Wayland   2022-04-21
Vulkan 1.3.211 Brings Another Extension To Help Zink OpenGL Implementation   Vulkan   2022-04-05
Raspberry Pi "V3D" OpenGL Driver Improving Performance With On-Disk Shader Cache   Mesa   2022-03-18
Mesa Shader Cache Environment Variable Controls Renamed   Mesa   2022-03-17
Raspberry Pi V3D Driver Enables Anisotropic Filtering   Mesa   2022-03-06
Raspberry Pi's Vulkan Driver Likely To See Better Performance This Year   Mesa   2022-02-14
Qualcomm Open-Source Vulkan Driver Aims To Run More Windows Games Via Wine / Proton   Mesa   2022-02-09
Igalia Developing Wolvic Browser To Succeed Firefox Reality   Mozilla   2022-02-03
Valve Is Sponsoring More CI Testing For The Open-Source Radeon Linux Graphics Driver   Valve   2022-01-22
Open-Source Raspberry Pi Graphics Drivers Add Double Buffer Mode   Mesa   2022-01-14
Google Has Been Quietly Developing "GFR" To Debug Vulkan GPU Hangs/Crashes   Vulkan   2022-01-05
Open-Source Qualcomm "Turnip" Driver Achieves Vulkan 1.1 Conformance, Fixes For DXVK Use   Mesa   2021-12-03
Vulkan 1.2.199 Released With New Extension To Help VKD3D-Proton   Vulkan   2021-11-16
Raspberry Pi 4 Granted Official Vulkan 1.1 Conformance   Vulkan   2021-10-26
V3DV Raspberry Pi Driver Now Exposes Vulkan 1.1   Mesa   2021-10-21
Vulkan Video Decoding Still In The Early Stages For Open-Source   Vulkan   2021-09-21
Raspberry Pi V3DV Driver Still Working On Vulkan 1.1 Conformance, More Performance   Vulkan   2021-09-15
Chrome/Chromium's Ozone X11 Code Now Fully Enabled, Old Legacy X11 Code To Be Removed   Google   2021-08-29
Raspberry Pi V3DV Driver Nearing Vulkan 1.1 Support   Vulkan   2021-08-11
Raspberry Pi's V3DV Vulkan Driver Now Supports Geometry Shaders   Mesa   2021-07-12
GStreamer Making Progress On Vulkan Video Support   Vulkan   2021-07-10
Vulkan 1.2.182 Released With Some Prominent Extensions Added   Vulkan   2021-06-21
Intel's OpenGL Mesa Drivers Now In Good Shape For External Objects   Intel   2021-05-27
Turnip Vulkan Driver Continues Maturing, Correctly Rendering More Games   Mesa   2021-05-06
V3DV Pipeline Caching Work Leads To Greater Raspberry Pi Vulkan Performance   Mesa   2021-03-23
V3DV Vulkan Driver Enjoys More Optimizations To Help The Raspberry Pi 4   Mesa   2021-03-16
Broadcom V3D Will See Slightly Higher Performance With Mesa 21.1   Mesa   2021-02-04
Raspberry Pi's V3DV Vulkan Driver Has Been Picking Up More Extensions, Wayland WSI   Mesa   2021-02-03
Raspberry Pi V3DV Is Officially Vulkan Conformant, Lavapipe Also Nearing 1.0 Conformance   Vulkan   2020-11-24
Raspberry Pi's V3DV Vulkan Driver Can Now Run The Zink OpenGL Translation Layer   Vulkan   2020-11-05
The 2020 State Of Wayland Support For Chrome/Chromium - Aiming For H2'2021 Default   Wayland   2020-10-27
Raspberry Pi 4 Vulkan Driver "V3DV" Merged Into Mesa 20.3   Mesa   2020-10-13
V3DV Developers Lay Out Plans For Upstreaming The Raspberry Pi 4 Vulkan Driver In Mesa   Mesa   2020-09-17
After Reaching Vulkan 1.0 Conformance, V3DV Raspberry Pi Vulkan To Pursue Mainline Mesa   Vulkan   2020-09-16
V3DV Driver For Raspberry Pi Closing In On Vulkan 1.0   Vulkan   2020-09-07
Raspberry Pi 4 "V3DV" Vulkan Driver Begins Tackling MSAA, Other Improvements   Vulkan   2020-07-31
V3DV Vulkan Driver Now Running vkQuake On The Raspberry Pi   Vulkan   2020-07-23
Raspberry Pi 4's Vulkan Driver Is Now More Usable - Supporting More Features   Mesa   2020-07-03
Raspberry Pi Vulkan Driver Making Progress But Long Road Remains   Vulkan   2020-06-09
Chrome Is Reaching The Point Of Good X11 + Wayland Support In Same Build   Google   2020-05-31
X.Org Board Elections Wrap Up For 2020   X.Org   2020-04-30
Mesa's Continuous Integration To Begin Seeing Testing Coverage For Wine / DXVK   Mesa   2020-03-28
Raspberry Pi Foundation Gets Back To Working On A Vulkan Driver - New Effort By Igalia   Raspberry Pi   2020-01-31
X.Org's XDC2020 May Abandon Poland Conference To Find More Welcoming European Location   X.Org   2020-01-18
Raspberry Pi 4 V3D Driver Reaches OpenGL ES 3.1 Conformance   Mesa   2020-01-17
Intel Media Driver Q4-19 Brings Tiger Lake, Jasper Lake, Better Encode/Decode   Intel   2020-01-08
Raspberry Pi 4's V3D Driver Adds OpenGL ES 3.2 Geometry Shader Support   Mesa   2019-12-16
Chromium's Ozone Wayland Back-End Is Now Considered Beta, Aiming To Ship Next Year   Wayland   2019-12-05
Raspberry Pi 4's V3D Driver Lands OpenGL ES 3.1 Bits In Mesa 19.3-devel   Mesa   2019-10-21
Raspberry Pi 4's V3D Mesa Driver Nearing OpenGL ES 3.1   Mesa   2019-10-11
Igalia Is Working On "mediump" Support For Mesa To Help With OpenGL ES Performance   Mesa   2019-10-03
Mesa 19.1 Enters Feature Freeze In Two Weeks, Releasing Around 21 May   Mesa   2019-04-16
Improved ETC2 Texture Compression Lands For Older Haswell/Ivybridge GPUs On Linux   Intel   2019-02-16
Intel Mesa Driver Getting Better Support For ETC2 On Older Hardware   Intel   2019-02-04
Igalia's VkRunner Is Helping To Check The Quality Of Vulkan Drivers   Vulkan   2019-02-02
Intel's Mesa Driver Nearing OpenGL 4.6 With Final SPIR-V Additions Under Review   Intel   2019-01-30
Mesa Made Massive Progress In 2018 On Open-Source Vulkan / OpenGL Drivers   Mesa   2018-12-26
Intel Vulkan Driver Gets Patches For New KHR_shader_float16_int8 Functionality   Intel   2018-12-04
Chrome 72 Poised To Have Some Wayland Performance Improvements   Google   2018-11-01
Mesa 18.2.3 Coming This Week With Fixes/Workarounds For Several Steam Play Games   Mesa   2018-10-18
Mesa 18.2.1 Is Coming This Week With Dozens Of Fixes   Mesa   2018-09-20
Igalia Sends Out Another 26 Patches Chipping Away On Intel ARB_gl_spirv Support   Intel   2018-09-15
Mesa 18.2-RC5 Released With Another Two Dozen Patches   Mesa   2018-08-30
Mesa 18.2-RC3 Released With Two Dozen Fixes   Mesa   2018-08-15
Mesa 18.2 Gets Extra Two Weeks Of Development Time   Mesa   2018-07-18
Igalia Aligns Latest Patches For Giving Intel's Mesa Driver OpenGL 4.6   Intel   2018-07-16
VK_KHR_8bit_storage Gets Wired Into Intel's ANV Vulkan Driver, Patches Available   Intel   2018-07-09
More Intel ARB_gl_spirv Code Lands In Mesa, But Still Not Ready To Finish Up OpenGL 4.6   Mesa   2018-07-03
NVIDIA & Valve Line Up Among The Sponsors For X.Org's XDC 2018   X.Org   2018-06-19
Igalia Continues Working On Wayland & Accelerated Media Decode In Chromium On Linux   Wayland   2018-05-26
Mesa 18.2 Due For Release In August   Mesa   2018-05-23
Latest Intel ARB_gl_spirv Patches Published By Igalia   Mesa   2018-05-12
Intel ANV Vulkan Driver Lands shaderInt16 Support   Intel   2018-05-03
NVIDIA & Valve Are Among Those Backing X.Org's XDC2018   X.Org   2018-04-16
Mesa 17.3.9 Is Coming With About Two Dozen Fixes To End Out Mesa 17.3   Mesa   2018-04-12
Igalia Preps 16-bit Integer Support For Intel's Vulkan Driver   Intel   2018-04-11
X.Org Developers Conference 2018 This September In Spain Is Looking For Presenters   X.Org   2018-04-02
More Intel OpenGL 4.6 SPIR-V Code Lands In Mesa 18.1 Git   Mesa   2018-03-30
Mesa 17.3.8 Is Being Prepared With Another Dozen Fixes   Mesa   2018-03-29
Mesa 17.3.7 Released With A Bunch Of Fixes   Mesa   2018-03-21
Mesa 17.3.7 Nearing Release With 50+ Changes   Mesa   2018-03-16
Intel ANV Getting VK_KHR_16bit_storage Support Wrapped Up   Intel   2018-02-23
A Recap Of The Many Interesting Presentations At FOSDEM 2018   Linux Events   2018-02-13
~80 Patches Are Left For Having Intel i965 SPIR-V Support   Mesa   2018-02-05
Igalia's Battle Getting Chromium Running Nicely On Wayland   Wayland   2018-02-04
Intel's Mesa Driver Is OpenGL 4.6 Compliant, But Won't Be Mainline For A While   Intel   2018-02-01
Intel's Mesa Driver Is A Step Closer To ARB_gl_spirv Support   Mesa   2018-01-15
Mesa 18.0 Planned For A Mid-February Release   Mesa   2017-12-18