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Optimus Articles & Reviews

Testing NVIDIA Optimus / DRI PRIME On Ubuntu 14.04   Display Drivers   2014-04-28
ASUS Zenbook Prime Linux Benchmarks   Computers   2013-12-28
NVIDIA Optimus On Ubuntu 13.10 Linux vs. Windows 8.1   Graphics Cards   2013-12-17

Optimus Linux & Open-Source News

New ARM SoCs & Various Smartphones/Devices Now Supported By Linux 6.9   Hardware   2024-03-13
NVIDIA Improving wlroots For Better Dual-GPU Gaming Performance   Wayland   2023-03-16
NVIDIA Proposing New Linux API For Dynamic Mux Switching With Modern Dual-GPU Laptops   NVIDIA   2022-11-09
More ASUS ROG Laptop Improvements Queued Ahead Of Linux 6.1   Hardware   2022-08-26
KDE Sees More Crash Fixes Following Plasma 5.21 Release   KDE   2021-02-20
System76 Preparing Coreboot Laptop With Core i9 10900K, Up To 128GB RAM   Hardware   2020-08-15
Linux Mint 20 "Ulyana" Released - Based On Ubuntu 20.04 LTS   Operating Systems   2020-06-27
Linux Mint 20 Beta Released - Based On Ubuntu 20.04 LTS, Introduces Warpinator   Operating Systems   2020-06-14
Linux Mint 20 To Better Fend Off Snaps, Improve NVIDIA Optimus Support   Operating Systems   2020-06-01
NVIDIA 440.66.15 Vulkan Linux Driver Offers Up More Fixes   NVIDIA   2020-05-26
GNOME Adds Bit To Launcher Files For Indicating Apps That Should Run On Discrete GPUs   GNOME   2020-05-04
NVIDIA 440.66.11 Linux Driver Fixes Annoying Bugs With PRIME Sync   NVIDIA   2020-04-24
KDE Starts April With Big Performance Jump For Local I/O + 50~95% Faster Samba Transfers   KDE   2020-04-05
2010 Through 2019 NVIDIA Linux News Topped By Linus Torvald's Criticism + Overclocking   NVIDIA   2019-12-19
The Most Popular Linux / Open-Source News Of This Decade   Phoronix   2019-12-11
Primus-VK: PRIME-Style GPU Offloading For Vulkan   Vulkan   2019-03-23
Mageia 7.0 Beta 2 Released - Powered By Linux 4.20, Mesa 19.0-rc   Operating Systems   2019-02-24
Collabora's Mesa EGLDevice Work To Better Support Multiple GPUs   Mesa   2018-08-21
The Most Popular Linux / Open-Source News Of The Past 14 Years   Phoronix   2018-06-05
System76 Rolls Out Pop!_OS 18.04 For Testing   Operating Systems   2018-04-14
Solus 4 Is Working On Restoring Wayland Support, NVIDIA Improvements   Operating Systems   2017-11-01
System76 Puts Pop!_OS Into Beta   Operating Systems   2017-09-28
The Most Popular Linux News Of The Past 13 Years   Phoronix   2017-05-29
Solus 2017.04.18 Brings Updates, Bulletproof Boot Management   Operating Systems   2017-04-18
X.Org Server 1.19 Officially Released With A Year's Worth Of Improvements   X.Org   2016-11-15
Fedora 25's Hybrid Graphics Improvements, To Support NVIDIA Wayland EGLStreams   Fedora   2016-11-01
Fedora 25 Is Vetting Their Switchable Graphics Support This Week   Fedora   2016-11-01
GNOME Shell 3.23.1 Adds The Discrete GPU Launch Option, Other UI Improvements   GNOME   2016-10-30
GNOME Shell Making It Easy To Launch Apps/Games For Optimus / Dual GPU Systems   GNOME   2016-10-22
The Most Popular Linux News Over The Past 12 Years   Phoronix   2016-06-04
Coreboot Ported To Run On Lenovo's ThinkPad T420   Coreboot   2016-04-14
NVIDIA Releases New Vulkan Linux Driver With Better Multi-Threaded Scaling   NVIDIA   2016-04-09
A Bunch Of New ARM Hardware Will Be Supported With Linux 4.6   Arm   2016-03-20
NVIDIA Sends Out Latest PRIME Synchronization Patches   NVIDIA   2016-03-04
Fedora Rawhide Enables Wayland By Default, Where Supported   Wayland   2015-11-10
It's Been Three Years Since Linus Torvalds' Huge NVIDIA Rant   NVIDIA   2015-06-17
More PRIME Features May Be Coming For X.Org Server 1.18   X.Org   2015-06-14
Optimus/Primus Regresses On Latest Mesa 10.5.5 Release   Mesa   2015-06-05
The Most Popular Linux & Open-Source News Over The Past 11 Years   Phoronix   2015-06-05
The Issues People Face With Fedora Workstation   Fedora   2015-05-08
Metro Last Light & 2033 Redux Get Updated For Linux   Linux Gaming   2015-02-13
The Most Popular Linux Stories Of The Past 10 Years   Phoronix   2014-06-05
Coreboot Adds Support For The Lenovo ThinkPad T530   Coreboot   2014-04-09
My New Linux Ultrabook: The ASUS Zenbook UX301LA-DH71T   Hardware   2014-03-08
Don't Look For Open-Source AMD CrossFire Anytime Soon   AMD   2014-02-26
DMA-BUF Cross-Device Synchronization Still Baking   Linux Kernel   2014-02-17
PC-BSD 10.0 RC3 Improves Hybrid Graphics Support   BSD   2014-01-05
NVIDIA Optimus Linux Power Battery Tests   Hardware   2013-12-22
Exciting Upcoming Linux Hardware Reviews, Articles   Hardware   2013-12-12
NVIDIA (Optimus) PRIME Update Lands In Ubuntu 14.04   NVIDIA   2013-12-10
December Should Be Very Exciting For Linux Users   Phoronix   2013-12-02
Choosing A 2013 Laptop/Ultrabook For Linux   Intel   2013-11-30
PRIME Support Comes To VMware's Virtual GPU Driver   Virtualization   2013-11-14
Mesa DRI PRIME Support Comes To Wayland   Wayland   2013-11-07
Linux 3.12 Changes, Kernel Feature Overview   Linux Kernel   2013-11-03
Nouveau Keeps Pushing Forward With Improvements   Nouveau   2013-09-28
PowerXpress Runtime Power Management Added   AMD   2013-09-20
An Overview Of Linux 3.12 Kernel Features   Linux Kernel   2013-09-15
Good Features For The Linux 3.12 Kernel   Linux Kernel   2013-09-08
DRM Graphics Updates Sent In For Linux 3.12   Linux Kernel   2013-09-05
Intel Driver Gains Virtual/Remote Output Support   Intel   2013-08-31
Exciting Features That Will Come To Linux 3.12   Linux Kernel   2013-08-31
GPU Runtime Power Management Coming For Linux 3.12   Linux Kernel   2013-08-29
AMD/ATI X.Org Driver Brings New GPU Support   AMD   2013-08-07
Reverse PRIME Committed To AMD X.Org Driver   AMD   2013-08-06
Nouveau Works On Optimus Dynamic Power Handling   Nouveau   2013-08-02
Radeon Gets Multi-Screen Reverse Optimus Support   Radeon   2013-07-30
Nouveau Driver Gets Multi-Screen Reverse Optimus   Nouveau   2013-07-30
Buffer Synchronization Comes To DMA-BUF   Free Software   2013-06-13
Updated Nouveau Graphics Driver Released   Nouveau   2013-06-12
Freedreno Gallium3D Now Banging The Adreno A3XX   Hardware   2013-05-20
Ubuntu Still Figuring Out How To Handle Hybrid Graphics   Ubuntu   2013-05-15
NVIDIA 319.17 Linux Driver Brings In New Features   NVIDIA   2013-05-02
What Was Striking On Phoronix Last Month   Phoronix   2013-05-01
Freedreno Driver Begins Work On Adreno A320   X.Org   2013-04-14
Benchmarks Of NVIDIA's New Linux GPU Driver   NVIDIA   2013-04-11
NVIDIA Has Major New Linux Driver: Optimus, RandR 1.4   NVIDIA   2013-04-09
Ubuntu Touch Improves, Comes To More Hardware   Ubuntu   2013-03-25
PRIME Sharing Comes To GLAMOR   AMD   2013-03-22
Mesa/Gallium3D Gets Its First ARM SoC GPU Driver   Mesa   2013-03-12
Hardware Expectations For Valve's Steam Box   Valve   2013-03-08
GLX_MESA_query_renderer Extension Published   Intel   2013-03-01
PRIME/DMA_BUF Support For Wayland   Wayland   2013-02-28
Freedreno Gallium3D Is Close To Merging In Mesa   Mesa   2013-02-26
Sabayon 11 Supports UEFI, NVIDIA Optimus   Operating Systems   2013-02-15
NVIDIA's PRIME Helpers Are Ready For Linux 3.9   NVIDIA   2013-02-15
David Airlie Talks About RandR 1.4, Reverse PRIME   X.Org   2013-02-06
Nouveau Gains Reverse PRIME Support   Nouveau   2013-02-06
NVIDIA Still Working On PRIME/DMA-BUF Contribution   NVIDIA   2013-01-15
David Airlie Announces "Reverse Optimus" Multi-GPU   Hardware   2013-01-07
Phoronix 2012 Year-End Summary   Phoronix   2012-12-31
The Most Popular Linux Stories Over Eight Years   Free Software   2012-12-21
X.Org Server 1.14 Feature Window Closing   X.Org   2012-12-07
NVIDIA Publishes PRIME Helper Patches   NVIDIA   2012-12-06
Nouveau Work On Kepler. Optimus, Gets A Falcon   Nouveau   2012-11-22
Ubuntu 13.04 Is About 13% Complete   Ubuntu   2012-11-19
Hybrid Graphics In Ubuntu Are Still Lackluster   Ubuntu   2012-11-01
A Linux User's Perspective Of Microsoft Windows 8   Microsoft   2012-10-28
Bickering Continues About NVIDIA Using DMA-BUF   Nouveau   2012-10-18
Mageia 3 Gets Its Second Alpha Release   Operating Systems   2012-10-15
Linux Developers Still Reject NVIDIA Using DMA-BUF   NVIDIA   2012-10-11
Linux/X.Org NVIDIA Optimus Support Update   Nouveau   2012-09-21
Nouveau Releases New Driver With PRIME Support   Nouveau   2012-09-12
Dynamic GPU Power-Off Support For DRM Drivers   X.Org   2012-09-10
Released Intel Driver Gets PRIME'd For Sharing   Intel   2012-09-08
X.Org Server 1.13 Released With Massive Changes   X.Org   2012-09-05
Primus: Client-Side GPU Offloading In 500 Lines Of Code   Mesa   2012-09-03
DRI2 Offloading Support Hits The X.Org Drivers   X.Org   2012-09-03
NVIDIA Confirms It's Working On Optimus Linux Support   NVIDIA   2012-08-31
XDC: Hardware-Independent Graphics Driver & More   X.Org   2012-08-24
ARM Calxeda Highbank Ubuntu Linux Benchmarks   Arm   2012-08-15
Radeon PRIME Import/Export Support For Libdrm   Radeon   2012-08-13
NVIDIA To Meet With X.Org Developers Next Month   NVIDIA   2012-08-10
DMA-BUF Synchronization With PRIME   Nouveau   2012-07-11
Intel Winning Over NVIDIA For Linux Enthusiasts   Intel   2012-07-05
The Most Popular Linux Happenings From Q2'2012   Phoronix   2012-07-04
Potential Good News For NVIDIA Optimus On Linux   NVIDIA   2012-06-28
Linux Driver Support Still Leaves A Lot To Desire   Hardware   2012-06-21
NVIDIA PR Responds To Torvalds' Harsh Words   NVIDIA   2012-06-19
RandR 1.5 Works: GPU Offloading, USB Hotplugging   X.Org   2012-06-19
Linux On The 2012 MacBook Air, MacBook Pro?   Hardware   2012-06-12
Provider Object Support For RandR 1.5   X.Org   2012-06-10
The Extra DMA-BUF PRIME Patches For Linux 3.5   Linux Kernel   2012-05-31
DMA-BUF In Linux 3.5 WIll Get MMAP, VMAP   Hardware   2012-05-26
The New X.Org Server Driver API Is Coming   X.Org   2012-05-14
DMA-BUF PRIME Coming Together For Linux 3.5   Linux Kernel   2012-05-12
NVIDIA Tegra With Dedicated Quadro/GeForce?   NVIDIA   2012-05-10
The Biggest Problem For A Linux PC Vendor   Ubuntu   2012-05-08
Last Minute For Linux 3.4: DMA-BUF PRIME Support   Linux Kernel   2012-03-30
Canonical Publishes Apple Hybrid Graphics Driver   Apple   2012-03-16
There's Hope For DMA-BUF With Non-GPL Drivers   NVIDIA   2012-02-20
DMA-BUF Is Ready To Push Forward Linux Drivers   Free Software   2012-02-07
NVIDIA Talks Of Optimus Possibilities For Linux   NVIDIA   2012-01-25
Bumblebee Has Tumbleweed For NVIDIA Optimus On Linux   NVIDIA   2012-01-20
Moving Closer To NVIDIA Optimus On Linux   Nouveau   2012-01-13
Virtual CRTCs Are Brought Up Again   X.Org   2011-11-25
Experimental Code Published For Virtual CRTCs   X.Org   2011-11-03
Linux Hybrid Graphics Will Be A Mess For A While   Hardware   2011-10-31
The DRM Pull Request For Linux 3.2 Kernel   Linux Kernel   2011-10-28
First Phase Of X.Org GPU Hot-Plugging Works   X.Org   2011-10-22
Nouveau Working Towards Better MXM, Optimus   Nouveau   2011-10-07
Missing Functionality From The Linux Graphics Drivers   NVIDIA   2011-07-16
DisplayLink Continues To Progress On Linux, But No 3D   Hardware   2011-06-02
The DRM Pull For The Gardenshed (Linux 3.0) Kernel   Linux Kernel   2011-05-24
Linus Talks Of Linux 2.8 Or Linux 3.0; Ending Linux 2.6   Linux Kernel   2011-05-23
What Not To Expect From The Linux 2.6.40 Kernel   Linux Kernel   2011-05-22
Optimus Fun Merged For Linux 2.6.40 Kernel   NVIDIA   2011-05-10
NVIDIA Optimus Unofficially Comes To Linux   NVIDIA   2011-05-08
Mesa, Wayland, X Will Get Some Summer Love   Google   2011-04-25
Will NVIDIA Optimus Inevitably Come To Linux?   NVIDIA   2011-04-25