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Igalia Improving The Firefox Experience For Valve's Steam Deck   Valve   2026-09-29
Improved GPU Reset Coming For Raspberry Pi Boards With Linux 7.4   Raspberry Pi   2026-09-26
New FUTEX Syscalls Back To Being Worked On For Helping Valve's ARM64 Gaming Ambitions   Valve   2026-09-25
Igalia Celebrates 25 Years Of Advancing Linux & Open-Source   Linux Kernel   2026-09-21
Proposal Raised To Finally Standardize Video Memory Stats Reporting Under Linux   Linux Kernel   2026-09-17
Vulkan 1.4.362 Released With New Extension Developed By Valve   Vulkan   2026-09-04
Intel ANV Driver Improves Vulkan Video H.265 Decoding   Intel   2026-08-27
Patches Posted For Fixing The Linux DRM Scheduler's Fair Policy   Linux Kernel   2026-08-14
Intel ANV Driver Enables Vulkan Video AV1 Encoding For DG2/Alchemist GPUs   Intel   2026-08-12
Linux 7.2 To Revert Back To The FIFO DRM Scheduler Policy Due To "Fair" Regressions   Linux Kernel   2026-08-12
Intel Vulkan Driver Now Supports H.265 10-bit Video Encoding   Intel   2026-07-14
Vulkan Video H.264/H.265 Encode Now Working For Intel Alchemist GPUs On Linux   Intel   2026-07-06
Linux DRM Scheduler Patches Yield Massive Improvement For Job Submission Latency   Linux Kernel   2026-07-04
Some Broadcom V3D Graphics Support On Path For Removed Over Lack Of Testing   Hardware   2026-06-07
Linux 7.1 Fixes Audio For The Steam Deck OLED After Being Broken 2 Years On The Upstream Kernel   Valve   2026-05-02
Linux 7.2 To Set Default DRM Scheduler Priority To "Fair", New AIE4 Hardware In AMDXDNA   Linux Kernel   2026-04-30
Vulkan 1.4.348 Ships Four New Extensions - Including One To Help OpenGL Emulation   Vulkan   2026-04-03
Igalia Developing Moonforge As New Linux Distribution   Operating Systems   2026-03-12
Intel ANV Driver Sees Several Vulkan Video H.265 Encode Fixes   Intel   2026-02-23
Linux 7.0 Brings An EFI Framebuffer Quirk For Valve's Steam Deck   Valve   2026-02-10
Intel Driver Disabling Vulkan Video Encode On Newer Hardware Due To Insufficient Testing   Intel   2026-02-04
Meta Is Using The Linux Scheduler Designed For Valve's Steam Deck On Its Servers   Linux Kernel   2025-12-23
Igalia's Work Improving The Linux Kernel For Helping Steam Play Gaming On ARM64   Linux Gaming   2025-12-15
The Opt-In Proactive & Crash Time Data Collection On Valve's Steam Deck   Valve   2025-12-14
Intel Graphics Score A Big Win With Linux 6.19: Color Management & Xe VFIO Driver Merged   Intel   2025-12-05
Valve-Backed Color Pipeline API For Linux Is Finally Ready For Upstream   Hardware   2025-11-27
Steam Frame Using Mesa's Turnip Vulkan Open-Source Driver   Valve   2025-11-21
Servo Announces Sponsorship Tiers To Get More Organizations Backing This Browser Engine   Free Software   2025-11-21
Vulkan 1.4.333 Released With New Ray-Tracing Extension   Vulkan   2025-11-14
Linux Fair DRM Scheduler Graduates Out Of The "RFC" Phase   Linux Kernel   2025-10-08
Case-Insensitive OverlayFS Support Merged For Linux 6.18   Linux Storage   2025-10-05
The Former Lead For Apple Graphics Drivers On Linux Is Now Working At Intel   Intel   2025-08-27
AMD Posts 11th Iteration Of Color Pipeline API For Advanced Color Management On Linux   AMD   2025-08-15
Runtime PM For The V3D Raspberry Pi Driver Will Finally Lower The GPU Clock When Idle   Raspberry Pi   2025-07-28
Fair DRM Scheduler Looking Good For Better Fairness & Scheduling Of GPU Clients   Linux Kernel   2025-06-23
Intel Vulkan Linux Driver Lands Initial Support For VP9 Decoding   Vulkan   2025-06-13
Vulkan 1.4.315 With VK_EXT_zero_initialize_device_memory For VKD3D-Proton & More   Vulkan   2025-05-15
Intel ANV Driver Lands Fixes For AV1 Decoding With Vulkan Video   Intel   2025-05-15
Mesa 25.1-rc3 & Mesa 25.0.5 Deliver More Graphics Driver Fixes   Mesa   2025-04-30
Fair DRM Scheduler v4 Running Well On Steam Deck, "Looks Solid"   Linux Kernel   2025-04-26
Chromium Web Browser Lands Support For Wayland XDG-Session-Management   Google   2025-03-30
Mesa's Exciting Q1 With More Ray-Tracing, NVK Progress & Performance Optimizations   Mesa   2025-03-30
DRM Sync Object Optimizations Show Minor Benefit On The Steam Deck   Linux Kernel   2025-03-19
Vulkan Video Continues Making Inroads, VP9 Decode Planned For This Year   Vulkan   2025-03-07
Linux's New Way Of Informing User-Space Over Hung GPUs May Become More Useful   Linux Kernel   2025-03-01
Chromium Ozone Support For Wayland Continues Progressing In 2025   Google   2025-02-21
Igalia's Optimizations Juicing More Graphics Performance Out Of The Raspberry Pi   Raspberry Pi   2025-02-04
Mesa 25.0 Gets A New Vulkan Layer For Limiting The Amount Of Reported vRAM   Mesa   2025-01-26
Vulkan 1.4.305 Published With Three New Extensions   Vulkan   2025-01-17
Intel Open-Source Vulkan Driver Merges Initial AV1 Decode Support   Intel   2025-01-10
Google & Linux Foundation Launch "Supporters of Chromium-Based Browsers" Fund   Google   2025-01-09
Deadline Scheduling Policy Being Experimented With For Linux Graphics Drivers   Linux Kernel   2024-12-30
Mesa's Terrific Year With Better Vulkan Ray-Tracing, NVK Progress & Same-Day Vulkan 1.4   Mesa   2024-12-30
New Intel Mesa Driver Patches Implement AV1 Decode For Vulkan Video   Intel   2024-12-25
Servo Browser Adds Android Downloads, Improved Tabbing & More   Mozilla   2024-10-04
WebKitGTK 2.46 Uses Skia Rather Than Cairo, More CPU/GPU Optimizations To Come   GNOME   2024-10-01
Raspberry Pi Driver Updated With Vulkan 1.3 Support   Vulkan   2024-08-05
Intel Vulkan Driver Merges H.264/H.265 Video Encode Support   Intel   2024-08-02
Kernel Optimizations, XZ, AMD ZLUDA, NOVA, EPYC 4004 & Other H1'2024 Highlights   Phoronix   2024-06-30
NUMA Emulation Yields "Significant Performance Uplift" To Raspberry Pi 5   Arm   2024-06-25
KDE Making Good Progress On HDR, Better Gamescope Integration   KDE   2024-05-11
Raspberry Pi V3DV Vulkan Driver Implements Extended Dynamic State - Important For DXVK   Raspberry Pi   2024-04-29
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 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