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OpenRazer 2.9.0 is out, adding plenty of new Razer device support on Linux

By Liam Dawe,
Enjoy your fancy Razer hardware on Linux? You should probably check out OpenRazer, which is a nice big collection of drivers for Linux.

OpenGL on top of Vulkan with 'Zink' continues maturing with 'near-native performance'

By Liam Dawe,
On the Collabora blog, developer Mike Blumenkrantz has given an exciting update to Zink, an open source Mesa Gallium driver for Linux that provides OpenGL on top of Vulkan.

Panfrost driver for Mali GPUs in Mesa 20.3 will have some Bifrost support out of the box

By Liam Dawe,
The continuing battle to have open source Linux graphics drivers support everything possible continues, with the Panfrost driver for Mali GPUs hitting more milestones.

Linux 5.11 to see better support for ASUS gaming laptop keyboards

By Liam Dawe,
Love ASUS hardware and their ASUS ROG tech? Well it seems Linux Kernel 5.11 will be pulling in some better support for their keyboards.

A fresh NVIDIA Vulkan Beta Driver 455.34.01 is out with GeForce RTX 3070 support

By Liam Dawe,
NVIDIA have now updated their super special Vulkan Beta Driver branch adding in support for the latest GPU release with the GeForce RTX 3070.

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 out now, along with the 455.38 Linux driver

By Liam Dawe,
After a delay, NVIDIA have now released the next-gen GeForce RTX 3070 along with a brand new Linux driver.

New NVIDIA Vulkan Beta Driver 455.26.02 is out

By Liam Dawe,
Need the latest bleeding-edge Linux drivers from NVIDIA? There's a new release out of the Vulkan Beta Driver.

The Vulkan driver for Raspberry Pi 4 becomes official for Linux, merged into Mesa

By Liam Dawe,
In case you've missed what's been going on, the progress on proper Vulkan support for the Raspberry Pi 4 has been going really well.

You may want to avoid Linux Kernel 5.9 if you want fully supported NVIDIA drivers

By Liam Dawe,
On the official NVIDIA forum, an employee put out an announcement warning NVIDIA GPU owners that the Linux Kernel 5.9 and later is currently unsupported.

There's a new Linux driver for the Guitar Hero Live (PS3) and Wii U Guitar devices

By Liam Dawe,
Do you have a Guitar Hero Live (PS3) 6-fret guitar or perhaps one from the Wii U that you want to use on Linux? Prepare to dust them off.

NVIDIA release another fresh Vulkan Beta Driver - 455.26.01

By Liam Dawe,
NVIDIA just quietly released another fresh update to their special developer-focused Vulkan Beta Driver.

NVIDIA driver 455.28 is out for Linux, new GPU support and lots of bug fixes

By Liam Dawe,
NVIDIA have produced a brand new stable Linux driver with version 455.28, which adds in new GPU support and there's plenty of fixes for us too.

NVIDIA adds Ampere support to their Vulkan Beta Driver with a new release

By Liam Dawe,
NVIDIA have pushed out a fresh update to their developer-focused Vulkan Beta Driver series, here's the highlights and what's changed.

Open source graphics drivers get a boost with Mesa 20.2.0 out now

By Liam Dawe,
The latest and greatest in open source graphics drivers has released with Mesa 20.2.0, although you should wait on it if you're after a stable experience.

Watch the ACO shader compiler and Vulkan Ray Tracing talks from XDC 2020

By Liam Dawe,
With XDC 2020 (X.Org Developers Conference) in full swing, we've been going over the various presentations to gather some interesting bits for you. Here's more on the ACO shader compiler and Vulkan Ray Tracing.

The NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 is out today, some details for you (plus new driver release)

By Liam Dawe,
As if you forgot, right? Today, the real next generation in gaming begins, with the release of the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 as the first in the desktop Ampere architecture.

NVIDIA have a small new Vulkan Beta Driver bug-fix release up

By Liam Dawe,
Yesterday, September 9, NVIDIA released a new update to their Vulkan Beta Driver series to clean up some lingering bugs found. One of which should help Wine.

NVIDIA and accelerated Xwayland gets closer with code that 'sounds unpleasant'

By Liam Dawe,
Red Hat developer Adam Jackson has opened a new merge request for the Mesa project, with what they're calling GLX Delay, to bring accelerated GLX for Xwayland with the NVIDIA driver.

Valve gets another developer to work on Linux graphics drivers, starting with AMD RADV

By Liam Dawe,
It appears that Valve aren't stopping their push to improve Linux gaming, as they just recently hired another developer to help improve open source graphics drivers.

Linux support for ASUS ROG laptops is coming along nicely

By Liam Dawe,
Back in April we revealed the ROG-Core project, with an aim to better support ASUS ROG laptops on Linux and it seems it's really coming along nicely now.
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