NVIDIA 590.48.01 graphics driver is now available for download for Linux, FreeBSD, and Solaris systems with various bug fixes. Here's what's changed!

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NVIDIA 580.119.02 graphics driver is now available for download for Linux, FreeBSD, and Solaris systems with various bug fixes.

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AMD’s recent decision to move its RDNA 1 and RDNA 2 Windows GPU drivers into maintenance mode sparked concern among Radeon users, but Linux gamers have nothing to worry about. The company confirmed that both architectures will continue to receive game optimizations, and Phoronix verified that AMD’s Linux driver development remains entirely separate from its […]

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The Mesa team has released version 25.2.6, a routine but important bugfix update in the 25.2 series. Announced by Eric Engestrom on October 29, 2025, the update refines driver stability, shader handling, and Vulkan compatibility across multiple backends. The next bugfix release is expected on November 12. Among the key highlights, Alyssa Rosenzweig contributed D3D-compatible […]

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NVIDIA 590 graphics driver series is now available for public beta testing with improved Wayland support and other changes. Here’s what to expect!

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HP Linux Imaging and Printing (HPLIP) 3.25.8 drivers are now available for download with support for new HP printers.

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Mesa 25.3 open-source graphics stack for Linux is now available for download with numerous new features and improvements for existing graphics drivers, as well as better support for numerous video games.

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NVIDIA 580.105.08 graphics driver for Linux systems is now available for download with a new environment variable, CUDA_DISABLE_PERF_BOOST, to allow for disabling the default behavior of boosting the GPU to a higher power state when running CUDA applications.

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AMD’s recent decision to move its RDNA 1 and RDNA 2 Windows GPU drivers into maintenance mode sparked concern among Radeon users, but Linux gamers have nothing to worry about. The company confirmed that both architectures will continue to receive game optimizations, and Phoronix verified that AMD’s Linux driver development remains entirely separate from its […]

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The Mesa team has released version 25.2.6, a routine but important bugfix update in the 25.2 series. Announced by Eric Engestrom on October 29, 2025, the update refines driver stability, shader handling, and Vulkan compatibility across multiple backends. The next bugfix release is expected on November 12. Among the key highlights, Alyssa Rosenzweig contributed D3D-compatible […]

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The FFmpeg developers have added Vulkan-accelerated video decoding for Apple ProRes, implemented through shader-based hardware acceleration. The new commit, authored by averne and committed by Lynne, brings full support for all major ProRes profiles and demonstrates strong performance across different GPU platforms. Apple ProRes is a high-quality video codec commonly used in professional editing workflows. […]

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The FFmpeg developers have added Vulkan-accelerated video decoding for Apple ProRes, implemented through shader-based hardware acceleration. The new commit, authored by averne and committed by Lynne, brings full support for all major ProRes profiles and demonstrates strong performance across different GPU platforms. Apple ProRes is a high-quality video codec commonly used in professional editing workflows. […]

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The Mesa team has announced the release of Mesa 25.2.5, a focused bugfix update that enhances driver stability and resolves a broad set of regressions in Vulkan, OpenGL, and Gallium components. Maintainer Eric Engestrom confirmed the rollout, encouraging users to report any issues through Mesa’s GitLab tracker. In an official message to the Mesa developer […]

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Red Hat and Rusticl developer Karol Herbst has opened a new Mesa merge request introducing “CLUDA,” a compute-only Gallium3D driver that runs on top of NVIDIA’s CUDA driver API. The proposal introduces a Gallium3D driver implemented over CUDA’s libcuda.so, enabling Mesa’s compute framework to operate on proprietary NVIDIA hardware. Herbst describes CLUDA as a driver […]

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AMD has rolled out ROCm 7.0.2, strengthening its open-source GPU compute platform with broader Linux support, refined AI capabilities, and reliability upgrades for high-performance data center GPUs. Released on October 10 by alexxu-amd on GitHub, the update extends ROCm’s reach to newer hardware and distributions while modernizing several of its core components. The new release […]

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Linus Torvalds has pulled the Direct Rendering Manager (DRM) updates for the next kernel release, ushering in a substantial set of improvements for graphics and accelerator hardware. In the pull request, DRM maintainer Dave Airlie emphasized the significant push toward Rust integration as a central theme. The update mainlines new open-source drivers, delivers critical enhancements […]

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NVIDIA 580.95.05 graphics driver for Linux systems is now available for download with support for YCbCr 4:2:2 display modes over HDMI and various bug fixes.

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NVIDIA 580.82.07 graphics driver for Linux is now available for download with NVIDIA Smooth Motion support on GeForce RTX 40 Series GPUs and bug fixes.

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