3D first-person shooter Quake 3 can run in Linux on an M1 Mac with the new graphics driver. Screenshot: Alyssa Rosenzweig & Asahi Lina/Asahi Linux Blog Independent developers working to get Linux ...

Nvidia GeForce GPU drivers on Linux are finally set to become open source, as the company has announced it will now publish kernel modules. While AMD is better known for openness when it comes to ...

A few years ago, the idea of running PC games on a Mac, in Linux, or on Arm processors would have been laughable. But the developers behind Asahi Linux—the independent project that is getting Linux ...

Linux graphics performance is affected by your choice of graphics hardware, video driver and graphics interface. Let's take a look at the open-source XFree86 server, the commercial Xi server, ATI Fire ...

For more years than I care to recall, Linux users have hated NVIDIA, the world's leading Graphics Processing Unit (GPU) company. Why? Because years after all the other companies open-sourced their ...

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NVIDIA has published the source code of its Linux kernel modules for the R515 driver, allowing developers to provide greater integration, stability, and security for Linux distributions. The source ...

Traditionally, there were two AMD graphics drivers on Linux. When you installed your Linux distribution of choice, you got the default “Radeon” driver. This driver was completely open-source so it ...

There’s no doubt about it: AMD’s Linux graphics drivers are behind Nvidia’s, something that will start mattering a lot more when Valve’s first Linux-based Steam Machines start hitting the market this ...

With newer GeForce GPUs, Linux distributions will use a driver for OpenGL applications that hands over the actual work to a Vulkan driver. In future, Linux distributions will rely on the "Zink" driver ...