XDC Articles & Reviews |
| XDC2016 Wraps Up After Many Wayland, X.Org & Mesa Discussions | Events | 2016-09-24 |
| AMD Has A Vulkan Linux Driver, But Will Be Closed-Source At First | Display Drivers | 2015-09-17 |
| AMD Moves Forward With Unified Linux Driver Strategy, New Kernel Driver | Display Drivers | 2014-10-08 |
| XDC2012: Lots Of Progress On X, Mesa, Wayland | Events | 2012-09-24 |
| OLPC XO-1.75 Laptop Preview | Computers | 2011-10-05 |
| XDC2011 Chicago Recap: Open-Source Graphics, GPGPU, OpenGL 3.0 | Events | 2011-09-20 |
| Q/A: Contributing To Open-Source Projects | Software | 2011-09-15 |
| Intel Core i3 2120 | Processors | 2011-09-12 |
| Independent Developers Contribute A Lot To Mesa, X.Org | Software | 2011-09-10 |
| X.Org XDC2011 Chicago Preview | Events | 2011-09-06 |
| TimeGraph: A Linux GPU Command Scheduler | Display Drivers | 2011-09-02 |
XDC Linux & Open-Source News |
| Jay: A New Open-Source Shader Compiler Being Developed For Intel GPUs | Intel | 2026-04-07 |
| X.Org Developers Conference 2026 Being Hosted By Arm In Toronto | X.Org | 2026-02-03 |
| Nova Driver Progress & Other NVIDIA Linux News From 2025 | NVIDIA | 2025-12-26 |
| Steam Machine, Continued Open-Source Rust Usage & Linux Kernel Happenings In November | Phoronix | 2025-12-01 |
| Valve-Backed Color Pipeline API For Linux Is Finally Ready For Upstream | Hardware | 2025-11-27 |
| Rusticl Has Turned Out Remarkably Well For Open-Source OpenCL For Mesa Drivers | Mesa | 2025-11-20 |
| AMD Continues Working On Xen GPU Virtualization Features - "The Best Is Yet To Come" | Radeon | 2025-11-19 |
| NVK Still Working Toward Ray-Tracing, Vulkan Video & More Performance | Nouveau | 2025-11-18 |
| The State Of The AMD RADV Vulkan Driver In Late 2025 | Radeon | 2025-11-18 |
| NVK's Cooperative Matrix Support Proving Competitive With Official NVIDIA Driver | Nouveau | 2025-11-17 |
| NVIDIA Highlights The Shortcomings With Wayland Screencasting | NVIDIA | 2025-11-16 |
| NVIDIA Linux Engineer Highlights The Need For Unifying DRM Driver-Side API | X.Org | 2025-11-16 |
| The Headaches Supporting Content Protection With Linux GPU Drivers | Intel | 2025-11-14 |
| The State Of The Vulkan Renderer For Wayland's Weston 15.0 Compositor | Wayland | 2025-11-12 |
| Valve's Open-Source Radeon Linux Driver "Love Song For Gamers With Old GPUs" | Valve | 2025-11-12 |
| At Least Two New Open-Source NPU Accelerator Drivers Expected In 2026 | AI | 2025-11-12 |
| How System76 & Red Hat Hope To Finally Improve The Linux Multi-GPU Experience | Wayland | 2025-11-11 |
| Intel Xe Linux Driver Working Toward UALink & High Speed Fabrics Support | Intel | 2025-11-11 |
| KosmicKrisp Vulkan To Apple Metal Driver Merged For Mesa 26.0 | Mesa | 2025-10-20 |
| CLUDA Posted For Mesa: Gallium3D API Implemented Atop NVIDIA CUDA Driver API | Mesa | 2025-10-12 |
| Linux Fair DRM Scheduler Graduates Out Of The "RFC" Phase | Linux Kernel | 2025-10-08 |
| AMD Continues Enhancing AMDGPU/AMDKFD Drivers For Checkpoint/Restore | AMD | 2025-09-15 |
| AMD Posts 11th Iteration Of Color Pipeline API For Advanced Color Management On Linux | AMD | 2025-08-15 |
| AMD Open-Sources GMLIB For RadeonSI Driver - Working On HDR Video Support | Radeon | 2025-02-27 |
| Wayland's Wild 2024 With Better KDE Plasma Support, NVIDIA Maturity & More Desktops | Wayland | 2024-12-31 |
| NVIDIA Made Great Strides With Their Open-Source Kernel Code & Wayland Support In 2024 | NVIDIA | 2024-12-28 |
| Intel Arrow Lake, AMD EPYC Turin & Linux Kernel Drama Made For An Interesting October | Phoronix | 2024-11-01 |
| The Maturing State Of Rusticl For Rust-Based OpenCL Within Mesa | Mesa | 2024-10-17 |
| AMD Working On GPU Compute Virtualization Support With ROCm/HIP For VMs | Radeon | 2024-10-17 |
| Open-Source Radeon Vulkan Driver "RADV" Demonstrated On Windows | Radeon | 2024-10-16 |
| NVIDIA Is Helping To Improve Linux's Dynamic Display Mux Support For Laptops | NVIDIA | 2024-10-14 |
| CodeWeavers Working On Better Input Device Support For Proton Gaming | Valve | 2024-10-14 |
| Mesa NVK Vulkan Driver Adds VK_KHR_fragment_shading_rate Support | Nouveau | 2024-10-13 |
| Arm Exploring IO_uring For Graphics Drivers For Better Performance & Synchronization | Linux Kernel | 2024-10-11 |
| Nouveau With NVK Vulkan Driver Running More Games, Increasing Feature Set | Nouveau | 2024-10-11 |
| NVIDIA Shares Wayland Driver Roadmap, Encourages Vulkan Wayland Compositors | NVIDIA | 2024-10-10 |
| Apple Silicon On Linux Now More Capable For Gaming With Latest Mesa + Steam On FEX | Apple | 2024-10-10 |
| AMD's Longtime Open-Source Linux Graphics Driver Advocate Retires | Radeon | 2024-04-02 |
| The X.Org Foundation Needs More Candidates To Hold An Election | X.Org | 2024-03-01 |
| NVIDIA's Open-Source Kernel Driver & Maturing Wayland Support Were Great In 2023 | NVIDIA | 2024-01-02 |
| AMD Stages The Radeon Graphics Color Management Code For Linux 6.8 | Radeon | 2023-12-16 |
| Open-Source Graphics DevRoom Returning For FOSDEM 2024 | X.Org | 2023-11-19 |
| Rust-Written NAK Compiler Merged For Nouveau/NVK In Mesa 24.0 | Mesa | 2023-11-14 |
| The Ongoing Work For Native Wine Wayland Support | WINE | 2023-10-25 |
| The VKMS Display Driver Continues Evolving Nicely For Headless Linux Systems | Linux Kernel | 2023-10-24 |
| Rusticl OpenCL Still Striving For Better Performance, SYCL & HIP Features | Mesa | 2023-10-20 |
| Even Though It's Currently Slow, The Mesa NVIDIA "NVK" Vulkan Driver Has Been Making Good Progress | Mesa | 2023-10-19 |
| Igalia Has Been Doing A Great Job On The Raspberry Pi Graphics Drivers | Raspberry Pi | 2023-10-19 |
| Mesa's Radeon Vulkan Driver Has Become Much More Capable At Ray-Tracing, Thanks To Valve | Radeon | 2023-10-18 |
| The State Of HDR On The Steam Deck With Valve's Gamescope Compositor | Valve | 2023-10-18 |
| Mesa 23.2 Stable Released For Improved Open-Source Vulkan & OpenGL Drivers | Mesa | 2023-09-28 |
| XDC 2023 To Provide Update On AMD HDR For The Steam Deck, Rusticl & Wine Wayland | X.Org | 2023-09-20 |
| Wayland's Weston 12.0 Released With Multi-GPU Support, PipeWire Backend, Tearing Control | Wayland | 2023-05-17 |
| X.Org Developers Conference 2023 Returning To Spain | X.Org | 2023-02-12 |
| Red Hat Planning A Hackfest To Further Advance HDR Support On The Linux Desktop | Desktop | 2023-01-04 |
| NVK Vulkan Driver Starting Work On New Compiler | Nouveau | 2022-11-08 |
| Radeon RADV Ray-Tracing Performance Further Improved - PLOC BVH Builder | Radeon | 2022-10-26 |
| Nouveau Linux DRM Driver Making Progress On NVIDIA GSP Support | Nouveau | 2022-10-26 |
| Mesa 22.2.1 Released With Dozens Of OpenGL/Vulkan Driver Fixes | Mesa | 2022-10-12 |
| VirtGPU DRM Native Contexts Show Potential For Good VM Gaming Performance | Virtualization | 2022-10-11 |
| Zink Could Prove An Interesting Solution For Evolving OpenGL | Mesa | 2022-10-09 |
| WineConf 2022 Talked Up Vulkan, PE Conversion Progress, Wine 8.0 Early Next Year | WINE | 2022-10-08 |
| Open-Source VIA Linux Driver Still Wants To Be Merged, But Pursuing Acceleration First | X.Org | 2022-10-08 |
| Rusticl Can Run Atop Zink Gallium3D Atop Intel's ANV Vulkan Driver | Mesa | 2022-10-07 |
| AMD Continues Working Toward HDR Display Support For The Linux Desktop | Wayland | 2022-10-06 |
| Rusticl Shows Great Start For Rust OpenCL In Mesa - Might Support SYCL In The Future | Mesa | 2022-10-06 |
| The State Of RADV's Vulkan Mesh Shading Support | Radeon | 2022-10-05 |
| Mesa's RADV Radeon Vulkan Ray-Tracing Performance Continues Improving | Radeon | 2022-10-04 |
| Open-Source NVIDIA Vulkan "NVK" Driver Continues Progressing | NVIDIA | 2022-10-04 |
| AMD Engineers Held Several Interesting Talks At This Week's Linux Conferences | AMD | 2022-09-15 |
| AMDGPU Driver Reverting The Buddy Allocator For Linux 5.19 | Linux Kernel | 2022-07-15 |
| Valve Developer Starts Poking At Open-Source "RADV" Driver Support For GFX11/RDNA3 | Radeon | 2022-05-13 |
| X.Org XDC + WineConf Joint Conference Announced For October | X.Org | 2022-04-27 |
| Radeon's ROCm 5.1 Released With CRIU Support, More RDNA Enablement | Radeon | 2022-03-31 |
| Linux 5.18 Graphics Driver Changes From FreeSync Video Mode To New Intel Hardware | Linux Kernel | 2022-03-24 |
| AMD Enabling FreeSync Video Mode By Default With Linux 5.18, Merging AMDKFD CRIU | Radeon | 2022-02-13 |
| Valve's Gamescope Compositor Adds AMD FidelityFX Super Resolution Support | Valve | 2022-02-01 |
| AMD P-State CPU Frequency Control Driver Revised A 6th Time | AMD | 2021-12-19 |
| AMD-Pstate Driver Updated A 5th Time For Improving Ryzen Power Efficiency On Linux | AMD | 2021-11-30 |
| Updated AMD P-State Driver Posted For Improving Linux Power Efficiency | AMD | 2021-11-19 |
| AMD Posts Latest Revision To Its New P-State Linux Driver | AMD | 2021-10-29 |
| Vulkan Video Decoding Still In The Early Stages For Open-Source | Vulkan | 2021-09-21 |
| AMD Continues CRIU Work To Checkpoint/Restore ROCm Compute Workloads | Radeon | 2021-09-20 |
| SDL Still Has A Number Of Issues To Address Before Defaulting To Wayland | Linux Gaming | 2021-09-19 |
| AMD + Valve Focusing On P-State / CPPC Driver With Schedutil For Better Linux Efficiency | AMD | 2021-09-18 |
| The Current State Of Intel Discrete Graphics On Linux: Almost "Fully Functional" | Intel | 2021-09-17 |
| KWinFT Continues Working On WLROOTS Render, Library Split | Wayland | 2021-09-17 |
| Multiple Games Are Now Working With RADV's Ray-Tracing Code | Mesa | 2021-09-17 |
| X.Org Could Use More Help Improving & Addressing Its Security | X.Org | 2021-09-16 |
| Intel Talks More About Their Open-Source Vulkan Ray-Tracing Bring-Up | Intel | 2021-09-16 |
| Google Is Successfully Using The Open-Source Qualcomm GL/VLK Drivers On Chromebooks | Mesa | 2021-09-16 |
| Microsoft Adds An EGL Implementation To Mesa For Windows | Mesa | 2021-09-15 |
| Reverse Engineering, Open-Source Driver Writing Continues For Apple's M1 GPU | X.Org | 2021-09-15 |
| Raspberry Pi V3DV Driver Still Working On Vulkan 1.1 Conformance, More Performance | Vulkan | 2021-09-15 |
| Many Interesting Talks On Deck For The X.Org Developers Conference 2021 | X.Org | 2021-08-04 |
| AMD + Valve Working On New Linux CPU Performance Scaling Design | AMD | 2021-08-02 |
| XDC2021 Goes Virtual Again As Annual Wayland / Mesa / X.Org Summit | X.Org | 2021-05-20 |
| NVIDIA Is Working On DMA-BUF Passing That Should Help Improve Their Wayland Support | NVIDIA | 2020-12-01 |
| Mesa 21.0 Merges Direct3D 12 Gallium3D Driver | Microsoft | 2020-11-10 |
| Open-Source RADV Vulkan Driver Is Seeing Work To Allow Building It On Windows | Mesa | 2020-10-19 |
| KWinFT 5.20 With Aims For Better Wayland/X11 Experience Than KDE Plasma 5.20's KWin | KDE | 2020-10-15 |
| Linux 5.9 Regression, NVIDIA RTX 30, GNOME 40 & Microsoft Made For A Fun September | Phoronix | 2020-10-01 |
| Intel mOS, Torvalds Commentary, Intel Gen12 Graphics, Zen 2 "XT" CPUs Topped Q3 | Phoronix | 2020-09-29 |
| KWinFT Projects Hit Beta Ahead Of Stable Releases Aligned With KDE Plasma 5.20 | KDE | 2020-09-26 |
| Mesa 20.3 Can Now Consume SPIR-V Binaries Generated By LLVM's libclc | Microsoft | 2020-09-26 |
| Disman Continues Taking Shape As Display Management Library For X11/Wayland | KDE | 2020-09-23 |
| ADRIConf Remains The Primary GUI Control Panel For Managing Mesa OpenGL/Vulkan Drivers | Mesa | 2020-09-22 |
| Open-Source Vivante Driver In Some Cases Outperforming Proprietary Driver | Mesa | 2020-09-21 |
| OpenPOWER Summit 2020 Was This Week With Many Interesting Hardware/Software Talks | Linux Events | 2020-09-20 |
| AMDGPU TMZ + HDCP Should Allow Widevine DRM To Behave Nicely With AMD Linux Systems | Radeon | 2020-09-19 |
| Libre-SOC Still Persevering To Be A Hybrid CPU/GPU That's 100% Open-Source | Hardware | 2020-09-18 |
| X.Org Is Getting Their Cloud / Continuous Integration Costs Under Control | X.Org | 2020-09-18 |
| V3DV Developers Lay Out Plans For Upstreaming The Raspberry Pi 4 Vulkan Driver In Mesa | Mesa | 2020-09-17 |
| RADV's "ACO" Shader Backend Still Pursuing RadeonSI, Early Work On RDNA 2 | Radeon | 2020-09-17 |
| Microsoft Has A Large Presence At This Year's X.Org Conference | X.Org | 2020-09-17 |
| Arm Is Now Backing Panfrost Gallium3D As Open-Source Mali Graphics Driver | X.Org | 2020-09-16 |
| Gamescope Continues Advancing As Wayland/Vulkan Compositor Backed By Valve | Valve | 2020-09-16 |
| After Reaching Vulkan 1.0 Conformance, V3DV Raspberry Pi Vulkan To Pursue Mainline Mesa | Vulkan | 2020-09-16 |
| X.Org Developers Conference 2020 Starts With Many Interesting Talks | X.Org | 2020-09-16 |
| The Annual X.Org / Wayland / Mesa Conference Is Going Virtual Due To COVID-19 | X.Org | 2020-07-03 |
| Intel vs. AMD, Systemd-Homed, Kernel Advancements Top H1'2020 For Linux | Phoronix | 2020-06-30 |
| XDC2020 Call For Proposals - X.Org Developers For Now Still Planning To Meet In Poland | X.Org | 2020-05-16 |
| X.Org Board Elections Wrap Up For 2020 | X.Org | 2020-04-30 |
| Kernel Talk, AMD Hardware + Other Popular Linux Topics Of January | Phoronix | 2020-02-01 |
| X.Org's XDC2020 May Abandon Poland Conference To Find More Welcoming European Location | X.Org | 2020-01-18 |
| Wayland's Wild Decade From v1.0 Release To Usable GNOME/KDE Desktop Support | Wayland | 2019-12-29 |
| X.Org Saw A Lot Of Work In The 2010s Even With Wayland Taking Off | X.Org | 2019-12-28 |
| 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 |
| Virtual KMS Driver To Work On Virtual Refresh Rate Support (FreeSync) | X.Org | 2019-11-10 |
| Zink Is Almost In Mesa For Offering OpenGL 2.1 / GLES 2.0 Over Vulkan | Mesa | 2019-10-24 |
| Intel 8K Display Support Should Be Working With Linux 5.4 | Intel | 2019-10-24 |
| Google's SwiftShader Is Becoming Conformant & Performant For Vulkan On CPUs | Vulkan | 2019-10-24 |
| OpenChrome Still Aspiring For Open-Source VIA Graphics, But Not Going Mainline This Year | X.Org | 2019-10-23 |
| XDC2020 X.Org/Wayland/Mesa Conference To Be Hosted In Gdansk, Poland | X.Org | 2019-10-23 |
| A Vast Majority Of Linux's Input Improvements Are Developed By One Individual | X.Org | 2019-10-16 |
| Khronos Opens Door For Allowing More Open-Source Drivers To Reach Conformance Status | Mesa | 2019-10-16 |
| Vulkan To Better Handle Variable Rate Displays / Adaptive-Sync In The Future | Vulkan | 2019-10-13 |
| A Deep Dive Into The Performance-Focused AMDGPU "Bulk Moves" Functionality | Radeon | 2019-10-11 |
| X.Org Server To See New CI-Driven Automated Release Cycles, Big Version Numbers | X.Org | 2019-10-10 |
| KDE's KWin To Still Pursue X11 Composite Unredirect, More Wayland Improvements | KDE | 2019-10-08 |
| Intel Readies Another Big Graphics Driver Push With Linux 5.5 - Lots For Tigerlake/Gen12 | Intel | 2019-10-07 |
| NVIDIA Still Working On A Generic Allocator - Has Working Open-Source Implementation | NVIDIA | 2019-10-07 |
| Zink's OpenGL Over Vulkan Implementation Aiming For Mesa 19.3 Integration | Mesa | 2019-10-05 |
| It Looks Like HDMI FreeSync/VRR For Linux + Wayland Support Will Eventually Come For AMD | AMD | 2019-10-04 |
| The ACO Radeon Compiler Alternative To AMDGPU LLVM Looks Good But Work Isn't Done Yet | Radeon | 2019-10-04 |
| The Matrix Of Software Projects Mapping Khronos APIs From DXVK To Zink & CLVK | Standards | 2019-10-04 |
| Intel Has Been Quietly Developing A New Backend Compiler For Their OpenGL/Vulkan Drivers | Intel | 2019-10-03 |
| Igalia Is Working On "mediump" Support For Mesa To Help With OpenGL ES Performance | Mesa | 2019-10-03 |
| Valve's ACO Compiler, Zink, FreeSync & Other Topics To Be Talked About At XDC 2019 | X.Org | 2019-08-06 |
