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Mesa 24.3.0 graphics drivers for Linux released with many new features and bug fixes

By Liam Dawe, a day ago

Developer Dylan Baker announced the early release of Mesa 24.3.0, the latest set of Linux open source graphics drivers full of new features.

NVIDIA stable driver 550.135 released for Linux

By Liam Dawe, 4 days ago

While NVIDIA continues working on new features for their 565 series, and they have their current new-feature branch 560.35.03, they also have the slightly older and stable version that just updated to version 550.135.

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Mesa 24.2.7 out now and Mesa 24.3 may come sooner than expected

By Liam Dawe, Nov 14

The latest update for the open source graphics drivers is here with Mesa 24.2.7 out now. Plus we might see Mesa 24.3 a bit sooner than expected.

NVIDIA detail upcoming Linux driver features for Wayland and explain current support

By Liam Dawe, Nov 11

NVIDIA have a new official forum post up detailing the the state of Wayland on their Linux drivers, along with plans for upcoming features.

RazerGenie for configuring Razer devices on Linux v1.2 brings new features

By Liam Dawe, Nov 11

One problem Linux continues to have is no official app support from hardware vendors, so it's good to see the community continue building for us. If you have a Razer device, check out the new release of RazerGenie.

Mesa 24.2.6 graphics drivers released with a few more bug fixes

By Liam Dawe, Oct 31

The Mesa team have released another bug-fix update with Mesa 24.2.6 available now, with a couple more bug-fix releases planned before they move onto Mesa 24.3 next month.

NVIDIA detail new GPU driver vulnerabilities in their October 2024 Security Bulletin

By Liam Dawe, Oct 23

NVIDIA have released a security bulletin to detail new security issues, so it's time to update your GPU driver once again.

NVIDIA 565.57.01 Beta has Wayland and HDR improvements, plus DXVK and VKD3D optimizations

By Liam Dawe, Oct 22

NVIDIA today released two new Linux drivers. The big one is the NVIDIA 565.57.01 Beta, along with a one-liner update in the stable 550.127.05 release.

Mesa graphics drivers 24.2.5 released with a few more bug fixes

By Liam Dawe, Oct 17

Mesa 24.2.5 was announced from developer Eric Engestrom bringing in some more bug fixes for various Linux graphics drivers.

Gaming on Linux with Apple Silicon now becoming a very real thing

By Liam Dawe, Oct 11

Developer Alyssa Rosenzweig has given an update in a blog post and a presentation at XDC 2024 going over work to improve Linux gaming on the Apple M1/M2 with Asahi Linux.

OpenRazer v3.9 released with many new Razer devices supported on Linux

By Liam Dawe, Oct 7

Getting more hardware working well on Linux is the OpenRazer project that released version 3.9.0 adding in support for various new devices from Razer.

Mesa 24.2.4 released with various bug fixes

By Liam Dawe, Oct 4

Developer Eric Engestrom announced the release of Mesa 24.2.4 open source graphics drivers, coming with multiple bug fixes for this stable release.

Mesa 24.2.2 graphics drivers released enabling Intel Lunar Lake and Battlemage

By Liam Dawe, Sep 6

A week after the release of both Mesa 24.2.1 and Mesa 24.1.7, the next point release Mesa 24.2.2 is out now with numerous bug fixes and improvements.

Mesa 24.2.1 and Mesa 24.1.7 open source drivers now available

By Liam Dawe, Aug 29

The Mesa team just released bug fix updates to the two most recent driver series with Mesa 24.2.1 and Mesa 24.1.7 now available.

NVIDIA driver with Linux kernel 6.10 causing kernel oops

By nwildner, Aug 24

NVIDIA is currently investigating a bug where their drivers are crashing on modern kernels (6.10+). This appears to happen across drivers 550, 555 and even the latest 560.

NVIDIA stable driver 560.35.03 released for Linux with Wayland fixes

By Liam Dawe, Aug 21

NVIDIA today released driver 560.35.03 as the latest stable version for Linux users, so here's all that's changed.

Steering Wheel Manager oversteer adds support for more wheels and Flatpak

By Liam Dawe, Aug 16

If you have a Steering Wheel, oversteer feels like an essential tool on Linux to allow you to configure it properly and a new release is out with version 0.8.3.