Imagination PowerVR Open-Source GPU Driver To Be Introduced In Linux 6.8

It's been well over a decade since many were wanting open-source Imagination PowerVR graphics when their graphics IP was more common among SoCs, but with the Linux 6.8 kernel in early 2024 there will finally be an upstream, open-source PowerVR DRM kernel graphics driver! But before getting your hopes too high, this is the effort that's only around the newer Power…
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Imagination-PVR-Linux-6.8-DRM

GIMP 3.0 Is Hoping To Release In May

GIMP 3.0 could be finally released in a few months if all goes very well...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/GIMP-3.0-May-2024-Schedule

Atomic Async Page Flips Expected To Land For Linux 6.8

Following yesterday's week drm-misc-next pull that added the new Imagination PowerVRM DRM driver, the three patches for atomic DRM_MODE_PAGE_FLIP_ASYNC were queued into drm-misc-next. Now that this atomic async page flip support is in drm-misc-next, next week it should appear in DRM-Next and in turn make it for the Linux 6.8 kernel in the new year...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-6.8-Atomic-Async-Flips

LACT Is The Newest AMD Radeon GUI Control Panel For Linux

While the open-source AMD Radeon Linux graphics driver is well received by the community, one of the longest sought features has been an official GUI control panel for managing the driver settings and the like under Linux with ease. AMD for their part exposes much of the same tunables available under Windows but is left to just command-line controls or software to poke differen…
https://www.phoronix.com/news/AMDGPU-LACT-GUI-Control-Panel