With newer GeForce GPUs, Linux distributions will use a driver for OpenGL applications that hands over the actual work to a ...

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Both profiles are available in our OpenGL 4.0 drivers. NVIDIA recommends that developers always create a Compatibility profile context, to ensure full backwards compatibility of existing OpenGL code.

Time for a bit of modernisation. With the upcoming Mesa 25.1 release, Collabora developer Faith Ekstrand announced a big ...

Driver software comes from an open-source library round which he’s put a wrapper allowing input through a UNIX pipe. This can take the RGB output of an OpenGL shader, of which he has created ...

The forthcoming Mesa 25.1 release signifies a pivotal shift in the Linux graphics landscape, as it replaces the longstanding Nouveau OpenGL driver with a combination of Zink and NVK for NVIDIA GPU ...