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AMD User Queue Mesa Support Merged For Linux - Submitting Work Directly To The GPU
After an exciting day yesterday of Vulkan 1.4 driver support arriving in Mesa 25.0 drivers, there is more exciting code that was merged today for Mesa 25.0: the AMDGPU code now allows for user queue support on the latest Linux kernels for submitting re...
2024-12-03 08:24
AMD NPU Firmware Upstreamed For The Ryzen AI AMDXDNA Driver Coming In Linux 6.14
With the AMDXDNA kernel driver for Ryzen AI NPU support on Linux now ready for merging and is queued in drm-misc-next for the Linux 6.14 kernel early next year, the AMD NPU firmware binaries have also now been upstreamed to linux-firmware.git for havin...
2024-12-03 06:33
Rustls Multi-Threaded Performance Is Battering OpenSSL
The Rustls project as a modern TLS library written in the Rust programming language and an alternative to the likes of the widely-used OpenSSL and Cloudflare's BoringSSL has published some new performance figures. When looking at the multi-threaded ser...
2024-12-03 06:14
NVIDIA RTX Remix 0.6 Brings CPU/GPU Performance Improvements
NVIDIA's RTX Remix software for remastering DirectX 8 and DirectX 9 era games is out with the newest version of the RTX-Remix runtime that is powered in part by DXVK for Direct3D to Vulkan mapping...
2024-12-03 05:34
PostgreSQL Finally Deprecates MD5 Passwords
While long overdue, the PostgreSQL database server has finally deprecated MD5 password support with its latest code...
2024-12-03 05:20
Last Call For This Year's Phoronix Premium Cyber Week Sale
If you would like to show your support this holiday season and enjoy the site ad-free, multi-page articles on a single page, and other benefits, today is the last day of the discounted rate on joining Phoronix Premium...
2024-12-03 05:07
FreeBSD 14.2 Released With OpenZFS Upgrade, Installer Improvements
FreeBSD 14.2-RELEASE is out today as a strong, incremental update to the FreeBSD 14 series...
2024-12-02 20:20
NVK, RADV, & Other Mesa Drivers Ready With Launch Day Vulkan 1.4 Support
Years ago when new OpenGL spec releases would occur, it could take months or years for the open-source Mesa drivers to catch-up in supporting the latest versions... Thankfully in the Vulkan space it continues to prove to be a very different story. As w...
2024-12-02 14:09
Mir 2.19 Released With Atomic KMS Platform Support, New Wayland Protocols
Mir 2.19 is out today as the newest version of this Ubuntu/Canonical project making it easier for other desktops/environments to embrace Wayland support. This set of libraries for building Wayland-based shells has added a few new features with today's ...
2024-12-02 13:51
Vulkan 1.4 Released With More Extensions Mandated, Better 8K Rendering
As a lovely early Christmas present, The Khronos Group used SIGGRAPH Asia today for announcing the Vulkan 1.4 specification release...
2024-12-02 12:00
AMD Per-Core Energy Counter Support Slated For Linux 6.14
While the Linux 6.13 merge window just closed yesterday in landing all of the new features and functionality for that first kernel version of 2025, already for the Linux 6.14 kernel cycle to follow a feature was queued up early this morning in a TIP br...
2024-12-02 10:00
Intel CEO Pat Gelsinger Retires
While Intel has been under much financial difficulties and as they pursue their build out of new fabs to better compete with TSMC, to much surprise Intel CEO Pat Gelsinger has retired effective today...
2024-12-02 08:47
Qt 6.8.1 Toolkit Released With 550+ Bug Fixes
Building off the early October release of Qt 6.8 LTS, Qt 6.8.1 is out today with more than 550 fixes collected over the past two months...
2024-12-02 08:27
Vulkan Video Now Enabled By Default For Radeon VCN2/VCN3 Hardware On Linux
An exciting merge today for the Radeon "RADV" Vulkan driver with next quarter's Mesa 25.0 is enabling Vulkan Video API support by default for AMD graphics having VCN 2.x and VCN 3.x hardware...
2024-12-02 07:00
Llamafile 0.8.17 Brings New Web UI For This Easy-To-Distribute AI LLM Framework
Llamafile 0.8.17 debuted this weekend as the newest version of this Mozilla research project for making it easy to distribute and run AI large language models (LLMs) within a single file. As implied by its name, Llamafile leverages Llama.cpp along with...
2024-12-02 06:34
Imagination Lands Big PowerVR Compiler Update In Mesa 25.0
Merged over the US holiday weekend was a big update to the Imagination PowerVR Vulkan driver code for Mesa 25.0... 71 patches in fact making up this merge request...
2024-12-02 06:23
XWayland Lands Support For xdg-system-bell
Olivier Fourdan has merged support for using the xdg-system-bell protocol by XWayland for dealing with "system bell" functionality for Wayland compositors supporting this newer protocol for ringing the system bell or otherwise implementing a visual ind...
2024-12-02 06:15
Steam Survey Results For November 2024: Linux Gaming Marketshare Slightly Higher
During October the Steam Linux marketshare crawled back up to 2.0% while overnight Valve published the Steam Survey results for November 2024...
2024-12-02 05:42
Lutris 0.5.18 Linux Game Manager Brings Many Improvements
Lutris 0.5.18 is out today as the newest version of this open-source game manager for Linux systems to help with installing and playing a variety of games whether they be native Linux titles, emulated Windows games with the likes of Wine / Proton, or c...
2024-12-01 20:18
Linux 6.13-rc1 Released With Many New Features
As expected, this evening Linus Torvalds released Linux 6.13-rc1 to cap-off the two-week Linux 6.13 merge window. With Linux 6.13 comes many new features...
2024-12-01 17:42