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Mesa 25.0 Released With Vulkan 1.4 Driver Support, AMD RDNA4 Ready

Mesa 25.0 was officially released today as the newest quarterly feature release for this set of open-source OpenGL, OpenCL, Vulkan, and video acceleration drivers used on Linux systems by multiple hardware vendors...

2025-02-19 11:39

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Linux Driver Posted For Enabling Apple Web Camera Support For M-Series Macs

A set of patches were posted today for review by the upstream Linux kernel developers in providing driver support for the Apple web camera and image signal processing (ISP) for Apple M-Series devices. This is enough to get the web camera support workin...

2025-02-19 10:13

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VKD3D 1.15 Released With Better Tessellation Shader Support

VKD3D 1.15 is out today as the newest version of this upstream Wine project for implementing the Microsoft Direct3D 12 APIs atop the Vulkan API for better Windows gaming on Linux and other D3D12 workloads on Linux or macOS when paired with MoltenVK...

2025-02-19 08:45

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Greg Kroah-Hartman Makes A Compelling Case For New Linux Kernel Drivers To Be Written In Rust

The debate over the Linux kernel's Rust programming language policy continues... While some kernel maintainers are against it, Linus Torvalds has reportedly said he would override maintainers that may be against honoring Rust code. Linux's second-in-co...

2025-02-19 08:40

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Servo Begins Reworking Its Embed API So It's Easier To Integrate

One of the most logical paths forward for the Servo web browser engine is making it compelling for embedding within applications as an alternative to the Chromium Embedded Framework (CEF), WebKitGTK, and other browser engines. Servo developers recently...

2025-02-19 06:50

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Manjaro Linux 25.0 Coming Along With Updated Desktops, Btrfs Filesystem By Default

Manjaro Linux lead developer Philip Müller has provided a status update concerning the upcoming Manjaro 25.0 distribution release...

2025-02-19 06:32

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AMD Ryzen AI Max+ "Strix Halo" On Linux?

Yesterday a number of Windows reviews began appearing for the AMD Ryzen AI Max+ PRO 395 "Strix Halo" with the debut of the ASUS ROG Flow Z13 as the first laptop to ship this SoC with 16 cores / 32 threads, 64 MB L3 cache, and 40 graphics cores with the...

2025-02-19 06:22

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Intel oneDNN 3.7 Begins Tuning For Xe3 Graphics, Adds More Granite Rapids Optimizations

Intel software engineers on Tuesday released oneDNN 3.7 as the newest version of this oneAPI Deep Neural Network Library that is in turn used by software like ONNX, MATLAB, PaddlePaddle, Apache MXNet, and others as part of the building blocks for deep ...

2025-02-19 06:11

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Sovereign Tech Agency Investing €515k Into The Eclipse Foundation

Germany's Sovereign Tech Agency (née Sovereign Tech Fund) announced they have begun investing into the Eclipse Foundation and the work they are doing on open-source integrated development environment (IDE) software...

2025-02-19 05:57

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Latest AVX-512 Optimization For FFmpeg Shows Wild Improvement On AMD Ryzen

Merged today for the widely-used FFmpeg open-source multimedia library was yet another AVX-512 optimized code path... Compared to the pure C code, the AVX2 code path was 10.98x faster while this new AVX-512 code path clocks in at 18x the performance of...

2025-02-18 20:28

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5080/5090 Performance With Neat Video 6 On Linux

Last week NeatLab released Neat Video 6 as the newest version of their video engine to reduce noise and enhance video quality that can be used with the likes of DaVinci Resolve, Final Cut, and Premiere Pro software. Neat Video 6 features a faster rende...

2025-02-18 15:17

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Linus Torvalds Would Reportedly Merge Rust Kernel Code Over Maintainer Objections

The drama surrounding Rust code within the Linux kernel continues... Christoph Hellwig is the maintainer of the DMA mapping helpers and several other areas of the kernel has been an outspoken critic of Rust code or secondary programming languages withi...

2025-02-18 14:53

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Wasmer 6.0 Wires Up Support For Multiple Heterogeneous Backends

For those interested in WebAssembly for the "run anywhere" prospects and container-like secure execution, Wasmer remains one of the leading WASM runtime options. Wasmer 6.0 Alpha 1 is out today as the latest to further along this quest...

2025-02-18 14:05

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KDE Plasma 6.3.1 Released With A Few Dozen Fixes For The Week

For those that typically wait for the first point release before moving to a new software version, KDE Plasma 6.3.1 is out today with a few dozen fixes for the week since the Plasma 6.3 debut...

2025-02-18 09:45

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Ubuntu Linux LTS Releases May Offer Additional Intel Graphics Driver Updates

Ubuntu developers at Canonical are looking at including more Intel graphics driver packages as part of the hardware enablement "HWE" stacks shipped as part of Ubuntu Long Term Support (LTS) point releases. This would provide more comprehensive coverage...

2025-02-18 07:38

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AMD Continues Preparing openSIL Concept For Phoenix & Turin Processors

One of the AMD software projects we are very bullish on for the future is openSIL for opening up more of the CPU silicon initialization code for what will eventually replace AGESA across all client and server processors that is aiming for production re...

2025-02-18 06:49

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openSUSE Spin Achieves 100% Bit-Identical Packages For Reproducible Builds

There is an openSUSE project called Reproducible-openSUSE "RBOS" working on a proof-of-concept for constructing openSUSE in a bit-identical manner as part of the broad Reproducible Builds effort to be able to reproduce builds bit-for-bit against what i...

2025-02-18 06:30

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PostgreSQL Lands Self-Join Elimination Optimization

More than seven years in the making, merged yesterday for PostgreSQL is a self-join elimination "SJE" feature as a performance optimization for some queries...

2025-02-18 06:21

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SDL & MPV Media Player Land Support For Wayland Color Management / HDR

Following the upstream Wayland Protocols repository landing the Wayland color management protocol for enabling HDR support and this morning's release of Wayland Protocols 1.41, the SDL library and MPV media player are the first two clients supporting t...

2025-02-17 20:52

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Progress Continues On Unofficial Firefox GTK4 Port, Code Now Available On GitHub

For all of those that were intrigued over the independent code porting the Firefox web browser to the GTK4 toolkit, there has been a bit more progress and all of the code is also now obtainable via GitHub for this unofficial port...

2025-02-17 18:37

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