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Blender 4.5 LTS Released With Vulkan & Wayland Improvements, Some Optimizations

Blender 4.5 is now officially available today as the newest feature release and one that is a Long Term Support (LTS) for this popular, cross-platform 3D modeling software...

2025-07-15 11:49

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Broadcom BCM5770X Networking Driver Support Heading To Linux 6.17

One month ago there was the report on Phoronix of the Broadcom "BNGE" open-source driver being published for forthcoming BCM5770X networking chipsets. That new Broadcom BNGE driver is now set to be introduced in the upcoming Linux 6.17 kernel for suppo...

2025-07-15 11:30

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LLVM 22 Compiler Enters Development With LLVM 21 Now Branched

The LLVM 21 compiler stack was branched today as release preparations get underway for shipping this next half-year compiler release as stable in late August or early September. In turn that now opens up LLVM 22 for development...

2025-07-15 10:40

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GTK3 Port Of The Kernel's gconfig Utility Appears Ready For Linux 6.17

Last month patches were posted for porting the Linux kernel's "gconfig" graphical kernel configuration utility from GTK2 to GTK3. It looks like those patches for the GTK3-ified gconfig are ready for upstreaming come Linux 6.17...

2025-07-15 10:23

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Intel ANV Driver Now Exposes Vulkan Video AV1 Decode On Battlemage & Lunar Lake

While the Intel Media SDK with VA-API has long supported accelerated video decoding, the latest Mesa 25.2 development code has now landed support for AV1 decoding using the Vulkan Video API with the Intel ANV driver for Xe2 Battlemage / Lunar Lake grap...

2025-07-15 08:48

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Latest Intel Engineering Layoffs Lead To An Intel Linux Driver Being Orphaned

The latest round of cost-cutting at Intel seems to be having a larger impact on their software engineering efforts than some of their previous rounds of layoffs. In addition to a prominent Linux kernel developer veteran leaving Intel last week where he...

2025-07-15 06:38

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LibreOffice Office Suite Lands Built-In Support For Bitcoin Currency

Merged yesterday to the latest development code for the LibreOffice open-source office suite is now recognizing Bitcoin "BTC" as a supported currency for use within the Calc spreadsheet program and elsewhere within this cross-platform free software off...

2025-07-15 06:29

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Google Publishes Updated Proposal For Standardizing Haptic Touchpads On Linux

As part of work going back to 2019, an engineer on Google's Chromium OS team submitted an updated proposal on Monday for seeking to standardize the haptic touchpad support within the Linux kernel...

2025-07-15 06:09

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RADV Lands Experimental Host Image Copy Support (VK_EXT_host_image_copy)

Making it into the RADV Vulkan driver ahead of this week's Mesa 25.2 feature freeze is experimental support for the VK_EXT_host_image_copy extension. The Vulkan host image copy extension was worked on by Valve and others for letting applications/games ...

2025-07-15 05:55

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New Effort To Upstream LTTng In The Linux Kernel Draws Criticism From Torvalds

The LTTng tracing toolkit is twenty years old this year and it's seen significant adoption by different hyperscalers and other notable organizations like IBM and Sony and Siemens beyond basic end-users and administrators for system tracing/debugging. W...

2025-07-14 20:37

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Intel Xe3 Panther Lake OpenGL & Vulkan Support Now Enabled By Default On Linux

With the upcoming Linux 6.17 kernel the Intel Xe kernel graphics driver is enabling Panther Lake graphics out-of-the-box. Now going along with that Linux 6.17+ support out-of-the-box, the Mesa OpenGL and Vulkan user-space drivers are also ready to decl...

2025-07-14 15:48

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New Linux Patches Enable Support For The Snapdragon X1 Powered Microsoft Surface Pro 11

Posted today to the Linux kernel mailing list are a set of nine patches for bringing up support for the Qualcomm Snapdragon X Elite/Plus powered Microsoft Surface Pro 11 2-in-1 laptop...

2025-07-14 14:45

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Mesa 25.2 NVK vs. NVIDIA R575 Linux Graphics Performance For GeForce RTX 40 Series

A number of Phoronix readers have been interested in seeing some fresh benchmarks of Mesa's NVK Vulkan driver in providing open-source Vulkan API support on NVIDIA GeForce graphics cards as well as the modern OpenGL approach of using Zink for layering ...

2025-07-14 11:38

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SFrame Support Upstreamed To GNU C Library For Glibc 2.42

Merged today into the upstream GNU C Library code ahead of next month's Glibc 2.42 release is support for SFrame stack tracing with ELF binaries on x86 and AArch64 architectures...

2025-07-14 10:25

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NVMe Controller Data Queue "CDQ" Patches Posted For Linux

New feature patches posted for review today on the Linux kernel mailing list are working to implement the NVMe specification's Controller Data Queue (CDQ) functionality within the NVMe storage driver...

2025-07-14 10:06

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Old Radeon HD 2000/3000/4000 GPUs Still Seeing Open-Source Driver Fixes In 2025

In addition to last minute feature work on the latest AMD RDNA4 graphics cards ahead of the Mesa 25.2 code branching, there's also some new fixes going into Mesa for the open-source Radeon driver code... Coming in this Monday morning by surprise are so...

2025-07-14 09:01

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RADV Vulkan Video Improvements Make It Into Mesa 25.2 For AMD RDNA4 GPUs

Ahead of the Mesa 25.2 code branching / feature freeze expected later this week, last minute feature additions and other changes continue landing in the codebase for these open-source OpenGL and Vulkan drivers. One of the additions today worth mentioni...

2025-07-14 07:07

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Intel Mesa Drivers Add Option To Disable Xe3's Variable Register Thread "VRT" Feature

One of the interesting new additions with the upcoming Intel Xe3 integrated and discrete graphics is the Variable Register Thread "VRT" feature. Making use of Variable Register Thread can reduce register splitting, reduce bandwidth consumption, and imp...

2025-07-14 06:42

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LMDE 7 Will Follow Linux Mint 22.2

The Linux Mint developers have put out their monthly status update to outline their work in recent weeks. Over the course of June, Linux Mint developers were primarily focused on Linux Mint 22.2 with the beta release expected soon...

2025-07-14 06:30

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Debian's DebConf25 Kicks Off On France - Video Streams Available

Debian's annual Debian Conference "DebConf" started this morning and runs all week in Brest, France...

2025-07-14 06:17

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