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Mesa's Zink Driver Now Supports OpenGL VR Extensions

For anyone still relying upon virtual reality (VR) applications written for the OpenGL API rather than the Vulkan API that has been dominant among VR apps (and other modern games / software) for years, the Mesa code and in particular the Zink OpenGL-on...

2024-09-18 16:50

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Autodesk Contributes Mesa Vulkan WSI Support For Apple's Metal

An interesting merge request opened this week and already merged for Mesa 24.3 comes from an Autodesk engineer adding Vulkan Windowing System Integration (WSI) around Apple's Metal API for use on macOS...

2024-09-18 15:51

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H.264/H.265 Vulkan Encoder Support Merged Into FFmpeg

The FFmpeg multimedia library continues to enhance its support around the Vulkan Video APIs with the latest commits seeing H.264 and H.265/HEVC Vulkan encode support merged...

2024-09-18 13:08

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GNOME 47 Released With Accent Colors, Improved Apps & More

GNOME 47 is out today as the latest major update to this popular open-source desktop environment...

2024-09-18 11:35

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NVIDIA RTX 6000 Ada Generation vs. Radeon PRO Performance On Ubuntu Linux 24.04 LTS

For those wondering about the performance of the NVIDIA RTX 6000 Ada Generation workstation performance on Ubuntu 24.04 LTS with the up-to-date NVIDIA Linux graphics drivers now relying on the open-source kernel modules, this article is for you in look...

2024-09-18 09:25

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Linux 6.12 Adds Build Options For Greater Control Over CPU Security Mitigations

Not to be confused with the proposal a few days ago by an AMD engineer for Attack Vector Controls for broader control over CPU security mitigation handling, the in-development Linux 6.12 kernel is adding new Kconfig options to allow for more build-time...

2024-09-18 08:00

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Many Intel & AMD Power Management Improvements For Linux 6.12

The big set of power management updates for Linux 6.12 have landed...

2024-09-18 07:00

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Intel Compute Runtime Offers "Preview" Support For Lunar Lake

Intel Compute Runtime 24.35.30872.22 released today as the newest tagged version of this open-source GPU compute stack providing oneAPI Level Zero and OpenCL support for Linux and Windows systems...

2024-09-18 06:00

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Linux 6.12 Landing Integrity Policy Enforcement "IPE" Module

Merged as part of the Linux Security Modules (LSM) updates for the Linux 6.12 kernel is the new Integrity Policy Enforcement (IPE) module that has been years in the making. Integrity Policy Enforcement is an alternative to access controls...

2024-09-18 04:00

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Btrfs Sees Minor Performance Optimizations With Linux 6.12

The Btrfs file-system continues marching ahead with the Linux 6.12 kernel...

2024-09-18 01:11

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Patch Proposed For Adding x86_64 Feature Levels To The Kernel - But It's Likely D.O.A.

A patch was sent out on Sunday for adding new Linux kernel configuration options for tuning the kernel build to different x86_64 micro-architecture feature levels. The intent is on generating kernel builds that are faster for use on modern Intel and AM...

2024-09-17 15:30

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OpenJDK Java 23 Released With ZGC Generational Mode By Default

OpenJDK 23 is now generally available as the reference implementation to Java 23...

2024-09-17 12:30

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Initial AMD Zen 5 "Znver5" Support Merged For LLVM/Clang

Last week the a href="https://www.phoronix.com/news/AMD-Zen-5-LLVM-Enablement">initial AMD Zen 5 "znver5" enablement for LLVM/Clang was posted by an AMD compiler engineer. That code has since undergone review and merged for LLVM 20 Git and yesterday th...

2024-09-17 11:35

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The Printk Blocker For Upstreaming Real-Time "PREEMPT_RT" Has Been Merged

The printk changes to finish the NBCON consoles work has been merged for Linux 6.12! This is the last remaining blocker on real-time "PREEMPT_RT" support from being upstreamed. We're now tantalizing close to seeing the real-time kernel support merged a...

2024-09-17 10:19

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LLVM 19.1 Released With C++17 Support "Complete", More C & C++ Features

LLVM 19.1 is out today as the first stable version of the LLVM 19 compiler stack including the Clang 19 C/C++ compiler...

2024-09-17 09:00

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Fedora 41 Beta Released With Many Leading-Edge Linux Enhancements

The beta of Fedora 41 is out today ahead of the planned stable release in October for this leading-edge Linux distribution with many new features...

2024-09-17 08:00

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Mir 2.18 Released With Wayland Server-Side Decorations

Canonical today shipped Mir 2.18 as the latest version of this set of open-source libraries for assembly Wayland-based shells. Mir 2.18 brings a number of new features including Wayland server-side decorations...

2024-09-17 07:44

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Intel Linux NPU Driver 1.8 Released Ahead Of Lunar Lake

Ahead of the Intel Core Ultra 200V "Lunar Lake" laptops beginning to ship starting next week, the Intel Linux NPU Driver 1.8 is now available as the latest software update for embracing the Intel NPU for AI offloading...

2024-09-17 07:35

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Device Memory TCP Included With The Networking Changes For Linux 6.12

Jakub Kicinski submitted the networking subsystem updates over the weekend for the Linux 6.12 merge window. Most notable this cycle is Device Memory TCP for zero-copy receive of TCP payloads to DMA-BUF regions...

2024-09-17 04:00

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FreeBSD 13.4 Released With Many Software Updates & Driver Improvements

The FreeBSD camp today released FreeBSD 13.4 as the newest point release to the FreeBSD 13 stable series for those that haven't yet migrated to the FreeBSD 14 series...

2024-09-17 00:00

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