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NVIDIA Vulkan Beta Driver Updated For Blackwell & New Extensions
NVIDIA engineers closed out February by releasing the NVIDIA 570.123.01 Vulkan beta driver for Linux and on the Windows side was the NVIDIA 572.63 driver release...
2025-02-28 17:47
AMD Prepares Linux Driver Support For Image Signal Processor With New Laptops
Patches were posted today for the Linux kernel implementing new drivers for web camera image signal processing (ISP) for supporting new, unspecified AMD Ryzen laptops...
2025-02-28 12:40
FreeDesktop.org Devises New Hosting Plan For GitLab Infrastructure
One month ago FreeDesktop.org/X.Org experienced a new cloud crisis with Equinix Metal shutting down and losing access to all the FreeDesktop.org cloud/hosting resources at the end of April. FreeDesktop.org GitLab powers not only the X.Org projects but ...
2025-02-28 11:58
NetworkManager 1.52 Brings IPVLAN Interface Support, Ethtool FEC Mode
NetworkManager 1.52 is out today as the newest version of this widely-used system network service and network configuration tool suite for Linux systems...
2025-02-28 09:56
AMD Radeon RX 9070 Series Officially Announced
The embargo is over! We finally can share details on the exciting Radeon RX 9070 series graphics cards powered by RDNA4 that will be available from Internet retailers next week.
2025-02-28 08:00
There Will Not Be Official ROCm Support For The Radeon RX 9070 Series On Launch Day
AMD has been investing a lot into the ROCm compute stack to make it a more formidable contender against the NVIDIA CUDA software ecosystem. From better documentation and improved application/API coverage to expanding their range of supported AMD GPUs, ...
2025-02-28 08:00
AMD Engineer Talks Up Vulkan/SPIR-V As Part Of Their MLIR-Based Unified AI Software Play
An AMD engineer presented earlier this month at the Vulkanised 2025 conference in Cambridge (UK) around the work they are pursuing for AI using the MLIR intermediate representation, IREE, and the role that Vulkan/SPIR-V can play for AI acceleration acr...
2025-02-28 06:46
GCC 15.1 Compiler Nears Release As Bugs Whittled Away
Current GNU Compiler Collection release manager Richard Biener of SUSE provided an update concerning the upcoming GCC 15 stable compiler release...
2025-02-28 06:28
RADV Driver Expands Use Of Performance-Helping DCC Fast Clears On RDNA3 GPUs
Just ahead of the AMD RDNA4 GPUs launching, the Mesa RADV Vulkan driver has expanded a performance optimization technique for existing RDNA3 graphics processors...
2025-02-28 06:20
AMDVLK 2025.Q1.2 Released With Strix Halo Support
When seeing a new AMDVLK release was just tagged on GitHub and just a few hours to go until the Radeon RX 9070 series announcement, I was hoping it was going to be a new driver officially rolling out their new RDNA4 GPU support. Today's AMDVLK 2025.Q1....
2025-02-28 05:57
Intel Posts Linux Kernel Patches For Supporting APX - Advanced Performance Extensions
Intel initially detailed Advanced Performance Extensions (APX) back in mid-2023 as extensions to double the number of general purpose registers and add other performance features. In the time since they have done a lot preparing the GCC and LLVM/Clang ...
2025-02-27 15:40
EA Open-Sources Command & Conquer Red Alert
In a surprising announcement, Electronic Arts announced today that they have open-sourced Command and Conquer Red Alert under the GPL license along with Command and Conquer Tiberian Dawn and related titles...
2025-02-27 14:44
Motion Control Subsystem Proposed For The Linux Kernel
A set of patches posted to the Linux kernel mailing list today propose the introduction of a Linux Motion Control "LMC" subsystem for drivers that could control devices like CNC machines and 3D printers...
2025-02-27 13:30
SUSE's "Agama" OS Installer Receives Pleasant Facelift, Future Roadmap
SUSE's Agama project is their modern OS installer featuring a web-based UI that will serve as the installer of SUSE/openSUSE in future releases moving forward. Agama 12 is now available as the newest iteration of this operating system installer and the...
2025-02-27 12:11
NVIDIA 570.124.04 Linux Driver Brings Additional Fixes
Going into beta just under one month ago was the NVIDIA 570.86.16 Linux driver that brought initial support for GeForce RTX 50 "Blackwell" graphics cards as well as Vulkan driver improvements, Variable Rate Refresh (VRR) support with multiple displays,...
2025-02-27 10:39
FFmpeg Lands AV1 RTP Packetizer/Depacketizer
Merged yesterday to FFmpeg Git is an initial AV1 RTP packetizer and depacketizer in working to support the tentative AV1 RTP specification...
2025-02-27 10:08
FreeBSD In Q4 Saw More Work For AMD Systems, Framework Laptops & PinePhone Pro
The FreeBSD project this morning published their quarterly status report that outlines all of the interesting OS improvements and other changes made during Q4'2024...
2025-02-27 08:45
Fish 4.0 Shell Released With Code Ported From C++ To Rust
Entering beta last year was the Fish Shell 4.0 release that migrated its codebase from C++ to Rust. Out today is the first stable 4.0 release for the Rust-ed version of the popular Fish Shell...
2025-02-27 08:24
AMD Open-Sources GMLIB For RadeonSI Driver - Working On HDR Video Support
Merged today for Mesa 25.1 is introducing a new previously AMD-internal library to the open-source RadeonSI Gallium3D driver dubbed GMLIB. This GMLIB code is being used by RadeonSI in conjunction with Radeon GPUs having the Video Processing Engine (VPE...
2025-02-27 06:58
x86 32-bit Changes Look To Be Ready For Linux 6.15 - Drops Support For More Than 4GB RAM
Over the past few months there's been an in-progress patch series by Arnd Bergmann for cleaning up the x86 32-bit kernel support for running on x86_64 CPUs. After the third iteration of the patches were posted this week, these x86 32-bit CPU clean-ups ...
2025-02-27 06:34