Mesa 25.0 Introduces Standard Library For Driver OpenCL C
An interesting addition to Mesa 25.0 this week is Alyssa Rosenzweig adding a standard library for the driver OpenCL C code, including the initial abbility to support assert() on device and other standard C constructs for the OpenCL C code...
NTSYNC Linux Driver Updated With API Design Improvements
After some six months of silence, this past week the NTSYNC LInux kernel driver patches were revived for completing this open-source driver to better match the Windows NT synchronization primitives to help with Wine / Proton (Steam Play) Windows gaming...
Qualcomm Preps Cloud AI 200 "AIC200" Accelerator Support
While not as popular as their Snapdragon SoCs, Qualcomm has been offering their Cloud AI line of accelerators for scalable AI inference. The current flagship is the Qualcomm Cloud AI 100 Ultra as a 150 Watt rated PCIe Gen4 x16 card for up to 870 TOPS I...
OpenZFS 2.3-rc4 Released With Linux 6.12 LTS Support
Following the OpenZFS 2.2.7 stable point release earlier this week that brought Linux 6.12 LTS kernel compatibility along with various fixes, OpenZFS 2.3-rc4 is out today as the latest step toward the big OpenZFS 2.3 feature release...
Intel Arc B580 Battlemage Linux Workstation Graphics Performance
Yesterday I shared the Linux gaming performance and OpenCL / GPU compute performance for the new Intel Arc B580 Battlemage graphics card. Today the focus is a look at how well the Linux workstation graphics performance for Battlemage is looking relativ...
Choosing Better Alternatives Amid Confusing Policies
A recent back-and-forth on Windows 11’s hardware requirements and the end-of-life timeline for Windows 10 leaves millions of users frustrated and uncertain about their next steps. With millions of PCs being labeled by mainstream media as becoming obs...
How does OpenSearch work?
How does opensearch work? OpenSearch is an open-source search and analytics suite. Developers build solutions for search and more!
What is RAG?
RAG explained: is a technique that enhances generative AI models by utilizing external knowledge sources such as documents and extensive databases.
Ubuntu 25.04 Planning To Ship With The Linux 6.14 Kernel
This shouldn't be too surprising especially after Canonical's commitment last year to always ship the latest upstream kernel version for Ubuntu releases moving forward, but the plan was confirmed today that Ubuntu 25.04 intends to ship with the Linux 6...
