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Servo Browser Engine Adds Dark Mode, Some XPath Support

The Servo open-source web browser layout engine project has published their newest monthly recap to highlight the progress they made during December 2024. They ended the year on a high note with getting dark mode support working and other features wire...

2025-01-10 09:50

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VKD3D-Proton 2.14.1 Brings A Few Fixes For Direct3D 12 On Vulkan

Hans-Kristian Arntzen with Valve has just released VKD3D-Proton 2.14.1 as this Direct3D 12 over Vulkan implementation...

2025-01-10 09:02

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Ubuntu Considers Taking It Easier On Software Updates Over Weekends

Ubuntu developers are looking at extending their policy of not releasing stable release updates (SRUs) around the weekend as well as not phasing them up to 100% during those weekend times either...

2025-01-10 07:03

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12 Years After Haswell, Intel Open-Source Graphics Developers Still Make Occasional Fix

The Intel Haswell CPUs were originally introduced back in 2013 and great for the time. Under Microsoft Windows the driver support has long been obsolete but under Linux with Intel's open-source driver support there is still even the occasional fix all ...

2025-01-10 06:40

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Blumenkrantz Boosts Zink Performance By 150% For Everspace, Possibly Helping Other Games

Mike Blumenkrantz of Valve's Linux graphics driver team who is known for his work on the Zink generic OpenGL-on-Vulkan driver implementation has made another mighty round of improvements for helping the gaming performance...

2025-01-10 06:25

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COSMIC Alpha 5 Desktop Brings COSMIC Media Player As Default, VRR Updates

Building off the COSMIC Alpha 4 release from early December, COSMIC Alpha 5 is now available as the newest stepping stone toward the first stable release of this Rust-based open-source desktop developed by System76 for their Pop!_OS Linux distribution...

2025-01-09 17:05

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AMD Secure TSC Support Might Finally Be Ready For Landing In The Linux Kernel

Going back to January 2023 were patches for enabling Secure TSC support for use by SEV-SNP guests with AMD EPYC 7003 "Milan" and newer processors... Two years later and after sixteen rounds of revising the Linux kernel patches, it looks like the AMD Se...

2025-01-09 16:42

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Intel Compute Runtime 24.52.32224.5 Brings More Battlemage Optimizations

The Intel Compute Runtime 24.52.32224.5 release was made earlier today as the newest update to this open-source Linux and Windows compute stack for Intel graphics hardware for providing OpenCL and oneAPI Level Zero implementations...

2025-01-09 13:39

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Google & Linux Foundation Launch "Supporters of Chromium-Based Browsers" Fund

Google and the Linux Foundation today announced the creation of the "Supporters of Chromium-Based Browsers" fund to help provide funding to open-source developers working on Chromium-based open-source projects...

2025-01-09 12:23

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KDE Plasma 6.3 Beta Released With A Ton Of Improvements

Ahead of the planned stable release next month, the beta version of Plasma 6.3 is out today for testing this next iteration of the KDE desktop...

2025-01-09 11:05

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Microsoft's Azure Linux Introduces New AMD Graphics Driver Options

Microsoft's in-house Linux distribution known as Azure Linux is out with its 3.0.20250102 update today. One of the interesting changes in this release is adding new AMD driver package repositories for allowing Azure Linux users to fetch the latest offi...

2025-01-09 10:28

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KDE Plasma Wayland Protocols 1.16 Brings Power/Performance vs. Color Accuracy Preference

KDE developers today released Plasma Wayland Protocols 1.16 as the newest feature update to this set of non-standard Wayland protocols used by the Plasma desktop...

2025-01-09 08:40

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Intel PMT Telemetry Now Available For Battlemage Graphics Cards

The Intel PMT open-source software support has now been updated for Platform Monitoring Technology Telemetry with the new Battlemage discrete graphics cards...

2025-01-09 07:00

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LLVM Clang Lands Targeting Support For The SiFive P550 RISC-V Performance Core

Upstreamed to LLVM/Clang overnight is now targeting support for the SiFive P550 RISC-V core with the "-mcpu=sifive-p550" option...

2025-01-09 06:51

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GNOME Mutter Merges Support For Wayland Timing & Queuing Protocols

After being in development the past year, merged today to Mutter Git ahead of GNOME 48 is support for the Wayland timing and queueing protocols...

2025-01-09 06:32

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Mold 2.36 Linker Brings More Optimizations & Compatibility Improvements

Rui Ueyama released Mold 2.36 as the newest update to this open-source linker that aims to deliver maximum performance at all costs...

2025-01-09 06:21

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Raspberry Pi 5 16GB Model Launches For $120 USD

One of the leading rare complaints over the Raspberry Pi 5 single board computer (and the more recently launched Raspberry Pi 500) is that it tops out at just 8GB of system memory... 8GB was enough years ago and still is if planning to use the Raspberr...

2025-01-09 03:00

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Redox OS Ends 2024 On A High Note With Dynamic Linking Progress, ifconfig Port

The open-source, Rust-based Redox OS operating system has published their December 2024 development recap. The developers involved did a great job ending out 2024 with a lot of exciting improvements for this scratch-based open-source operating system...

2025-01-08 20:24

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Intel's Clang Code Begins Landing For OpenMP Offloading To SPIR-V For GPU Execution

Intel software engineers have been working on allowing OpenMP offloading to their Intel GPUs by way of targeting generic SPIR-V, the common intermediate representation used across Vulkan / OpenGL / OpenCL drivers. The initial patches to that work have ...

2025-01-08 16:47

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Linux 6.14 Preps UHBR For Intel Panther Lake, Lower Alchemist GPU Power Use With Whitelisted CPUs

Intel software engineers this week sent out two pull requests landing more of their final kernel graphics driver feature changes destined for the upcoming Linux 6.14 kernel...

2025-01-08 10:10

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