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Direct3D Video Decode To Vulkan Video API Being Worked On For Wine

In addition to mapping the Direct3D graphics API to Vulkan, Wine developers are working on mapping the Direct3D video acceleration APIs to work atop the Vulkan Video API...

2025-03-04 06:32

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RADV Driver Adds CI Coverage For Aging Radeon R9 290 "Hawaii" GPUs

While AMD hasn't released an updated Windows driver for the Radeon R9 290 "Hawaii" GPUs since 2022 for Windows 10, over in the Linux/open-source space the driver support continues. It will hopefully continue reliably too now that the Mesa RADV continuo...

2025-03-04 06:30

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Intel Revises DRM Sharpness Property For Use With Lunar Lake Sharpening Capabilities

Going back nearly one year Intel has been working on Linux driver support for a new adaptive sharpening filter with Lunar Lake graphics. That's culminated into working on a common DRM sharpness property for communicating sharpness preferences and this ...

2025-03-04 06:18

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Rust-Written Redox OS Expands Use Of Dynamic Linking

The Redox OS open-source operating system written from scratch in the Rust programming language is continuing to enjoy nice progress in 2025 on its goals. The Redox OS project has published their February 2025 status update that highlights achievements...

2025-03-03 20:17

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Godot 4.4 Open-Source Game Engine Released With Many Improvements

Godot 4.4 is out as stable today for serving as the newest feature release to this leading open-source, cross-platform 2D/3D game engine...

2025-03-03 12:18

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GNOME Mutter 48.rc Released With Wayland Color Management, Dynamic Triple Buffering

Ahead of the GNOME 48 stable release due out later this month, tagged now is the Mutter "48.rc" release candidate milestone. While the feature freeze passed last month, there has been a lot of last minute improvements merged for Mutter to squeeze into ...

2025-03-03 12:07

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Firefox 136 Available With AMD GPU Linux Video Acceleration, AArch64 Linux Binaries

Mozilla Firefox 136.0 release binaries are now available online ahead of tomorrow's official release announcement. Particularly on the Linux side, Firefox 136 is one of the more exciting updates in recent times...

2025-03-03 11:46

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How The Ubuntu Linux Performance Has Evolved For SiFive RISC-V Over The Last Four Years

SiFive recently sent over their new HiFive Premier P550 developer board and as part of that fresh RISC-V CPU testing I've also been re-testing the prior SiFive HiFive Unmatched developer board from 2020~2021 for reference. Out of curiosity, I've carrie...

2025-03-03 11:12

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AMD Broadcast TLB Invalidation "INVLPGB" Support Appears Ready For The Linux Kernel

Back in December Linux kernel patches were posted by a Meta engineer for making use of the AMD INVLPGB instruction found with Zen 3 and newer processors. The Linux kernel would use INVLPGB for invalidating TLB entries for a range of pages with broadcas...

2025-03-03 10:00

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Raspberry Pi CM4 Now Available With "Extended Temperature" Variants

Raspberry Pi has been on a spree lately with many new product launches such as the Raspberry Pi 500, Raspberry Pi Monitor, Raspberry Pi 5 16GB, and Compute Module 5 in the past few months. Today the company announced an expansion of their offerings in ...

2025-03-03 08:45

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Rustup 1.28 Adds New Windows AArch64 & LoongArch Platform Support

Rustup 1.28 is out today as the newest version of this official tool that is the Rust project's recommended means of installing the Rust programming language support...

2025-03-03 08:32

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Intel Preps Linux For eUSB2V2 To Enhance USB 2.0 For Higher Resolution Laptop Webcams

Last September the USB Implementers Forum quietly published an update to the USB 2.0 specification... The Embedded USB2 Version 2.0 "eUSB2V2" supplement to provide for better performance with significantly higher data rates to USB 2.0 while maintaining...

2025-03-03 06:47

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Linux Gaining SMP Support For The OpenPOWER Microwatt

Open-sourced back in 2019 was the OpenPOWER Microwatt as an open-source, soft processor core of Power ISA 3.0 and intended for use on FPGA boards and then there was seemingly short-lived work to fabricate a Microwatt chip and Microwatt also found its w...

2025-03-03 06:23

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Optimized AMD SEV Cache Flushing Patches Posted For Linux

The newest upstream-focused work around AMD SEV for Secure Encrypted Virtualization with EPYC server processors is a set of patches to better optimize cache flushing...

2025-03-03 06:06

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Linux 6.14-rc5 Released: "Nothing Strange Stands Out"

Linus Torvalds just released the Linux 6.14-rc5 kernel as the Linux 6.14 stable kernel approaches toward release later in March...

2025-03-02 15:00

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NVIDIA Is Finding Great Success With Vulkan Machine Learning - Competitive With CUDA

It's not only AMD that is working on Vulkan/SPIR-V support for machine learning / AI software but NVIDIA has been working on improvements too for enhancing Vulkan-powered machine learning software. The outlook for using Vulkan within machine learning s...

2025-03-02 10:00

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TurnkeyML 6.0 Released With OpenAI-Compatible Server, Other Changes

Back in 2023 ONNX and AMD announced TurnkeyML as an "AI insights toolchain". There hasn't been too much news about TurnkeyML since then and they now describe the project itself as a "no-code AI toolchain" while this week brought the release of the big ...

2025-03-02 06:32

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ARM Linux Kernel May Shift To Generic Entry Code: Less Assembly But Lower Performance

A pull request was sent out on Friday that could potentially land for the upcoming Linux 6.15 kernel to transition ARM's kernel entry code from some architecture-specific Assembly over to using the generic entry code path. It means more unification and...

2025-03-02 06:16

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SDL 3.2.6 Released With HiDPI Icons & Color Management On Wayland

Following the official SDL 3 release back in January, SDL 3.2.6 was released this weekend as the newest iteration of this widely-used software/hardware abstraction layer that is commonly leveraged by cross-platform games...

2025-03-02 06:02

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Steam Survey For February 2025 Shows A Big Drop To Linux Use

Back during January Steam on Linux dropped by 0.23% to a 2.06% marketshare while overnight the numbers were published for February 2025.....

2025-03-02 05:22

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