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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...
2024-12-14 06:36
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...
2024-12-14 06:22
KDE Plasma 6.3 Delivers Much Better Fractional Scaling, Clipboard Using SQLite
KDE developers continue to be quite busy ahead of the holidays to pack more features into the upcoming Plasma 6.3 desktop release...
2024-12-14 05:46
Wine 10.0-rc2 Released With 21 Fixes For The Week
Building off last week's release of Wine 10.0-rc1 is now Wine 10.0-rc2 as the next test release in working toward the Wine 10.0 stable debut around mid January...
2024-12-13 20:31
Intel Lands "Round Robin Strict" Driver Optimization For Helping Battlemage/Xe2
Intel's open-source Linux graphics driver engineers are busy working to further refine the Xe2 graphics performance for Lunar Lake integrated graphics and the newly-launched Battlemage discrete graphics. Landing in Mesa 25.0-devel this Friday afternoon...
2024-12-13 16:26
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...
2024-12-13 14:28
Patches Posted For Review Adding COBOL Frontend To GCC Compiler
The COBOL programming language may be 65 years old since its original release but the mainline GNU Compiler Collection (GCC) in 2025 might finally see upstream support for it...
2024-12-13 12:20
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...
2024-12-13 10:20
VKD3D-Proton 2.14 Released With New Features For D3D12 On Vulkan
Hans-Kristian Arntzen with Valve just released VKD3D-Proton 2.14 as the newest version of this Direct3D 12 implementation built atop the Vulkan API for Valve's Steam Play (Proton)...
2024-12-13 08:59
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...
2024-12-13 06:48
Intel Looking To Raise SPIR-V Backend To Becoming An Official LLVM Target
The SPIR-V target within the LLVM compiler for outputting to this common IR used across different accelerator/device types, different APIs from Vulkan and SYCL to GLSL / OpenCL / HLSL, and adapted for a variety of innovative use-cases could soon become...
2024-12-13 06:35
GNOME 48 Mutter To Enjoy Improved Cursor Scaling For Wine Wayland & More
Merged this week to GNOME's Mutter compositor for the GNOME 48 release is support for the wp_viewport protocol for cursor surfaces in order to provide a nicer experience on cursor scaling...
2024-12-13 06:21
Intel Panther Lake & Clearwater Forest Power Management Patches For Linux 6.14
Intel engineer and Linux power management subsystem maintainer Rafael Wysocki queued up several power management related patches this week for Intel's upcoming Core Ultra "Panther Lake" processors as well as the next-gen Xeon Clearwater Forest processo...
2024-12-13 06:06
CentOS Stream 10 Reaches GA With Linux 6.12, Python 3.12 & No X.Org Server
Following the recent Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10 Beta, CentOS Stream 10 has now reached general availability status. CentOS Stream 10 defines the upstream Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10 that the RHEL 10 minor versions are created from and ultimately a pre...
2024-12-12 19:15
Btrfs SIG Established For Advancing Btrfs Interests On Fedora
While Fedora Workstation has defaulted to using the Btrfs file-system for the past four years, only this past summer was the idea raised of creating a Fedora special interest group (SIG) around Btrfs to help advance efforts around this CoW file-system ...
2024-12-12 14:48
LibreOffice 25.2 Beta 1 Office Suite Ready For Testing
Building off last month's release of the LibreOffice 25.2 Alpha release for this free software office suite, out today is the first beta release of the upcoming LibreOffice 25.2...
2024-12-12 12:33
Fedora COSMIC Desktop Spin Proposed For Fedora 42
A new "Fedora COSMIC" spin of Fedora Linux has been proposed that would feature the Rust-based COSMIC desktop environment currently being developed by Linux PC vendor System76...
2024-12-12 10:48
Intel Arc B580 Graphics Open-Source Driver Linux Gaming Performance
Last week Intel announced the Arc B-Series Battlemage graphics cards as their first Xe2 discrete GPUs. Ahead of the Arc B580 graphics card hitting Internet retailers tomorrow, today the review embargo lifts on the Intel Arc B580. Here is what to expect...
2024-12-12 09:00
Intel Arc B580 Delivers Promising Linux GPU Compute Potential For Battlemage
Now that the initial Intel Arc B580 graphics card gaming review on Linux is out, for productivity-minded users you may be more curious about the GPU compute potential... Here are some initial OpenCL and Level Zero results for the Intel Arc B580 graphic...
2024-12-12 09:00
Linux Developers Consider Ending 32-bit KVM Host Virtualization Support`
Earlier this month as part of patches for cleaning up x86 32-bit kernel code for x86_64 systems, there was a patch to drop support for 32-bit x86 KVM host support. That patch has now been split off into its own patch series with also now raising the pr...
2024-12-12 08:29