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DXVK 2.5.3 Brings More Fixes For Direct3D 9 / 10 / 11 On Vulkan

Philip Rebohle working for Valve has just released DXVK 2.5.3 as the newest update to this Direct3D 9 / 10 / 11 implementation over the Vulkan API that is used for enjoying older Windows games on Linux...

2025-01-13 10:54

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Linux Attack Vector Controls Updated To More Easily Controlling CPU Security Mitigations

Last year an AMD engineer proposed the notion of "Attack Vector Controls" for the Linux kernel to re-think how the CPU security mitigation handling is done and making it easier for system administrators/users to toggle the mitigations they are concerne...

2025-01-13 10:16

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A Microsoft-Contributed Change To Linux 6.13 Is Causing A Last Minute Ruckus

A change to the Linux 6.13 kernel contributed by a Microsoft engineer ended up changing Linux x86_64 code without proper authorization and in turn causing troubles for users and now set to be disabled ahead of the Linux 6.13 stable release expected nex...

2025-01-13 08:40

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Alibaba Engineers Work To Address Suspend/Resume Bugs With The AMD Graphics Driver

Alibaba engineers have recently been working through some AMD Linux kernel graphics driver bugs uncovered during suspend-and-resume testing with AMD graphics cards...

2025-01-13 07:00

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Intel Gigabit Ethernet Driver To Speed-Up With AF_XDP Zero-Copy For Linux 6.14

Queued up into the networking subsystem's "net-next" branch last week ahead of the Linux 6.14 kernel cycle is AF_XDP zero-copy support for the common Intel Gigabit Ethernet "IGB" driver. With this the AF_XDP performance improvements can be quite dramat...

2025-01-13 06:36

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AMD Broadcast TLB Invalidation Linux Patches Reworked In 4th Spin

A nice Christmas surprise for 2024 was Meta engineer Rik van Riel posting Linux kernel patches for making use of the AMD INVLPGB instruction found since Zen 3 processors for broadcast TLB invalidation...

2025-01-13 06:20

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Hyprland Wayland Compositor Lands HDR / Color Management Support

Hyprland is now the latest Wayland compositor supporting the color management protocols and allowing High Dynamic Range (HDR) color support with capable displays...

2025-01-13 06:05

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GCC 15 Compiler Enters Its Final Stage Of Development

Richard Biener of SUSE announced today that the GCC 15 compiler has entered its stage four of development, which is the last stage focused only on regression fixes and documentation updates...

2025-01-13 05:51

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Linux 6.13-rc7 Released: Linux 6.13 Stable Likely Next Week

Linux 6.13-rc7 is out as the newest weekly release candidate for Linux 6.13 is a more exciting one than weeks prior with many of the developers and kernel testers returning from the end-of-year holiday break. Linux 6.13 remains on track for releasing a...

2025-01-12 18:24

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OpenBLAS 0.3.29 Brings Auto-Detection For Intel Granite Rapids, Apple M4 & AMD Zen 5

OpenBLAS 0.3.29 is out today as a big update for this widely-used, open-source implementation for Basic Linear Algebra Subprograms and LAPACK APIs...

2025-01-12 10:58

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NTSYNC Driver Ready For Enhancing Windows Gaming With Linux 6.14

Set to make the upcoming Linux 6.14 kernel cycle even more exciting is that it looks like the completed NTSYNC driver will be ready for merging. The NTSYNC driver enhances Wine / Proton (Steam Play) gaming by better matching the Windows NT synchronizat...

2025-01-12 07:50

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Enlightenment 0.27 Released For This 28 Year Old Window Manager / Compositor

Just over one year since the release of the Enlightenment 0.26 window manager, this weekend Carsten Haitzler released the Enlightenment 0.27 window manager and Wayland compositor. Enlightenment continues going now 28 years in development by Rasterman!..

2025-01-12 06:39

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Linux cpupower Utility To See Improved AMD Support With Linux 6.14 Kernel

The cpupower utility lives within the Linux kernel source tree and for the upcoming Linux 6.14 kernel will see better reporting capabilities on modern AMD Ryzen and EPYC processors...

2025-01-12 06:31

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Niri 25.01 Scrollable-Tiling Wayland Compositor Brings More Features

Niri 25.01 was released on Saturday as the newest version of this scrollable-tiling Wayland compositor that has developed a nice following among enthusiasts...

2025-01-12 06:14

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Fedora 42 Looks To Ship Optimized Executables For Different x86_64 Capabilities

Fedora Linux has already supported making use of glibc HWCAPs for allowing libraries to be built for different x86_64 micro-architecture feature levels for performance-sensitive code where it can pay off when leveraging AVX/AVX2 or other newer Intel/AM...

2025-01-11 13:00

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Debian 12.9 Released With Various Security & Bug Fixes

Debian 12.9 was just released as the latest install media refresh for those wishing to run the latest Debian 12 packages...

2025-01-11 10:32

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AMD Preps More GPU Driver Fixes For Linux 6.14, Cleaner Shader For RDNA2 dGPUs

On Friday AMD sent out another round of patches that are destined for the upcoming Linux 6.14 kernel cycle...

2025-01-11 08:54

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Intel Xe Driver Adding "RPa" Frequency Reporting With Linux 6.14

This week Intel engineers sent out a number of kernel graphics driver pull requests of new code for the upcoming Linux 6.14 cycle. In addition to the UHBR for Panther Lake and lower Alchemist GPU power use with whitelisted GPUs and fixing old Intel Has...

2025-01-11 07:07

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GNOME Image Viewer Now Editing JPEGs, Other GNOME 48 Progress

GNOME 48 is moving along with the GNOME 48 Alpha packages due this weekend followed by the beta in early February. GNOME 48 is still making good progress in its goal to release on 19 March...

2025-01-11 06:45

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Sony Proposes Changing LLVM Clang Default To C++20 Mode

Sony engineers are proposing that the LLVM Clang compiler changes its default C++ mode from C++17 to C++20. This coincides with Sony planning to soon upgrade their PlayStation 5 compiler downstream to C++20 by default...

2025-01-11 06:33

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