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RADV Driver Fixes Mesh Shader Support For AMD Phoenix APUs
Valve's Linux graphics driver team has fixed the Vulkan mesh shader support for those using RDNA3 integrated graphics with Phoenix APUs on the latest Mesa RADV driver code...
Vulkan 1.3.278 Released With Two New Extensions - One Will Help Wine / Steam Play
Vulkan 1.3.278 was published this morning and in addition to the usual documentation corrections/clarifications, there are also two new Vulkan extensions in tow...
Radeon Software for Linux 23.40.2 Adds Support For Dual RX 7900 / W7800 / W7900 GPUs
AMD on Valentine's Day released an updated Radeon Software for Linux packaged driver stack for enterprise Linux operating systems that targets the Radeon RX 7900 series and Radeon PRO W6800 / W7800 / W7900 graphics cards...
GhostBSD 24.01.1 Released: Based On FreeBSD 14, Many Improvements
GhostBSD as one of the few actively maintained desktop-focused BSD distributions is out with a new release this week...
AMD Ryzen 8500G / 8600G / 8700G Performance @ 35 Watt & 45 Watt cTDP
Following the Linux reviews of the Ryzen 7 8700G, Ryzen 5 8600G, and Ryzen 5 8500G Zen 4 + RDNA3 desktop APUs, here is another look at these parts when making use of the lower configurable TDP options for these AM5 chips. All three of these new parts were re-tested at both 35 and 45 Watt cTDPs for seeing the impact on performance and power efficiency.
Intel Posts Patches For Plane Color Pipeline Support On Linux - Jiving With AMD's Design
As part of the AMD color management and HDR efforts worked on by AMD Linux engineers along with Valve and other stakeholders like Igalia developers, Intel engineers have posted their plane color pipeline implementation that follows the cross-vendor API proposal...
AMD Certifies PRO W7800 & RX 7900 GRE For ROCm, Officially Adds ONNX Runtime
AMD made a Valentine's Day announcement of expanding the graphics cards they are officially supporting with ROCm 6.0 as well as adding ONNX Runtime alongside PyTorch to the AI/ML frameworks they are supporting with their open-source software stack...
Fast Dedup Coming To OpenZFS For Overhauling Deduplication Capability
The folks at iXsystems and Klara are contributing Fast Dedup support to upstream OpenZFS and beginning to roll out this improved deduplication support within TrueNAS SCALE starting next month...
Qt Creator 13 Beta Brings Improved Docking UI, Qt App Manager Support
The Qt Creator 13 Beta is now available for testing for this Qt/C++ focused integrated development environment (IDE) that also supports a growing number of other programming languages too...
UPower Power-Profiles-Daemon 0.20 Brings AMDGPU Display Panel Power Savings
Power-Profiles-Daemon 0.20 has been released as the newest version of this project now living under the UPower umbrella. The Power-Profiles-Daemon allows for exposing power profiles over D-Bus and in turn integrates nicely with the likes of the GNOME Settings...
Mesa 24.0.1 Released With Various Graphics Driver Fixes
For those that prefer to wait for the first Mesa point release in a new series before upgrading, Mesa 24.0.1 was released on Wednesday evening with the first batch of fixes for the feature-packed Mesa 24.0...
PSP 14.0 & Other New AMD Graphics IP Enablement Continues For Linux Ahead Of RDNA4
In recent weeks there have been a lot of open-source AMD Radeon graphics driver patches flying around for the GFX12 graphics engine, Video Core Next 5, and other new graphics intellectual property (IP) blocks that appear to be for next-generation "RDNA4" Radeon graphics. This week yet more patches have been posted publicly...
Core NGINX Developer Forks Web Server Into Freenginx
Maxim Dounin as one of the longtime core developers of the Nginx web server announced the creation today of a new fork of the project called Freenginx...
System76's COSMIC Desktop Nearing Alpha Release
In a Valentine's Day blog post, System76 has outlined how they are nearing the release of their alpha build of the COSMIC desktop environment that they have been developing as part of their Pop!_OS Linux distribution...
OpenGL 4.6 + OpenGL ES 3.2 Achieved On Apple M1 With Linux Driver
The Asahi Linux project working on the AGX Gallium3D driver for Mesa has now managed to achieve OpenGL 4.6 conformance as well as OpenGL ES 3.2. This is a big upgrade for the Linux OpenGL support on the Apple M1 as previously only OpenGL 4.1 was exposed...
Thunderbird Making Progress With Adopting Rust Code
Earlier this month at FOSDEM in Brussels was a presentation by developers Brendan Abolivier, Ikey Doherty, and Sean Burke on the Thunderbird mail client beginning to make use of the Rust programming language within its codebase...
The Importance Of The TUXEDO Driver Package On Their Newer Ryzen Laptops
As an important notice to those with new TUXEDO laptops such as the TUXEDO Pulse 14 Gen 3 powered by the Ryzen 7 7840HS, installing their DKMS-based driver package can be very important if aiming to achieve maximum performance.
"SandBox Mode" Proposed For The Linux Kernel To Improve Memory Safety
While there is already the work underway on allowing the Rust programming language within the Linux kernel in part to leverage its memory safety potential, a proposal was sent out this morning for a new "SandBox Mode" for the Linux kernel to also increase the memory safety of C code within the kernel...
Intel Prepares For New Adaptive Sharpening Filter Coming With Lunar Lake's Xe2 Graphics
A new feature coming with the display engine on Intel Lunar Lake's Xe2 graphics is an adaptive sharpening filter that has minimal power and performance impact...
New Nouveau Patch Would Allow Optionally Enabling GSP Mode By Default
With the Nouveau driver support for using the NVIDIA GSP (GPU System Processor) that was added in Linux 6.7, that is only used by default on the GeForce RTX 40 "Ada" GPUs and moving forward where otherwise there is no accelerated support. The NVIDIA GSP is present in the GeForce RTX 20 "Turing" and RTX 30 "Ampere" hardware too, but not used by default unless setting a module option to enable the mode. However, a new patch is pending that would allow kernel builders to optionally enable the GSP mode by default...