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DXVK 3.0.2 Released With Improved Hang Debugging, Handful Of Game Fixes

Phoronix - 4 hours 13 min ago
In addition to the initial build of Holo Core as AArch64 Arch Linux for the Steam Frame, another software milestone today in Valve's Linux gaming space is the release of DXVK 3.0.2 for Direct3D 8 / 9 / 10 / 11 APIs implemented over the Vulkan API for running Windows games...

Noctua NL-LC1-36 All-In-One Liquid Cooler

Phoronix - 11 hours 14 min ago
With reviewing hardware for more than 22 years, when it comes to cooling products there are few brands that can still get me intrigued like Noctua. With their recent launch of the NL-LC1 all-in-one liquid coolers, I decided to try out the Noctua NL-LC1-36 360mm AIO cooler that is working out well for cooling high-end desktop CPUs like the recently launched Ryzen 9 9950X3D2.

FastFlowLM Developers Join AMD To Help Push Open-Source NPU Software

Phoronix - 11 hours 39 min ago
On top of releasing ROCm 7.14 as the new production release of ROCm now built offTheRock, rolling out the Lemonade 11.0 local AI server, and GAIA 0.22, AMD has some more open-source news in the lead up to next week's AMD Advancing AI event...

Experimental Build Of Holo Core Published: Arch Linux AArch64 For Valve's Steam Frame

Phoronix - Fri, 07/17/2026 - 23:59
As part of Valve's upcoming Qualcomm-powered Steam Frame headset, Valve has been collaborating with Collabora on the Arch Linux AArch64 base for their platform. Published today are the initial sources and binaries of this "Holo Core" base of Arch Linux AArch64 to be used by the Steam Frame...

Linux WMI Driver Gets Ready To Support ACPI-Based ARM64 Laptops

Phoronix - Fri, 07/17/2026 - 21:45
Linux developer Armin Wolf sent out a set of patches today for enabling AArch64 support for the ACPI Windows Management Instrumentation (WMI) driver to work on AArch64 in no longer being bound to x86/x86_64. This is a step toward the long goal of being able to support modern Windows on ARM laptops via ACPI on Linux...

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