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AMD Hardware Ray-Tracing Hopes To Be Ready For Blender 3.5
While Blender 3.2 introduced AMD HIP on Linux support for GPU acceleration and the recent Blender 3.3 extended the AMD GPU Cycles acceleration back to GFX9/Vega GPUs, for those wanting AMD ray-tracing support within Blender it's not expected to come until Blender 3.5...
Mesa 22.2 Released With AMD RDNA3 Prep, Intel Arc Graphics, Many Vulkan Improvements
The belated Mesa 22.2 was unexpectedly released today for providing the very latest open-source Linux graphics driver support not only for Intel and AMD Radeon graphics hardware but also the reverse-engineered Nouveau (NVIDIA) driver and the many smaller drivers like Etnaviv, Mali, Panfrost, the new PowerVR Vulkan driver, and the software drivers like LLVMpipe and Zink...
NVIDIA 515.76 Driver Released With Bug Fixes, Linux 6.0 Compatibility
While not as exciting as this morning's GTC 2022 keynote and the introduction of the GeForce RTX 40 series, NVIDIA today released 515.76 as their latest production series Linux driver build...
Wasmtime 1.0 Released - Bytecode Alliance Declares It Production Ready
Way back in 2019 Intel, Mozilla, and Red Hat started the Bytecode Alliance as an initiative to promote running WebAssembly "everywhere" and expand the scope of WASM outside of the web browser. After being in development now for three years, Wasmtime 1.0 was released for this production-ready WebAssembly runtime...
NVIDIA Announces Open-Source CV-CUDA Project
Alongside the GeForce RTX 40 series debut and many other announcements today during the NVIDIA GTC 2022 keynote by Jensen Huang, CV-CUDA was announced as NVIDIA's newest open-source project...
NVIDIA Announces The GeForce RTX 40 Series With Much Better Ray-Tracing Performance
Jensen Huang's GTC keynote is exciting as always and he just announced the GeForce RTX 40 series along with a host of other announcements for marking this week's NVIDIA event...
System76 Launches Redesigned Thelio Desktop
Four years ago System76 launched their Thelio line of Linux desktop computers that are built from scratch and wonderfully by them in their Colorado facility. Today the Linux-focused vendor is announcing their most significant overhaul of the Thelio desktop chassis design to date...
AMD RDNA 3 Being Announced On 3 November
AMD is expected to announce their Radeon RX 7000 "RDNA 3" graphics cards on 3 November...
OpenJDK Java 19 Released With RISC-V Linux Port, Foreign Function API
Out today is OpenJDK Java 19 in its general availability form while adding a number of new features...
RADV Driver Lands Ray-Tracing Optimizations To Boost Quake II RTX By ~10%
Mesa's Radeon Vulkan "RADV" driver co-founder Bas Nieuwenhuizen has landed a set of micro-optimizations to the open-source driver for benefiting Vulkan ray-tracing performance...
Firefox 105 Now Available - Better Linux Performance Under Memory Pressure
While a number of recent Firefox releases have been rather "boring" on the Linux front with not many notable changes, Firefox 105.0 is out this morning and this time around is a bit more significant...
OpenMandriva Speeding Up Their AArch64 Linux Development With Ampere Altra
Ampere Computing has provided a 160-core Ampere Altra server with 128GB of RAM to the OpenMandriva project to help in speeding up their AArch64 Linux packaging and development efforts...
AMD Releases AOMP 16.0-0 As Their Radeon GPU OpenMP Offloading Compiler
AMD engineers today released AOMP 16.0-0 as the newest version of their LLVM/Clang downstream compiler where they stage their latest development patches focused on Radeon GPU OpenMP offloading...
LLVM 15.0.1 Released With Nearly Three Dozen Fixes
It's been two weeks since the release of LLVM 15.0 and its sub-projects like Clang 15.0 so per their rapid release rhythm, out today is LLVM 15.0.1 with the initial batch of fixes...
Amazon Engineer Adds LTR Encode Support To Open-Source AMD Radeon Linux Driver
Merged today for Mesa 22.3 is support with the RadeonSI Gallium3D driver's Video Core Next (VCN) code to support video encoding with LTR mode...
AMD Preps More AMDGPU Fixes For Linux 6.1, Still Working On Gang Submit
In addition to Intel having closed out last week by submitting their last batch of feature updates to DRM-Next for kernel graphics driver changes slated for Linux 6.1, AMD engineers also did the same with their likely last major set of AMDGPU driver changes intended for this next kernel cycle...
NVIDIA Working To Make Linux Safer For Cars, Robots & Other Safety Critical Environments
NVIDIA is working on their own address space isolation (ASI) implementation for the Linux kernel that they hope will make the kernel safer for use within automobiles, robotics, and other areas where NVIDIA Tegra embedded hardware has a growing Linux-powered presence...
Intel Becomes First Major Corporate Backer To Krita Open-Source Digital Painting Program
Intel has become the first corporate "gold" patron to the Krita Foundation for their development fund to advance this open-source digital painting program...
More Meteor Lake Enablement Readied For Intel Graphics Driver With Linux 6.1
Along with the last drm-intel-gt-next pull for Linux 6.1, a final drm-intel-next pull request of new feature code was submitted to DRM-Next ahead of the upcoming Linux 6.1 merge window...
More AMD Ryzen Laptops See Suspend-To-Idle Fix
Earlier this month I wrote about AMD working on s2idle fixes for some AMD Ryzen 6000 series "Rembrandt" laptops. At the time it was just for select ASUS laptops known to have a bug in the firmware resulting in suspend-to-idle issues while now additional models not only from ASUS but also Lenovo have been uncovered...