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AMD "GFX1250" To Double The Number Of User SGPRs

Tue, 08/19/2025 - 07:34
We still don't have much confirmed information on AMD's GFX1250 that has come to light in recent months due to being developed for their AMDGPU shader compiler back-end within LLVM. AMD GFX1250 surfaced in LLVM activity and the past few months has been seeing more additions made. A notable change committed today for LLVM is that the number of user Scalar General-Purpose Registers (SGPRs) has doubled...

AMD ZenDNN 5.1 Released For Enhancing AI Inference Performance On EPYC CPUs

Tue, 08/19/2025 - 04:18
Following the AMD ZenDNN 5.0 release from last year's EPYC Turin launch that brought big performance improvements for CPU-based inferencing with this open-source library compatible with Intel's oneDNN, today marks the availability of ZenDNN 5.1 as the next update...

Kdenlive 25.08 Preps For Future Hardware Acceleration Features

Tue, 08/19/2025 - 03:24
Kdenlive 25.08 is out today as the newest feature release for this KDE/Qt-aligned open-source video editor. In addition to a number of new features, there are also many bug fixes including more than 15 crash fixes...

Git 2.51 Released With More Changes Preparing For Git 3.0

Tue, 08/19/2025 - 01:17
Git 2.51 is out this Monday as the newest milestone for this widely-used, distributed version control system...

A Deep Dive Into The Power & Thermals For The Framework Desktop With AMD Ryzen AI Max

Mon, 08/18/2025 - 23:40
The Framework Desktop is a nifty and powerful mini PC powered by AMD Ryzen AI Max "Strix Halo". It's been a pleasure testing this small yet powerful Linux-friendly system that easily offers much better performance than the Intel Core Ultra 9 and superb energy efficiency. For complementing the data shared earlier this month in our Framework Desktop review, today's article is a deep dive into the power and thermals of the Framework Desktop in a few different configurations.

AMD Posts Latest Linux Patches For Improving S5 Power Consumption

Mon, 08/18/2025 - 23:02
One of the areas worked on by AMD Linux engineers recently to better optimize the Linux kernel on AMD Ryzen platforms is for lowering the power consumption in S5 state due to some devices not being put into a low power state when the system is powered off. Sent out today was the sixth iteration of these patches...

Firefox 142 Now Available - Allows Browser Extensions/Add-Ons To Use AI LLMs

Mon, 08/18/2025 - 21:36
The Firefox 142.0 release binaries are now available ahead of the official release announcement due out on Tuesday. Firefox 142 isn't bringing many notable changes but one is likely to cause some contention around Firefox Extensions...

GNOME 49 Merges Late Mutter Change To Help Cursor Responsiveness With VRR

Mon, 08/18/2025 - 21:12
Merged today to Mutter ahead of next month's GNOME 49 release is an important improvement for those making use of Variable Rate Refresh (VRR)...

Illumos Cafe Hopes To Reinvigorate Interest In Illumos/OpenSolaris Derived Platforms

Mon, 08/18/2025 - 20:17
It's been 15 years already since the Illumos project was formed as based on the OpenSolaris codebase after Oracle's acquisition of Sun Microsystems and closing down OpenSolaris. Illumos Cafe is a new effort akin to BSD Cafe aiming to be a resource and helping to reinvigorate interest in Illumos-based platforms...

SDL3 Enhances Logic For Selecting The Most Performant Vulkan GPU

Mon, 08/18/2025 - 18:22
The SDL3 library that is widely-used by cross-platform games has landed new code for revising how it selects the high performance GPU in multi-GPU systems...

Intel Graphics Compiler 2.16 Fixes PyTorch For Battlemage GPUs, Adds BMG-G31 + WCL

Mon, 08/18/2025 - 18:14
Ahead of the next Intel Compute Runtime oneAPI/OpenCL release, a new version of the Intel Graphics Compiler "IGC" has been released for Windows and Linux...

Raspberry Pi Touch Display 2 5-Inch Released For $40

Mon, 08/18/2025 - 17:52
The newest hardware offering announced by Raspberry Pi today is a 5-inch variant of the Raspberry Pi Touch Display 2...

Linux 6.17-rc2 Released With Performance Fixes & More

Mon, 08/18/2025 - 06:59
Linux 6.17-rc2 is now available to facilitate the latest weekly testing of the Linux 6.17 kernel...

Linux 6.17 Performance Looking Even Better After Early Fallout Addressed

Mon, 08/18/2025 - 00:30
Last week I ran some early Linux 6.17 benchmarks showing some improvements and regressions when testing with AMD Ryzen AI Max "Strix Halo". Since then there have been some performance regression fixes along with addressing other early fallout from this fresh kernel code. Repeating the tests now on the latest Linux 6.17 Git state ahead of today's Linux 6.17-rc2 tagging is showing some nice improvements and fixes from the code churn this week...

Linux 6.17-rc2 To Better Tune Attack Vector Controls For SRSO Mitigation

Sun, 08/17/2025 - 21:23
One of the new exciting security features with Linux 6.17 is Attack Vector Controls as a means of easier managing CPU security mitigations depending upon the system/server use-case. It drastically simplifies CPU security mitigation management for only activating the mitigations relevant to intended use. With the Linux 6.17-rc2 kernel due out later today, Attack Vector Controls refines its logic around the Speculative Return Stack Overflow (SRSO) mitigation...

Linux Merges Headset Detection Workaround For Framework 13 Ryzen AI 300 Series

Sun, 08/17/2025 - 20:29
Merged this week as part of the sound fixes for the Linux 6.17 cycle and now to be back-ported to the stable kernel versions is a headset detection fix/workaround for the Framework 13 Laptop powered by the AMD Ryzen AI 300 series...

Shotcut 25.08 Brings More Bug Fixes To This Open-Source Video Editor

Sun, 08/17/2025 - 17:24
Released last month was Shotcut 25.07 with many improvements to this popular open-source and cross platform video editor. Released today was Shotcut 25.08 to provide more fixes atop that latest video editor release...

Fedora Copr Repository Offers XLibre Packages For Alternative X Server

Sun, 08/17/2025 - 08:30
While a proposal to replace the upstream X.Org Server with the XLibre fork was ultimately withdrawn prior to voting by the Fedora Engineering and Steering Committee (FESCo), a Fedora Copr repository has now surfaced for those wanting to try out this alternative X Server implementation on Fedora Linux...

Linux 6.16.1 Fixes A Large Intel GPU Driver Performance Regression - Up To 30%

Sat, 08/16/2025 - 20:53
Released on Friday were the Linux 6.16.1 and Linux 6.15.10 stable kernel point releases. Notable there is an Intel i915 kernel graphics driver performance regression fix with some users having reported as much as a 30% performance hit on prior Linux kernel versions...

GNOME Disks Continues Being Ported To Rust

Sat, 08/16/2025 - 18:45
In addition to yesterday's GNOME 49 beta release marking the 28th birthday of GNOME, a lot of other exciting GNOME developments materialized this week...

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