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Intel Sends Out Initial Graphics Driver Patches For Multi-Device SVM

Phoronix - Sun, 10/26/2025 - 18:23
As part of their Project Battlematrix effort, Intel has been working on enhancing their Linux graphics driver support for multi-device usage scenarios with wanting to support up to eight Intel Arc Pro graphics cards per system to help with AI LLMs and other larger use-cases. The latest code posted from Intel engineers is their initial implementation of multi-device Shared Virtual Memory (SVM) support...

Linux Prepping For "Extreme" Mode On Lenovo Legion Devices

Phoronix - Sun, 10/26/2025 - 18:11
Derek Clark who has been leading the efforts around Lenovo Legion gaming drivers for Linux and ensuring good support for the Lenovo Legion Go handheld on Linux sent out a new Linux patch series this weekend...

AMD Begins Sending In "New Stuff" For Their Graphics Driver In Linux 6.19

Phoronix - Sun, 10/26/2025 - 08:25
AMD on Friday sent in their first patch of AMDGPU kernel graphics driver changes they are ready to begin queuing in the DRM-Next tree until the Linux 6.19 merge window kicks off in December and leading to a stable release around February...

Resources 1.9 Brings Intel Xe GPU Support & Other System Resource Monitoring For GNOME

Phoronix - Sat, 10/25/2025 - 21:11
Resources is the open-source app aligned with GNOME/GTK for system resource monitoring. Resources has proven to be quite versatile with a nice UI and able to display CPU, GPU, NPU, disk, and other metrics. Out today is Resources 1.9 with the latest capabilities for this app...

NVIDIA Starts Posting Open-Source Nova Driver Patches To Prep For Next-Gen GPUs

Phoronix - Sat, 10/25/2025 - 18:29
NVIDIA is taking the open-source and upstream "Nova" kernel graphics driver quite seriously for their hardware. Hitting the mailing lists on Friday night were initial patches in beginning to make preparations toward "next-gen GPU" support. Digging into the comments, it's indeed for post-Blackwell GPUs...

Servo's Demo Browser Adds Experimental Mode & More Performance Improvements

Phoronix - Sat, 10/25/2025 - 18:13
The Servo open-source browser engine is out with their September 2025 development highlights. This Rust-based browser engine originally started by Mozilla continues making steady progress as well as to the "servoshell" demo/example browser implementation...

KDE Plasma 6.6 Will Cater To Windows Power Users With "winver"

Phoronix - Sat, 10/25/2025 - 18:05
Plasma 6.5 debuted this week that KDE developers and users have been celebrating. But it's already on to working out fixes for Plasma 6.5.1 as well as new feature activity toward Plasma 6.6...

FreeBSD 15.0 Beta 3 Brings Working Support For MediaTek MT76 WiFi

Phoronix - Sat, 10/25/2025 - 17:45
The newest weekly test release of the FreeBSD 15.0 is now available for evaluation ahead of the planned December official release...

Rust Coreutils 0.3 Released With Some Major Speed-Ups, Better GNU Compatibility

Phoronix - Sat, 10/25/2025 - 08:21
The uutils project announced tonight the release of Rust Coreutils 0.3, another step forward for this Rust version alternative to GNU Coreutils that has been attracting a lot of interest lately due to Ubuntu 25.10 now using it by default...

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