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Vulkan 1.4.331 Brings Two New Extensions

Phoronix - Fri, 10/31/2025 - 17:48
Just one week after Vulkan 1.4.330 brought five new extensions, Vulkan 1.4.331 is now available with another two new extensions for this high performance graphics and compute API...

Genode-Powered Sculpt OS 25.10 Brings Performance Improvements & Better Drivers

Phoronix - Fri, 10/31/2025 - 08:22
The Genode operating system framework continues innovating over a decade and a half later on this original open-source OS creation and with that Sculpt OS as its general purpose OS. Out today is Sculpt OS 25.10 to incorporate the latest enhancements to the platform...

Rust 1.91 Promotes Windows On 64-bit ARM To Tier-1 Status

Phoronix - Fri, 10/31/2025 - 03:01
The Rust project announced today the release of Rust 1.91 as the latest update to this popular programming language priding itself on memory safety capabilities...

AMD ROCm 7.1 Released: Many Instinct MI350 Series Improvements, Better Performance

Phoronix - Fri, 10/31/2025 - 00:19
As expected after noting this morning that ROCm 7.1 release preparations were underway, ROCm 7.1 is now officially released as the newest step-forward for this open-source GPU compute stack for Radeon and Instinct hardware...

AMD Strix Point Performance Continues Evolving Nicely With Ubuntu 25.10

Phoronix - Fri, 10/31/2025 - 00:00
This week marks fifteen months since AMD Strix Point laptops began shipping. Back at the end of July 2024 the Linux performance and support was already in good shape while since then the Linux performance has only evolved even more to make these AMD Zen 5 laptops perform even better. Here is a fresh look at how the performance has evolved since launch day and the added gains when moving to the recently released Ubuntu 25.10 and some performance advantages too if moving to the in-development Linux 6.18 kernel.

LVFS + Fwupd Serve Up More Than 135 Million Firmware Downloads For Linux Users

Phoronix - Thu, 10/30/2025 - 23:06
The Linux Vendor Firmware Service (LVFS) that goes hand-in-hand with the Fwupd open-source firmware updating utility celebrated the milestone on Wednesday of crossing 135 million firmware updates...

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