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NVIDIA CUDA 13.0 U2 Brings DGX Spark Performance Improvements

Phoronix - Thu, 11/13/2025 - 21:52
CUDA 13.0 Update 2 is now available as the latest incremental improvement to NVIDIA's compute stack...

RadeonSI OpenGL Mesh Shader Support Is Now Completed For Mesa 26.0

Phoronix - Thu, 11/13/2025 - 19:30
For next quarter's Mesa 26.0 release, the AMD RadeonSI Gallium3D driver will present OpenGL mesh shaders support. It's been a long journey from the GL_EXT_mesh_shader extension being crafted and merged to wiring up the Mesa driver support while now it's in place for the AMD Radeon Linux graphics driver...

Linux Has Another Maintainer Now For Its DEC Alpha Port

Phoronix - Thu, 11/13/2025 - 19:21
The Linux kernel's port to the DEC Alpha processors remains alive over 30 years after these processors first appeared...

Intel Now Confirms Nova Lake Will Support AVX10.2 & APX Extensions

Phoronix - Thu, 11/13/2025 - 18:55
Recently when Intel contributed Nova Lake support for LLVM/Clang and the GCC compiler support there was not any AVX10 or APX support contrary to rumors and expectations. Intel has now published a new programming reference manual where they now confirm Nova Lake will in fact support AVX10.2 and APX...

Canonical To Now Provide Up To 15 Years Commercial Support For Ubuntu LTS Releases

Phoronix - Thu, 11/13/2025 - 18:38
Canonical announced today the expansion of the legacy add-on for Ubuntu Pro to provide total coverage of Ubuntu LTS releases up to 15 years...

Miracle-WM 0.8 Adds More Features For This Mir-Powered Wayland Compositor

Phoronix - Thu, 11/13/2025 - 18:04
Miracle-WM 0.8 was released on Wednesday as another step forward for this tiling Wayland compositor built atop Canonical's Mir software. Canonical engineer Matthew Kosarek continues driving new features into Miracle-WM as it works toward its v1.0 milestone...

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