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Valve's Open-Source Radeon Linux Driver "Love Song For Gamers With Old GPUs"

Phoronix - Wed, 11/12/2025 - 23:13
As covered recently on Phoronix there has been several exciting improvements for aging AMD Radeon GCN 1.0 and GCN 1.1 era graphics cards for the open-source AMD Linux graphics driver stack. This work has been led by Timur Kristóf of Valve's Linux Open-Source Graphics Driver Group with an ultimate goal of shifting the GCN 1.0/1.1 open-source Linux driver hardware support from the aging "Radeon" kernel graphics driver over to the "AMDGPU" kernel driver already used by default for all AMD GPUs/accelerators from GCN 1.2 and newer...

Red Hat's RHEL 10.1 Released With systemd Soft-Reboots, Easier AI Accelerator Drivers

Phoronix - Wed, 11/12/2025 - 22:25
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10.1 has reached general availability with a number of enhancements to this leading enterprise Linux distribution. As with so many things in 2025, AI is a big focus for RHEL 10.1...

RADV Driver Adds Valve Video Extension Used By Steam Link VR

Phoronix - Wed, 11/12/2025 - 19:32
Back in August with the Vulkan 1.4.327 spec update was the introduction of VK_VALVE_video_encode_rgb_conversion as a Valve vendor extension. The open-source Radeon Vulkan "RADV" driver has now merged support for this extension that is being used now by Steam Link VR...

At Least Two New Open-Source NPU Accelerator Drivers Expected In 2026

Phoronix - Wed, 11/12/2025 - 19:21
Open-source developer Tomeu Vizoso who developed the open-source and reverse-engineered "Rocket" accel driver for the Rockchip NPU and also worked on the Etnaviv/Vivante NPU support and other related code like Mesa's Teflon is teasing new NPU drivers coming in the new year...

Webmin 2.600 Web-Based System Administration Tool Brings "Biggest UI Update"

Phoronix - Wed, 11/12/2025 - 19:10
Webmin continues serving as one of the best open-source, web-based server management control panels for Linux and other Unix-like platforms. Webmin 2.600 is out today with yet more features and a refined theme...

Haiku OS Made Many Kernel & App Improvements In October

Phoronix - Wed, 11/12/2025 - 19:01
The Haiku open-source operating system project inspired by BeOS has published their October 2025 status report...

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