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Intel Announces Arc Pro B-Series, "Project Battlematrix" Linux Software Improvements

Phoronix - Mon, 05/19/2025 - 18:30
Intel is using Computex 2025 to showcase their new Arc Pro B-Series graphics cards that will be available in Q3 for professional use-cases as well as focusing on AI inference workstations and edge computing workloads. Plus they are noting some significant improvements coming to their Linux software stack.

Open-Source NVIDIA Blackwell + Hopper Support Slated For Linux 6.16

Phoronix - Mon, 05/19/2025 - 18:00
Coming somewhat as a surprise is the Nouveau driver patches for enabling NVIDIA Blackwell and Hopper GPUs has now been queued to DRM-Next ahead of the Linux 6.16 merge window. So barring any surprises, this next version of the Linux kernel will feature preliminary open-source mainline kernel driver support for these newer NVIDIA GPUs...

Device Memory TCP TX Support Queued Ahead Of Linux 6.16

Phoronix - Mon, 05/19/2025 - 17:39
Google engineers the past few years have been working on Device Memory TCP for the Linux kernel to allow zero-copy receive of TCP payloads to DMA-BUF regions such as device memory attached directly to a GPU or AI accelerator or other device memory accessible with DMA-BUF. For Linux 6.12 that initial Device Memory TCP receive support was merged while slated for the upcoming Linux 6.16 cycle is Device Memory TCP TX transfer support...

PowerVR Rogue BXS-4-64 GPU Firmware Uploaded To linux-firmware.git

Phoronix - Mon, 05/19/2025 - 16:57
For going along with kernel DRM driver changes expected for the Linux 6.16 kernel, the Imagination PowerVR BXS-4-64 GPU firmware has now been upstreamed to linux-firmware.git for readying that open-source driver support for this PowerVR Rogue GPU...

FUSE To Enjoy A Performance Improvement With Linux 6.16

Phoronix - Mon, 05/19/2025 - 16:47
Queued up via the FUSE "for-next" Git branch ahead of the upcoming Linux 6.16 merge window is a change to increase the read directory buffer size to in turn enhance the performance...

LogKeys: Monitor Keyboard Keystrokes in Linux

Tecmint - Mon, 05/19/2025 - 14:00
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Keylogging, short for “keystroke logging” is the process of recording the keys struck on a keyboard, usually without the user’s

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15 Linux Interview Questions with Answers (Level Up) – Part 2

Tecmint - Mon, 05/19/2025 - 12:00
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Welcome back to our Linux Interview Questions series on Tecmint! After laying a strong foundation in the first article, we’re

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GIMP 3.0.4 Brings More Bug Fixes

Phoronix - Mon, 05/19/2025 - 08:57
GIMP 3.0.4 released today with more bug fixes to this popular image editor as a free software alternative to the likes of Adobe Photoshop...

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