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Mesa 22.2 Released With AMD RDNA3 Prep, Intel Arc Graphics, Many Vulkan Improvements

Phoronix - Wed, 09/21/2022 - 07:16
The belated Mesa 22.2 was unexpectedly released today for providing the very latest open-source Linux graphics driver support not only for Intel and AMD Radeon graphics hardware but also the reverse-engineered Nouveau (NVIDIA) driver and the many smaller drivers like Etnaviv, Mali, Panfrost, the new PowerVR Vulkan driver, and the software drivers like LLVMpipe and Zink...

NVIDIA 515.76 Driver Released With Bug Fixes, Linux 6.0 Compatibility

Phoronix - Wed, 09/21/2022 - 06:45
While not as exciting as this morning's GTC 2022 keynote and the introduction of the GeForce RTX 40 series, NVIDIA today released 515.76 as their latest production series Linux driver build...

Wasmtime 1.0 Released - Bytecode Alliance Declares It Production Ready

Phoronix - Wed, 09/21/2022 - 03:03
Way back in 2019 Intel, Mozilla, and Red Hat started the Bytecode Alliance as an initiative to promote running WebAssembly "everywhere" and expand the scope of WASM outside of the web browser. After being in development now for three years, Wasmtime 1.0 was released for this production-ready WebAssembly runtime...

FileRun on Docker - Linux Journal

Google News - Wed, 09/21/2022 - 01:10
FileRun on Docker  Linux Journal

NVIDIA Announces Open-Source CV-CUDA Project

Phoronix - Wed, 09/21/2022 - 00:22
Alongside the GeForce RTX 40 series debut and many other announcements today during the NVIDIA GTC 2022 keynote by Jensen Huang, CV-CUDA was announced as NVIDIA's newest open-source project...

NVIDIA Announces The GeForce RTX 40 Series With Much Better Ray-Tracing Performance

Phoronix - Tue, 09/20/2022 - 23:22
Jensen Huang's GTC keynote is exciting as always and he just announced the GeForce RTX 40 series along with a host of other announcements for marking this week's NVIDIA event...

System76 Launches Redesigned Thelio Desktop

Phoronix - Tue, 09/20/2022 - 22:30
Four years ago System76 launched their Thelio line of Linux desktop computers that are built from scratch and wonderfully by them in their Colorado facility. Today the Linux-focused vendor is announcing their most significant overhaul of the Thelio desktop chassis design to date...

AMD RDNA 3 Being Announced On 3 November

Phoronix - Tue, 09/20/2022 - 21:34
AMD is expected to announce their Radeon RX 7000 "RDNA 3" graphics cards on 3 November...

OpenJDK Java 19 Released With RISC-V Linux Port, Foreign Function API

Phoronix - Tue, 09/20/2022 - 21:00
Out today is OpenJDK Java 19 in its general availability form while adding a number of new features...

RADV Driver Lands Ray-Tracing Optimizations To Boost Quake II RTX By ~10%

Phoronix - Tue, 09/20/2022 - 19:25
Mesa's Radeon Vulkan "RADV" driver co-founder Bas Nieuwenhuizen has landed a set of micro-optimizations to the open-source driver for benefiting Vulkan ray-tracing performance...

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