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Fwupd 2.0.15 Released With Support For Newer NVIDIA ConnectX NICs

Phoronix - Thu, 09/11/2025 - 02:54
Richard Hughes of Red Hat announced the availability today of Fwupd 2.0.15 as the latest increment to this open-source firmware updating solution built around the Linux Vendor Firmware Service (LVFS)...

openSUSE Disabling Bcachefs Support For Its Linux 6.17+ Kernel Builds

Phoronix - Wed, 09/10/2025 - 23:33
Linus Torvalds recently marked Bcachefs as "externally maintained" and isn't merging any new Bcachefs code for the time being but for now at least is keeping the existing Bcachefs code in-tree for anyone that has been relying on this experimental CoW file-system from prior kernel versions. OpenSUSE announced today though they are resorting to disabling the kernel driver in their Linux 6.17+ builds...

Intel Fixes Panther Lake Xe3 Graphics Performance Issues For Linux Ahead Of Launch

Phoronix - Wed, 09/10/2025 - 22:43
A set of 14 patches were merged today to the Mesa 3D graphics driver codebase for fixing some wide-reaching performance issues that would have negatively affected the upcoming Xe3 integrated graphics with Core Ultra Series 3 "Panther Lake" hardware. The patches have been merged so will be very important that anyone buying an upcoming Intel Panther Lake laptop move to using an up-to-date Mesa to avoid these performance problems...

Hyprland 0.51 Compositor Released With Reworked Gesture System, New Animations

Phoronix - Wed, 09/10/2025 - 21:38
Hyprland 0.51 is now available as the latest feature release for this unique Wayland compositor...

Zink Begins Optimizing For Workstation Graphics With SPECViewPerf: Doubles The Perf

Phoronix - Wed, 09/10/2025 - 21:13
The Zink OpenGL-on-Vulkan driver is well optimized for Linux gaming and desktop use thanks to the work by Mike Blumenkrantz being funded by Valve. Zink has even worked with OpenCL thanks to Rusticl and now another frontier is being conquered for this generic OpenGL on Vulkan driver: workstation graphics with optimizing around the SPECViewPerf test cases...

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