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NVIDIA engineers closed out February by releasing the NVIDIA 570.123.01 Vulkan beta driver for Linux and on the Windows side was the NVIDIA 572.63 driver release...

NVIDIA Vulkan Beta Driver Updated For Blackwell & New Extensions  Phoronix

Patches were posted today for the Linux kernel implementing new drivers for web camera image signal processing (ISP) for supporting new, unspecified AMD Ryzen laptops...

One month ago FreeDesktop.org/X.Org experienced a new cloud crisis with Equinix Metal shutting down and losing access to all the FreeDesktop.org cloud/hosting resources at the end of April. FreeDesktop.org GitLab powers not only the X.Org projects but also Mesa, Wayland, and countless other Linux desktop open-source projects. Fortunately, it looks like they will have a new solution in time...

Linux App Release Roundup (Feb 2025)  OMG! Ubuntu!

NetworkManager 1.52 is out today as the newest version of this widely-used system network service and network configuration tool suite for Linux systems...

NetworkManager 1.52 Brings IPVLAN Interface Support, Ethtool FEC Mode  Phoronix

AMD Radeon RX 9070 Series Officially Announced  Phoronix

The embargo is over! We finally can share details on the exciting Radeon RX 9070 series graphics cards powered by RDNA4 that will be available from Internet retailers next week.

AMD has been investing a lot into the ROCm compute stack to make it a more formidable contender against the NVIDIA CUDA software ecosystem. From better documentation and improved application/API coverage to expanding their range of supported AMD GPUs, there's been a lot going on. So with this morning's much anticipated Radeon RX 9070 series launch announcement ahead of product availability next week, you are probably wondering about Radeon RX 9000 series support for ROCm too... Here's what I know so far...

Everything to grab from Prime Gaming, February 28th edition for Steam Deck / Linux  GamingOnLinux

Which Linux Distro Do You Recommend to Gamers?  How-To Geek

An AMD engineer presented earlier this month at the Vulkanised 2025 conference in Cambridge (UK) around the work they are pursuing for AI using the MLIR intermediate representation, IREE, and the role that Vulkan/SPIR-V can play for AI acceleration across AMD's wares as well as other hardware...

Stuck in the Linux Terminal? Do This Before You Google It  How-To Geek

Split Fiction from Hazelight Studios and EA gets Steam Deck Verified and no EA app needed  GamingOnLinux

Best lightweight Linux distro of 2025  TechRadar

Current GNU Compiler Collection release manager Richard Biener of SUSE provided an update concerning the upcoming GCC 15 stable compiler release...

Just ahead of the AMD RDNA4 GPUs launching, the Mesa RADV Vulkan driver has expanded a performance optimization technique for existing RDNA3 graphics processors...

Linux GPU Configuration Tool (LACT) upgrades NVIDIA clockspeed configuration  GamingOnLinux

When seeing a new AMDVLK release was just tagged on GitHub and just a few hours to go until the Radeon RX 9070 series announcement, I was hoping it was going to be a new driver officially rolling out their new RDNA4 GPU support. Today's AMDVLK 2025.Q1.2 driver was not for officially introducing RDNA4 but does bring Strix Halo support and other improvements...