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System76 Makes The Best Open-Source Keyboard Even Better

Phoronix - Tue, 03/17/2026 - 22:30
If System76 engineers didn't already have enough going on with recently shipping the COSMIC Rust-based desktop environment and also shipping Pop!_OS 24.04 as their in-house Linux distribution plus completely redesigning the Thelio Desktop, they also recently revised their Launch Keyboard. They have made this leading open-source keyboard design even better with the latest iteration of the System76 Launch Keyboard.

Blender 5.1 Released With Raycast Nodes, AMD GPU Ray-Tracing By Default

Phoronix - Tue, 03/17/2026 - 20:31
Blender 5.1 is out today with many exciting improvements for this leading open-source 3D modeling software. From AMD GPU hardware ray-tracing being enabled by default at long last to more mature Vulkan support and performance, Blender 5.1 is a great release...

Intel Graphics Compiler 2.30.1 Exposes HF8 Support For Crescent Island

Phoronix - Tue, 03/17/2026 - 20:16
Intel Graphics Compiler 2.30.1 is now available for this LLVM/Clang-based compiler stack used by the Compute Runtime on Linux and under Windows is used both for graphics and compute...

Intel Announces Core Ultra 200HX Plus Along With "Intel Binary Optimization Tool"

Phoronix - Tue, 03/17/2026 - 18:18
Intel today announced their Core Ultra 200HX Plus series mobile processors as their refresh for Arrow Lake HX. The announcement of the Core Ultra 200HX Plus also mentions a new Intel Binary Optimization Tool software package that has the potential of being quite interesting...

Mesa & AMDGPU Linux Driver See Patches For The Sony PS5 GPU

Phoronix - Tue, 03/17/2026 - 18:09
Open-source developer Andy Nguyen recently demonstrated porting Linux to the Sony PlayStation 5. The PS5 notably uses a custom AMD SoC and with some patches is able to play nicely with the open-source AMD graphics driver stack...

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