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Lenovo Officially Announces The Legion Go S Handheld With SteamOS

Phoronix - Wed, 01/08/2025 - 01:00
Following weeks of rumors, today at CES in Las Vegas as part of debuting other new wares, Lenovo introduced the Legion Go S handheld gaming console option that is officially licensed by Valve for SteamOS...

HipScript Allows NVIDIA CUDA & AMD HIP Code To Run Within Web Browsers

Phoronix - Wed, 01/08/2025 - 00:10
HipScript is a new open-source project that allows for compiling and running AMD HIP and NVIDIA CUDA code within web browsers by leveraging WebAssembly and WebGPU...

Mesa's Lavapipe Driver Now Exposes Vulkan 1.4

Phoronix - Tue, 01/07/2025 - 23:17
In time for the upcoming release of Mesa 25.0, Mesa's Lavapipe software Vulkan API implementation is now the latest driver exposing Vulkan 1.4 support...

GCC Goes For "libc Diversity" With Picolibc Support

Phoronix - Tue, 01/07/2025 - 22:58
Keith Packard is known for his X.Org/X11 work over the course of many years but alongside other software projects he also maintains Picolibc as a C library designed for embedded 32-bit and 64-bit systems. Recently he sent out a patch for adding Picolibc support to the GCC compiler...

Budgie 10.10 Desktop Releasing This Quarter As Wayland-Only

Phoronix - Tue, 01/07/2025 - 21:33
For fans of the Budgie desktop environment that got its start out of the Solus Linux distribution, the Budgie 10.10 release expected later this quarter will be their first release that is Wayland-only...

Device Memory "DMEM" Cgroup Support Ready For Linux 6.14 To Allow Limiting GPU vRAM

Phoronix - Tue, 01/07/2025 - 19:51
A pull request submitted this week to DRM-Next ahead of the upcoming Linux 6.14 cycle is introducing the notion of device memory "DMEM" to cgroup with the main intended use being to restrict device memory usage based on the cgroup hierarchy such as for graphics cards with their dedicated vRAM...

CXL Block Device "CBD" Looking Very Promising For The Linux Kernel In 2025

Phoronix - Tue, 01/07/2025 - 19:38
Originally proposed for the Linux kernel nearly one year ago was CBD as the CXL Block Device. Now up to its third revision, the Linux CBD patches are calming down and the performance gains are looking quite nice...

OpenZFS 2.3-rc5 Released With Support For Cross-Compiling Kernel Modules

Phoronix - Tue, 01/07/2025 - 19:15
OpenZFS 2.3 continues working its way toward release with Monday having brought the fifth and potentially final release candidate...

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