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Mesa 25.1-rc3 & Mesa 25.0.5 Deliver More Graphics Driver Fixes

Phoronix - Thu, 05/01/2025 - 02:00
Eric Engestrom with Igalia continues doing a superb job managing the Mesa releases with today bringing the timely Mesa 25.1-rc3 release candidate as well as the new Mesa 25.0.5 stable point release...

Intel Makes "AI Flame Graphs" Open-Source

Phoronix - Thu, 05/01/2025 - 00:12
Intel's AI Flame Graphs software is now open-source. This is a project that started for Intel's Tiber AI Cloud to provide more insight into AI accelerator/GPU usage and hardware profilining of the full software stack. After being an internal/customer-only software project for some months, AI Flame Graphs is now open-source...

Intel's Vulkan Linux Driver Adds Memory Pool Support For Some Massive Performance Gains

Phoronix - Wed, 04/30/2025 - 22:18
Merged a few minutes ago to the Mesa 25.2-devel graphics driver code for the open-source Intel "ANV" Vulkan Linux driver is proper memory pool support. In turn this can deliver some magnificent performance improvements on the likes of Lunar Lake and other newer Intel graphics processors...

openSUSE Leap 16 Available For Beta Testing - Built From SUSE Linux Enterprise 16

Phoronix - Wed, 04/30/2025 - 21:55
OpenSUSE announced the beta release today of openSUSE Leap 16.0, their next-generation Linux distribution from from SUSE Linux Enterprise 16 (SLE 16) and its new base of SUSE Linux Framework One that was previously known as the Adaptable Linux Platform (ALP)...

LibreSSL 4.1 Released With Faster SHA-1/SHA-256/SHA-512 On Modern AMD & Intel CPUs

Phoronix - Wed, 04/30/2025 - 20:52
LibreSSL 4.1 released today as the newest version of this SSL/TLS library project forked a decade ago by OpenBSD from OpenSSL...

Bytedance Proposes Faster Linux Inter-Process Communication With "Run Process As Library"

Phoronix - Wed, 04/30/2025 - 20:35
Bytedance engineers are exploring faster inter-process communication (IPC) on Linux via a new approach they call Run Process As Library (RPAL). Their initial benchmarks of RPAL are very promising for faster Linux IPC performance...

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