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How to Set Up Local Repositories with apt-mirror in Ubuntu

Tecmint - Tue, 07/22/2025 - 13:00
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If you’re managing multiple Ubuntu machines in a network, downloading updates and packages for each system individually is a pain,

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Mesa 25.3 Merges Vulkan WSI Support For Using Atomic Mode-Setting

Phoronix - Tue, 07/22/2025 - 12:00
A nearly five year old merge request was merged today to Mesa Git for Q4's Mesa 25.3 release. This merge transitions the Vulkan windowing system integration (WSI) from using the DRM "legacy" kernel mode-setting APIs over to the modern atomic mode-setting interfaces...

Intel Wildcat Lake OpenGL & Vulkan Support Upstreamed In Mesa

Phoronix - Tue, 07/22/2025 - 06:05
Intel Linux software engineers have recently been busy working on Wildcat Lake support primarily for the kernel drivers while now that work has been extended to Mesa for the Intel Iris Gallium3D (OpenGL) and ANV Vulkan drivers...

AMD ROCm 6.4.2 Released With Official Support For The Radeon RX 7700 XT

Phoronix - Tue, 07/22/2025 - 04:50
While we await AMD to officially release ROCm 7.0 as the next major release of their open-source GPU compute stack, out this afternoon is ROCm 6.4.2 as the newest stable point release. ROCm 6.4.2 expands the officially supported Radeon consumer GPUs as well as bringing various fixes and enhancements to the various libraries and components making up this AMD GPU compute ecosystem stack...

NVIDIA Makes More Hopper & Blackwell Header Files Open-Source

Phoronix - Mon, 07/21/2025 - 23:54
Last week NVIDIA open-sourced 12k lines of C header files for Blackwell GPUs to help in the open-source driver efforts, namely for Nouveau / NVK and the in-development NOVA Rust driver. On Friday they made public some additional header files for helping in the Blackwell and Hopper open-source driver enablement...

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