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Rust Innovation Lab Announced By The Rust Foundation

Phoronix - Thu, 09/04/2025 - 00:41
The Rust Foundation today announced the creation of the Rust Innovation Lab that will serve as a stable, neutral home to select Rust projects with governance support, legal and administrative support, fiscal sponsorship, and more...

AMD Secure AVIC Primed For Linux 6.18 To Provide Better Security & Performance

Phoronix - Thu, 09/04/2025 - 00:00
Ahead of the upcoming Linux 6.18 kernel cycle, which will likely end up being this year's Long Term Support (LTS) version, the AMD Secure AVIC driver appears ready for merging. The AMD Secure AVIC patches were queued this week into a TIP branch and this likely to be submitted for the upcoming Linux 6.18 merge window...

Niri 25.08 Wayland Compositor Introduces xwayland-satellite Support

Phoronix - Wed, 09/03/2025 - 22:50
Niri 25.08 is out this week as the newest version of this scrollable-tiling Wayland compositor. Notable now is adding xwayland-satellite integration for offering legacy X11 app support...

Intel Arc Pro B50 Linux Performance Benchmarks

Phoronix - Wed, 09/03/2025 - 21:00
Intel announced the Arc Pro B-Series back at Computex consisting of the Arc Pro B50 and Arc Pro B60 graphics cards. Marking availability today and the review embargo lift is for the Arc Pro B50 for workstations, which provides 16GB of RAM, 70 Watt total board power, and a $349 USD launch price for this workstation graphics card. Here are the preliminary Linux performance benchmarks and open-source driver support metrics for the Intel Arc Pro B50.

Mesa 25.2.2 Ships The Latest Open-Source OpenGL & Vulkan Driver Fixes

Phoronix - Wed, 09/03/2025 - 20:59
Mesa 25.2.2 is out today as another on-time, bi-weekly Mesa point release managed by Eric Engestrom...

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