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Linux 6.17 Readies EDAC Support For Intel Granite Rapids D, Wildcat Lake, Raptor Lake HX

Phoronix - Sat, 07/12/2025 - 19:13
In addition to Intel preparing Bartlett Lake S EDAC driver support for Linux 6.17, several other recent and upcoming Intel processors are also set to see Error Detection and Correction (EDAC) driver coverage with this next version of the Linux kernel...

NVIDIA Publishes RTXNTC 0.7 Beta For Neural Texture Compression

Phoronix - Sat, 07/12/2025 - 18:55
NVIDIA software engineers ended out the week by releasing a new beta of their RTX Neural Texture Compression (NTC) SDK. The RTXNTC software is NVIDIA's interesting solution for compressing material texture sets with very promising results for helping to reduce game data sizes moving forward...

GNOME Builder & Digital Wellbeing Code Improved This Week

Phoronix - Sat, 07/12/2025 - 18:43
On top of this week's release of the GNOME 49 Alpha, other application improvements and more came about in the past few days...

KDE Preps More Crash KWin Crash Fixes, New Feature Work For Plasma 6.5

Phoronix - Sat, 07/12/2025 - 18:13
KDE developer Nate Graham is out with his weekly development recap of all interesting things and fixes merged for the week to Plasma...

Wine 10.12 Released With Experimental EGL Backend For The X11 Driver

Phoronix - Sat, 07/12/2025 - 08:48
Wine 10.12 has been uncorked as the latest bi-weekly development release of this open-source software running Windows games and applications on Linux and other operating systems...

Attack Vector Controls Could Be Ready For Linux 6.17 Introduction

Phoronix - Sat, 07/12/2025 - 01:02
The AMD engineering led work on Attack Vector Controls for the Linux kernel could be mainlined with the upcoming Linux 6.17 kernel with the remaining patches now being queued within a TIP branch...

AMD Radeon RX 9070 Ray-Tracing Performance Improving With Mesa 25.2

Phoronix - Fri, 07/11/2025 - 21:48
With the feature freeze and code branching for Mesa 25.2 expected to take place next week and kick off the release process for this quarterly Mesa 3D version to debut as stable in August, I've begun running more benchmarks of this latest code on popular GPUs. As it pertains to the newest AMD Radeon RX 9000 series RDNA4 graphics processors, the most exciting area with Mesa 25.2 are the Vulkan ray-tracing improvements. Here is a look at some of what to expect with the upcoming Mesa 25.2 performance for the AMD Radeon RX 9070 graphics card on Linux.

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