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Blender's Vulkan Renderer Is Making Great Progress To Production Readiness This Year

Phoronix - Thu, 03/06/2025 - 20:00
With the release of Blender 4.3 last November an experimental Vulkan back-end was added and it continues to be improved upon for modernizing this 3D creation suite for digital artists and serving a variety of other purposes. The upcoming Blender 4.4 release will further refine the Vulkan support while later in the year it should be reaching production readiness...

FreeBSD Continues Working On 802.11n/802.11ac WiFi & Other Laptop Improvements

Phoronix - Thu, 03/06/2025 - 19:46
The FreeBSD Foundation paired with resources committed by AMD, Dell, and Framework are working to improve FreeBSD laptop support. In recent months there have been FreeBSD development efforts to improve the power management support with modern laptops as well as a strong focus on enhancing the WiFi driver support. A status update was issued yesterday for highlighting the latest FreeBSD laptops efforts...

FEX 2503 Brings Fixes & Multi-Block By Default For x86_64 Linux Binaries On ARM64

Phoronix - Thu, 03/06/2025 - 19:25
FEX 2503 is out as the newest monthly update to this open-source emulator that enables the ability to run Linux x86_64 binaries on Linux ARM64 (AArch64) hosts...

Mold 2.37 Linker Preps For Intel APX

Phoronix - Thu, 03/06/2025 - 19:14
Rui Ueyama released Mold 2.37 today as the newest feature update to this high performance linker as an alternative to GNU Gold and LLVM LLD...

AMD Announces "Instella" Fully Open-Source 3B Language Models

Phoronix - Thu, 03/06/2025 - 08:13
Another announcement at AMD today beyond the open-source Linux driver fun for the Radeon RX 9070 series is announcing the open-sourcing of Instella as their new fully open 3B parameter language models...

Intel Engineers To Return To Working On Habana Labs Linux Driver, Gaudi 3 Expected

Phoronix - Thu, 03/06/2025 - 02:09
After a few Habana Labs driver maintainers left Intel last year and the upstream open-source Habana Labs driver going on rather a hiatus, it looks like Intel software engineers will be returning to work on this upstream Linux kernel driver for supporting the Gaudi AI accelerators...

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