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AMDVLK 2025.Q2.1 Released With More Vulkan Extensions, Hawk Point 1 & 2 Support

Phoronix - Wed, 04/30/2025 - 17:59
AMDVLK 2025.Q2.1 was released today as the first update to this official open-source AMD Vulkan driver since the previous release in mid-March. AMDVLK 2025.Q2.1 brings new hardware support, new Vulkan API extensions, and other new features...

Pixman 0.46 Delivers Faster Performance On RISC-V With V Vector Extension

Phoronix - Wed, 04/30/2025 - 17:43
Pixman as the open-source pixel manipulation library used by the X.Org Server and Cairo graphics library is out today with Pixman 0.46 as the newest feature release...

How to Set Up Ethernet Channel Bonding in Linux for Load Balancing

Tecmint - Wed, 04/30/2025 - 15:15
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If you’ve got two or more network interface cards (NICs) and you’re wondering if you can use them together to

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Linux Quiz: 15 Questions to Test Your Basic Linux Knowledge

Tecmint - Wed, 04/30/2025 - 12:41
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Welcome to the world of Linux! You might not realize it, but Linux is everywhere from the server rooms of

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Valve's Proton 10.0 Beta Released With More Windows Games Now Playable On Linux

Phoronix - Wed, 04/30/2025 - 06:34
Valve and CodeWeavers today announced the much anticipated beta release of Proton 10.0 as the newest version of their downstream version of Wine that powers Steam Play for running Windows games on Linux...

Intel's Open-Source Vulkan Driver Lands BFloat16 Support In Mesa 25.2

Phoronix - Wed, 04/30/2025 - 02:47
Introduced last month in the Vulkan 1.4.311 spec was VK_KHR_shader_bfloat16 for supporting BF16 types within SPIR-V shaders. Merged today for Mesa 25.2 is that BFloat16 support for Intel's open-source Vulkan Linux driver...

Ubuntu 25.04 & Fedora 42 Hit A Long Sought Milestone With HDR Support Working Well On The Linux Desktop

Phoronix - Tue, 04/29/2025 - 23:31
It's almost majestic: HDR display support working on the Linux desktop. If you asked me at the start of the calendar year if I'd expect to see modern Linux distributions shipping with working HDR display support in H1'2025, I would have been doubtful. But after a lot of miraculous work that landed across numerous upstream repositories over the past two months or so, everything has come together just in time for the likes of Ubuntu 25.04 and Fedora Workstation 42. There still are apps not supporting HDR and the like, but the core infrastructure is in place and working. The past two weeks I've begun testing out the Linux HDR desktop experience with the ASUS ROG Swift OLED PG27UCDM 27-inch 4K display. Between the ASUS PG27UCDM's QD-OLED display and HDR support enabled under Linux, it delivers a very beautiful Linux desktop experience.

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