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GNOME 49 Merges Late Mutter Change To Help Cursor Responsiveness With VRR

Phoronix - Mon, 08/18/2025 - 21:12
Merged today to Mutter ahead of next month's GNOME 49 release is an important improvement for those making use of Variable Rate Refresh (VRR)...

Illumos Cafe Hopes To Reinvigorate Interest In Illumos/OpenSolaris Derived Platforms

Phoronix - Mon, 08/18/2025 - 20:17
It's been 15 years already since the Illumos project was formed as based on the OpenSolaris codebase after Oracle's acquisition of Sun Microsystems and closing down OpenSolaris. Illumos Cafe is a new effort akin to BSD Cafe aiming to be a resource and helping to reinvigorate interest in Illumos-based platforms...

SDL3 Enhances Logic For Selecting The Most Performant Vulkan GPU

Phoronix - Mon, 08/18/2025 - 18:22
The SDL3 library that is widely-used by cross-platform games has landed new code for revising how it selects the high performance GPU in multi-GPU systems...

Intel Graphics Compiler 2.16 Fixes PyTorch For Battlemage GPUs, Adds BMG-G31 + WCL

Phoronix - Mon, 08/18/2025 - 18:14
Ahead of the next Intel Compute Runtime oneAPI/OpenCL release, a new version of the Intel Graphics Compiler "IGC" has been released for Windows and Linux...

Raspberry Pi Touch Display 2 5-Inch Released For $40

Phoronix - Mon, 08/18/2025 - 17:52
The newest hardware offering announced by Raspberry Pi today is a 5-inch variant of the Raspberry Pi Touch Display 2...

Linux 6.17-rc2 Released With Performance Fixes & More

Phoronix - Mon, 08/18/2025 - 06:59
Linux 6.17-rc2 is now available to facilitate the latest weekly testing of the Linux 6.17 kernel...

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