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Rusticl OpenCL Driver Improving Hardware Utilization In Mesa 26.2

Phoronix - Thu, 07/02/2026 - 17:54
Red Hat engineer Karol Herbst has landed his latest optimization work to Rusticl in Mesa 26.2. The latest effort for this Rust-based OpenCL driver that works across Gallium3D drivers is around better hardware utilization...

JPEG-XL libjxl 0.12 Brings More Performance Optimizations

Phoronix - Thu, 07/02/2026 - 17:44
A new release of libjxl is now available for this reference implementation of the JPEG-XL image format, including both image encode and decode support...

Box3D Debuts As New Open-Source 3D Physics Engine

Phoronix - Thu, 07/02/2026 - 17:35
Erin Catto who has been developing the Box2D 2D physics engine for games announced the release of Box3D. Box3D is now providing a new open-source 3D physics engine that is forked off from the Box2D code...

Fedora Council Seeks To Shutdown Current Discussions Over AI Developer Desktop

Phoronix - Thu, 07/02/2026 - 09:40
Stemming from the widely varying views over the recent Fedora proposal for an "AI Developer Desktop" catering to running local AI and machine learning workloads in pre-configured environments with a seamless hardware-accelerated experience, the Fedora Council issued a statement this evening to effectively shutdown discussions for now over a Fedora AI Developer Desktop and to pause the Fedora Community Initiatives process...

Steam On Linux Usage Receded A Bit In June

Phoronix - Thu, 07/02/2026 - 08:23
Back in March Steam on Linux use shot up to 5.33% as a big 3.1% improvement over February. In April it dropped to 4.52% and then fell to 3.99% in May. Valve just published the Steam Survey numbers for June and it points to another minor setback from the recent all-time high of Steam on Linux...

Introducing Red Hat OpenShift Service Mesh 3.4

Red Hat News - Thu, 07/02/2026 - 08:00
Red Hat OpenShift Service Mesh 3.4 is generally available with Red Hat OpenShift and Red Hat OpenShift Platform Plus. Based on the Istio, Envoy, and Kiali projects, this release updates the version of Istio to 1.30, and Kiali to 2.27. Several updates to Istio’s sidecar-less ambient mode and more are included. Kiali introduces a new overview page to better manage service meshes at scale, while bringing AI-powered capabilities with Red Hat OpenShift Lightspeed to technology preview to help you diagnose and resolve issues faster. This post will also provide a preview of what is to come later th

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