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Arm Mali Panfrost Driver Lands OpenCL C Support In Mesa 25.1

Phoronix - Tue, 02/11/2025 - 21:46
The Panfrost Gallium3D driver has merged initial OpenCL C infrastructure into Mesa 25.1 for allowing OpenCL compute on Arm Mali graphics using this open-source Linux driver stack...

FLAC 1.5 Finally Delivers Multi-Threaded Encoding

Phoronix - Tue, 02/11/2025 - 21:36
FLAC 1.5 is out today as the newest feature update to the software built around the Free Lossless Audio Codec...

KDE Plasma 6.3 Released With Improved Fractional Scaling & Other Enhancements

Phoronix - Tue, 02/11/2025 - 19:44
Out just ahead of Valentine's Day is the much anticipated KDE Plasma 6.3 desktop release for further advancing this Qt6/KF6-based open-source desktop...

AMD AOMP 20.0-2 Compiler Adds The "flang-new" Fortran Compiler Option

Phoronix - Tue, 02/11/2025 - 19:24
AOMP 20.0-2 was released on Monday as the newest update to this AMD downstream of the LLVM/Clang/Flang code that is focused on delivering the latest staging/testing patches around OpenMP offloading to AMD GPUs using ROCm. Many of AMD's AMDGPU/OpenMP patches end up being upstreamed into LLVM proper while AOMP is the staging area for those wanting to have the latest and best experience for Clang C/C++ and Flang Fortran offloading to AMD Instinct/Radeon hardware...

BeOS-Inspired Haiku OS Starts 2025 Off Introducing An AMD CPU Temperature Driver

Phoronix - Tue, 02/11/2025 - 19:13
The BeOS-inspired Haiku open-source operating system project has published their January 2025 status report that outlines all of the interesting work over the past month...

Installing Nvidia Graphics Drivers on Debian 12

Tecmint - Tue, 02/11/2025 - 17:46
The post Installing Nvidia Graphics Drivers on Debian 12 first appeared on Tecmint: Linux Howtos, Tutorials & Guides .

If you are using Debian 12 and have an Nvidia graphics card, installing the correct drivers is essential for getting

The post Installing Nvidia Graphics Drivers on Debian 12 first appeared on Tecmint: Linux Howtos, Tutorials & Guides.

Systemd Adding The Ability to Boot Directly Into A Disk Image Downloaded Via HTTP

Phoronix - Tue, 02/11/2025 - 09:43
Systemd lead developer Lennart Poettering has been working on adding the ability to let systemd boot directly into a disk image downloaded via HTTP within the initial RAM disk (initrd) during the Linux boot process...

Firefox ForkServer Getting Ready To Enhance Linux Browser Performance

Phoronix - Tue, 02/11/2025 - 04:11
Firefox has been shipping their nightly Linux builds the past three months with ForkServer enabled to improve the multi-process browser experience. The results are looking good and Firefox official releases for Linux should soon begin shipping with ForkServer too for this performance win...

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