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Tellusim Core SDK Opens Up For Use By OSI-Approved Open-Source Projects

Phoronix - Tue, 10/21/2025 - 08:27
Over the weekend we wrote about the visually-impressive Tellusim Core SDK being posted to GitHub as a C++ SDK for high-end graphics and compute. The downside was that the Tellusim Core SKD was rather restrictive in only being free for education, free for companies with less than $200k USD in annual revenue, and evaluation purposes. Or you needed to obtain a negotiated license for the software. As a pleasant surprise, OSI-approved open-source projects not backed by for-profit organizations can now openly use this superb graphics SDK...

Patches Posted To Allow Hibernation Cancellation On Linux

Phoronix - Tue, 10/21/2025 - 05:45
Currently on Linux if you are putting the system into hibernation, there isn't a way to interrupt it and cancel it if you change your mind, even with most systems taking a number of seconds to successfully hibernate. But a new patch series sent out this weekend would introduce that capability...

KosmicKrisp Vulkan To Apple Metal Driver Merged For Mesa 26.0

Phoronix - Tue, 10/21/2025 - 02:43
LunarG in August announced KosmicKrisp as a Vulkan-to-Metal driver for a better Vulkan API experience on Apple macOS devices compared to the likes of using MoltenVK as another Vulkan-on-Metal adaptation. As of today the KosmicKrisp driver for Vulkan 1.3 on Apple devices is now in the Mesa 26.0 codebase...

AMD Announces "ROCm 7.9" As Technology Preview Paired With TheRock Build System

Phoronix - Tue, 10/21/2025 - 02:18
AMD is hosting an AI Day out in San Francisco today and as part of those festivities today they announced the ROCm Core SDK 7.9 SDK paired with TheRock build and release infrastructure system they have been crafting...

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