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Zstd 1.5.7 Pushing Compression Performance Even Further

Phoronix - Thu, 02/20/2025 - 13:00
Zstandard 1.5.7 was released a short time ago as the newest update to this widely-used compression algorithm backed by Meta. Zstd 1.5.7 packs more than 500 commits, including new performance optimizations and other enhancements...

AMD ROCm 6.3.3 Released With Installer & Documentation Improvements

Phoronix - Thu, 02/20/2025 - 09:20
Just a few weeks after the ROCm 6.3.2 update, ROCm 6.3.3 is out this evening with a few more incremental improvements to this open-source AMD GPU compute stack...

Fedora Rolling Out More RISC-V Infrastructure & Ready-To-Boot Images

Phoronix - Thu, 02/20/2025 - 03:00
The Fedora Project is rolling out expanded coverage of RISC-V hardware moving forward and making it easier for those with RISC-V developer boards to run Fedora Linux...

Mesa 25.0 Released With Vulkan 1.4 Driver Support, AMD RDNA4 Ready

Phoronix - Thu, 02/20/2025 - 00:39
Mesa 25.0 was officially released today as the newest quarterly feature release for this set of open-source OpenGL, OpenCL, Vulkan, and video acceleration drivers used on Linux systems by multiple hardware vendors...

Linux Driver Posted For Enabling Apple Web Camera Support For M-Series Macs

Phoronix - Wed, 02/19/2025 - 23:13
A set of patches were posted today for review by the upstream Linux kernel developers in providing driver support for the Apple web camera and image signal processing (ISP) for Apple M-Series devices. This is enough to get the web camera support working on recent MacBooks while this code is now undergoing review for hopefully being mainlined in the Linux kernel...

VKD3D 1.15 Released With Better Tessellation Shader Support

Phoronix - Wed, 02/19/2025 - 21:45
VKD3D 1.15 is out today as the newest version of this upstream Wine project for implementing the Microsoft Direct3D 12 APIs atop the Vulkan API for better Windows gaming on Linux and other D3D12 workloads on Linux or macOS when paired with MoltenVK...

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