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Cloudflare Makes Open-Source The Rust Code To Tokio-Quiche

Phoronix - Thu, 11/06/2025 - 22:55
Cloudflare announced today they have open-sourced the code to Tokio-Quiche as their async QUIC library that combines their previously-open-sourced Quiche QUIC implementation with Rust's Tokio async runtime...

RadeonSI + ACO Brings Some Performance Gains For Radeon Workstation Graphics

Phoronix - Thu, 11/06/2025 - 22:12
Last week Mesa 26.0-devel enabled the ACO back-end by default within the RadeonSI Gallium3D driver for all supported Radeon graphics cards by this open-source Linux driver. This move was done in the name of better performance, faster shader compilation times, and ACO being all-around better than the AMDGPU LLVM back-end these days for both OpenGL and Vulkan use. It was also noted that RadeonSI has "slightly better" viewperf performance with NIR+ACO than using the AMDGPU LLVM back-end. Curious about that SPECViewPerf impact, here are some benchmarks with the recently released AMD Radeon AI PRO R9700 graphics card...

FreeDesktop.org Adopts The Filesystem Hierarchy Standard

Phoronix - Thu, 11/06/2025 - 19:18
Adding to the array of software projects and specifications under the FreeDesktop.org umbrella, the Filesystem Hierarchy Standard "FHS" has been adopted by these desktop-focused open-source developers...

Linux 6.18 Lands Electronic Privacy Screen Hotkey Handling For Some Dell Laptops

Phoronix - Thu, 11/06/2025 - 19:07
Merged yesterday to the mainline Linux 6.18 development kernel were the latest round of x86 platform driver fixes. Mostly some small fixes but standing out is electronic privacy screen hotkey support for some Dell laptops...

NVIDIA Preparing For Hopper & Blackwell GPU Support With Open-Source Nova Driver

Phoronix - Thu, 11/06/2025 - 18:52
NVIDIA engineers continue working a lot on the open-source and upstream Nova driver for the Linux kernel. This modern, Rust-written open-source NVIDIA driver is still taking shape as an alternative to NVIDIA's official downstream open-source driver and the aging and reverse-engineered Nouveau driver. Out on the horizon for Nova is Hopper and Blackwell GPU support...

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