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GNOME OS Safe Mode Improving The System Reliability

Phoronix - Sat, 07/18/2026 - 19:24
At GNOME's annual GUADEC conference happening this week in Spain, an update was shared on the current state of GNOME OS...

KDE Plasma 6.8 System Monitor Making It Easier Assigning Processes To CPU Cores

Phoronix - Sat, 07/18/2026 - 18:57
Nate Graham and John Veness are out with the latest issue of This Week in Plasma to highlight all of the interesting developments taking place in the KDE Plasma desktop space...

UXL's oneDNN 3.13 Preps For Intel Nova Lake With AVX10.2, More Intel Optimizations

Phoronix - Sat, 07/18/2026 - 18:38
Following the release of AMD's ZenDNN 6.0 earlier this month, there is a new feature release of the oneDNN neural network library that used to be developed by Intel as part of oneAPI and is now under the UXL Foundation umbrella. Even so, oneDNN feature releases continue to be heavy on new Intel optimizations and future hardware support...

D7VK 2.0 Released With Some Nice Performance Improvements: Up To 2x Or More

Phoronix - Sat, 07/18/2026 - 18:32
In addition to Friday night's release of DXVK 3.0.2, debuting separately a short time later was D7VK 2.0 as the latest major feature release for this implementation of Direct3D 7 and earlier built off the Vulkan API...

DXVK 3.0.2 Released With Improved Hang Debugging, Handful Of Game Fixes

Phoronix - Sat, 07/18/2026 - 08:46
In addition to the initial build of Holo Core as AArch64 Arch Linux for the Steam Frame, another software milestone today in Valve's Linux gaming space is the release of DXVK 3.0.2 for Direct3D 8 / 9 / 10 / 11 APIs implemented over the Vulkan API for running Windows games...

Noctua NL-LC1-36 All-In-One Liquid Cooler

Phoronix - Sat, 07/18/2026 - 01:45
With reviewing hardware for more than 22 years, when it comes to cooling products there are few brands that can still get me intrigued like Noctua. With their recent launch of the NL-LC1 all-in-one liquid coolers, I decided to try out the Noctua NL-LC1-36 360mm AIO cooler that is working out well for cooling high-end desktop CPUs like the recently launched Ryzen 9 9950X3D2.

FastFlowLM Developers Join AMD To Help Push Open-Source NPU Software

Phoronix - Sat, 07/18/2026 - 01:20
On top of releasing ROCm 7.14 as the new production release of ROCm now built offTheRock, rolling out the Lemonade 11.0 local AI server, and GAIA 0.22, AMD has some more open-source news in the lead up to next week's AMD Advancing AI event...

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