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Intel OSPRay 3.2 Further Advances This Open-Source Ray-Tracing Engine

Phoronix - Wed, 07/24/2024 - 18:08
Intel's OSPRay ray-tracing engine as part of their oneAPI rendering toolkit continues to serve as a great, scalable and portable RT engine for high fidelity visualizations. With OSPRay 3.2 released today, they continue advancing this open-source engine further...

How to Hack Your Own Linux System

Tecmint - Wed, 07/24/2024 - 14:00
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Passwords are the primary criterion for system security in most systems. When it comes to Linux, knowing the root password

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Upstream Linux 6.11 Makes It Easy To Build A Pacman Kernel Package For Arch Linux

Phoronix - Wed, 07/24/2024 - 08:19
The upstream Linux 6.11 kernel is making it easier to build a Pacman package of the kernel for use on Arch Linux and other Arch derived distributions relying on Pacman...

Intel's Mesa Driver Upstreaming For Xe2 Support Appears Mostly Done

Phoronix - Wed, 07/24/2024 - 04:09
Ahead of launch for new discrete/integrated graphics backed by open-source Linux drivers, it can often be difficult to ascertain the level of support pre-launch given the complexity of today's GPUs, we are past the days of long monolithic patch series for new hardware enablement, and also not knowing about what features may be added for the next-generation hardware. But if latest Mesa developer comments hold, it looks like for Intel Xe2 graphics the open-source Vulkan driver at least has "most" of the code now in place...

Intel Xe2/Battlemage & AMD RDNA4 Lead The Graphics Driver Changes In Linux 6.11

Phoronix - Tue, 07/23/2024 - 23:33
DRM subsystem lead maintainer David Airlie recently submitted the DRM-Next pull request for merging into Linux 6.11. All of that Direct Rendering Manager (DRM) feature code has landed for the many kernel graphics/display driver updates along with changes to the few AI accelerator "accel" drivers also part of the tree. As usual, the Intel Xe/i915 and AMD AMDGPU/AMDKFD kernel drivers see a bulk of the upstream open-source graphics improvements...

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