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Intel Media Driver 2025Q2 Ships Panther Lake Video Encoding Support

Phoronix - Wed, 07/16/2025 - 18:32
The Intel Media Driver is out with its quarterly feature release for bringing all of the latest open-source video acceleration improvements for Intel graphics hardware on Linux. Enhancing support for upcoming Panther Lake SoCs continues to be a primary focus...

Hyprland 0.50 Released With New Render Scheduling, Drops Legacy Renderer

Phoronix - Wed, 07/16/2025 - 18:06
Hyprland 0.50 is out today as the newest feature release for this Wayland compositor focused on delivering a lot of Linux desktop bling...

Let Sudo Insult You When You Enter Incorrect Password

Tecmint - Wed, 07/16/2025 - 13:00
The post Let Sudo Insult You When You Enter Incorrect Password first appeared on Tecmint: Linux Howtos, Tutorials & Guides .

Sudoers is the default sudo security policy plugin in Linux; however, experienced system administrators can specify a custom security policy

The post Let Sudo Insult You When You Enter Incorrect Password first appeared on Tecmint: Linux Howtos, Tutorials & Guides.

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 600/700 "Kepler" GPUs Now Vulkan 1.2 Conformant With NVK

Phoronix - Wed, 07/16/2025 - 08:46
Yet more feature code continues piling in for the Mesa 25.2 release due out next month and days ahead of the feature freeze. Hitting Mesa Git this evening is now treating NVIDIA Kepler GPUs as Vulkan 1.2 conformant following the Vulkan 1.2 CTS passing with the NVK open-source driver paired with the Nouveau kernel driver...

Additional AMD RDNA3 & RDNA4 Ray-Tracing Improvements For Mesa 25.2 RADV

Phoronix - Wed, 07/16/2025 - 08:22
Ahead of the Mesa 25.2 feature freeze and code branching expected later this week, some additional ray-tracing optimizations were merged today for the Radeon "RADV" Vulkan driver. These latest RADV ray-tracing improvements benefit the latest Radeon RX 9000 series "RDNA4" the most but there are also some optimizations too for RDNA3 class GPUs...

Intel Enabling SR-IOV For Battlemage Graphics Cards With Linux 6.17

Phoronix - Wed, 07/16/2025 - 03:15
The upcoming Linux 6.17 kernel is going to be an especially nice release for users of modern Intel graphics hardware on Linux. The very latest feature being enabled for this next Linux kernel version is SR-IOV for Battlemage GPUs to vastly enhance the Intel Linux graphics experience in virtualized environments...

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