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OpenIndiana 2025.10 ISOs Available For Download

Phoronix - Mon, 10/27/2025 - 22:20
OpenIndiana 2025.10 ISOs were published on Sunday as the newest half-year update to this Illumos (OpenSolaris) derived platform...

AMD Radeon AI PRO R9700 Linux Performance For Single & Dual GPU Benchmarks

Phoronix - Mon, 10/27/2025 - 21:00
Today the AMD Radeon AI PRO R9700 is officially shipping as the company's new RDNA4-based offering designed for AI workloads and priced at $1299+ USD. The AMD Radeon AI PRO R9700 offers 32GB of GDDR6 video memory and features 128 AI accelerators and rated for 96 TFLOPs peak half-precision compute, up to 1531 TOPS INT4 sparse, and has a 300 Watt TDP. Here are the initial benchmarks of the AMD Radeon AI PRO R9700 under Linux with ROCm 7.0 and testing both in single and dual R9700 graphics card configurations.

Turbosqueeze Realtime Multi-Threaded Compression Aims To Compete With Zstd, Snappy

Phoronix - Mon, 10/27/2025 - 18:40
Turbosqueeze 1.0 was announced today as a new real-time, multi-threaded compression solution designed for C/C++ programs and aiming to compete with the likes of Zstd, LZ4, and Snappy compression...

Splash DRM Client Proposed For Linux But Its Future Is Uncertain

Phoronix - Mon, 10/27/2025 - 18:28
Sent out on Sunday to the Linux kernel mailing list was a proposal for a new Direct rendering Manager (DRM) client for providing "splash screen" type functionality such as for embedded systems and more. But with Plymouth in user-space already being the dominant solution here and upstream developers tending to prefer such functionality in user-space instead, its future remains uncertain with some developers already questioning the value of this proposed solution...

PanVK Mali Vulkan Driver Lands In-Memory Cache & On-Disk Shader Cache Support

Phoronix - Mon, 10/27/2025 - 18:16
The PanVK driver for modern Arm Mali Vulkan driver support within Mesa has tapped into Mesa's on-disk shader cache functionality as well as an in-memory cache to provide for a better experience with this open-source driver...

Intel Xe Driver Patches Allow For Mapping DMA-BUFs Via IOV Interconnects

Phoronix - Mon, 10/27/2025 - 18:11
In addition to the patches sent out this weekend by Intel for Xe driver preparations for multi-device Shared Virtual Machine (multi-device SVM), another notable patch series making it out this weekend for the Intel Xe open-source kernel graphics driver is support for mapping DMA-BUFs via IOV interconnects...

Linux 6.18-rc3 Released With Latest Fixes

Phoronix - Mon, 10/27/2025 - 07:09
The Linux 6.18-rc3 kernel is now available for testing in working toward the Linux 6.18 stable kernel release in just about one month. Linux 6.18 is expected to become this year's Long Term Support "LTS" kernel...

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