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CLUDA Posted For Mesa: Gallium3D API Implemented Atop NVIDIA CUDA Driver API

Phoronix - Sun, 10/12/2025 - 18:52
Well, here is a weekend surprise... Red Hat engineer and Rusticl lead developer Karol Herbst has opened a Mesa merge request for "CLUDA" as a compute-only driver that implements the Gallium3D API atop the NVIDIA CUDA driver API. Wow...

Intel Posts Patches For New VFIO Xe PCI Linux Driver

Phoronix - Sun, 10/12/2025 - 18:37
Intel engineers continue working on SR-IOV support for the Xe open-source kernel driver as part of Project Battlematrix for ensuring good virtualization support for the latest Intel GPUs on Linux...

Linux Patches Posted For Microsoft's ACPI Fan Extensions

Phoronix - Sun, 10/12/2025 - 18:23
Patches were posted this week for implementing Microsoft's extensions around the ACPI fan device for allowing the operating system to set fan speed trip points. In turn this should help some HP systems and likely other OEMs too in getting fan information working under Linux...

Git Developers Talk About Potentially Releasing Git 3.0 By The End Of Next Year

Phoronix - Sun, 10/12/2025 - 18:13
Git developers have been talking in recent weeks around release plans for Git 3.0. If all goes well we could potentially see Git 3.0 released before the end of 2026...

FreeBSD 15.0 Beta 1 Brings OpenZFS Upgrade, Performance Fix For TCP LRO

Phoronix - Sun, 10/12/2025 - 17:54
The first beta release of the FreeBSD 15 operating system is now available for testing...

Imagination PowerVR Mesa Vulkan Driver Enables Unofficial Support For More GPUs

Phoronix - Sun, 10/12/2025 - 08:21
Merged today for the Mesa 25.3 graphics driver code is enabling support for more PowerVR Imagination GPUs within the "PVR" Vulkan driver albeit not officially supported nor in active development. Your mileage may vary but for some users with certain GPUs may work out well enough...

Linux 6.18 Lands Retpoline Optimization To Help With Intel E Cores

Phoronix - Sun, 10/12/2025 - 03:46
The Linux 6.18 merge window is winding down this weekend ahead of Linux 6.18-rc1 expected on Sunday. Merged today were some remaining x86 core updates, which includes a Retpoline optimization patch intended to help out Intel E core CPUs...

Solus Linux Preparing To Remove Python 2, Big systemd Upgrade & Finish /usr Merge

Phoronix - Sun, 10/12/2025 - 03:35
The Solus Linus project is preparing for an "epoch bump" so they can make breaking / high-impact changes to in effect bump the binary version of their package repository...

Intel XPU Manager Deprecates Data Center GPU Max Series & GPU Flex Series

Phoronix - Sat, 10/11/2025 - 21:43
Last week during the Intel Tech Tour in Arizona, the Intel XPU Manager 1.3.3 software was released. Intel XPU Manager is a management and monitoring tool focused on Intel data center GPUs for simplifying administration, reliability, and maximizing utilization. Somewhat surprisingly, the Intel XPU Manager now deprecated the Data Center GPU Max Series as well as the Data Center GPU Flex Series...

Intel Simplifying P-State Driver's Energy Model For Newer Core Ultra CPUs

Phoronix - Sat, 10/11/2025 - 18:35
Intel engineer and Linux power management subsystem maintainer Rafael Wysocki posted a set of patches this week to simplify the energy model used by Core Ultra hybrid systems with a mix of P and E cores while lacking SMT support, such as with the current Lunar Lake SoCs and upcoming Panther Lake...

Ubuntu 25.10 Fix Pending For Broken Flatpak Support

Phoronix - Sat, 10/11/2025 - 18:25
Besides last-minute breakage with some executables over the switch to Rust Coreutils, Ubuntu 25.10 ended up shipping with broken Flatpak support...

Phosh 0.50 Released, GNOME App Aims To Help You Learn Assembly

Phoronix - Sat, 10/11/2025 - 18:17
For going along with the recent release of the GNOME 49 desktop, Phosh 0.50 has been released for this Wayland compositor focused on mobile devices...

KDE Plasma 6.5 Fixing Some Of The Most Common Crashes, Other Bugs Fixed Too

Phoronix - Sat, 10/11/2025 - 17:59
KDE developer Nate Graham describes this week as having seen a "massive amount of stability work" for the Plasma 6.5 desktop. Among the many fixes to land this week for this next Plasma desktop release were fixing the second and third most common causes of Plasma crashes. Additionally, the most prolific common crash scenario was discovered to be caused by third-party code...

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