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Mesa 25.2.6 Released With Many Driver Fixes Eric Engestrom just released Mesa 25.2.6 as the newest bi-weekly stable update to this collection of open-source OpenGL and Vulkan drivers widely used on Linux systems for 3D support... |
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Pop!_OS 24.04 LTS & COSMIC Desktop Aim For December Stable Release Following last month's Pop!_OS 24.04 LTS beta and COSMIC desktop beta, System76 has now shared their stable release plans for this long-awaited LInux distribution release with their Rust-written custom desktop... |
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AMD RadeonSI Driver Now Defaults To Enabling ACO For Faster Performance Prominent AMD Radeon Gallium3D driver developer Marek Olšák just changed the RadeonSI driver's default from the AMDGPU LLVM shader compiler back-end over to the ACO back-end initially developed by Valve. This should lead to better performance and quicker shader compilation and in turn faster game loads... |
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AMD Radeon AI PRO R9700 Performance For OpenCL Workloads On Monday the AMD Radeon AI PRO R9700 officially arrived at Internet retailers and is successfully selling at the $1299 price point. Some models have sine sold out but as of writing two days later some Radeon AI PRO R9700 graphics cards remain available at that competitive price point. On Monday I provided some initial benchmarks of the AMD Radeon AI PRO R9700 for vLLM AI inferencing with more AI benchmarks on the way... While the craze is all about AI in 2025, the Radeon AI PRO R9700 does work for other non-AI workloads too and in this article is a look at its competitive OpenCL performance with great value compared to the NVIDIA RTX competition. |
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AMD On Track With openSIL For Zen 6 Platforms, openSIL FAS 1.0 Published In addition to talking up the openSFI firmware collaboration between AMD and Intel at the OCP Global Summit 2025, AMD engineer Raj Kapoor provided a status update on the company's much anticipated openSIL effort for working to ultimately replace AGESA with a new open-source CPU silicon initialization codebase... |
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Intel Compute Runtime 25.40.35563.4 Brings More Panther Lake Changes Intel Compute Runtime 25.40.35563.4 is out today as the newest update to their open-source GPU compute stack for Level Zero and OpenCL on Intel integrated/discrete graphics hardware... |
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AMD XDNA Linux Driver Preps For New Ryzen AI "NPU3A" Revision Yesterday the GitHub-hosted AMD XDNA driver code saw a new tagged release as version 202610.2.21.17. That itself wasn't too interesting but while diving into there is new yet-to-be-merged code for a new "NPU3A" revision to their NPU3 IP in Ryzen AI... |
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Apple Plans To Open-Source An LLVM Tool To Security Harden Large C++ Codebases An engineer on Apple's static security tools team announced publicly that they have prototyped a tool to apply security hardening across entire C++ codebases. Ultimately their plan is to open-source and upstream this static analysis based tool into LLVM... |
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AMD Updates Zen 3 / Zen 4 CPU Microcode For Systems Lacking Microcode Signing Fix AMD this week uploaded new Family 19h CPU microcode for Zen 3 and Zen 4 processors to the linux-firmware.git repoository that in turn is pulled by the Linux distributions for offering the latest firmware/microcode to users... |
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SUSE Linux Enterprise 16 Announced: "Enterprise Linux That Integrates Agentic AI" SUSE today formally announced SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 16. Given we are in the year 2025, SUSE is heavy on hyping up AI capabilities with SLES 16... |
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Arm Ethos NPU Accelerator Driver Expected To Be Merged For Linux 6.19 The upcoming Linux 6.19 kernel cycle is now expected to introduce the new "ethosu" accelerator driver for supporting the Arm Ethos U65/U85 neural processing unit IP... |
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Red Hat Affirms Plans To Distribute NVIDIA CUDA Across RHEL, Red Hat AI & OpenShift Following Canonical announcing plans to better support NVIDIA CUDA on Ubuntu Linux and make it easier to install as well as SUSE better supporting CUDA along similar lines, Red Hat today affirmed their plans to do the same. Red Hat will be making it easier to use the NVIDIA CUDA stack across RHEL, Red Hat AI, and OpenShift products... |
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TrueNAS 25.10 Released With NVMe-oF Support, OpenZFS Performance Improvements TrueNAS 25.10 was released by iX systems today as the newest feature release of this Linux-based platform for network attached storage (NAS) devices and other storage appliances... |
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Microsoft's Azure Linux 3.0.20251021 Pulls In AppArmor & Other Updates Microsoft today released Azure Linux 3.0.20251021 as the latest update to their in-house Linux distribution... |
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Three More X.Org Server & XWayland Security Vulnerabilities Made Public The Trend Micro Zero Day Initiative has uncovered three more security vulnerabilities affecting the X.Org Server and the derived XWayland source code... |