KDE Plasma 6.5 Is Said To Be "A Pretty Darn Good Release" With plans to release next Tuesday (21 October), KDE developers this week have been putting the finishing touches on this next open-source desktop update. Prominent KDE developer Nate Graham says he thinks it's going to be "a pretty darn good release" when it officially debuts...

KDE Plasma 6.5 Is Said To Be "A Pretty Darn Good Release" - Phoronix

With plans to release next Tuesday (21 October), KDE developers this week have been putting the finishing touches on this next open-source desktop ...

openSFI Is A Very Interesting Collaboration Between AMD & Intel For Better Firmware Unification An interesting technical collaboration between AMD and Intel as well as other industry players like Google, Bytedance, Microsoft, MiTAC, HPE, and others is openSFI. The new openSFI "Open Silicon Firmware Interface" project is aiming to work toward vendor-neutral low-level firmware interfaces for more interoperable firmware solutions across vendors...

openSFI Is A Very Interesting Collaboration Between AMD & Intel For Better Firmware Unification - Phoronix

An interesting technical collaboration between AMD and Intel as well as other industry players like Google, Bytedance, Microsoft, MiTAC, HPE, and o...

AES-GCM Crypto Performance Up To ~74% Faster For AMD Zen 3 With Linux 6.19 Improvements to the Linux kernel's AES-GCM Galois/Counter Mode crypto block cipher code will yield up to 74% faster performance for AMD Zen 3 processors with the Linux 6.19 kernel in the new year...

AES-GCM Crypto Performance Up To ~74% Faster For AMD Zen 3 With Linux 6.19 - Phoronix

Improvements to the Linux kernel's AES-GCM Galois/Counter Mode crypto block cipher code will yield up to 74% faster performance for AMD Zen 3 ...

New Linux Kernel Patches From Intel Delivering +18% Database Performance In addition to the recent Linux kernel patches out of Intel for Cache Aware Scheduling for better performance, separately, another interesting new patch series was sent out this week for the Linux kernel. The patches rework some low-level Linux kernel memory management code and at least for database workloads the early benchmarks are showing possible 14~18% faster data…

New Linux Kernel Patches From Intel Delivering +18% Database Performance - Phoronix

In addition to the recent Linux kernel patches out of Intel for Cache Aware Scheduling for better performance, separately, another interesting new ...

Intel Vulkan Driver Adds Support For Xe Driver's Low Latency Hint One of the early changes merged for the in-development Mesa 26.0 is adding support to Intel's "ANV" open-source Vulkan driver for supporting the low-latency hint supported by the modern Intel Xe kernel graphics driver...

Intel Vulkan Driver Adds Support For Xe Driver's Low Latency Hint - Phoronix

One of the early changes merged for the in-development Mesa 26.0 is adding support to Intel's 'ANV' open-source Vulkan driver for su...

Valve Developer Contributes Major Improvement To RADV Vulkan For Llama.cpp AI Valve's Linux graphics driver team contributions aren't limited to just enhancing the rasterization and ray-tracing graphics performance of the open-source Linux GPU drivers for gaming. Beyond other interesting contributions from that talented group of open-source Linux graphics developers over the years and for other areas like enhancing old GPU hardware suppo…

Valve Developer Contributes Major Improvement To RADV Vulkan For Llama.cpp AI - Phoronix

Valve's Linux graphics driver team contributions aren't limited to just enhancing the rasterization and ray-tracing graphics performance ...

Fedora 43 Is Not Ready For Release Next Week Fedora 43 had been planning for an early final target release date of 21 October. Unfortunately, that's not going to happen as a "No-Go" was declared at the Fedora Linux 43 release meeting...

Fedora 43 Is Not Ready For Release Next Week - Phoronix

Fedora 43 had been planning for an early final target release date of 21 October

Mesa NVK Lands Support For VK_NVX_image_view_handle - Needed For NVIDIA DLSS Just days ago Valve developer Autumn Ashton announced initial NVIDIA DLSS upscaling for the open-source Mesa NVK driver. One of those needed Vulkan extensions, VK_NVX_image_view_handle, is already merged to Mesa Git...

Mesa NVK Lands Support For VK_NVX_image_view_handle - Needed For NVIDIA DLSS - Phoronix

Just days ago Valve developer Autumn Ashton announced initial NVIDIA DLSS upscaling for the open-source Mesa NVK driver

Mesa 26.0 Enters Feature Development With Mesa 25.3 Branched The latest Mesa Git code is now under version Mesa 26.0-devel with the Mesa 25.3 code being branched overnight for what will become this quarter's stable feature release...

Mesa 26.0 Enters Feature Development With Mesa 25.3 Branched - Phoronix

The latest Mesa Git code is now under version Mesa 26.0-devel with the Mesa 25.3 code being branched overnight for what will become this quarter&#0...

Valve Developer Contributes Open-Source Driver Fixes For 12 Year Old Hawaii GPUs Valve's open-source Linux graphics team continues carrying out great feats from getting NVIDIA DLSS working on the open-source NVK driver to enhancing Linux GPU driver support for hardware long forgotten about by the hardware vendors. The latest improvement from Valve's stellar group of open-source contributors are some fixes that benefit old Radeon Rx 200…

Valve Developer Contributes Open-Source Driver Fixes For 12 Year Old Hawaii GPUs - Phoronix

Valve's open-source Linux graphics team continues carrying out great feats from getting NVIDIA DLSS working on the open-source NVK driver to e...