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      KRAID Being Developed As New Compiler For Modern Arm Mali Graphics

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 1 day ago

    KRAID is a new Rust-written shader compiler currently being developed for the Panfrost/PanVK open-source Arm Mali driver code. KRAID is designed for Mali's Valhall graphics processors and new as a modern, clean sheet design...
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      O3DE 26.05 Released With New Open Particle System, Other Engine Improvements

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 1 day ago

    It's been nearly five years already since the start of O3DE as the Open 3D Engine that began as Amazon's Lumberyard project spun into an open-source project under the Linux Foundation umbrella. Out this week is O3DE 26.05 for shipping the latest improvements to this cross platform game engine...
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      GTK Introduces Snapping Feature For Better Fractional Scaling Experience

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 1 day ago

    The upcoming GTK 4.23.1 development release is introducing a new feature called Snapping, which should enhance the experience when dealing with fractional scaling on today's high resolution displays...
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      Mesa 26.0.8 Released To End Out The Series

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 1 day ago

    Eric Engestrom announced the release of Mesa 26.0.8 today as the latest stable point release of that Q1'2026 driver series and the last planned update for that stable series...
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      NVIDIA CUDA 13.3 Rolls Out CUDA Python 1.0, CUDA Tile For C++

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 1 day ago

    NVIDIA on Tuesday released CUDA 13.3 as another significant advancement for their unified GPU programming stack for NVIDIA hardware...
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      Ubuntu 26.10 Planning To Ship With The Linux 7.2 Kernel

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 1 day ago

    Canonical's kernel team confirmed today their intention of shipping the Ubuntu 26.10 release with what will be the Linux 7.2 kernel...
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      VKD3D-Proton Merges Vulkan Descriptor Heap Support

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 1 day ago

    Valve's VKD3D-Proton component to Steam Play (Proton) for Direct3D 12 implemented over the Vulkan API has landed its descriptor heap (VK_EXT_descriptor_heap) support as a big step forward...
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      Cache Aware Scheduling Shows Nice Wins For AMD Zen 5 On PostgreSQL, Valkey, Network Performance

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 2 days ago

    The long-in-development work on Cache Aware Scheduling looks like it will come to a head soon with it looking like Cache Aware Scheduling will land for Linux 7.2. Ahead of the upcoming merge window I ran some fresh benchmarks looking at different areas where this feature is shining.
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      Linux Developers Looking At Retiring The x32 ABI

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 2 days ago

    The Linux x32 ABI for x86_64 processors allow making use of the full 64-bit register file and wide data path but retaining 32-bit pointers to provide for a smaller memory footprint when not needing 64-bit pointers. Linux x32 came to the party late and didn't enjoy much adoption over the years and is now looking at possible removal from the Linux kernel...