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      There's Finally A New Game Powered By The Unigine 2 Engine

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 30 July 2026

    It's been about a decade since seeing any new games released on the visually-impressive, Linux-friendly Unigine Engine. Unigine Corp has mostly been focusing on Unigine Engine usage for simulations and other professional applications, but coming as a surprise today is a new game being developed on their latest Unigine 2 engine technology...
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      OPI Abstraction v0.1 Published With Aiming To Standardize DPU/IPU Ecosystems

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 30 July 2026

    The Linux Foundation hosted Open Programmable Infrastructure "OPI" announced its first coordinated release with OPI Abstraction v0.1. The work of the Open Programmable Infrastructure is hoping to standardize the data processing unit (DPU) and infrastructure processing unit (IPU) ecosystems...
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      Nouveau vs. NVIDIA R610 On CachyOS With The GeForce RTX 5090 Laptop GPU

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 30 July 2026

    With the Razer Blade 18 as the first laptop Razer's certifying for (Ubuntu) Linux use while testing it out I was predominantly using the NVIDIA R610 official driver stack. Some users were interested though in how well this laptop is working with the open-source, upstream Nouveau+NVK driver stack given Razer is marketing this high-end laptop for Linux use too. Before sending the review unit back I had run some graphics benchmarks to see how Nouveau+NVK was performing for this Razer Blade RZ09-0582 with the flagship GeForce RTX 5090 Laptop GPU.
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      AMD Zen 6 Client HSMP Patches Points To "Ryzen Master" Functionality On Linux

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 30 July 2026

    In an interesting twist, patches this week posted to the Linux kernel mailing list are enabling AMD Zen 6 client desktop and laptop SoCs for the HSMP driver. Up to now the AMD HSMP Linux driver was just used for modern EPYC server processors while now we are seeing this HSMP driver supporting the upcoming Medusa and Olympic Ridge client platforms... Including mentions of overclocking and even noting "Ryzen Master" as the Windows-only software for overclocking and system management...
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      Xen 4.22 Released With AMD Zen 5 BLT Support, Improved RISC-V Virtualization

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 30 July 2026

    The Xen Project today released Xen 4.22 as the newest feature release of this open-source hypervisor popular for open-source virtualization in automotive systems and other embedded use-cases as well as the cloud...
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      Huawei Considers Open-Sourcing A Half-Hearted Mesa Vulkan Driver

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 30 July 2026

    A Huawei engineer posted to the Mesa mailing list today over potentially upstreaming a Vulkan driver they have developed for an in-house GPU. However, at least in current form, this new in-house GPU Vulkan driver is likely dead in the water from being upstreamed into Mesa...
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      Patches Posted To Improve Linux Media Acceleration On Intel Alchemist GPUs

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 30 July 2026

    The Intel Arc A-Series graphics (DG2) remains in a bit of an awkward state on Linux due to the transition period moving from the i915 kernel driver to more modern and feature capable Xe kernel driver. It's only post-Alchemist where the Intel Xe driver is officially supported and used by default while those opting for the Xe driver with the A-Series can often enjoy better performance and functionality. Except one of the caveats in using the Xe driver on Alchemist GPUs has been the lack of proper media acceleration support...
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      Five Proposals Now Being Weighed For Debian AI/LLM Usage

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 30 July 2026

    Last week Debian developers began considering a general resolution over AI large language model (LLM) usage within the Debian project. They are now up to weighing five different proposals for how to permit or block AI/LLM usage in the Debian space...
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      Intel Media Driver & VPL GPU Runtime 2026Q2 Updates Continue Prepping For Nova Lake

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 30 July 2026

    Over the past few Intel VA-API Media Driver releases we have seen preparations made for Nova Lake video acceleration. That has continued today with the Intel Media Driver and Intel oneVPL GPU Runtime releases today with their new quarterly feature releases...