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      Mesa's Native Vulkan-To-Metal Driver Now Advertises Vulkan 1.4

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 15 July 2026

    KosmicKrisp as the Vulkan API driver built atop Apple's Metal API in Mesa for macOS and iOS systems is now advertising Vulkan 1.4 compatibility...
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      Khronos Lists First Conformant OpenCL 3.1 Implementation: Apple M1/M2 On Asashi Linux With Rusticl

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 15 July 2026

    Back in May OpenCL 3.1 was announced with a focus on AI and HPC workloads. Just over two months later, this incremental update over OpenCL 3.0 mow has its first listed conformant OpenCL 3.1 implementation for passing the OpenCL 3.1 conformance test suite cases. It's Apple Silicon M1/M2 graphics running on Asahi Linux with the Mesa Rusticl driver...
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      COSMIC Epoch 1.3 Released With New Frosted Glass Option

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 14 July 2026

    For those that were intrigued by the COSMIC desktop's "Frosted Glass" effect, it's now available in released form with today's COSMIC Epoch 1.3 release...
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      FreeBSD 16 Retires The Last Of Its GPL Code From Its Base System

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 14 July 2026

    As of this past week in the FreeBSD source tree for FreeBSD 16, the last of the GNU GPL licensed code from the base system has been retired...
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      BOSGAME VTA-439: A Great, Linux-Friendly Mini PC Powered By AMD Ryzen AI 9 HX 470

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 14 July 2026

    For those that were intrigued by the recent launch of the AMD Ryzen AI Halo developer platform with a very capable mini PC but looking for something more affordable and not needing quite as much horsepower or AI focus, BOSGAME recently launched their VTA-439 mini PC. The BOSGAME VTA-439 is powered by the AMD Ryzen AI 9 HX 470 with Radeon 890M graphics for those wanting still quite a capable mini PC that retails for around $1,049 USD while sporting 32GB of RAM and 1TB NVMe SSD storage.
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      Blender 5.2 LTS Released With Many Great Enhancements

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 14 July 2026

    Blender 5.2 is out today as the newest Long Term Support release for this leading, open-source 3D modeling software...
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      System76 Launches New Adder Pro Laptop With NVIDIA GPU, 2K OLED & Up To 96GB RAM

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 14 July 2026

    System76 today announced their new Adder Pro laptop that they are promoting as the "gamer's dream machine" with its NVIDIA graphics, 2K OLED 500 nit display, up to 96GB RAM, and 3.37 lb weight...
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      Linux Foundation's Latest Foray Is To Standardize Internet-Native Payments For AI Agents

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 14 July 2026

    There is yet-another-foundation being stewarded by the Linux Foundation that further broadens its scope outside of the typical Linux/open-source umbrella. Today the Linux Foundation announced the launch of the x402 Foundation for aiming to standardize Internet-native payments for AI agents and applications...
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      Linux Kernel Graphics Driver Proposed For GlandaGPU: An Open-Source Soft GPU Core

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 14 July 2026

    A new Direct Rendering Manager (DRM) kernel graphics driver has been sent out for GlandaGPU, an open-source custom 3D graphics core designed in VHDL and running on FPGA hardware...