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      Fedora Yet To Decide On x86_64-v3 Packages For Fedora Linux 45

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 1:13

    Last month a Fedora Linux change proposal was shared proposing that Fedora 45 be built with x86_64-v3 packages to complement the generic x86_64 (v1) packages currently being compiled. This has the possibility of providing greater performance out of packaged Fedora software but comes with the cost of greater burdens on web mirrors, QA / testing, and related infrastructure impact. The Fedora Engineering and Steering Committee "FESCo" decided today to wait on coming to a decision over this Fedora 45 change proposal...
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      Flatpak 1.17.7 To Track The Age Of Configurations For Providing Much Better Performance

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 0:35

    Flatpak 1.17.7 is now available for continuing to advance open-source app sandboxing and distribution on the Linux desktop. Some interesting new features are in tow with this Flatpak update plus there is also an updated XDG-Desktop-Portal release too...
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      Intel's Vulkan Linux Driver Lands Experimental Support For Descriptor Heaps

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 14 hours ago

    After the merge request was open the past three months for code originally authored eight months ago, the Intel "ANV" open-source Vulkan driver for Linux systems is now advertising support for descriptor heaps with the VK_EXT_descriptor_heap extension. But for the moment at least it's treated as experimental...
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      Rusticl Driver Ready To Go With OpenCL 3.1 Working On Radeon, Intel Iris & Zink/Vulkan

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 15 hours ago

    The Khronos Group today announced OpenCL 3.1 as the first major spec update in six years and incorporating various features into the core spec for enhancing AI and HPC capabilities. As a very exciting development, Rusticl as Mesa's lead OpenCL driver implementation is ready to go with same-day OpenCL 3.1 support pending...
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      Linux 7.1 Features: New NTFS Driver, New Intel + AMD Hardware, Performance Optimizations & Modernization

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 19 hours ago

    The Linux 7.1 development kernel that amounts to nearly 40 million lines has a lot of new features and changes in tow. While Linux 7.1 stable won't be out until mid-June, here is a look at the interesting changes coming with this next stable version of the Linux kernel.
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      Intel Drivers With Mesa 26.2 Ready With Xe In Linux 7.1 To Better Handle vRAM Pressure

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 21 hours ago

    Merged to the Intel Xe kernel graphics driver with Linux 7.1 is an addition to improve the video RAM memory pressure or out-of-memory behavior for Intel graphics with dedicated video memory. Introduced is support for purgeable buffer objects via a new user-space API to provide usage hints for enhancing what is purged under vRAM pressure. Merged this week to Mesa 26.2-devel is support for the Intel Mesa drivers to make use of this new interface...
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      Manjaro 26.1 Preview Released With GNOME 50, KDE Plasma 6.6 & Xfce 4.20 Options

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 21 hours ago

    The preview release of the Arch Linux powered Manjaro 26.1 is now available for testing...
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      AMD Preps Linux For CPPC HighestFreq Feature Coming With Future ACPI Spec

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 22 hours ago

    An improvement on the way for the AMD P-State Linux CPU frequency scaling driver and the Linux ACPI Collaborative Processor Performance Control (CPPC) code at large is supporting a new "HighestFreq" register to be standardized by a future revision of the ACPI specification...
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      OpenCL 3.1 Released To Bolster AI & HPC Workloads

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 23 hours ago

    Six years after the debut of OpenCL 3.0 in provisional form, OpenCL 3.1 was announced today by The Khronos Group...