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      NVIDIA GeForce NOW Is Now Available Natively On Linux In Flatpak Form

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 14:00

    Following NVIDIA's announcement back at CES of their GeForce NOW game streaming service coming to Linux as a native desktop application, today's the day. The GeForce NOW Linux-native build is being published and the review embargo has lifted.
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      Valve Developer Improves Aging AMD APUs On Linux With VRR, DP/HDMI Audio, HDR & Atomic

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 11:36

    Timur Kristóf of Valve's Linux graphics team last year addressed remaining issues in the open-source AMDGPU kernel graphics driver so old AMD GCN 1.0 and GCN 1.1 GPUs could transition to using AMDGPU by default rather than the former "Radeon" kernel driver that is largely in maintenance mode for pre-GCN/RDNA GPUs. One caveat though was the GCN 1.1 APU support still having some limitations leading to Kaveri and friends not being able to use the modern AMDGPU DC "Display Core" code. But new patches from Timur take care of those limitations...
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      Intel Thermal Daemon 2.5.11 Released With Wildcat Lake Support

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 11:19

    With Intel Panther Lake now shipping, open-source Intel engineers working on the client side are turning to tidying up support for their next target: Wildcat Lake. That more cost effective alternative to Panther Lake now has Intel Thermal Daemon support in getting ready for Linux desktops/laptops...
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      NVIDIA VA-API Driver 0.0.15 Released With A Few Fixes

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 10:57

    The NVIDIA-VAAPI-Driver 0.0.15 was released overnight as this VA-API driver implementation built atop NVIDIA's NVDEC interface used by their proprietary user-space driver stack. The purpose of NVIDIA-VAAPI-Driver as this community open-source project continues to be around enabling video acceleration for NVIDIA GPUs with the Firefox web browser on Linux that supports the VA-API interface but not NVIDIA's NVDEC...
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      GNU gettext Reaches Version 1.0 After 30+ Years In Development - Adds LLM Features

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 01:31

    Sun Microsystems began developing gettext in the early 1990s and the GNU Project began GNU gettext development in 1995 for this widely-used internationalization and localization system commonly for multi-lingual integration. While GNU gettext is commonly used by countless open-source projects and adapted for many different programming languages, only an hour ago was GNU gettext 1.0 finally released...
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      Wasmer 7.0 Released For Advancing WebAssembly On The Desktop & Anywhere

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • Yesterday - 21:13

    Wasmer 7.0 is out today for this WebAssembly "WASM" run-time for enabling lightweight containers that can run "anywhere" from the desktop to cloud and the edge. The security-minded and extensible WASM runtime provided by Wasmer has already proven to be quite robust while with Wasmer 7.0 has become even more featureful...
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      GNOME 50 Finally Lands Improved Discrete GPU Detection

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • Yesterday - 20:44

    The upcoming release of GNOME 50 to be found in the likes of Ubuntu 26.04 LTS and Fedora Workstation 44 will feature improved discrete GPU detection within the GNOME Shell. This effort has been two years coming and finally merged this week...
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      Mesa 26.0-rc2 Released With Numerous AMD, NVIDIA & Intel Driver Fixes

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • Yesterday - 18:03

    Following last week's code branching / feature freeze and first release candidate of Mesa 26.0, Mesa 26.0-rc2 is now available with an initial batch of bug fixes for this quarter's feature update to these open-source OpenGL and Vulkan drivers...
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      FreeType Speeds-Up ClearType-Like LCD Filter Rendering By 40%

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • Yesterday - 16:23

    The widely-used FreeType library used for rendering text onto bitmaps has landed a significant optimization for its LCD filtering code path for Microsoft ClearType-like rendering. Thanks to the improvement, the rendering can be around 40% faster...