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      New Intel Linux Driver Patches Enable HDR Over DP MST Connections

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 18:21

    One of the limitations of the Intel Linux driver's high dynamic range (HDR) display support is that it currently doesn't work for any DisplayPort Multi-Stream Transport "DP MST" connections, such as for daisy chaining monitors or multi-monitor docking stations. But the good news is patches are being worked on to address this Intel Linux kernel display driver shortcoming...
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      How NVIDIA GB10 CPU Performance Compares To Vera

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 15:50

    Since delivering NVIDIA Vera CPU benchmarks one month ago and follow-ups like how the ARM Linux server performance has evolved in 8 years or how Vera compares to Ampere Altra that is still quite common in the marketplace, another frequent discussion point and inquiry is about the performance of NVIDIA Vera relative to NVIDIA's GB10 chip. For those curious about the per-core performance and the like, here are some benchmarks of the GB10 up against those initial Vera results.
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      Coreboot 26.06 Brings Support For Intel Nova Lake, AMD Strix Halo & 31 New Boards

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 0:39

    Coreboot 26.06 is out today as the latest quarterly feature release for this software project providing open-source system firmware support for a growing number of platforms...
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      Ubuntu 26.10 Snapshot 2 Released For Monthly Testing

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 0:25

    Daily ISOs of Ubuntu 26.10 "Stonking Stingray" continue to be published, but for those preferring something a bit more regulated, out today is Ubuntu 26.10 Snapshot 2 as the second monthly ISO image...
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      Linux Foundation & Others Launch "Akrites" To Defend Open-Source Software From AI-Enabled Exploits

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 23 hours ago

    The Linux Foundation along with others like Amazon, Anthropic, OpenAI, NVIDIA, Microsoft, Red Hat, and others have joined forces to launch Akrites. The Akrites project is aiming to help defend critical open-source software from the brisk pace of new AI/LLM-discovered software bugs and vulnerabilities in ensuring that said issues are effectively addressed before they can be exploited by bad actors...
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      DXVK 3.0 Released With DXBC-SPIRV For Shader Compilation, Descriptor Heaps By Default

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 1 day ago

    Philip Rebohle announced the release today of DXVK 3.0 as the latest major feature release for this Direct3D 8 / 9 / 10 / 11 implementation atop the Vulkan API for use by Wine and Valve's Steam Play (Proton)...
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      Academy Software Foundation Announces The "Wayland For Artists Working Group"

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 1 day ago

    The Academy Software Foundation that advances open-source efforts for the VFX/cinema industry and more with the likes of OpenVDB, OpenMoonRay, Open Shading Language, and other projects, has announced the formation of a new working group to help with Wayland adoption for artists...
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      Updated Raspberry Pi OS With Linux 6.18 LTS Delivers Some Performance Benefits

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 1 day ago

    Last week marked the release of an updated Raspberry Pi OS that moved to Linux 6.18 LTS from its former Linux 6.12 kernel base along with making a number of other package updates. Given the jump to the newer Long Term Support kernel and other improvements, I ran some fresh benchmarks on the Raspberry Pi 5 (Raspberry Pi 500+) to see the performance difference out of the updated operating system.
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      Servo 0.3 Released With The Demo Browser Becoming More Useful

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 1 day ago

    Servo 0.3 released today as the latest version of this modern browser engine developed in Rust. With Servo 0.3 the demo servoshell browser is becoming more useful and supporting additional modern web features while Servo also continues to possess much potential moving forward on the embedded front as an alternative to the likes of the Chromium Embedded Framework (CEF)...