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      "Shiva" Being Developed For Mesa Vulkan Drivers, Akin To Gallium3D

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 0:32

    Shiva is entering development for Mesa Vulkan drivers as a new framework akin to Gallium3D but for Vulkan drivers rather than OpenGL. It's going to be some time before the work will come to fruition but should hopefully lead to more code sharing and a better Mesa Vulkan driver development experience in the future...
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      NVIDIA Developing "Display Config Server" To Improve Linux/Wayland On Display Walls

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 7 hours ago

    As an initiative from NVIDIA for improving the Linux ecosystem outside the world of AI, they have been developing Display-Config-Server as a new solution to help enhance the Linux capabilities for complex display walls...
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      SIMDjson 5.0 Released: Still Making JSON Parsing Even Faster

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 7 hours ago

    SIMDjson is the open-source, high performance JSON parser that surprisingly began making use of AVX-512 to deliver big performance gains years ago. SIMDjson has continued further refining itself to deliver even greater speeds and out today is SIMDjson 5.0...
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      Fedora 45 To Feature Smoother Experience For Snapdragon X1 Laptops

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 10 hours ago

    Qualcomm hiring one of Red Hat's top x86_64 Linux laptop experts last year, Hans de Goede, is indeed having a positive benefit on enhancing the Fedora Linux support for Qualcomm Snapdragon X powered hardware...
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      Firefox 157 Now Available With Visual Refresh, WebRTC Hardware AV1 Decode

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 12 hours ago

    As part of the Mozilla Firefox bi-weekly release regiment, the Firefox 157 binaries are now available for this open-source web browser...
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      Flatpak 1.18.4 Released With Important Security Fixes

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 13 hours ago

    Flatpak 1.18.4 is out today with a number of high profile security fixes for this app sandboxing and distribution tech...
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      NVIDIA Vera SMT Performance Benchmarks

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 13 hours ago

    Recently I was provided remote access to a NVIDIA Vera server with the dual socket Vera CPU Superchip providing 176 Olympus cores plus with NVIDIA's Spatial Multithreading "SMT" implementation providing 352 total threads. With this benchmarking was free rein for testing, including CPU power and frequency monitoring. Over the next few weeks will be a number of articles looking at different areas of NVIDIA Vera performance. One of the areas I was most eager to test was looking at Vera's Spatial Multithreading. Here is a first look at the impact of NVIDIA Vera SMT.
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      AMD PerfOpt To Deliver New Performance Optimization For AMD iGPUs With Linux 7.4

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 15 hours ago

    Those using AMD integrated graphics on Linux such as the beefy Ryzen AI Max+ Strix Halo and Gorgon Halo hardware will be able to enjoy even better performance with the upcoming Linux 7.4 kernel...
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      openSUSE Leap 16.1 RC Released With New Immutable Mode

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 16 hours ago

    The release candidate phase has begun for the upcoming openSUSE Leap 16.1 in-step with SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 16.1. Most notable with the openSUSE Leap 16.1 is the introduction of its new immutable mode...