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      Intel Developing Their DXVK-IGDEXT For Improved Linux Gaming On Arc Graphics

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 14:54

    Intel engineers have been quietly developing dxvk-igdext as their own component for DXVK Direct3D 8 / 9 / 10 / 11 atop the Vulkan API for leveraging Intel Direct3D 11 Graphics Extensions...
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      Benchmarking Java Performance Of JDK 8 Through OpenJDK 27

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 14:17

    With the recent release of Java/OpenJDK 27 I began some fresh benchmarks in not having looked at the OpenJDK Java performance in a few years. Carried away, I ended up re-testing all the major OpenJDK versions going back to the venerable JDK 8.
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      NTFS-3G Update Brings Many Security Fixes

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 12:27

    NTFS-3G 2026.9.18 was released this morning as the newest update to this FUSE-based open-source driver for NTFS file-system support...
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      Qualcomm Posts Open-Source GPU Driver Patches For Adreno 850 One Day After Announcement

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 11:45

    Yesterday Qualcomm announced the Snapdragon 8 Elite Extreme Gen 6 as quite an interesting mobile SoC. The Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Elite Extreme Gen 6 features Adreno 850 graphics and already one-day later their engineers are out with initial Linux kernel patches for bringing up the A850 with the MSM kernel driver...
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      AMD Upstreams AVX10_V2_AUX Support Into LLVM Clang 24

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 10:25

    In addition to AMD working on AVX10_V2_AUX support for the GCC compiler, this summer they also posted AVX10_V2_AUX support for the LLVM/Clang compiler. As of yesterday that enablement was merged for LLVM 24 for that important step toward AI Compute Extensions (ACE)...
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      Linux 7.3 Reverting Logitech Bolt Receiver HID++ After Too Many Bugs Encountered

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 10:15

    Merged at the start of the Linux 7.3 kernel cycle was adding Logitech Bolt USB receiver support for Logitech HID++ devices to the hid-logitech-dj driver code. That has resulted in too many bug reports of early Linux 7.3 users encountering varying issues with their Logitech mice that the functionality is now being reverted until it can be better developed...
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      Open-Source NVIDIA "Nouveau" Driver Sees Patches For HDMI Deep Color Support

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 0:54

    The Nouveau Linux kernel graphics driver for open-source NVIDIA driver support has new patches posted for enabling HDMI Deep Color support...
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      Linux 7.2 vs. Linux 7.3 Shows A Few Improvements With AMD Strix Halo

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 1 day ago

    Last week I ran some benchmarks showing performance gains for AMD Ryzen AI Max+ "Strix Halo" on Ubuntu 26.10. Then shortly after that testing on its daily state, which used the Linux 7.2 kernel, Canonical switched to Linux 7.3 as the Ubuntu 26.10 kernel. Here are some Linux 7.2 vs. Linux 7.3 benchmarks for the AMD Ryzen AI Max+ 395 "Strix Halo" with the Framework Desktop...
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      Ubuntu Linux Maker Canonical Achieved $345M USD In Revenue For 2025

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 1 day ago

    In 2024 Canonical generated nearly $300M USD in revenue for this company behind Ubuntu Linux and other services and software solutions. For 2025, they not only broke $300M but well exceeded it with $345M in revenue...