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      NVIDIA RTX PRO Blackwell Performance Delivering Excellent Linux Performance

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 15:43

    Recently I received the line-up of the NVIDIA RTX PRO "Blackwell" workstation graphics cards for seeing how these newest professional offerings from NVIDIA are performing on Linux and competing against the AMD Radeon AI PRO and Intel Arc Pro B-Series competition.
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      KMSCON 10.0 Released With Natural Scrolling Option, Libseat VT Support

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 13:45

    KMSCON 10.0 is out today as the newest feature release to this terminal emulator for Linux that can serve as an alternative to the in-kernel VT...
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      Ryzen AI AMDXDNA Driver Adding Expandable Heap Support With Linux 7.2

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 12:57

    AMD engineers continue enhancing the AMDXDNA accelerator driver for supporting the Ryzen AI NPUs on Linux...
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      VKD3D 2.0 Released For Wine's Direct3D 12 Implementation Atop Vulkan

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 11:04

    Wine developers have announced the release of VKD3D 2.0, the newest feature release for this Direct3D 12 API implementation built atop the Vulkan API. VKD3D is what's used by upstream Wine for D3D12 compared to Valve's downstream VKD3D-Proton within Steam Play (Proton)...
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      AlmaLinux To Unveil Media/Entertainment Linux OS Edition

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 10:31

    AlmaLinux shared with us that they will be introducing a new version of their RHEL-derived Linux operating system that is built specifically for media and entertainment use-cases...
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      More AMDGPU Driver Fixes Prepped For Linux 7.2

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 10:23

    AMD is ready with more AMDKFD compute driver and AMDGPU kernel graphics driver changes for the upcoming Linux 7.2 merge window...
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      chipStar 1.3 Released For Running HIP/CUDA Code On SPIR-V With OpenCL

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 10:16

    A new release of chipStar is now available as the open-source tool for compiling and running HIP/CUDA code in a vendor-neutral manner with the SPIR-V intermediate representation on OpenCL or even Intel Level Zero as the run-time alternative. This is part of the ambitious effort to allow NVIDIA CUDA and AMD HIP code to ultimately run on alternative vendors with increasing levels of success...
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      New Patches Allow The Microsoft Surface Pro 9 5G To Be More Useful Under Linux

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 10:01

    Back in 2024 there were Linux patches to enable a partially-working Microsoft Surface Pro 9 5G laptop that is powered by the Qualcomm Snapdragon 8xc Gen 3 (SC8280XP) SoC. Now in 2026, there are new patches for making that ARM-powered Microsoft Surface laptop actually working more respectably under Linux... Like a working display and more...
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      AMDGPU HDMI 2.1 FRL To Be Initially Disabled-By-Default

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 19 hours ago

    One of the most exciting developments in recent times for the open-source AMDGPU kernel graphics driver is HDMI 2.1 FRL support for the AMDGPU driver along with Display Stream Compression support as they work toward providing full HDMI 2.1 support for this open-source AMD Radeon driver. The details how AMD managed to pull this feat off given prior resistance from the HDMI Forum remains to be confirmed, but it's moving ahead and out today is the latest iteration of the HDMI 2.1 FRL+DSC patches...