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      NVIDIA-VAAPI-Driver 0.0.17 Fixes Support For GB10 Powered Systems

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 10:19

    The open-source, community-developed NVIDIA-VAAPI-Driver that provides a Video Acceleration API (VA-API) implementation built atop NVIDIA's NVDEC video decode interface is out with a new release. This is the open-source project that's motivated by getting accelerated video decoding to work within Mozilla Firefox and other apps when running with NVIDIA's packaged Linux driver...
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      Linux Enables Auto Counter Reload "ACR" For Intel Xeon Diamond Rapids

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 10:12

    Merged as part of the perf subsystem fixes overnight is enabling Auto Counter Reload (ACR) functionality for upcoming Intel Xeon Diamond Rapids processors. This ACR enabling for Diamond Rapids "DMR" is happening in time for Linux 7.1-rc3 on Sunday while the work is also marked for back-porting to existing stable kernels...
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      KDE Plasma 6.7 To Support ICC Profiles In HDR Mode, Direct Scan-Out Improvement

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 0:53

    KDE developers continue to be quite busy in preparing additional Plasma 6.7 desktop features ahead of the stable release due out in mid-June...
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      FreeBSD 15.1 Beta 2 Brings Updated Zstd, Bug Fixes

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 0:22

    FreeBSD 15.1 continues working its way toward a stable release in June. Out today is FreeBSD 15.1 Beta 2...
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      HP Z6 G5 A Continues Working Out Well For Linux-Friendly, High-End Workstation

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 20 hours ago

    In late 2023 I reviewed the HP Z6 G5 A workstation that at the time was built around the AMD Ryzen Threadripper PRO 7000 series and NVIDIA RTX Ada Generation graphics. More recently, HP has revised the Z6 G5 A workstation for the latest Threadripper PRO 9000 series and NVIDIA RTX PRO Blackwell graphics. HP sent over the upgraded Z6 G5 A workstation that I've been benchmarking the past few weeks. This workstation remains Linux-friendly down to convenient LVFS/Fwupd support and delivers stellar performance with the Zen 5 Threadripper and NVIDIA Blackwell combination.
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      NVIDIA Releases CUDA-Oxide 0.1 For Experimental Rust-To-CUDA Compiler

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 20 hours ago

    A new NVIDIA Labs project is greatly improving the capabilities of using the Rust programming language for developing CUDA kernels for NVIDIA GPUs...
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      DM-INLINECRYPT Expected For Linux 7.2 To Leverage Inline Encryption

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 21 hours ago

    Queued for merging as part of the DeviceMapper changes for the upcoming Linux 7.2 kernel cycle is the new dm-inlinecrypt target for leveraging inline block device encryption...
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      Qt Creator 20 Beta Expands AI Integration

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 22 hours ago

    The Qt Group released the Qt Creator 20 Beta today for this Qt/C++ focused integrated development environment (IDE). In building off the trends of recent releases of Qt Creator and development tools at large, AI integration continues to be a big area of focus...
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      OpenZL 0.2 Released For Meta's Content-Aware Compression Software

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 1 day ago

    Last October engineers at Meta announced OpenZL as a format-aware compression framework. OpenZL aims to be speedy yet capable of delivering high compression ratios depending upon what is being compressed. OpenZL is viewed as their next leap in data compression beyond their wonderful work on Zstandard (Zstd). This week there's finally a new OpenZL software release available...