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Experimental Build Of Holo Core Published: Arch Linux AArch64 For Valve's Steam Frame
1+ hour, 31+ min ago (179+ words) Phoronix - Categories Computers Display Drivers Graphics Cards Linux Gaming Memory Motherboards Processors Software Storage Operating Systems Peripherals Michael Larabel is the principal author of Phoronix.com and founded the site in 2004 with a focus on enriching the Linux hardware experience....
AMD Preps More Graphics Driver Improvements For Linux 7.3
7+ hour, 8+ min ago (241+ words) Since earlier this month AMD has begun staging graphics driver changes for Linux 7.3 ahead of the merge window opening in late July. That's brought some interesting changes so far while there still are a few weeks to land any additional…...
Microsoft Goes Nostalgic In Newest Open-Source Drop: Comic Chat Open-Sourced After 30 Years
1+ day, 2+ hour ago (218+ words) Introduced in 1996 with Internet Explorer 3.0, Microsoft Comic Chat provided comic-like avatars driven IRC chat client. After 30 years, this proprietary IRC chat client that was removed in Internet Explorer 6.0, is now open-source software... - Categories Computers Display Drivers Graphics Cards Linux Gaming…...
Ubuntu Kernel Team Warns Of Temporary AMD GPU Performance Regression Up To 42x
1+ day, 7+ hour ago (266+ words) The Ubuntu Kernel Team issued a statement this morning to proactively warn Ubuntu Linux users on Ubuntu 26.04 and Ubuntu 24.04 LTS HWE users that the next kernel point release will contain a performance regression for AMD GPUs in compute-heavy workloads with…...
Mesa 26.2-rc1 Released In Ending Feature Work For This Quarter's 3D Graphics Stack
1+ day, 20+ hour ago (198+ words) Mesa 26.2 was branched today from Mesa Git and in turn Mesa 26.3-devel is now open on mainline... - Categories Computers Display Drivers Graphics Cards Linux Gaming Memory Motherboards Processors Software Storage Operating Systems Peripherals Mesa 26.2-rc1 Released In Ending Feature Work For…...
Ubuntu 26.04 LTS vs. Windows 11 vs. CachyOS Performance On A $5399 Laptop
2+ day, 1+ hour ago (359+ words) Phoronix - Categories Computers Display Drivers Graphics Cards Linux Gaming Memory Motherboards Processors Software Storage Operating Systems Peripherals Ubuntu 26.04 LTS vs. Windows 11 vs. CachyOS Performance On A $5399 Laptop Earlier this month on Phoronix I reviewed the Razer Blade 18 RZ09-0582 as the first…...
Mesa's Native Vulkan-To-Metal Driver Now Advertises Vulkan 1.4
2+ day, 7+ hour ago (199+ words) KosmicKrisp as the Vulkan API driver built atop Apple's Metal API in Mesa for macOS and iOS systems is now advertising Vulkan 1.4 compatibility... - Categories Computers Display Drivers Graphics Cards Linux Gaming Memory Motherboards Processors Software Storage Operating Systems Peripherals Mesa's…...
Blender 5.2 LTS Released With Many Great Enhancements
3+ day, 1+ hour ago (193+ words) Blender 5.2 is out today as the newest Long Term Support release for this leading, open-source 3D modeling software... - Categories Computers Display Drivers Graphics Cards Linux Gaming Memory Motherboards Processors Software Storage Operating Systems Peripherals Blender 5.2 LTS Released With Many Great Enhancements…...
Intel IGC 2.38.2 Brings Latest Round Of Graphics Compiler Improvements
3+ day, 4+ hour ago (212+ words) Ahead of the next Intel Compute Runtime release, IGC 2.38.2 was released today as the newest feature update to this open-source graphics compiler used by Intel iGPU/dGPU hardware on both Windows and Linux... - Categories Computers Display Drivers Graphics Cards Linux…...
Intel Vulkan Driver Now Supports H.265 10-bit Video Encoding
3+ day, 5+ hour ago (188+ words) Phoronix - Categories Computers Display Drivers Graphics Cards Linux Gaming Memory Motherboards Processors Software Storage Operating Systems Peripherals Intel Vulkan Driver Now Supports H.265 10-bit Video Encoding Michael Larabel is the principal author of Phoronix.com and founded the site in 2004 with…...