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Zstd Improvement For Linux 7.4 To Avoid Redundant Initialization
17+ hour, 22+ min ago (211+ words) In addition to Usama Arif's recent Linux patches for addressing a major inefficiency within the Linux kernel's Zstd compression code, he also has a separate patch series destined for Linux 7.4 to further enhance the Zstd compression/decompression performance by avoiding…...
GNOME Shotwell 33 Photo Manager Released With GTK4 Port
20+ hour, 45+ min ago (188+ words) It's been quite some time since hearing any news out of the Shotwell photo manager project for GNOME, but out today is Shotwell 33 with the long-awaited GTK4 port... - Categories Computers Display Drivers Graphics Cards Linux Gaming Memory Motherboards Processors Software Storage…...
Patches Ready For AMDGPU HDMI 2.1 Enabled By Default With Linux 7.4 With FreeSync, VRR & ALLM
2+ day, 20+ hour ago (254+ words) Linux 7.4 is now set to reach the elusive milestone of HDMI 2.1 support for the AMDGPU kernel graphics driver. After the HDMI Forum previously rejected HDMI 2.1 for the AMDGPU open-source driver implementation going back years, earlier this year something changed -- widely…...
Ubuntu 24.04.5 LTS Released With Linux 7.0 HWE Stack
3+ day, 13+ hour ago (194+ words) For those continuing to make use of the Ubuntu 24.04 Long Term Support "LTS" series, Ubuntu 24.04.5 LTS is out today as the newest point release... - Categories Computers Display Drivers Graphics Cards Linux Gaming Memory Motherboards Processors Software Storage Operating Systems Peripherals…...
X.Org Server 26.1 Moves Closer To Release As Half-Decade Update
3+ day, 20+ hour ago (224+ words) We're getting closer to the X.Org Server 26.1 stable release as the first new tagged feature release since X.Org Server 21.1 debuted back in October 2021. There have been some new features, many code reverts, and many bug fixes merged over the past…...
YSERVER 1.5 Released With Reverse PRIME Support & Other New Features
4+ day, 21+ hour ago (226+ words) Announced a few months back was YSERVER as a modern X11 server written in the Rust programming language. In getting the project off the ground quickly and given the size of X11, it was largely vibe coded with Claude Code. The project…...
LLVM Merges Support For AMD's RMPCHKD, RMPREAD & RMPOPT Instructions
5+ day, 21+ hour ago (216+ words) With the Linux kernel still working toward landing support for AMD's RMPOPT optimization for helping to reduce overhead on SEV-SNP enabled servers, the LLVM/Clang compiler has in turn prepped for the milestone by landing support for the RMPOPT, RMPREAD,…...
Ubuntu 26.10 amd64v3 Daily ISOs Now Being Published
6+ day, 17+ hour ago (185+ words) As an interesting development for Ubuntu 26.10, the daily ISOs of the "Stonking Stingray" now include amd64v3 images... - Categories Computers Display Drivers Graphics Cards Linux Gaming Memory Motherboards Processors Software Storage Operating Systems Peripherals Ubuntu 26.10 amd64v3 Daily ISOs Now Being Published Michael Larabel…...
PoCL 7.2 Released With Official OpenCL 3.0 Conformance On RISC-V & x86_64 CPUs
1+ week, 2+ day ago (221+ words) The Portable Computing Language project is out today with PoCL 7.2 as this portable, MIT-licensed OpenCL implementation that runs across various CPU architectures as well as targeting other GPUs/hardware with LLVM back-ends. Notable with PoCL 7.2 is bringing official OpenCL 3.0 conformance…...
XDC 2026 Will Feature Many Interesting Talks: Vulkan Gallium, OpenCL On CUDA & More
1+ week, 2+ day ago (216+ words) The annual X.Org Developer's Conference "XDC 2026" is happening later this month in Toronto. A great number of interesting talks are planned this year from new Wayland features to OpenCL over CUDA, the possibility of Vulkan Gallium, and a lot of…...