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OBS Studio 31.1 Released With Explicit Sync For PipeWire Screen Capture

OBS Studio 31.1 is now available for those using this cross-platform free software for screencasting and other screen recording purposes. OBS Studio 31.1 is another great step forward for this open-source software that has a devoted following and user-base across Windows, macOS, and Linux...
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OBS Studio 31.1 Released With Explicit Sync For PipeWire Screen Capture

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AMD openSIL PoC Still Being Worked On For Phoenix SoCs, Turin Code Published

One topic we haven't heard AMD talk too much about publicly this year has been their openSIL effort that was announced back in 2023 as their eventual replacement to AGESA and being an open-source CPU silicon initialization effort. They still appear to be working toward making openSIL production-ready for next-generation Zen 6 platforms but some of their proo…
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AMD openSIL PoC Still Being Worked On For Phoenix SoCs, Turin Code Published

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Lenovo WMI Gaming Series Drivers Expected To Debut In Linux 6.17

Being worked on for a number of months now has been the Lenovo Gaming Series WMI Drivers for Linux to expose additional power/performance settings for Lenovo gaming series hardware like the Lenovo Legion Go S gaming handheld with Steam OS. With the upcoming Linux 6.17 kernel, the Lenovo WMI Gaming Series Drivers are expected to be finally upstreamed...
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Lenovo WMI Gaming Series Drivers Expected To Debut In Linux 6.17

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GNOME 49 Alpha Released With X11 Support Disabled By Default, Many New Features

The GNOME 49 Alpha "49.alpha" release was just announced as the first formal test release in the road to the GNOME 49 desktop release due out in September...
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GNOME 49 Alpha Released With X11 Support Disabled By Default, Many New Features

The GNOME 49 Alpha '49.alpha' release was just announced as the first formal test release in the road to the GNOME 49 desktop release due out in September.
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LibreOffice Begins Landing Markdown File Import Support

While coming a few weeks too late for making it into the LibreOffice 25.8 open-source office suite release, merged today to LibreOffice Git for next year's LibreOffice 26.2 is adding initial support for importing Markdown files into the LibreOffice Writer word processor...
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LibreOffice Begins Landing Markdown File Import Support

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AMDKFD Kernel Compute Driver Used By ROCm Can Work On LoongArch Hardware

The AMDKFD "Kernel Fusion Driver" used as the Linux kernel GPU compute driver and necessary part of their ROCm compute stack it turns out can build and run on the Chinese-developed LoongArch systems rather easily...
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AMDKFD Kernel Compute Driver Used By ROCm Can Work On LoongArch Hardware

The AMDKFD 'Kernel Fusion Driver' used as the Linux kernel GPU compute driver and necessary part of their ROCm compute stack it turns out can build and run on the Chinese-developed LoongArch systems rather easily.
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Intel Panther Lake Xe3 Integrated Graphics Firmware Upstreamed

As a good sign of the progress being made on the Xe3 integrated graphics Linux support and of the Core Ultra Panther Lake launch approaching, the necessary graphics firmware binaries have now been upstreamed to the linux-firmware.git repository...
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Intel Panther Lake Xe3 Integrated Graphics Firmware Upstreamed

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TornadoVM 1.1.1 Released For Java Programming Of Heterogeneous Hardware

TornadoVM version 1.1.1 is now available for this OpenJDK and GraalVM plug-in that supports Java offloading to GPUs, FPGAs, and other heterogeneous hardware. The past few years TornadoVM has been making a lot of progress to automatically run Java programs across GPUs and other devices supporting OpenCL, NVIDIA PTX, and Khronos SPIR-V/Vulkan...
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TornadoVM 1.1.1 Released For Java Programming Of Heterogeneous Hardware

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Many NGG Improvements Arrive For AMD's Open-Source Linux OpenGL/Vulkan Drivers

Well known AMD Mesa developer Marek Olšák has been working on a number of improvements to benefit the Next-Gen Geometry "NGG" support within the RadeonSI and RADV graphics drivers for benefiting modern Radeon GPUs under Linux...
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Many NGG Improvements Arrive For AMD's Open-Source Linux OpenGL/Vulkan Drivers

Well known AMD Mesa developer Marek Olšák has been working on a number of improvements to benefit the Next-Gen Geometry 'NGG' support within the RadeonSI and RADV graphics drivers for benefiting modern Radeon GPUs under Linux.
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Debian Looks To Attract More Contributors, Eyes Budget For AI/LLM Usage By Debian Developers lxer.com/module/newswire/ext_l…

Debian Looks To Attract More Contributors, Eyes Budget For AI/LLM Usage By Debian Developers

The Debian project is hoping to address challenges of mentoring newcomers to contribute to the Debian Linux distribution as well as making it more known that open-source contributors can do more than just work on Debian packaging but that help is nee…
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Fedora 43 Looks To Zstd-Compressed Initrd By Default For Space Savings & Faster Boots

A change proposal has been raised to compress the initrd by default using Zstd compression rather than XZ. This change would help provide some disk savings as well as speeding up the boot process on modern systems with Fedora Linux...
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Fedora 43 Looks To Zstd-Compressed Initrd By Default For Space Savings & Faster Boots

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