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Milk-V Titan Brings RISC-V Performance in Mini-ITX Form with UltraRISC UR-DP1000 lxer.com/module/newswire/ext_l…

Milk-V Titan Brings RISC-V Performance in Mini-ITX Form with UltraRISC UR-DP1000 Milk-V Titan Brings RISC-V Performance in Mini-ITX Form with UltraRISC UR-DP1000

Milk-V has revealed early details of the upcoming Milk-V Titan, a high-performance RISC-V platform built in a compact Mini-ITX form factor.
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Mesa 25.1.6 Released With Intel Xe3 Panther Lake Graphics Enabled By Default

In addition to releasing Mesa 25.2-rc1 with its many new features to test, Mesa release manager Eric Engestrom today released Mesa 25.1.6 as the newest bi-weekly stable point release for last quarter's series...
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Mesa 25.1.6 Released With Intel Xe3 Panther Lake Graphics Enabled By Default

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8-Way Linux OS Comparison On The Framework 12: Squeezing More Performance Out Of Raptor Lake

Earlier this year when the Framework 13 was updated for the AMD Ryzen AI 300 series I ran benchmarks looking at the performance gains across different Linux distributions with Debian 13, Clear Linux, and CachyOS being the outstanding performers for that Strix Point hardware. With the recent launch of the Framework 12 2-in-1 laptop powered by Intel R…
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8-Way Linux OS Comparison On The Framework 12: Squeezing More Performance Out Of Raptor Lake

Earlier this year when the Framework 13 was updated for the AMD Ryzen AI 300 series I ran benchmarks looking at the performance gains across different Linux distributions with Debian 13, Clear Linux, and CachyOS being the outstanding performers for t…
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Mesa 25.2-rc1 Released: Faster RADV Ray-Tracing, NVK Blackwell & More Optimizations

Mesa 25.2 is now branched and thus under a feature freeze and with Mesa 25.2-rc1 having just been released. This marks the start of weekly release candidates until the Mesa 25.2 stable release is ready to ship sometime in August...
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Mesa 25.2-rc1 Released: Faster RADV Ray-Tracing, NVK Blackwell & More Optimizations

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12k Lines Of NVIDIA Blackwell 3D Class Header Files Open-Sourced

Similar to the 3D class header files previously open-sourced by NVIDIA for prior generation GPUs, yesterday NVIDIA carried out a similar open-source move to publish all the 3D class header files for their newest Blackwell graphics processors...
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12k Lines Of NVIDIA Blackwell 3D Class Header Files Open-Sourced

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More AMD FidelityFX Super Resolution 4 Improvements Land For Open-Source Driver

It's a very busy week for the open-source OpenGL and Vulkan drivers leading up to the Mesa 25.2 code branching. On top of RADV ray-tracing improvements, Vulkan 1.2 conformance for Kepler GPUs, Xe3 Panther Lake graphics enabled by default, and many other last minute changes, over the past week has also been a push getting more AMD FidelityFX Super Resolution 4 "…
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More AMD FidelityFX Super Resolution 4 Improvements Land For Open-Source Driver

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LLVM 22 Eliminates The Final Support For Google Native Client "NaCl"

One of the early changes for the LLVM 22 compiler stack now in development is completing the removal of support for Google's Native Client "NaCl"...
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LLVM 22 Eliminates The Final Support For Google Native Client "NaCl"

One of the early changes for the LLVM 22 compiler stack now in development is completing the removal of support for Google's Native Client 'NaCl'.
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ASRock Industrial Launches Jetson AGX Orin Platform for Edge & Autonomous Applications lxer.com/module/newswire/ext_l…

ASRock Industrial Launches Jetson AGX Orin Platform for Edge & Autonomous Applications ASRock Industrial Launches Jetson AGX Orin Platform for Edge & Autonomous Applications

ASRock Industrial has introduced a new developer kit based on the NVIDIA Jetson AGX Orin platform, designed to deliver high-performance AI computing at the edge.
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Intel Media Driver 2025Q2 Ships Panther Lake Video Encoding Support

The Intel Media Driver is out with its quarterly feature release for bringing all of the latest open-source video acceleration improvements for Intel graphics hardware on Linux. Enhancing support for upcoming Panther Lake SoCs continues to be a primary focus...
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Intel Media Driver 2025Q2 Ships Panther Lake Video Encoding Support

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 600/700 "Kepler" GPUs Now Vulkan 1.2 Conformant With NVK

Yet more feature code continues piling in for the Mesa 25.2 release due out next month and days ahead of the feature freeze. Hitting Mesa Git this evening is now treating NVIDIA Kepler GPUs as Vulkan 1.2 conformant following the Vulkan 1.2 CTS passing with the NVK open-source driver paired with the Nouveau kernel driver...
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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 600/700 "Kepler" GPUs Now Vulkan 1.2 Conformant With NVK

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Additional AMD RDNA3 & RDNA4 Ray-Tracing Improvements For Mesa 25.2 RADV

Ahead of the Mesa 25.2 feature freeze and code branching expected later this week, some additional ray-tracing optimizations were merged today for the Radeon "RADV" Vulkan driver. These latest RADV ray-tracing improvements benefit the latest Radeon RX 9000 series "RDNA4" the most but there are also some optimizations too for RDNA3 class GPUs...
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Additional AMD RDNA3 & RDNA4 Ray-Tracing Improvements For Mesa 25.2 RADV

Ahead of the Mesa 25.2 feature freeze and code branching expected later this week, some additional ray-tracing optimizations were merged today for the Radeon 'RADV' Vulkan driver
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Intel Enabling SR-IOV For Battlemage Graphics Cards With Linux 6.17

The upcoming Linux 6.17 kernel is going to be an especially nice release for users of modern Intel graphics hardware on Linux. The very latest feature being enabled for this next Linux kernel version is SR-IOV for Battlemage GPUs to vastly enhance the Intel Linux graphics experience in virtualized environments...
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Intel Enabling SR-IOV For Battlemage Graphics Cards With Linux 6.17

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LibreOffice Office Suite Lands Built-In Support For Bitcoin Currency lxer.com/module/newswire/ext_l…

LibreOffice Office Suite Lands Built-In Support For Bitcoin Currency

Merged yesterday to the latest development code for the LibreOffice open-source office suite is now recognizing Bitcoin 'BTC' as a supported currency for use within the Calc spreadsheet program and elsewhere within this cross-platform free software o…
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