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…

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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Linux 6.16 Performance Regression Tracked Down In New Futex Code

Sent out this morning as part of this week's "locking/urgent" pull request is a performance regression fix ahead of today's Linux 6.16-rc5 release. This latest performance regression in the Linux kernel is around the new Futex code merged this cycle with a big performance hit being observed in scheduler benchmarks...
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Big Improvements For Qualcomm GPU Driver With Linux 6.17 - Especially For Snapdragon X

Sent out today by longtime Freedreno/MSM open-source Qualcomm GPU driver developer Robin Clark are the main set of MSM kernel graphics/display driver updates targeting the upcoming Linux 6.17 merge window. There are several exciting feature additions coming to this next kernel version for those relying on Qualcomm graphics capabilities...
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DXVK 2.7 Released With Many Improvements & Better Support On Newer Intel GPUs

DXVK 2.7 released today as a major feature update for this translation layer for enabling Direct3D 8 / 9 / 10 / 11 based games and applications to run atop the Vulkan API. DXVK is a critical piece of Valve's Steam Play (Proton) software stack for enabling Windows games on Linux...
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(Updated) Bela Upgrades Embedded DSP Platforms with PocketBeagle 2 Support and New Web IDE lxer.com/module/newswire/ext_l…

SUSE's Agama Installer Switches From X.Org To Wayland For Installation GUI

SUSE developers working on their new operating system installer "Agama" have been making steady progress and on Friday debuted Agama 16. With Agama 16 they have moved from X.Org to Wayland for powering their installer UI along with a number of other changes...
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Fedora 43 GNU & LLVM 21 Toolchain Updates Planned

It shouldn't be particularly surprising as Fedora Linux has always been known for shipping with a leading-edge compiler toolchain, but the formalities have now been submitted for Fedora 43 to ship with the latest GNU and LLVM toolchain components...
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