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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Umamusume: Pretty Derby now Steam Deck Playable / SteamOS Compatible and works on Desktop Linux gamingonlinux.com/2025/07/umam…

#AntiCheat #SteamOS #Linux #SteamDeck #Gaming

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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Kiro, a new AI-powered IDE built on open source VS Code by a team at Amazon, is available in preview for Windows, macOS and Linux.

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#linux #ai #amazon

ASRock Industrial Launches Jetson AGX Orin Platform for Edge & Autonomous Applications lxer.com/module/newswire/ext_l…

Silence of the Siren renames to Heroes of Science and Fiction to pull in more HoMM fans gamingonlinux.com/2025/07/sile…

#HoMM #Gaming #IndieGames #PCGaming #LinuxGaming

Lost Ark from Amazon Games appears to have enabled the anti-cheat for Linux / SteamOS gamingonlinux.com/2025/07/lost…

#MMO #AntiCheat #EAC #Linux #SteamOS #SteamDeck

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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Avowed from Obsidian and Xbox now Steam Deck Verified with Update 1.5 gamingonlinux.com/2025/07/avow…

#Avowed #SteamDeck #SteamOS

Blender 4.5 LTS arrives with Vulkan fully supported and lots of performance improvements gamingonlinux.com/2025/07/blen…

#Blender #OpenSource

Steam adds Trade Protected Items starting with Counter-Strike 2, along with a bit of Half-Life fan trolling gamingonlinux.com/2025/07/stea…

#CS2 #Steam #Valve #Gaming #PCGaming

Valve gets pressured by payment processors with a new rule for game devs and various adult games removed gamingonlinux.com/2025/07/valv…

#Steam #Valve #Gaming #PCGaming

เวลาพูดถึงอุบัติเหตุโรงไฟฟ้านิวเคลียร์ เรามักนึกถึงเชอร์โนบิลกับฟุกุชิมะ แต่มีอีกแห่งที่เคยเกิดตั้งแต่ปี 1979 (2522) คือ Three Mile Island ที่รัฐเพนซิลเวเนีย USA:
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เหตุเกิดกับ Unit-2 ซึ่งต้องปิดตัวหลังเกิดเหตุ แต่ Unit-1 ยังเปิดทำงานต่อไป จนปิดตัวลงในปี 2019 (2562) และมีกำหนดจะเปิดทำงานอีกครั้งในปี 2027 (2570) นี้ เพื่อจ่ายพลังงานให้ data center ของ Microsoft:
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"dracut is a powerful tool used in Fedora, RHEL, and other distributions to create and manage initramfs images—the initial RAM filesystem used during system boot. Unlike older tools like mkinitrd, dracut uses a modular approach, allowing you to build minimal or specialized initramfs tailored to your system."

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#Fedora #Linux #OpenSource #dracut

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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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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Just thinking how much annually careless car drivers take from us....

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#WarOnCars #FaujaSingh #Marathons

Bangkok Scientifique - Rethinking Education: Why Aren't Schools Preparing Kids for the Future

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The upcoming skate. from EA will be unsupported on Linux / SteamOS and Steam Deck due to anti-cheat gamingonlinux.com/2025/07/the-…

#skate #AntiCheat #EA #Linux #SteamOS #SteamDeck

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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