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... phoronix.com/news/12k-Lines-Bl…
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 "… phoronix.com/news/More-AMD-FSR…
I THINK the page doesn't show them all even if you click "show more" a bunch of times. The notice at the top says "Viewing 50 latest updates" and stuff like, say, Elden Ring, isn't there (which I can't confirm but also can't imagine not being on the list as "works, EAC")
Blender 4.5 is now officially available today as the newest feature release and one that is a Long Term Support (LTS) for this popular, cross-platform 3D modeling software.
I've been playing it on Nobara since it came out and... well it's not great. It's literally 1:1 the mobile game :( I still already have more than 10 hours in it 💀
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"... phoronix.com/news/LLVM-22-Remo…
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.
Heroes of Science and Fiction is the new name for Silence of the Siren from Oxymoron Games, as they try to pull in more fans of Heroes of Might and Magic.
Lost Ark is a free to play MMO from Smilegate RPG and Amazon Games that was previously blocked on Linux platforms like SteamOS / Steam Deck but now works.
ESWIN Computing EBC77 RISC-V SBC To Support Ubuntu Linux
Canonical announced today that they teamed up with ESWIN Computing to ship Ubuntu Linux as the preferred operating system on their ESWIN Computing EBC77 Series single board computer... phoronix.com/news/ESWIN-EBC77-…
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... phoronix.com/news/Intel-Media-…
Hyprland 0.50 Released With New Render Scheduling, Drops Legacy Renderer
Hyprland 0.50 is out today as the newest feature release for this Wayland compositor focused on delivering a lot of Linux desktop bling... phoronix.com/news/Hyprland-0.5…
Steam could have chosen to sell such games only via wallet balance / gift cards, sidestepping any concerns payment operators had. That they have instead had to remove them entirely shows massive overreach from these payment orgs.
What a lovely reminder that people seriously need to stop pushing that platform so hard. Valve isn't pure evil like some corporations these days, but they sure aren't all that good either. It's a locked in platform with serious limits and lack of sufficient competition allowing them to do stuff like this to publishers and devs.
@nazokiyoubinbou This happens literally *anywhere*. If the store takes money, they have to follow the processor rules. This is not a Valve issue, it's a payment processor issue.
Marking this down specifically against Valve is not the way to go.
I'm not so sure about that. I don't see such issues with, for example, GoG. But then too, even if that is 100% the case, Valve is one of those that could put their foot down and refuse. I guarantee no payment processor would want to lose Valve for very long with the business going to a competitor. That's one of the advantages of having a near monopoly. But the other (from Valve's point of view) is that they can make decisions like these and people won't stop using their service.
@nazokiyoubinbou Friendly reminder that corporate America can, will, and have gone scorched earth when there’s something they value higher than profits.
For example Walmart shutting down whole stores simply to stop unionization (and their evil propaganda they run for their poor employees).
So now they're coming for Valve. It's that alliance of fundamentalist Christians and online payment providers that has been harassing all kinds of social web platforms, pressuring them to either forbid their users from publishing any nudity and anything vaguely sexual or else face the shutdown of their cash flow.
If steam took #Monero #XMR (ie an actually #private cryptocurrency unlike bitcoin/ethereum) there would be no payment processor authority that could enforce this, just #steam would set the rules, thats an advantage of #cryptocurrency
It has long been curious to me how sex (or even involved romantic relationships) are beyond the pale in video games but ultraviolence is the accepted central premise of the game.
Imagine an Assassin’s Creed where the several thousand body count referred to the number of satisfied sexual partners rather than decapitated guards.
The latest round of cost-cutting at Intel seems to be having a larger impact on their software engineering efforts than some of their previous rounds of layoffs
"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."
Understanding how to use dracut is critical for kernel upgrades, troubleshooting boot issues, disk migration, encryption, and even kernel debugging. This article explores this tool.
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... phoronix.com/news/NVK-Kepler-V…
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... phoronix.com/news/RADV-More-RT…
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
Across the globe, people are starting to question whether the classroom is keeping pace with the world outside. While technology transforms how we live and work, students o
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