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."

➡️ fedoramagazine.org/%F0%9F%A7%B…

#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...
phoronix.com/news/NVK-Kepler-V…

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...
phoronix.com/news/RADV-More-RT…

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...
phoronix.com/news/Intel-Enable…

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

Popular free online shooter STRAFTAT just got a big content expansion with 4 player support gamingonlinux.com/2025/07/popu…

#STRAFTAT

Dungeons & Dragons Neverwinter Nights 2: Enhanced Edition has arrived and Steam Deck Verified gamingonlinux.com/2025/07/dung…

#NeverwinterNights2 #SteamDeck #Gaming #PCGaming

Broadcom BCM5770X Networking Driver Support Heading To Linux 6.17

One month ago there was the report on Phoronix of the Broadcom "BNGE" open-source driver being published for forthcoming BCM5770X networking chipsets. That new Broadcom BNGE driver is now set to be introduced in the upcoming Linux 6.17 kernel for supporting the new Broadcom wired networking hardware at up to 800 Gigabit speeds...
phoronix.com/news/Broadcom-BCM…

Wuthering Waves now Steam Deck Playable, and works on Desktop Linux with one tweak gamingonlinux.com/2025/07/wuth…

#WutheringWaves #Linux #SteamOS #SteamDeck #Gaming