AlmaLinux 10.2 Beta Released With Legacy 32-bit Software Support
…needing to still run 32-bit legacy software atop their x86_64 hosts. This new support is just for i686 user-space package support and comes without any i686 ISOs or the…
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Mesa's Rusticl Now Enables Arm Mali Panfrost Driver Support By Default
…environment variable for actually enabling the support, similar to other drivers where the Rusticl support has not been fully vetted and made official. But with the latest code for Mesa 26.2…
Intel QAT Driver With Linux 7.1 Adding Zstd Offload Support
…compressed with a larger history falls back to software." Great seeing this Zstandard compression support finally come to the Intel QAT driver and that with Gen 6 is going to be much…
Wine 11.11 Released With Wayland Improvements
Alexandre Julliard just released Wine 11.11 as the newest bi-weekly development release of this open-source software that powers Valve's Steam Play (Proton) and allows for running Windows games…
FreeBSD 16 Retires The Last Of Its GPL Code From Its Base System
…The dialog implementation was the last piece of GNU GPL licensed software in FreeBSD's base system. The FreeBSD installer previously transitioned to using bsddialog in place of dialog and then dpv…
Wine 11.14 Brings WoW64 Mode To FreeBSD, Icon Support In Start Menu
…Add A Comment Wine 11.14 was tagged today as the newest bi-weekly development release of this open-source software for running Windows games and applications on Linux, macOS, and other…
Valve Developer Posts New AMD Anti-Lag Implementation For RADV Driver
…On initialization, the framework sets up some QueryPools and CommandBuffers, in order to be able to take timestamps, and hooks into QueueSubmit2 and QueuePresentKHR. The driver can then retrieve the per-frame…
AMD Preps More AIE4 NPU Hardware Enablement For AMDXDNA Driver In Linux 7.2
…Today's drm-misc-next pull request contains more of the AIE4 driver implementation with handling device partitioning, command doorbell and wait support, buffer initialization, and other work -- including the SR-IOV…
NVIDIA Hopper & Blackwell GPU Support Moves Closer For Open-Source Nova Driver
While the upstream, open-source Nouveau driver already supports NVIDIA's Hopper and Blackwell graphics processors with the GPU System Processor (GSP) code path, the bring-up of the Rust-written Nova…
Mesa's Native Vulkan-To-Metal Driver Now Advertises Vulkan 1.4
…KosmicKrisp continues marching forward as this Mesa-based Vulkan-to-Metal driver and alternative to the MoltenVK project with similar goals. KosmicKrisp development continues being led by LunarG and with the newest…