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      AMD HIP-RT Is Stable For Blender 5.0 But Will Be Off By Default Until Blender 5.1

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 5 days ago - 12:24

    AMD's HIP-RT is used by the Blender 3D modeling software for GPU-accelerated ray-tracing on Radeon GPUs. For Blender 5.0 the AMD HIP-RT support is expected to be declared "stable" but will not be enabled by default until Blender 5.1...
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      Intel Wildcat Lake "-march=wildcatlake" Added To GCC & LLVM Clang Compilers

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 5 days ago - 10:38

    While the open-source GCC and LLVM/Clang compilers saw Panther Lake support added in early 2024, only overnight was support upstreamed to GCC and Clang for the similar Wildcat Lake target...
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      Mesa's Zink OpenGL-On-Vulkan Driver Lands Mesh Shader Support

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 5 days ago - 10:02

    In development for around the past year was the cross-vendor mesh shading extension for OpenGL. Last week GL_EXT_mesh_shader was merged to the OpenGL Registry for this mesh shader support and first new GL extension in a while...
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      Basic HDR Support For AMD Radeon Accelerated Video Processing On Linux

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 5 days ago - 09:52

    David Rosca at AMD continues leading the efforts for improving the open-source Radeon video acceleration support under Linux with the Mesa Gallium3D code. This is especially important now that AMD is encouraging customers to no longer use the AMD Multimedia Framework (AMF) on Linux but resort to using VA-API and the Mesa multimedia capabilities instead...
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      Linux Gains Tool For Defragmenting exFAT Filesystems

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 5 days ago - 09:36

    A new release of exfatprogs is now available as the user-space programs on Linux for the exFAT file-system to complement the in-tree kernel driver for the Microsoft exFAT support...
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      Valve Developer Gets Initial DLSS Support Working On Open-Source NVIDIA "NVK" Driver

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 5 days ago - 00:17

    Autumn Ashton of Valve's Linux graphics driver team and responsible for many great Mesa and DXVK/VKD3D-Proton improvements over the years has managed an exciting new feat: getting NVIDIA DLSS upscaling working atop Mesa's NVK open-source NVIDIA Vulkan driver. The code isn't ready to be merged yet but is an exciting early milestone...
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      FSF Announces The LibrePhone Project

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 6 days ago - 22:55

    The Free Software Foundation today announced the LibrePhone project with a goal of creating a fully free software OS for mobile devices and to reverse-engineer obstacles where necessary...
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      Path Cleared For Nix Package Manager On Fedora With /nix Approved

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 6 days ago - 18:48

    There's been work to get the Nix functional package manager available on Fedora Linux for those wanting to leverage its available packages or features like supporting side-by-side packages of different versions, atomic upgrades/rollbacks, non-root user for installing software, and other features. One of the hurdles though is that the Nix package manager relies by default on the /nix directory, which goes against Fedora's default directory requirements. Now though the Fedora Engineering and Steering Committee (FESCo) has granted permission for using the /nix directory hierarchy...
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      Intel Announces "Crescent Island" Inference-Optimized Xe3P Graphics Card With 160GB vRAM

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 6 days ago - 17:00

    Back during the Intel Tech Tour in Arizona, Intel teased a new inference-optimized enterprise GPU would be announced soon. This new product would feature enhanced memory, bandwidth, and enterprise-level AI inference capabilities. Today the embargo expires on talking about this new GPU offering.
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      www.phoronix.com /review/intel-crescent-island