Intel

Intel Rocket Lake Graphics Support Ready For Liftoff With Linux 5.9

Intel has sent in their initial batch of graphics driver updates to DRM-Next that in turn are slated to land with the Linux 5.9 cycle once its merge window opens next month...


Important Patches Land To Improve GNOME's Multi-Monitor Experience With High Refresh Rates

If you have say a 144Hz gaming monitor as well as a conventional 60Hz secondary display or any other multi-monitor configuration with different refresh rates, there is now another reason to get excited for GNOME 3.38...


GNOME Shell + Mutter Off To A Good Start For Summer 2020

The GNOME Shell and Mutter have seen a lot of work come together nicely over the past two months...


Intel

Intel AMX Support Begins Landing In LLVM

Following Intel publishing the initial Advanced Matrix Extensions (AMX) documentation at the end of June, the open-source/Linux bring-up has continued for these new CPU instruction set extensions set to premiere with Sapphire Rapids next year...


Open Source LLM

OpenSUSE Leap 15.2 Released With AI/ML Packages Added, YaST Improvements

OpenSUSE Leap 15.2 is out today as the Linux distribution built from the same sources as SUSE Linux Enterprise 15 sources...


Open Source LLM|Intel

LLVMpipe Gallium3D Driver Now Exposes OpenGL 4.0

The LLVMpipe Gallium3D driver that provides a software/CPU-based OpenGL implementation for running on systems as a fallback path when no GPU / hardware OpenGL driver is available, a vendor-neutral path for debug purposes, and similar use-cases, now has OpenGL 4.0 support...


Open Source LLM|Apple Silicon|Intel

Intel's IGC 1.0.4241 Graphics Compiler Adds DG1 Platform Support

IGC 1.0.4241 is out this morning as the latest version of Intel's open-source graphics compiler that is used by their compute stack for oneAPI and OpenCL...


Steam On Linux Is Still Bouncing Around 0.9% For Summer 2020

With the start of a new month comes the latest numbers out of Valve for the rough Linux gaming market percentage from the Steam Survey...


NVIDIA Video Codec SDK 10 Brings Few Changes For This Proprietary Library

NVIDIA has quietly released Video Codec SDK 10 as the newest version of their proprietary video encode/decode implementation designed for their GPUs...


Wayland's Weston 9.0 Aims For Release In Early September

With Weston 8.0 having shipped in January, Wayland developers are beginning to prepare for the next feature release of this reference Wayland compositor...