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DXVK 3.0.2 Released With Improved Hang Debugging, Handful Of Game Fixes

Phoronix | July 17, 2026, 8:46 p.m. | Original

In addition to the initial build of Holo Core as AArch64 Arch Linux for the Steam Frame , another software milestone today in Valve's Linux gaming space is the release of DXVK 3.0.2 for Direct3D 8 / 9 / 10 / 11 APIs implemented over the Vulkan API for running Windows games.

DXVK 3.0.2 brings a handful of game fixes for helping out Dying Light: The Beast, Granblue Fantasy Relink, Halo CE, Overwatch, and Splinter Cell: Chaos

Noctua NL-LC1-36 All-In-One Liquid Cooler

Phoronix | July 17, 2026, 1:45 p.m. | Original

With reviewing hardware for more than 22 years, when it comes to cooling products there are few brands that can still get me intrigued like Noctua. With their recent launch of the NL-LC1 all-in-one liquid coolers, I decided to try out the Noctua NL-LC1-36 360mm AIO cooler that is working out well for cooling high-end desktop CPUs like the recently launched Ryzen 9 9950X3D2 .

FastFlowLM Developers Join AMD To Help Push Open-Source NPU Software

Phoronix | July 17, 2026, 1:20 p.m. | Original

On top of releasing ROCm 7.14 as the new production release of ROCm now built offTheRock, rolling out the Lemonade 11.0 local AI server, and GAIA 0.22 , AMD has some more open-source news in the lead up to next week's AMD Advancing AI event.

AMD announced today that the developers behind the FastFlowLM open-source developers have joined the company. In an AMD blog post today, they confirmed FastFlowLM developers have joined the company:

"Recently, the FastFlowLM

Experimental Build Of Holo Core Published: Arch Linux AArch64 For Valve's Steam Frame

Phoronix | July 17, 2026, 11:59 a.m. | Original

As part of Valve's upcoming Qualcomm-powered Steam Frame headset, Valve has been collaborating with Collabora on the Arch Linux AArch64 base for their platform. Published today are the initial sources and binaries of this "Holo Core" base of Arch Linux AArch64 to be used by the Steam Frame.

Collabora announced today the initial Holo Core binaries and sources for this pure AArch64 port of Arch Linux that is being used as the basis for the operating system running the Steam Frame. Due to upstream

Linux WMI Driver Gets Ready To Support ACPI-Based ARM64 Laptops

Phoronix | July 17, 2026, 9:45 a.m. | Original

Linux developer Armin Wolf sent out a set of patches today for enabling AArch64 support for the ACPI Windows Management Instrumentation (WMI) driver to work on AArch64 in no longer being bound to x86/x86_64. This is a step toward the long goal of being able to support modern Windows on ARM laptops via ACPI on Linux.

Going back to the aarch64-laptops project in circa 2019 it was known some Windows 10 ARM laptops make use

Arm Core Local Accelerator Driver Posted For Linux As Agnostic Interface For Accelerators

Phoronix | July 17, 2026, 8:35 a.m. | Original

A new open-source Linux driver announced today by Arm is the Arm Core Local Accelerator "CLA" driver as a CPU-local interface for programming attached accelerators. This is an agnostic interface for attached accelerators with the initial target focusing on an attached compute engine.

Arm engineer Ryan Roberts explained of this new Arm Core Local Accelerator driver in the request for comments (RFC) announcement:

"This RFC introduces a driver for the Arm Core Local Accelerator (CLA), a CPU-local interface for programming attached accelerators.

AMD Preps More Graphics Driver Improvements For Linux 7.3

Phoronix | July 17, 2026, 6:21 a.m. | Original

Since earlier this month AMD has begun staging graphics driver changes for Linux 7.3 ahead of the merge window opening in late July. That's brought some interesting changes so far while there still are a few weeks to land any additional features in DRM-Next. This week another batch of AMDGPU graphics driver and AMDKFD compute driver feature code was sent out for this next kernel version.

This week's round of AMD graphics driver changes for Linux 7.3 include more work on updating new graphics IP blocks for

Mozilla AI Releases Llamafile 0.10.4 With New Transcribefile Built On Transcribe.cpp

Phoronix | July 17, 2026, 6:07 a.m. | Original

Mozilla AI developers have released a new version of Llamafile , their solution for easy-to-use LLMs as a single file that work across hardware and operating systems. With Llamafile 0.10.4 is now Transcribefile, as a new piece built off their recently announced Transcribe.cpp project.

At the end of June, Mozilla AI announced the official release of Transcribe.cpp. This new Transcribe.cpp is a C/C++ speech-to-text inference library and aims to be similar to

OpenBLAS 0.3.34 Improves Multi-Threading, Support For A Memory-Safe C Toolchain

Phoronix | July 17, 2026, 5:58 a.m. | Original

OpenBLAS 0.3.34 released on Thursday as this popular, open-source BLAS library providing optimized support for a variety of CPUs/architectures. OpenBLAS 0.3.34 continues working on squeezing more performance out of today's processors as well as delivering other new features.

The OpenBLAS 0.3.34 release has added or improved multi-threading thresholds for a number of kernels. Affected by these multi-threading improvements are SPR, SPR2, SYR, SYR2, TBMV,

Frame: A New X11 Server Implementation Written Entirely In x86_64 Assembly

Phoronix | July 16, 2026, 8:50 p.m. | Original

Previously we covered YSERVER as an X11 server written in the Rust programming language with the help of Claude Code. A Phoronix reader wrote in today to share an even more esoteric X11 server implementation that has come about and again written in large part by AI/LLM usage: Frame is an X11 server written in pure x86_64 Assembly.

Frame is a pure Assembly X11 server written in just one Assembly code file that as of writing is just shy of 25

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