Version 1.4.327 of the Vulkan API specification was released on Friday and with it comes one new extension, which is a Valve vendor extension.| www.phoronix.com
David Rosca who started out as a contractor for AMD working on their open-source video encode/decode capabilities for Linux formally joined the company earlier this summer| www.phoronix.com
Since the release of FFmpeg 6.1 last year there has been accelerated Vulkan Video decoding support while being merged to FFmpeg Git this weekend is the Vulkan Video encode support.| www.phoronix.com
While the FFmpeg multimedia library merged Vulkan Video encode support last year, it was initially limited to H.264 and H.265 formats| www.phoronix.com
Linus Torvalds has come out strong against proposed support for RISC-V big endian capabilities within the Linux kernel.| www.phoronix.com
With Linux 6.17 was the decision by Linus Torvalds to mark Bcachefs as 'externally maintained' and not accept any new Bcachefs code into the mainline kernel but keeping the existing code within the tree| www.phoronix.com
XTX Markets as one of the largest algorithmic trading firms that handles $250 billion in daily traded volume and relies on around 650+ petabytes of storage for its price forecasts and other algorithmic trading data has open-sourced its Linux file-system| www.phoronix.com
Google engineers on Wednesday posted an initial 'request for comments' set of patches that re-implement Android's Binder code within the Linux kernel in the Rust programming language rather than C.| www.phoronix.com
The past few years Google engineers have been reimplementing Android's Binder driver in the Rust programming language| www.phoronix.com
Ubuntu 25.10's transition to using Rust Coreutils in place of GNU Coreutils has uncovered a few performance issues so far with the Rust version being slower than the C-based GNU Coreutils| www.phoronix.com
A few days ago I wrote about Intel fixing some Panther Lake Xe3 graphics performance issues ahead of launch| www.phoronix.com
This week's round of power management fixes for the in-development Linux 6.17 kernel are on the more notable side with fixes for both AMD and Intel P-State drivers plus addressing a system hibernation issue that could lead to 'serious breakage' and stems from a Linux 6.16 regression.| www.phoronix.com
The GCC Rust compiler 'gccrs' compiler developers have been keeping at it toward their goal of being able to compile the Linux kernel's Rust kernel crate and as part of that the Rust core library.| www.phoronix.com
Arm this evening lifted the lid on Lumex, their new compute subsystem platform that is purpose-built around AI for next-gen PCs and smartphones.| www.phoronix.com
Google engineers and others have been talking about Address Space Isolation 'ASI' for the Linux kernel to better deal with speculative execution attacks and other CPU vulnerabilities| www.phoronix.com
Proposed a few years ago was Kernel Address Space Isolation (KASI / ASI) for limiting data leaks with the growing number of speculative execution attacks on CPUs| www.phoronix.com
Several years ago Google engineers began exploring address space isolation for the Linux kernel and ultimately proposing Linux ASI for better dealing with CPU speculative execution attacks| www.phoronix.com
Well, it's an unpleasant afternoon in Linux land with more signs of the ongoing impact from Intel's corporate-wide restructuring| www.phoronix.com
Systemd 257 debuted last December and now finally systemd 258 is preparing to roll out..| www.phoronix.com
The latest round of cost-cutting at Intel seems to be having a larger impact on their software engineering efforts than some of their previous rounds of layoffs| www.phoronix.com
The most depressing news of the week: Intel is ending their performance-optimized Clear Linux distribution| www.phoronix.com
Linus Torvalds is sharing some of his classic and straight-to-the-point wisdom today over file-systems with case-folding / case-insensitive file and folder support.| www.phoronix.com
Nearly two years ago patches for casefolding / case insensitive file and folder support on Bcachefs were posted by a Valve/Linux developer| www.phoronix.com
The drama surrounding Rust code within the Linux kernel continues..| www.phoronix.com
One of the limitations of AMD's open-source Linux graphics driver has been the inability to implement HDMI 2.1+ functionality on the basis of legal requirements by the HDMI Forum| www.phoronix.com