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Glibc's Hyperbolic Functions Score Nice Speed-Ups With FMA Optimizations

news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 14 March

The GNU C Library's tanh and other hyperbolic functions are now as much as 14~17% faster on modern Intel and AMD CPUs with the FMA instruction support for fused multiply-add operations...

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Mesa RADV/RadeonSI Now Support RDNA4 GPUs With Radeon GPU Profiler

news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 14 March

Landing in Mesa 25.1 today for the RADV Vulkan and RadeonSI OpenGL drivers is Radeon GPU Profiler "RGP" integration for RDNA4/GFX12 GPUs with the newly-launched Radeon RX 9070 series...

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Free95 0.2 Alpha Released As Open-Source Windows Compatible OS

news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 14 March

While ReactOS is widely known as the open-source operating system working on maintaining software and driver compatibility with Microsoft Windows, there's another new one in the field and it's Free95. The Free95 project is working to become an open-source, Windows-compatible operating system. Version 0.2 Alpha of Free95 was released today for testing...

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IGT GPU Tools 2.0 Released For Helping To Develop DRM Drivers

news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 14 March

IGT GPU Tools began as a set of tools by Intel for working on their Linux Direct Rendering Manager (DRM) kernel driver but with time has been broadened by the open-source community to support non-Intel drivers/hardware. IGT GPU Tools 2.0 was released on Thursday with new enhancements for these tests and other tools incorporated into the project...

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Linux Patch Posted For Syncing The Kernel Code With Zstd 1.5.7

news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 14 March

The Zstandard (Zstd) compression code sadly hasn't been regularly synced with the latest upstream Linux kernel sources but a patch posted this evening goes ahead and syncs the in-kernel Zstd code against the Zstd 1.5.7 state...

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Shotcut 25.03 Beta Released For Advancing This Free Software Video Editor

news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 14 March

Shotcut 25.03 Beta is out today as the newest test release for this open-source video editing solution...

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DXVK 2.6 Released With NVIDIA Reflex Support, Numerous Improvements

news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 13 March

Released today ahead of a potential Proton 10.0 release for re-basing Valve's Steam Play tech atop the recent Wine 10.0 release, DXVK 2.6 is out today as the newest iteration of this Direct3D 8 / 9 / 10 / 11 implementation atop the Vulkan API for enhancing the Linux gaming experience...

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Microsoft Releases March 2025 Update To Azure Linux 3.0

news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 13 March

Microsoft is out today with their newest monthly update to their in-house Linux distribution, Azure Linux, with all available package and security updates through this month's Patch Tuesday...

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Rusticl Wins: Mesa Officially Deprecates Clover OpenCL

news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 13 March

With today's Mesa 25.1-devel Git code, the "Clover" OpenCL Gallium3D state tracker is officially deprecated. Clover will be eventually removed with the Rust-written Rusticl OpenCL driver being modern, much more actively maintained, and all-around a better option than the aging Clover code...