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Linux Mint EDGE ISOs To Help With Running On Newer Hardware

Phoronix - Thu, 08/03/2023 - 04:56
Clément Lefèbvre shared today as part of the monthly status update for the Linux Mint project that they'll be releasing an "EDGE" ISO to help in running this desktop Linux distribution on newer hardware...

Khronos Releases ANARI 1.0 As Cross-Platform 3D Rendering Engine API

Phoronix - Thu, 08/03/2023 - 03:38
For several years now The Khronos Group has been developing the ANARI standard as an analytics rendering API and focusing on scalable 3D data virtualization. Today the ANARI 1.0 release finally took place for this cross-platform 3D rendering engine API...

Fedora Asahi Remix Coming For Fedora Linux On Apple Silicon Hardware

Phoronix - Wed, 08/02/2023 - 23:14
Asahi Linux is great for those wanting to run the best Linux experience on Apple Silicon hardware while using this Arch Linux based distribution. But for those preferring Fedora Linux over Arch, a Fedora Asahi Remix is coming and was announced today at the Flock To Fedora conference...

XWayland 23.2 RC2 Restores An Optimization For Depth 24 Windows

Phoronix - Wed, 08/02/2023 - 22:30
The second release candidate of XWayland 23.2 is now available that restores an earlier performance optimization around depth 24 windows...

Linux 6.6 To Make It Easier To Enable Partial SMT For POWER

Phoronix - Wed, 08/02/2023 - 22:19
While Simultaneous Multi-Threading (SMT) on Intel/AMD x86_64 processors is limited to providing one additional thread per core, SMT on IBM POWER hardware can provide 4-way and even 8-way SMT for some processor models. With Linux 6.6 the /sys/devices/system/cpu/smt/control interface is being extended to allow greater control over managing partial SMT states in cases of the CPUs supporting more than 2-way SMT at Linux run-time...

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