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AMDVLK 2024.Q3.1 Brings Official Ubuntu 24.04 Support & New Performance Tuning

Phoronix - Tue, 08/13/2024 - 18:32
Hitting the release button minutes ago, AMDVLK 2024.Q3.1 is available as the newest version of AMD's official open-source Vulkan driver and the first new release since the end of June. This driver continues to trail in popularity to the likes of the Valve-based Mesa RADV Radeon Vulkan driver but does well in areas like Vulkan ray-tracing and is officially backed by AMD...

Mir-Based Miracle-WM Updated Ahead Of Fedora Miracle Spin

Phoronix - Tue, 08/13/2024 - 18:19
Miracle-WM as a reminder is a Wayland tiling window manager that is built atop Canonical's Mir. Miracle-WM also happens to be developed by a Canonical engineer, Matthew Kosarek. Miracle-WM is inspired by i3 and Sway but the main difference is turning to Mir to do the heavy lifting. Miracle-WM 0.3.1 was released on Monday as the project prepares for its Fedora Miracle Spin debut coming up...

Apple Silicon OpenGL & Vulkan Drivers Updated In Mesa 24.3 Git

Phoronix - Tue, 08/13/2024 - 18:12
Yesterday was a fresh sync of the Asahi Linux projecr's AGX Gallium3D and Honeykrisp drivers to the upstream Mesa 24.3-devel Git repository. Some 42 patches are now upstream in Mesa for benefiting OpenGL and Vulkan atop Apple Silicon graphics...

How to Install GCC (C and C++ Compiler) on Fedora

Tecmint - Tue, 08/13/2024 - 16:04
The post How to Install GCC (C and C++ Compiler) on Fedora first appeared on Tecmint: Linux Howtos, Tutorials & Guides .

Fedora is a modern Linux distribution that provides a stable and powerful environment for development using a tool called C

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How to Install GCC and Development Tools on RHEL-based Systems

Tecmint - Tue, 08/13/2024 - 13:00
The post How to Install GCC and Development Tools on RHEL-based Systems first appeared on Tecmint: Linux Howtos, Tutorials & Guides .

Nowadays, as a system administrator or engineer, you can’t feel satisfied by knowing how to use the CLI and troubleshoot

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FEX 2408 Emulator For x86_64 Binaries On AArch64 Teases More Performance

Phoronix - Tue, 08/13/2024 - 08:45
FEX 2408 has been released as the newest update to this open-source emulator that allows for running x86/x86_64 games and application binaries on AArch64 (64-bit ARM) systems. There are some nice improvements to find with FEX 2408 while already the next release is being teased for even greater performance...

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