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Linux 6.5 Features From USB4 v2 To More WiFi 7, Unaccepted Memory, Scope-Based Resource Management

Phoronix - Wed, 07/12/2023 - 23:49

Now that the Linux 6.5 merge window ended this past weekend, here is the usual Phoronix overview that lists all the prominent new features and changes coming for this next version.

How to Edit the Linux Hosts File - TechRepublic

Google News - Wed, 07/12/2023 - 23:00

How to Edit the Linux Hosts File TechRepublic

AMD Updates FreeSync Panel Replay Support For Linux

Phoronix - Wed, 07/12/2023 - 22:47

Last month AMD Linux kernel driver patches revealed a new feature called FreeSync Panel Replay that is basically an improvement over Panel Self Refresh (PSR) for laptop displays. That code didn't make it for the recently-closed v6.5 merge window but this week AMD engineers did post a second iteration of the patches...

AMD Updates FreeSync Panel Replay Support For Linux - Phoronix

Google News - Wed, 07/12/2023 - 22:47

AMD Updates FreeSync Panel Replay Support For Linux Phoronix

AMD FidelityFX SDK 1.0 Published On GPUOpen

Phoronix - Wed, 07/12/2023 - 22:10

AMD has made available the FidelityFX SDK solution available via GPUOpen as their easy-to-integrate offering for FidelityFX technologies...

Tabletop inspired roguelike adventure Abalon adds Linux ... - GamingOnLinux

Google News - Wed, 07/12/2023 - 21:55

Tabletop inspired roguelike adventure Abalon adds Linux ... GamingOnLinux

Linux Hits All-Time High of 3% of Desktop PC Share After 30 Years - Tom's Hardware

Google News - Wed, 07/12/2023 - 20:17

Linux Hits All-Time High of 3% of Desktop PC Share After 30 Years Tom's Hardware

SuSE Take On Red Hat, Forking RHEL - Hackaday

Google News - Wed, 07/12/2023 - 19:00

SuSE Take On Red Hat, Forking RHEL Hackaday

Bcachefs File-System Plans To Try Again To Land In Linux 6.6

Phoronix - Wed, 07/12/2023 - 18:44

While the Linux 6.5 kernel merge window just ended days ago and there still is two months to go until that stable release, already the lead developer of the Bcachefs file-system is working to get the code merged for Linux 6.6...

Bcachefs File-System Plans To Try Again To Land In Linux 6.6 - Phoronix

Google News - Wed, 07/12/2023 - 18:44

Bcachefs File-System Plans To Try Again To Land In Linux 6.6 Phoronix

Intel Granite Rapids D Support Merged Into GCC 14

Phoronix - Wed, 07/12/2023 - 18:22

As a follow-up to the news last week when I pointed out that Intel has begun working on Granite Rapids D compiler support for the GNU Compiler Collection, that code has now been merged for next year's GCC 14 release...

Intel Releases libva 2.19 VA-API Video Acceleration Library For Windows & Linux

Phoronix - Wed, 07/12/2023 - 18:12

Libva 2.19 has been released as the newest feature update for this centralized library used by the Video Acceleration API (VA-API) on Linux and other platforms...