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Linux 6.5+ Is Great For The Lenovo ThinkPad P14s Gen 4 / AMD Ryzen 7 PRO 7840U

Phoronix - Sat, 10/21/2023 - 01:03
As shown already the Lenovo ThinkPad P14s Gen 4 with AMD Ryzen 7 PRO 7840U works out well on Linux and is very speedy as shown with that prior benchmarking on Linux 6.3, but for those moving to Linux 6.5 or newer the performance and power efficiency is even better. Like for those moving to the newly-released Ubuntu 23.10 with Linux 6.5, there are some nice performance gains to find with this laptop -- similar to the experience seen with various AMD Ryzen desktops on the new kernel.

COSMIC Desktop Rolls Out Lock/Login Screen, More Wayland Protocols

Phoronix - Fri, 10/20/2023 - 23:12
System76 engineers working on their COSMIC desktop environment for their Ubuntu-based Pop!_OS Linux distribution continue to be quite busy working on this Rust-written desktop code...

Vulkan 1.3.269 Released With New Extension For Launching CUDA Kernels

Phoronix - Fri, 10/20/2023 - 22:05
Vulkan 1.3.269 released this morning with new extensions from Arm and NVIDIA...

Rusticl OpenCL Still Striving For Better Performance, SYCL & HIP Features

Phoronix - Fri, 10/20/2023 - 21:52
Karol Herbst at Red Hat who leads development on Mesa's Rust-written OpenCL "Rusticl" driver presented to share the progress made over the course of the year on this modern alternative to Gallium3D's Clover as well as some of the work still being pursued by this open-source OpenCL implementation for Gallium3D drivers...

Mesa 23.3 Merges Initial Support For RDNA3 Refresh "GFX11.5" Graphics

Phoronix - Fri, 10/20/2023 - 18:47
For going along with the initial GFX11.5 kernel support that is set to be introduced in Linux 6.7 along with other portions of new AMD Radeon graphics IP enablement, this quarter's Mesa 23.3 release will also bring initial GFX11.5 graphics support for the RadeonSI Gallium3D driver...

Lutris 0.5.14 Released For Better Managing Your Games On Linux

Phoronix - Fri, 10/20/2023 - 18:22
Lutris 0.5.14 is out today as the newest feature update to this Python-written open-source solution for managing your games on Linux whether they be native titles or via Steam Play / Wine as well as integrating into popular gaming services like Steam, GOG, Humble Bundle, and EA App. With Lutris 0.5.14 this centralized Linux game launcher has picked up some additional capabilities...

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