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LLVM Lands Initial Support For Fat LTO Objects

Phoronix - Sun, 07/02/2023 - 19:10
In a move similar to GCC's implementation, LLVM Git landed this week initial support for fat LTO objects. This "-ffat-lto-objects" support will be found with the LLVM/Clang 17 release this autumn...

Steam On Linux Use Steady For June, ~40% Of Linux Gamers Are Using The Steam Deck

Phoronix - Sun, 07/02/2023 - 19:00
Valve has shared their Steam Survey results for the month of June which shows the Steam on Linux marketshare holding steady...

Unigine 2.17 Brings Production-Ready Vulkan & DX12 Support

Phoronix - Sun, 07/02/2023 - 18:39
The visually-stunning Unigine Engine that these days is most commonly used in commercial simulation applications recently published Unigine 2.17 where they have finally made their Vulkan and Direct3D 12 renderers production-ready...

IBM POWER10 Receives DEXCR Support In Linux 6.5, Big Endian Improvements

Phoronix - Sun, 07/02/2023 - 18:17
The IBM PowerPC feature updates were merged on Friday to the Linux 6.5 kernel...

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4060 vs. AMD Radeon RX 7600 Linux Gaming Performance

Phoronix - Sun, 07/02/2023 - 00:53
This week NVIDIA and their AIB partners began shipping the GeForce RTX 4060 graphics card with pricing starting out at $299 USD. Like the recently-launched Radeon RX 7600, the RTX 4060 is geared mostly for 1080p gaming but how does it compare against the RX 7600 that is priced starting at $249? Here are some initial Linux gaming benchmarks of the GeForce RTX 4060 against the Radeon RX 7600.

Apple Studio Display Linux Driver Published To Control The Backlight

Phoronix - Sat, 07/01/2023 - 20:57
An independent developer has posted an open-source Linux driver for review in order to handle the Apple Studio Display backlight control under Linux. The Apple Studio Display uses a Thunderbolt (DP) interface for display but lacks any hardware controls. Thus a USB interface is used by the monitor for controlling attributes like the display backlight brightness...

Lavapipe Lands Vulkan Descriptors Support, Can Run Some VKD3D-Proton Games

Phoronix - Sat, 07/01/2023 - 18:57
Lavapipe as the software-based Vulkan implementation within Mesa has now landed support for Vulkan descriptor extensions and in turn this CPU-based Vulkan implementation can begin running some Direct3D 12 games with VKD3D-Proton. Keep in mind, however, the performance is severely limited...

The Current Challenges With Using Linux On Airplanes

Phoronix - Sat, 07/01/2023 - 18:29
Currently most avionics real-time operating systems for airplanes are proprietary and very specialized for safety assurance reasons. Using Linux though and other open-source software would ease development, open more developers to being able to work on said avionics platforms, have much better documentation, and lower other barriers, but there are challenges currently involved...

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