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Raspberry Pi 5 Graphics Continue With Open-Source Driver & Crazy Fast Compared To RPi 4

Phoronix - Fri, 09/29/2023 - 08:54
With my Raspberry Pi 5 review and benchmarks I focused on the CPU performance of the quad-core Cortex-A76 2.4GHz Broadcom SoC powering this new single board computer, but the graphics upgrade are just as equally impressive. Here is a look at the open-source driver support and performance for the Raspberry Pi 5's VideoCore VII GPU.

Mesa 23.2 Stable Released For Improved Open-Source Vulkan & OpenGL Drivers

Phoronix - Fri, 09/29/2023 - 08:08
After being delayed by many weeks, Mesa 23.2 has been released as the quarterly feature release for this collection of open-source OpenGL and Vulkan drivers used by AMD Radeon, Intel graphics, Apple Silicon, Qualcomm Adreno (Freedreno), Nouveau (open-source NVIDIA), Broadcom / Raspberry Pi, Arm Mali and other hardware...

Succeeding with new technology: Breaking down adoption barriers

Red Hat News - Fri, 09/29/2023 - 08:00
Technology adoption is a key factor for achieving business goals and maximizing value, but many organizations face challenges when introducing or upgrading technology. In a previous blog post, I identified four common barriers to adoption. In this post, I'll provide a practical guide to overcome these barriers. Before we dive in, let's quickly revisit the common barriers discussed in my previous post: Technological: The challenge of integrating new technology with existing systems, processes and infrastructure, which may require significant changes and investments Financial: The cost

Open-Source NVIDIA Vulkan Driver Begins Working On Pipeline Caching

Phoronix - Fri, 09/29/2023 - 01:01
In addition to Mesa 23.3-devel today seeing Intel Vulkan sparse support finally land, another notable merge request that landed is beginning to plumb in pipeline caching support for the open-source NVIDIA "NVK" Vulkan driver...

OpenZFS 2.1.13 Brings Linux 6.5 Kernel Compatibility

Phoronix - Fri, 09/29/2023 - 00:46
While OpenZFS 2.2 is nearing release, OpenZFS 2.1.13 was released on Wednesday as the latest stable point release for this open-source ZFS file-system implementation for Linux and FreeBSD systems...

System76's COSMIC Desktop Adds New Window-Swapping Mode, Dynamic Settings

Phoronix - Thu, 09/28/2023 - 22:00
In addition to KDE Plasma 6.0, another exciting desktop milestone we can look forward to in 2024 is the COSMIC desktop from System76 when they end up releasing the next Pop!_OS based upon Ubuntu 24.04 LTS. The Pop!_OS / COSMIC developers continue making great progress on their Rust-written desktop environment...

Mesa 23.3 Lands Initial Intel Vulkan Driver Sparse Support - Needed For Many Newer Games

Phoronix - Thu, 09/28/2023 - 18:39
Intel engineers have merged to Mesa 23.3 the initial open-source "ANV" Vulkan driver support for sparse resources! This is the important feature needed for running a number of newer Direct3D 12 games with Steam Play (Proton) via VKD3D-Proton with Intel graphics hardware...

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