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Steam Linux Client Beta Adds New Scaling Setting Override

Phoronix - Fri, 06/16/2023 - 10:24
While yesterday brought a major update to the Steam client stable series, tonight brings a new update to the Steam beta series with some notable enhancements to the Linux client...

Protect your supply chain from disasters

Red Hat News - Fri, 06/16/2023 - 08:00
Disasters that affect companies can take many forms: public health, terrorism and war, and extreme weather. They can also affect companies in different ways, including needing to shut down offices, helping affected employees and regaining access to networks and computers. It’s a multifaceted challenge but, for the purposes of this blog, we’re going to focus on anticipating and responding to supply chain challenges due to natural disasters such as hurricanes, typhoons, floods, earthquakes, wildfires and droughts. These are not unusual challenges. In 2020, there were 22 separate billion-d

System76's COSMIC Desktop Enhancing Its Auto-Tiling

Phoronix - Fri, 06/16/2023 - 07:12
As part of Linux hardware vendor System76's ongoing work around their COSMIC desktop for their Pop!_OS Linux distribution, recently their development team has been working on enhancing the automatic window tiling capabilities...

Running Linux On The ASUS ROG Ally Gaming Handheld

Phoronix - Fri, 06/16/2023 - 01:37
Following last month's announcement, this week marks the start of the ASUS ROG Ally shipping as the most compelling alternative to date for Valve's Steam Deck. The ASUS ROG Ally features the new AMD Ryzen Z1 Extreme CPU that's interesting in its own right for being based on Zen 4 and RDNA3 integrated graphics. There will be many benchmark articles on Phoronix over the days ahead looking both at the ASUS ROG Ally itself for Linux gaming/performance as well as focusing more generally on the Ryzen Z1 Extreme. In today's article is a few words to get started on the Linux support.

Intel Announces "Biggest Brand Update" For Core CPUs

Phoronix - Thu, 06/15/2023 - 21:00
The recent leaks and reports around Intel Core Ultra were true and today Intel unveiled what they call their biggest brand update in 15 years for their consumer CPU line. Beginning with the upcoming Intel Meteor Lake processors is this new client branding...

Qt 6.6 Beta Released With New Qt Graphs Module, Text To Speech Improvements

Phoronix - Thu, 06/15/2023 - 20:45
Working towards a stable release in September, today marks the release of the first Qt 6.6 Beta...

LLVM 17 Lands Arm Neoverse-V2 Scheduling Model

Phoronix - Thu, 06/15/2023 - 19:24
For helping to ensure optimal performance of AArch64 binaries generated by LLVM/Clang for the Neoverse-V2 processor cores, LLVM 17 Git has received a proper Neoverse-V2 scheduling model...

Loongson's 3A6000 Brings Simultaneous Multi-Threading To LoongArch

Phoronix - Thu, 06/15/2023 - 19:00
Since last month Loongson engineers have begun posting Linux patches enabling their upcoming 3A6000 series LoongArch processors under Linux. Yesterday they posted new patches and revealed that Loongson 3A6000 processors support Simultaneous Multi-Threading (SMT)...

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