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NVIDIA 515.49.06 Linux Vulkan Beta Driver Released

Phoronix - Sun, 07/03/2022 - 07:16
For those enjoying some Linux gaming over the US holiday weekend, NVIDIA issued a rare Saturday driver update in the form of new Vulkan driver betas for Windows and Linux...

Darktable 4.0 Released With Rewritten UI, Much Improved OpenCL Performance

Phoronix - Sun, 07/03/2022 - 01:15
Darktable 4.0 has debuted today as a major update to this open-source, cross-platform RAW photography software suite...

Linux 5.20 Looks To Be Primed For Usable DG2/Alchemist Desktop Graphics & ATS-M Support

Phoronix - Sat, 07/02/2022 - 21:11
After many months and a lot of work by the open-source Intel Linux graphics driver developers, Linux 5.20 looks like it will be the base kernel where the DG2/Alchemist Arc Graphics desktop GPUs and Arctic Sound M (ATS-M) server graphics card support will be ready in usable shape...

Linux Mint 21 Is Going To Avoid systemd-oomd

Phoronix - Sat, 07/02/2022 - 19:09
Linux Mint 21 is working its way toward release this summer as the latest version of this desktop OS that is being built atop Ubuntu 22.04 LTS. Unlike Ubuntu 22.04 upstream that is now using systemd-oomd by default on the desktop to try to improve the low memory / system memory pressure experience, Linux Mint has now decided to avoid this daemon due to user criticism...

Xonotic 0.8.5 Improves This Prominent Open-Source Game

Phoronix - Sat, 07/02/2022 - 18:30
It's sadly been years since having anything major to report on for Xonotic, the open-source first person shooter game that started out many years ago as Nexuiz. Thankfully a new version of Xonotic was published this week and while it's just a point release, it does come with many improvements...

Firewalld 1.2 Released With New Services Added

Phoronix - Sat, 07/02/2022 - 18:00
Firewalld 1.2 was released on Friday as the newest feature release for this Linux firewall daemon. Bug fix releases for existing stable series were released with Firewalld 1.1.2, 1.0.5, and 0.9.9...

KDE Kicks Off July With UI Polishing, Bug Fixing

Phoronix - Sat, 07/02/2022 - 17:16
The summer months aren't slowing down KDE developers as it's been another busy week of bug fixes and feature work for KDE developers to kick off July...

Vulkan 1.3.219 Released With Two New Extensions

Phoronix - Sat, 07/02/2022 - 17:00
Vulkan 1.3.219 released this week and in addition to a number of documentation clarifications/corrections there are two new extensions...

Steam On Linux Marketshare Ticks Up To 1.18% For June

Phoronix - Sat, 07/02/2022 - 08:44
With the new month comes the latest figures from Valve regarding the Steam on Linux marketshare and other metrics for the past month as a result of the Steam Survey...

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