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AMDVLK vs. Mesa RADV Radeon Vulkan Driver Performance On Linux

Phoronix - Sat, 06/03/2023 - 00:00
Kicking off a number of interesting articles over the week ahead for the Phoronix 19th birthday week is a fresh look at how AMD's official open-source Linux Vulkan driver "AMDVLK" compares to Mesa's RADV Vulkan driver that tends to be more popular with Linux gamers and is the driver backed by Valve, Red Hat, and other stakeholders.

System76's Coreboot Open Firmware Manages To Disable Intel ME For Raptor Lake

Phoronix - Fri, 06/02/2023 - 22:14
Linux laptop/desktop vendor System76 has made some improvements to their Coreboot open firmware offerings to benefit their latest Intel Core 13th Gen "Raptor Lake" wares as well as prior generation devices...

Red Hat To Stop Shipping LibreOffice In Future RHEL, Limiting Fedora LO Involvement

Phoronix - Fri, 06/02/2023 - 20:59
Red Hat has decided they will be doing less work on desktop applications and will stop shipping LibreOffice as part of a future Red Hat Enterprise Linux release (presumably RHEL10). This is also limiting Red Hat's engagement in working on LibreOffice packaging for Fedora while the hope is that the Flatpak'ed LibreOffice will fill the void...

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