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openSUSE Leap Micro 5.5 Beta Published For This Container & VM Focused Distro

Phoronix - Wed, 09/27/2023 - 20:44
Ahead of the planned stable release in October, the openSUSE Leap Micro 5.5 Beta was published today for this lightweight Linux operating system built for containers and virtualized workloads...

Linux Mint Debian Edition 6 Released

Phoronix - Wed, 09/27/2023 - 20:00
Linux Mint Debian Edition (LMDE) 6 has been released as the latest version of this Linux Mint derivative that is based on upstream Debian rather than Ubuntu...

More Intel Xe2 / Lunar Lake Graphics Support Readied For Open-Source Mesa Drivers

Phoronix - Wed, 09/27/2023 - 18:41
Earlier this month I noted that Intel's open-source Linux graphics driver engineers had begun working on the OpenGL and Vulkan Mesa driver support for Xe 2 graphics as to be found with Lunar Lake "LNL" processors. Since then the initial hardware enablement work has only continued heating up...

uvg266 Rolls Out More AVX2 Optimizations For Open-Source VVC/H.266 Encoding

Phoronix - Wed, 09/27/2023 - 18:29
Version 0.8 of uvg266 as one of the leading Versatile Video Codec (VVC) / H.266 open-source video encoders is now available...

TuxClocker 1.0 Released As An Alternative Way Of NVIDIA GPU Overclocking On Linux

Phoronix - Wed, 09/27/2023 - 08:01
TuxClocker has been in development for several years as another open-source GPU overclocking GUI for Linux. TuxClocker initially provided a Qt5-based user interface for GPU overclocking and ultimately established a D-Bus API as well with the new release. TuxClocker 1.0 was finally released today as the latest update to this Linux GPU overclocking software...

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