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Mesa's Rusticl Implements OpenCL Subgroups

Phoronix - Sat, 07/08/2023 - 18:50
Red Hat's Karol Herbst who has done a remarkable job on Rusticl as a modern OpenCL implementation written in Rust for Mesa Gallium3D drivers has another achievement under his belt: OpenCL subgroups are now in place for Mesa...

Linux Lands Fix For Intel Hybrid CPU Frequency Scaling When Disabling E-Cores

Phoronix - Sat, 07/08/2023 - 18:23
The Intel P-State CPU frequency scaling driver for the Linux kernel has received a fix to an issue that could lead to inadequate CPU frequency scaling behavior when running on a hybrid processor with E cores disable...

NTFS Driver For Linux 6.5 Brings Small Optimizations & Fixes

Phoronix - Sat, 07/08/2023 - 18:12
Konstantin Komarov of Paragon Software has submitted the NTFS(3) file-system driver updates for the nearly-closed Linux 6.5 merge window...

KDE Plasma Wayland Fixes "Severe Screen Distortion" For Some Multi-GPU Systems

Phoronix - Sat, 07/08/2023 - 17:58
KDE developers remain quite busy working on the Plasma 6.0 desktop development as well as making other enhancements and fixes to their open-source desktop stack...

Solus Linux 4.4 Released - Powered By Linux 6.3, Latest Budgie Desktop

Phoronix - Sat, 07/08/2023 - 07:40
While Solus is still working toward its new approach based on Serpent OS and other significant fundamental changes to the Linux distribution, shipping today is Solus 4.4 as the latest incremental update to this Linux distro popular with enthusiasts...

Wine 8.12 Released With Additional Wayland Enablement

Phoronix - Sat, 07/08/2023 - 04:54
Wine 8.12 is available today as the newest bi-weekly development release of this open-source software for enjoying Windows games and applications under Linux and other platforms...

Meta Releases Intermediate Graphics Library "IGL" Built Atop Vulkan, OpenGL

Phoronix - Sat, 07/08/2023 - 02:30
Meta has published the Intermediate Graphics Library (IGL) as a new cross-platform library to provide a single low-level interface that works atop native graphics APIs from OpenGL and Vulkan to Apple's Metal...

Linux 6.5 Brings New "cachestat" Syscall For Querying Page Cache Stats Of A File

Phoronix - Sat, 07/08/2023 - 01:00
A new system call found in Linux 6.5 is "cachestat" that allows user-space to query page cache statistics for a file in order to make more informed decisions...

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