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GNOME 45 Alpha Released With Various Optimizations, Better Built-In Screen Recorder

Phoronix - Thu, 07/06/2023 - 04:26
It's already time for the first alpha release of the in-development GNOME 45 desktop...

AMD-Xilinx Versal Watchdog Driver Coming In Linux 6.5

Phoronix - Thu, 07/06/2023 - 01:28
There's been a lot of AMD-Xilinx code going upstream in the Linux kernel over the past few months to benefit AMD's embedded efforts from the QDMA driver to CDX bus to XDMA and more. The latest hitting the kernel is an AMD-Xilinx Versal watchdog driver...

Steam Deck vs. ASUS ROG Ally Arch Linux Gaming Performance

Phoronix - Wed, 07/05/2023 - 23:40
With the ASUS ROG Ally gaming handheld that began shipping last month I've so far looked at the Linux support for this device as well as looking at the Windows 11 vs. Linux gaming performance as well as the Ryzen Z1 Extreme CPU performance. What many Phoronix readers have been most interested in seeing though are the side-by-side benchmarks for Valve's Steam Deck up against the ASUS ROG Ally. Today's benchmarks provide just that comparison plus some CPU benchmarks too.

Getting help on Linux - Network World

Google News - Wed, 07/05/2023 - 22:16
Getting help on Linux  Network World

AMD Improving Xen VirtIO GPU Support For In-Vehicle Infotainment, Using RADV

Phoronix - Wed, 07/05/2023 - 21:43
As I've written about a few times in recent months, AMD has been enhancing GPU support for use under Xen virtualization. Their interests in Xen weren't clear to this point given that KVM virtualization tends to be the dominant solution these days when it comes to open-source Linux virtualization. Now it's been revealed that the AMD GPU interests in Xen stem from an in-vehicle infotainment play...

UDisks 2.10 Released With Native NVMe Support, LVM2 RAID

Phoronix - Wed, 07/05/2023 - 20:08
UDisks 2.10 was released last week for this set abstraction layer providing a daemon and tooling around the manipulation of disks and storage devices under Linux...

Valve Makes RADV Driver More Robust For Gaming With VK_EXT_pipeline_robustness

Phoronix - Wed, 07/05/2023 - 18:23
Thanks to Joshua Ashton of Valve's Linux team, the Mesa RADV driver has added support for the VK_EXT_pipeline_robustness Vulkan extension as an efficiency win and will be beneficial for Steam Play gaming...

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