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AlmaLinux Figuring Out Path Forward Following RHEL Source Code Policy Change

Phoronix - Thu, 06/22/2023 - 22:48
AlmaLinux, the popular community-oriented distribution that was established following Red Hat's decision to discontinue development on CentOS (non-Stream) and is backed by AMD and other organizations, is trying to chart its path forward following Red Hat's latest curve ball...

KDE's KWin Begins Plotting Path To Vulkan Support

Phoronix - Thu, 06/22/2023 - 21:57
Going back a few years there has been experimental development around a Vulkan back-end for KDE's KWin compositor while now a road-map is being formalized for actually bringing Vulkan support to fruition...

Linux 6.4 Squeezes In Crash Fix For New AMD Ryzen 7040 Series Laptops

Phoronix - Thu, 06/22/2023 - 19:59
Sent in today for the mainline Linux kernel -- days ahead of the expected Linux 6.4 stable release -- is a crash fix for just-released AMD Ryzen 7040 series laptops...

Xonotic 0.8.6 Released With Various In-Game Improvements

Phoronix - Thu, 06/22/2023 - 19:49
Xonotic 0.8.6 is out as the latest update to this long-running, open-source first person shooter game...

Sound Quirks For The ASUS ROG Ally Queued For Linux 6.5

Phoronix - Thu, 06/22/2023 - 18:33
Ahead of the Linux 6.5 merge window expected to open up next week, a patch providing sound quirks for the ASUS ROG Ally's CS35l41 audio is now queued in the sound subsystem's for-next branch...

AMD Hardware-Accelerated Virtualized IOMMU Patches Posted For Linux

Phoronix - Thu, 06/22/2023 - 18:12
Following the recent AMD IOMMU v2 page table work and other IOMMU improvements as part of AMD's effort to further enhance the Linux virtualization support on EPYC server platforms, the latest patches out of AMD as of yesterday are for wokring on hardware-accelerated virtualized IOMMU (AMD HW-vIOMMU)...

PoCL 4.0 OpenCL Implementation Released With Intel oneAPI Level Zero Driver

Phoronix - Thu, 06/22/2023 - 17:53
PoCL 4.0 is out as the latest major update to this "Portable Computing Language" implementation that started out as an OpenCL-on-CPU effort while with time has expanded its sights beyond just OpenCL on processors to providing OpenCL on other accelerators/devices via leveraging different LLVM target back-ends. With PoCL 4.0, there is also now an Intel oneAPI Level Zero driver for using this OpenCL stack on Intel graphics processors...

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