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Intel Posts Linux Patches Enabling LASS KVM Support

Phoronix - Fri, 04/21/2023 - 01:13
Back in January Intel engineers posted Linux patches for Linear Address Space Separation (LASS) as a feature being introduced with future Intel CPUs. Intel engineers today posted a set of patches extending that LASS support to the realm of KVM virtualization...

RADV Optimized By Valve For An Upcoming Game - Nearly Matching The Windows Performance

Phoronix - Thu, 04/20/2023 - 23:40
Valve's Linux graphics driver developers continue relentlessly optimizing the Mesa Radeon Vulkan driver "RADV" and today landed an optimization for an unnamed, upcoming game where now it's able to nearly match the performance enjoyed under Windows...

Ubuntu 23.04 "Lunar Lobster" Now Available For Download

Phoronix - Thu, 04/20/2023 - 22:30
Ubuntu 23.04 "Lunar Lobster" release images are now available for download for those wanting to fetch the latest Ubuntu desktop or server builds or alternatively the various downstream flavors/spins...

Ubuntu 23.04 Laptop Performance Mixed Against Ubuntu 22.10

Phoronix - Thu, 04/20/2023 - 21:00
Today marks the release of Ubuntu 23.04 "Lunar Lobster" and I've already been trying it out on a number of test systems. Up today are some initial Ubuntu 23.04 vs. 22.10 laptop benchmarks. If you were hoping though for this release to improve performance, unfortunately that doesn't appear to be the case with overall across a range of workloads Ubuntu 23.04 is similar to -- or in some areas trailing -- Ubuntu 22.10 on both Intel and AMD hardware.

Wine 8.0.1 Released With Three Dozen Bugs Fixed

Phoronix - Thu, 04/20/2023 - 20:10
Building off the Wine 8.0 stable release from January, out today is Wine 8.0.1 as the first maintenance point release to this open-source software for enjoying Windows games and applications under Linux, Chrome OS, macOS, and other platforms...

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