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AMD Announces The Radeon PRO W7800/W7900 Series

Phoronix - Thu, 04/13/2023 - 21:00
As the "world's first pro chiplet GPU", AMD today is announcing the Radeon PRO W7000 series as their first RDNA3-based professional offerings.

Canonical Livepatching Now Available For Ubuntu HWE Kernels

Phoronix - Thu, 04/13/2023 - 20:43
Canonical announced today that their kernel livepatching service will now be available for their hardware enablement "HWE" kernels on Ubuntu Long-Term Support releases...

Intel oneVPL GPU Runtime 2023Q1 Adds AV1 Error Resilient Mode

Phoronix - Thu, 04/13/2023 - 18:32
Days after releasing the Intel Media Driver 2023Q1, Intel's software engineers have now released oneVPL 2023Q1 as the updated quarterly release to this video processing library that is part of Intel's open-source oneAPI toolkit...

Lenovo Yoga Laptops Getting Tablet Mode Switch Driver With Linux 6.4

Phoronix - Thu, 04/13/2023 - 18:19
For those with a Lenovo Yoga 2-in-1/convertible laptop, a tablet mode switch driver is set to be merged for Linux 6.4 to properly handle the tablet mode switching support for these devices while running the mainline Linux kernel...

Servo Project To Focus On Their "Layout 2020" Engine

Phoronix - Thu, 04/13/2023 - 17:58
Servo as the browser engine started at Mozilla but now developed as a Linux Foundation project has been maintaining two separate layout engines and moving forward they hope to be able to focus on the newer "Layout 2020" engine and fill in its missing gaps...

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