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RADV Zink Sees Another "Massive" Optimization On The Way

Phoronix - Sun, 06/18/2023 - 18:55
In going through my recent RADV-Zink vs. RadeonSI OpenGL benchmarks, Valve's Mike Blumenkrantz has already been landing optimizations/fixes and there is another one on the way as a result...

NVK Vulkan Driver Working Toward YCbCr Support This Summer

Phoronix - Sun, 06/18/2023 - 18:38
NVK as the open-source Mesa Vulkan driver being developed for NVIDIA graphics hardware will hopefully see YCbCr format support this summer...

FreeBSD Celebrating Its 30th Anniversary

Phoronix - Sun, 06/18/2023 - 18:26
This month the FreeBSD project is celebrating its 30th anniversary since this open-source BSD operating system project was established...

KDE Plasma 6 Has Reached The Point Of Being "Fairly Livable"

Phoronix - Sun, 06/18/2023 - 18:11
Following yesterday's KDE weekly development summary, prominent KDE developer Nate Graham has published an update on the current state of affairs for KDE Plasma 6 along with when we may potentially see Plasma 6.0 actually released...

Lisa Su Reaffirms Commitment To Improving AMD ROCm Support, Engaging The Community

Phoronix - Sat, 06/17/2023 - 21:30
AMD CEO Dr. Lisa Su has reaffirmed the company's commitment to the open-source ROCm compute stack and working with the community and ultimately improving their software support...

CentOS Stream 10 Starting To Get Underway, More Activity In 2024

Phoronix - Sat, 06/17/2023 - 19:39
Some Fedora Enterprise Linux Next (ELN) plans were shared on Friday with the process of launching CentOS Stream 10 getting underway that will ultimately form the basis of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10...

Linux 6.4 Lands Fix For Open-Source NVIDIA Driver Use-After-Free Issue

Phoronix - Sat, 06/17/2023 - 19:14
As a follow-up to yesterday's article about the believed fix for the Nouveau use-after-free bug plaguing Linux 6.3 users of this open-source NVIDIA driver, the fix has now been merged to Linux 6.4 Git and in turn should also be picked up for an upcoming Linux 6.3 point release...

Distrobox 1.5 Released With NVIDIA GPU Containers Support

Phoronix - Sat, 06/17/2023 - 18:56
Distrobox is the open-source project for quickly and easily firing up other Linux distributions as containers on your desktop. Distrobox is a delight to use if needing to try different Linux distributions on your system or wishing to leverage different distributions for specialized workloads...

Plasma 6.0 Development Continues, More Plasma Wayland Fixes Land

Phoronix - Sat, 06/17/2023 - 18:42
It may be the middle of summer but there are no signs of Plasma 6.0 development efforts slowing down at all with this being another interesting week for KDE development...

Python 3.13 Aiming For More Performance

Phoronix - Sat, 06/17/2023 - 17:59
Python 3.12 isn't even being released until October and Python 3.13 won't be out until H2'2024, but already the developers working on tuning CPython performance are aiming to make more enhancements this next development cycle...

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