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Vulkan 1.3.246 Released With VK_EXT_shader_object

Phoronix - Fri, 03/31/2023 - 20:58
Vulkan 1.3.246 has been published with one prominent new extension introduced that was started by Nintendo and worked on by several other hardware/software vendors...

Google Posts KVM-CPUFreq Driver To Dramatically Boost VM Performance, Power Efficiency

Phoronix - Fri, 03/31/2023 - 20:30
Google engineers on Thursday posted initial "request for comments" patches on their KVM-CPUFreq driver that is part of their effort to improve the dynamic voltage and frequency scaling behavior and task placement within KVM-based virtual machines. This effort is leading to big improvements in raw performance and performance-per-Watt for tasks running within Linux VMs...

Sound Open Firmware 2.5 Released - Continues Adoption Of Zephyr, Adds MediaTek MT8188

Phoronix - Fri, 03/31/2023 - 19:00
Sound Open Firmware "SOF" 2.5 has been released as this open-source sound/DSP firmware initiative that was originally started by Intel but now is a Linux Foundation project and seeing hardware support from multiple vendors...

Bloomberg Launches Open-Source Funding Initiative

Phoronix - Fri, 03/31/2023 - 18:46
The Bloomberg financial, software, and media company has announced their FOSS Fund as a small step for helping open-source projects they rely on and of interest to their employees...

Fedora 39 Planning For RPM 4.19 - Adds x86-64 v2/v3/v4 Feature Levels

Phoronix - Fri, 03/31/2023 - 18:27
With the Fedora 39 release later this year the developers are planning on moving to RPM 4.19 as the newest version of their packaging format...

Ubuntu 23.04 Beta Released - Powered By Linux 6.2, GNOME 44 & Other Updates

Phoronix - Fri, 03/31/2023 - 17:58
The beta of Ubuntu 23.04 "Lunar Lobster" and its various spins/flavors were released overnight for testing...

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