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A pending change to the Mesa Radeon Vulkan driver "RADV" is leading to much lower system RAM use for some games that make use of many Vulkan Graphics Pipeline Libraries (GPL). The game causing this issue to be investigated was Valve's Dota 2 on RADV and is now seeing an 85% reduction in system RAM use by this open-source Radeon Linux driver...

Pending RADV Driver Change Leads To Much Lower System RAM ...  Phoronix

Ubuntu Touch as the community maintained version of Ubuntu Linux for smartphones and tablets has for years been frustratingly limited to Ubuntu 16.04 LTS as its base operating system for when Canonical had abandoned their smartphone ambitions. Today though that has finally changed with Ubuntu Touch OTA-1 Focal having been released that moves things forward to an Ubuntu 20.04 LTS base...

New Microsoft Teams is twice as fast, available for all in June  BleepingComputer

Gentoo-Based Porteus Kiosk 5.5 Released with Linux Kernel 6.1 LTS, exFAT Support  9to5Linux

Ubuntu Touch OTA-1 Focal brings Ubuntu 20.04 LTS to smartphones  Liliputing

Back in October Google announced their Compute Engine C3 instances in private preview that featured 4th Gen Xeon Scalable "Sapphire Rapids" processors as well as making use of Google's custom Intel Infrastructure Processing Unit (IPU). Since then, back in January, was the big Sapphire Rapids launch with the likes of the Xeon Platinum 8490H being released. Last month meanwhile Google promoted the C3 VMs to public preview state. The Sapphire Rapids C3 VMs remain in "public preview" from Google Cloud during which time there are no charges involved for the CPU costs. For those wondering about the core-for-core performance of Sapphire Rapids in Google Cloud, here are my initial benchmarks of the C3 series.

2 Ways for KTorrent installation on Ubuntu 22.04 or 20.04  H2S Media

GnuCash 5.0 Accounting Software Released with New Stock Transaction Assistant  9to5Linux

Bodhi Linux can make an old computer feel brand new  ZDNet

Bodhi Linux can make an old computer feel brand new  ZDNet

Going back to late 2021 was the initial GCC compiler patch for "Ampere-1" for that next-gen AArch64 server processor while last year this successor to Ampere Altra (Max) was formally announced under the AmpereOne brand. That initial compiler support appeared in GCC 12 while ahead of the GCC 13 release in the coming weeks has been some last minute tuning for the AmpereOne cost table...

How to Open a DMG in Ubuntu and Convert to ISO  MUO - MakeUseOf

Thanks to forthcoming work out of Red Hat, the Linux 6.4 Device Mapper (DM) code is expected to see some optimization work that can significantly benefit concurrent I/O performance... In one case at least acquiring buffers now about 25 times faster...

Linux 6.4 Device Mapper To See Improved Concurrent I/O Performance  Phoronix

Build bridges over hot lava in Hellgineers  GamingOnLinux

Roguelite dungeon crawler Netherguild arrives on Steam  GamingOnLinux

6 Ubuntu 23.04 “Lunar Lobster” Features That Are Worth Upgrading For  MUO - MakeUseOf

Linux Foundation Takes on Metaverse Mapping Challenges  LinuxInsider.com

Left 4 Dead 3 appears in Counter-Strike 2 files  GamingOnLinux