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Valve Makes RADV Driver More Robust For Gaming With VK_EXT_pipeline_robustness

Phoronix - Wed, 07/05/2023 - 18:23
Thanks to Joshua Ashton of Valve's Linux team, the Mesa RADV driver has added support for the VK_EXT_pipeline_robustness Vulkan extension as an efficiency win and will be beneficial for Steam Play gaming...

Intel Plumbs SoundWire ACE2.x Support, Premiering With Lunar Lake

Phoronix - Wed, 07/05/2023 - 18:03
In addition to Lunar Lake sound driver support in Linux 6.5 and the recent SOF update for Sound Open Firmware for Lunar Lake, Linux 6.5 is also bringing initial SoundWire Intel ACE2.x support that is part of the Lunar Lake audio capabilities...

UPower 1.90.1 Released As First Update In A Year

Phoronix - Wed, 07/05/2023 - 17:34
Released yesterday was a new version of UPower, the FreeDesktop.org software known long ago as DeviceKit-Power and used as an abstraction layer for enumerating power devices on Linux and other platforms. The new UPower 1.90.1 release is the first update to this software in just shy of one year...

40 Must-Have Free Open Source Applications for 2023

Tecmint - Wed, 07/05/2023 - 13:22
The post 40 Must-Have Free Open Source Applications for 2023 first appeared on Tecmint: Linux Howtos, Tutorials & Guides .

It is time to share a list of the best free and open-source software I found during the year 2023. Some of these programs may

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Ubuntu Maker Canonical Pulls In Control Of LXD

Phoronix - Wed, 07/05/2023 - 07:33
LXD as the open-source container management extension for Linux Containers (LXC) has long been closely associated with Canonical due to its founding and pushed along by the Ubuntu maker as one of their software offerings. However, it has to this point been part of the Linux Containers project except moving forward Canonical has decided to pull it more into their direct control...

Scope-Based Resource Management Infrastructure Merged For Linux 6.5

Phoronix - Wed, 07/05/2023 - 07:08
Here comes a very exciting addition to the Linux 6.5 kernel: the initial infrastructure has landed for scope-based resource management...

Linux 6.5 Brings Improvements To Firewire Support

Phoronix - Wed, 07/05/2023 - 04:15
While it's likely been years since most of you touched any Firewire devices, for those still having any old DV cameras around or professional audio hardware with an IEEE-1394 interface, Linux 6.5 is bringing improvements to its Firewire subsystem that until recently has been rather dormant for years...

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