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DXVK 2.3.1 Allows For More Efficient Shader Code Generation On NVIDIA GPUs

Phoronix - Wed, 03/20/2024 - 21:26
DXVK 2.3.1 has been released for this Steam Play compknent that implements the Direct3D 9/10/11 APIs atop Vulkan. Notable with DXVK 2.3.1 is VK_NV_raw_access_chains support for more efficient shader code generation on NVIDIA GPUs...

IBM Posts GCC Patches For -mcpu=power11 Support

Phoronix - Wed, 03/20/2024 - 20:45
In-step with early Power11 patches in Linux 6.9, IBM engineers have posted the GNU Compiler Collection (GCC) patches for enabling -mcpu=power11 targeting within this open-source compiler...

Tiny Corp Puts Their AMD-Powered Compute Boxes "On Hold"

Phoronix - Wed, 03/20/2024 - 18:54
Tiny Corp has been frustrated before with AMD / ROCm and planned to drop AMD graphics cards in their planned compute boxes over it only to go back to AMD GPUs with their open-source driver stack later. It's now happened again following frustrations over firmware binaries. After recently lobbying AMD to at least open-source some relevant pieces of their firmware and at ~70% confidence over their plans, Tiny Corp announced on Tuesday they are dropping AMD GPUs again from their compute plans...

Bcachefs Fixes Deadlock In Recovery, More Fixes Coming

Phoronix - Wed, 03/20/2024 - 18:43
Following the revised Bcachefs code making it into Linux 6.9 and a warning for Bcachefs multi-device users to move past Linux 6.7, a batch of fixes was merged overnight for Linux 6.9 while further fixes to this file-system are expected soon...

XWayland Rootful Lands HiDPI / Fractional Scaling Support

Phoronix - Wed, 03/20/2024 - 18:30
Running XWayland in rootful mode now allows for working HiDPI and fractional scaling support...

How to Install Symfony Framework in Linux

Tecmint - Wed, 03/20/2024 - 12:05
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The Symfony is a free, full-stack PHP framework used for building web applications. It’s well-known for its self-contained components that seamlessly integrate into any PHP

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The Significant Corporate Importance & Pressure Around Mesa Open-Source Linux 3D Drivers

Phoronix - Wed, 03/20/2024 - 08:06
It has taken many years but the Mesa 3D open-source graphics drivers have proven very successful from the open-source AMD Vulkan and OpenGL drivers proving they can be capable of competing with the closed-source drivers not only for gaming but also workstation tasks, the Windows vs. Linux graphics driver performance gap largely closed, Microsoft even leveraging Mesa for their translations to the D3D12 API, vendors like Imagination developing once unthinkable open-source drivers, etc. But with the increasing importance to corporations, so has the responsibilities and concerns of Mesa driver developers...

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