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Fedora 38 Beta Released With Many Exciting Updates

Phoronix - Tue, 03/14/2023 - 20:55
The beta of Fedora 38 is out and on-time this morning for those wanting to test this latest major update to Fedora Linux...

Vulkanised 2023 Vulkan Conference Slides/Videos Available

Phoronix - Tue, 03/14/2023 - 19:00
Taking place last month in the most wonderful city of Munich, The Khronos Group hosted Vulkanised 2023 as their Vulkan Developers' Conference and Meetup. The slides and videos from the event are now available, including talks on Valve's RADV effort and more...

AMD Launches The EPYC Embedded 9004 Series

Phoronix - Tue, 03/14/2023 - 18:45
AMD is using Embedded World 2023 in Nürnberg to launch the EPYC Embedded 9004 series as their 4th Gen EPYC processors intended for telecommunications, edge computing, automation, and IoT applications...

How Cloudflare Updates The BIOS & Firmware Across Thousands Of Servers

Phoronix - Tue, 03/14/2023 - 18:28
For those wondering how Cloudflare keeps their thousands of servers around the world up-to-date for the latest BIOS and firmware, Cloudflare's engineering blog has put out an interesting post that outlines their process of handling system BIOS updates as well as various other firmware updates...

KDE KWin's Move Away From GBM Surfaces

Phoronix - Tue, 03/14/2023 - 18:02
KDE developer Xaver Hugl has written a blog post how the KWin compositor's DRM back-end has been working to move itself off GBM surfaces (gbm_surfaces) to instead allocate buffers directly and import them into EGL. This ultimately should be a win for the KWin compositor once everything is complete...

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