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Qt 6.6 Wayland Compositor Handoffs Look Promising For More Robust Experience

Phoronix - Mon, 09/11/2023 - 22:32
KDE developer David Edmundson has written an interesting blog post looking at robustness improvements coming with Qt 6.6 via QtWayland compositor handoffs support...

VKD3D-Proton 2.10 Released With More Performance Improvements, Game/Driver Workarounds

Phoronix - Mon, 09/11/2023 - 22:00
Hans-Kristian Arntzen of Valve's stellar Linux graphics/Proton team has released VKD3D-Proton 2.10 as the newest feature release for this Direct3D 12 API implementation built atop Vulkan that allows for modern Windows games to run on Linux atop Steam Play...

Linux 6.6 Enables Tracking Per-CPU Cgroup CPU Usage Stats

Phoronix - Mon, 09/11/2023 - 21:03
With the Linux 6.6 merge window the cgroup changes brought one change worth mentioning...

RADV Ray-Tracing Monolithic Pipelines Support Merged For Better Performance

Phoronix - Mon, 09/11/2023 - 20:22
The open-source Mesa Radeon Vulkan driver "RADV" has merged support in its ray-tracing (RT) code path for monolithic pipelines...

GNU Boot 0.1 RC1 Released For This Coreboot/Libreboot Fork

Phoronix - Mon, 09/11/2023 - 18:32
The first release candidate of the inaugural GNU Boot has been released with users sought to try out this fork of Libreboot that in turn is derived from Coreboot...

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