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PVM Virtualization Framework Proposed For Linux - Built Atop The KVM Hypervisor

Phoronix - Tue, 02/27/2024 - 00:19
Ant Group and Alibaba have proposed PVM, the Pagetable Virtual Machine, as a new virtualization framework built upon the Kernel-based Virtual Machine (KVM) hypervisor. PVM does not require hardware-assisted virtualization while working with KVM-enabled software like Kata Containers...

AMD Radeon RX 7900 GRE Linux Performance

Phoronix - Mon, 02/26/2024 - 22:00
Last July AMD launched the Radeon RX 7900 GRE graphics card in China with a reduced Navi 31 GPU. Beginning tomorrow, 27 February, the Radeon RX 7900 GRE is being made available worldwide. Today the review embargo expires on the Radeon RX 7900 GRE for the worldwide scope and within the US will be priced around $549 USD.

SDDM 0.21 Display Manager Released With Better Wayland Support, Qt6 Fixes

Phoronix - Mon, 02/26/2024 - 19:55
Released last June was the SDDM 0.20 display manager with experimental Wayland support and other enhancements after being in development for three years. Out this morning is SDDM 0.21 as another step toward SDDM 1.0 with improved Wayland support and other enhancements to this Qt-tooled display manager...

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