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Inspur WMI Platform Profile Driver Being Worked On For Linux

Phoronix - Wed, 10/18/2023 - 22:05
Adding to the list of vendors exposing ACPI Platform Profile controls under Linux so the user can easily set their power/performance preference for the system is major Chinese hardware company Inspur...

Mold 2.3 Linker Allows Removing Superfluous ENDBR64 Instructions

Phoronix - Wed, 10/18/2023 - 20:21
Mold 2.3 was released today by Rui Ueyama as the newest version of this high-speed linker alternative to LLVM LLD and GNU Gold...

Qt 6.5 LTS Shifts To Its Commercial-Only Phase

Phoronix - Wed, 10/18/2023 - 18:38
It's already that time of the Qt 6.5 long-term support (LTS) cycle where The Qt Company has shifted it over to being focused on access only to their commercial customers...

10 Best Linux Gaming Distributions That You Should Give a Try

Tecmint - Wed, 10/18/2023 - 11:00
The post 10 Best Linux Gaming Distributions That You Should Give a Try first appeared on Tecmint: Linux Howtos, Tutorials & Guides .

For a long time, Windows has been the preferred platform for gaming, and this is largely due to its affordability, flexibility, perfect driver support, and

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AMD Posts Linux Patches For Better Graphics/Compute Interoperability & Other Benefits

Phoronix - Wed, 10/18/2023 - 08:30
AMD today posted a set of interesting patches for enabling better integration of their AMDKFD (Kernel Fusion Driver, what is their compute kernel driver) memory management with Linux's DRM GEM ioctl API. In turn the code allows managing virtual address (VA) mappings in compute VMs with the GEM_VA ioctl interface for greater control of buffers imported via DMA-BUF...

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