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AMD has made some late changes for Linux 6.2 around the Scatter/Gather (S/G) functionality for APUs that enables display scan-out from system memory...

Framework begin offering 2TB SSD upgrades for Steam Deck  GamingOnLinux

Linux Kernel Releases Land, Fixing Frustrating Bugs  MUO - MakeUseOf

Experience Lightning-Fast Browsing on Linux Mint 21 or 20 with ...  LXer

Joining lines of text on Linux  Network World

For fans of the Doom (2016) video game looking to enjoy the title with the Zink OpenGL-on-Vulkan implementation, a simple fix showed how addressing a simple oversight can boost the performance by a magnitude of 10x...

System76’s All-New AMD-Powered Pangolin Linux Laptop Is Now Available to Order  9to5Linux

Get 'Linux Administration Best Practices' (worth $33.99) for FREE  BetaNews

AMD and Atos announced today that they are building a new supercomputer in Bavaria for the Max Planck Society...

Linux Schedutil Governor's Quirky Behavior Persists In 2023  Phoronix

Earlier this week I posted benchmarks looking at how the AMD Ryzen Threadripper 3990X performance has evolved in the three years to the day since that 64-core / 128-thread HEDT chip launched. While overall the Threadripper 3990X performance has evolved nicely under Linux since 2020, when it came to the video encoding tests in particular they performed worse overall. As I had raised in that earlier article and now elaborated with some follow-up tests, that regression is driven by the default "schedutil" frequency scaling governor used by default.

Check out the demo of Full Void, a dystopian cinematic puzzle ...  GamingOnLinux

ScummVM 2.7.0 is ready for testing more retro games  GamingOnLinux

New PX5 RTOS Boasts Native Support for POSIX pthreads API  EE Journal

This new ChromeOS change could boost VM performance on ...  About Chromebooks

One of the open-source Intel Linux graphics driver milestones we have to look forward to this year is the introduction of the new "Xe" kernel graphics driver to effectively succeed the existing "i915" Direct Rendering Manager driver for recent generations of Intel graphics. More prep code was merged this week to Mesa's Intel "ANV" Vulkan driver in preparing to be able to make use of that new kernel mode driver once its upstreamed into the Linux kernel...

GTK5 Development Likely To Heat Up Following GTK 4.12  Phoronix

A new GTK blog post summarized a recent meet-up of GTK core developers for better sorting out active GTK4 work as well as some planning toward GTK5...

The BSD operating system projects tend to not receive as much support from hardware vendors as Linux and their driver support is made even more fragmented on the BSD side due to many subtle as well as not so subtle differences between the major BSDs. NetBSD developer Pierre Pronchery has proposed more "harmony" among BSD drivers with increased collaboration between the major BSD players on driver development...

A Call For More Collaboration & Harmony Among BSD Hardware Drivers  Phoronix