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GTK3 Port Of GIMP Is "Officially Finished"

Phoronix - Thu, 04/20/2023 - 01:44
The long-awaited port of the GIMP image manipulation program to the GTK3 toolkit is now declared "officially finished"...

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4080/4090: Windows 11 vs. Ubuntu 23.04 Performance

Phoronix - Wed, 04/19/2023 - 23:00
For those wondering how the NVIDIA Linux gaming/GPU performance is looking relative to Windows 11, here are some benchmarks using the GeForce RTX 4080 and RTX 4090 graphics cards. Both NVIDIA RTX 40 graphics cards were tested on Windows 11 Pro and Ubuntu 23.04 while primarily focusing on games making use of Valve's Steam Play to reflect current Linux gaming trends as well as featuring some other cross-platform GPU accelerated software.

The Linux Kernel Preparing For An Upgrade To Its Rust Toolchain

Phoronix - Wed, 04/19/2023 - 20:38
Linux kernel developers are preparing for the first upgrade to its Rust toolchain since the Rust code initially merged in Linux 6.1...

Nouveau Using The NVIDIA GSP Will Lead To More Firmware Bloat

Phoronix - Wed, 04/19/2023 - 20:22
The upstream, open-source Nouveau DRM kernel driver working to make use of the NVIDIA GPU System Processor "GSP" will ideally lead to more punctual new hardware support, hopefully overcome the power management / re-clocking challenges that have plagued the driver for years with very low performance, and other current limitations. But it will also lead to more NVIDIA GPU firmware files in the linux-firmware tree and increased bloat...

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