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The 2023 State of The Embedded Linux Ecosystem

Phoronix - Sun, 07/02/2023 - 22:47
This past week at the Linux Foundation's Embedded Open-Source Summit in Prague, Sony engineer Tim Bird who is prominent in the embedded Linux community provided another insightful presentation to sum up the current state of the embedded Linux ecosystem...

LLVM Lands Initial Support For Fat LTO Objects

Phoronix - Sun, 07/02/2023 - 19:10
In a move similar to GCC's implementation, LLVM Git landed this week initial support for fat LTO objects. This "-ffat-lto-objects" support will be found with the LLVM/Clang 17 release this autumn...

Steam On Linux Use Steady For June, ~40% Of Linux Gamers Are Using The Steam Deck

Phoronix - Sun, 07/02/2023 - 19:00
Valve has shared their Steam Survey results for the month of June which shows the Steam on Linux marketshare holding steady...

Unigine 2.17 Brings Production-Ready Vulkan & DX12 Support

Phoronix - Sun, 07/02/2023 - 18:39
The visually-stunning Unigine Engine that these days is most commonly used in commercial simulation applications recently published Unigine 2.17 where they have finally made their Vulkan and Direct3D 12 renderers production-ready...

IBM POWER10 Receives DEXCR Support In Linux 6.5, Big Endian Improvements

Phoronix - Sun, 07/02/2023 - 18:17
The IBM PowerPC feature updates were merged on Friday to the Linux 6.5 kernel...

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4060 vs. AMD Radeon RX 7600 Linux Gaming Performance

Phoronix - Sun, 07/02/2023 - 00:53
This week NVIDIA and their AIB partners began shipping the GeForce RTX 4060 graphics card with pricing starting out at $299 USD. Like the recently-launched Radeon RX 7600, the RTX 4060 is geared mostly for 1080p gaming but how does it compare against the RX 7600 that is priced starting at $249? Here are some initial Linux gaming benchmarks of the GeForce RTX 4060 against the Radeon RX 7600.

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