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Xonotic 0.8.6 Released With Various In-Game Improvements

Phoronix - Thu, 06/22/2023 - 19:49
Xonotic 0.8.6 is out as the latest update to this long-running, open-source first person shooter game...

Sound Quirks For The ASUS ROG Ally Queued For Linux 6.5

Phoronix - Thu, 06/22/2023 - 18:33
Ahead of the Linux 6.5 merge window expected to open up next week, a patch providing sound quirks for the ASUS ROG Ally's CS35l41 audio is now queued in the sound subsystem's for-next branch...

AMD Hardware-Accelerated Virtualized IOMMU Patches Posted For Linux

Phoronix - Thu, 06/22/2023 - 18:12
Following the recent AMD IOMMU v2 page table work and other IOMMU improvements as part of AMD's effort to further enhance the Linux virtualization support on EPYC server platforms, the latest patches out of AMD as of yesterday are for wokring on hardware-accelerated virtualized IOMMU (AMD HW-vIOMMU)...

PoCL 4.0 OpenCL Implementation Released With Intel oneAPI Level Zero Driver

Phoronix - Thu, 06/22/2023 - 17:53
PoCL 4.0 is out as the latest major update to this "Portable Computing Language" implementation that started out as an OpenCL-on-CPU effort while with time has expanded its sights beyond just OpenCL on processors to providing OpenCL on other accelerators/devices via leveraging different LLVM target back-ends. With PoCL 4.0, there is also now an Intel oneAPI Level Zero driver for using this OpenCL stack on Intel graphics processors...

Lolcat – Display Text in Rainbow Colors in Linux Terminal

Tecmint - Thu, 06/22/2023 - 11:37
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Go 1.21 Enabling PGO For Faster Performance, Tuned Garbage Collector

Phoronix - Thu, 06/22/2023 - 07:17
The Go 1.21 release candidate is out today and it's interesting on the performance front plus a few language additions like min / max / clear functions as well as further enhancing its standard library...

Linux 6.3.9 Released With Fix For Nasty Nouveau Issue

Phoronix - Thu, 06/22/2023 - 03:08
For those making use of the current Linux 6.3 stable series, Linux 6.3.9 is out today and it's particularly important if you make use of the open-source NVIDIA "Nouveau" kernel graphics driver...

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