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RadeonSI + ACO Now Supports Monolithic Merged Shaders

Phoronix - Mon, 07/24/2023 - 18:47
Qiang Yu continues leading the charge on integrating the ACO compiler back-end into the RadeonSI Gallium3D driver as an optional alternative to the AMDGPU LLVM shader compiler back-end...

More FUTEX2 Additions Being Worked On For The Linux Kernel

Phoronix - Mon, 07/24/2023 - 18:35
Merged back in 2021 with Linux 5.16 was the FUTEX2 code to help with Linux gaming needs particularly around Steam Play. There were plans to further extend FUTEX2 and now two years later there's been recent patches working out more enhancements to this interface...

Twitter's New "X" Logo Is Reminding Plenty Of People Around X.Org

Phoronix - Mon, 07/24/2023 - 18:18
The most popular topic among the emails I received this weekend weren't of direct technical nature but the number of people pointing out Twitter's new "X" logo and the similarities to the X.Org logo...

Inkscape 1.3 Released As Latest Open-Source Software To Compete With Adobe Illustrator

Phoronix - Mon, 07/24/2023 - 12:00
Inkscape 1.3 is now available as the newest feature release ot this open-source software focused on being a vector graphics editor that can rival the likes of Adobe Illustrator...

10 Best File Comparison and Difference (Diff) Tools for Linux

Tecmint - Mon, 07/24/2023 - 11:31
The post 10 Best File Comparison and Difference (Diff) Tools for Linux first appeared on Tecmint: Linux Howtos, Tutorials & Guides .

While writing program files or normal text files, programmers and writers sometimes want to know the difference between two files or two versions of the

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Linux 6.5-rc3 Released - Looking "Pretty Normal"

Phoronix - Mon, 07/24/2023 - 06:51
Linus Torvalds just published Linux 6.5-rc3 as the newest weekly test release of the forthcoming Linux 6.5 kernel...

OpenBSD Finally Lands Support For Updating AMD CPU Microcode

Phoronix - Mon, 07/24/2023 - 05:06
Within the very latest OpenBSD "current" code is now support for being able to apply AMD CPU microcode updates...

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