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Steam On Linux Use Ticked Higher In May, 25% Of Linux Gamers Are Using The Steam Deck

Phoronix - Fri, 06/02/2023 - 08:01
Valve just published the Steam Survey results for May 2023 and on a percentage basis show the Steam on Linux marketshare growing ever so slightly...

Apache NetBeans 18 Released With Many Improvements, Initial Support For Rust

Phoronix - Fri, 06/02/2023 - 00:48
For those fond of the Apache NetBeans integrated development environment, NetBeans 18 is now available as the latest version of this programming IE primarily geared for Java, PHP, and HTML5/CSS development...

Linux 6.5 Scheduler Patch Will To Help AMD Systems With Multiple LLCs Per Die

Phoronix - Thu, 06/01/2023 - 21:02
There is a Linux kernel scheduler patch now queued via TIP's sched/core branch that can help with task scheduling on AMD processors sporting multiple last-level caches (LLCs / L3 cache) per die. This minor improvement came after a discovery by a Linux kernel developer on his AMD Zen 2 desktop...

Loongson Extending Etnaviv Driver For PCI Device Support

Phoronix - Thu, 06/01/2023 - 20:18
Chinese hardware vendor Loongson is working on extending the open-source, reverse-engineered Etnaviv Linux kernel graphics driver so it has PCI device support and in turn will work with their hardware based on the Vivante graphics IP...

Updated EEVDF Linux CPU Scheduler Patches Posted That Plan To Replace CFS

Phoronix - Thu, 06/01/2023 - 18:53
Intel engineer Peter Zijlstra on Wednesday posted the latest patches for the EEVDF scheduler, the Earliest Eligible Virtual Deadline First approach that is based on a research paper from the late 90's. Ultimately the hope is for EEVDF to replace the existing CFS scheduler code...

AMD Wires Up OverDrive Overclocking For Newer RDNA3 GPUs On Linux

Phoronix - Thu, 06/01/2023 - 18:38
For those interested in GPU overclocking, AMD has posted the patches for implementing the "legacy" OverDrive overclocking infrastructure for newer SMU13-based Radeon RX 7000 series graphics cards with the AMDGPU open-source Linux kernel driver...

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