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Valve Is Sponsoring More CI Testing For The Open-Source Radeon Linux Graphics Driver

Phoronix - Sat, 01/22/2022 - 21:02
As good news not only to future Steam Deck users but all Linux gamers making use of the Mesa open-source graphics drivers, Valve is sponsoring additional continuous integration (CI) testing of Mesa commits...

KDE's Very Busy Week From 15 Minute Bugs To Plasma Wayland Fixes

Phoronix - Sat, 01/22/2022 - 19:11
It was a very busy and productive week for KDE developers with many new features and fixes landing...

Linux 5.17 Adds RISC-V sv48 Support For Being Able To Handle More Memory

Phoronix - Sat, 01/22/2022 - 18:21
In addition to Linux 5.17 bringing support for the low-cost StarFive RISC-V platform among other RISC-V updates, more changes for this royalty-free processor ISA were sent in on Friday...

Our favorite Linux commands to use just for fun

opensource.com - Sat, 01/22/2022 - 16:00

In November, we shared the article 7 Linux commands to use just for fun and asked you to tell us what "for fun" Linux command you recommend—and why?

Some Opensource.com contributors shared their favorites below.

My favorites:


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NVIDIA Releases Quake II RTX 1.6 With Support For AMD FidelityFX FSR

Phoronix - Sat, 01/22/2022 - 07:00
It's been nearly one year since NVIDIA's last update to Quake II RTX as their port of Quake II to using Vulkan ray-tracing extensions for RTX path-traced global illumination. Fortunately, that changed today as they are out with a big update in the form of Quake II RTX v1.6...

More Intel Raptor Lake Additions Arrive In Time For Linux 5.17

Phoronix - Sat, 01/22/2022 - 04:41
While the Linux 5.17 merge window is closing this weekend with the debut of 5.17-rc1, managing to come in at the last minute are a few more additions for Intel's next-generation Raptor Lake processors...

SiFive Shifting Production Focus To Next-Gen HiFive Development Board

Phoronix - Sat, 01/22/2022 - 03:22
SiFive's HiFive Unmatched is the best, readily available RISC-V developer board at the moment with enough horsepower for modest development/porting work and continues seeing improvements with the mainline Linux kernel. But availability on HiFive Unmatched is beginning to dry up and SiFive isn't planning on any further production runs as it begins focusing on the board's successor...

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