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Debian vs Ubuntu: What’s the Difference?

Tecmint - Tue, 04/18/2023 - 13:04
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There are hundreds of Linux distributions, each unique in its own way. Some of the popular and widely used Linux distributions include Ubuntu, Linux Mint, Red Hat Enterprise Linux, Fedora, CentOS Stream, Debian, and

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Intel's OpenGL & Vulkan Linux Drivers Now To Build On ARM

Phoronix - Tue, 04/18/2023 - 07:30
Intel's open-source OpenGL "Iris" and Vulkan "ANV" Linux drivers are now part of the auto-generated set of drivers set to be built for 64-bit ARM (AArch64) when compiling this code inside Mesa...

RadeonSI Change Allows For Balancing RDNA3 Video Transcoding Between Multiple Engines

Phoronix - Tue, 04/18/2023 - 04:40
A change merged today for the Mesa 23.2 graphics driver stack benefits video transcoding performance for new Radeon RX 7000 series "RDNA3" graphics cards...

Proton 8.0-1 Published With More Games Now Running On Steam Play

Phoronix - Tue, 04/18/2023 - 03:19
Valve and CodeWeavers have made available Proton 8.0-1 as their newest version of this downstream of Wine that powers Steam Play for enjoying Windows games on Linux...

Renewed Work For ACO Compiler Support With The RadeonSI Gallium3D Driver

Phoronix - Mon, 04/17/2023 - 23:43
Back in 2019 Valve developers introduced the ACO compiler back-end within Mesa for the Radeon Vulkan "RADV" driver. This alternative to the AMDGPU LLVM shader compiler has been instrumental in helping RADV perform very well for Linux gaming both with Vulkan native titles as well as games going the route of DirectX to Vulkan via DXVK and VKD3D with Proton (Steam Play). On and off there's been talk and work towards bringing ACO to RadeonSI Gallium3D for OpenGL while now there is some new work on this front...

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