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SUSE Announces Its Forking RHEL, To Maintain A RHEL-Compatible Distro

Phoronix - Tue, 07/11/2023 - 18:15
Yesterday Oracle published an interesting announcement and doubled down on their intentions of keeping Oracle Linux compatible with Red Hat Enterprise Linux following Red Hat's controversial announcement last month. Today is another very interesting response to Red Hat's recent shift, this time from the SUSE Linux folks...

Fwupd 1.9.3 Adds Linux Firmware Updating Support For A Few New Devices

Phoronix - Tue, 07/11/2023 - 17:55
Richard Hughes of Red Hat and the lead developer behind the Linux Vendor Firmware Service (LVFS) has released Fwupd 1.9.3 as the newest feature update to this open-source solution for carrying out system and peripheral firmware updates on Linux...

Radeon RADV Driver's Emulated Ray-Tracing Achieves 100% Pass Rate

Phoronix - Tue, 07/11/2023 - 05:00
Mesa's Radeon Vulkan driver "RADV" supports native hardware ray-tracing with RDNA2 and RDNA3 graphics cards where it's matured quite nicely over the past number of months. With the upcoming Mesa 23.2, RADV RT support is enabled by default for all supported GPUs. RADV also has emulated ray-tracing support for older generations of AMD GPUs and as of today it's finally hit a 100% pass rate...

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