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Linux 6.3 Features: AMD Auto IBRS To Steam Deck Controller Interface, IPv4 BIG TCP & More

Phoronix - Tue, 03/07/2023 - 01:00
Now that the Linux 6.3 merge window is over with Linux 6.3-rc1 having been released last night, here is a look at all of the interesting changes, new features, and hardware support coming with this next major kernel version.

Debian APT 2.6 Released With Updates For Non-Free Firmware Handling

Phoronix - Mon, 03/06/2023 - 23:30
Debian developers today released APT 2.6 as the newest version of this package manager that will ship as part of the upcoming Debian 12 "Bookworm" release...

openSUSE Tumbleweed Sets Great Example With x86-64-v3 HWCAPS

Phoronix - Mon, 03/06/2023 - 21:38
The rolling-release openSUSE Tumbleweed recently began rolling out optional x86-64-v3 optimized packages for those on roughly Intel Haswell or newer systems and wanting to squeeze out maximum performance from their hardware. The selection of x86-64-v3 packages built by openSUSE Tumbleweed is currently rather limited, but hopefully this major Linux distribution joining the HWCAPS party will lead other Linux distributions to follow suit...

Intel Continues With More Big-Time Optimizations To The Linux Kernel

Phoronix - Mon, 03/06/2023 - 20:21
I love Linux kernel patches that mention "massively", use exclamation points when talking about performance, and/or simply mention big speed-ups. Quite often such patches come out of Intel and last week they sent out another great performance optimization patch series to improve additional low-level bits of the kernel...

Asahi AGX Mesa Driver Prepares For Compute Kernels On Apple Silicon

Phoronix - Mon, 03/06/2023 - 19:53
The Asahi "AGX" Gallium3D driver providing open-source OpenGL driver support for Apple M1/M2 graphics hardware has seen preliminary work merged into Mesa 23.1 for supporting compute shaders/kernels...

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