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Ubuntu 20.04.6 LTS Released With Restored UEFI Secure Boot Support

Phoronix - Thu, 03/23/2023 - 22:39
Ubuntu 20.04.6 LTS is available today as the newest point release for those continuing to employ this older long-term support releases...

NVIDIA 530.41.03 Linux Driver Released With IBT Kernel Support, Vulkan Video

Phoronix - Thu, 03/23/2023 - 22:10
One month ago NVIDIA released the 530 series Linux driver beta while today it's been promoted to stable with the NVIDIA 530.41.03 driver release...

Mesa 23.1 RADV Gets Vulkan Mesh/Task Shaders Working For AMD RDNA3 GPUs

Phoronix - Thu, 03/23/2023 - 20:56
Thanks to the work of Timur Kristóf on Valve's Linux graphics driver team, the RADV driver in Mesa 23.1 this morning received support for Vulkan mesh and task shaders for Radeon RX 7000 series "RDNA3" graphics processors...

Intel LAM Will Try Again For Linux 6.4

Phoronix - Thu, 03/23/2023 - 20:28
Intel's Linear Address Masking (LAM) functionality to make use of untranslated address bits of 64-bit linear addresses for arbitrary metadata is aiming to be mainlined with the upcoming Linux 6.4 cycle...

Proxmox VE 7.4 Released With Linux 5.15 LTS + Linux 6.2 Support, New Dark Theme

Phoronix - Thu, 03/23/2023 - 20:13
Out today is a new version of the Proxmox Virtual Environment as the hyper-converged infrastructure software with hosted hypervisor...

Zhaoxin Beginning Work Bringing Up "Yongfeng" CPU Support For The Linux Kernel

Phoronix - Thu, 03/23/2023 - 18:30
Chinese fabless semiconductor company Zhaoxin, which was started ten years ago as a joint venture between VIA and the Shanghai Municipal Government to create domestic x86 CPUs, is now in the process of working on supporting their newest Yongfeng processors with the Linux kernel...

MoltenVK 1.2.3 Released For Continuing To Enhance Vulkan Atop iOS/macOS

Phoronix - Thu, 03/23/2023 - 18:13
A new version of MoltenVK has been released, the open-source library that maps the Vulkan API atop Apple's Metal API for making use of this industry standard graphics/compute API on modern iOS and macOS devices...

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