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6 Useful Tools to Remember Linux Commands Forever

Tecmint - Mon, 06/26/2023 - 12:35
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There are thousands of tools, utilities, and programs that come pre-installed on a Linux system. You can run them from a terminal window or virtual

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Linux 6.4 Released With Early Apple M2 Code, More WiFi 7, AMD Guided Autonomous Mode

Phoronix - Mon, 06/26/2023 - 07:38
As expected Linux 6.4 is out today as stable as an on-time release following a relatively quiet cycle the past two months...

Mesa's Rusticl Lands Experimental FP16 OpenCL Support

Phoronix - Mon, 06/26/2023 - 01:25
Mesa's Rust-written OpenCL implementation Rusticl for Gallium3D drivers has now added experimental FP16 to its feature set...

Linux 6.5 Features Expected: Parallel CPU Bring-Up, Intel Shadow Stack, MIDI 2.0 & More

Phoronix - Sun, 06/25/2023 - 21:28
With Linux 6.4 expected for release today the Linux 6.5 merge window will then open. From my close monitoring of the many "-next" Git development branches along with some early pull requests already submitted, here is a look at some of the features that will likely be found in Linux 6.5 barring any last minute issues or objections from Linus Torvalds himself...

Zink's Mike Blumenkrantz Tackling Mesa WSI Inefficiencies

Phoronix - Sun, 06/25/2023 - 18:32
Earlier this month I ran some fresh benchmarks of Zink OpenGL-on-Vulkan against RadeonSI. While Zink in general is already quite speedy and in good shape for most workloads, those tests uncovered some troubled spots and Zink lead developer Mike Blumenkrantz of Valve has been diving into some of those issues with fixes. Another merge request is pending to deal with inefficiencies in the Mesa Vulkan windowing system integration (WSI) code...

Wine-Staging 8.11 Brings Performance Improvements, Registering URL Protocol Handlers

Phoronix - Sun, 06/25/2023 - 18:02
Building off Friday's release of Wine 8.11, Wine-Staging 8.11 is out this Sunday morning with 502 patches atop the upstream Wine code...

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