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Steam For Chromebooks Reaches Beta With Initial DX12 Games, AMD C-Series Support

Phoronix - Fri, 11/04/2022 - 00:45
Next week already marks ten years since Valve made public their Steam on Linux beta builds while today Google has advanced Steam on ChromeOS / Chromebooks to beta. Back in March Google formally announced Steam for Chrome OS and began with alpha support for select devices. Today that support has reached beta with new device support, new features, and other improvements...

BlkSnap Kernel Patches Posted For Creating Snapshots Of Linux Block Devices

Phoronix - Thu, 11/03/2022 - 23:49
A set of patches were posted on Wednesdasy for "blksnap", a proposed kernel driver to allow creating non-persistent snapshots of arbitrary kernel block devices. Among the possible uses with blksnap would be for creating backups at the block storage device level...

Vulkan 1.3.233 Released With Three New NVIDIA Extensions

Phoronix - Thu, 11/03/2022 - 20:00
Vulkan 1.3.233 is out as the latest weekly spec update to this high performance graphics and compute API. With Vulkan 1.3.233 comes three new NVIDIA-developed vendor extensions...

Rust UEFI Firmware Targets Promoted To Tier-2 Status

Phoronix - Thu, 11/03/2022 - 19:10
Back in September was a proposal to promote Rust's UEFI firmware targets to tier-2. With the current tier-3 designation the Rust UEFI targets they currently lack continuous integration (CI) guarantees and official builds in the Rust release channels, which means users wanting to use Rust for targeting the UEFI binaries need to rely on nightly/unstable compiler builds...

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