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NVIDIA 470.62.12 Vulkan Beta Driver For Linux Updates Video Support

Phoronix - Thu, 11/18/2021 - 07:52
NVIDIA today released their latest Vulkan beta drivers for Windows and Linux...

Mesa 21.3 Released With Radeon RADV Ray-Tracing, Much Better Zink

Phoronix - Thu, 11/18/2021 - 04:57
Mesa 21.3 is now out as the latest quarterly feature release to this collection of open-source graphics drivers...

Linux 5.17 To Continue With I/O Optimizations, 5~6% Improvement Pending For NVMe

Phoronix - Thu, 11/18/2021 - 04:23
The recently-ended Linux 5.16 merge window saw significant I/O improvements driven primarily by maintainer Jens Axboe's recent focus on relentlessly optimizing the block and IO_uring code for record-setting per-core IOPS. As good as those improvements are, Linux 5.17 should be even better...

Intel Developing Universal Scalable Firmware As Next-Gen Firmware Platform

Phoronix - Thu, 11/18/2021 - 02:55
Intel passed along news today of their development efforts around Universal Scalable Firmware, a new initiative they are pursuing to simplify and scale firmware development for hardware from edge computing devices to the cloud...

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