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RADV vs. AMDVLK Radeon Vulkan Ray-Tracing Performance For Mid-2024

Phoronix - Wed, 07/17/2024 - 23:50
Last week with delivering a number of AMD vs. NVIDIA Vulkan ray-tracing benchmarks under Linux with the current drivers and using the new "Breaking Limit" benchmark, the question was raised how well does AMD's official "AMDVLK" Vulkan driver handle ray-tracing these days compared to the more popular Mesa RADV Vulkan driver used commonly by Linux gamers and as the default driver on most Linux distributions. Here is a fresh look at the RADV versus AMDVLK Vulkan performance on Linux with a focus on ray-tracing performance.

AMD Core Performance Boost & Fast CPPC Land In Linux 6.11, Intel Lunar Lake Improvements

Phoronix - Wed, 07/17/2024 - 21:55
The power management updates have been merged for Linux 6.11 that include some nice improvements for Intel and AMD processors...

spectre_bhi=vmexit Mitigation Merged For Linux 6.11 Cloud Use

Phoronix - Wed, 07/17/2024 - 20:41
The "x86/bugs" code has been merged for the Linux 6.11 kernel that is just three patches this go around but includes a new Spectre BHI mitigation option...

Linux 6.11 EFI Will Fake That It's Booting Apple macOS To Fix Some Dual-GPU Macs

Phoronix - Wed, 07/17/2024 - 18:40
The EFI changes have been merged for the in-development Linux 6.11 kernel. Notable this cycle on the EFI side is removing support for EFI fake memory maps and then a workaround to get dual GPU support working for some of the older x86-based Apple MacBook Pros by pretending that Apple macOS is booting rather than Linux...

Linux 6.11 Sees New Wired & Wireless Networking Hardware Support

Phoronix - Wed, 07/17/2024 - 18:33
The networking subsystem updates have landed for the Linux 6.11 kernel with support for a variety of new wireless and wired networking hardware...

Raspberry Pi "PiSP" Driver Landing Upstream For Raspberry Pi 5 Camera System

Phoronix - Wed, 07/17/2024 - 18:14
All of the media subsystem feature updates for the in-development Linux 6.11 kernel were sent out overnight. Arguably most notable with the media driver changes for the new kernel is introducing the Raspberry Pi "PiSP" driver for the image signal processor (ISP) found with the Raspberry Pi 5 for powering its camera system...

How to Install .NET SDK and .NET Runtime on Ubuntu

Tecmint - Wed, 07/17/2024 - 17:06
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The .NET platform is a powerful framework developed by Microsoft for building and running applications on various platforms, including Linux.

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LibreChat: Your Free, Private Chat Platform with AI Assistant

Tecmint - Wed, 07/17/2024 - 15:09
The post LibreChat: Your Free, Private Chat Platform with AI Assistant first appeared on Tecmint: Linux Howtos, Tutorials & Guides .

LibreChat is a free, open-source AI chat platform that allows users to interact with multiple AI models through a single

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