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Early Progress Made On Porting Radeon Vulkan Driver To BeOS-Inspired Haiku OS

Phoronix - Tue, 10/19/2021 - 12:00
After successfully getting Mesa's software-based Lavapipe Vulkan implementation building on Haiku last month along with related Mesa code for headless support, a developer independent of AMD has started work on porting the Mesa Radeon Vulkan driver "RADV" to Haiku...

Ubuntu 22.04 LTS "Jammy Jellyfish" Begins Development

Phoronix - Tue, 10/19/2021 - 04:00
Canonical today formally opened the "Jammy" archive for development for what will be the next version of Ubuntu, 22.04 LTS "Jammy Jellyfish"...

Apple Announces The M1 Pro / M1 Max, Asahi Linux Starts Eyeing Their Bring-Up

Phoronix - Tue, 10/19/2021 - 02:30
Apple today announced the M1 Pro and M1 Max as their most powerful SoCs ever built by the company. The new chips feature up to a 10-core processor, 32-core GPU, and up to 64GB of unified memory...

Valve Launches "Steam Deck Verified" Program For Games That Run Well On The Steam Deck

Phoronix - Tue, 10/19/2021 - 02:15
Valve is introducing a Steam Deck Verified system for helping gamers find out what games have been verified to work well on their forthcoming AMD+Linux-powered handheld game console...

VKD3D-Proton 2.5 Released With Experimental DXR 1.1, More Games working

Phoronix - Tue, 10/19/2021 - 00:04
VKD3D-Proton as Valve's Direct3D 12 over Vulkan implementation for Steam Play's Proton is out with a big feature update...

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