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How to Migrate CentOS 7 to AlmaLinux 8 Using ELevate Repo

Tecmint - Thu, 04/06/2023 - 14:26
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CentOS 7 reaches the end of life on June 30th, 2024 marking the end of the CentOS Project after CentOS 8 was prematurely discontinued back on December 31st in favor of CentOS Stream. Thankfully,

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Intel Vulkan Driver Squeezes In A Few More Performance Optimizations For Mesa 23.1

Phoronix - Thu, 04/06/2023 - 01:30
Ahead of the Mesa 23.1 branching and feature freeze coming up in the next week or two, Intel's open-source graphics driver developers have been landing some last minute performance optimizations to benefit their "ANV" Vulkan driver...

HP WMI Driver To Expose More Sensors Under Linux For Business-Class Systems

Phoronix - Thu, 04/06/2023 - 00:30
A patch was posted this week introducing a new "hp-wmi-sensors" Linux kernel driver for HP business-class computers for exposing WMI sensor functionality...

AMD Ryzen 7 7800X3D Linux Performance

Phoronix - Wed, 04/05/2023 - 21:00
While the AMD Ryzen 9 7950X3D and Ryzen 9 7900X3D processors went on sale at the end of February as the first Zen 4 3D V-Cache processors, today marks the availability of the Ryzen 7 7800X3D processor. I've recently been putting the 7800X3D through its paces under Linux and have a plethora of benchmark data to share for launch day.

GTK 4.11.1 Released With Better Textures, Wayland Fractional Scaling

Phoronix - Wed, 04/05/2023 - 20:27
Following this week's Qt 6.5 LTS and Slint 1.0 Rust toolkit, debuting today is GTK 4.11.1 as the first development release of the new toolkit series in leading up to GTK 4.12...

Ubuntu Talks Up Rust Kernel Programming Potential With Ubuntu 23.04

Phoronix - Wed, 04/05/2023 - 20:00
Ubuntu 23.04 is being talked up for how it can aide developers that want to begin programming with Rust code for Linux kernel modules. It's possible to get started with Rust kernel development on Ubuntu 23.04 thanks to its generic kernel having the necessary kernel configuration, but ultimately it's still in an early state and there isn't much to do with the stock kernel...

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