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AMD To Unveil Next-Gen Server Processors On 10 November

Phoronix - Mon, 10/24/2022 - 22:00
Last week AMD reaffirmed their 3 November announcement for RDNA3 graphics while today the company announced that one week later on 10 November they will be unveiling their next-gen server processors...

Sony Provides Early Linux Support For The PS5 DualSense Edge Controller

Phoronix - Mon, 10/24/2022 - 18:03
Sony recently announced the DualSense Edge wireless controller for the PlayStation 5 as an "ultra-customizable controller". This $199 USD controller isn't even available for sale until the end of January while already Sony has contributed initial support to their "hid-playstation" open-source Linux kernel driver for supporting the DualSense Edge...

Early-Stage Apple Mesa Vulkan Driver Now Runs VKCube Demo

Phoronix - Mon, 10/24/2022 - 17:32
In addition to Alyssa Rosenzweig leading the work on bringing up OpenGL driver support for Apple M1/M2 SoCs with the Mesa "AGX" Gallium3D driver, developer Ella Stanforth has been working on "AGXV" as a Vulkan driver implementation for the Apple Silicon hardware on Linux. As of yesterday, she hit the milestone of being able to run the VKCube demo...

Apple CPUFreq Driver Updated For Linux - Initial M2 Support Added

Phoronix - Mon, 10/24/2022 - 17:06
Asahi Linux lead developer Hector Martin today sent out the third revision to the Apple SoC CPU frequency scaling "CPUFreq" driver that is working its way toward the mainline Linux kernel...

IceWM 3.1 Released For This Fast & Simple X11 Window Manager

Phoronix - Mon, 10/24/2022 - 16:55
Earlier this month marked the release of IceWM 3.0 as this X11 window manager that has been around since the late 90's. IceWM 3.1 is now available with various fixes and minor additions -- including refinements to the tabbed windows support introduced in IceWM 3.0...

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