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The Best Linux 6.2 Features From Intel Arc Graphics To Better Performance For Older PCs

Phoronix - Sat, 02/18/2023 - 00:18
This weekend the Linux 6.2 kernel will be released as stable. As it's been two months already since I published the Linux 6.2 feature overview following the closure of the v6.2 merge window, here is a reminder of what makes Linux 6.2 a really exciting kernel update...

Nouveau Kernel Driver Patches Updated For Supporting Vulkan Features

Phoronix - Fri, 02/17/2023 - 23:51
In addition to Nouveau developers at Red Hat working on NVIDIA GPU System Processor (GSP) support to ease their kernel driver development and ideally leading to quicker upstream hardware support and finally tackling power management / re-clocking for newer GPUs, another important area on the open-source kernel driver side has been about re-architecting certain interfaces to be able to better support features for the Vulkan API...

Ubuntu Making Progress On The Lenovo ThinkPad X13s Arm Laptop Support

Phoronix - Fri, 02/17/2023 - 22:12
The Lenovo ThinkPad X13s is one of the most interesting Arm-powered laptops at the moment with this laptop powered by a Qualcomm Snapdragon 8cx Gen 3 SoC, 13.3-inch 1920 x 1200 display, up to 32GB of RAM, up to 28 hour battery life, and current pricing starting below $1k USD. Upstream Linux support has been progressing around the ThinkPad X13s and it looks like Ubuntu has also been making some strides on easily supporting this Arm laptop...

Linux Patches Improve KVM Guest Performance For Hosts Under Memory Pressure

Phoronix - Fri, 02/17/2023 - 20:27
Google engineer Yu Zhao known for his work on MGLRU has published a new patch series today that "significantly improves" the KVM guest performance when the host system is under heavy memory pressure...

Fedora 39 Plots Path For Intel Threaded Building Blocks Upgrade

Phoronix - Fri, 02/17/2023 - 20:08
Intel's Threaded Building Blocks (TBB) has been around for many years while with the recent shift to the oneAPI umbrella as oneTBB, in an effort to improve the usability and simplicity of the API they made a number of changes to its interfaces as well as having removed some previously common interfaces. This has led Fedora Linux to running on an older TBB version the past few years while for Fedora 39 later this year they are planning to modernize their Threaded Building Blocks packaging...

Mesa Adds Compute Shader Decoding For ASTC

Phoronix - Fri, 02/17/2023 - 19:47
The Mesa 23.1 graphics driver code has added support for software-based decoding of Adaptive Scalable Texture Compression (ASTC) textures via compute shaders...

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