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Lenovo Flex 5G / Qualcomm SC8180x Support Being Worked On For Mainline Linux

Phoronix - Sat, 03/25/2023 - 20:50
In addition to the mainline Linux kernel seeing recent support for the Arm-powered Lenovo ThinkPad X13s and Lenovo Yoga C630, among others, another Lenovo model working toward mainline kernel support is the Lenovo Flex 5G...

Microsoft's CBL-Mariner Linux Distribution Continues Cultivating More Packages

Phoronix - Sat, 03/25/2023 - 19:17
Microsoft's in-house Linux distribution that they make public, CBL-Mariner, began with a very niche focus while over time has continued adding additional packages as it is worked into becoming a more robust Linux platform...

MidnightBSD 3.0 Available With Many Software Updates & Fixes

Phoronix - Sat, 03/25/2023 - 18:53
MidnightBSD as the desktop-focused OS forked from FreeBSD and relying on the Xfce desktop environment by default is out with its big MidnightBSD 3.0 update...

AMD Sends Out Patches For Enabling New Graphics IP Blocks (NBIO 7.9, GMC 9.4.3)

Phoronix - Sat, 03/25/2023 - 18:25
AMD on Friday sent out new patches for enabling some new graphics IP "blocks" as part of their block-by-block enablement strategy they've been using to introduce new GPU support to their Linux graphics stack by focusing on smaller patch series with versioned parts of the GPU rather than big monolithic patch series with colorful fishy codenames...

Intel XeSS SDK 1.1 Released

Phoronix - Sat, 03/25/2023 - 01:28
The Intel XeSS SDK 1.0 release happened last September while now has been succeeded by XeSS SDK 1.1. Though like the prior release, the XeSS SDK isn't fully open-source with just the bits around game integration being public...

AMD FidelityFX Super Resolution 3 "FSR 3" Will Be Open-Source

Phoronix - Fri, 03/24/2023 - 22:48
AMD has been teasing FidelityFX Super Resolution 3 (FSR3) as the latest version of their game upscaling tech that will be released later in the year. AMD began showing off FSR 3 to game developers this week at GDC while also re-affirming their open-source commitment...

Wine's VKD3D 1.7 Implements More Direct3D 12 Functionality Atop Vulkan

Phoronix - Fri, 03/24/2023 - 22:15
Not to be confused with Valve's downstream, VKD3D-Proton, that is used by Steam Play but Wine's VKD3D codebase itself is out today with a new version of this Direct3D 12 on Vulkan implementation...

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