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ASRock Industrial Partners With Canonical For Ubuntu-Certified Devices

Phoronix - Wed, 01/11/2023 - 22:00
ASRock Industrial, the independent company spun out of ASRock that is focused on industrial computers, edge systems, hardware for retail environments, has now partnered with Canonical to begin offering certified devices for Ubuntu Linux...

Open-Source RADV Driver Adds Radeon Memory Visualizer Support

Phoronix - Wed, 01/11/2023 - 19:39
A six month old merge request to Mesa was finally merged today for enabling Radeon Memory Visualizer (RMV) support with the Radeon "RADV" Vulkan driver...

DragonFlyBSD's HAMMER2 File-System Being Ported To NetBSD

Phoronix - Wed, 01/11/2023 - 19:26
NetBSD continues using the FFS file-system by default while it's offered ZFS support that has been slowly improving -- in NetBSD-CURRENT is the ability to use ZFS as the root file-system if first booting to FFS, for example. There may be another modern file-system option soon with an effort underway to port DragonFlyBSD's HAMMER2 over to NetBSD...

Open-Source NVIDIA Vulkan Driver "NVK" Begins Running Talos Principle... Slowly

Phoronix - Wed, 01/11/2023 - 18:59
The NVK open-source Vulkan driver for NVIDIA GPUs that has seen a lot of progress over the past year is now able to run some games like The Talos Principle, which was the launch title for Vulkan 1.0. While the NVK driver is correctly rendering, it's still slow until the kernel driver side is sorted out with re-clocking...

Chrome 109 Released With New CSS Features, MathML Core, CHIPS

Phoronix - Wed, 01/11/2023 - 18:46
Google on Tuesday released their first post-holidays update to the cross-platform Chrome web browser...

Python 3.12 Alpha 4 Released For Testing

Phoronix - Wed, 01/11/2023 - 18:02
While many haven't even moved yet to the very speedy Python 3.11 that was released back in October, for those wanting to do some bleeding-edge testing the fourth alpha of Python 3.12 is already out...

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