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AMDVLK 2022.Q4.4 Released With RX 7900 Series Support

Phoronix - Thu, 12/15/2022 - 21:15
AMD today published the AMDVLK 2022.Q4.4 open-source Vulkan driver that provides Navi 31 GPU support for this week's launch of the Radeon RX 7900 XT / RX 7900 XTX graphics cards...

Experimental RADV Vulkan Video Gets H.264 & H.265 Decode Working

Phoronix - Thu, 12/15/2022 - 20:00
Interest and support around Vulkan Video for adding GPU-accelerated video encode/decode to the Vulkan API has been (sadly) rather slow. But at least the Mesa Radeon Vulkan driver "RADV" has seen some new work around enabling H.264 and H.265 video decoding over Vulkan Video...

Xfce 4.18 Released - Much Improved File Manager, Better HiDPI, Adaptive Vsync With GLX

Phoronix - Thu, 12/15/2022 - 19:12
After nearly two years of development the Xfce 4.18 desktop environment was released today with a wide assortment of improvements...

QEMU 7.2 Released With TCG AVX/AVX2, Better 9pfs Performance

Phoronix - Thu, 12/15/2022 - 18:55
The QEMU open-source emulator that plays an important role in the Linux virtualization stack is out with its version 7.2 release ahead of the Christmas holidays...

AArch64 Architecture Code Improvements Land In Linux 6.2

Phoronix - Thu, 12/15/2022 - 18:44
The 64-bit Arm (ARM64 / AArch64) architecture improvements have landed in the Linux 6.2 kernel...

LibreOffice 7.5 Beta Brings Better Dark/High-Contrast Theming, Improved PDF Export

Phoronix - Thu, 12/15/2022 - 18:32
It was just earlier this month that the LibreOffice 7.5 Alpha was released and today it's been succeeded by the LibreOffice 7.5 Beta after landing more than one hundred fixes and more than 350 new commits...

F2FS With Linux 6.2 Lands Atomic Replace, Per-Block Age-Based Extent Cache

Phoronix - Thu, 12/15/2022 - 18:17
Jaegeuk Kim has ushered in the Flash Friendly File-System (F2FS) updates for the in-development Linux 6.2 kernel, which is headlined by two new features for this file-system...

How to Add Linux Host to Nagios Monitoring Server Using NRPE Plugin

Tecmint - Thu, 12/15/2022 - 16:35
The post How to Add Linux Host to Nagios Monitoring Server Using NRPE Plugin first appeared on Tecmint: Linux Howtos, Tutorials & Guides .

In the first part of the Nagios series article, we’ve explained in detail how to install and configure the latest version of Nagios Core and Nagios Plugins in RHEL-based distributions such as CentOS Stream,

The post How to Add Linux Host to Nagios Monitoring Server Using NRPE Plugin first appeared on Tecmint: Linux Howtos, Tutorials & Guides.

Mesa 22.3.1 Released - Led By Intel & Radeon Driver Fixes

Phoronix - Thu, 12/15/2022 - 16:00
For those that prefer waiting for the first Mesa point release in a new series before moving to it, Mesa 22.3 is now on the table with Mesa 22.3.1 having been released on Wednesday...

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