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Trying Out Meteor Lake's Arc Graphics With The New Intel Xe Driver Was A Bust

Phoronix - Mon, 12/25/2023 - 19:17
With Linux 6.8 set to introduce the new Intel Xe experimental kernel graphics driver early next year, last week I ran some Xe vs. i915 driver benchmarks on various Intel Arc Graphics discrete GPUs. There's still room for bettering the performance but a nice initial entry into the kernel and easy to test out. For some Christmas weekend benchmarking I was curious to see how well the Xe kernel driver would work on the integrated graphics side with the new Meteor Lake processors...

Intel Arrow Lake Sound Support Ready For Linux 6.8

Phoronix - Mon, 12/25/2023 - 18:52
Along with all of the other ongoing Intel Arrow Lake processor/platform enablement, the upcoming Linux 6.8 kernel will have the sound driver support ready for landing...

Ruby 3.3 Released With New "Prism" Parser & Pure-Ruby JIT Compiler

Phoronix - Mon, 12/25/2023 - 18:41
Out for Christmas is Ruby 3.3 as a big update to this dynamic open-source programming language. With Ruby 3.3 the Prism parser is added as well as a new pure-Ruby just-in-time (JIT) compiler...

How to Disable Bluetooth at Linux Startup

Tecmint - Mon, 12/25/2023 - 15:02
The post How to Disable Bluetooth at Linux Startup first appeared on Tecmint: Linux Howtos, Tutorials & Guides .

In the Linux world, users like to customize their systems for better performance and security. One way to do this is by tweaking the startup

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How to Create a Virtual Machine in Proxmox

Tecmint - Mon, 12/25/2023 - 13:13
The post How to Create a Virtual Machine in Proxmox first appeared on Tecmint: Linux Howtos, Tutorials & Guides .

In the previous tutorial, we demonstrated step-by-step how to install Proxmox on a Debian 12 system. In this second part, we will go a step

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Happy Holidays & A Year End Phoronix Premium Special

Phoronix - Sun, 12/24/2023 - 22:09
Merry Christmas or Happy Holidays to those celebrating any end-of-year holidays. In case you missed last month's cyber week special for a discounted rate on going ad-free, native dark mode, multi-page articles on a single page, and other benefits, it's back for Christmas week...

Fedora 40 Plans To Unify /usr/bin & /usr/sbin

Phoronix - Sun, 12/24/2023 - 21:58
One of the latest change proposals filed for Fedora 40 is to unify their /usr/bin and /usr/sbin locations...

Intel Wires Up Dual-SIMD8 Dispatch For Mesa Drivers

Phoronix - Sun, 12/24/2023 - 19:37
Intel's open-source Linux drivers for OpenGL (Iris) and Vulkan (ANV) this week for Mesa 24.0 received support for dual-SIMD8 dispatch on Gen12 graphics (Tigerlake) and newer...

AMD AXI 1-Wire Host Driver Submitted For Linux 6.8

Phoronix - Sun, 12/24/2023 - 19:26
While the Linux 6.7 release is being pushed back by one week due to the holidays and in turn the Linux 6.8 merge window not officially opening until 8 January, some pull requests do end up getting submitted early. The 1-wire bus driver changes for Linux 6.8 were sent out this week and most notably includes adding the AMD AXI 1-wire host driver...

LoongArch KVM Support Extended To Allow LSX/LASX SIMD Support

Phoronix - Sun, 12/24/2023 - 19:18
With the Linux 6.7 kernel there is now KVM virtualization support for LoongArch CPUs. With the upcoming Linux 6.8 kernel cycle, that KVM support is being further extended for these RISC-V-inspired and MIPS64-derived Chinese processors...

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