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Most Common Network Port Numbers for Linux

Tecmint - Fri, 09/23/2022 - 12:22
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In computing, and more so, TCP/IP and UDP networks, a port is a logical address that is usually assigned to a specific service or running application on a computer. It is a connection endpoint

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Mesa 22.3 Merges The Big Draw Throughput Improvement For Intel's Vulkan Driver

Phoronix - Fri, 09/23/2022 - 05:00
From two weeks back you may recall the small patches that led to increasing Intel's Vulkan driver draw throughput by ~60%+. Well, as of yesterday the refined version of that work has landed within Mesa 22.3...

Wayland's Weston 11.0 Released With HDR Display & Multi-GPU Preparations

Phoronix - Fri, 09/23/2022 - 00:30
Weston, the reference compositor to Wayland, is out today with a big feature update. Most exciting is preparation work for better supporting HDR monitors moving forward as well as preparing for multi-GPU and multi-back-end use-cases...

Blender 3.3 AMD Radeon HIP vs. NVIDIA CUDA/OptiX Performance

Phoronix - Thu, 09/22/2022 - 23:40
Earlier this month Blender 3.3 released and in addition to introducing an Intel oneAPI back-end, it's notable for bringing improvements to the AMD HIP back-end for Radeon GPUs. Significant on the AMD side is extending GPU support back to GFX9/Vega. Thus it's a good time for a fresh round of benchmarking for showing how the AMD Radeon HIP performance against that of NVIDIA's existing CUDA and OptiX back-ends.

Fwupd 1.8.5 Supports More USB4 Docks, New AMD SMU Firmware Version Plugin

Phoronix - Thu, 09/22/2022 - 22:23
Fwupd 1.8.5 is out today for continuing to improve the firmware updating experience on Linux systems in conjunction with the Linux Vendor Firmware Service (LVFS)...

Intel Gallium3D "Iris" Driver Changes Merged For Rusticl's OpenCL 3.0

Phoronix - Thu, 09/22/2022 - 18:48
While Intel's Compute-Runtime stack is fully open-source and already provides OpenCL 3.0 support for recent generations of Intel graphics under Linux, it looks like the recently-merged "Rusticl" Rust OpenCL implementation in Mesa will soon be working too on Intel graphics hardware as an alternative OpenCL 3.0 implementation...

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