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Valve Revises Steam Survey Results For December - Still Pointing Down For Linux

Phoronix - Tue, 01/03/2023 - 08:58
Yesterday Valve published their Steam Survey results for December and pointed to some really odd discrepancies. Valve this evening has revised the Steam Survey results that address some of the statistics oddities but still points to the Linux gaming marketshare as a percent regressing during the past month and also the Steam Deck usage declining relative to the overall Linux gaming base...

GNU Debugger "GDB" Adds Support For Microsoft's Debug Adapter Protocol

Phoronix - Tue, 01/03/2023 - 03:45
Merged today to the GNU Debugger (GDB) is initial support for the Debug Adapter Protocol (DAP) that is a JSON-RPC interface for use by integrated development environments (IDEs) to better communicate with debuggers...

NVIDIA Gaming/GPU Performance: Windows 11 vs. Ubuntu Linux Benchmarks

Phoronix - Tue, 01/03/2023 - 00:20
Last week was a fresh look at the AMD Radeon graphics/gaming performance between Windows and Linux using the very latest drivers. Today the testing wrapped up from some holiday benchmarking looking at the NVIDIA GeForce performance under Windows 11 and Ubuntu 22.10 Linux for how the drivers on both operating systems are currently competing.

The Old Radeon "R600" Open-Source Gallium3D Driver Now Enables SPIR-V

Phoronix - Mon, 01/02/2023 - 23:13
The open-source R600 Gallium3D driver for supporting up through the Radeon HD 6000 series graphics cards on Linux has an interesting new year addition... ARB_gl_spirv!..

Ubuntu's New Installer Taking Shape Nicely For Ubuntu 23.04

Phoronix - Mon, 01/02/2023 - 22:54
A new Ubuntu desktop installer has been talked about going back many years and over the past two years has been focused on providing a rewritten installer making use of Subiquity and Flutter. With Ubuntu 23.04 "Lunar Lobster" in April that new desktop installer is poised to finally be used by default...

GNU Binutils 2.40 Branched With Zstd Support, Zen 4, New Intel Instructions

Phoronix - Mon, 01/02/2023 - 19:58
With the start of the new year also came the branching of GNU Binutils 2.40 ahead of its expected stable release around early February...

Dragonfly 0.13 Database Adds Experimental SSD-Based Data Tiering, More SIMD Work

Phoronix - Mon, 01/02/2023 - 19:25
Dragonfly, the open-source project that advertises itself as "Probably, the fastest in-memory store in the universe!" as a high speed in-memory database that is compatible with the Memcached and Redis APIs has out a big release to kick off 2023...

How to Learn dd Command in Linux [15 Useful Examples]

Tecmint - Mon, 01/02/2023 - 16:54
The post How to Learn dd Command in Linux [15 Useful Examples] first appeared on Tecmint: Linux Howtos, Tutorials & Guides .

Brief: In this advanced guide, we will discuss some practical examples of the dd command. After following this guide, advanced users will be able to work with the block devices comfortably from the command

The post How to Learn dd Command in Linux [15 Useful Examples] first appeared on Tecmint: Linux Howtos, Tutorials & Guides.

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