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LACT Is The Newest AMD Radeon GUI Control Panel For Linux

Phoronix - Fri, 11/24/2023 - 19:57
While the open-source AMD Radeon Linux graphics driver is well received by the community, one of the longest sought features has been an official GUI control panel for managing the driver settings and the like under Linux with ease. AMD for their part exposes much of the same tunables available under Windows but is left to just command-line controls or software to poke different ioctls directly. LACT is now the newest open-source option for those wanting an AMD graphics driver control panel for Linux...

Atomic Async Page Flips Expected To Land For Linux 6.8

Phoronix - Fri, 11/24/2023 - 19:27
Following yesterday's week drm-misc-next pull that added the new Imagination PowerVRM DRM driver, the three patches for atomic DRM_MODE_PAGE_FLIP_ASYNC were queued into drm-misc-next. Now that this atomic async page flip support is in drm-misc-next, next week it should appear in DRM-Next and in turn make it for the Linux 6.8 kernel in the new year...

GIMP 3.0 Is Hoping To Release In May

Phoronix - Fri, 11/24/2023 - 19:03
GIMP 3.0 could be finally released in a few months if all goes very well...

Real-Time "RT" Patches Updated Against Current Linux 6.7 Development

Phoronix - Fri, 11/24/2023 - 18:42
Released on Thursday were the Linux v6.7-rc2-rt1 real-time "PREEMPT_RT" patches that now re-bases the RT patches against the in-development Linux 6.7 kernel series...

Eclipse OpenJ9 0.41 Released With OpenSSL 3.x Support & Performance Improvements

Phoronix - Fri, 11/24/2023 - 17:17
Eclipse OpenJ9 v0.41 debuted this week as the newest version of this OpenJDK JVM focused on a small footprint and fast performance...

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