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Intel Meteor Lake Arc Graphics: A Fantastic Upgrade, Battles AMD RDNA3 Integrated Graphics

Phoronix - Wed, 12/20/2023 - 23:00
Yesterday I posted the first Intel Meteor Lake Linux benchmarks that were focused on the CPU capabilities with the Intel Core Ultra 7 155H on Ubuntu Linux compared to the existing AMD Ryzen 7 7840U. The strictly CPU core performance ended up being rather disappointing with the AMD Zen 4 laptop dominating in most cases at similar or better power efficiency. But where things become much more interesting -- and competitive -- with Meteor Lake is on the integrated graphics side now featuring Arc Graphics. The benchmarks today is our first look at the new Meteor Lake Arc Graphics with the Core 7 Ultra 155H while comparing it to the RDNA3 integrated graphics found with the AMD Ryzen 7 7840U as well as the prior generation Intel integrated graphics.

Qt 6.7 Beta Released With Variable Font Support & QRhiWidget Class

Phoronix - Wed, 12/20/2023 - 21:58
The first beta of the Qt 6.7 toolkit is now available for some holiday-time testing...

Acer Aspire 1 ARM Laptop Has Nearly Complete Upstream Linux Support

Phoronix - Wed, 12/20/2023 - 20:00
With patches pending for creating an Acer Aspire 1 embedded controller driver, this Qualcomm Snapdragon powered ARM laptop has "almost full support" with the upstream Linux kernel...

Ikey Doherty's Serpent OS Continues Building Up Its Rust Infrastructure

Phoronix - Wed, 12/20/2023 - 18:42
Ikey Doherty who is known for his work starting Solus Linus as well as the Budgie desktop while also formerly working on Intel's Clear Linux and other open-source software contributions has most recently been working on his newest endeavour: Serpent OS. A end-of-year development summary has now been posted that outlines the latest work on this Linux distribution...

QEMU 8.2 Released With New VirtIO-Sound & VirtIO-GPU "Rutabaga" Devices

Phoronix - Wed, 12/20/2023 - 18:16
QEMU 8.2 has been released as the newest update for this open-source processor emulator that plays an important role within the open-source Linux virtualization stack...

Sound Open Firmware 2.8 Released With New Intel & AMD Bits

Phoronix - Wed, 12/20/2023 - 17:57
A new version of Sound Open Firmware is now available for this open-source audio DSP firmware and development tools. For what began as an Intel open-source project for open-source sound firmware is now seeing ongoing adoption by AMD, MediaTek, and other vendors. Sound Open Firmware 2.8 has been released ahead of the holidays...

How to Check a Particular Package is Installed on Linux

Tecmint - Wed, 12/20/2023 - 14:00
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In Linux, software package management plays a crucial role in the seamless operation of a system that involves the installation, upgrading, configuration, and removal of

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