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Red Hat / Fedora Anaconda Installer Shifting To A Web Based UI

Phoronix - Wed, 01/12/2022 - 03:00
The Red Hat / Fedora Anaconda installer for carrying out new operating system installs is in the early stages of a major rewrite to its user-interface and moving forward will be web-based...

PCIe 6.0 Specification Released With 64 GT/s Transfer Speeds

Phoronix - Wed, 01/12/2022 - 02:42
While PCIe 5.0 adoption is only in its infancy, the PCI-SIG today announced the PCIe 6.0 specification...

NVIDIA 510.39.01 Linux Beta Brings Vulkan Dynamic Rendering, AV1 VDPAU Decode & More

Phoronix - Tue, 01/11/2022 - 23:00
In addition to announcing the GeForce RTX 3080 12GB graphics card this morning, NVIDIA has published their first public beta of the new NVIDIA 510 Linux driver series...

Radeon RADV Optimizations In Mesa 22.0 Improve PRIME/Hybrid GPU Performance

Phoronix - Tue, 01/11/2022 - 22:15
While RADV is not AMD's official Radeon Vulkan driver for Linux systems, for Mesa 22.0 they have contributed a set of optimizations to improve the "DRI_PRIME" performance for hybrid GPU setups such as the growing number of AMD powered notebooks with discrete graphics...

DXVK 1.9.3 Released With NVIDIA DLSS Integration, Many Game Fixes

Phoronix - Tue, 01/11/2022 - 20:48
DXVK 1.9.3 is out as its first release of 2022 for implementing Direct3D 9/10/11 over Vulkan for allowing Windows games to enjoy good performance when running atop Linux via Valve's Steam Play...

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