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Ubuntu Maker Canonical Planning To Vastly Improve Its Documentation

Phoronix - Wed, 11/17/2021 - 22:00
Back in the day Ubuntu's Wiki was a great resource for Linux documentation but less so these days while the Arch Linux Wiki is often viewed as a gold standard for open-source documentation. Canonical though is now hoping to radically improve the documentation for Ubuntu and its other software offerings...

Copper Aims To Improve Mesa's Zink Efficiency In 2022

Phoronix - Wed, 11/17/2021 - 21:32
Following the news from last week of experimental Zink code running Wayland's Weston compositor over this Mesa-based OpenGL-on-Vulkan implementation, developer Mike Blumenkrantz has opened up about some of the ongoing work to improve the efficiency of Zink and making such advancements a reality...

Linux 5.17 To Support Temperature Monitoring For New AMD Zen Generation

Phoronix - Wed, 11/17/2021 - 19:07
The Linux 5.17 kernel next year will support temperature monitoring for a "new generation" of AMD Zen processors...

NVIDIA Looks To Improve Power Management For Linux VFIO PCIe Devices

Phoronix - Wed, 11/17/2021 - 18:50
NVIDIA is looking to enable run-time power management for the VFIO PCI Linux driver to allow for better power-savings...

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