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Fedora Linux 36 Beta Now Available For Testing

Phoronix - Tue, 03/29/2022 - 21:30
After a slight delay the Fedora 36 beta images are officially available today...

Vulkan 1.3.210 Released With Two Notable Extensions

Phoronix - Tue, 03/29/2022 - 21:10
Vulkan 1.3.210 is out today with various specification corrections/clarifications but also two notable extensions...

NVIDIA Launches The GeForce RTX 3090 Ti For $1999+ USD

Phoronix - Tue, 03/29/2022 - 21:00
As expected and following months of rumors and leaks, NVIDIA today formally unveiled the GeForce RTX 3090 Ti as their newest flagship graphics card...

An Early Look At The Ubuntu 22.04 LTS Performance On AMD Ryzen 9 5950X + RX 6800

Phoronix - Tue, 03/29/2022 - 20:00
With Ubuntu 22.04 LTS "Jammy Jellyfish" less than one month out from release, I have begun testing it on more desktop and server platforms ahead of release. Ubuntu 22.04 LTS overall is in nice shape. On current generation platforms I am not seeing much uplift compared to Ubuntu 21.10 but for those still making use of the Ubuntu 20.04 LTS series with its older compiler and other older packages, Ubuntu 22.04 LTS is providing some uplift. Here is a look at Ubuntu 20.04.4 vs. 21.10 vs. 22.04 daily on an AMD Ryzen 9 5950X desktop.

Intel Prepares Linux For ATS-M No-Display Server GPUs

Phoronix - Tue, 03/29/2022 - 18:08
Earlier this year with the Intel Media Driver 22 there was enablement of "ATS-M" with references to "Arctic Sound Mainstream" . Now the Linux kernel patches have arrived with the changes needed on their end for this DG2-based discrete GPU that now sums up ATS-M as a display-less GPU for servers...

AMD Starts Working On New Sound Code For Upcoming Platforms With Linux 5.18

Phoronix - Tue, 03/29/2022 - 17:50
The sound subsystem updates were sent in last week for the ongoing Linux 5.18 merge window. There is a lot of new audio hardware enablement and other improvements to find with this sound pull for the new kernel...

Linux 5.18 Switches From Zero Length Arrays To Flexible Array Members

Phoronix - Tue, 03/29/2022 - 17:19
Back in 2020 the Linux kernel tried adding flexible array members to replace zero length arrays but that time the code was reverted shortly thereafter. For Linux 5.18 the tree-wide change of replacing zero length arrays with C99 flexible array members was merged and appears to be all in good shape this time...

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