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Proton 6.3-8 Released With More Windows Games Playable, Support For Some BattlEye Games

Phoronix - Thu, 11/25/2021 - 08:25
It's been almost two months since Proton 6.3-7 released and two weeks since 6.3-8 RC while this evening that Proton 6.3-8 stable release is out for empowering Valve's Steam Play in running Windows games on Linux...

Intel Posts New Iteration Of Key Locker Support For Linux

Phoronix - Thu, 11/25/2021 - 04:46
With Intel Tiger Lake mobile processors introduced last year there has been good open-source support going back to launch, but a few of the more niche features have seen slower than normal handling for getting the features supported by the upstream Linux kernel. The latest patch series being revived now is for Intel Key Locker support...

Alpine Linux 3.15 Released - Builds Off Linux 5.15, Drops MIPS64, SimpleDRM For FB

Phoronix - Thu, 11/25/2021 - 02:38
Alpine Linux 3.15 is out today as the newest feature update to this lightweight/embedded/containers focused Linux distribution known for its musl+Busybox usage along with OpenRC as the init system...

AMD P-State v4 Linux Testing On A Ryzen 5 5500U

Phoronix - Wed, 11/24/2021 - 22:15
With AMD having published a new revision to their AMD P-State Linux CPU frequency scaling driver that they are working towards mainlining with a goal of better power efficiency on Linux, here are some initial benchmarks of that new patch series when using a Ryzen 5 5500U notebook.

Blender 3.0's Cycles X Rendering Performance Is Looking Great

Phoronix - Wed, 11/24/2021 - 19:23
A status update on Blender's "Cycles X" project was published today ahead of the upcoming Blender 3.0 release and with already some feature additions planned for Blender 3.1...

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