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FreeBSD 14.0 Is Delivering Great Performance Uplift & Running Well In Early Tests

Phoronix - Mon, 11/27/2023 - 21:58
Following last week's release of FreeBSD 14.0, I've begun testing out this major FreeBSD operating system update on a number of servers. What's clear so far is the performance being much improved with FreeBSD 14.0 on modern x86_64 Intel/AMD servers over FreeBSD 13.

Mesh/Task Shader Queries Land For RADV With RDNA2, RDNA3 Support On The Way

Phoronix - Mon, 11/27/2023 - 19:55
Thanks to prolific RADV driver developer Samuel Pitoiset of Valve's Linux graphics team, mesh/task shader queries have landed for GFX10.3 (RDNA2) with the in-development Mesa 24.0 while support for GFX11 (RDNA3) graphics cards is on the way...

Qt 6.6.1 Fixes More Than 400 Bugs

Phoronix - Mon, 11/27/2023 - 19:40
Back in October Qt 6.6 released with Qt Graphs being introduced, more robust Wayland support, various render enhancements, and more. Out today is Qt 6.6.1 with more than four hundred bugs resolved...

FreeRDP 3.0 Adding Relative Mouse Movement & Other Improvements

Phoronix - Mon, 11/27/2023 - 19:27
FreeRDP 3.0-rc0 was released this morning as the latest stepping stone toward FreeRDP 3.0 for this open-source implementation of the Microsoft Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP)...

AMDVLK 2023.Q4.2 Vulkan Driver Brings Ray-Tracing & SPIR-V Improvements

Phoronix - Mon, 11/27/2023 - 18:56
It's been just over one month since AMDVLK 2023.Q4.1 and this morning it's been succeeded by a new AMD open-source Vulkan Linux driver release...

Linux 6.7-rc3 Released Following A Light Holiday Week

Phoronix - Mon, 11/27/2023 - 16:50
Linus Torvalds released the third weekly release candidate of the forthcoming Linux 6.7 kernel on Sunday night...

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