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Apple Magic Mouse 2, Microsoft SAM Support Added For Linux 5.13

Phoronix - Fri, 04/30/2021 - 08:31
When it comes to Apple hardware support in the Linux 5.13 kernel not only is support for the Apple M1 SoCs added but the Magic Mouse 2 is also finally being supported in full by the mainline kernel. Plus there are other various interesting HID subsystem updates too this kernel cycle...

Total War: Rome Remastered Released For Linux

Phoronix - Fri, 04/30/2021 - 08:13
The previously announced Total War: Rome Remastered that was announced by Feral Interactive is now released...

QEMU 6.0 Released With AMD SEV-ES Encrypted Guest Support, Experimental Multi-Process

Phoronix - Fri, 04/30/2021 - 04:40
QEMU 6.0 is out today as the newest feature release for this processor/machine emulator and virtualizer that serves as an important part of the open-source Linux virtualization stack...

Ubuntu 21.04 - X.Org vs. Wayland Linux Gaming Performance

Phoronix - Fri, 04/30/2021 - 02:30
One of the most significant underlying changes with the recent release of Ubuntu 21.04 is the default GNOME Shell desktop environment is running the Wayland-based session by default rather than the traditional X.Org Server session. But what does this mean for the Linux gaming performance on Ubuntu 21.04? Here are some (X)Wayland vs. X.Org benchmarks.

CuPy 9.0 Brings AMD GPU Support To This Numpy-Compatible Library

Phoronix - Fri, 04/30/2021 - 01:05
In recent months there has finally been more open-source projects traditionally focused on NVIDIA GPU compute beginning to offer mainline Radeon support using the open-source ROCm stack. Following the recent PyTorch 1.8 with ROCm support, CuPy 9.0 was released last week with that traditionally CUDA focused library now supporting AMD's ROCm stack...

NVIDIA 465.27 Linux Driver Brings Expanded Laptop GPU Support

Phoronix - Thu, 04/29/2021 - 21:52
NVIDIA today released their 465.27 Linux driver as the newest stable build in this current driver series...

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