Open-source News

RHEL9 Raises Base Target For x86_64 CPUs Plus Possible Optimized Libraries With glibc-hwcaps

Phoronix - Tue, 01/05/2021 - 19:26
As we reported almost one year ago, Red Hat was looking at likely dropping older x86_64 CPU support from Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9 and we now have a better idea of their plans in catering RHEL9 better to modern processors...

Radeon Linux Drivers Now Only Officially Support Smart Access Memory On Zen 3 + RDNA2

Phoronix - Tue, 01/05/2021 - 19:05
While many Linux users were excited when finding out the open-source AMD Radeon Linux drivers were allowing Smart Access Memory (Resizable BAR) support on older motherboards/CPUs and older Radeon GPUs rather than basically the very latest AMD products as seen on Windows, there is a change of course due to bugs. Now, officially, Mesa 21.0 is just enabling Smart Access Memory for systems with AMD Zen 3 processors and RDNA 2 graphics cards though if you have other hardware you can force-enable it...

Lutris 0.5.8.2 Linux Game Manager Brings Wayland Improvements, Other Additions

Phoronix - Tue, 01/05/2021 - 18:48
Lutris as the open-source Linux game manager that makes it easy to install Wine game as well as various emulator games, Steam titles, and more, is out with an interesting update to kick off the new year...

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