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NVIDIA 470.74 Linux Driver Released With Several Fixes

Phoronix - Mon, 09/20/2021 - 21:47
NVIDIA has released their latest 470 series Linux driver point release...

DXVK 1.9.2 Released With More Games In Better Shape

Phoronix - Mon, 09/20/2021 - 21:36
DXVK 1.9.2 is out as the newest version of this key library necessary to the success of Valve's Steam Play (Proton) by translating Direct3D 9/10/11 calls to Vulkan for a much more performant Windows gaming experience on Linux...

Phoronix Ad-Free/Premium Special For Oktoberfest 2021

Phoronix - Mon, 09/20/2021 - 21:10
While Oktoberfest was once again cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic (then again, due to the state of the ad industry / ad-block users we haven't had any European meet-up / open-source gathering in years), the wiesn would have kicked off this past weekend. So as is tradition, there is the Phoronix Premium Oktoberfest sale where you can join the ad-free service as a reduced rate. If you enjoy the daily, original Linux and open-source content on Phoronix with plenty of benchmarking, you can do so at a reduced rate...

Rust Lands Support For The Motorola 68000 Processors

Phoronix - Mon, 09/20/2021 - 21:02
With the m68k community continuing to be active around supporting the vintage Motorola 68000 series with modern open-source software, Rust has now merged support for these old processors...

AMD Continues CRIU Work To Checkpoint/Restore ROCm Compute Workloads

Phoronix - Mon, 09/20/2021 - 20:21
Earlier this year AMD went public with prototyping CRIU support for Radeon GPUs around ROCm to be able to checkpoint/freeze running compute workloads and to then restore them at a later point. This CRIU focus is driven by their big accelerator needs and forthcoming supercomputers for migrating workloads particularly within containers. AMD continues working on CRIU support for GPUs and last week provided an update on the project...

NVIDIA Prepares The Linux Kernel For Future Laptops With EC-Driven Backlights

Phoronix - Mon, 09/20/2021 - 19:17
NVIDIA is contributing a new open-source driver to the upstream Linux kernel for dealing with upcoming laptops where the backlight controls are handled by the device's embedded controller (EC)...

Red Hat's Upstream Contributions Are Making For A Great Fedora Workstation 35

Phoronix - Mon, 09/20/2021 - 18:00
Fedora Workstation 35 will hopefully be out at the end of October (currently the beta is running behind schedule) and when it does ship it's once again at the bleeding-edge of Linux features. Fedora Workstation 35 is shaping up to be another great release for those interested in a feature-rich desktop experience...

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