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LACT 0.8 GPU Configuration & Monitoring Tool Introduces More Features

Phoronix - Sat, 06/28/2025 - 18:24
While a number of Linux desktop users have expressed disappointment over Intel and AMD not providing any GUI for their GPU driver settings and similar functionality like they do under Windows, there are a number of third-party open-source GUI programs for managing graphics driver settings. One of the most capable solutions is LACT for GPU configuration and monitoring. Out today is LACT 0.8 with more features now in place...

KDE Devs Add Wayland Session Management To Qt 6.10, Inertial Scrolling For Qt Quick Apps

Phoronix - Sat, 06/28/2025 - 18:01
KDE developers this week have been busy with a mix of polishing the recent Plasma 6.4 release as well as taking on more feature development work for Plasma 6.5 coming later in the year...

"Tyr" Announced As New Rust-Written Linux Kernel Graphics Driver

Phoronix - Sat, 06/28/2025 - 08:32
An unexpected announcement this Friday evening is an introduction to Tyr, a new Linux kernel DRM graphics driver written in the Rust programming language. As is sadly becoming more common among Linux GPU kernel drivers is the increasing obscure driver names. Tyr?!?..

Wine 10.11 Makes More Preparations For NTSYNC Support

Phoronix - Sat, 06/28/2025 - 06:57
Wine 10.11 is out for testing today as the newest bi-weekly development release of this software for running Microsoft Windows games and applications on Linux and other platforms...

RADV vs. AMDVLK Driver Performance For Strix Halo Radeon 8060S Graphics

Phoronix - Fri, 06/27/2025 - 23:10
The latest in our ongoing testing of AMD Strix Halo performance using the HP ZBook Ultra G1a is analyzing the Vulkan API performance between Mesa's RADV driver and the AMDVLK official open-source AMD Vulkan driver for Linux systems. More than one hundred benchmarks were run looking at the performance from Steam Play games to Vulkan compute workloads.

Ubuntu Concept 25.04 ISOs Published For Qualcomm Snapdragon X Elite Laptops

Phoronix - Fri, 06/27/2025 - 21:54
Similar to the Ubuntu 24.10 concept ISOs for Qualcomm Snapdragon X Elite laptops, Canonical has begun publishing new "concept" images of Ubuntu 25.04 ISOs optimized for use on the growing number of Qualcomm Snpadragon X Elite laptops. This week marks the release of the new ISOs for enhancing Ubuntu Linux on various ARM laptops...

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