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AMD RDNA3 Vulkan Ray-Tracing Performance Is Now Usable With Ubuntu 23.10

Phoronix - Thu, 10/12/2023 - 22:36

With today's release of Ubuntu 23.10 not only is the performance improved nicely for modern AMD Ryzen systems, but as usual the open-source graphics performance has enjoyed some nice performance improvements, new Vulkan extensions, and more particularly when it comes to the AMD Radeon and Intel graphics drivers...

How to Disable IPv6 Rules in UFW for Enhanced Firewall Security ... - MUO - MakeUseOf

Google News - Thu, 10/12/2023 - 22:31

How to Disable IPv6 Rules in UFW for Enhanced Firewall Security ... MUO - MakeUseOf

Counter-Strike 2 support for older hardware and Mac is being ... - TechRadar

Google News - Thu, 10/12/2023 - 22:29

Counter-Strike 2 support for older hardware and Mac is being ... TechRadar

FDBuild 0.1 Released To Make It Easier To Quickly Build Multiple Projects

Phoronix - Thu, 10/12/2023 - 22:18

Roman Gilg who is known for his work on the KWinFT compositor project has spent the past few years quietly developing FDBuild as a new tool for developers to easily pull, configure, and build multiple software projects via a single command. This week he released FDBuild 0.1 as the first public release of this handy utility...

FDBuild 0.1 Released To Make It Easier To Quickly Build Multiple ... - Phoronix

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Valve locking down publishing Steam builds with SMS codes due to ... - GamingOnLinux

Google News - Thu, 10/12/2023 - 21:52

Valve locking down publishing Steam builds with SMS codes due to ... GamingOnLinux

Steam Deck gets a 'Laser Pointer' Gyro mode, plus more desktop ... - GamingOnLinux

Google News - Thu, 10/12/2023 - 20:55

Steam Deck gets a 'Laser Pointer' Gyro mode, plus more desktop ... GamingOnLinux

Intel Racing Toward The Finish Line For Stable Meteor Lake Graphics With Linux 6.7

Phoronix - Thu, 10/12/2023 - 20:37

While one month ago a Linux kernel patch was floated for advertising Meteor Lake graphics support by default to effectively mark it as stable and remove it from behind the "i915.force_probe" block, that has yet to be queued for the mainline kernel. Today another set of patches were submitted of new Intel kernel graphics driver changes slated for Linux 6.7 with this patch still missing -- but it might squeeze in next week to still make it for the v6.7 cycle...

Intel Racing Toward The Finish Line For Stable Meteor Lake ... - Phoronix

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Intel's OIDn 2.1 Released With Better GPU Support

Phoronix - Thu, 10/12/2023 - 20:33

Released back in May was Intel's open-source Open Image Denoise 2.0 that brought GPU support via SYCL for this denoising library intended for use with ray-tracing applications. Following that big release as part of the broader effort to make Intel's oneAPI suite more supportive on GPUs/accelerators, OIDn 2.1 released on Wednesday with fixes and performance improvements to the GPU support...