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Mesa 24.3.1 Released With Many Graphics Driver Bug Fixes

Phoronix - Thu, 12/05/2024 - 09:41
Building off the Mesa 24.3 release from two weeks ago is now Mesa 24.3.1 as the first stable point release following their usual bi-weekly release regiment...

Intel Linux Display Driver Being Adapted For DRM Panic "Blue Screen of Death" Support

Phoronix - Thu, 12/05/2024 - 05:55
The DRM Panic infrastructure has been in the Linux kernel for several releases now and allows for a kernel-based experience similar to Windows' "Blue Screen of Death as well as more recently allowing QR code kernel error messages and other features. The Intel kernel DRM driver has seen some patches for enabling DRM Panic support...

NVIDIA vs. AMD GPU Workstation Performance For Blender 4.3

Phoronix - Thu, 12/05/2024 - 02:39
With the recent release of Blender 4.3 for this leading open-source 3D modeling software, I've been carrying out some fresh NVIDIA vs. AMD GPU benchmarks for accelerated rendering across several different popular benchmark scenes.

OpenVPN DCO Looks Like It Might Be Ready For Linux 6.14 To Speed-Up VPN Performance

Phoronix - Thu, 12/05/2024 - 00:09
In development for several years has been the OpenVPN DCO Linux kernel module for data channel offload (DCO) capabilities to provide for much faster virtual private networking (VPN) performance. It's looking like the lengthy review process on OpenVPN DCO is about wrapping up and leaving hope that it will be ready to premiere in next year's Linux 6.14 kernel...

Debian 13 Desktop Theme Finalized Ahead Of Next Year's Release

Phoronix - Wed, 12/04/2024 - 23:53
As a follow-up to last month's article around the Debian 13 release processes continuing and desktop artwork voting underway for Debian 13 "Trixie", the winning desktop theme/artwork was announced today...

AMDVLK 2024.Q4.2 Released With New Extensions, Other Changes

Phoronix - Wed, 12/04/2024 - 23:27
AMDVLK 2024.Q4.2 is out today as the newest official open-source AMD Radeon Vulkan driver release for Linux systems...

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