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Linux Looks Toward Dropping Very Old WiFi Drivers

Phoronix - Sat, 10/14/2023 - 01:00
While the Linux kernel tends to keep around drivers for even very old hardware, once there are no known users left that would still be updating to new Linux kernel versions or the drivers pose a significant maintenance burden, it's eventually time to let them go. We've seen the WiMAX wireless code removed and now the latest on the Linux wireless networking side inching close to the chopping block are old WiFi drivers...

Intel Arc Graphics See Faster Performance On Ubuntu 23.10

Phoronix - Fri, 10/13/2023 - 22:57
For those using the stock kernel and Mesa drivers when running Ubuntu Linux, the upgrade from Ubuntu 23.04 to the newly-released Ubuntu 23.10 can mean some nice graphics performance improvements for Intel Arc Graphics users. Here is a look at some Arc Graphics A770 benchmarks on Ubuntu 23.04 to 23.10 plus the gains that are coming up when moving to Linux 6.6 and Mesa 23.3-devel.

Blender Alpha Builds Enable Experimental Vulkan Option

Phoronix - Fri, 10/13/2023 - 22:18
The newest Blender alpha builds of the past week have enabled Vulkan API support as an experimental option on Windows and Linux...

OpenWrt 23.05 Released With Rust Package Support, MbedTLS Replaces WolfSSL

Phoronix - Fri, 10/13/2023 - 21:08
OpenWrt 23.05 has been released as the newest feature release for this embedded Linux distribution that is popular for use on networking devices...

AMD Advanced Media Acceleration "AMA" 1.0 SDK Released

Phoronix - Fri, 10/13/2023 - 20:35
AMD has published the Advanced Media Acceleration (AMA) v1.0 SDK as a software stack aimed for hardware video acceleration and capable of high density real-time transcoding. The AMD AMA SDK integrates with the likes of the open-source FFmpeg and GStreamer projects for fitting nicely in the Linux software ecosystem as well as sporting its own C-based API...

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