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How to Install VLC Media Player in Fedora 38

Tecmint - Tue, 10/03/2023 - 16:31
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VLC is a free and open source, popular, and cross-platform multimedia player and framework that plays files, discs, webcams, devices as well as streams. VLC

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Tweaking SteamOS For Better Steam Deck Performance

Phoronix - Tue, 10/03/2023 - 04:20
A Phoronix reader recently published a guide that at its heart is a set of commands aimed at boosting the performance of SteamOS on the AMD APU powered Steam Deck. Here are some benchmarks showing the performance impact from these changes on the SteamOS 3.5 Preview release.

Linux Will Finally Indicate Via /proc/cpuinfo If AMD SVM Virtualization Is Disabled

Phoronix - Tue, 10/03/2023 - 03:18
Checking for the presence of Intel virtualization (VMX) support and it being enabled can be easily achieved by looking at the flags in /proc/cpuinfo. But to this point AMD virtualization (SVM) has always been shown to user-space via /proc/cpuinfo even when the BIOS/platform has disabled SVM functionality. Finally for Linux 6.7 this oversight is being corrected...

Intel Releases OpenVKL 2.0 With Intel GPU Acceleration Via SYCL

Phoronix - Tue, 10/03/2023 - 02:42
Similar to Embree 4.0 adding Intel graphics acceleration earlier this year via SYCL, Intel's OpenVKL library that is also part of their oneAPI rendering toolkit has now added SYCL graphics aceleration with OpenVKL 2.0...

Python 3.12 Released With Linux Perf Integration, Performance Improvements

Phoronix - Tue, 10/03/2023 - 00:20
Python 3.12 is out today as the latest major feature release for this extremely popular programming language. Python 3.12 continues the trend of recent releases of enhancing the performance while continuing to introduce exciting new functionality...

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