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KDE's Info Center Now Shows Multi-GPU Information, Plasma 6.3 Bringing UI Refinements

Phoronix - Sat, 11/09/2024 - 18:57
KDE developer Nate Graham is out with his usual weekly development recap of all the interesting Plasma desktop changes to have landed over the past week...

Mesa 24.3-rc1 Released With Big Improvements For AMD Radeon & Intel Graphics

Phoronix - Sat, 11/09/2024 - 09:34
The belated first release candidate of Mesa 24.3 is now available for testing of the upgraded OpenGL and Vulkan open-source drivers commonly used on Linux systems and elsewhere...

Wine 9.21 Brings DirectPlay Network Enhancements, I/O Completion Fixes

Phoronix - Sat, 11/09/2024 - 08:08
Following a one week delay, Wine 9.21 has been released as the latest development release of this open-source software for enjoying Windows games and applications on Linux and other operating systems. We are also closing in on the approaching Wine 10.0 stable release...

OpenZFS 2.3-rc3 Adds JSON Output For Commonly Used Commands

Phoronix - Sat, 11/09/2024 - 01:02
OpenZFS 2.3 continues working its way toward release as a big step forward for this open-source ZFS file-system implementation for Linux and FreeBSD systems...

Linux Fix Pending For Annoying Intel Lunar Lake Laptop Problems

Phoronix - Sat, 11/09/2024 - 00:33
A patch is working its way to the mainline Linux kernel for addressing an annoyance affecting new Intel Core Ultra 200V "Lunar Lake" laptops...

Google Axion CPU With GCE C4A vs. AWS Graviton4 Performance

Phoronix - Fri, 11/08/2024 - 22:00
Last week Google announced the general availability of their C4A instances powered by their in-house Axion processors. I delivered launch-day benchmarks looking at the Google Axion CPU performance with the C4A instances compared to other Google Cloud instance types powered by Ampere Altra and Intel Xeon. In this article is a look at how the Google Axion processor performance compares to the competing Amazon/AWS Graviton4 processor.

Fedora KDE Desktop Spin Promoted To Same Tier As GNOME-Based Fedora Workstation

Phoronix - Fri, 11/08/2024 - 20:00
Earlier this year was a Fedora change proposal seeking to make KDE Plasma the default over GNOME for Fedora 42. A compromise of sorts has now been settled on with the Fedora Desktop Spin being promoted to an "Edition" status that will put it on the same level as the GNOME-based Fedora Workstation Edition...

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