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Fedora Asahi Remix Coming For Fedora Linux On Apple Silicon Hardware

Phoronix - Wed, 08/02/2023 - 23:14
Asahi Linux is great for those wanting to run the best Linux experience on Apple Silicon hardware while using this Arch Linux based distribution. But for those preferring Fedora Linux over Arch, a Fedora Asahi Remix is coming and was announced today at the Flock To Fedora conference...

XWayland 23.2 RC2 Restores An Optimization For Depth 24 Windows

Phoronix - Wed, 08/02/2023 - 22:30
The second release candidate of XWayland 23.2 is now available that restores an earlier performance optimization around depth 24 windows...

Linux 6.6 To Make It Easier To Enable Partial SMT For POWER

Phoronix - Wed, 08/02/2023 - 22:19
While Simultaneous Multi-Threading (SMT) on Intel/AMD x86_64 processors is limited to providing one additional thread per core, SMT on IBM POWER hardware can provide 4-way and even 8-way SMT for some processor models. With Linux 6.6 the /sys/devices/system/cpu/smt/control interface is being extended to allow greater control over managing partial SMT states in cases of the CPUs supporting more than 2-way SMT at Linux run-time...

FreeCAD 0.21 Released For Advancing Open-Source CAD

Phoronix - Wed, 08/02/2023 - 22:08
Just days after the FreeCAD 0.21-rc release, FreeCAD 0.21 is now available for this popular open-source CAD software...

XFS File-System Maintainer Stepping Down

Phoronix - Wed, 08/02/2023 - 18:30
After six years as serving as the XFS file-system maintainer, Darrick Wong announced he'll be stepping down from this role and that really multiple developers need to step up to maintain XFS and help with testing and other responsibilities...

Intel Media Driver 2023Q2 Preps More For Meteor Lake, More Arc Graphics Fixes

Phoronix - Wed, 08/02/2023 - 18:03
Intel has published their latest quarterly update to the Intel Media Driver open-source VA-API implementation as well as to their oneVPL video processing layer library...

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