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Granite Rapids Idle/P-State Work For Linux 6.12 & An Important AMD Energy Reporting Fix

Phoronix - Tue, 08/20/2024 - 21:36
Queued yesterday into the Linux power management subsystem's "linux-next" branch ahead of the Linux 6.12 kernel are some important additions for Intel processors and also an important fix for AMD processors to enjoy package power monitoring...

Unigine 2.19 Rolls Out OpenXR Support, Multi-Threaded Renderer

Phoronix - Tue, 08/20/2024 - 20:29
While the Unigine SDK these days is more known for its simulation and engineering offerings rather than as a game engine, this engine remains visually impressive and continues advancing. Unigine 2.19 has been released that brings a number of improvements to the engine and leaves us clamoring to see a new/updated benchmark...

Ubuntu Fixes Old NVIDIA Wayland Support For GNOME, Hiring More Desktop Engineers

Phoronix - Tue, 08/20/2024 - 18:40
There are a few interesting bits of information as part of this week's updates from the Ubuntu Desktop Team Integration Squad...

Proposed Vulkan Extension To Improve Memory Sharing With Apple's Metal

Phoronix - Tue, 08/20/2024 - 18:26
LunarG engineer Aitor Camacho Larrondo has proposed VK_EXT_external_memory_metal, a new extension for the Vulkan API to allow for more easily sharing memory objects from Vulkan with Apple's Metal...

How to Check All Connected Webcams on Ubuntu

Tecmint - Tue, 08/20/2024 - 15:26
The post How to Check All Connected Webcams on Ubuntu first appeared on Tecmint: Linux Howtos, Tutorials & Guides .

If you’re using Ubuntu or Ubuntu-based distribution and want to find or list out which webcams are connected to your

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How to Replace Netplan with /etc/network/interfaces in Ubuntu

Tecmint - Tue, 08/20/2024 - 13:39
The post How to Replace Netplan with /etc/network/interfaces in Ubuntu first appeared on Tecmint: Linux Howtos, Tutorials & Guides .

Netplan is the default network management tool in many modern Linux distributions, like Ubuntu. However, some users might prefer using

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ASUS ROG Ally X & GT7868Q See HID Fixes With Linux 6.11

Phoronix - Tue, 08/20/2024 - 03:32
A new batch of HID subsystem fixes were merged today for the ongoing Linux 6.11 kernel development...

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