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NVIDIA 560.35.03 Linux Driver Released With More Wayland Fixes

Phoronix - Wed, 08/21/2024 - 22:28
Building off the prior NVIDIA 560 beta driver releases, the NVIDIA 560.35.03 stable Linux driver was released today for providing the latest official NVIDIA graphics/compute support for Linux systems...

Experimental Schedutil Patches Yield 30% Boost To Web Browser Benchmark On Linux

Phoronix - Wed, 08/21/2024 - 21:51
Google engineer Qais Yousef has posted a set of 16 patches for the "Schedutil" scheduler utilization code within the Linux kernel to better manage system response time. Schedutil is often used by default on many Linux distributions and with these patches a popular web browser benchmark can be as much as 30% faster with these kernel patches...

Linux Support Emerging For The Samsung Galaxy Book4 Edge X1 Elite Laptop

Phoronix - Wed, 08/21/2024 - 20:46
Following all of the Snapdragon X1 upstream enablement work over the past number of months by Qualcomm and then DeviceTree additions emerging for enabling the likes of the ASUS Vivobook S 15, Lenovo Yoga Slim 7x, Lenovo ThinkPad T14s Gen 6, and Microsoft Surface 7, the Samsung Galaxy Book4 Edge is the newest Snapdragon X1 Elite laptop seeing Linux DT support...

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