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Wayland Protocols 1.34 Introduces Better Drag & Drop, Explicit DRM Sync Objects

Phoronix - Thu, 03/21/2024 - 12:00
Wayland Protocols 1.34 was released on Wednesday with three new staging protocols for further enhancing Wayland's capabilities...

AMD FSR 3.1 Announced With Vulkan Support

Phoronix - Thu, 03/21/2024 - 07:13
AMD used the Game Developers Conference (GDC 2024) this week to announce FSR 3.1, the latest iteration of their FidelityFX Super Resolution tech for game upscaling...

Red Hat's Long, Rust'ed Road Ahead For Nova As Nouveau Driver Successor

Phoronix - Thu, 03/21/2024 - 04:25
Red Hat's display driver team has recently been devising plans for Nova, a new to-be-developed Linux DRM kernel driver written in Rust for open-source NVIDIA graphics support as the successor/replacement to Nouveau for newer NVIDIA GPU generations supporting the GPU System Processor (GSP). Making this effort all the more involved is being written in Rust at a time when various kernel abstractions are still being devised and not yet upstreamed...

Linux 6.9 Lowering The Overhead Of CR3 Writes

Phoronix - Thu, 03/21/2024 - 02:00
The x86/entry pull request last week for the Linux 6.9 kernel contained just a single patch but it was a significant one at that in that it helps lower the overhead for CR3 writes and the benefits can be visible for workloads like Linux's perf functionality...

GNOME 46 Released With Improved Search, Experimental VRR & More Polish

Phoronix - Wed, 03/20/2024 - 23:37
The GNOME project has announced the much anticipated release of the GNOME 46 desktop...

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