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AMD Has A Crucial Linux Optimization Coming To Lower Power Use During Video Playback

Phoronix - Fri, 07/12/2024 - 03:01
There have been ongoing reports from a variety of users and systems around high power use during GPU-accelerated video playback with current-generation AMD Ryzen "Phoenix" laptops. Fortunately, an optimization is coming to benefit Phoenix and forthcoming Strix Point laptops with noticeably lower power consumption during video playback...

Meta Releases IGL 1.0 As Intermediate Graphics Library Built Atop Vulkan & OpenGL

Phoronix - Fri, 07/12/2024 - 00:33
One year ago Meta released IGL as the Intermediate Graphics Library as a cross-platform, low-level graphics interface built atop native graphics APIs like OpenGL, Vulkam, and Metal. This MIT-licensed library has seen its first tagged version in the form of IGL 1.0...

Mold Linker Gains New Option To Deliver "Massively Faster" Performance

Phoronix - Thu, 07/11/2024 - 23:26
The Mold linker is already a high-speed alternative to the likes of LLVM LLD and GNU Gold. Its performance is very impressive while those using it while carrying out debug builds have the ability to achieve an insane speed-up thanks to a new option...

FreeBSD Aiming For More Predictable & Frequent Releases

Phoronix - Thu, 07/11/2024 - 23:02
Colin Percival who took over as the release engineering lead for FreeBSD last November has come up with two important changes for this BSD operating system's release engineering process...

XWayland 24.1.1 Brings Many Fixes

Phoronix - Thu, 07/11/2024 - 22:50
Building off last month's release of XWayland 24.1 that brought explicit sync support, improved rootful, and other changes, the first point release has now been issued...

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