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RADV Adds Support For New Performance Counters To Help Game Developers

Phoronix - Tue, 12/23/2025 - 04:34
Samuel Pitoiset of Valve's open-source Linux graphics team has landed improvements for the Mesa 260 RADV driver to support new performance counters in conjunction with AMD's Radeon GPU Profiler 2.6 release...

Elementary OS 8.1 Switches Over To Wayland Session By Default

Phoronix - Tue, 12/23/2025 - 02:38
Thirteen months after the release of Elementary OS 8.0, Elementary OS 8.1 is now available for this Ubuntu 24.04 LTS based Linux distribution that focuses on ease of use and usability. With Elementary OS 8.1 they have transitioned to using the Wayland session by default...

Lua 5.5 Released With Declarations For Global Variables, Garbage Collection Improvements

Phoronix - Tue, 12/23/2025 - 01:25
Five years after releasing Lua 5.4, Lua 5.5 debuted today as the newest version of this lightweight and embeddable scripting language...

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