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Proposal For Creating A New Mesa Legacy Driver Branch: R300, R600, Lima, NV30 & More

Phoronix - Thu, 06/20/2024 - 00:40
Mike Blumenkrantz of Valve's open-source Linux GPU driver team and known for his work on the Zink OpenGL-on-Vulkan driver has issued a proposal for creating a new legacy branch for older/less-maintained Gallium3D drivers...

Linux Patches Posted For Intel Lunar Lake DLVR Support

Phoronix - Thu, 06/20/2024 - 00:13
While it looked like all of the Intel Lunar Lake support was wrapped up with the first of these next-gen Core Ultra laptops set to debut next quarter and the Panther Lake bring-up for Linux has begun, it looks like there may be some stragglers still around Lunar Lake. Sent out today was the patch series enabling DLVR (Digital Linear Voltage Regulator) support for these upcoming mobile SoCs...

Zlib-ng 2.2 Speeds Up Compression By ~12% On x86_64 CPUs

Phoronix - Wed, 06/19/2024 - 22:18
The first release candidate of Zlib-ng 2.2 for this drop-in replacement to the Zlib data compression library is now available for testing. Zlib-ng continues to ship new performance optimizations and other tuning for providing faster Zlib performance on modern processors...

We deb it - TradingView

Google News - Wed, 06/19/2024 - 22:11
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AMD Announces ROCm 6.1.3 With Better Multi-GPU Support, Beta-Level WSL2

Phoronix - Wed, 06/19/2024 - 21:48
AMD today announced the ROCm 6.1.3 open-source GPU compute stack. While a point release, this new ROCm revision comes with several notable refinements...

Updated DRM Rust Abstractions For Linux As Part Of Bringing Up The Nova Driver

Phoronix - Wed, 06/19/2024 - 20:48
Sent out last month were the very preliminary Rust-written Nova GPU kernel driver patches for this in-development Direct Rendering Manager driver for open-source NVIDIA GPU support for RTX 20 / Turing GPUs and newer by leveraging the NVIDIA GPU System Processor (GSP). Sent out this week is the second iteration of the stubbed Nova kernel driver and the associated Rust language DRM subsystem abstractions...

Systemd 256.1 Fixes "systemd-tmpfiles" Unexpectedly Deleting Your /home Directory

Phoronix - Wed, 06/19/2024 - 18:03
For those running the command "systemd-tmpfiles --purge" and think that this command just deletes your temporary files, think again and watch out. In reality it will delete all files and directories created by a tmpfiles.d entry... Including the /home that is created by systemd-tmpfiles' home.conf. With users being bitten in recent days by this behavior when they were just expecting tmp files to be removed, systemd 256.1 is now available and does have a change to avoid inadvertently deleting your all-important home directory...

How to Disable and Remove Unnecessary Services on Linux

Tecmint - Wed, 06/19/2024 - 17:00
The post How to Disable and Remove Unnecessary Services on Linux first appeared on Tecmint: Linux Howtos, Tutorials & Guides .

When you install RHEL 9, the system comes with a minimal set of pre-installed packages and services to keep the

The post How to Disable and Remove Unnecessary Services on Linux first appeared on Tecmint: Linux Howtos, Tutorials & Guides.

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