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Initial Intel Xe3 OpenGL & Vulkan Driver Code Submitted For Mesa 24.3

Phoronix - Sat, 10/26/2024 - 21:35
With Linux 6.13 there is going to be the initial kernel graphics driver support for Xe3 in integrated form to be found with next-gen Panther Lake processors. Merged today for Mesa 24.3 this quarter is the initial OpenGL and Vulkan driver enablement for Xe3 graphics...

ASUS WMI Fix Submitted For Linux 6.12-rc5 To Handle Lunar Lake Performance Issue

Phoronix - Sat, 10/26/2024 - 21:21
Submitted today were a set of x86 platform driver fixes for merging ahead of the Linux 6.12-rc5 release due out on Sunday. For the most part mostly mundane fixes. But notable is an ASUS WMI fix to address the Core Ultra 200V "Lunar Lake" performance issue I've pointed out now in several articles...

Bitwarden Makes Change To Address Recent Open-Source Concerns

Phoronix - Sat, 10/26/2024 - 18:41
Following the recent concerns over Bitwarden potentially moving further away from open-source given SDK changes that appeared, Bitwarden has now further addressed the situation to ease the community concerns...

KDE Fixing Many Bugs, Prepping New Plasma 6.3 Features

Phoronix - Sat, 10/26/2024 - 18:29
KDE developers continue being very busy prepping more bug fixes for the Plasma 6.2.x series while continuing to work on new feature material for Plasma 6.3...

Linux Fixes "Meltdown Lite" Mitigation Handling On Newer Zen 5 CPUs

Phoronix - Sat, 10/26/2024 - 04:30
Linus Torvalds took to some coding himself today to fix a user-address masking non-canonical speculation issue. The Linux kernel needed an adaptation for this "Meltdown Lite" issue due to different behavior with the latest AMD Zen 5 processors...

Intel Core Ultra 5 245K Linux Performance

Phoronix - Fri, 10/25/2024 - 23:16
Yesterday for the Intel Core Ultra 200S Arrow Lake launch date was my extensive look at the Core Ultra 9 285K under Ubuntu Linux for that 24-core desktop processor. Under focus today is the lower-tier Intel Core Ultra 5 245K with a large variety of Linux performance benchmarks for showing how this 14-core processor compares to prior Intel Core CPUs as well as the AMD Ryzen competition atop Ubuntu 24.04 LTS.

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