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RADV Lands Initial DCC Support For AMD GFX12 / RDNA4 GPUs

Phoronix - Mon, 02/17/2025 - 21:53
Last month when the state of the open-source RADV Vulkan driver for RDNA4 GPUs was outlined, it was noted that cooperative matrix support was missing along with DCC support and Vulkan Video for these upcoming Radeon RX 90x0 GPUs. Vulkan cooperative matrix support ended up being merged earlier this month while hitting Mesa Git today is the DCC support that is important for RDNA4 performance...

Intel PyTorch Extnesion 2.6 Brings More Xeon 6 Optimizations

Phoronix - Mon, 02/17/2025 - 21:47
Intel software engineers overnight released the newest version of the Intel Extension for PyTorch. The v2.6 release brings new optimizations for current-generation Xeon 6 processors as well as new large language model (LLM) performance optimizations...

KVM-Powered MatterV 0.7 Can Run Unmodified VMware VMs

Phoronix - Mon, 02/17/2025 - 19:31
MatterV 0.7 is out today as the newest feature release to this open-source virtual machine management platform built atop KVM. MatterV aims to make it easy to manage VMs across different environments while with today's v0.7 release adds the ability to run unmodified VMware virtual machines atop KVM...

Limine 9.0 Bootloader Drops EXT4 File-System Support

Phoronix - Mon, 02/17/2025 - 19:06
Limine 9.0 is out today as the newest major release for this open-source modern multi-protocol bootloader and boot manager. Limine also boasts its own Limine Boot Protocol in addition to the native Linux support and chainloading/multiboot capabilities...

Wayland Protocols 1.41 Released With Color Management Support

Phoronix - Mon, 02/17/2025 - 18:54
Wayland Protocols 1.41 is shipping today with the color management protocol added for enabling high dynamic range (HDR) support on the Wayland-powered Linux desktop...

How to Install KDE Plasma on Linux Mint 22

Tecmint - Mon, 02/17/2025 - 13:29
The post How to Install KDE Plasma on Linux Mint 22 first appeared on Tecmint: Linux Howtos, Tutorials & Guides .

Linux Mint is a widely used and beginner-friendly operating system known for its simplicity, stability, and ease of use. By

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