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KDE's Calligra 4.0 Office/Graphics Suite Released With Improved UI & Qt6 Port

Phoronix - Wed, 08/28/2024 - 00:51
As the successor to KOffice, Calligra is KDE's office and graphics suite. Today marks the release of Calligra Office 4.0 with updates to the Words word processor, Sheets spreadsheet, Stage presentation, and Karbon vector graphics programs...

LinkedIn Migrates Their Servers From CentOS To Azure Linux

Phoronix - Tue, 08/27/2024 - 20:40
LinkedIn has replaced CentOS as their default server operating system choice with Azure Linux to power all of their server needs...

AMD Developing New Heterogeneous CPU Core Driver For Linux Systems

Phoronix - Tue, 08/27/2024 - 20:23
AMD for months has already been working on heterogeneous core topology optimizations for Linux within the AMD P-State CPUFreq driver and other heterogeneous CPU topology improvements for dealing with Ryzen systems sporting a mix of "classic" (full) cores with the denser "C" cores. Today though they've announced a brand new "Heterogeneous Core Driver" for further enhancing Linux support for AMD platforms sporting a combination of core types...

AMD Graphics Driver Prepares For Per-Queue Resets & Process Isolation In Linux 6.12

Phoronix - Tue, 08/27/2024 - 18:46
A big set of patches have been submitted for DRM-Next of "new stuff" to the AMDGPU kernel graphics driver and the AMDKFD compute driver with the upcoming Linux 6.12 kernel cycle...

RADV Enables Vulkan Video By Default For RDNA3 / VCN4 GPUs

Phoronix - Tue, 08/27/2024 - 18:34
With Mesa's RADV driver supporting Vulkan Video for accelerated video encode/decode using this cross-platform, industry standard API it hasn't been exposed by default for RDNA3 graphics processors bearing VCN4 IP. That has now changed for Mesa 24.3 when using the latest VCN4 firmware...

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