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"Honeykrisp" Is A New Vulkan Driver For Apple M1 On Linux - Derived From The NVK Driver

Phoronix - Thu, 06/06/2024 - 00:09
While the Asahi AGX Gallium3D driver for OpenGL support with Apple Silicon on Linux has been maturing nicely and is quite capable these days, the Vulkan support hasn't been coming together as quick or for as long. But a new Apple Silicon Vulkan driver was recently started by Asahi Linux / Mesa developers and is looking positive for being able to become a compliant Vulkan 1.3 driver for the Apple M1 on Linux...

Intel Xeon 6766E/6780E Sierra Forest vs. Ampere Altra Performance & Power Efficiency

Phoronix - Wed, 06/05/2024 - 23:22
With the launch day review of the Intel Xeon 6766E and Xeon 6780E "Sierra Forest" processors the focus was on looking at the performance and power efficiency compared to prior Intel Xeon generations as well as the AMD EPYC competition. For those wondering how Intel's new Xeon 6 Sierra Forest processors compete against Amere Computing's "cloud native" Altra Max processors, here are those benchmarks looking at the performance and power efficiency.

NVIDIA 555.52.04 Beta Linux Driver Brings Fixes

Phoronix - Wed, 06/05/2024 - 21:51
A few weeks ago NVIDIA introduced their much anticipated R555 beta driver with NVIDIA 555.42.02 for Linux bringing Wayland explicit sync support, the GPU System Processor (GSP) firmware being used by default, and a variety of Wayland improvements. Today the NVIDIA 555.52.04 beta driver is out that offers additional fixes for the R555 series...

KDE Is Soliciting Ideas For Their Goals To Pursue Over The Next 2~3 Years

Phoronix - Wed, 06/05/2024 - 21:25
Back in 2022 the KDE project laid out new goals to improve accessibility, develop more environmentally sustainable software, and automate more processes for easing the development of KDE. These overarching KDE Goals are refined every 2~3 years and they are now soliciting ideas from the community for what they should focus on ahead...

Linux 6.11 Device Mapper Will Optimize Flushing

Phoronix - Wed, 06/05/2024 - 18:32
The latest performance optimization work for the Linux kernel's Device Mapper (DM) comes thanks to Red Hat's Mikulas Patocka...

Intel NPU Library v1.2 Adds Int4 Support & Performance Optimizations

Phoronix - Wed, 06/05/2024 - 18:20
Intel released a new version of its NPU Acceleration Library, the user-space Python library for leveraging the Neural Processing Unit (NPU) found within their Core Ultra "Meteor Lake" laptops and upcoming Lunar Lake and Arrow Lake hardware as well...

AMDVLK 2024.Q2.2 Driver Brings Bug Fixes

Phoronix - Wed, 06/05/2024 - 18:02
Building off last month's AMDVLK 2024.Q2.1 driver adding Phoenix 2 support, AMD today released AMDVLK 2024.Q2.2 as the newest update to their official open-source Vulkan Linux driver...

A Beginner’s Guide to Installing Arch Linux on UEFI Machines

Tecmint - Wed, 06/05/2024 - 17:00
The post A Beginner’s Guide to Installing Arch Linux on UEFI Machines first appeared on Tecmint: Linux Howtos, Tutorials & Guides .

Arch Linux is one of the most versatile GNU Linux distributions due to its simplicity and cutting-edge software packages due

The post A Beginner’s Guide to Installing Arch Linux on UEFI Machines first appeared on Tecmint: Linux Howtos, Tutorials & Guides.

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