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Rework For Intel CPU Model Handling To Land With Linux 6.10 - Phoronix

Google News - Sat, 04/27/2024 - 18:34

Rework For Intel CPU Model Handling To Land With Linux 6.10 Phoronix

GTK 4.15 Released With Vulkan Renderer By Default

Phoronix - Sat, 04/27/2024 - 18:16

GTK 4.15.0 is now available as part of the new unstable series for this widely used open-source toolkit. Most notable with GTK 4.15.0 is the Vulkan renderer being used by default on supported systems...

KDE Fixes Adaptive-Sync Issues & Less Glitches During GPU Resets

Phoronix - Sat, 04/27/2024 - 18:01

KDE developer Nate Graham is back from the latest KDE sprint in Germany and out with his new weekly status report to highlight all of the interesting KDE changes that landed this week...

Azulle Access Pro Intel N100 PC stick ships with Windows 11, Linux, or Zoom - CNX Software

Google News - Sat, 04/27/2024 - 10:30

Azulle Access Pro Intel N100 PC stick ships with Windows 11, Linux, or Zoom CNX Software

It's baaack! Microsoft and IBM open source MS-DOS 4.0 - ZDNet

Google News - Sat, 04/27/2024 - 05:26

It's baaack! Microsoft and IBM open source MS-DOS 4.0 ZDNet

Proton 9.0 RC2 Makes More Windows Games Playable On Linux, Other Fixes

Phoronix - Sat, 04/27/2024 - 04:42

Valve and CodeWeavers today released the Proton 9.0 Release Candidate 2 build based off Wine 9.0 for powering Steam Play to enjoy an excellent assortment of modern (and legacy) Windows games on Linux...

Ubuntu Linux-based Voyager 24.04 LTS unites GNOME and Xfce - BetaNews

Google News - Sat, 04/27/2024 - 04:18

Ubuntu Linux-based Voyager 24.04 LTS unites GNOME and Xfce BetaNews

Ubuntu 24.04: This great new Linux distro isn't just fast - it's a fortress - ZDNet

Google News - Sat, 04/27/2024 - 03:10

Ubuntu 24.04: This great new Linux distro isn't just fast - it's a fortress ZDNet

GNOME 46.1 Desktop Environment Released with Explicit Sync Support - 9to5Linux

Google News - Fri, 04/26/2024 - 23:43

GNOME 46.1 Desktop Environment Released with Explicit Sync Support 9to5Linux

New Patches Significantly Reduce Zink Driver Startup Time

Phoronix - Fri, 04/26/2024 - 23:25

Given a two year old bug against Mesa around slow initialization/start-up time for GTK4 on Intel graphics, prolific Zink developer Mike Blumenkrantz recently took to optimizing Zink's start-up time for this generic OpenGL-on-Vulkan driver implementation...

Factorio devs detail their 'Linux adventures' in a new blog post - GamingOnLinux

Google News - Fri, 04/26/2024 - 22:03

Factorio devs detail their 'Linux adventures' in a new blog post GamingOnLinux

GNOME Foundation To Focus On Fundraising After Years Running A Deficit

Phoronix - Fri, 04/26/2024 - 21:26

After several years of the GNOME Foundation running at a deficit (loss), the GNOME Foundation is going to be driving a push for greater fundraising...

GCC 14.1 Compiler Aiming For Release Around 7 May

Phoronix - Fri, 04/26/2024 - 20:00

As mentioned following the AMD GFX90C target being added, the GCC 14 compiler code was branched from the main Git branch with release preparations for GCC 14 underway. A status report was just published outlining release plans for getting GCC 14.1 stable out around 7 May...

45 Drives adds Linux-powered mini PCs, workstations to growing compute lineup - The Register

Google News - Fri, 04/26/2024 - 19:00

45 Drives adds Linux-powered mini PCs, workstations to growing compute lineup The Register

GCC 14 Adds "GFX90C" For OpenMP Offloading To APUs With GFX9/Vega Graphics

Phoronix - Fri, 04/26/2024 - 18:48

As the last feature patch prior to the GCC 14 compiler code being branched today and GCC 15 opening up on the mainline codebase, AMD GFX90C support was merged for enabling GPU OpenMP device offloading to the numerous AMD SoCs/APUs with the GFX9/Vega graphics...

Linux 6.10 Adding Intel Low-Latency Hint To Aggressively Boost GT Frequency For GPU Compute

Phoronix - Fri, 04/26/2024 - 18:38

Following the big set of Xe DRM driver updates for Linux 6.10 and earlier Adaptive Snyc SDP, Lunar Lake display support, and more DG2 PCI IDs for i915 pulls sent in over weeks prior for this next kernel version, the drm-intel-gt-next pull request was submitted today for last minute Intel graphics driver feature changes aiming for Linux 6.10...

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