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Debian APT 2.6 Released With Updates For Non-Free Firmware Handling

Phoronix - Mon, 03/06/2023 - 23:30
Debian developers today released APT 2.6 as the newest version of this package manager that will ship as part of the upcoming Debian 12 "Bookworm" release...

openSUSE Tumbleweed Sets Great Example With x86-64-v3 HWCAPS

Phoronix - Mon, 03/06/2023 - 21:38
The rolling-release openSUSE Tumbleweed recently began rolling out optional x86-64-v3 optimized packages for those on roughly Intel Haswell or newer systems and wanting to squeeze out maximum performance from their hardware. The selection of x86-64-v3 packages built by openSUSE Tumbleweed is currently rather limited, but hopefully this major Linux distribution joining the HWCAPS party will lead other Linux distributions to follow suit...

Intel Continues With More Big-Time Optimizations To The Linux Kernel

Phoronix - Mon, 03/06/2023 - 20:21
I love Linux kernel patches that mention "massively", use exclamation points when talking about performance, and/or simply mention big speed-ups. Quite often such patches come out of Intel and last week they sent out another great performance optimization patch series to improve additional low-level bits of the kernel...

Asahi AGX Mesa Driver Prepares For Compute Kernels On Apple Silicon

Phoronix - Mon, 03/06/2023 - 19:53
The Asahi "AGX" Gallium3D driver providing open-source OpenGL driver support for Apple M1/M2 graphics hardware has seen preliminary work merged into Mesa 23.1 for supporting compute shaders/kernels...

AMD Continues Linux Upstreaming For Pensando Elba SoC

Phoronix - Mon, 03/06/2023 - 19:40
Last year AMD acquired Pensando in part for adding DPUs to their portfolio from this young company that only exited its stealth mode in 2019. While sadly it's missed out on the Linux 6.3 cycle, AMD-Pensando engineers continue work on upstreaming support for their "Elba" SoC into the mainline Linux kernel...

LibreELEC 11 Released With GBM/V4L2 HDR Support On x86_64, More ARM Hardware

Phoronix - Mon, 03/06/2023 - 19:08
LibreELEC 11 is out today as the newest version of this Linux distribution that is purpose-built for an HTPC-oriented experience powered by the recent Kodi 20 HTPC/PVR software...

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