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Vulkan Video Now Enabled By Default For Radeon VCN2/VCN3 Hardware On Linux

Phoronix - Mon, 12/02/2024 - 20:00
An exciting merge today for the Radeon "RADV" Vulkan driver with next quarter's Mesa 25.0 is enabling Vulkan Video API support by default for AMD graphics having VCN 2.x and VCN 3.x hardware...

Llamafile 0.8.17 Brings New Web UI For This Easy-To-Distribute AI LLM Framework

Phoronix - Mon, 12/02/2024 - 19:34
Llamafile 0.8.17 debuted this weekend as the newest version of this Mozilla research project for making it easy to distribute and run AI large language models (LLMs) within a single file. As implied by its name, Llamafile leverages Llama.cpp along with other open-source software into one consistent framework for helping to make single-file LLM executables a reality...

Imagination Lands Big PowerVR Compiler Update In Mesa 25.0

Phoronix - Mon, 12/02/2024 - 19:23
Merged over the US holiday weekend was a big update to the Imagination PowerVR Vulkan driver code for Mesa 25.0... 71 patches in fact making up this merge request...

XWayland Lands Support For xdg-system-bell

Phoronix - Mon, 12/02/2024 - 19:15
Olivier Fourdan has merged support for using the xdg-system-bell protocol by XWayland for dealing with "system bell" functionality for Wayland compositors supporting this newer protocol for ringing the system bell or otherwise implementing a visual indicator that a system bell type event may have been triggered...

Steam Survey Results For November 2024: Linux Gaming Marketshare Slightly Higher

Phoronix - Mon, 12/02/2024 - 18:42
During October the Steam Linux marketshare crawled back up to 2.0% while overnight Valve published the Steam Survey results for November 2024...

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Arch Linux Cheat Sheet: Essential Commands for New Users

Tecmint - Mon, 12/02/2024 - 14:44
The post Arch Linux Cheat Sheet: Essential Commands for New Users first appeared on Tecmint: Linux Howtos, Tutorials & Guides .

Arch Linux is a powerful, lightweight Linux distribution that gives users complete control over their systems. However, it’s not the

The post Arch Linux Cheat Sheet: Essential Commands for New Users first appeared on Tecmint: Linux Howtos, Tutorials & Guides.

Lutris 0.5.18 Linux Game Manager Brings Many Improvements

Phoronix - Mon, 12/02/2024 - 09:18
Lutris 0.5.18 is out today as the newest version of this open-source game manager for Linux systems to help with installing and playing a variety of games whether they be native Linux titles, emulated Windows games with the likes of Wine / Proton, or console emulated games and more. Lutris also continues integrating with the likes of Steam, GOG, Humble Bundle, and other online game services for providing a nice Linux gaming experience...

Linux 6.13-rc1 Released With Many New Features

Phoronix - Mon, 12/02/2024 - 06:42
As expected, this evening Linus Torvalds released Linux 6.13-rc1 to cap-off the two-week Linux 6.13 merge window. With Linux 6.13 comes many new features...

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