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Linux BHI Mitigation Being Tweaked Following 12% Database Performance Hit

Phoronix - Sat, 04/20/2024 - 20:00
A new set of Linux kernel patches were sent out on Friday for tweaking th Native BHI mitigation introduced earlier this month for Intel processors...

Open-Source "Terakan" Vulkan Driver For Radeon HD 6000 Series Shown On Windows

Phoronix - Sat, 04/20/2024 - 18:41
The past year there's been an independent open-source driver developer working on "Terakan" as a Vulkan driver for old Radeon HD 6000 series GPUs. These pre-GCN GPUs never received any official Vulkan driver support from AMD but thanks to open-source and a strong desire to pull off such a feat, Vitaliy Kuzmin "Triang3l" has been pursuing this challenge and has been pulling off some basic results. The work so far has been predominantly been carried out with the open-source Linux graphics stack while this weekend the Terakan driver was demonstrated under Microsoft Windows...

AMD Sends In More Kernel Graphics Driver Updates For Linux 6.10

Phoronix - Sat, 04/20/2024 - 18:21
Following last week's AMDGPU pull to DRM-Next preparing more next-gen GPU support and other updates for the upcoming Linux 6.10 merge window, another batch of feature changes were sent out on Friday ahead of this next kernel cycle...

KDE Developers Work Through More Bug Fixes & Features For Plasma 6.1

Phoronix - Sat, 04/20/2024 - 18:06
KDE developer Nate Graham is out with his weekly development summary to outline all of the prominent feature work and fixes that landed in the KDE space this week...

Wine 9.7 Works On Build System For ARM64X, Other ARM Improvements

Phoronix - Sat, 04/20/2024 - 08:34
Wine 9.7 is out this evening as the latest bi-weekly unstable development release for this open-source software to run Windows programs and games under Linux and other platforms...

Mozilla Finally Begins Offering Firefox ARM64 Linux Binaries

Phoronix - Sat, 04/20/2024 - 02:56
While the Firefox web browser has long worked on AArch64 Linux and Mozilla even offers Windows ARM64/AArch64 binaries, to date Mozilla hasn't released official ARM64/AArch64 binaries for Linux. That is finally beginning to change...

Git 2.45 Begins Landing Code For SHA1 & SHA256 Interoperability For Repositories

Phoronix - Sat, 04/20/2024 - 01:54
Junio Hamano announced the release today of Git 2.45-rc0 as the first test release toward the next version of this distributed version control system. Notable with Git 2.45 is beginning to land SHA1 and SHA256 interoperability work for repositories...

Godot's Vulkan Backend Seeing Better Performance, 10~20% Reduction In Frame Times

Phoronix - Sat, 04/20/2024 - 01:00
The Godot game engine has spent the past number of months collaborating with Google and The Forge to bring performance optimizations to their Vulkan back-end. While the immediate focus was on bettering Godot's Vulkan performance for Android mobile devices, this work will ultimately benefit all Vulkan platforms/users...

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