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ASUS ROG Ally X & GT7868Q See HID Fixes With Linux 6.11

Phoronix - Tue, 08/20/2024 - 03:32
A new batch of HID subsystem fixes were merged today for the ongoing Linux 6.11 kernel development...

AMD & FreeBSD Begin Collaborating Over OS Improvements

Phoronix - Tue, 08/20/2024 - 00:51
The FreeBSD open-source operating system project published their Q2'2024 status report that outlines some interesting work happening to this leading BSD project...

NVIDIA RTX 2000 & RTX 4000 Ada Generation Linux Performance

Phoronix - Mon, 08/19/2024 - 23:00
NVIDIA recently sent over their RTX 2000 Ada Generation and RTX 4000 Ada Generation graphics cards suited for designers, engineers, and creative professionals. In my testing the past several weeks these professional graphics cards have been working out with NVIDIA's Linux driver stack -- including their open-source kernel modules now the default with the R555 driver series and later. While there is that previous article looking at how their open-source kernel drivers are at parity to the former proprietary kernel modules, today's article is looking at how the NVIDIA RTX 2000/4000 Ada Generation performance stacks up against the AMD Radeon Pro competition.

Fedora 41 To Rely On PipeWire By Default For Firefox Camera Handling

Phoronix - Mon, 08/19/2024 - 20:42
Red Hat engineer Jan Grulich has provided an update today on PipeWire camera handling with the upcoming Fedora 41 release...

Feral's GameMode 1.8.2 Fixes Hybrid CPU Core Pinning

Phoronix - Mon, 08/19/2024 - 20:26
GameMode as the open-source daemon from Feral Interactive to optimize Linux system performance on-demand when running games is out with its first release of 2024...

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