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NVIDIA 525.85.05 Linux Driver Brings Few Fixes

Phoronix - Fri, 01/20/2023 - 02:52
While we await the next post-R525 driver series feature release, NVIDIA today issued their newest production driver update for this current stable series...

Linux 6.3 To Squeeze A Bit More Performance Out Of AMD Zen 4 CPUs

Phoronix - Fri, 01/20/2023 - 01:50
As I wrote about earlier this week, Linux 6.3 is positioned to support AMD Zen 4's Automatic IBRS feature. AMD's Linux enablement code around Automatic IBRS has been undergoing review the past few months and now via TIP's x96/cpu Git branch is to be sent in next month for the Linux 6.3 merge window. I've run some preliminary benchmarks of the Automatic IBRS support on Zen 4 and it's looking positive for further enhancing the performance of AMD's new Ryzen 7000 series and EPYC 9004 series processors.

KDE Plasma 5.27 Beta Released With Tiling & Multi-Monitor Improvements

Phoronix - Thu, 01/19/2023 - 23:25
The KDE Plasma 5.27 beta is available for testing today as the next big update to the KDE desktop due out as stable next month...

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