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NVK Vulkan Driver Lands Shader Object & Graphics Pipeline Library

Phoronix - Wed, 02/28/2024 - 19:38
The open-source NVIDIA "NVK" Vulkan driver within the Mesa codebase has merged support for the important VK_EXT_shader_object and VK_EXT_graphics_pipeline_library extensions. Additionally, as part of supporting these new extensions, this introduces the code for a common Vulkan runtime to Mesa...

Servo Improves Its Experimental Support For HTML Tables, More CSS Features

Phoronix - Wed, 02/28/2024 - 19:25
The Servo web engine project has put out a new blog post that outlines all of their accomplishments made during the course of February...

KDE MegaRelease 6 Debuts For Plasma 6.0, KF6 & Gear 24.02

Phoronix - Wed, 02/28/2024 - 18:56
Today's the day! KDE MegaRelease 6 is out for shipping Plasma 6.0, KDE Frameworks 6.0, and KDE Gear 24.02 apps...

How to Fix “bash: curl: command not found” Error

Tecmint - Wed, 02/28/2024 - 13:31
The post How to Fix “bash: curl: command not found” Error first appeared on Tecmint: Linux Howtos, Tutorials & Guides .

If you’re a Linux user and you’ve ever encountered the error message “bash: curl: command not found” or “bash: /usr/bin/curl: No such file or directory”

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Tomb – A File Encryption and Personal Backup Tool for Linux

Tecmint - Wed, 02/28/2024 - 12:15
The post Tomb – A File Encryption and Personal Backup Tool for Linux first appeared on Tecmint: Linux Howtos, Tutorials & Guides .

Tomb is a free open-source, small, powerful, and simple tool for encrypting files on GNU/Linux. At the time of this writing, it comprises a shell

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Linux's V4L2 VP9 Codec Kernel Code Rewritten In Rust For Better Memory Safety

Phoronix - Wed, 02/28/2024 - 09:12
Daniel Almeida with Collabora has posted a rewritten of the VP9 codec library code within the Linux kernel's Video 4 Linux 2 (V4L2) subsystem. In using Rust rather than the existing C code, this should yield better memory safety and better fend off potential issues within the existing code...

Wine Wayland Driver Patches Enable Basic OpenGL Support

Phoronix - Wed, 02/28/2024 - 08:56
Continuing to bring-up the Wine Wayland driver for offering native Wayland support without X11/XWayland, Alexandros Frantzis opened the pull request today for enabling basic OpenGL support...

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Google News - Wed, 02/28/2024 - 03:01

64K Kernel Page Size Performance Benefits For HPC Shown With NVIDIA's GH200 Grace CPU

Phoronix - Wed, 02/28/2024 - 01:00
By default the AArch64 kernel on Ubuntu and other Linux distributions tend to default to a standard 4K page size but for newer AArch64 hardware especially in the server/HPC space, there can be great benefits to using a 64K page size. As it's been a while since I last ran any 64-bit ARM 4K vs. 64K kernel page size benchmarks, while having remote access to the NVIDIA GH200 I ran a fresh comparison for looking at the performance advantages to switching over to a 64K page size kernel. These new 64K kernel numbers are shown alongside the recent AMD EPYC and Intel Xeon CPU reference benchmark results for a look at how the 4K vs. 64K page size affects the overall computing landscape.

KWinFT Compositor Now Known As Theseus' Ship

Phoronix - Wed, 02/28/2024 - 00:17
Ahead of this week's big KDE Plasma 6.0 release, the KWinFT project forked from the KDE KWin compositor code is re-branding as Theseus' Ship...

Libre-SoC Open-Source GPU/VPU Project Loses Key Funding

Phoronix - Tue, 02/27/2024 - 22:40
Longtime Phoronix readers may recall the Libre-SoC project that for the past 5+ years has been wanting to build a libre/open-source SoC for graphics acceleration and other uses...

Mold Linker Performance Remains Very Compelling In 2024 Over GNU Gold/ld, LLVM lld

Phoronix - Tue, 02/27/2024 - 22:29
The Mold high performance linker has long been known for offering excellent performance over GNU Gold/ld and LLVM lld while some fresh benchmark numbers reinforce the competitive advantage that persists today for this open-source project...

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