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Linux 6.8 To Add Support For Several Cheap ARM-Powered Handheld Game Consoles

Phoronix - Fri, 12/22/2023 - 05:30
The upcoming Linux 6.8 kernel cycle will be adding mainline support for several low-cost ARM Linux handheld gaming consoles that are suitable for running retro games, older game emulators, and other lightweight software...

PostgreSQL Lands Support For Incremental Backups

Phoronix - Fri, 12/22/2023 - 04:36
Merged yesterday to the Git code for the PostgreSQL database server is support for facilitating incremental backups...

Godot 4.3 Dev 1 Released With Rendering System Refactor, D3D12

Phoronix - Fri, 12/22/2023 - 02:18
Ahead of the holidays the open-source developers working on the Godot game engine have released Godot 4.3 Dev 1 as their first test release to this next feature release...

Windows 11 vs. Ubuntu Linux Performance On The Intel Core Ultra 7 Meteor Lake

Phoronix - Thu, 12/21/2023 - 22:49
Following my Linux benchmarks of the Intel Core Ultra 7 155H processor performance where it ended up being rather disappointing but then with finding great success with the integrated Arc Graphics on Meteor Lake, like I you may be left wondering how much of a role Linux is playing with these results compared to Windows... Well, this article will shed some light on that aspect with looking at the Microsoft Windows 11 vs. Ubuntu Linux performance on the Acer Swift Go 14 Meteor Lake laptop.

openSUSE Tumbleweed Trying Out systemd-boot & systemd Full Disk Encryption

Phoronix - Thu, 12/21/2023 - 19:52
OpenSUSE is now providing builds of openSUSE Tumbleweed and microOS that are making use of systemd-boot as its bootloader rather than GRUB and also leveraging full disk encryption via systemd...

Intel Revises Work On Timed I/O PPS Functionality For Linux

Phoronix - Thu, 12/21/2023 - 19:18
Back in January I wrote about Intel working on a Timed I/O driver for Linux with PPS (Pulse Per Second) to help with time synchronization between multiple devices. There hasn't been much external talk about this Timed I/O / PPS functionality while today as we approach the end of the year a new set of Linux kernel patches were posted for wiring up this Intel PPS Generator functionality...

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