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NVIDIA 550 Linux Beta Driver Released With Many Fixes, VR Displays & Better (X)Wayland

Phoronix - Wed, 01/24/2024 - 22:00
For going along with today's GeForce RTX 4070 Ti graphics card launch (Linux review in the days ahead due to late arrival of my RTX 40 series hardware), NVIDIA has published their first R550 series Linux driver beta. The NVIDIA 550.40.07 Linux driver is now available with many bug fixes and a few new features...

Teflon Merged To Mesa 24.1 As Gallium3D Frontend For TensorFlow Lite

Phoronix - Wed, 01/24/2024 - 19:50
Teflon has been merged into Mesa 24.1 as a Gallium3D front-end that TensorFlow can load for delegating the execution of operations in a neural network model. Teflon was created initially for the Etnaviv Gallium3D driver for being able to run AI inferencing on Vivante NPUs...

Fwupd 1.9.12 Adds Support For More Devices & AMD CPU Checks Updated

Phoronix - Wed, 01/24/2024 - 19:37
Red Hat's Richard Hughes has released Fwupd 1.9.12 as the newest update to this open-source firmware updating solution that is developed along with the Linux Vendor Firmware Service (LVFS) for simplifying system firmware and peripheral/device firmware updates under Linux...

Exploring Shorewall Firewall Configuration Checks in Linux

Tecmint - Wed, 01/24/2024 - 14:40
The post Exploring Shorewall Firewall Configuration Checks in Linux first appeared on Tecmint: Linux Howtos, Tutorials & Guides .

In my previous article, we learned the installation of Shorewall, configuration file setup, and the configuration of port forwarding over NAT. In this article, we

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Shorewall – A High-Level Firewall for Configuring Linux Servers

Tecmint - Wed, 01/24/2024 - 14:01
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Setting up a firewall in Linux can be very daunting for a newbie, or someone not very familiar with iptables. Luckily, there is a very

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Windows NT Sync Driver Proposed For The Linux Kernel - Better Wine Performance

Phoronix - Wed, 01/24/2024 - 13:00
Following discussions from last year's Linux Plumbers Conference, a Windows NT synchronization primitive driver has been proposed for the Linux kernel. This driver would expose /dev/ntsync as a new character device for implementing some of the Windows NT synchronization primitives directly within the Linux kernel. In turn this would help the performance of some Windows games/applications running on Linux via Wine and in some cases would mean significantly better performance...

OBS Merges FFmpeg VA-API AV1 Support

Phoronix - Wed, 01/24/2024 - 13:00
The cross-platform OBS software that is popular with game streamers and others live-recording their desktops has finally landed support for AV1 video encoding using Linux's Video Acceleration API (VA-API) interface...

How to Install Git and Create a Git Repository

Tecmint - Wed, 01/24/2024 - 12:31
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If you have spent any amount of time recently in the Linux world, then chances are that you have heard of GIT, which is a

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AMD's Advanced Media Framework Adds Pro Vulkan & Experimental RADV Support

Phoronix - Wed, 01/24/2024 - 06:00
AMD's GPUOpen team today released version 1.4.33 of the Advanced Media Framework (AMF) SDK. The AMF SDK continues to be focused on delivering optimal access to AMD hardware for multimedia processing under both Windows and Linux...

Intel's Open-Source Vulkan Driver Wired Up To Support AMD's Radeon Memory Visualizer

Phoronix - Wed, 01/24/2024 - 04:40
While AMD's GPUOpen team developed the Radeon Memory Visualizer for their own Radeon graphics processors, thanks to the software working out well and being open-source and the profiling/dump format being public, the Intel open-source Vulkan Linux driver has added support for it. With the Intel ANV Mesa driver you can now generate Radeon Memory Visualizer (RMV) compatible dumps that can then be loaded into the GPUOpen software for analyzing the video memory behavior of Intel's integrated and discrete graphics...

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