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AMD Radeon RX 7600 XT Linux Performance Review  Phoronix

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...

Apple @ Work: Acquisitions lead to struggles for Windows and Linux device management  9to5Mac

Team Fortress 2 has a 64bit and Vulkan update for Linux in testing  GamingOnLinux

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...

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...

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

Tuxedo Pulse 14 Gen3 review - The Linux Ultrabook with AMD Zen4 and a 120-Hz display  Notebookcheck.net

Proposed Windows NT sync driver brings big Wine / Proton performance improvements  GamingOnLinux

Proposed Windows NT driver for Linux brings big Wine / Proton performance improvements  GamingOnLinux

Ah, Snap! Firefox is Finally Providing Deb Package for Debian and Ubuntu Users  It's FOSS News

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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The post Shorewall – A High-Level Firewall for Configuring Linux Servers first appeared on Tecmint: Linux Howtos, Tutorials & Guides .

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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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...

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

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...

The post How to Install Git and Create a Git Repository first appeared on Tecmint: Linux Howtos, Tutorials & Guides .

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

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...

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...