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Ubuntu 23.10 Showing Nice Performance Improvements On Ampere Altra Max

Phoronix - Thu, 11/30/2023 - 23:30
Gigabyte (Giga Computing) recently sent over their G242-P36 HPC/AI Arm server platform built for Ampere Altra and Ampere Altra Max processors. This 2U server platform can accommodate up to four graphics cards or a mix of GPUs and DPUs if so desired, for maxing out the AI possibilities on Arm. I'll have up a full review on the G242-P36 soon while in this article is a look at the direction of the Ubuntu Server Arm performance from Ubuntu 22.04 LTS to now with Ubuntu 23.10 ahead of the important Ubuntu 24.04 LTS cycle.

Wine Wayland Driver's Vulkan Support Is Now Usable

Phoronix - Thu, 11/30/2023 - 23:16
The third and final part of the Vulkan enablement code for allowing Vulkan API graphics use within the Wine Wayland driver has been merged to Wine Git...

LibreOffice 24.2 Alpha 1 Builds Available For Testing

Phoronix - Thu, 11/30/2023 - 22:03
The LibreOffice 24.2 Alpha 1 builds for Linux, Windows, and macOS are now available for testing of this leading open-source office suite...

Godot 4.2 Released With More Stability Improvements, Improved Rendering & AMD FSR 2.2

Phoronix - Thu, 11/30/2023 - 21:46
The year began with Godot 4.0 making its much anticipated debut and now this open-source game engine project is ending out 2023 with Godot 4.2 as the second revision to the Godot 4.x engine...

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