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Framework 13 With AMD Ryzen 7040 Series Makes For A Great Linux Laptop

Phoronix - Thu, 11/16/2023 - 01:00
For those in the market for an AMD Ryzen 7040 series (Zen 4) laptop, the Framework 13 laptop is a great option for those wanting a Linux-friendly device and is a rare breed in being a completely upgradeable laptop similar to Framework's Intel laptop models. I've been testing out the Framework Laptop 13 the past month and after a BIOS update has been working out wonderfully on Linux.

GTK 4.14 Adding Graphics Offloading Capabilities Under Wayland

Phoronix - Wed, 11/15/2023 - 23:38
The GNOME GTK toolkit is introducing support for graphics offloading within the toolkit. This new GTK "GraphicsOffload" support is Wayland-only at this time and not working either for non-Linux platforms...

Intel Lunar Lake Graphics Introducing "CMRR" Adaptive VRR Feature

Phoronix - Wed, 11/15/2023 - 22:58
A new feature coming to next-generation Intel graphics display hardware has been revealed in new open-source Linux graphics driver patches: CMRR as an extension of the existing adaptive-sync variable rate refresh (VRR) functionality...

Intel Posts GCC Compiler Patches For APX NDD

Phoronix - Wed, 11/15/2023 - 21:56
As part of their work on enabling Advanced Performance Extensions, Intel compiler engineers today posted a set of GNU Compiler Collection patches for enabling the APX NDD...

Mesa Radeon Vulkan Driver "RADV" Works Around Bugs For Unreal Engine 4 & 5

Phoronix - Wed, 11/15/2023 - 21:42
Thanks to prolific Mesa RADV contributor Samuel Pitoiset of Valve's Linux graphics team, a fix is on the way for addressing various issues with Unreal Engine 4 and Unreal Engine 5 games running on Linux...

Wine Wayland Driver Lands Improved HiDPI Support

Phoronix - Wed, 11/15/2023 - 20:02
The newest Wine Wayland driver code to be merged is improved HiDPI support...

Microsoft Achieves OpenGL 4.5 Atop Direct3D 12 With Mesa

Phoronix - Wed, 11/15/2023 - 19:42
Hours after writing about Microsoft's Direct3D 12 back-end for Mesa seeing OpenGL 4.4 support, the in-review OpenGL 4.5 code mentioned in that article happened to land in Mesa...

GCC COBOL Compiler Support Continues To Be Worked On

Phoronix - Wed, 11/15/2023 - 19:27
While not as popular as Rust or other languages these days, for COBOL enthusiasts and those continuing to maintain codebases in this 50's programming language, the out-of-tree GCC COBOL compiler support continues to be worked on in late 2023...

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