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Understanding APT, APT-Cache and Their Frequently Used Commands

Tecmint - Thu, 01/25/2024 - 13:31
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If you’ve ever used Debian or Debian-based distributions like Ubuntu or Linux Mint, then chances are that you’ve used the apt package system to install or

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Mesa 24.0-rc3 Up For Testing, Mesa 23.3.4 Out As Stable

Phoronix - Thu, 01/25/2024 - 09:27
Eric Engestrom with Igalia continues doing a stellar job maintaining the Mesa 23.3 stable series while also leading the Mesa 24.0 release candidates for that upcoming Q1'2024 stable series...

GCC 14 Compiler Might Have AMD RDNA3 GPU Support "Working For Most Purposes"

Phoronix - Thu, 01/25/2024 - 03:24
Earlier this month the GCC 14 compiler landed initial support for AMD RDNA3 "GFX11" graphics processors as part of the GNU Compiler Collection's OpenMP device offloading support for GPU compute. That initial support was rather basic but a follow-up patch has the possibility of making the RDNA3 (GFX11) support "working for most purposes" and will hopefully still be merged in time for the GCC 14.1 stable release...

Zed Code Editor Now Open-Source

Phoronix - Thu, 01/25/2024 - 01:40
The Zed code editor being led by the creators of the Atom editor and Tree-sitter syntax parsing framework have announced today that the Zed editor is being open-sourced...

AMD Radeon RX 7600 XT Linux Performance

Phoronix - Wed, 01/24/2024 - 22:00
AMD announced back during CES the Radeon RX 7600 XT as a $329 USD graphics card for 1080p/144p gaming. Today that card goes on sale and the review embargo has lifted. Here is an initial look at the AMD Radeon RX 7600 XT performance under Linux with AMD's open-source driver stack.

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...

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