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AMD Ryzen Powered Framework Laptop Linux Testing Held Up By BIOS Issue

Phoronix - Tue, 10/03/2023 - 22:00
Today the review embargo lifts on the first AMD-powered Framework laptop. There's one of the AMD Framework laptops in the lab for Linux testing and benchmarking but unfortunately no review for launch day due to being held up by a BIOS regression and thus unable to properly utilize accelerated graphics until a new BIOS revision is made available in the coming days...

GNU Binutils Lands Support For ARCv3 32-bit & 64-bit Architecture

Phoronix - Tue, 10/03/2023 - 21:42
GNU Binutils has added support for the ARCv3 32-bit and 64-bit CPU architecture...

Rust Bindings For Kernel Workqueues Coming To Linux 6.7

Phoronix - Tue, 10/03/2023 - 21:09
Rust bindings are coming to the Linux kernel's workqueue (WQ) infrastructure that is used for deferring work to a kernel thread for asynchronous process execution...

AMD PMF Firmware Added To Linux-Firmware.Git For Smart PC Solution Builder

Phoronix - Tue, 10/03/2023 - 20:24
As written about last month, AMD Linux engineers have been working on PMF Linux driver support for a "Smart PC Solutions Builder". The AMD Smart PC Solutions Builder feature is intended to provide OEMs with more control over system power/performance policies. It looks like systems making use of this feature are already to the marketplace or imminent with AMD having already landed the PMF firmware...

Mesa 23.3 Will Enable More Efficient MSAA Anti-Aliasing Use With Radeon RDNA3 GPUs

Phoronix - Tue, 10/03/2023 - 18:37
Adding to the list of notable features coming with Mesa 23.3 later this quarter is enabling delta color compression (DCC) for multi-sample anti-aliasing (MSAA) images on AMD RDNA3 (GFX11) graphics processors...

How to Install VLC Media Player in Fedora 38

Tecmint - Tue, 10/03/2023 - 16:31
The post How to Install VLC Media Player in Fedora 38 first appeared on Tecmint: Linux Howtos, Tutorials & Guides .

VLC is a free and open source, popular, and cross-platform multimedia player and framework that plays files, discs, webcams, devices as well as streams. VLC

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