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Linux 6.1 Brings VirtIO Block "Secure Erase", vDPA Feature Provisioning

Phoronix - Sat, 10/15/2022 - 20:23
The VirtIO changes were merged this week for the Linux 6.1 merge window that is ending this weekend...

Intel's Vulkan Driver Lands More Patches To Help Reduce CPU Overhead

Phoronix - Sat, 10/15/2022 - 18:11
A set of 12 patches adding 720 lines of new code and removing 222 lines of existing code to Intel's "ANV" open-source Vulkan driver have been merged for Mesa 22.3 to help reduce the Vulkan push descriptor CPU overhead...

Linux 6.1 Picks Up Some Improvements For Pressure Stall Information (PSI)

Phoronix - Sat, 10/15/2022 - 18:00
Among the pull requests coming in late in the merge window for the Linux 6.1 cycle is the "sched/psi" updates for the code improvements around Pressure Stall Information...

Intel XeSS 1.0.1 Released With Bug Fixes

Phoronix - Sat, 10/15/2022 - 17:44
Last month Intel published the XeSS 1.0 SDK for their Xe Super Sampling technology showcased with Arc Graphics discrete graphics cards. Sadly their initial SDK drop included Windows binaries and wasn't fully open-source. On Friday XeSS 1.0.1 was published with some bug fixes but still not being fully open-source...

KDE Plasma Wayland Now Supports High Resolution Scrolling

Phoronix - Sat, 10/15/2022 - 17:19
The KDE Plasma Wayland session is finally supporting high resolution scroll wheel support that was engineered by Red Hat and originally supported under GNOME for allowing a smoother scrolling experience on the Linux desktop...

Linux 6.0.2, 5.19.16 & Other Point Releases Arrive For Fixing WiFi Stack Vulnerabilities

Phoronix - Sat, 10/15/2022 - 16:53
This morning's batch of Linux kernel point releases to existing stable series is worth upgrading to given the important security fixes...

Wine 7.19 Released With VKD3D 1.5, MPEG-4 Audio Support

Phoronix - Sat, 10/15/2022 - 06:36
While the freeze ahead of Wine 8.0 is quickly approaching, Wine 7.19 is out today as the newest development release for this open-source software allowing Windows games and applications to run on Linux and macOS...

Genode's Sculpt OS 22.10 Brings Performance Optimizations, Better USB Hotplug

Phoronix - Sat, 10/15/2022 - 02:13
Genode Labs as the creators of the open-source Genode Operating System Framework have released Sculpt OS 22.10 as the newest version of their general purpose operating system...

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