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Proton 9.0-1 Released With Many Improvements For Steam Play Linux Gaming

Phoronix - Fri, 05/03/2024 - 01:17
Valve and CodeWeavers have announced the availability of Proton 9.0-1 as their Wine downstream that pulls in DXVK and VKD3D-Proton along with other changes and powers Steam Play for Linux desktop gaming and on the Steam Deck...

XWayland 24.1 RC2 Brings Fixes For Explicit Sync & DRM Leasing

Phoronix - Thu, 05/02/2024 - 23:27
Red Hat's Olivier Fourdan announced today the second release candidate of the upcoming XWayland 24.1...

Pop!_OS With Linux 6.8 Is Benefiting Older System76 Threadripper Systems Too

Phoronix - Thu, 05/02/2024 - 22:00
As noted at the end of March, System76's Pop!_OS Linux distribution has upgraded to the Linux 6.8 kernel as a stable release update for this Ubuntu-derived distribution. That Linux 6.6 to 6.8 leap on Pop!_OS yielded some nice kernel performance improvements for the AMD Ryzen Threadripper 7980X available with their newest System76 Thelio Major workstations. But tests I've carried out of the Pop!_OS upgrade on a years older System76 Thelio is showing off some nice advantages too.

AlmaLinux Forms An HPC & AI SIG

Phoronix - Thu, 05/02/2024 - 20:00
The AlmaLinux OS Foundation today is announcing they are establishing a special interest group (SIG) to advance interests around high performance computing (HPC) and artificial intelligence (AI) for this RHEL-derived operating system...

Mesa 24.1-rc2 Released With More Graphics Driver Fixes

Phoronix - Thu, 05/02/2024 - 19:04
Eric Engestrom has published Mesa 24.1-rc2 as the latest weekly release candidate of Mesa 24.1 as we work toward the stable release likely in the next week or two...

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