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Intel Media Driver 2024Q1 Brings Arrow Lake H Support

Phoronix - Mon, 04/22/2024 - 17:59
The Intel Media Driver 2024Q1 release is now available that serves as the company's modern Video Acceleration API (VA-API) driver for Linux systems. The Intel media driver allows for iGPU/dGPU-based video encode/decode for HEVC, VP9, AV1, and other formats supported by the respective graphics hardware...

Dool – All-in-One Linux Server Performance Monitoring Tool

Tecmint - Mon, 04/22/2024 - 14:00
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Some of the popular and frequently used system resource-generating tools available on the Linux platform include vmstat, netstat, iostat, ifstat, and mpstat. They are used

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12 Amazing Terminal Based Games for Linux Enthusiasts

Tecmint - Mon, 04/22/2024 - 12:31
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When you’re a Linux power user, mastering the command line is essential. Using commands to control the system gives users more power and control over the

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Linux 6.9-rc5 Released: The Diffstat "Looks A Bit Wonky" But Not Bad

Phoronix - Mon, 04/22/2024 - 04:47
The fifth weekly release candidate of Linux 6.9 is now available as the kernel cycle looks to get wrapped up by mid-May...

AMD Posts RDNA3+ Firmware Files For Linux Users

Phoronix - Sun, 04/21/2024 - 22:25
This weekend AMD upstreamed a number of new AMDGPU firmware files into the linux-firmware.git repository that serves as a basis for all of the binary firmware/microcode files used by the Linux kernel drivers. This big set of new AMDGPU firmware files is likely for the upcoming RDNA 3.5 / "RDNA3 refresh" / RDNA3+ as it appears will be called updated RDNA3 graphics for upcoming AMD Ryzen SoCs...

GNOME Mutter 46.1 Brings Explicit Sync, Better NVIDIA Hybrid GPU Acceleration

Phoronix - Sun, 04/21/2024 - 21:50
GNOME Mutter 46.1 was released this weekend as the developers prepare to release the GNOME 46.1 point release. This Mutter update brings several exciting feature/bug changes back-ported for the GNOME 46 series...

GNU Portability Library's Tool Rewritten In Python For 8~100x Better Performance

Phoronix - Sun, 04/21/2024 - 21:42
The GNU Portability Library for common portability code across platforms has seen a major rewrite to gnulib-tool, the program for importing modules from gnulib into their packages. This code rewrite of gnulib-tool is said to offer between eight and 100 times faster performance than the existing implementation...

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