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SteamVR 2.0 Officially Released With Many Improvements

Phoronix - Thu, 10/26/2023 - 07:15
For those wishing to interact with Steam from virtual reality (VR) headsets, today Valve promoted SteamVR 2.0 to stable...

Mesa 24.0 Enters Feature Development For Open-Source OpenGL & Vulkan Drivers

Phoronix - Thu, 10/26/2023 - 04:33
Mesa 23.3 has now been branched in Git and in turn that opens up the mainline code to beginning feature work on what will become Mesa 24.0 when it releases in Q1'2024...

The Fedora 39 Release Has Been Held Up By Raspberry Pi Bugs

Phoronix - Thu, 10/26/2023 - 03:55
Fedora 39 failed to make its "early" release target date, it didn't meet its otherwise targeted release date one week later, and is now facing another possible setback still. These release delays have been due to outstanding blocker bugs all related to the Raspberry Pi...

Benchmarking The Performance Cost To Full Disk Encryption For Modern AMD Ryzen Laptops

Phoronix - Thu, 10/26/2023 - 01:39
With the new AMD Ryzen 7 PRO 7840U Zen 4 mobile processor powering the likes of the Lenovo ThinkPad P14s Gen 4, I was curious about the performance impact of employing full disk encryption. Here are some benchmarks looking at the performance cost to enabling full disk encryption versus not utilizing any disk encryption while running Fedora Workstation on the new ThinkPad P14s Gen 4 AMD laptop.

Intel Releases OSPRay Studio 0.13 With Xe GPU Acceleration Support

Phoronix - Thu, 10/26/2023 - 00:26
Building off the recent release of OSPRay 3.0 with initial GPU acceleration support, OSPRay Studio has now been updated against this new version. As a reminder, OSPRay Studio is Intel's open-source interactive visualization and ray-tracing application...

Fedora To Possibly Transition From Zlib To Zlib-NG For Better Performance

Phoronix - Wed, 10/25/2023 - 22:54
Fedora Linux is looking at possibly transitioning from Zlib to Zlib-NG for this widely-used compression library. This tentative change request is filed in part by Intel software engineers looking to enhance the Zlib performance on modern processors...

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