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OpenZFS 2.2-rc4 Delivers Last Minute Fixes

Phoronix - Fri, 09/08/2023 - 18:14
OpenZFS 2.2 has been in the works to provide Linux container support, BLAKE3 checksumming, block cloning and other new features. It's looking like that release will be wrapped up soon while released on Thursday was v2.2-rc4 to help encourage last minute testing of this file-system driver for Linux and FreeBSD systems...

Intel QAT Zstd Plugin v0.1 Released For Speeding Up Zstandard Compression

Phoronix - Fri, 09/08/2023 - 17:59
As a big win for Intel's QuickAssist Technology (QAT) accelerator found as an option with Sapphire Rapids processors and prior QAT hardware, there's been a QAT Zstd plug-in to provide big performance/efficiency benefits. Version 0.1 of that plug-in was released today...

KDE Frameworks 6 & Qt6'ed Gear Apps Will Release Alongside Plasma 6.0 In February

Phoronix - Fri, 09/08/2023 - 08:00
Going along with KDE Plasma 6.0 releasing in early February will also be the Qt6-based KDE Gear applications and KDE Frameworks 6 happening in-sync...

Linux 6.6 Lands Support For The Cirrus Logic CS42L43 Audio Codec

Phoronix - Fri, 09/08/2023 - 03:00
In addition to the notable sound changes that merged last week for Linux 6.6 that included AMD VanGogh SOF support and enablement around a Valve "Galileo" device, sent in via the MFD pull request this week is work enabling the new Cirrus Logic CS42L43 audio codec...

New ASUS Laptop Features & HP BIOS Settings Driver For Linux 6.6

Phoronix - Fri, 09/08/2023 - 01:05
Merged a few days ago for the ongoing Linux 6.6 merge window were the x86 platform driver updates, which bring a few interesting Intel/AMD laptop improvements as well as a new driver to support altering select HP BIOS settings from within the confines of Linux...

Radeon Software For Linux 23.20 Brings RX 7700 XT / RX 7800 XT Support

Phoronix - Thu, 09/07/2023 - 23:21
As covered in the launch-day Radeon RX 7700 XT and RX 7800 XT Linux review/testing, there is already upstream open-source driver support for these new RDNA3 graphics cards in recent versions of the Linux kernel and Mesa. It's a pleasant open-source out-of-the-box experience with the Radeon RX 7000 series graphics cards with the possible exception of just needing to grab the recent AMDGPU firmware. But for those running older, enterprise Linux distribution releases, AMD has now released the Radeon Software for Linux 23.20 driver package to also enable the RX 7700/7800 XT support on those enterprise operating systems...

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