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NVIDIA Publishes 73k Lines Worth Of 3D Header Files For Fermi Through Ampere GPUs

Phoronix - Tue, 08/09/2022 - 18:56
In addition to NVIDIA being busy working on transitioning to an open-source GPU kernel driver, yesterday they made a rare public open-source documentation contribution... NVIDIA quietly published 73k lines worth of header files to document the 3D classes for their Fermi through current-generation Ampere GPUs!..

AMD Releases AOMP 15.0-3 Compiler

Phoronix - Tue, 08/09/2022 - 18:38
AMD engineers have released an updated version of AOMP, their LLVM/Clang downstream that carries the company's latest patches around OpenMP offloading to Radeon GPUs...

Renewed Work Around GNOME 30-bit Deep Color Frame-Buffer Support

Phoronix - Tue, 08/09/2022 - 17:50
Going back years has been an effort to get 30-bit deep color support on the GNOME desktop under Wayland. Ubuntu and others have been interested in getting 30-bit color support working nicely for the Linux desktop, but while that milestone hasn't yet been crossed, thankfully there is some renewed work in that direction...

FreeBSD In Q2-2022: More Than 30k Ports, Driver Improvements, Better Linux Compatibility

Phoronix - Tue, 08/09/2022 - 17:21
The FreeBSD project has published their latest quarterly status report highlighting the advancements made to this open-source BSD operating system...

Linux 6.0 Allows Setting The Hostname Via New "hostname=" Parameter

Phoronix - Tue, 08/09/2022 - 16:30
A patch coming about earlier this year allows setting the system's hostname before user-space starts by way of the hostname= kernel parameter. That patch has now landed as part of Andrew Morton's accumulated changes for Linux 6.0...

Linux 6.0 Promotes Its H.265/HEVC User-Space API To Stable

Phoronix - Tue, 08/09/2022 - 15:00
With the Linux 6.0 multimedia subsystem changes, the H.265/HEVC user-space API is now being considered stable...

How to Upgrade Linux Mint 20.3 to Linux Mint 21

Tecmint - Tue, 08/09/2022 - 11:47
The post How to Upgrade Linux Mint 20.3 to Linux Mint 21 first appeared on Tecmint: Linux Howtos, Tutorials & Guides .

If you do not wish to do a fresh Linux Mint 21 Vanessa installation, you can simply upgrade from an earlier version. In this article, we will walk you through the steps to upgrade

The post How to Upgrade Linux Mint 20.3 to Linux Mint 21 first appeared on Tecmint: Linux Howtos, Tutorials & Guides.

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