AMD today released AMDVLK 2024.Q3.3 as their latest open-source Vulkan API driver for Linux systems prior to ending the quarter. AMDVLK 2024.Q3.3 brings new performance tuning to benefit Serious Sam and Talos Principle games. There is also performance tuning for […]
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The hardware monitoring “HWMON” subsystem updates for Linux 6.12 added some new drivers as well as adding new device support to some of the existing drivers. One of the new HWMON drivers in Linux 6.12 is for supporting the Sophgo
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As expected the Linux 6.12-rc1 kernel is out today in marking the end of the very exciting two-week Linux 6.12 merge window that saw many high profile features land. If you didn’t already see from earlier today, checkout our Linux
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The Arch Linux based CachyOS operating system that is known for pursuing aggressive performance while still delivering a nice Linux desktop experience is out with its September 2024 release. CachyOS has begun optimizing more packages with compiler Profile Guided Optimizations
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The Linux 6.12 merge window is wrapping up today with the release of Linux 6.12-rc1 in the coming hours. This is going to be a heck of an exciting kernel. There’s real-time PREEMPT_RT finally in mainline, the much anticipated sched_ext
The x86 platform driver changes that were merged last week for the Linux 6.12 kernel continue to be quite lively with changes for enhancing Linux laptop support along with other Intel platform improvements. Among the interesting x86 platform driver updates
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It’s been a busy week for Valve Linux graphics software engineer Mike Blumenkrantz. Besides hacking on Mesa’s Zink OpenGL-on-Vulkan driver implementation, this week his latest target was working to help accelerate the pace of Wayland protocol development. He’s been working
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Following AMD and FreeBSD Foundation collaborations and the Sovereign Tech Fund making a big investment into FreeBSD, the FreeBSD Foundation and Quantum Leap Research have announced a $750,000 USD commitment to improve laptop support on this BSD operating system with
FreeBSD To See Better Laptop Support With Investment Backed By AMD, Dell & Framework Read More »
Taking place this week in Berlin was systemd’s annual “All Systems Go” developer conference. Among the interesting talks was Lennart Poettering talking about the ongoing challenges of D-Bus for inter-process communication (IPC) with systemd and how they are looking at
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The KVM x86/x86_64 changes were merged today as we are nearly done with the Linux 6.12 merge window. One of the KVM x86 changes worth mentioning this cycle is Intel now has AVX10.1 support advertised to user-space for guest virtual
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